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Ershad, Hussain Muhammad

(Encyclopedia)Ershad, Hussain Muhammad, 1930–2019, Bangladeshi military and political leader, b. Cooch Behar (now part of West Bengal, India). Commissioned in Pakistan's army in 1952, he was a career soldier, ris...

Khabarovsk

(Encyclopedia)Khabarovsk khəbäˈrəfsk, khəbərôfskˈ [key], city (1989 pop. 601,000), capital of Khabarovsk Territory and the administrative center of the Far Eastern federal district, Russian Far East, on the...

Avon, former county, England

(Encyclopedia)Avon, former county, SW England, bordering the Severn estuary and the Bristol Channel. Created in 1974 from S Gloucestershire, Bristol, and N Somerset. it was dissolved in 1996 into four unitary autho...

Indies

(Encyclopedia)Indies: see East Indies; West Indies. ...

Jamestown, town, St. Helena

(Encyclopedia)Jamestown, town, port, and capital (1998 pop. 864) of Saint Helena, in the S Atlantic. Once a busy coaling station on the East India route, it lost its importance after the opening of the Suez Canal, ...

Beracah

(Encyclopedia)Beracah bērāˈkə [key], in the Bible. 1 One who joined David at Ziklag. 2 Valley, N of Hebron, running roughly east-west. ...

Sasebo

(Encyclopedia)Sasebo säsāˈbō [key], city (1990 pop. 244,677), Nagasaki prefecture, W Kyushu, Japan. It is a commercial and fishing port and naval base on the East China Sea. ...

Coolgardie

(Encyclopedia)Coolgardie, Australia: see East Coolgardie Goldfield; Kalgoorlie. ...

Crewe

(Encyclopedia)Crewe kro͞o [key], town, Cheshire East, W central England. It is an important railroad junct...

Bexhill

(Encyclopedia)Bexhill bĕksˈhĭlˈ [key], town, East Sussex, SE England. It is a summer resort and has a 1...