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(Encyclopedia) Moshi mōˈshē [key], municipality (2012 pop. 184,292), capital of Kilimanjaro prov., NE Tanzania, on the southern slope of Mt. Kilimanjaro, near Kenya. It is the center of a rich coffee-growing regi...

(Encyclopedia) Bisbee bĭzˈbē [key], city (2020 pop. 4,923), seat of Cochise co., SE Ariz., near the Mexic...

(Encyclopedia) baths, in architecture. Ritual bathing is traceable to ancient Egypt, to prehistoric cities of the Indus River valley, and to the early Aegean civilizations. Remains of bathing apartments dating from ...

(Encyclopedia) Boston, borough and district, E central England, on the Witham River. Boston's fame as a port dates from the 13th cent., when it was a Hanseatic port tr...

(Encyclopedia) affluent society, term coined by John Kenneth Galbraith in The Affluent Society (1958) to describe the United States after World War II. An affluent society, as the term was used ironically by Galbrai...

(Encyclopedia) Canopus kənōˈpəs [key], ancient city of N Egypt, 12 mi (19 km) E of Alexandria. Canopus, the pilot of Menelaus' ship, was said to have died there. In Hellenistic times Canopus was known as a pleas...

(Encyclopedia) Chassériau, Théodore tāōdôrˈ shäsārēōˈ [key], 1819–56, French painter, b. Santo Domingo. He entered Ingres's studio at the age of 12; five years later he gained immediate recognition with...

(Encyclopedia) incarnation, the assumption of human form by a god, an idea common in religion. In early times the idea was expressed in the belief that certain living men, often kings or priests, were divine incarna...

(Encyclopedia) Aomori äōmôˈrē [key], city, capital of Aomori prefecture, extreme N Honshu, Japan, on Aomori Bay. First opened to foreign trade in 1906, Aomori is now the chief trans...

(Encyclopedia) Finnmark fĭnˈmärk [key], county, 18,783 sq mi (46,648 sq km), N Norway, bordering on the A...