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(Encyclopedia) West, Jerry (Jerome Alan West), 1938–, American basketball player, b. Cheylan, W.Va. One of the game's great shooting guards, he led West Virginia Univ. to the 1959 National Collegiate Athletic Asso...

(Encyclopedia) Deventer, city, Overijssel prov., E central Netherlands, on the IJssel River. It is an industrial center with machine shops and foundries; important man...

(Encyclopedia) Donauwörth dōˈnouvört [key], town, Bavaria, SW Germany, a port at the confluence of the Donau ...

(Encyclopedia) Bradford, city and metropolitan borough, N central England, on a small tributary of the Aire River. It is a center of the worsted industry, which dates ...

(Encyclopedia) Calamy, Edmund kălˈəmē [key], 1600–1666, English Presbyterian preacher. In 1636 his opposition to the observance of certain church ceremonies forced his withdrawal as lecturer at Bury St. Edmund...

(Encyclopedia) Cockran, William Bourke kŏkˈrən [key], 1854–1923, American political leader, b. Co. Sligo, Ireland. He emigrated to New York City at the age of 17 and in 1876 was admitted to the bar. At first op...

(Encyclopedia) Hradec Králové hräˈdĕts kräˈlôvā [key], Ger. Königgrätz, city, N central ...

(Encyclopedia) Huggins, Miller James, 1878–1929, American baseball player and manager, b. Cincinnati. The diminutive “Mighty Mite” was a scrappy second baseman for the Cincinnati Reds (1904–9) and St. Louis ...

(Encyclopedia) Ctesiphon tĕsˈĭfŏnˌ, tēˈsĭ– [key], ruined ancient city, 20 mi (32 km) SE of Baghdad, Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris opposite Seleucia and at the mouth of the Diyala River. After 129 b....

(Encyclopedia) Hamilton, city, S Ont., Canada, at the western end of Lake Ontario. It is situated on a narrow plain between its harbor (connected by canal with the lak...