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Elizabeth Islands
(Encyclopedia) Elizabeth Islands, chain of small islands off Cape Cod that form the southern boundary of Buzzards Bay; SE Mass. Naushon is the largest island. Cuttyhunk Island was settled in 1641 and…Oklahoma, University of
(Encyclopedia) Oklahoma, University of, mainly at Norman, state supported; coeducational; chartered 1890, opened 1892. The schools of medicine and nursing, with hospitals and a research foundation,…Santa Rosa Island
(Encyclopedia) Santa Rosa Island, narrow barrier beach between the Gulf of Mexico and Santa Rosa Sound, NW Fla. in the vicinity of Pensacola, extending c.50 mi (80 km) parallel to the coast. It is…Griffin, city, United States
(Encyclopedia) Griffin, city (2020 pop. 23,478), seat of Spalding co., W central Ga., in a farm and cotton area increasingly integrated into…Artem
(Encyclopedia) ArtemArtemərtyômˈ [key], city (1989 pop. 69,000), Maritime Territory (Primorsky Kray), Russian Far East. It is a coal-mining center and has an important thermoelectric station that…Osborne, Thomas Burr
(Encyclopedia) Osborne, Thomas Burr, 1859–1929, American chemist, b. New Haven, Conn., grad. Yale, 1881. From 1886 he was with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. An authority on…Belovo
(Encyclopedia) Belovo Belovo byĕlôˈvə [key], city, S central Siberian Russia. One of the largest industrial…Belle Glade
(Encyclopedia) Belle Glade, city (2020 pop. 20,276), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., near the southern tip of Lake Okeechobee; inc. 1928. Belle Glade is a…Sutton Coldfield
(Encyclopedia) Sutton Coldfield, city (1991 pop. 102,572), Birmingham metropolitan district, central England. The city is a residential suburb of Birmingham with a metal products industry and a large…Suez
(Encyclopedia) SuezSuezs&oomacr;ĕzˈ [key], city (1996 pop. 417,610), NE Egypt, at the northern end of the Gulf of Suez and at the southern terminus of the Suez Canal. An important port with…Trending
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