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Crab Nebula, (catalog numbers NGC 1952 and M1), probably the most intensely studied bright nebula, in the constellation Taurus, about 6,500 light-years from Earth. Roughly 10 light-years in diameter, it is assumed to be the remnant of a supernova (violently exploding star) observed by Chinese and other ast... |
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Crazy Mountains, mountain segment of the northern Rocky Mountains in south-central Montana, U.S. The Crazies extend for 30 miles (48 km) between the Musselshell and Yellowstone rivers. The Crazies are characterized by extremely jagged summits and steep slopes. More than 30 peaks are between 10,000 and ... |
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Crowsnest Pass, pass in the Canadian Rockies at the Alberta–British Columbia border, Canada, 7 mi (11 km) south of Crowsnest Mountain. One of the lower passes of the Continental Divide, it has an elevation of 4,449 ft (1,356 m). Noted by Capt. John Palliser’s expedition in 1858, it was used for many ye... |
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Cuba, country of the West Indies, the largest single island of the archipelago, and one of the more-influential states of the Caribbean region.
The domain of the Arawakan-speaking Taino, who had displaced even earlier inhabitants, Cuba was claimed by Christopher Columbus for Spain in 1492. It became the Spanish e... |
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Havana is Cuba’s cultural hub and the home of most of its museums, libraries, professional associations, and performing troupes. The Cuban Academy of Sciences (1962) and the Cuban Academy of Language (1926) are among the leading learned societies. The José Martí National Library (1901) and the Nat... |
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Cuba has galleries, art museums, and community cultural centres that regularly display the works of Cuban painters. The most important (all in Havana) are the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Haydée Santamaría Gallery of the House of the Americas, the Gallery of Havana, and the Fortress Castle. There Cuba’... |
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Cúcuta, in full San José de Cúcuta, capital of Norte de Santander departamento, northeastern Colombia, on the Venezuela border. Founded in 1733 as San José de Guasimal, it became San José de Cúcuta in 1793. In 1875 it was destroyed by an earthquake but then was rebuilt with parks and wide avenues. The nucleus o... |
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Cuenca, city, capital of Cuenca provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Castile–La Mancha, east-central Spain. It lies on a pyramid-like hill above the confluence of the Júcar and Huécar rivers. Originally the Roman Conca, the city was captured from the Moors in 1177 by Alfonso... |
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Cuillin Hills, also called the Cuillins or the Cuchullins, mountain range, south-central portion of the Atlantic coastal island of Skye, Inner Hebrides island group, Highland council area, Scotland. The Cuillin Hills are among the steepest mountains in the United Kingdom and include 15 peaks above 3,000 ... |
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Culion Island, island, one of the Calamian Group, west-central Philippines. The island is the site of Culion Reservation, a therapeutic community founded in 1906 for the treatment of leprosy (Hansen’s disease). Rice and coconuts are grown on the island. Culion, the main settlement, is located on the nort... |
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…family also secured most of Cumberland Island for the same purpose. Jekyll Island was bought by the state of Georgia and since 1947 has been the site of a state park, and Cumberland Island National Seashore was established in 1972.
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Curonian Lagoon, also called Courland Lagoon, German Kurisches Haff, Lithuanian Kuršiu Marios, Russian Kursky Zaliv, gulf of the Baltic Sea at the mouth of the Neman River, in Lithuania and Russia. The lagoon, with an area of 625 square miles (1,619 square km), is separated from the Baltic Sea by a nar... |
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Custer, city, seat (1875) of Custer county, southwestern South Dakota, U.S. It lies in the southern Black Hills on French Creek, 5,318 feet (1,621 metres) above sea level. Custer is about 40 miles (65 km) southwest of Rapid City.
