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  • 61Punta del Mar Hotel Mallorca Island (Mallorca Island) — Punta del Mar Hotel Mallorca Island country: Spain, city: Mallorca Island (Santa Ponsa) Punta del Mar Hotel Mallorca Island Location Punta del Mar Hotel Mallorca Island is located on a rocky headland with spectacular views over the bay of Santa… …

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  • 62Essaouira — /es euh wear euh/, n. a seaport in W Morocco. 30,061. Formerly, Mogador. * * * ▪ Morocco formerly  Mogador   Atlantic port city, western Morocco, midway between Safi and Agadir. The site was occupied by Phoenicians and then Carthaginians and was… …

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  • 63goa — /goh euh/, n. a gazelle, Procapra picticaudata, of the Tibetan plateau. [1840 50; < Tibetan gowa (sp. dgo ba)] * * * State (pop., 2001 prelim.: 1,343,998), southwestern India. Located on the western coast, it is bordered by Maharashtra and&#8230; …

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  • 64Gôa — /goh euh/, n. a former district in Portuguese India, on the Arabian Sea, ab. 250 mi. (400 km) S of Bombay: annexed by India December 1961; now part of the union territory of Goa, Daman, and Diu. * * * State (pop., 2001 prelim.: 1,343,998),&#8230; …

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  • 65Port Arthur — 1. Lüshun. 2. a seaport in SE Texas, on Sabine Lake. 61,195. 3. See under Thunder Bay. * * * ▪ Texas, United States       city, Jefferson county, southeastern Texas, U.S., 90 miles (145 km) east of Houston. It is a major deepwater port on Sabine&#8230; …

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  • 66Aberystwyth — Town (pop., 1991: 11,154) on Cardigan Bay, western Wales. The medieval walled town was built around a 13th century fortress. It later became the exporter for the once flourishing local lead mines. A principal stronghold of Welsh culture, it has&#8230; …

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  • 67Horn, Cape — Southern extremity of South America. Located on Horn Island in the southern Tierra del Fuego archipelago, it projects south into Drake Passage. It was named Hoorn for the birthplace of Dutch navigator Willem Schouten, who rounded it in 1616.&#8230; …

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  • 68San Lucas, Cape — ▪ cape, Mexico Spanish  Cabo San Lucas        extreme southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico. The rocky headland forms the southern extremity of the Sierra de San Lazaro and includes the western shore of San Lucas Bay. The isolated …

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  • 69St. Winwallus —     St. Winwallus     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Winwallus     Abbot of Landevennec; d. 3 March, probably at the beginning of the sixth century, though the exact year is not known. There are some fifty forms of his name, ranging from Wynwallow …

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  • 70foolhardy — adjective Marked by unthinking recklessness with disregard for danger; bold but rash; hotheaded In the middle distance several foolhardy souls in wet suits were surfing toward some foamy outbursts on the rocky headland... Syn …

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