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Arches National Park

(Encyclopedia)Arches National Park, 76,519 acres (30,979 hectares), E Utah; est. as a national monument 1929, designated a national park 1971. Located in red-rock country and overlooking the gorge of the Colorado R...

Hirsch, Maurice, baron de

(Encyclopedia)Hirsch, Maurice, baron de mōrēsˈ bärôNˈ də hĭrsh [key], 1831–96, German Jewish financier and philanthropist. The benefactor of numerous organizations and causes, his most ambitious project w...

Guernica

(Encyclopedia)Guernica gārnēˈkä [key], officially Gernika-Lumo, historic town, Bizkaia (Vizcaya or Biscay) ...

García Godoy, Héctor

(Encyclopedia)García Godoy, Héctor ĕkˈtōr gärsēˈä gōˈᵺoi [key], 1921–70, president of the Dominican Republic (1965–66). A lawyer and diplomat, he served as foreign minister under President Juan Bos...

Hutchins, Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Hutchins, Thomas, 1730–89, American frontiersman, surveyor, and geographer, b. Monmouth co., N.J. He took part in the French and Indian War and gained a reputation for his engineering ability throug...

Jebus

(Encyclopedia)Jebus jĕbˈyo͞osīt [key], in the Bible, a pre-Israelite tribe living in the hill-country of Canaan. They were perhaps the last tribal group to be defeated by Israel and are usually mentioned last i...

Duke University

(Encyclopedia)Duke University, at Durham, N. C.; coeducational; opened 1838, chartered 1841 as Union Institute in Randolph County. Reorganized 1852 as Normal College, it became Trinity College (Methodist) in 1859 a...

Dahlak Archipelago

(Encyclopedia)Dahlak Archipelago däläkˈ ärkĭpĕlˈəgō [key], island group, Eritrea, in the Red Sea off Massawa. There are two large, inhabited islands and more than 200 small, largely uninhabited islands. Th...

Espanola

(Encyclopedia)Espanola ĕsˌpənyōlˈə [key], city, Rio Arriba and Santa Fe counties., N central N.Mex., on the ...

popular music

(Encyclopedia)popular music: see country and western music; folk song; gospel music; jazz; rap music; rock music. ...