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(Encyclopedia) Bowling Green State University, at Bowling Green, Ohio; coeducational; chartered 1910 as a normal school, opened 1914. It became a college in 1929, a university in 1935. The school has research instit...

(Encyclopedia) Wickliffe wĭkˈlĭf [key], city (1990 pop. 14,558), Lake co., NE Ohio; inc. 1916. Chemicals, machinery, and meters are manufactured. Borromeo Seminary and the Rabbinical College of Telshe are there. ...

(Encyclopedia) Door Peninsula, 80 mi (129 km) long, NE Wis., between Green Bay and Lake Michigan; a canal at Sturgeon Bay bisects the peninsula. Cherry growing and tourism are the chief industries. The peninsula was...

(Encyclopedia) Huddersfield, city, Kirklees metropolitan district, N central England, on the Colne River. Its textile industry, including cotton, woolen, and rayon goo...

(Encyclopedia) Skien shēˈən, shāˈən [key], city (1995 pop. 48,341), capital of Telemark co., SE Norway, a port on the Skienselva River and on the Telemark Canal. Manufactures include forest products and proces...

(Encyclopedia) Mittelland Kanal: see Midland Canal. ...

(Encyclopedia) Culebra Cut: see Panama Canal.

(Encyclopedia) Reynoldsburg rĕnˈəlzbûrgˌ [key], city (1990 pop. 25,748), Franklin and Licking counties, central Ohio; inc. 1839, as a city 1961. It is a residential suburb of Columbus. ...

(Encyclopedia) East Cleveland, city (2020 pop. 13,792), Cuyahoga co., NE Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland; inc. 1911. Mostly residential, it has some declining light indust...

(Encyclopedia) Oswego, river, 23 mi (37 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Oneida and the Seneca rivers, central N.Y., NW of Syracuse and flowing NW to Lake Ontario at Oswego. It has been canalized and incorp...