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Gifu

(Encyclopedia) Gifu Gifu gēˈf&oomacr; [key], city, capital of Gifu prefecture, central Honshu, Japan. A…

Hamilton, city, Canada

(Encyclopedia) Hamilton, city, S Ont., Canada, at the western end of Lake Ontario. It is situated on a narrow plain between its harbor (connected by…

Cape Town, City of

(Encyclopedia) Cape Town, City of, metropolitan municipality (2021 est. pop. 4,710,000), Western Cape prov., South Africa, on the Atlantic Ocean. Cape…

Xigazê

(Encyclopedia) Xigazê or ShigatseXigazêboth: shēgäˈtsĕ [key], town, S central Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It is in the center of a small, heavily populated alluvial plain near the Yarlung Zangbo…

Upshaw, Gene

(Encyclopedia) Upshaw, Gene (Eugene Upshaw, Jr.), 1945–2008, American football player and labor union leader, b. Robstown, Tex. He attended Texas College of Arts and Industries (now Texas A&M,…

West Sussex

(Encyclopedia) West Sussex, county (1991 pop. 692,800), 768 sq mi (1,990 sq km), S England. Chichester is the county seat. Administratively, the county is divided into the districts of Chichester,…

Tivoli

(Encyclopedia) TivoliTivolitēˈvōlē [key], Lat. Tibur, city (1991 pop. 52,372), in Latium, central Italy, on the Aniene River. An important tourist center, the city is beautifully situated on a…

Vosges, mountain range, France

(Encyclopedia) VosgesVosgesvōzh [key], mountain range, E France, between the Alsatian plain in the east and the plateau of S Lorraine in the west. It extends generally north and parallel to the Rhine…

Treviso

(Encyclopedia) TrevisoTrevisotrāvēˈzō [key], city (1991 pop. 83,598), capital of Treviso prov., Venetia, NE Italy. Situated in the center of the fertile Venetian plain, it is an agricultural market…

Hurricane Advisories and Warnings

Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency and NOAA. Thanks to modern detection and tracking devices, the National Weather Service can usually provide 12 to 24 hours of advance warning.…