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(Encyclopedia)red shift or redshift, in astronomy, the systematic displacement of individual lines in the spectrum of a celestial object toward the red, or longer wavelength, end of the visible spectrum. The effect...red snapper
(Encyclopedia)red snapper: see snapper.red spider
(Encyclopedia)red spider: see mite.red spruce
(Encyclopedia)red spruce: see spruce.red squill
(Encyclopedia)red squill: see squill.red tide
(Encyclopedia)red tide: see Dinoflagellata.Red Wing
(Encyclopedia)Red Wing, city (1990 pop. 15,134), seat of Goodhue co., SE Minn., on the Mississippi River at the head of Lake Pepin; inc. 1857. It is a commercial and manufacturing center in the Hiawatha valley farm...Leif Ericsson
(Encyclopedia)Leif Ericsson lēf ĕrˈĭksən [key], Old Norse Leifr Eiriksson, fl. a.d. 999–1000, Norse discoverer of America, b. probably in Iceland; son of Eric the Red. He spent his youth in Greenland and in ...International Committee of the Red Cross
(Encyclopedia)International Committee of the Red Cross: see Red Cross. ...Dickey, Eric Jerome
(Encyclopedia)Dickey, Eric Jerome, 1961- 2021, African-American author, b. Memphis, TN, Memphis State Univ. (BS, 1983). Dickey studied engineering and, after completi...Browse by Subject
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