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Pontianak

(Encyclopedia)Pontianak pôntēäˈnäk [key], city (1990 pop. 398,357), capital of West Kalimantan prov., W Borneo, Indonesia, at the mouth of a small stream in the Kapuas delta near the west coast. The chief city...

Port Lavaca

(Encyclopedia)Port Lavaca ləvăkˈə [key], city (1990 pop. 10,886), seat of Calhoun co., S Tex., on Lavaca Bay; inc. 1907. A deepwater port of entry, it is a shipping point for an agricultural (corn, rice, cattle...

pith

(Encyclopedia)pith, in botany, core of the stem of most plants. Pith is composed of large, loosely packed food-storage cells. As the stem grows older the pith usually dries out, and in some it disintegrates and the...

Palmira

(Encyclopedia)Palmira pälmēˈrä [key], city (1993 pop. 196,213), W Colombia, an agricultural center and second largest city in Valle de Cauca department. Palmira is known as the “agricultural capital of Colomb...

Surma

(Encyclopedia)Surma sûrˈmə, so͝orˈmä [key], river, 320 mi (515 km) long, rising in the Manipur hills, NE India, and flowing generally W through the Surma valley, where the river is dispersed into numerous str...

Villavicencio

(Encyclopedia)Villavicencio vēlyävēsānˈsyō [key], city (1993 pop. 219,976), capital of Meta dept., central Colombia, on the Meta River. Located in the eastern foothills of the Andes, it is the chief urban cen...

Camargue

(Encyclopedia)Camargue kämärgˈ [key], alluvial lowland, c.215 sq mi (560 sq km), Bouches-du-Rhône dept., SE France, in the Rhône delta. Formed by sedimentation, it has numerous shallow lagoons cut off from the...

Campos

(Encyclopedia)Campos kämˈpo͝os [key], city, Rio de Janeiro state, SE Brazil, on the Paraíba River near ...

Takamine, Jokichi

(Encyclopedia)Takamine, Jokichi jōˈkēchē täkäˈmĭnāˌ [key], 1854–1922, Japanese chemist. He served (1881–84) as chemist in the employ of the Japanese government and (1887) organized a fertilizer manufa...

Teresina

(Encyclopedia)Teresina tārāzēˈnä [key], city (1991 pop. 599,272), capital of Piauí state, NE Brazil, on the Parnaíba River. It is the main commercial and agricultural distribution center in the Parnaíba val...
 

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