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Sutton Coldfield

(Encyclopedia) Sutton Coldfield, city (1991 pop. 102,572), Birmingham metropolitan district, central England. The city is a residential suburb of Birmingham with a metal products industry and a large…

Bhusawal

(Encyclopedia) Bhusawal Bhusawal b&oobreve;säˈvəl [key], city, Maharashtra state, W central India. The city is on…

New Bedford

(Encyclopedia) New Bedford, city (1990 pop. 99,922), seat of Bristol co., SE Mass., at the mouth of the Acushnet River on Buzzard's Bay; settled 1640, set off from Dartmouth 1787, inc. as a city 1847…

Kosygin, Alexei Nikolayevich

(Encyclopedia) Kosygin, Alexei NikolayevichKosygin, Alexei Nikolayevichəlyĭksyāˈ nyĭkə līˈəvĭch kəsēˈgĭn [key], 1904–80, Soviet political leader. A member of the Communist party from 1927, he joined…

Five-Year Plan

(Encyclopedia) Five-Year Plan, Soviet economic practice of planning to augment agricultural and industrial output by designated quotas for a limited period of usually five years. Nations other than…

Mineola

(Encyclopedia) MineolaMineolamĭnēōˈlə [key], village (1990 pop. 18,994), seat of Nassau co., SE N.Y., on Long Island, a suburb of New York City; inc. 1906. Chiefly residential, it is a commercial…

Kwekwe

(Encyclopedia) Kwekwe, formerly Que QueQue Queboth: kwāˈkwāˈ [key], city (1992 pop. 75,425), central Zimbabwe, founded 1900. It is a gold-mining center and the focal point of Zimbabwe's iron and…

Asaka

(Encyclopedia) Asaka Asaka äsäˈkä [key], city, Saitama prefecture, central Honshu, Japan. It is an industrial and residential suburb of Tokyo. The city has an important…

Cheshire, town, United States

(Encyclopedia) Cheshire, town (2020 pop. 28,733), New Haven co., S central Conn., in a farm area; settled 1695, inc. 1780. It is chiefly residential,…

East Haven

(Encyclopedia) East Haven, town (2020 pop. 27,923, New Haven co., S Conn., on Long Island Sound, a residential suburb of New Haven, in a farm area; inc…