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Palm Desert

(Encyclopedia)Palm Desert, city (1990 pop. 23,252), Riverside co., S Calif., on the Whitewater River. A suburb of Palm Springs, Palm Desert is a rapidly growing resort and retirement community. Local industries inc...

Milwaukie

(Encyclopedia)Milwaukie, city (1990 pop. 18,692), Clackamas and Multnomah counties, NW Oreg., on the Willamette River; inc. 1903. The city is a distribution center for farms and orchards of the Willamette valley an...

Montrose

(Encyclopedia)Montrose, town (1991 pop. 12,127), Angus, NE Scotland, on the North Sea at the mouth of the South Esk River. Open to water on three sides, it is a spacious resort town, with flax and jute mills, boat ...

Faro, town, Portugal

(Encyclopedia)Faro fäˈrō [key], town, capital of Faro dist. and of Algarve, S Portugal. The southernmost...

Sari

(Encyclopedia)Sari särēˈ [key], city (1991 pop. 167,602), capital of Mazandaran prov., N Iran, near the Caspian Sea. It is the trade center for a farm region where citrus fruit, cotton, rice, and sugarcane are g...

Česká Lípa

(Encyclopedia)Česká Lípa chĕˈskä lēˈpä [key], Ger. Böhmisch-Leipa, city, Czech Republic, in Bohem...

Welland

(Encyclopedia)Welland wĕlˈənd [key], city (1991 pop. 47,914), SE Ont., Canada, on the Welland Ship Canal. It is a canal port and an industrial center. Cotton, iron, steel, and many other goods are made in Wellan...

ebony

(Encyclopedia)ebony, common name for members of the Ebenaceae, a family of trees and shrubs widely distributed in warmer climates and in the tropics. The principal genus, Diospyros, includes both ebony and persimmo...

Cres

(Encyclopedia)Cres tsərĕsˈ [key], Ital. Cherso, island, 158 sq mi (409 sq km), in the Adriatic Sea, W Croatia. Formerly in Austria-Hungary, it passed to Italy in 1918 and to Yugoslavia (of which Croatia was then...

Chubut

(Encyclopedia)Chubut cho͞obo͞otˈ [key], river, c.500 mi (805 km) long, rising in the Andes of SW Argentina and flowing E across Chubut prov. to the Atlantic Ocean at Rawson. The Chico River is its chief tributar...