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Grand Forks

(Encyclopedia)Grand Forks, city (2020 pop. 59,166), seat of Grand Forks co., E N.Dak., at the confluence of the Red and the Red Lake rivers; inc. 1881. In a spring wh...

Gloucester, city, England

(Encyclopedia)Gloucester glŏsˈtər, glôˈstər [key], city and district, Gloucestershire, W central England, on the ...

Kaiserslautern

(Encyclopedia)Kaiserslautern kīˌzərslouˈtərn [key], city (1994 pop. 102,370), Rhineland-Palatinate, W Germany, on the Lauter River. It is a commercial, industrial, and cultural center, and a center for banking...

Downpatrick

(Encyclopedia)Downpatrick dounˌpătˈrĭk [key], town, Down dist., E Northern Ireland, at the southwest extremity of ...

Doncaster

(Encyclopedia)Doncaster dŏngˈkəstər [key], metropolitan borough, N central England, on the Don River. D...

Donetsk

(Encyclopedia)Donetsk dənyĕtskˈ [key], city, capital of Donetsk region, E Ukraine, on the Kalmius River. ...

Dunfermline

(Encyclopedia)Dunfermline dŭnförmˈlĭn, dŭm– [key], city, Fife, E central Scotland, on the Firth of Forth. It is a ...

Coeur d'Alene, city, United States

(Encyclopedia)Coeur d'Alene kûrdəlānˈ [key], city (2020 pop. 54,628), seat of Kootenai co., N Idaho, near the ...

Everett

(Encyclopedia)Everett. 1 City (2020 pop. 49,075), Middlesex co., E Mass., an industrial suburb of Boston, on the Mystic River; settled c.1643, set off ...

Barrow-in-Furness

(Encyclopedia)Barrow-in-Furness –fûrˈnĭs [key], city and district, Cumbria, NW England, on the tip of the Furness peninsula. T...