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(Encyclopedia)Centerville, city (2020 pop. 24,240), Montgomery co., SW Ohio, a residential suburb of Dayton; inc. 1879. It has a small industrial park. ...Pike, Zebulon Montgomery
(Encyclopedia)Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779–1813, American explorer, an army officer, b. Lamberton (now part of Trenton), N.J. He joined the army (c.1793) and was commissioned second lieutenant in 1799. In 1805 ...Radford
(Encyclopedia)Radford, city (1990 pop. 15,940), surrounded by but independent of Pulaski and Montgomery counties, SW Va., on the New River; settled 1756, inc. as a city 1892. Motors, iron castings, clothing and tex...Cornwall, city, Canada
(Encyclopedia)Cornwall, industrial city, SE Ont., Canada, on the St. Lawrence River. It manufactures cotton and rayon textiles, paper, chemicals, furniture, and elect...Monrovia, city, Liberia
(Encyclopedia)Monrovia mənrōˈvēə [key], city (1986 est. pop. 465,000), capital of the Republic of Liberia, NW Liberia, a port on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the St. Paul River. Monrovia is Liberia's lar...Crawfordsville
(Encyclopedia)Crawfordsville, city (2020 pop. 16,306), seat of Montgomery co., W central Ind.; inc. 1866. It is the trading center of an agricultural and dairy region...Vandalia
(Encyclopedia)Vandalia văndāˈlyə [key], city (1990 pop. 13,882), Montgomery co., W central Ohio, a suburb of Dayton; inc. 1848. Motor vehicle parts are among the city's manufactures. National skeet-shooting com...Clarksville
(Encyclopedia)Clarksville, city (2020 pop. 166,722), seat of Montgomery co., NW Tenn., on the Cumberland and Red rivers, in a farm, livestock, and tobacco region; pla...Silver Spring
(Encyclopedia)Silver Spring, uninc. city (1990 pop. 76,046), Montgomery co., W central Md., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C. It is a major suburban office center and has a large naval ordnance laboratory, s...Montgomery, Bernard Law, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
(Encyclopedia)Montgomery, Bernard Law, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein məntgŭmˈərē, ăləmānˈ [key], 1887–1976, British field marshal. Educated at Sandhurst, he entered the army in 1908 and served in Wo...Browse by Subject
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