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Dutch Wars

(Encyclopedia)Dutch Wars, series of conflicts between the English and Dutch during the mid to late 17th cent. The wars had their roots in the Anglo-Dutch commercial rivalry, although the last of the three wars was ...

Pennsylvania, University of

(Encyclopedia)Pennsylvania, University of, in Philadelphia; private with some state support; coeducational. It dates to 1740 and plans for a charity school, and the first predecessor opened in 1751 as an academy, l...

Pennsylvania State University

(Encyclopedia)Pennsylvania State University, main campus at University Park, State College; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855, opened 1859 as Farmers' High School. It was named the Agric...

Plum, city, Pennsylvania

(Encyclopedia)Plum, borough (1990 pop. 25,609), Allegheny co., SW Pa. on the Allegheny River, in a bituminous coal area; founded 1788, inc. 1956. It is a residential suburb of Pittsburgh. Apples and nursery stock a...

Dutch East Indies

(Encyclopedia)Dutch East Indies: see Indonesia. ...

Dutch elm disease

(Encyclopedia)Dutch elm disease: see diseases of plants; elm. ...

Dutch New Guinea

(Encyclopedia)Dutch New Guinea: see Papua, Indonesia. ...

Dutch Reformed Church

(Encyclopedia)Dutch Reformed Church: see Reformed Church in America. ...

Dutch West Indies

(Encyclopedia)Dutch West Indies: see Netherlands Antilles. ...

hex

(Encyclopedia)hex, witchcraft or one who works it. The word is of German origin, and beliefs connected with it spread from Europe to the United States, especially to the Pennsylvania Dutch country. The hex can be w...