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(Encyclopedia) West Irian: see Papua, Indonesia.

(Encyclopedia) West River, China: see Xi.

(Encyclopedia) West Sea: see Yellow Sea.

(Encyclopedia) West Hartford, town (1990 pop. 60,110), Hartford co., central Conn., a suburb of Hartford; settled c.1679, inc. 1854. Industrial production, which comprises a geographically small part of West Hartfor...

(Encyclopedia) West Spitsbergen, island: see Spitsbergen, Norway. ...

(Encyclopedia) West Suffolk, England: see under Suffolk. ...

(Encyclopedia) British West Indies: see West Indies; West Indies Federation. ...

(Encyclopedia) West Caldwell, borough (1990 pop. 10,422), Essex co., NE N.J., a residential suburb of Newark and New York City; inc. 1904. It has some light manufacturing. ...

(Encyclopedia) Brown, Mather, 1761–1831, American portrait and historical painter, b. Boston. He studied under Benjamin West in London and continued to work in England. His portraits include those of George IV (Bu...

(Encyclopedia) Rush, Benjamin, 1745?–1813, American physician, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. Byberry (now part of Philadelphia), Pa., grad. College of New Jersey (now Princeton, 1760), M.D. Univ. o...