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Nur-Sultan

(Encyclopedia) Nur-SultanNur-Sultann&oobreve;r-s&oobreve;ltänˈ [key], formerly AstanaAstanaästäˈnä [key], city (2008 est. pop. 600,000), capital of Kazakhstan, in central Kazakhstan on the…

Saint Joseph, cities, United States

(Encyclopedia) Saint JosephSaint Josephsānt jōˈzəf [key]. 1 City (1990 pop. 9,214), seat of Berrien co., SW Mich., a port on Lake Michigan at the mouth of the St. Joseph River across from Benton…

Nancy

(Encyclopedia) NancyNancynäNsēˈ [key], city (1990 pop. 102,410), capital of Meurthe-et-Moselle dept., NE France, on the Meurthe River and the Marne-Rhine Canal. It is the administrative, economic,…

Nantes

(Encyclopedia) NantesNantesnäNt [key], city (1990 pop. 252,029), capital of Loire-Atlantique dept., W France, on the Loire River. It is an important industrial and shipping center with its ocean port…

North American Native art

(Encyclopedia) North American Native art, diverse traditional arts of Native North Americans. In recent years Native American arts have become commodities collected and marketed by nonindigenous…

cost of living

(Encyclopedia) cost of living, amount of money needed to buy the goods and services necessary to maintain a specified standard of living. The cost of living is closely tied to rates of inflation and…

handedness

(Encyclopedia) handedness, habitual or more skillful use of one hand as opposed to the other. Approximately 90% of humans are thought to be right-handed. It was traditionally argued that there is a…

apprenticeship

(Encyclopedia) apprenticeship, system of learning a craft or trade from one who is engaged in it and of paying for the instruction by a given number of years of work. The practice was known in…

Accra

(Encyclopedia) AccraAccraəkräˈ, ăkˈrə [key], city (1984 pop. 867,459), capital of Ghana, a port on the Gulf of Guinea. It is Ghana's largest city and its administrative, communications, and economic…

Charlotte, city, United States

(Encyclopedia) Charlotte, city (2020 pop. 874,579), seat of Mecklenburg co., S N.C.; inc. 1768. The largest city in the state and the commercial and…