The town, the oldest in the Black Hills, was laid out in 1875 after gold was disco... |
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The Czech Republic’s impressive network of public libraries dates back to the 19th century. The largest library is the National Library in Prague, created in 1958 by the merger of several older libraries. Other major collections are in the National Museum Library, also in Prague and founded in 181... |
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On December 16, 1992, the Czech National Council adopted a new constitution establishing the Czech Republic as a parliamentary democracy. This document reflects the Western liberal tradition of political thought and incorporates many of the principles codified in the Charter of Fundamental Rights... |
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The country is bordered by Poland to the north and northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest. The Bohemian Massif occupies the major portion of the Czech Republic. It consists of a large, roughly ovoid elevated basin (the Bohemian Plateau) en... |
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Czech literature can claim a remote ancestry in the vernacular writing connected with the mission sent to Moravia in 863 ce by the Byzantine emperor Michael III. As Christianity reached the Slavs of Bohemia from the west under the political aegis of the Frankish empire, Prince Rostisla... |
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Czechoslovakia, Czech and Slovak Československo, former country in central Europe encompassing the historical lands of Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia. Czechoslovakia was formed from several provinces of the collapsing empire of Austria-Hungary in 1918, at the end of World War I. In the interwar period i... |
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Da Lat, city, southern Vietnam, northeast of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). Situated on a lake on the Lam Vien Plateau at 4,920 feet (1,500 metres) above sea level, Da Lat sits among pine-covered hills with picturesque waterfalls nearby. Founded in the 19th century and named for the Da (now Cam Ly) River, ... |
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Dahūk, also spelled Dohuk or Dhok, city, capital of Dahūk muḥāfaẓah (governorate), northern Iraq, lying near the northern end of the Tigris River valley. The area in which it is situated is unsuitable for cultivation but is good for fruit orchards and pasturage. Dahūk has a fruit-canning plant and a textile mill... |
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Dalarna, formerly Dalecarlia, län (county) and traditional landskap (province), central Sweden. It extends from the Norwegian border in the west nearly to the town of Gävle, on the Gulf of Bothnia in the east. Dalarna county came into being in 1997 when Kopparberg county was renamed; the county capital is Falu... |
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Dalby, town, southeastern Queensland, Australia. It lies along Myall Creek near the Condamine River, about 130 miles (210 km) northwest of Brisbane.
Founded as Myall Creek Station in 1841, it was renamed for Dalby, on the Isle of Man, in the British Isles. It became a town in 1854. Dalby is the commercial centre... |
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Dalian, Wade-Giles romanization Ta-lien, Russian Dalny, conventional and Japanese Dairen, formerly Lüda, city and port, southern Liaoning sheng (province), northeastern China. It consists of the formerly independent cities of Dalian and Lüshun, which were amalgamated (as Lüda) in 1950; in 1981 the name Dalian w... |
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Dalkeith, burgh (town), Midlothian council area and historic county, southeastern Scotland. It is near the capital, Edinburgh, and has an increasing population of workers who commute to that city. Dalkeith is an agricultural and educational centre. The former corn exchange (1854) provides office space and hou... |
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Dalmatia, Serbo-Croatian Dalmacija, region of Croatia, comprising a central coastal strip and a fringe of islands along the Adriatic Sea. Its greatest breadth, on the mainland, is about 28 miles (45 km), and its total length, from the Kvarner (Quarnero) gulf to the narrows of Kotor (Cattaro), is about 233 mil... |
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Damanhūr, city, capital of Al-Buḥayrah muḥāfaẓah (governorate) in the western Nile River delta, Lower Egypt. Its name is derived from the ancient Egyptian Timinhor (“City of Horus”) and has historically applied to several centres in Egypt, mostly in the delta. The capital of a Ptolemaic nome, Damanhūr was kno... |
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Dammam, Arabic Al-Dammām, city, eastern Saudi Arabia. It lies on the Persian Gulf northwest of Bahrain Island and forms a larger metropolitan and industrial complex with Khobar, Qatif, and Dhahran. The discovery of immense oil reserves in the locality in 1938 led to the radical transformation of the once small ... |
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Danelaw, also spelled Danelagh or Danelaga, the northern, central, and eastern region of Anglo-Saxon England colonized by invading Danish armies in the late 9th century. In the 11th and 12th centuries, it was recognized that all of eastern England between the Rivers Tees and Thames formed a region in which a d... |
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Danube River, German Donau, Slovak Dunaj, Hungarian Duna, Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian Dunav, Romanian Dunărea, Ukrainian Dunay, river, the second longest in Europe after the Volga. It rises in the Black Forest mountains of western Germany and flows for some 1,770 miles (2,850 km) to its mouth on the Blac... |
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Darién, geographic region of the easternmost Isthmus of Panama that extends into northwestern Colombia, around the Gulf of Urabá (a section of the Gulf of Darién), and forms the physiographic link between Central and South America. A hot, humid area typified by tropical rainforests, mangrove swamps, and low mou... |
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Darkhan, also called Darhan or Darchan, town, northern Mongolia, northwest of Ulaanbaatar. A large industrial complex, built in the late 1960s with Soviet and eastern European aid, makes Darkhan one of the largest industrial centres in Mongolia. A building-industry combine produces concrete, lime cement, brick... |
