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West Indies Federation

(Encyclopedia)West Indies Federation, former federation of 10 British West Indian territories formed in 1958. Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and Barbados were the principal members, but the federation included most ...

British West Indies

(Encyclopedia)British West Indies: see West Indies; West Indies Federation. ...

East India Company, British

(Encyclopedia)East India Company, British, 1600–1874, company chartered by Queen Elizabeth I for trade with Asia. The original object of the group of merchants involved was to break the Dutch monopoly of the spic...

East Anglia

(Encyclopedia)East Anglia ăngˈglēə [key], kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, comprising the modern counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. It was settled in the late 5th cent. by so-called Angles from northern Germany an...

East Avon

(Encyclopedia)East Avon, river: see Avon (2,) river, England. ...

East Berlin

(Encyclopedia)East Berlin: see Berlin.

East Cape

(Encyclopedia)East Cape: see Cape Dezhnev, Russia. ...

East Chicago

(Encyclopedia)East Chicago, city (2020 pop. 26,370), Lake co., extreme NW Ind., on Lake Michigan, in the industrialized Calumet region, ad...

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 declining light indust...

East Detroit

(Encyclopedia)East Detroit, Mich.: see Eastpointe. ...