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(Encyclopedia) Helmond hĕlˈmônt [key], city, North Brabant prov., SE Netherlands, on the Aa River. Manufa...

(Encyclopedia) Bergisch-Gladbach bĕrˈgĭsh-glätˈbäkhˌ [key], city, North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany; chartered 1856. ...

(Encyclopedia) Sainte Agathe des Monts săNtägätˈ dā môN [key], town (1991 pop. 5,452), S Que., Canada, on the North River, NW of Montreal. It is a resort center. ...

(Encyclopedia) Scunthorpe, city (1991 pop. 79,043), in the Parts of Lindsey, North Lincolnshire, E England. Situated on an ironstone field, Scunthorpe was a center of iron and steel manufacture from the early 1900s,...

(Encyclopedia) Seaham sēˈəm [key], town (1991 pop. 21,807), Durham, NE England, on the North Sea. Mining and shipping coal were major industries. The manufacture of clothing is now a significant industry. ...

(Encyclopedia) Thingvallavatn thēngˈgvätˌläväˌtən [key], Icelandic Þingvallavatn, lake, c.35 sq mi (90 sq km), SW Iceland, E of Reykjavík. It is Iceland's largest lake. On its north shore is historic Thing...

(Encyclopedia) Egersund āˈgərso͝on [key], town, Rogaland co., S Norway, a modern fishing port on the North ...

(Encyclopedia) Fridley, city (2020 pop. 29,590), Anoka co., SE Minn., a suburb north of Minneapolis, on the Mississippi River; settled 1847, inc. as a city 1957. A dis...

(Encyclopedia) Lumbee, descendants of Native Americans whose language belonged to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). The ancestors of the Lumbee occupi...

(Encyclopedia) Neutral Nation, group of Native North American tribes of the Iroquoian branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). In the early 17th cent. they occupied the territory ...