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A0136000 (ăg′ə-sē), Elizabeth Cabot Cary 1822-1907. American educator who helped organize the predecessor of Radcliffe College (1879) and served as Radcliffe's first president (1894-1899).

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, Lake A glacial lake of the Pleistocene Epoch extending over much of present-day Manitoba and including parts of Minnesota, North Dakota, Ontario, and Saskatchewan.

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(French aɡasi) n (Biography) Jean Louis Rodolphe (ʒɑ̃ lwi rɔdɔlf). 1807–73, Swiss natural historian and geologist, settled in the US after 1846

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n. 1. Alexander, 1835–1910, U.S. oceanographer and marine zoologist, born in Switzerland. 2. his father, (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe) (ʒɑ̃) 1807–73, U.S. zoologist and geologist, born in Switzerland. 3. Lake, a lake existing in the prehistoric Pleistocene Epoch in central North America. 700 mi. (1127 km) long.

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Agassiz - United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873)Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, Louis Agassiz

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freshwater, glacier-formed lake which existed around 10,000–12,000 years ago along the edge of the retreating glacial mantle in North America. It extended 1,100 km from north to south and 400 km from west to east, with a maximum depth of more than 200 m. Lake Agassiz drained into the Mississippi River through the valleys of the Warren and Minnesota rivers. It existed for about 1,000 years and then was drained by the Nelson River, which formed a valley to the Hudson Bay. Remaining on the site of Lake Agassiz are Lake Winnipeg, Lake Manitoba, Lake Winnipegosis, Lake of the Woods, and others, as well as a broad belt of flat plains composed of varved clays, with fertile, gray forest gley (clay) soils. Farming is widely developed in these plains. The lake was named in honor of the Swiss naturalist J. Agassiz.

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noun United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish

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