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Moscow

City and seat of Latah County, northwestern Idaho; population (1990) 18,500. Moscow lies on Paradise Creek, 35 km/22 mi north of Lewiston and 2.4 km/1.5 mi east of the border with Washington State.

The city was originally known as Hog Heaven, after the camas root that grows extensively in the region and is a favourite food of pigs. It was renamed after a suburb of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1876. The city is a market centre for the fertile Palouse region. Wheat and barley are processed here, along with almost all of the lentils and dried and seed peas grown in the USA. The University of Idaho (founded 1889), which houses the state Bureau of Mines and Geology, is located here. The university and US Forest Service jointly sponsor Moscow's Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station.



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Epanchin was surprised at the effect which the news from Moscow had upon the girls, and they were no less surprised that after solemnly remarking that her most striking characteristic was "being mistaken in people" she should have troubled to obtain for the prince the favour and protection of so powerful an old lady as the Princess Bielokonski.
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This post he had received through his sister Anna's husband, Alexey Alexandrovitch Karenin, who held one of the most important positions in the ministry to whose department the Moscow office belonged.
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] Potapitch, have everything packed, for we are returning to Moscow at once.
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