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Orem

(Encyclopedia)Orem ôrˈəm [key], city (1990 pop. 67,561), Utah co., N central Utah, near Provo; settled 1861, inc. 1919. Orem is located in an irrigated truck-farming and fruit-growing area. It has a large steel ...

American

(Encyclopedia)American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Au...

Kreuzlingen

(Encyclopedia)Kreuzlingen kroitsˈlĭngˌən [key], town (1990 pop. 17,239), Thurgau canton, NE Switzerland, on the Lake of Konstanz. The town is contiguous with the German city of Konstanz. It is an industrial cen...

Thomas, Seth

(Encyclopedia)Thomas, Seth, 1785–1859, American clock manufacturer, b. Wolcott, Conn. In 1812 he sold his partnership in a clock business established by Eli Terry and set up a factory to make metal-movement clock...

Edmundston

(Encyclopedia)Edmundston ĕdˈmənstən [key], city, NW N.B., Canada, at the confluence of the St. John and ...

Dale, David

(Encyclopedia)Dale, David, 1739–1806, Scottish cotton manufacturer and philanthropist. In 1785 he built New Lanark, a cotton mill and model community that provided his employees with good housing and schools. He ...

Hyatt, John Wesley

(Encyclopedia)Hyatt, John Wesley, 1837–1920, American inventor, b. Starkey, N.Y. He is known especially for his development of celluloid; with his brothers, he began its manufacture in 1872. He also invented the ...

Nikšić

(Encyclopedia)Nikšić nēkˈshĭch [key], city (2011 pop. 72,443), central Montenegro. It is the commercial center of an agricultural region. It is also an important industrial city with a steel mill, sawmill, iro...

Bekabad

(Encyclopedia)Bekabad byĕgōvätˈ [key], city, Tashkent region, E Uzbekistan, on the Syr Darya River. It is ...

Biddeford

(Encyclopedia)Biddeford bĭdˈĭfərd [key], city (2020 pop. 22,552), York co., SW Maine, on the Saco River; ...