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Felling

(Encyclopedia) Felling, town, Gateshead metropolitan district, NE England. Felling is an industrial suburb of Gateshead and part of the Newcastle upon…

Bootle

(Encyclopedia) Bootle, town, Sefton metropolitan district, NW England, at the mouth of the Mersey River. It has extensive docks adjacent to those of…

Langley Park

(Encyclopedia) Langley Park, uninc. town (1990 pop. 17,474), Prince Georges co., W central Md., a suburb of Washington, D.C. The town has grown with the development of the greater Washington, D.C.…

Barrie

(Encyclopedia) Barrie, city, S Ont., Canada, on the west shore of Lake Simcoe. It is a commuter city in the Toronto metropolitan region. Among the city…

Warley

(Encyclopedia) Warley, urban area (1991 pop. 152,455), Sandwell metropolitan district, central England. Warley is highly industrialized; its manufactures include machinery, fabricated metal products…

Longhi, Pietro

(Encyclopedia) Longhi, PietroLonghi, Pietropyāˈtrō lôngˈgē [key], 1702–85, Venetian genre painter. Longhi studied with Crespi in Bologna. He is best known for his small pictures depicting the life of…

Bolton

(Encyclopedia) Bolton or Bolton-le-Moors Bolton-le-Moors bōlˈtən-lə-m&oobreve;rz [key…

Battle, Kathleen

(Encyclopedia) Battle, Kathleen, 1948–, African-American soprano, b. Portsmouth, Ohio. She studied voice at the Conservatory of Music at the Univ. of Cincinnati and made her debut at the Spoleto…

Rimmer, William

(Encyclopedia) Rimmer, William, 1816–79, American sculptor and writer, b. Liverpool, England. He was brought up in the United States and after working as a cobbler in Brockton, Mass., at the age of…

Gosforth

(Encyclopedia) Gosforth Gosforth gŏzˈfərth [key], town, Newcastle upon Tyne metropolitan district, NE England…