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Davis, Rebecca Harding

(Encyclopedia)Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831–1910, American novelist, b. Washington, Pa.; mother of Richard Harding Davis. Her early nonfiction pieces, particularly those collected under the title Life in the Iron ...

Cherepovets

(Encyclopedia)Cherepovets chĕrĭpəvyĕtsˈ, chĕrĭpôˈvyĭts [key], city (1989 pop. 310,000), NE European Russia, on the Rybinsk Reservoir. A rail and water transportation center of the Volga-Baltic Waterway, i...

Ponca City

(Encyclopedia)Ponca City, city (1990 pop. 26,359), Kay co., N Okla., on the Arkansas River; founded 1893 with the opening of the Cherokee Strip, inc. 1899. It is a trade, processing, and shipping hub in a grain, li...

Saint Boniface

(Encyclopedia)Saint Boniface sānt bŏnˈĭfās [key], former city and historic community, SE Man., Canada, on the Red River opposite Winnipeg. It is now part of Winnipeg. It is an industrial center, with large sto...

Saharanpur

(Encyclopedia)Saharanpur səhäˈrənpo͝orˌ [key], city (1991 pop. 374,945), Uttar Pradesh state, N central India. Once a summer resort of the Mughal court, Saharanpur is now a district administrative center. A m...

Pabianice

(Encyclopedia)Pabianice päbyänēˈtsĕ [key], city (1994 est. pop. 75,900), Łódzkie prov., central Poland, a suburb of Łódź. It has industries producing chemicals, machine tools, and textiles. Founded in the...

Beni Suef

(Encyclopedia)Beni Suef bäˈnē [key], city (1986 pop. 152,476), capital of Beni Suef governorate, N central Egypt, on the Nile River. Situated in an intensely cultivated farming region, Beni Suef has cotton mills...

Lowell

(Encyclopedia)Lowell, city (1990 pop. 103,439), a seat of Middlesex co., NE Mass., at the confluence of the Merrimack and Concord rivers; settled 1653, set off from Chelmsford 1826, inc. as a city 1836. High-techno...

Ahmadabad

(Encyclopedia)Ahmadabad or Ahmedabad both: äˌmədəbädˈ [key], city (2020 est. pop. 8,059,441), Gujarat state, NW India, on the Sabarmati River; also called Amdavad. India's ...

Gothic language

(Encyclopedia)Gothic language, dead language belonging to the now extinct East Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Gothic has special value fo...