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121Barranquilla — /bahrdd rddahn kee yah/, n. a seaport in N Colombia, on the Magdalena River. 661,920. * * * City (pop., 1999: 1,226,292), northern Colombia. Founded in 1629 about 10 mi (16 km) from the mouth of the Magdalena River, it remained unimportant until… …
122Calah — /kay leuh/, n. Biblical name of Kalakh. * * * modern Nimrūd Ancient city, Assyria. Lying south of modern Mosul, Iraq, it was founded in the 13th century BC by Shalmaneser I. It remained unimportant until the 9th century BC, when Ashurnasirpal II… …
123Durham — /derr euhm, dur /, n. 1. a county in NE England. 607,600; 940 sq. mi. (2435 sq. km). 2. a city in this county. 86,500. 3. a city in N North Carolina. 100,831. 4. a town in SE New Hampshire. 10,652. 5. Animal Husb. Shorthorn. * * * I… …
124fuss — fusser, n. /fus/, n. 1. an excessive display of anxious attention or activity; needless or useless bustle: They made a fuss over the new baby. 2. an argument or noisy dispute: They had a fuss about who should wash dishes. 3. a complaint or… …
125Indonesia — /in deuh nee zheuh, sheuh, zee euh, doh /, n. 1. See East Indies (def. 1). 2. Republic of. Formerly, Netherlands East Indies, Dutch East Indies. a republic in the Malay Archipelago consisting of 13,677 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi,… …
126tantalum — /tan tl euhm/, n. Chem. a gray, hard, rare, metallic element occurring in columbite and tantalite and usually associated with niobium: used, because of its resistance to corrosion by most acids, for chemical, dental, and surgical instruments and… …
127transition element — Chem. any element in any of the series of elements with atomic numbers 21 29, 39 47, 57 79, and 89 107, that in a given inner orbital has less than a full quota of electrons. Also called transition metal. [1920 25] * * * Any chemical element with …
128Gortyn — Ancient city, south central Crete, Greece. Although unimportant in Minoan times, it later displaced Phaestus as the dominant city. It shared or disputed control of Crete with Knossos until the Roman annexation in the 1st century BC, when it… …
