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Verviers

(Encyclopedia)Verviers vĕrvyāˈ [key], commune (1991 pop. 53,482), Liège prov., E Belgium, on the Vesdre River and at the foot of the Ardennes. Manufactures of this industrial center include textiles, glass, and...

Queenborough-in-Sheppey

(Encyclopedia)Queenborough-in-Sheppey, town (1991 pop. 33,362), on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, SE England, at the confluence of the Medway and Thames rivers. Radios, furniture, glass, rubber products, and clothing a...

Jeannette

(Encyclopedia)Jeannette jənĕtˈ [key], city (1990 pop. 11,221), Westmoreland co., SW Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh; laid out 1888, inc. as a city 1937. Located in a coal and natural gas area, Jeannette produces mac...

Stolberg

(Encyclopedia)Stolberg shtôlˈbĕrkhˌ [key], city (1994 pop. 58,028), North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany; chartered 1856. It is a center of the German brass industry, which was started (c.1600) there by Protesta...

Weyburn

(Encyclopedia)Weyburn wāˈbərn [key], city (1991 pop. 9,673), SE Sask., Canada, SE of Regina. A trade center for a wheat-growing and oil-producing region, it has grain elevators and a feed mill. Power-line and tr...

lens, in optics

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Lenses lens, device for forming an image of an object by the refraction of light. In its simplest form it is a disk of transparent substance, commonly glass, with its two surfaces curved or wi...

Artemovsk

(Encyclopedia)Artemovsk ərtyôˈməfsk [key], Ukr. Artemivsk, city (1989 pop. 90,000), in Ukraine. An industrial center of the Donets Basin, it produces metals, mining equipment, glass, bricks, and chemicals. Near...

Orrefors

(Encyclopedia)Orrefors ôrəfôrsˈ, –fôshˈ [key], town, Kronoberg co., SE Sweden. It is noted for the manufacture of fine crystal and glassware. Simon Gate and Edward Hald, who made Orrefors famous, were outst...

Hoyerswerda

(Encyclopedia)Hoyerswerda hoiˌərsvĕrˈdä [key], city, Saxony, SE Germany, on the Black Elster River; chartered ...

Witten

(Encyclopedia)Witten vĭtˈən [key], city (1994 pop. 105,807), North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany, on the Ruhr River. It is an industrial city whose manufactures include chemicals, iron and steel, glass, and mach...