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Ozark

(Encyclopedia)Ozark ōˈzärk [key], city (1990 pop. 12,922), seat of Dale co., SE Ala.; settled 1820, inc. 1870. It is a shipping center for nuts and timber. Manufactures include aircraft, railcars, farm machinery...

Kongsberg

(Encyclopedia)Kongsberg kôngsˈbĕr [key], city (1995 pop. 21,534), Buskerud co., SE Norway, on the Lågen River. It is a commercial, industrial, and winter sports center and has a hydroelectric power plant. Forme...

Sulaimaniyah

(Encyclopedia)Sulaimaniyah so͞oˌlāmänˈēə [key], town (1987 pop. 364,096), NE Iraq. The town, founded in 1789, is a trade center inhabited by Kurds and has long been a center of Kurdish nationalism. Since 199...

Welland

(Encyclopedia)Welland wĕlˈənd [key], city (1991 pop. 47,914), SE Ont., Canada, on the Welland Ship Canal. It is a canal port and an industrial center. Cotton, iron, steel, and many other goods are made in Wellan...

Saint Jérôme

(Encyclopedia)Saint Jérôme săN zhārōmˈ [key], city (1991 pop. 23,384), S Que., Canada, on the North River, NW of Montreal. It is an industrial center with woolen and paper mills. Rubber and wood products are ...

eccentric

(Encyclopedia)eccentric, in mechanics, device for changing rotary to back-and-forth motion. A disk is mounted off center on a shaft. One flat, open, circular end of a rod fits around the edge of the disk; the other...

Charlotte Amalie

(Encyclopedia)Charlotte Amalie əmälˈē [key], town, capital of the Virgin Islands of the United States, on ...

Freiberg

(Encyclopedia)Freiberg frīˈbĕrkh [key], city, Saxony, E Germany. It is an industrial center and a rail j...

Fortaleza

(Encyclopedia)Fortaleza fo͝ortəlĕˈzə [key], city, capital of Ceará state, NE Brazil, a port on the At...

Łódź

(Encyclopedia)Łódź lo͞oj [key], city (1993 est. pop. 842,300), capital of Łódzkie prov., central Poland. The second largest city of Poland and an important industrial center, Łódź was long the center of th...