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Hutt City

(Encyclopedia) Hutt City, city, S North Island, New Zealand, in the Hutt River valley, part of the greater Wellington urban area; formerly called Lower…

Westwood

(Encyclopedia) Westwood. 1 Residential town (1990 pop. 12,557), Norfolk co., E Mass., in the greater Boston area; settled 1640, inc. 1897. Clothing is manufactured, and the town has several early…

Alice Springs

(Encyclopedia) Alice Springs, town, Northern Territory, Australia. It lies in a pastoral area surrounded by desert near the center of the continent and is a stop on the Adelaide Darwin…

Thanh Hoa

(Encyclopedia) Thanh HoaThanh Hoatän wä [key], city, E central N Vietnam, near the mouth of the Song Ma River, in a cotton-growing area. It is on the highway and railroad from Hanoi south to the…

funny bone

(Encyclopedia) funny bone, highly sensitive area at the back of the elbow where the ulnar nerve passes close to the surface of the skin in a groove between end prominences of the humerus (the upper…

Grants Pass

(Encyclopedia) Grants Pass, city (2020 pop. 39,189), seat of Josephine co., SW Oreg., on the Rogue River, in a heavily forested area; inc. 1887. It has…

Burton upon Trent

(Encyclopedia) Burton upon Trent, urban area, Staffordshire, W central England, on the Trent River and the Grand Trunk Canal. Brewing, begun there by…

Stuttgart, city, United States

(Encyclopedia) StuttgartStuttgartstŭtˈgärt, –gərt [key], city (1990 pop. 10,420), a seat of Arkansas co., E central Ark.; inc. 1889. It is a trade and processing center of a rice-growing area.…

Dhekelia

(Encyclopedia) DhekeliaDhekeliathĕkälˈyä [key], Dhekelia Sovereign Base Area, or Eastern Sovereign Base Area, British military base (2004 est. pop. 7,200), c.51 sq mi (131 sq km), SE Cyprus, on…

Scarborough Shoal

(Encyclopedia) Scarborough Shoal, lagoon and reefs, South China Sea, c.135 mi (220 km) W of Luzon, the Philippines. Claimed by China, the Philippines, and Taiwan, it is called Huangyan Island by…