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Corby

(Encyclopedia) Corby, town and district, Northamptonshire, central England. Situated over one of the world's largest ironstone fields, Corby has grown…

Borinage

(Encyclopedia) BorinageBorinagebôrēnäzhˈ [key], region, Hainaut prov., S Belgium, surrounding Mons and extending to the French border. Traditionally a coal-mining district, most of the mines have…

Riga, Gulf of

(Encyclopedia) Riga, Gulf of, eastern arm of the Baltic Sea, bordering on Estonia and on Latvia. At its mouth it is nearly closed off by the Estonian island of Saaremaa. The gulf, which is frozen…

Cannock

(Encyclopedia) Cannock Cannock kănˈək [key], city, Staffordshire, W central England. It was a mining town…

East Orange

(Encyclopedia) East Orange, city (2020 pop. 69,612), Essex co., NE N.J.; settled 1678, separated from Orange and inc. 1863. A residential city adjacent…

Saint Thomas, city, Canada

(Encyclopedia) Saint Thomas, city (1991 pop. 29,990), S Ont., Canada, S of London. Originally the center for a rich agricultural area, it became a rail and manufacturing center beginning in the late…

Saranac Lake

(Encyclopedia) Saranac Lake, village (1990 pop. 5,377), Essex and Franklin counties, N N.Y., in the Adirondacks; settled c.1819 as a lumbering town, inc. 1892. It is a year-round resort community;…

Heerlen

(Encyclopedia) Heerlen Heerlen hārˈlən [key], city, Limburg prov., SE Netherlands. It is an industrial and…

Queenborough-in-Sheppey

(Encyclopedia) Queenborough-in-Sheppey, town (1991 pop. 33,362), on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, SE England, at the confluence of the Medway and Thames rivers. Radios, furniture, glass, rubber products…

topology

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Möbius strip: On the ordinary flat loop (A), an ant walking along the middle of the strip will pass only around the outside of the strip. If the strip is cut along the dotted…