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Kafue

(Encyclopedia) KafueKafuekäf&oomacr;ˈā [key], river, c.600 mi (970 km) long, rising along the Zambia-Congo border, S central Africa, near Lubumbashi, and meandering through central Zambia to the…

Tracy

(Encyclopedia) Tracy, city (1990 pop. 33,558), San Joaquin co., central Calif., in the San Joaquin valley; inc. 1910. It is a railroad junction in a cattle and dairying region. Grapes, sugar beets,…

San Vicente

(Encyclopedia) San VicenteSan Vicentesän vēsānˈtā [key], city (1993 pop. 28,529), central El Salvador. Among its industries are textile manufacturing and sugar milling. San Vicente is the commercial…

Katanga

(Encyclopedia) KatangaKatangakätăngˈgə, kə– [key], former province, c.200,000 sq mi (518,000 sq km), SE Congo (Kinshasa); called Shaba from 1971 to 1997. Katanga bordered Angola on the southwest,…

Kasai, former province, Congo

(Encyclopedia) KasaiKasaikäsīˈ [key], former province, c.124,000 sq mi (321,160 sq km), S central Congo (Kinshasa). Luluabourg (present Kananga) was the capital. Between the Kasai and the Sankuru…

Bokassa, Jean-Bédel

(Encyclopedia) Bokassa, Jean-BédelBokassa, Jean-BédelzhäN-bĕdĕlˈ bōkäsˈsä [key], 1921–96, president of Central African Republic (1966–79). He served (1939–61) in the French army, then organized his…

Creuse

(Encyclopedia) Creuse Creuse kröz [key], department, central France, in the Massif Central. Guéret (the capital) and…

Igorot

(Encyclopedia) IgorotIgorotĭgərōtˈ, ēgə– [key], general name for the people of N central Luzon island, the Philippines. The Igorot form two subgroups: the largest group lives in the south, central,…

Chari

(Encyclopedia) Chari or ShariChariboth: shäˈrē [key], longest river of interior drainage in Africa, c.650 mi (1,050 km) long, rising in the uplands of the Central African Republic, N central Africa.…

Judah, Theodore Dehone

(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…