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Crown Point

(Encyclopedia) Crown Point, town, Essex co., NE N.Y., on Lake Champlain. Crown Point is a summer resort on a historic site. A bridge there crosses the…

Michigan, Lake

(Encyclopedia) Michigan, Lake, 22,178 sq mi (57,441 sq km), 307 mi (494 km) long and 30 to 120 mi (48–193 km) wide, bordered by Mich., Ind., Ill., and Wis.; third largest of the Great Lakes and the…

Enid Greene WALDHOLTZ, Congress, UT (1958)

GREENE WALDHOLTZ Enid , (elected under the name Enid G. Waldholtz in the One Hundred Fourth Congress), a Representative from Utah; born in San Rafael, Calif., June 5, 1958; graduated from East…

Flaming Gorge Dam

(Encyclopedia) Flaming Gorge Dam, in a deep canyon of the Green River, NE Utah; built 1958–63 by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation as a major unit in the Colorado River storage project. The dam…

America's Top Ten Green Buildings

Green (and aesthetic) innovation Related Links Building Green Earth Day A Warming Ocean Cleanest U.S. Cities for Ozone Air Pollution World's Tallest Buildings The American Institute of Architects…

cuesta

(Encyclopedia) cuestacuestakwĕsˈtə [key], asymmetric ridge characterized by a short, steep escarpment on one side, and a long, gentle slope on the other. The steep side exposes the edge of erosion-…

Vermont

(Encyclopedia) CE5 VermontVermontvərmŏntˈ [key] [Fr.,=green mountain], New England state of the NE United States. It is bordered by New Hampshire, across the Connecticut River (E), Massachusetts (…

Ottawa, indigenous people of North America

(Encyclopedia) OttawaOttawaŏtˈəwə [key] or OdawaOdawaōdäˈwə [key], Native Americans whose language belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American…