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(Encyclopedia) Lackawanna, river, 35 mi (56 km) long, rising in NE Pa. and flowing southwest to join the Susquehanna River near Pittston. It crosses the chief anthracite-coal region of the state, passing the cities ...
(Encyclopedia) Wooster wo͝osˈtər [key], city (1990 pop. 22,191), seat of Wayne co., N central Ohio, in a farm area; inc. 1817. There is food processing and paper, plastic, and brass products are made there. The O...
(Encyclopedia) Brown, Walter Folger fōlˈjər [key], 1869–1961, American cabinet officer, b. Massillon, Ohio. A lawyer of Toledo, Ohio, he became prominent in Republican politics and was (1927–29) Assistant Sec...
(Encyclopedia) Centerville, city (2020 pop. 24,240),
Montgomery co., SW Ohio, a residential suburb of Dayton; inc. 1879. It has a
small industrial park.
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(Encyclopedia) Albany
1, 3, 4 ôlˈbənē; 2
ôlˈbĕnˌē, ălbāˈnē
[key]. 1 Residential city (2020 pop. 20,271), Alameda co., W Calif., on the
eastern shore of San Francisco...
(Encyclopedia) Evangelical United Brethren Church, Protestant denomination created (1946) by the union of the Evangelical Church and the United Brethren in Christ. Both denominations originated early in the 19th cen...
(Encyclopedia) Willowick, city (1990 pop. 15,269), Lake co., NE Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on Lake Erie; inc. 1924. It is chiefly residential.
(Encyclopedia) Sharonville, city (1990 pop. 13,153), Hamilton co., SW Ohio, a residential suburb of Cincinnati; surveyed 1796, inc. 1911. Motor vehicle parts are manufactured.
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(Encyclopedia) Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant: see Islamic State.
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(Encyclopedia) Meigs, Return Jonathan mĕgz [key], 1740–1823, American Revolutionary army officer, b. Middletown, Conn. He accompanied Benedict Arnold on the Quebec expedition, where he was taken prisoner and late...