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Alma| Town in Gratiot County, central Michigan, USA; population (1990) 9,000. It is situated on the Pine River, 80 km/50 mi north of Lansing. Founded in 1853, it is a commercial and industrial town with oil and beet-sugar refineries and food processing plants. It also manufactures auto parts, metal and plastic products, trailers, and furniture. The town is home to Alma College (1886) and the Michigan Masonic Home. Alma is well known for its annual Scottish Highland Festival and Games. |
Alma| Town in Lac-Saint-Jean-Est County, south-central Québec, Canada; population (1991) 25,900. It is situated at the head of the Saguenay River, on the east of Lake Saint-Jean, 200 km/125 mi north of Québec City. It includes five former municipalities – Alma, Riverbend, Isle-Maligne, Naudville, and the parish of Alma – consolidated in 1962. The area was primarily a foresting and agricultural centre until construction in the 1920s of the Isle-Maligne hydroelectric station on the Grand Décharge River, which powers the aluminium plant and paper mills that are now Alma's major industries. Lake recreation and tourism are important to the local economy. |
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| Hunt and his party were sojourning at the village of the Omahas, three Sioux Indians of the Yankton Alma tribe arrived, bringing unpleasant intelligence. She had the small regular features, the blue eyes, and the broad low brow, which the Victorian painters, Lord Leighton, Alma Tadema, and a hundred others, induced the world they lived in to accept as a type of Greek beauty. I am forced to admit that even though I had traveled a long distance to place Bowen Tyler's manuscript in the hands of his father, I was still a trifle skeptical as to its sincerity, since I could not but recall that it had not been many years since Bowen had been one of the most notorious practical jokers of his alma mater. |