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East Cleveland

(Encyclopedia) East Cleveland, city (2020 pop. 13,792), Cuyahoga co., NE Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland; inc. 1911. Mostly residential, it has some…

Squaw Valley

(Encyclopedia) Squaw Valley, valley, NE Calif., in the Sierra Nevada Mts., NW of Lake Tahoe. A well-known ski and winter recreational resort, it was the site of the 1960 Winter Olympics. Ski lifts…

Ayodhya

(Encyclopedia) AyodhyaAyodhyaəyōdˈyə [key] or AjodhyaAjodhya [key]Ayodhyaəjōdˈyə [key]Ayodhya–jōdˈ– [key], town, Uttar Pradesh state, N India, on the Ghaghara River. Formerly called Oudh, the town…

Itami

(Encyclopedia) Itami Itami ētäˈmē [key], city, Hyogo prefecture, S Honshu, Japan, on the Muko River and…

Lysanias

(Encyclopedia) LysaniasLysaniaslīsāˈnēəs [key], tetrarch of Abilene. He is mentioned in the Gospel of St. Luke. A rock inscription mentioning his name was found on the site of ancient Abila.

Kimberley, geographical area, Australia

(Encyclopedia) Kimberley, geographical area, c.139,000 sq mi (360,010 sq km), Western Australia, NW Australia. The Kimberley Goldfield was the site (1882) of the first major Western Australian gold…

Fort Hood

(Encyclopedia) Fort Hood, U.S. army post, 209,000 acres (84,580 hectares), central Tex., near Killeen; est. 1942 on the site of old Fort Gates and named for Confederate Gen. John Hood. It is one of…

Villeneuve-Loubet

(Encyclopedia) Villeneuve-Loubet, village, Alpes-Maritimes province, France. The village contains distilleries and manganese mines, and has become the site of numerous IBM offices. Located nearby at…

White Oak

(Encyclopedia) White Oak, uninc. community (1990 pop. 18,671), Montgomery and Prince Georges counties, central Md., in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. The site of the former Naval Ordnance Laboratory…

Tingo María

(Encyclopedia) Tingo María, city (1993 pop. 43,152), capital of Leoncio Prado prov., Huánuco dept., central Peru. The region's subtropical forest supports a variety of wood-processing indusries. The…