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Enare

(Encyclopedia)Enare, lake: see Inari, lake, Finland. ...

Gokcha

(Encyclopedia)Gokcha, lake: see Sevan, lake, Armenia. ...

Brulé, Étienne

(Encyclopedia)Brulé, Étienne ātyĕnˈ brülāˈ [key], c.1592–1632, French explorer in North America. He arrived (1608) in the New World with Samuel de Champlain, who sent him (1610) into the wilderness to lea...

Walensee

(Encyclopedia)Walensee, lake, Switzerland: see Wallenstadt, Lake of. ...

Elliott, Jesse Duncan

(Encyclopedia)Elliott, Jesse Duncan, 1782–1845, American naval officer, b. Hagerstown, Md. In the War of 1812, he helped capture two British vessels on Lake Erie and was made commander of the lake. He began build...

Fertő tó

(Encyclopedia)Fertő tó, lake: see Neusiedler Lake, Austria and Hungary. ...

Eastlake

(Encyclopedia)Eastlake, city (2020 pop. 17,918), Lake co., NE Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, on the Chagrin River and Lake Erie; inc. 1949. It has diversified light man...

Cóbh

(Encyclopedia)Cóbh kōv [key] [Irish,=cove], town, Co. Cork, S Republic of Ireland, on the south shore of ...

bushrangers

(Encyclopedia)bushrangers, bandits who terrorized the bush country of Australia in the 19th cent. The first bushrangers (c.1806–44) were mainly escaped convicts who fled to the bush and organized gangs. Their cri...

Bragg, Sir William Lawrence

(Encyclopedia)Bragg, Sir William Lawrence, 1890–1971, English physicist, b. Adelaide, Australia, educated in Australia and at Trinity College, Cambridge; son of W. H. Bragg. He was professor of physics at Victori...