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Port Radium

(Encyclopedia) Port Radium, mining village, N central Northwest Territories, Canada, on Great Bear Lake. The mines were discovered in 1930 and yielded deposits of pitchblende, from which much radium…

Gladbeck

(Encyclopedia) Gladbeck Gladbeck glätˈbĕk [key], city, North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany, an industrial…

Harvard

(Encyclopedia) Harvard, town (2020 pop. 6,851), Worcester co., E central Mass.; inc. 1732. A Shaker house and cemetery, a Native American museum, and a…

Utah, University of

(Encyclopedia) Utah, University of, at Salt Lake City; coeducational; state supported; opened 1850, chartered 1851 as Univ. of Deseret, closed 1851–67. It was empowered to give degrees in 1884 and…

Museum of Primitive Art

(Encyclopedia) Museum of Primitive Art, New York City, a privately supported institution, established in 1957. It was devoted entirely to the arts of the indigenous cultures of Africa, Oceania, and…

Croydon

(Encyclopedia) Croydon, outer borough of Greater London, SE England. It is London's second largest shopping and cultural center after West End. London'…

lock, canal

(Encyclopedia) lock, canal, stretch of water enclosed by gates, one at each end, built into a canal or river for the purpose of raising or lowering a vessel from one water level to another. A lock…

Kolar

(Encyclopedia) KolarKolarkōlärˈ [key], city (1991 pop. 83,287), Karnataka state, SW India. Manufactures include textiles and leather goods. Founded in the late 19th cent., Kolar was the center of the…

Aliquippa

(Encyclopedia) Aliquippa Aliquippa ălĭkwĭpˈə [key], borough (2020 pop. 9,238), Beaver co., W Pa., in an industrialized region along the Ohio River N of Pittsburgh; inc.…

Canfield, Richard Albert

(Encyclopedia) Canfield, Richard Albert, 1855–1914, American gambler, b. New Bedford, Mass. A well-known gambling operator in Providence, R.I., Canfield went in the 1880s to New York, where his…