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Himi

(Encyclopedia)Himi hēˈmē [key], city, Toyama prefecture, W central Honshu, Japan, on Toyama Bay. It is a...

Mistassini, Lake

(Encyclopedia)Mistassini, Lake, c.840 sq mi (2,180 sq km), S Que., Canada, NW of Lake St. John, in sparsely settled country. It drains W to James Bay by way of the Rupert River (380 mi/612 km long). ...

Chigasaki

(Encyclopedia)Chigasaki chĭgäˈsäˈkē [key], city, Kanagawa prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on Sagami Bay. It ...

Harbour Grace

(Encyclopedia)Harbour Grace, town, SE Newfoundland, N.L., Canada, on Conception Bay. It is a leading fishing port and has fish-processing plants. It was settled c.155...

Newport Beach

(Encyclopedia)Newport Beach, residential and resort city (1990 pop. 66,643), Orange co., S Calif., on Newport Bay and the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1906. It is a popular seaside resort and yachting center. Manufactures i...

Lakehead University

(Encyclopedia)Lakehead University, at Thunder Bay, Ont., Canada; founded 1946 as Lakehead Technical Institute. It achieved university status in 1965. Lakehead has faculties of arts and science, business, education,...

Kerry

(Encyclopedia)Kerry, county (1991 pop. 121,894), 1,815 sq mi (4,701 sq km), SW Republic of Ireland. The county town is Tralee. Kerry consists of a series of mountainous peninsulas that extend into the Atlantic. The...

Seaside

(Encyclopedia)Seaside. 1 City (1990 pop. 38,901), Monterey co., W Calif., on Monterey Bay, in a fruit region; founded 1887, inc. 1954. Its economy is based largely upon tourism. California State Univ. Monterey Bay ...

Barney, Joshua

(Encyclopedia)Barney, Joshua bärˈnē [key], 1759–1818, American naval officer and privateer, b. Baltimore. He entered the navy early in the American Revolution, engaged in many feats of daring, and was captured...

Saint John, river, United States and Canada

(Encyclopedia)Saint John, river, 418 mi (673 km) long, rising in N Maine and flowing NE to New Brunswick, Canada, then SE below Edmundston, past St. Leonard, Grand Falls, Woodstock, and Fredericton to the Bay of Fu...