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(Encyclopedia) Hackensack, city (2020 pop. 46,030),
seat of Bergen co., NE N.J., on the Hackensack River, a residential and
industrial suburb of New York City; settled...
(Encyclopedia) Newport, Welsh Casnewydd, city and unitary authority (1991 pop. 129,900), 74 sq mi (191 sq km), SE Wales, on the Usk River. Lumber, tea, automobiles, electronics, semiconductors, and aircraft are made...
(Encyclopedia) City of Johannesburg, City of, metropolitan municipality (2011 pop. 4,434,827), Gauteng prov., NE South Africa. Johannesburg is the municipal seat; other communities include Soweto, Roodepoort, Alexan...
(Encyclopedia) Corn Belt, major agricultural region of the U.S. Midwest where corn acreage once exceeded that of any other crop. It is now commonly called the Feed Grains and Livestock Belt. Located in the north cen...
(Encyclopedia) Eiseley, Loren Corey īzˈlē [key], 1907–77, American anthropologist, b. Lincoln, Nebr. He taught anthropology at the Univ. of Kansas (1937–44), was chair of sociology and anthropology at Oberlin...
(Encyclopedia) Bradford, city (2020 pop. 7,849),
McKean co., NW Pa., in the Alleghenies, near the N.Y. line; settled c.1823,
inc. as a city 1879. The growth of the cit...
(Encyclopedia) Miami mīămˈē, –ə [key], group of Native Americans of the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). They shared the cultural traits of the Ea...
(Encyclopedia) Florence
flôrˈəns, flŏrˈ–
[key], Ital. Firenze, city (2021 est. metro area
pop.709,064...
(Encyclopedia) Ho Chi Minh City, formerly
Saigon, city, on the right bank of the Saigon River, a
tributary of the Dong Nai, Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh City is the larges...
(Encyclopedia) Cambridge, city and district,
Cambridgeshire, E central England, on the River Cam. The city, set in flat
country, is most famous as the site of the Univ...