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Daugavpils, German Dünaburg, Russian (formerly) Dvinsk, city, southeastern Latvia. It lies along the Western Dvina (Daugava) River. In the 1270s the Brothers of the Sword, a branch of the Teutonic Knights, founded the fortress of Dünaburg, 12 miles (19 km) above the modern site. The fortress and adjoining t... |
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Dax, town, Landes département, Nouvelle-Aquitaine région, southwestern France. It lies on the left bank of the Adour River, 88 miles (142 km) southwest of Bordeaux and 50 miles (80 km) north of the Pyrenees frontier with Spain. The town is a spa resort whose thermal springs and mud baths have been noted for the cu... |
3b3d48bda4e2f1c790b0839c25381d7a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Dayr-al-Zawr | Dayr al-Zawr | Dayr al-Zawr
Dayr al-Zawr, also spelled Deir ez-Zor, town, eastern Syria. The town is situated on the right bank of the Euphrates River; its name, meaning “monastery of the grove” (zawr, “tamarisk”), is probably derived from the ancient city of Auzara, or Azuara, situated nearby. The Ottomans built the present town in... |
7f5e8ce4ec4ac6a56626f528cd2619fe | https://www.britannica.com/place/Deal | Deal | Deal
Deal, town (parish), Dover district, administrative and historic county of Kent, eastern England. It is situated on the Strait of Dover, about 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Dover. The town has a natural roadstead harbour, the Downs, enclosed by the North and South Forelands and the perilous Goodwin Sands.
It is cl... |
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Death Valley, structural depression primarily in Inyo county, southeastern California, U.S. It is the lowest, hottest, and driest portion of the North American continent. Death Valley is about 140 miles (225 km) long, trends roughly north-south, and is from 5 to 15 miles (8 to 24 km) wide. The valley is b... |
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Decelea, also spelled Deceleia, in ancient Greece, an Attic deme (township) on the east end of Mount Párnis overlooking the Athenian plain. Its traditional friendship with Sparta is traced to the legend of Decelus, the hero for whom the deme was named. Decelus indicated to the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux) wher... |
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Delaware, county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., located southwest of Philadelphia and bounded to the east by Cobbs Creek and to the south by New Jersey and Delaware, the Delaware River constituting the border. Ridley Creek State Park is located on Ridley Creek near Springton Reservoir.
In 1682 English Quak... |
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Delaware, constituent state of the United States of America. The first of the original 13 states to ratify the federal Constitution, it occupies a small niche in the Boston–Washington, D.C., urban corridor along the Middle Atlantic seaboard. It ranks 49th among the 50 U.S. states in terms of total area and is... |
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The paternalistic tendencies of Belgian colonial rule bore traces of two characteristic features of Leopoldian rule: an irreducible tendency to treat Africans as children and a firm commitment to political control and compulsion. The elimination of the more brutal ... |
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People have long lived in most regions of Congo. Over time, they became specialized in the exploitation of their natural environments. Forest peoples, such as the Bambuti (Pygmies) of the Ituri Forest, for example, have historically specialized in hunting and fishing, while agriculture has remained ... |
254c0d1ff2ae64735697a1fbf0798b39 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Democratic-Republic-of-the-Congo/The-arts | The arts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | The arts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Congo’s many ethnic groups and regions have developed a mosaic of traditional arts, including painting, sculpture, music, and dance. There has been a tendency to classify sculpture and carving according to the styles of the areas from which they originate. The southwest ... |
dbc3afb963a8c64a925b7c39abfc17a7 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Denali-National-Park-and-Preserve | Denali National Park and Preserve | Denali National Park and Preserve
Denali National Park and Preserve, vast region with an unspoiled natural environment of alpine tundra and boreal forest (taiga) in south-central Alaska, U.S. It lies roughly equidistant from Fairbanks to the northeast and Anchorage to the south-southeast and is some 200 miles (320 km)... |
6e3932d36ce59dfe4fa2e071b0d07d2c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Denmark | Denmark | Denmark
Denmark, country occupying the peninsula of Jutland (Jylland), which extends northward from the centre of continental western Europe, and an archipelago of more than 400 islands to the east of the peninsula. Jutland makes up more than two-thirds of the country’s total land area; at its northern tip is the isla... |
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Denver International Airport is a major hub in the country’s air traffic pattern. It is served by almost all major U.S. airlines; carriers link Denver with other Colorado cities, with neighbouring states, and with international destinations. Railroad lines in Colorado are mainly bulk-freigh... |
17f6c37e7dbefe956a2d0bba8b372455 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Dera-Ghazi-Khan | Dera Ghazi Khan | Dera Ghazi Khan
Dera Ghazi Khan, town, Punjab province, central Pakistan, in the floodplain of the Indus River. The town was founded by Ghāzī Khān, son of a Baloch chieftain and vassal of the Langah sultans of Multan. Incorporated as a municipality in 1867, the town was partially destroyed by a flood of the Indus in 1... |
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Derry City and Strabane, district, northwestern Northern Ireland. It is bounded to the north by Lough Foyle, to the northeast by the Causeway Coast and Glens district, to the east by the Mid Ulster district, to the south by the Fermanagh and Omagh district, and to the west and northwest by the ... |
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Desna River, river that rises in the Smolensk Upland in western Russia and flows for about 700 miles (1,130 km) south into the Dnieper River near Kiev, Ukraine.
