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Daly City

(Encyclopedia)Daly City, city (2020 pop. 104,901), San Mateo co., W Calif., a suburb of San Francisco; inc. 1911. Daly City is primarily residential, its population h...

Cutler Bay

(Encyclopedia)Cutler Bay, (2020 pop.45,425), Miami-Dade co., SE Fla.; inc. 2005. Previously known as the unicorporated town of Cutler Ridge, the area was named for D...

Chaumont

(Encyclopedia)Chaumont shōmōNˈ [key], town, capital of Haute-Marne dept., NE France, in Champagne, at the ...

Hell Gate

(Encyclopedia)Hell Gate, narrow channel of the East River, SE N.Y., between Wards Island and Astoria, Queens, New York City. Named Hellegat by the Dutch navigator Adriaen Block, who passed through it into Long Isla...

Garrett, Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Garrett, Thomas, 1789–1871, American abolitionist, b. Upper Darby, Pa. A Quaker, he joined the Pennsylvania Abolition Society in 1818. At Wilmington, Del., where he became a hardware merchant and to...

Foligno

(Encyclopedia)Foligno fōlēˈnyō [key], city, in Umbria, central Italy. It is a commercial and industrial ...

Jenney, William Le Baron

(Encyclopedia)Jenney, William Le Baron, 1832–1907, American engineer and architect, b. Fairhaven, Mass. He studied at Harvard Scientific School and the École des Beaux-Arts. Later he learned engineering, constru...

Mudanjiang

(Encyclopedia)Mudanjiang or Mutankiang both: mo͞o-dän-jyäng [key], city (1994 est. pop. 602,700), SE Heilongjiang prov., China. It is a railroad junction and a lumbering center in a rich timber region. Rubber pr...

Limón

(Encyclopedia)Limón lēmōnˈ [key], city (1995 est. pop. 55,866), capital of Limón prov., Costa Rica, on the Caribbean Sea. Once the leading port of Costa Rica, it has been superseded by Moín. Limón gained imp...

Liaoyuan

(Encyclopedia)Liaoyuan lyouˈyüänˈ [key], city (1994 est. pop. 377,300), SW Jilin prov., China, on the railroad connecting Changchun and Dalian. It is a coal-mining center with a large thermal generating plant. ...