(Encyclopedia) MawlamyineMawlamyinemôˌləmīnˈ [key] or Moulmein,Moulmein,m&oobreve;lmānˈ, mōl– [key], city (1983 pop. 219,991), SE Myanmar, near the mouth of the Thanlwin (Salween) River; the…
(Encyclopedia) LeobenLeobenlāōˈbən [key], city (1991 pop. 28,897), Styria prov., S central Austria, on the Mur River. An industrial center in a former mining region, it has large ironworks, lumber…
(Encyclopedia) TskhinvaliTskhinvalitskhĭnˈvälĭ [key], city (1989 pop. 42,934), capital of South Ossetia, a region of N Georgia that has had de facto independence since the 1990s. The city has lumber…
(Encyclopedia) Taylor, Myron Charles, 1874–1959, American industrialist and diplomat, b. Lyons, N.Y. He practiced law and then ran a group of textile mills in New England. In 1932 he succeeded J. P.…
(Encyclopedia) PadangPadangpädängˈ [key], city (1990 pop. 631,263), capital of Sumatra Barat prov., on W Sumatra, Indonesia, on the Indian Ocean at the mouth of the small Padang River. An important…
electrical engineerBorn: 1867Birthplace: Newton, Mass. Stone met his lifelong friend and partner, Edwin Webster, while they were studying electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of…
mathematician, astronomer, surveyorBorn: 11/9/1731Birthplace: Ellicott's Mills, Md. Benjamin Banneker has been called the first African American intellectual. Self-taught, after studying the inner…
(Elizabeth Cochrane)journalistBorn: 5/5/1864Birthplace: Cochran's Mills, Pa. Bly is best remembered for circling the globe in 72 days, thus beating the record of Around the World in Eighty Days's…
commentator, political activistBorn: 8/19/1953Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois Mary Joe Matalin dropped out of Western Illinois University to work in a steel mill in the early 1970s. She later…
BOERUM, Simon, a Delegate from New York; born in New Lots (now Brooklyn), Long Island, N.Y., February 29, 1724; attended the Dutch school at Flatbush, N.Y., from which he was graduated;…
