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Neijiang

(Encyclopedia)Neijiang or Neikiang both: nāˈjyängˈ [key], city (1994 est. pop. 295,700), central Sichuan prov., China, on the Tuo River. It is a port and railroad center with sugar-refining and food-processing ...

Maribo

(Encyclopedia)Maribo mäˈrēbō [key], city (1992 pop. 5,566), Storstrøm co., SE Denmark, on Lake Søndersø. It is a commercial and industrial center with sugar refineries. The playwright Kaj Munk (1898–1944) ...

bone black

(Encyclopedia)bone black, solid black material, largely carbon, produced by heating animal bones to high temperatures in the absence of air so as to drive off volatile substances. Finely divided bone black is usefu...

Bernburg

(Encyclopedia)Bernburg bĕrnˈbo͝ork [key], city, Saxony-Anhalt, E Germany, on the Saale River. It has imp...

Navigation Acts

(Encyclopedia)Navigation Acts, in English history, name given to certain parliamentary legislation, more properly called the British Acts of Trade. The acts were an outgrowth of mercantilism, and followed principle...

wood

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Wood A. Cross section of a woody stem B. Enlarged view, showing xylem, phloem, and cambium wood, botanically, the xylem tissue that forms the bulk of the stem of a woody plant. Xylem conducts ...

Nag Hammadi

(Encyclopedia)Nag Hammadi näg häˈmädi [key], a town in Egypt near the ancient town of Chenoboskion, where, in 1945, a large cache of gnostic texts in the Coptic language was discovered. The Nag Hammadi manuscri...

Olynthus

(Encyclopedia)Olynthus ōlĭnˈthəs [key], ancient city of Greece, on the peninsula of Chalcidice (now Khalkidhikí), NE of Potidaea. A league of Chalcidic cities grew up in the late 5th cent. b.c., and Olynthus, ...

Coamo

(Encyclopedia)Coamo kwäˈmō [key], town and municipality, S central Puerto Rico, on the Coamo River. It i...

Jiquié

(Encyclopedia)Jiquié or Jequié both: zhəko͞oēĕˈ [key], city (1991 pop. 144,772), Bahia state, E Brazil, on the Contas River. Iron deposits are nearby. Tobacco, cacao, sugar, coffee, and livestock are shipped...