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(Encyclopedia)Aventine, hill: see Rome before Augustus under Rome. ...Viminal
(Encyclopedia)Viminal, hill: see Rome before Augustus under Rome. ...Caelian
(Encyclopedia)Caelian, hill: see Rome before Augustus under Rome. ...Daly City
(Encyclopedia)Daly City, city (2020 pop. 104,901), San Mateo co., W Calif., a suburb of San Francisco; inc. 1911. Daly City is primarily residential, its population h...Coronado
(Encyclopedia)Coronado kŏrˌənäˈdō [key], city (2020 pop. 20,192), San Diego co., S Calif., on a peninsula on ...Anab
(Encyclopedia)Anab āˈnăb [key], in the Bible, hill town, SW ancient Palestine. ...Fernández de Córdoba, Francisco, d. 1518?, Spanish explorer in Mexico
(Encyclopedia)Fernández de Córdoba, Francisco fränthēsˈkō fārnänˈdāth dā kōrˈdōbä [key], d. 1518?, Spanish explorer in Mexico. Sailing from Cuba on a slave hunt, he discovered Yucatán in 1517. He di...Rogers, Woodes
(Encyclopedia)Rogers, Woodes, 1679?–1732, British privateer and colonial administrator. A romantic figure, Rogers plundered (1708–9) Spanish commerce in the Pacific and rescued Alexander Selkirk from the Juan F...Gaash
(Encyclopedia)Gaash gāˈăsh [key], in the Bible, hill in Mt. Ephraim. There Joshua was buried. ...Arab
(Encyclopedia)Arab āˈrăb [key], in the Bible, hill town of S ancient Palestine, near Hebron. ...Browse by Subject
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