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Philipse, Frederick

(Encyclopedia) Philipse, FrederickPhilipse, Frederickfĭlˈĭps [key], 1626–1702, merchant and landowner in colonial America, b. Holland. He went (1647) with his family to New Amsterdam, where he became…

Penzance

(Encyclopedia) PenzancePenzancepĕnzănsˈ [key], town (1991 pop. 18,501), Cornwall, SW England, at the head of Mounts Bay. Penzance is a resort and a port for the Scilly Islands. It also has flour…

Black River

(Encyclopedia) Black River. 1 River rising in SE Mo. and flowing c.300 mi (480 km) SE, then SW to the White River near Newport, Ark. It is partly navigable. Clearwater Dam is on the river near…

Viña del Mar

(Encyclopedia) Viña del MarViña del Marvēˈnyä dĕl mär [key] [Span.,=vineyard by the sea], city (1990 est. pop. 281,100), central Chile. Practically a suburb of Valparaiso, Viña del Mar is one of the…

Bar-le-Duc

(Encyclopedia) Bar-le-Duc Bar-le-Duc bär-lə-dükˈ [key], town, capital of Meuse dept., NE France, in Lorraine. It has…

Doubleday, Abner

(Encyclopedia) Doubleday, Abner, 1819–93, once credited as originator of baseball and Union general in the American Civil War, b. Saratoga co., N.Y., grad. West Point, 1842. The A. G. Mills…

Greenfield Village

(Encyclopedia) Greenfield Village, reproduction of an early American village, est. 1933 by Henry Ford at Dearborn, Mich., as part of the Edison Institute. A white-spired church, a town hall, an inn,…

Gwangju

(Encyclopedia) Gwangju or Kwangju Gwangju gwängˈj&oomacr;ˈ [key], city, metropolitan city located in but…

Kannur

(Encyclopedia) KannurKannurkänˈ&oobreve;r [key], formerly CannanoreCannanorekănˈənōrˌ, –nôrˌ [key], town (1991 urban agglomeration pop. 463,962), Kerala state, SE India. Formerly the capital of…

Palembang

(Encyclopedia) PalembangPalembangpälĕmbängˈ [key], city (1990 pop. 1,144,047), capital of South Sumatra province, on SE Sumatra, Indonesia. The island's largest city, it is a deepwater port on both…