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Ribble

(Encyclopedia)Ribble, river, c.75 mi (120 km) long, rising in the Pennines, North Yorkshire, N England, and flowing SW across Lancashire to the Irish Sea through a long, narrow estuary. Its chief tributary is the H...

Uzziel

(Encyclopedia)Uzziel ŭzˈēĕl, ŭzīˈəl [key], in the Bible. 1 Kohathite Levite mentioned often. 2 Captain of David. 3 See Azareel (2.) 4 Head of a Benjamite family. 5 Goldsmith. ...

Parakou

(Encyclopedia)Parakou pârˌəko͞oˈ [key], town (1992 pop. 103,577), central Benin. It is the trade center for a cotton, grain, and livestock-raising area. Located at the head of the railroad from Cotonou, it is ...

Jambi

(Encyclopedia)Jambi or Djambi both: jämˈbē [key], city (1990 est. pop. 340,066), SE Sumatra, capital of Jambi prov., Indonesia, a port at the head of navigation on the Hari River. It is the shipping and commerci...

Hathor

(Encyclopedia)Hathor hăthˈôr [key], in Egyptian religion, celestial goddess of love and festivity. The personification of the sky, she was represented as a star-studded cow or as a woman with the head of a cow. ...

Kirkcudbright, town, Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Kirkcudbright kûrko͞oˈbrē [key], town (1991 pop. 3,406), Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland, at the head of the Dee estuary. It has granaries and creameries and is a market town and artists' colon...

Sipilä, Juha Petri

(Encyclopedia)Sipilä, Juha Petri, 1961–, Finnish political leader, prime minister of Finland (2015–19). A business executive and one of Finland's wealthiest persons, he was first elected to the Finnish parliam...

gastropod

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Internal anatomy of a snail, Helix aspersa, representative mollusk of the class Gastropoda gastropod, member of the class Gastropoda, the largest and most successful class of mollusks (phylum ...

Himmler, Heinrich

(Encyclopedia)Himmler, Heinrich hīnˈrĭkh hĭmˈlər [key], 1900–1945, German Nazi leader. An early member of the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) party, Himmler took part in Adolf Hitler's “beer-hal...

Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich

(Encyclopedia)Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich lāyōnēdˈ ĭlyēchˈ brĕzhˈnĕf [key], 1906–82, Soviet leader. He joined (1931) the Communist party and rose steadily in its hierarchy. In 1952 he became a secretary of ...