Columbia Encyclopedia

Search results

500 results found

Ashton-under-Lyne

(Encyclopedia)Ashton-under-Lyne, town, Tameside metropolitan district, NW England, in the Greater Manchester metropolitan area on the Tame River. Its industries include engineering, leather, plastics, t...

Warley

(Encyclopedia)Warley, urban area (1991 pop. 152,455), Sandwell metropolitan district, central England. Warley is highly industrialized; its manufactures include machinery, fabricated metal products, chemicals, and ...

Scheveningen

(Encyclopedia)Scheveningen skhāˈvənĭngˌən [key], urban district, The Hague, South Holland prov., W Netherlands, on the North Sea. It is a popular bathing resort and fishing center. ...

Chorley

(Encyclopedia)Chorley chôrˈlē [key], town and district, Lancashire, NW England. Chorley's manufactures i...

Gosforth

(Encyclopedia)Gosforth gŏzˈfərth [key], town, Newcastle upon Tyne metropolitan district, NE England. For...

Potter's Bar

(Encyclopedia)Potter's Bar, town (1991 pop. 22,755), Hertfordshire, central England, in the Midlands. Potter's Bar is a residential district, most of which is within the Green Belt Zone barred to industrial develop...

Lynch, Loretta Elizabeth

(Encyclopedia)Lynch, Loretta Elizabeth, 1959–, U.S. lawyer and government official, b. Greensboro, N.C., grad. Harvard (A.B. 1981, J.D. 1984). She was a prosecutor in the office of the U.S. attorney for the Easte...

Eastbourne

(Encyclopedia)Eastbourne ēstˈbôrn [key], town and district, East Sussex, SE England. Eastbourne is a popular ...

Amravati

(Encyclopedia)Amravati əmrävˈətē [key], city, administrative headquarters of Amravati district, Maharashtra state, central India. The city is a growing industrial center, with majo...

Houghton-le-Spring

(Encyclopedia)Houghton-le-Spring hōˈtən-lə-sprĭng, houˈ– [key], town, Sunderland metropolit...