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(Encyclopedia) Aligarh əlēgŭrˈ [key], city, Uttar Pradesh state, N central India. A district administrative headquarters and an important agricultural trade center, it also has a num...

(Encyclopedia) Calabar kăləbärˈ, kălˈəbär [key], city (1991 est. pop. 154,000), SE Nigeria, a port on an estuary of the Gulf of Guinea. Rubber is processed, and palm oil, cacao, rubber, and timber are export...

(Encyclopedia) Čelakovsky, František fränˈtĭshĕk chĕˈläkôfskĭ [key], 1799–1852, Czech folklorist and poet. A disciple of Herder and a romantic Pan-Slavist, he collected Slavic folk songs from 1822 to 18...

(Encyclopedia) Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, at Stanford, Calif. It was established in 1919 as the Hoover War Library by Herbert Hoover to extend his collection of documents of World War I, but i...

(Encyclopedia) Huelva wĕlˈvä [key], city, capital of Huelva prov., SW Spain, in Andalusia, on the Odiel R...

(Encyclopedia) Institute for Advanced Study, at Princeton, N.J.; chartered 1930, opened 1933. It differs from a university in that it offers no curriculum or examinations, and confers no degrees. Founded with a gift...

(Encyclopedia) Umeå üˈməōˌ [key], city (1990 pop. 60,310), capital of Västerbotten co., NE Sweden, on an inlet of the Gulf of Bothnia and at the mouth of the Umeälv River; founded 1622. Manufactures of this ...

(Encyclopedia) Redbridge, outer borough (1991 pop. 220,600) of Greater London, SE England. Primarily residential, Redbridge is also an important shopping and commercial center. Its industries include light engineeri...

(Encyclopedia) Gibson, Randall Lee, 1832–92, Confederate general and U.S. legislator, b. Woodford co., Ky. Gibson served in most of the Western campaigns of the Civil War, first as an artillery officer and later a...

(Encyclopedia) Goiânia go͝oyäˈnyə [key], city, capital of Goiás state, S central Brazil. A modern plan...