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Enschede
(Encyclopedia)Enschede ĕnskhədāˈ [key], city, Overijssel prov., E Netherlands, near the German border. It ...Cranston
(Encyclopedia)Cranston, industrial city (2020 pop. 82,934), Providence co., central R.I., a residential suburb of Providence; inc. as a town 1754, as a city 1910. Its...calendering
(Encyclopedia)calendering, a finishing process by which paper, plastics, rubber, or textiles are pressed into sheets and smoothed, glazed, polished, or given a moiré or embossed surface. The material is passed thr...spurge
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Snow-on-the-mountain, Euphorbia marginata spurge spûrj [key], common name for members of the Euphorbiaceae, a family of herbs, shrubs, and trees of greatly varied structure and almost cosmopo...Morganton
(Encyclopedia)Morganton, town (1990 pop. 15,085), seat of Burke co., W N.C., on the Catawba River in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mts.; founded 1784, inc. 1885. A lake resort town, it also has industries that ma...Ipoh
(Encyclopedia)Ipoh ēˈpō [key], city, capital of Perak state, Malaysia, central Malay Peninsula, in the K...Cholet
(Encyclopedia)Cholet shôlāˈ [key], city, Maine-et-Loire dept., W France, in Poitou, on the Maine River. ...Jambi
(Encyclopedia)Jambi or Djambi both: jämˈbē [key], city (1990 est. pop. 340,066), SE Sumatra, capital of Jambi prov., Indonesia, a port at the head of navigation on the Hari River. It is the shipping and commerci...Barito
(Encyclopedia)Barito bärēˈtō [key], river, c.550 mi (890 km) long, rising in the mountains of central Borneo, Indonesia, and flowing generally S to the Java Sea. Banjarmasin is the head of oceangoing navigation...South Gate
(Encyclopedia)South Gate, city (1990 pop. 86,284), Los Angeles co., S Calif., an industrial suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1923. Among the city's manufactures are metal, electrical, paper, and rubber products; consume...Browse by Subject
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