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Maringá

(Encyclopedia)Maringá mərēng-gäˈ [key], city (1996 pop. 268,878), Paraná state, SE Brazil. It is an agricultural center whose chief products are coffee, corn, beans, rice, wheat, and sugarcane. Coffee process...

Nagaoka

(Encyclopedia)Nagaoka nägäˈôkä [key], city (1990 pop. 185,938), Niigata prefecture, central Honshu, Japan. An industrial center, it has oil refineries, chemical and food processing plants, engineering works, a...

Glossop

(Encyclopedia)Glossop glŏsˈəp [key], town, Derbyshire, central England. It is a residential suburb of Ma...

Fort Frances

(Encyclopedia)Fort Frances, town, SW Ont., Canada, on Rainy River, opposite International Falls, Minn. It is chiefly a lumbering center with sawmills and a pulp and p...

Altrincham

(Encyclopedia)Altrincham ôlˈtrĭng-əm [key], town, Trafford metropolitan district, W central England. A suburb of Manchester, it has a textile-printing industry and engineering works...

Huddersfield

(Encyclopedia)Huddersfield, city, Kirklees metropolitan district, N central England, on the Colne River. Its textile industry, including cotton, woolen, and rayon goo...

Jülich, town, Germany

(Encyclopedia)Jülich, town (1994 pop. 31,780), North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany. It has some light industry and is the seat of a nuclear research center. Originally a Roman settlement known as Juliacum, Jülich...

De Mita, Ciriaco Luigi

(Encyclopedia)De Mita, Ciriaco Luigi, 1928–, Italian political leader, premier of Italy (1988–89). A Christian Democrat for most of his political career, he was a member of parliament (1963–94, 1996–2008) a...

Costa Brava

(Encyclopedia)Costa Brava kōˈstä bräˈvä [key], a strip of coastline, Girona prov., NE Spain, in Catalonia, near the French border on the Mediterranean. One of the most agriculturally rich areas of Spain, it h...

Cort, Henry

(Encyclopedia)Cort, Henry, 1740–1800, English inventor. He revolutionized the British iron industry with his use of grooved rollers to finish iron, replacing the process of hammering, and through his invention of...