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Taylor, Frederick Winslow

(Encyclopedia) Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1856–1915, American industrial engineer, b. Germantown, Pa., grad. Stevens Institute of Technology, 1883. He was called the father of scientific management.…

Alençon

(Encyclopedia) Alençon Alençon äläNsôNˈ [key], town, capital of Orne dept., N France, in Normandy, on the Sarthe and Briante rivers. A commercial center in a fertile farm…

Cuernavaca

(Encyclopedia) Cuernavaca Cuernavaca kwārnäväˈkä [key], city, capital of Morelos state, S Mexico, in the Cuernavaca…

Dibrugarh

(Encyclopedia) Dibrugarh Dibrugarh dĭbˈr&oobreve;gər [key], city, Assam state, NE India, at the confluence of the…

Faizabad, city, Afghanistan

(Encyclopedia) Faizabad or FeyzabadFaizabadboth : fīˈzəbăd, fīzäbädˈ [key], city (1992 est. pop. 9,098), capital of Badakhshan prov., NE Afghanistan, on the Kokcha River. The chief commercial and…

Enid

(Encyclopedia) Enid Enid ēˈnĭd [key], city (2020 pop. 51,308), seat of Garfield co., N central Okla…

Truro , city, Canada

(Encyclopedia) TruroTrurotr&oobreve;rˈō [key], town (1991 pop. 11,683), central N.S., Canada, near the head of Cobequid Bay, an arm of the Bay of Fundy. It is a railroad and industrial center,…

Anyang

(Encyclopedia) AnyangAnyangän-yäng [key], city (1994 est. pop. 458,400), N Henan prov., China, on the Beijing-Guangzhou RR, in a cotton-growing area. It is an agricultural and trade center with…

Jackson, Shoeless Joe

(Encyclopedia) Jackson, Shoeless Joe (Joseph Jefferson Jackson), 1887–1951, American baseball player, b. Brandon Mills, S.C. Holder of the third highest (.356) career batting average in major league…

Khandwa

(Encyclopedia) KhandwaKhandwakŭndˈvə [key], city (1991 pop. 145,133), Madhya Pradesh state, central India. Khandwa is a district administrative center and a market for cotton, timber, and grain.…