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Dewsbury

(Encyclopedia)Dewsbury dyo͞ozˈbərē [key], town, Kirklees metropolitan district, N central England, on the ...

Epsom and Ewell

(Encyclopedia)Epsom and Ewell yo͞oˈəl [key], borough and district, Surrey, SE England. Epsom salts were first ...

Tynemouth

(Encyclopedia)Tynemouth tīnˈməth, tĭnˈ– [key], city (1991 pop. 60,022), North Tyneside metropolitan district, NE England, on the Tyne River. Tynemouth is highly industrialized. Formerly a shipbuilding center...

Keighley

(Encyclopedia)Keighley kēthˈlē [key], town (1991 pop. 49,188), Bradford metropolitan district, N central England, at the junction of the Aire and Worth rivers. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal connects Keighley wit...

Stevenage

(Encyclopedia)Stevenage, city (1991 pop. 74,757) and district, Hertfordshire, E central England. Stevenage was the first new town to be designated under the New Towns Act of 1946, a program to decentralize populati...

Snowdon

(Encyclopedia)Snowdon, Welsh Yr Wyddfa, highest mountain of Wales, 3,560 ft (1,085 m) high, Gwynedd, NW Wales. Its five peaks are separated by passes. There is a rack and pinion railway (opened 1896) from Llanberis...

Brooks, Preston Smith

(Encyclopedia)Brooks, Preston Smith, 1819–57, U.S. Congressman (1852–57), b. Edgefield District, S.C. A lawyer and the nephew of Senator Andrew Pickens Butler, he is remembered as the man who in 1856 caned Char...

Castleford

(Encyclopedia)Castleford kăsˈəlfərd [key], town, Wakefield metropolitan district, central England, at the ...

Bitterfeld

(Encyclopedia)Bitterfeld bĭˈtərfĕlt [key], city, Saxony-Anhalt district, E Germany, on the Mulde River. It is ...

Laoighis

(Encyclopedia)Laoighis, Laois, or Leix all: lāsh, lēsh [key], county (1991 pop. 52,325), 664 sq mi (1,720 sq km), central Republic of Ireland. The county seat is Port Laoise (Maryborough). A part of the central ...