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Devonport, city, northern Tasmania, Australia. It lies near the mouth of the Mersey River, which empties into Bass Strait.
One of the state’s largest communities, it was formed through the amalgamation in 1893 of the villages of Torquay (east bank) and Formby (west), both of which had been founded in the 185... |
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Also in Kachchh is Dholavira, which appears to be among the largest Harappan settlements so far identified; a nine-year excavation at the site completed in 2001 yielded a walled Indus valley city that dated to the mid-3rd millennium bce and covered some 3.5 acres (1.4 hectares). The Archaeological Survey…
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The Dickinson Dam, a part of the reclamation plan for the Missouri River valley, impounds Edward Arthur Patterson Lake just southwest of the city. The Dickinson Museum Center houses exhibits and collections pertaining to natural and regional history as well as cultural heritage. The Ukrainian Cultural…
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Diomede Islands, Russian Ostrova Gvozdeva, two small islands in the Bering Strait, lying about 2.5 miles (4 km) apart and separated by the U.S.–Russian boundary, which coincides with the International Date Line. The larger island, Big Diomede (Russian: Ostrov Ratmanova [Ratmanov Island]), has an area o... |
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Dirk Hartog Island, Australian island in the Indian Ocean, just north of Edel Land Peninsula, Western Australia. Naturaliste Channel passes north to enter Denham Sound (which washes the eastern shore), and Shark Bay lies to the northeast. The island was named after a Dutch navigator who arrived in ... |
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The sediments of the Discovery Deep and of several other deposits also have significant metalliferous content but at lower concentrations than that in the Atlantis II Deep, and thus they have not been of as much economic interest. The recovery of sediment located beneath 5,700 to 6,400 feet of…
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Diu, formerly Dio, town, Daman and Diu union territory, western India. It is situated on an island in the Gulf of Khambhat (Cambay) of the Arabian Sea, off the southern tip of the Kathiawar Peninsula in southeastern Gujarat state.
Diu Island is about 7 miles (11 km) long and 2 miles (3 km) wide. It is known for it... |
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Divinópolis, city, south-central Minas Gerais estado (state), Brazil. It is situated near the Pará River in highlands at 2,205 feet (672 metres) above sea level.
It was made the seat of a municipality in 1911 and gained city status in 1915. The growing of cassava (manioc), corn (maize), rice, coffee, feijã... |
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Diyālā River, Arabic Nahr Diyālā, river, important tributary of the Tigris River, rising in the Zagros Mountains of western Iran near Hamadān as the Sīrvān River and flowing westward across lowlands to join the Tigris just below Baghdad, Iraq. Its total length is 275 miles (443 km). The upper Diyālā drain... |
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The flow characteristics of the Dnieper have been thoroughly studied. Data on the river’s annual runoff date to 1818, while estimates of the maximum discharges—computed from the old high-water marks—extend back more than 250 years. Hundreds of hydrometric stations and posts operate in the... |
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Dniester River, Ukrainian Dnister, Russian Dnestr, Romanian Nistrul, Moldovan Nistru, Turkish Turla, river of southwestern Ukraine and of Moldova, rising on the north side of the Carpathian Mountains and flowing south and east for 840 miles (1,352 km) to the Black Sea near Odessa. It is the second longe... |
d64ca923544e2ea0adff68a44311c97c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Dnipropetrovsk-Ukraine | Dnipro | Dnipro
Dnipro, formerly (1783–96, 1802–1926) Katerynoslav, or Ekaterinoslav, (1796–1802) Novorosiysk, and (1926–2016) Dnipropetrovsk, city, south-central Ukraine. It lies along the Dnieper River, near its confluence with the Samara. The river was considerably widened by the construction of a dam about 50 miles (80 km)... |
8a571fda019e4ab13e41963e1325db67 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Docklands | Docklands | Docklands
…project was launched to develop Docklands, a 500-acre (200-hectare) site of crumbling industrial and port facilities, into a multiuse complex featuring high-technology businesses, parks and public spaces, restaurants, a theme park, and apartment buildings and other housing. Docklands was expected to become h... |
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…as the home of baseball’s Dodger Stadium. To ameliorate the housing problem, the city later adopted a rent-control law and enforced building codes against indifferent slumlords, but the supply of low-income units has continued to lag far behind the demand.
Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles was the first tie... |
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High rainfall and rugged terrain have impeded road building in Dominica. The first road across the island was not completed until 1956, and it was not until 1984 that a major road-rehabilitation project was launched to greatly improve accessibility. The main airport is Melville Hall, located ... |
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Don Benito, city, Badajoz provincia (province), in Extremadura comunidad autónoma (autonomous community), western Spain. It lies about 30 miles (50 km) east of Mérida city. Brandy and chocolate are produced there, and watermelons are grown. Sheep are raised in the vicinity. The city was named for a local la... |
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Dorchester, county, southeastern Maryland, U.S., bounded by the Choptank River to the north, Delaware to the east, the Nanticoke River to the southeast, and Chesapeake Bay to the south and west. It consists of a low-lying, marshy peninsula that extends into the bay and includes Barren, Bloodsworth, James, a... |
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Dorchester, county, southern South Carolina, U.S. The Edisto River forms the southwestern boundary, and the county is also drained by the Ashley River. Dorchester county lies in the flat Coastal Plain, and much of it consists of woodlands and swamps. Francis Beidler Forest is the largest remaining stand of ... |
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Charlestown, Dorchester, Medford, Watertown, Roxbury, and Lynn.
…was elected “teacher” minister at Dorchester, Mass., and became locally celebrated as a preacher and formulator of Congregational creed and policy.
…first recorded meeting was in Dorchester in 1633, when citizens were summoned by the roll of a ... |
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Dordogne River, river in southwestern France, rising in the Massif Central and flowing west for 293 mi (472 km) to Bec d’Ambès, north of Bordeaux, where it unites with the Garonne to form the Gironde Estuary; its drainage basin is about 9,300 sq mi (24,000 sq km). Its headwaters, rising at a height of m... |
68abf26e53132859b67afa6c8a880393 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Douglas-Arizona | Douglas | Douglas
Douglas, city, Cochise county, in Sulphur Springs Valley, southeastern Arizona, U.S. A port of entry (on the Mexican border), it is separated from Aqua Prieta, Mexico, by International Avenue. It was founded in 1901 as a copper-smelting centre and was named for James Douglas, president of the Phelps Dodge (min... |
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Douglas, municipal borough and capital, since 1869, of the Isle of Man, one of the British Isles. It lies on the island’s east coast, 80 mi (130 km) northwest of Liverpool (across the Irish Sea). Low hills encircle the town, penetrated by the valley of the combined Dhoo (Manx, “dark”) and Glass (Manx, “light”)... |
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Downey, city, Los Angeles county, southern California, U.S. Situated about 10 miles (16 km) east of the Pacific Ocean, it lies just southeast of central Los Angeles. The area became part of Rancho Los Nietos, a Spanish land grant to Manuel Nieto, in 1784, and, when Nieto’s lands were subdivided among his heirs,... |
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Drakensberg, the main mountain range of Southern Africa. The Drakensberg rises to more than 11,400 feet (3,475 metres) and extends roughly northeast to southwest for 700 miles (1,125 km) parallel to the southeastern coast of South Africa. Rock and cave art several thousands of years old has been found in t... |
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Dublin is the headquarters for government departments, their advisory committees, and associated agencies. The two houses of the Irish parliament, the Dáil and the Seanad (Senate), meet at Leinster House. The judiciary is based at the Four Courts. More than 40 countries maintain embassies, an... |
1afd7a7504508e560fb8e81f9667953d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Duluth | Duluth | Duluth
Duluth, city, seat of St. Louis county, northeastern Minnesota, U.S. One of Minnesota’s largest cities, it is a major inland port on the western tip of Lake Superior, at the mouth of the St. Louis River, opposite Superior, Wisconsin. Elevation is abrupt, rising 600 feet (180 metres) above the level of the lake ... |
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Dunajec River, river in southern Poland, rising in the Tatra Mountains near the Slovak border and flowing about 156 miles (251 km) northeast into the Vistula River.
