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Coolidge Dam

(Encyclopedia)Coolidge Dam, 249 ft (76 m) high, 920 ft (280 m) long, on the Gila River, SE Ariz.; built 1927–28. It irrigates c.100,000 acres (40,470 hectares), half of which are Native American lands in San Carl...

Château d'If

(Encyclopedia)Château d'If shätōˌdēfˈ [key], castle built in 1524 on the small rocky isle of If, in the Mediterranean Sea off Marseilles, SE France. Long used as a state prison, it was made famous by Alexandr...

Horten

(Encyclopedia)Horten hôrˈtən [key], town, Vestfold co., SE Norway, a port on the Oslofjord (an arm of th...

Hellín

(Encyclopedia)Hellín ĕlyēnˈ [key], town, Albacete prov., SE Spain, in Castile–La Mancha. An important...

Hamar

(Encyclopedia)Hamar häˈmär [key], city, capital of Hedmark co., SE Norway, on Lake Mjøsa. It is a comme...

Heerlen

(Encyclopedia)Heerlen hārˈlən [key], city, Limburg prov., SE Netherlands. It is an industrial and transp...

Haddonfield

(Encyclopedia)Haddonfield, borough (2020 pop. 12,550), Camden co., SE N.J., a residential suburb of Camden and Philadelphia; settled c.1713, inc. 1875. Of interest ar...

Gwent

(Encyclopedia)Gwent gwĕnt [key], former county, SE Wales. Created in the 1974 administrative reorganization of Wales from most of Monmouthshire and part of Breconshire, it was dissolved in 1996 and divided among t...

Glen Cove

(Encyclopedia)Glen Cove, city (2020 pop. 28,365), Nassau co., SE N.Y., on the north shore of Long Island, at the entrance to Hempstead Harbor; settled 1668, inc. as a...

Guayama

(Encyclopedia)Guayama gwäyäˈmä [key], town, SE Puerto Rico, founded 1736. It is a growing processing and ...