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(Encyclopedia) Elizabeth City, city (2020 pop.
18,631), seat of Pasquotank co., NE N.C., a port of entry on the Pasquotank
River (which, with the Dismal Swamp Canal, f...
(Encyclopedia) Goyen, Jan Josephszoon van yän yōˈzəfsōn vän gōˈyən [key], 1596–1656, Dutch landscape painter. He studied at Leiden and Haarlem. In 1631 he settled at The Hague. His typically Dutch landsca...
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CE5
Virgin Islands, group of about 100 small islands, West Indies, E of Puerto Rico. The islands are divided politically between the United States and Great Britain. Although constituting the weste...
(Encyclopedia) Ravenna rävĕnˈnä [key], city (1991 pop. 135,844), capital of Ravenna prov., in Emilia-Romagna, N central Italy, near the Adriatic Sea (with which it is connected by a canal). It is an agricultural...
(Encyclopedia) Louth louth [key], town (1991 pop. 14,093), in the Parts of Lindsey, Lincolnshire, E England, on the Lud River. Although a canal was built to the Humber estuary in the 18th cent., Louth is no longer a...
(Encyclopedia) Biel byĕn [key], city (1990 est. pop. 52,020), Bern canton, NW Switzerland, at the northeast end of the Lake of Biel. A watchmaking center, Biel also manufactures chains and machinery. There is a 16t...
(Encyclopedia) Dortmund
dôrtˈmo͝ont
[key], city, North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany, a port on the
Dortm...
(Encyclopedia) Bydgoszcz bĭdˈgôshch [key], Ger. Bromberg, city (1994 est. pop. 384,000), capital (with Toruń) of Kujawsko-Pomorskie prov., N central Poland, on the Brda River, a tributary of the Vistula. One of ...
(Encyclopedia) Akron
ăkˈrən
[key], city (2020 pop. 190,469), seat of Summit co., NE Ohio, on the Little Cuyahoga River;
inc. 1865. Once the heart of the nation's rubber industry, Akro...
(Encyclopedia) Colmar, Ger.
Kolmar
both: kôlmärˈ
[key], city, capital of Haut-Rhin dept., E France, i...