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(Encyclopedia) Alajuela älähwāˈlä [key], city (1995 est. pop. 48,645), capital of Alajuela prov., central Costa Rica. In the Central Valley, it is a leading commercial center for the sugar and livestock industr...

(Encyclopedia) International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), an international organization est. 1919 to advance the chemical sciences and contribute to the application of chemistry to the service of hum...

(Encyclopedia) Congressional Black Caucus, organization of African-American members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Founded in 1970, it addresses legislative concerns of African Americans and other minority ci...

(Encyclopedia) Çorum chôro͞omˈ [key], city (1991 est. pop. 116,260), capital of Çorum prov., N central Turkey. It is the trade center for a farm region where grains, fruits, sheep, and goats are raised. The cit...

(Encyclopedia) Aldershot ôlˈdərshôt [key], town, Hampshire, S central England. It is the site of the largest military training center (est. 1854) in Great Britain. The minister of de...

(Encyclopedia) Daisetsu-zan dīsāˈtso͞o-zäN [key], group of volcanic peaks, central Hokkaido, Japan, rising to 7,513 ft (2,290 m) at Asahi-dake. They are part of Daisetsu-zan National Park (895 sq mi/2,318 sq km...

(Encyclopedia) Jambi or Djambi both: jämˈbē [key], city (1990 est. pop. 340,066), SE Sumatra, capital of Jambi prov., Indonesia, a port at the head of navigation on the Hari River. It is the shipping and commerci...

(Encyclopedia) Jinhua jĭn-hwä [key] or Kinhwa, town (1994 est. pop. 164,000), central Zhejiang prov., SE China. A transportation hub on the Zhejiang-Jiangxi RR, Jinhua has been famous for two centuries for its ham...

(Encyclopedia) Siemianowice Śląskie shĕmyänôvēˈtsĕ shläNˈskyĕ [key], city (1991 est. pop. 80,600), Śląskie prov., S Poland. A center of the Katowice mining and industrial region, it has ironworks and st...

(Encyclopedia) Skierniewice skyĕrnyĕvēˈtsĕ [key], town (1993 est. pop. 44,000), Łódzkie prov., E central Poland. It is a railway junction and manufacturing center where electrical goods, glass, and ceramics a...