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Faizabad, city, Afghanistan

(Encyclopedia) Faizabad or FeyzabadFaizabadboth : fīˈzəbăd, fīzäbädˈ [key], city (1992 est. pop. 9,098), capital of Badakhshan prov., NE Afghanistan, on the Kokcha River. The chief commercial and…

Saint Jean

(Encyclopedia) Saint JeanSaint JeansăN zhäN [key], city (1991 pop. 37,607), S Que., Canada, on the Richelieu River, SE of Montreal. It is an industrial center with textile and hosiery mills and…

Baotou

(Encyclopedia) Baotou or PaotowPaotowboth: bou-tō [key], city (1994 est. pop. 1,032,900), Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, China. A port and major trade center on the Huang He (Yellow River), it is…

Truro , city, Canada

(Encyclopedia) TruroTrurotr&oobreve;rˈō [key], town (1991 pop. 11,683), central N.S., Canada, near the head of Cobequid Bay, an arm of the Bay of Fundy. It is a railroad and industrial center,…

Ramelli, Agostino

(Encyclopedia) Ramelli, AgostinoRamelli, Agostinoägōstēˈnō rämĕlˈlē [key], c.1531–c.1600, Italian engineer who served in the armies of the marquis de Marignan and of the duc d'Anjou (later Henry III…

Taylor, Frederick Winslow

(Encyclopedia) Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1856–1915, American industrial engineer, b. Germantown, Pa., grad. Stevens Institute of Technology, 1883. He was called the father of scientific management.…

Sydney, city, Canada

(Encyclopedia) Sydney, city (1991 pop. 26,063), Cape Breton Island, N.S., Canada, on the northeast coast at the head of the South Arm of Sydney Harbour. It is the port and the commercial, trade, and…

Fuzhou, city, Fujian province, China

(Encyclopedia) FuzhouFuzhouf&oomacr;ˈjōˈ [key] or FoochowFuzhouf&oomacr;ˈchouˈ [key], city (1994 est. pop. 952,300), capital of Fujian prov., China, a port on the Min River delta c.25 mi (40…

John Edwards

Candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination by Liz Olson John Edwards Related Links John Edwards’s campaign website Profile of North…

Gary Arthur MYERS, Congress, PA (1937)

MYERS, Gary Arthur, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Toronto, Jefferson County, Ohio, August 16, 1937; attended Evans City (Pa.) Elementary School, 1943-1951; graduated, Evans City…