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Salem, city, India

(Encyclopedia) Salem, city (1991 pop. 578,291), Tamil Nadu state, SE India. There are manufactures in chemicals, electrical products, tools, and brass goods; handloom weaving remains a significant…

Redwood City

(Encyclopedia) Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical…

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…

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…

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…

Turkmenistan Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members

Info   Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments Date of Information: 9/27/2022 According to the Turkmen Constitution, the president serves as de facto chairman of the Cabinet…

America's Most Endangered Places 2007

Brooklyn's Industrial Waterfront among American sites most at risk by Mark Zurlo Greer Spring, Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri America's Most Endangered Places America's Most Endangered…

Corby

(Encyclopedia) Corby, town and district, Northamptonshire, central England. Situated over one of the world's largest ironstone fields, Corby has grown…

Galashiels

(Encyclopedia) Galashiels Galashiels gălˌəshēlzˈ [key], town, Scottish Borders, SE Scotland, on the Gala Water. Famous…

Harrogate

(Encyclopedia) Harrogate Harrogate hărˈōgĭt, –gāt [key], city, North Yorkshire, N central England. It is residential…