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(Encyclopedia) Mackenzie, Sir William, 1849–1923, Canadian railroad builder and financier, b. Ontario. In the early 1870s he became a railroad contractor. He constructed portions of the Canadian National and the C...

(Encyclopedia) Judah, Theodore Dehone, 1826–63, American railroad builder, b. Bridgeport, Conn. He built the Niagara Gorge RR and did canal work before going (1854) to lay out a railroad near Sacramento, Calif. Th...

(Encyclopedia) hermandad ārmändäᵺˈ [key] [Span.,=brotherhood], a peacekeeping association of armed individuals, a characteristic of municipal life in medieval Spain, especially in Castile. Hermandades are know...

(Encyclopedia) Baghdad Railway, railroad of international importance linking Europe with Asia Minor and the Middle East. The line runs from İstanbul, Turkey, to Basra, Iraq; it connected what were distant regions o...

(Encyclopedia) Los Altos lôs ălˈtōs, lŏs [key], residential city (1990 pop. 26,303), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1952. There is diversified light manufacturing. ...

(Encyclopedia) Bhusawal bo͝osäˈvəl [key], city, Maharashtra state, W central India. The city is on the M...

(Encyclopedia) Crowley krouˈlē [key]. <1> City (2020 pop. 11,710), seat of Acadia parish, SW La.; in...

(Encyclopedia) valence, combining capacity of an atom expressed as the number of single bonds the atom can form or the number of electrons an element gives up or accepts when reacting to form a compound. Atoms are c...

(Encyclopedia) Manhattan Beach, city (1990 pop. 32,063), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1912. It is a residential and beach community with an oil refinery and nearby factories that produce tran...

(Encyclopedia) Arcadia, city (2020 pop. 56,681), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, at the foot of the San Gabriel Mts.; inc. 1903. Manufactures include electronic equipment,...