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Bohol
Island (pop., 1990 est.: 881,000), Philippine Islands. Located in the Visayan group north of Mindanao, it has an area of 1,492 sq mi (3,864 sq km). Visited by the Spanish in 1565, it remained under their rule until the late 19th cent. Its character is essentially rural and its economy agricultural. The chief settlements, incl. Loon and Talibon, are on the coast.


coho
Species (Oncorhynchus kisutch) of salmon prized for food and sport that ranges from the Bering Sea to Japan and the Salinas River of Monterey Bay, Cal. It weighs about 10 lbs (4.5 kg) and is recognized by the small spots on the back and upper tail-fin lobe. Young cohos stay in freshwater for about one year before entering N. Pacific waters; they mature in about three years. Some landlocked populations spend their entire lives in freshwater. Cohos were successfully transplanted in the 1970s into Lake Michigan as a game fish.


Moho
Boundary between the earth's crust and its mantle. The Moho lies at a depth of about 22 mi (35 km) below continents and about 4.5 mi (7 km) beneath the oceanic crust. Modern instruments have determined that the velocity of seismic waves increases rapidly at this boundary. The Moho was named for A. Mohorovicic.


Yojoa
Lake, central Honduras. The nation's largest inland lake, it has an area of 110 sq mi (285 sq km). It is volcanic in origin and sits at an elevation of 2,133 ft (650 m). It and the surrounding region are popular with tourists.


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City (pop., 1994 est.: 5,132,000), capital of Colombia. The District Capital area is officially known as Santafé de Bogotá . It lies on a plateau east of the Andes. European settlement began in 1538 when Spanish conquistadores overran Bacatá , the main seat of the Chibcha Indians; the name was soon corrupted to Bogotá . It became the capital of the viceroyalty of New Granada and a center of Spanish colonial power in S. America. It was the scene of revolt against Spanish rule in 1810-11, and S. Bolí var took the city in 1819. It became the capital of the confederation of Gran Colombia; when that was dissolved in 1830, it remained the capital of New Granada (later Republic of Colombia). Today Bogotá is an industrial, commercial, educational, and cultural center.


Bohr
Danish physicist. He studied the structure of the atom with J. J. Thomson and E. Rutherford at the Univs. of Cambridge and Manchester. He was among the first to see the importance of an element's atomic number and postulated that any atom could exist only in a discrete set of states characterized by definite values of energy. He became the first to apply the quantum theory to atomic and molecular structure, and his concept of the atomic nucleus was a key step in understanding such processes as nuclear fission. From 1920 to 1962 he directed the newly created Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen. His work on atomic theory won him a ...

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