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Jones, Casey

(Encyclopedia)Jones, Casey, 1864–1900, American locomotive engineer celebrated in ballad and song, probably b. Jordan, Fulton co., Ky. His real name was John Luther Jones, but at the age of 17 he went to Cayce, K...

Belém

(Encyclopedia)Belém pəräˈ [key], city, capital of Pará state, N Brazil, on the Pará River. Belém, th...

Wichita, city, United States

(Encyclopedia)Wichita wĭchˈĭtô [key], city (1990 pop. 304,011), seat of Sedgwick co., S central Kans., at the confluence of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas rivers; inc. 1870. It is the chief commercial and ind...

La Tuque

(Encyclopedia)La Tuque lä tük [key], town (1991 pop. 10,003), S Que., Canada, on the St. Maurice River, NW of Quebec. La Tuque, in a lumbering and farming region, was established as a trading post in the French p...

Konotop

(Encyclopedia)Konotop kŏnətŏpˈ [key], city (1990 est. pop. 96,900), N Ukraine, on the Ezuch River. It is a rail junction and agricultural center with railroad repair shops and an electromechanics industry. Kono...

Hohe Tauern

(Encyclopedia)Hohe Tauern hōˈə touˈərn [key], range of the Eastern Alps, S Austria, extending c.70 mi (110 km) E from the Italian border. It rises to 12,460 ft (3,798 m) in the Grossglockner. The Tauern railro...

Gonda

(Encyclopedia)Gonda gōnˈdə [key], town, Uttar Pradesh state, N India, on the Sarayu River and the Luckno...

Escanaba

(Encyclopedia)Escanaba ĕskənäˈbə [key], city (2020 pop. 12,450), seat of Delta co., W Upper Peninsula, N ...

Junín, city, Argentina

(Encyclopedia)Junín ho͞onēnˈ [key], city (1991 pop. 70,138), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina, on the Salado River. It is a busy commercial center for an agricultural and livestock area. There are important rail...

Diourbel

(Encyclopedia)Diourbel dyo͝orbĕlˈ [key], town (1988 pop. 76,548), W Senegal, on the railroad from Dakar to the Niger River in Mali. The market for a peanut-growing region, it produces peanut oil as well as bever...