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Altai Territory

(Encyclopedia) Altai Territory or Altay Territory, administrative division, c. 102,400 sq mi (265,220 sq km), S central Siberian Russia. Barnaul is the capital. It is drained by the…

Chahar

(Encyclopedia) ChaharChaharchä-här [key], former province (109,527 sq mi/283,675 sq km), N China. Zhangjiakou (Kalgan) was the capital. It was abolished as a province in 1952; most of it was…

West Lafayette

(Encyclopedia) West Lafayette, city (1990 pop. 25,907), Tippecanoe co., W Ind., a suburb of Lafayette, on the Wabash River; inc. 1924. A primarily residential city, it is the seat of Purdue Univ.…

ranch

(Encyclopedia) ranch, large farm devoted chiefly to raising and breeding cattle, horses, sheep, and goats. The cattle ranch was introduced from Latin America to Texas and the plains of the W United…

Rockford

(Encyclopedia) Rockford, industrial city (1990 pop. 139,426), seat of Winnebago co., N Ill., on the Rock River near the Wis. line; inc. 1839 with the merger of two settlements on opposite sides of…

planter

(Encyclopedia) planter, farm or garden implement that places propagating material such as seeds or seedlings into the ground, usually in rows. Broadcasting, i.e., scattering seed in all directions,…

Santa Cruz de la Sierra

(Encyclopedia) Santa Cruz de la SierraSanta Cruz de la Sierrasänˈtä kr&oomacr;s [key]Santa Cruz de la Sierraᵺā lä sēĕrˈä [key], city (1992 pop. 697,278), capital of Santa Cruz dept., central…

Peterloo massacre

(Encyclopedia) Peterloo massacre, public disturbance in St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England, Aug. 16, 1819, also called the Manchester massacre. A crowd of some 60,000 men, women, and children…

Kíthira

(Encyclopedia) KíthiraKíthirakēˈthērä [key] or CytheraCytherasĭthērˈə [key], island (1991 pop. 3,021), c.109 sq mi (282 sq km), S Greece, in the Mediterranean Sea, southernmost of the Ionian Islands…

Laurel, cities, United States

(Encyclopedia) Laurel. 1 Town (1990 pop. 19,438), Prince Georges co., central Md., about halfway between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore; patented in the late 1600s, inc. 1870. Primarily residential…