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Kolomna

(Encyclopedia)Kolomna kəlômˈnə [key], city (1990 pop. 163,000), central European Russia, at the confluence of the Moskva and Oka rivers. Locomotives and synthetic rubber are produced. Known in 1177, the city be...

Horn, Cape

(Encyclopedia)Horn, Cape, headland, 1,391 ft (424 m) high, S Chile, southernmost point of South America, in the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego. It was discovered and first rounded by Willem Schouten, the Dutch nav...

Glastonbury, town, United States

(Encyclopedia)Glastonbury, town (2020 pop. 35,159), Hartford co., central Conn., a suburb of Hartford on the Connecticut River; inc. 1690. Located near a farming regi...

Fyt, Jan

(Encyclopedia)Fyt, Jan yän fīt [key], 1611–61, Flemish animal and still-life painter and etcher. A pupil of Frans Snyders, Fyt spent 10 years in France and Italy. Returning to Antwerp in 1641, he enjoyed consid...

Fitzpatrick, Benjamin

(Encyclopedia)Fitzpatrick, Benjamin, 1802–69, governor of Alabama (1841–45), b. Greene co., Ga. As a youth, he moved to Alabama (then still part of Mississippi Territory), where after two terms as governor, he ...

Izalco

(Encyclopedia)Izalco ēsälˈkō [key], volcano, 7,828 ft (2,386 m) high, W El Salvador. It was sometimes called the Lighthouse of the Pacific because it was visible to 19th-century navigators off the coast. Althou...

English Bazar

(Encyclopedia)English Bazar băzärˈ [key], town, West Bengal state, E central India, on the Mahananda River. ...

Rutland, city, United States

(Encyclopedia)Rutland, city (1990 pop. 18,230), seat of Rutland co., W Vt., at the junction of Otter and East creeks; settled c.1770, inc. as a city 1892. It is a trade and tourist center with many small industries...

Pampa

(Encyclopedia)Pampa pămˈpə [key], city (1990 pop. 19,959), seat of Gray co., extreme N Tex. This cow town on the Panhandle plains still ships cattle and wheat and packs meat, but the discovery of oil and gas has...

Smederevo

(Encyclopedia)Smederevo smĕˈdĕrĕvô [key], town (1991 pop. 63,884), NE Serbia, a port on the Danube River. Its industries include oil refining and steel manufacturing. Wine is produced in the surrounding region...