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Weather: Blowing Cold and Hot: The Big Ones

Blowing Cold and Hot: The Big OnesWeatherBlowing Cold and Hot: The Big OnesWinter Gone SouthBig-City SnowsStorm of the Century?The Greatest One of AllModern Winter of Deep SnowsGalveston Storm…

Colorado–Big Thompson project

(Encyclopedia) Colorado–Big Thompson project, constructed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to divert water from the headstreams of the Colorado River to irrigate c.720,000 acres (291,400 hectares)…

Big Bend National Park

(Encyclopedia) Big Bend National Park, 801,163 acres (324,471 hectares), W Tex.; authorized 1935, est. 1944. It is a triangle formed where the Rio Grande runs southeast then northeast in a big bend…

Big Cypress National Preserve

(Encyclopedia) Big Cypress National Preserve: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table).

Big Hole National Battlefield

(Encyclopedia) Big Hole National Battlefield: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table).

Big Thicket National Preserve

(Encyclopedia) Big Thicket National Preserve: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table).

Morris Brown College

(Encyclopedia) Morris Brown College: see Atlanta Univ. Center.

Herreshoff, John Brown

(Encyclopedia) Herreshoff, John BrownHerreshoff, John Brownhĕrˈəs-hŏf [key], 1841–1915, American yacht and ship builder. Though totally blind from the time he was 15, he managed his own sail-boat…

Gordon, John Brown

(Encyclopedia) Gordon, John Brown, 1832–1904, U.S. public official and Confederate general, b. Upson co., Ga. Gordon began his Civil War service as an infantry captain and so distinguished himself…

Durand, Asher Brown

(Encyclopedia) Durand, Asher BrownDurand, Asher Browndy&oomacr;răndˈ [key], 1796–1886, American painter and engraver, b. near Newark, N.J. He established a reputation by his engravings of…