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Montrouge

(Encyclopedia)Montrouge môNro͞ozhˈ [key], industrial suburb S of Paris (1990 pop. 38,333), Hauts-de-Seine dept., N central France. Papermaking, publishing, construction, aeronautics, and the manufacture of surgi...

Mors

(Encyclopedia)Mors môrs [key], island (1992 pop. 23,473), 140 sq mi (363 sq km), NW Denmark, in the Limfjord. Nykøbing is the chief city. The island has considerable fertile soil, and offshore there are oyster fi...

Sambourne, Edward Linley

(Encyclopedia)Sambourne, Edward Linley, 1844–1910, English caricaturist and illustrator. He was associated with Punch from 1867, when he began contributing, until the end of his life, and he followed Sir John Ten...

Markham, Gervase

(Encyclopedia)Markham, Gervase, 1568–1637, English writer on horses and English country life. His chief work is Cavelarice; or the English Horseman (1607). Included among his other works are Country Contentments ...

Pearl, river, United States

(Encyclopedia)Pearl, river, 485 mi (781 km) long, rising in E Miss. and flowing S to Lake Borgne, an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico; its lower section (116 mi/187 km) forms the Miss.-La. boundary. Above Jackson, Miss....

Thailand, Gulf of

(Encyclopedia)Thailand, Gulf of, or Gulf of Siam, shallow arm of the South China Sea, c.500 mi (800 km) long and up to 350 mi (560 km) wide, separating the Malay Peninsula from E Thailand, Cambodia, and S Vietnam. ...

Riga, Gulf of

(Encyclopedia)Riga, Gulf of, eastern arm of the Baltic Sea, bordering on Estonia and on Latvia. At its mouth it is nearly closed off by the Estonian island of Saaremaa. The gulf, which is frozen from December to Ap...

Corby

(Encyclopedia)Corby, town and district, Northamptonshire, central England. Situated over one of the world's largest ironstone fields, Corby has grown rapidly since th...

Clydebank

(Encyclopedia)Clydebank, town, West Dunbartonshire, W central Scotland, on the north bank of the Clyde River. The chief industry until the 1970s was shipbuilding. The...

Potiphar

(Encyclopedia)Potiphar pŏtˈifər [key], in the Bible, chief official of Pharaoh who bought Joseph and gave him a high position in his house. Later when his wife falsely accused Joseph, Potiphar put Joseph into pr...