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Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Denison, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Denison Dam DENISON DAM [Denison Dam] 17,200 ft (5,243 m) long, on the Red River along the Texas-Okla. border, NW of Denison, Tex. The dam, built by the U.S. Corps of Engineers for flood control and hydroelectric power, was completed in 1944 and impounds Lake Texoma (227 sq mi/588 sq km), one of the largest |
 | | Denison Univ. (B.A., 1890; D.D., 1928) and Univ. of Chicago (B.D., 1897; Ph.D., 1898). |
 | | Flowing from mountains to the W coast, its main tributaries are the Franklin and Denison from the N, and Serpentine and Olga to the S. In the 1980s it was the site of controversial proposals to develop hydroelectricity. |
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