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Lewis, John Llewellyn
(Encyclopedia) Lewis, John Llewellyn, 1880–1969, American labor leader, b. Lucas co., Iowa; son of a Welsh immigrant coal miner. He became a miner and after 1906 rose through the union ranks to…Coalville
(Encyclopedia) Coalville, town, Leicestershire, central England. Coalville is a modern town in the center of the Leicestershire coal field. Mining is…Dunmore
(Encyclopedia) Dunmore, borough (2020 pop. 14,042), Lackawanna co., NE Pa., an industrial suburb of Scranton; inc. 1783. Coal mining there has largely…Burnley
(Encyclopedia) Burnley, city and district, Lancashire, NW England. Historically a coal mining and cotton-weaving town, Burnley's economy is…Svalbard
(Encyclopedia) SvalbardSvalbardsvälˈbärd [key], archipelago (23,958 sq mi/62,051 sq km), island group (2015 est. pop. 2,700), possession of Norway, located in the Arctic Ocean, c.400 mi (640 km) N of…Ellwood City
(Encyclopedia) Ellwood City, industrial borough (2020 pop. 7,166), Beaver and Lawrence counties, W central Pa., near the Ohio line; inc. 1892. It has…Pittsburg
(Encyclopedia) PittsburgPittsburgpĭtsˈbərg [key]. 1 Industrial city (1990 pop. 47,564), Contra Costa co., W Calif., on the edge of the San Francisco Bay area, at the junction of the Sacramento and…New Glasgow
(Encyclopedia) New Glasgow, town (1991 pop. 4,134), N N.S., Canada, on East River. It is an industrial town located in a coal region. Steel products and machinery are manufactured, and there is a…Workington
(Encyclopedia) Workington, town (1991 pop. 25,978), Cumbria, NW England, at the mouth of the Derwent River. Workington has a significant harbor. Industries include iron and engineering works,…gas, fuel
(Encyclopedia) gas, fuel, gaseous substance that burns in air and releases enough heat to be useful as a fuel, while also remaining sufficiently stable at ordinary temperatures to permit long-term…Trending
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