The Dunajec River is dammed for hydropower at Rożnów, Czchów, and Czorsztyn. It was the scene of heavy fighting in World War I when the Germ... |
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Düsseldorf, city, capital of North Rhine–Westphalia Land (state), western Germany. It lies mainly on the right bank of the Rhine River, 21 miles (34 km) northwest of Cologne. It is the administrative and cultural centre of the industrial Rhine-Ruhr area.
First mentioned in 1159, Düsseldorf (“Village on the ... |
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Earth, third planet from the Sun and the fifth largest planet in the solar system in terms of size and mass. Its single most outstanding feature is that its near-surface environments are the only places in the universe known to harbour life. It is designated by the symbol ♁. Earth’s name in English, the internat... |
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As the gas making up the solar nebula beyond the Sun cooled with time, mineral grains are thought to have condensed and aggregated to form the earliest meteoritic material. In addition, as is suggested by the finding of anomalous concentrations of isotopes in a few meteorites, solid materia... |
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The mean distance of Earth from the Sun is about 149,600,000 km (92,960,000 miles). The planet orbits the Sun in a path that is presently more nearly a circle (less eccentric) than are the orbits of all but two of the other planets, Venus and Neptune. Earth makes one revolution, or one complete orb... |
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During its accretion, Earth is thought to have been shock-heated by the impacts of meteorite-size bodies and larger planetesimals. For a meteorite collision, the heating is concentrated near the surface where the impact occurs, which allows the heat to radiate back into space. A planetes... |
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East Cambridgeshire, district, administrative and historic county of Cambridgeshire, east-central England. It occupies an area northeast of the city of Cambridge. Situated predominantly within the Fens, an expanse of reclaimed marshland, the district has a slightly elevated chalk upland (which is c... |
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East Chicago, industrial city and port, Lake county, northwestern Indiana, U.S., adjoining Gary, Hammond, and Whiting. It is a part of the Chicago-Calumet industrialized metropolitan complex. Laid out in 1887, its industrial development was stimulated by construction of Indiana Harbor, connected with the ... |
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East Friesland, German Ostfriesland, cultural region bordering the North Sea and encompassing the coastal marshlands and East Frisian Islands (Ostfriesische Inseln) of northwestern Lower Saxony Land (state), north-central Germany. The region includes the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park. East Fries... |
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East Hartford, urban town (township), Hartford county, central Connecticut, U.S., across the Connecticut River from Hartford. The area, called Podunk by the Indians, was first settled in 1639 by John Crow. Organized as a parish in 1746 and originally part of Hartford, it was incorporated as a separate to... |
0f99c532ccb52325f5bd1886dda7b188 | https://www.britannica.com/place/East-Hertfordshire | East Hertfordshire | East Hertfordshire
East Hertfordshire, district, administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, southeastern England, at the northern edge of the Greater London Green Belt. Hertford is the administrative seat for the county of Hertfordshire but shares district administration with Bishop’s Stortford.
The landscap... |
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East Indies, the islands that extend in a wide belt along both sides of the Equator for more than 3,800 miles (6,100 km) between the Asian mainland to the north and west and Australia to the south. Historically, the term East Indies is loosely applied to any of three contexts. The most restrictive and bes... |
aa7176dc4cd2612a6847907f0993b8a3 | https://www.britannica.com/place/East-Lothian | East Lothian | East Lothian
East Lothian, council area and historic county, southeastern Scotland. It lies on the southern coast of the Firth of Forth east of Edinburgh. Much of East Lothian is an undulating coastal lowland, but it extends inland to include part of the upland moors of the Lammermuir Hills. The council area and histo... |
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East Providence, city, Providence county, eastern Rhode Island, U.S., on the eastern side of the Seekonk and Providence rivers, opposite Providence city. The site was long occupied by Wampanoag Indians before Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island colony, established himself there in 1636; he left... |
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East Prussia, German Ostpreussen, former German province bounded, between World Wars I and II, north by the Baltic Sea, east by Lithuania, and south and west by Poland and the free city of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). After World War II its territory was divided between the Soviet Union and Poland.
