1) Sun Belt. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Sun Belt, or Sunbelt, southern tier of the United States, focused on Florida, Texas, Arizona, and California, and extending as far north as Virginia. The term gained...
2) Rust Belt. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...a decline in population and economic strength as manufacturers relocated, primarily to the Sun Belt, overseas, or more recently, to Mexico. Meanwhile, the nation...
3) Jupiter, in astronomy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...astronomy, fifth planet from the sun and largest planet of the solar system. 1 Astronomical and Physical CharacteristicsJupiter's orbit lies beyond the asteroid belt...
4) VII. Of the Black Belt. Du Bois, W. E. B. 1903. The Souls of Black Folk
...we can see the great cotton country as we enter it,—the soil now dark and fertile, now thin and gray, with fruit-trees and dilapidated buildings,—all the way to Albany....
5) asteroid. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...(AS-tuh-royd) A small planet that revolves around the sun. The largest asteroid is only about six hundred miles in diameter. (See asteroid belt.) 1...
6) Phoenix. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...has greatly expanded in 1970s-1990s with influx of retired citizens and businesses moving to Sun Belt. The expanding metropolitan area includes the suburbs of Mesa,...
7) migration. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...to west. Migration from north to south since the 1960s has resulted in the ascendancy of the Sun Belt, a region extending from Florida to S California. This trend...
8) cosmic rays. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...that are produced by the sun and other stars and then strike the upper atmosphere of the Earth. Some of these particles are absorbed, some help form the Van Allen...
9) Chapter 3. Wells, H.G. 1898. The Time Machine
...the dials that registered my speed raced round faster and faster. Presently I noted that the sun belt swayed up and down, from solstice to solstice, in a minute or...
10) suburb. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...7Most conspicuously shaped by suburban sprawl are the metropolitan areas of the Sun Belt that have boomed since World War II. The Los Angeles area, often held up...
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