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(Encyclopedia) Marsh, Charles Wesley, 1834–1918, American inventor and editor, b. Ontario. In 1849 his family moved to De Kalb co., Ill. Assisted by his brother William, he designed a hand-binding harvester and ob...

(Encyclopedia) White Plains, city (1990 pop. 48,718), seat of Westchester co., SE N.Y., N of New York City; settled by Puritans from Connecticut in 1683; inc. as a village 1866, as a city 1916. The primary employmen...

(Encyclopedia) Gilead gĭlˈēăd [key], in the Bible. 1 Eponym of the Gileadites, grandson of Manasseh. 2 Gadite. 3 Jephthah's father. 4 City near Mizpah, denounced by Hosea. 5 Fertile, mountainous region, NE of th...

(Encyclopedia) Bossier City bōˈzhər [key], city (2020 pop. 62,701), Bossier parish, NW La., on the Red River, ...

(Encyclopedia) Hucknall hŭkˈnəl [key] or Hucknall Torkard, town, Nottinghamshire, central England. It has...

(Encyclopedia) Eunice yo͞oˈnĭs [key], city (2020 pop. 9,422), St. Landry parish, S central La.; inc. 1895...

(Encyclopedia) Blair Atholl ăthˈəl [key], parish, Perth and Kinross, central Scotland, at the confluence of the Garry and the Tilt rivers. Blair Castle, begun c.1269, is the seat of the duke of Atholl and his Ath...

(Encyclopedia) Harahan hârˈəhănˌ [key], city (2020 pop. 9,116), Jefferson parish, SE La., a suburb of New ...

(Encyclopedia) Bastrop băsˈtrŏpˌ [key], city (2020 pop. 9,711), seat of Morehouse parish, NE La.; founded ...

(Encyclopedia) Manning, William Thomas, 1866–1949, American Episcopal bishop of New York, b. England, received his collegiate and theological training at the Univ. of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. Ordained a priest (1...