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milling

(Encyclopedia) milling, mechanical grinding of wheat or other grains to produce flour. Milling separates the fine, mealy parts of grain from the fibrous bran covering. In prehistoric times grain was…

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…

Gwangju

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

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…

Chengde

(Encyclopedia) Chengde or Chengteh Chengde both: chŭng-d&oobreve; [key], city, N Hebei prov., China, near the Luan…

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…

Palencia

(Encyclopedia) PalenciaPalenciapälānˈthēä [key], city (1990 pop. 77,464), capital of Palencia prov., N central Spain, in Castile and León. An industrial center with iron foundries, textile mills, and…