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Marquette
(Encyclopedia)Marquette, city (1990 pop. 21,977), seat of Marquette co., N Mich., Upper Peninsula, on Lake Superior; settled 1849, inc. as a city 1871. It is a shipping center for a lumber, farm, and resort region....Cannock
(Encyclopedia)Cannock kănˈək [key], city, Staffordshire, W central England. It was a mining town depende...Tati
(Encyclopedia)Tati täˈtē [key], region, c.2,070 sq mi (5,360 sq km), NE Botswana. Nickel, copper, and manganese are mined in the region. Tati was a source of gold for centuries; mining ceased there in the early ...Val d'Or
(Encyclopedia)Val d'Or väl dôr [key], town (1991 pop. 23,842), SW Que., Canada, SE of Rouyn-Noranda. It is a mining center. Gold was discovered in the region in 1909; copper, zinc, lead, and molybdenum are also m...Beckley
(Encyclopedia)Beckley, city (2020 pop. 17,286), seat of Raleigh co., S W.Va.; inc. 1927. Beckley's major industries include tourism, agriculture (livestock, cotton, g...Timmins
(Encyclopedia)Timmins, town (1991 pop. 47,461), central Ont., Canada, on the Mattagami River. Timmins is the commercial center of the rich Porcupine gold-mining district, where gold was first discovered in 1909. Si...Shamokin
(Encyclopedia)Shamokin shəmōˈkĭn [key], city (1990 pop. 9,184), Northumberland co., E Pa.; settled c.1835, inc. 1864. A mining center for anthracite coal, Shamokin lies in an area of declining industry and mine...Channing, Edward
(Encyclopedia)Channing, Edward, 1856–1931, American historian, b. Dorchester, Mass.; son of William Ellery Channing (1818–1901). He was a prominent teacher at Harvard from 1883 until his retirement in 1929, hol...Farabi, al-
(Encyclopedia)Farabi, al- äl-färäˈbē [key], d. 950, Islamic philosopher. He studied in Baghdad and later flourished in Aleppo as a sufi mystic (see Sufism). He died in Damascus. Al-Farabi was the author of an ...Hrotswith von Gandersheim
(Encyclopedia)Hrotswith rôsvēˈtä fən gänˈdərs-hīm [key], 10th-century German dramatist, a nun. Of a noble Saxon family, Hrotswith was well educated. Her long epic poems—one including a fragment on Empero...Browse by Subject
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