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Kingstown, town, St. Vincent and the Grenadines

(Encyclopedia) Kingstown, town (1989 est. pop. 19,300), capital of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, West Indies. The chief port of St. Vincent, Kingstown is an export center for the island's…

Gravenhurst

(Encyclopedia) Gravenhurst Gravenhurst grāˈvənhûrst [key], town, S Ont., Canada, N of Toronto. It is the gateway to…

Ougrée

(Encyclopedia) OugréeOugrée&oomacr;grāˈ [key], town, Liège prov., E Belgium, on the Meuse River, a suburb of Liège. It is a center of heavy industry.

Colton

(Encyclopedia) Colton, city (2020 pop. 53,909), San Bernardino co., S Calif., a suburb of San Bernardino, inc. 1887. Originally a rich citrus and farm…

Almelo

(Encyclopedia) Almelo Almelo älˈməlō [key], city, Overijssel prov., E Netherlands. It is an important rail junction and manufacturing center and has a large textile…

Amstelveen

(Encyclopedia) Amstelveen Amstelveen ämˈstəlvān [key], town, North Holland prov., W Netherlands, a suburb of Amsterdam. Amstelveen has light industry and agriculture.…

Hanno, city, Japan

(Encyclopedia) Hanno Hanno hän-nō [key], city, Saitama prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Naguri…

Ploieşti

(Encyclopedia) PloieştiPloieştiployĕshtˈ [key], city (1990 pop. 259,014), S central Romania, in Walachia. It is the chief center of the Romanian petroleum industry and of the Ploieşti oil region. The…

Stoke-on-Trent

(Encyclopedia) Stoke-on-Trent, city and unitary authority (1991 pop. 272,446), W central England. Stoke-on-Trent forms the bulk of the area known as the Potteries. Situated in a coal field, the city…

Sarnoff, David

(Encyclopedia) Sarnoff, David, 1891–1971, American pioneer in radio and television, b. Russia. Emigrating to the United States in 1900, he worked for the Marconi Wireless Company, winning recognition…