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Ts'ai Yüan-p'ei

(Encyclopedia)Ts'ai Yüan-p'ei tsī yüän-pā [key], 1867–1940, Chinese educator and intellectual leader. He achieved distinction as a classical scholar but later joined (1904) the anti-Manchu revolutionary move...

Brant, Joseph

(Encyclopedia)Brant, Joseph, 1742–1807, chief of the Mohawk. His Mohawk name is usually rendered as Thayendanegea. He served under Sir William Johnson in the French and Indian War, and Johnson sent him (1761) to ...

Yan'an

(Encyclopedia)Yan'an or Yenan both: yĕn-än [key], city (1991 pop. 115,900), N Shaanxi prov., China, on the Yen River. Now a market and tourist center, it is famed as the terminus of the long march and the de fact...

Zhang Yimou

(Encyclopedia)Zhang Yimou, 1951–, Chinese film director. Sentenced to forced labor during the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) because his father had been an officer in Chiang Kai-shek's army, he then studied at t...

Maple Heights

(Encyclopedia)Maple Heights, city (1990 pop. 27,089), Cuyahoga co., NE Ohio; inc. 1932. It is chiefly a residential suburb of Cleveland, with major shopping centers and an industrial park. ...

Ikeda

(Encyclopedia)Ikeda, city, Osaka prefecture, S Honshu, Japan, on the Ina River. It is an industrial and residential suburb of Osaka with industries that include engin...

Heywood

(Encyclopedia)Heywood, town, Rochdale metropolitan district, NW England, in the Greater Manchester metropolitan area. Heywood's products include cotton goods, metal g...

Bell, city, United States

(Encyclopedia)Bell, city (2020 pop. 35,339), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1927. It is chiefly residential, with printing, metal fabrication, and the manufacture of...

Vanier

(Encyclopedia)Vanier, formerly Eastview, town (1991 pop. 18,150), SE Ont., Canada, at the confluence of the Rideau and Ottawa rivers. It is an industrial suburb of Ottawa. ...

Garfield Heights

(Encyclopedia)Garfield Heights, city (2020 pop. 29,781), Cuyahoga co., NE Ohio, a residential and industrial suburb adjacent to Cleveland; founded 1904, inc. 1932. It...