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(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…
(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,…
(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…
(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.…
(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…
(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…
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…
