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(Encyclopedia) East River, tidal strait, 16 mi (26 km) long and 600–4,000 ft (183–1,219 m) wide, connecting Upper New York Bay and Long Island Sound, New York City, and separating the boroughs of Manhattan and t...

(Encyclopedia) Near East: see Middle East.

(Encyclopedia) East Kilbride kĭlbrīdˈ [key], town, South Lanarkshire, S central Scotland. Established in 1946 ...

(Encyclopedia) East Timor –lĕshˈtā [key], Tetum Timor Lorosae, republic, officially Democratic Republic...

(Encyclopedia) East Massapequa măsəpēkˈwə [key], uninc. town (2020 pop. 17,622), Nassau co., SE N.Y., on the south ...

(Encyclopedia) McCall, Samuel Walker, 1851–1923, American political leader, U.S. Congressman (1893–1913), governor of Massachusetts (1916–18), b. East Providence, Pa. He was a lawyer in Boston when he entered ...

(Encyclopedia) East Hartford, urban town (2020 pop. 51,045), Hartford co., central Conn., on the Connecticut River opposite Hartford; settled c.1640, inc. 1783. East H...

(Encyclopedia) East Liverpool, industrial city (2020 pop. 9,958), Columbiana co., E central Ohio, on the Ohio River near the Pa. and W.Va. borders; settled 1798 as St....

(Encyclopedia) East Lyme līm [key], town (1990 est. pop. 14,000), New London co., SE Conn., on Long Island Sound; settled c.1660, inc. 1839. The town has diversified light industry. Its many colonial buildings incl...

(Encyclopedia) Middle East, term traditionally applied by western Europeans to the countries of SW Asia and NE Africa lying W of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. Thus defined it includes Cyprus, the Asian part of T...