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monitor, type of warship
(Encyclopedia) monitor, type of turreted warship (no longer used) carrying heavy guns, having little draft, and lying low in the water. Monitors were so called from the first of the class, the…Pepper, Beverly
(Encyclopedia) Pepper, Beverly, American sculptor, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. She lived in Italy from the 1950s. Pepper began as a social realist painter but soon turned to sculpture, inspired by the carvings…brass
(Encyclopedia) brass, alloy having copper (55%–90%) and zinc (10%–45%) as its essential components. The properties of brass vary with the proportion of copper and zinc and with the addition of small…copper, chemical element
(Encyclopedia) copper, metallic chemical element; symbol Cu [Lat. cuprum=copper]; at. no. 29; at. wt. 63.546; m.p. 1,083.4℃; b.p. 2,567℃; sp. gr. 8.96 at 20℃; valence +1 or +2. Copper and some of its…Sakai
(Encyclopedia) SakaiSakaisäkīˈ [key], city (1990 pop. 807,765), Osaka prefecture, S Honshu, Japan, on Osaka Bay at the mouth of the Yamato River. An industrial center, it has engineering, iron- and…Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site
(Encyclopedia) Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table).Samcheok
(Encyclopedia) Samcheok or SamchokSamcheoksämˈchôkˈ [key], city (1995 pop. 83,815), Gangwon (Kangwon) prov., E South Korea, a port on the Sea of Japan (or East Sea). It is a large industrial center…Pingxiang
(Encyclopedia) Pingxiang or PingsiangPingsiangboth: pĭng-shyäng [key], city (1994 est. pop. 451,700), W Jiangxi prov., China. It is a major coal-mining center, producing quality coking coal for the…Kladno
(Encyclopedia) KladnoKladnoklädˈnô [key], city (1991 pop. 71,753), NW Czech Republic, in Bohemia. An industrial center of the Kladno coal-mining region, it has large iron and steel plants, and…Kuznetsk Alatau
(Encyclopedia) Kuznetsk AlatauKuznetsk Alatauk&oomacr;znyĕtskˈ əläˈtou [key], mountain range, S Siberian Russia, E of Novokuznetsk, rising to about 6,900 ft (2,100 m). Part of the great mountain…Trending
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