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(Encyclopedia) Florence.
1 City (2020 pop. 40,184), seat of Lauderdale co., NW Ala., on
the Tennessee River near Muscle Shoals and adjacent to Wilson
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(Encyclopedia) Lancaster. 1 Uninc. city (1990 pop. 97,291), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in Antelope Valley and in the Mojave Desert; laid out 1894. It developed as a trade center for an irrigated farming area and has...
(Encyclopedia) Canton.
1 City (2020 pop. 13,098), Fulton co., W central Ill., in the
corn belt; inc. 1849. It is a trade and industrial center for a coal and
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(Encyclopedia) Saginaw, river, 22 mi (35 km) long, formed by the confluence of eight branches, SE Mich. The river drains a large area of lower Michigan and flows into Saginaw Bay (c.60 mi/100 km long and 15–25 mi/...
(Encyclopedia) Antioch
äntäkˈyä
[key], city, capital of Hatay prov., S Turkey, on the Orontes
(Asi) River, near the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of Mt. Silpius. Antioch is the trad...
(Encyclopedia) Kansas or Kaw, river, 170 mi (274 km) long, formed by the junction of the Smoky Hill and Republican rivers in NE Kansas and flowing E to the Missouri River at Kansas City; the system drains parts of K...
(Encyclopedia) Aberdeen
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[key]. 1 Town (2020 pop. 15,935), Harford co., NE Md., in a farm region; inc.
1892. Just south, on Chesapeake Bay, is the U.S. army's huge Aberdeen...
(Encyclopedia) Couzens, James kŭzˈənz [key], 1872–1936, U.S. Senator, industrialist, and philanthropist, b. Ontario, Canada. He moved (1887) to Detroit, and after he entered (1903) into partnership with Henry F...
(Encyclopedia) Granada, city, capital of Granada
prov., S Spain, in Andalusia, at the confluence of the Darro and Genil
rivers. Formerly (17th cent.) a silk center, Gr...
(Encyclopedia) Dewing, Thomas Wilmer, 1851–1938, American painter, b. Boston, Mass. Dewing studied in Paris with the academician Jules Lefebvre. Returning to New York City in 1880, he produced hazy, atmospheric, i...