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Portales

(Encyclopedia)Portales pôrtălˈĭs [key], city (1990 pop. 10,690), seat of Roosevelt co., E N.Mex., near the Tex. line; inc. 1910. It is the trade and processing center of an agricultural area. There is food proc...

Presque Isle

(Encyclopedia)Presque Isle prĕsk īl [key] [Fr.,=peninsula], city (1990 pop. 10,550), Aroostook co., NE Maine, inc. 1859. It is the trade, tourist, and shipping center of the Aroostook valley. During World War II ...

Piła

(Encyclopedia)Piła pēˈlä [key], Ger. Schneidemühl, town (1994 est. pop. 74,000), Wielkopolskie prov., NW Poland, on the Gwdą River. Once the capital of Grenzmark Posen–West Prussia, it is now chiefly a trad...

Picayune

(Encyclopedia)Picayune pĭkəyo͞onˈ [key], city (1990 pop. 10,633), Pearl River co., S Miss., near the Pearl River and the La. line; inc. 1904. It is the trade, processing, and shipping center for an agricultural...

Prilep

(Encyclopedia)Prilep prēˈlĕp [key], city (1994 pop. 71,899), North Macedonia. It is the trade center of an agricultural region and a manufacturing city where tobacco, textiles, wine, and fruit are produced. Pril...

petrolatum

(Encyclopedia)petrolatum pĕtrəlāˈtəm [key], colorless to yellowish-white hydrocarbon mixture obtained by fractional distillation of petroleum. In its jellylike semisolid form (known as petroleum jelly and also...

Rüdesheim

(Encyclopedia)Rüdesheim rüˈdəs-hīmˌ [key], town (1994 pop. 10,282), Hesse, W central Germany, on the Rhine River. Vineyards in the area produce some of the most noted Rhine wines, and Rüdesheim is the center...

Sandwich, town, England

(Encyclopedia)Sandwich, town (1991 pop. 4,184), Kent, SE England, on the Stour River. It is a resort and market center with some light industries. One of the Cinque Ports in the 11th cent., Sandwich flourished in t...

Thiès

(Encyclopedia)Thiès tyĕs [key], city (1988 pop. 175,465), W Senegal, on the Dakar-Niger RR. It is the trade center for a farming region where peanuts, cassava, and livestock are raised. Manufactures include const...

Puntarenas

(Encyclopedia)Puntarenas po͞ontärāˈnäs [key], town (1995 est. pop. 40,706), capital of Puntarenas prov., W Costa Rica, on the Gulf of Nicoya. Formerly the country's principal port on the Pacific, it has been s...