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O'Sullivan Dam

(Encyclopedia)O'Sullivan Dam, Wash.: see Columbia basin project. ...

Henricus Dacus

(Encyclopedia)Henricus Dacus: see Harpestreng, Henrik. ...

Great Salt Plains Dam

(Encyclopedia)Great Salt Plains Dam, on Salt Fork, a tributary of the Arkansas River, NW Okla., near Enid. The dam was authorized in 1936 as a federal project and completed in 1941. In a salt-encrusted plains area,...

Austråt

(Encyclopedia)Austråt oustˈrôt [key], castle at the mouth of the Trondheimsfjord, central Norway. It was built (1611–74) by Ove Bjelke, chancellor of the kingdom. It is the setting of Henrik Ibsen's historic p...

W. A. C. Bennett Dam

(Encyclopedia)W. A. C. Bennett Dam: see Peace, river, Canada. ...

Jones, Henry Arthur

(Encyclopedia)Jones, Henry Arthur, 1851–1929, English playwright. His reputation was first established with the melodrama The Silver King (with Henry Herman; 1882). Strongly influenced by the great Norwegian play...

Gjellerup, Karl Adolf

(Encyclopedia)Gjellerup, Karl Adolf kärl äˈdôlf yĕlˈəro͝op [key], 1857–1919, Danish poet and novelist, b. Sjæland. His early novels, naturalistic and partly autobiographical, include The Young Denmark (1...

Archer, William

(Encyclopedia)Archer, William, 1856–1924, English author, critic, and translator, b. Scotland. Throughout his life he worked as drama critic on several London newspapers. He influenced the direction of English an...

Owen Falls

(Encyclopedia)Owen Falls, on the Victoria Nile, SE Uganda, near Jinja, site of the Nalubaale Dam (formerly the Owen Falls Dam), completed 1954. The dam, which submerged the waterfall, controls the discharge from La...

Collett, Camilla (Wergeland)

(Encyclopedia)Collett, Camilla (Wergeland) kämēˈlä vĕrˈgəlän kôlˈĕt [key], 1813–95, Norwegian feminist novelist, essayist, and literary critic. Her feminist novels include The District Governor's Daugh...