The na... |
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East Staffordshire, borough (district), administrative county of Staffordshire, central England. The borough’s main locality and administrative headquarters is Burton upon Trent.
Nearly all of East Staffordshire lies within the historic county of Staffordshire, except for a small area around Roceste... |
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East Timor, island country in the eastern Lesser Sunda Islands, at the southern extreme of the Malay Archipelago. It occupies the eastern half of the island of Timor, the small nearby islands of Atauro (Kambing) and Jaco, and the enclave of Ambeno, including the town of Pante Makasar, on the northwestern co... |
5341f136c01caaafbe78ec4c4ce7b026 | https://www.britannica.com/place/eastern-Africa | Eastern Africa | Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa, part of sub-Saharan Africa comprising two traditionally recognized regions: East Africa, made up of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda; and the Horn of Africa, made up of Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia.
Eastern Africa consists largely of plateaus and has most of the highest elevations... |
f71e955b1bb8cf000d86e1fc52cc222e | https://www.britannica.com/place/eastern-Africa/The-Horn-of-Africa | The Horn of Africa | The Horn of Africa
The history of the Horn of Africa has largely been dominated by Ethiopia and has been characterized by struggles between Muslim and other herdsmen and Christian farmers for resources and living space. The Christians mostly spoke Semitic languages and the Muslims Cushitic tongues. Although these langu... |
ef1a38d7af757e626078f71da17ed47f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Eastern-Alps | Eastern Alps | Eastern Alps
The Eastern Alps, consisting in part of the Rätische range in Switzerland, the Dolomite Alps in Italy, the Bavarian Alps of southern Germany and western Austria, the Tauern Mountains in Austria, the Julian Alps in
Lastly, the Eastern Alps run west to east from the Brenner Pass to Trieste and include the Do... |
00ef100b060eb1a5c6bdb5ce3d7c89bc | https://www.britannica.com/place/Eastham | Eastham | Eastham
Eastham, town (township), Barnstable county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It extends across the northern arm of Cape Cod and includes the village of North Eastham. In December 1620 a shore party of Mayflower Pilgrims landed at the Cape Cod Bay site near the entrance to Wellfleet Harbor and had their first ... |
4552720d8d4f4c8dbbae5e49d4f235c8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Eastmain-River | Eastmain River | Eastmain River
Eastmain River, French Rivière East-main, river in Nord-du-Québec region, western Quebec province, Canada, rising in the Otish Mountains of central Quebec, flowing nearly due west, and discharging into James Bay. Its course of about 500 miles (800 km) is interrupted by numerous falls and rapids. Known e... |
061e6d3aa199aa0988549d69d20be3b8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Easton-Maryland | Easton | Easton
Easton, town, seat of Talbot county, eastern Maryland, U.S. It is situated in the tidewater region along the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay, near the head of Tred Avon River (estuary). It was settled by Quakers in 1682 and established as a town in 1710 when the area was chosen as the site of the county courtho... |
68dada553743977bd492f64ea142a3a5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Eastport | Eastport | Eastport
Eastport, easternmost city of the United States, in Washington county, eastern Maine. It is situated on Moose Island, along Passamaquoddy Bay (bridged to the mainland) of the Atlantic Ocean, 126 miles (203 km) east of Bangor. Settled about 1780, it once included the town of Lubec (which is south and slightly ... |
08727ff0a266a3646f423b6382d12d6a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Eau-Claire | Eau Claire | Eau Claire
Eau Claire, city, Eau Claire and Chippewa counties, seat (1857) of Eau Claire county, west-central Wisconsin, U.S. It lies at the confluence of the Eau Claire (“Clear Water,” so named by 18th-century French trappers and traders) and Chippewa rivers, 90 miles (150 km) east of St. Paul, Minnesota.
It was sett... |
3cc141046c1ba6e18706a67d5d6ad161 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Ech-Cheliff | Ech-Cheliff | Ech-Cheliff
Ech-Cheliff, formerly (until 1981) El-Asnam, or (until 1964) Orléansville, town, northern Algeria. It lies along the Chelif River, south of the Mediterranean Sea port of Ténès. It was founded by the French in 1843 on the site of the ancient Roman settlement of Castellum Tingitanum and is now an important r... |
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