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Naperville

(Encyclopedia)Naperville nāˈpərvĭl [key], city (1990 pop. 85,351), Du Page co., NE Ill., on the Du Page River, in a farm area; settled 1831–32, inc. as a city 1890. It is a major office and corporate center t...

Kopacz, Ewa

(Encyclopedia)Kopacz, Ewa, 1956–, Polish politician. A graduate of the Medical Univ. of Lublin (1981), she worked as a pediatrician and as a health-care administrator. Kopacz was first elected to parliament as a ...

Baoding

(Encyclopedia)Baoding or Paoting both: bou-dĭng [key], city, central Hebei prov., China. It is a port on the Fu River and ...

San Leandro

(Encyclopedia)San Leandro săn lēănˈdrō [key], city (1990 pop. 68,223), Alameda co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1872. Metal, wood, and paper products; chemicals; leather goods; foods and beverages; me...

Rogers, James Gamble

(Encyclopedia)Rogers, James Gamble, 1867–1947, American architect, b. Kentucky. He designed many buildings for Yale, his alma mater. Among them are the Sterling Memorial Library, the Sterling School of Graduate S...

Covina

(Encyclopedia)Covina kōvēˈnə [key], city (2020 pop. 51,268), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1901. The ...

Fitz, Reginald Heber

(Encyclopedia)Fitz, Reginald Heber, 1843–1913, American pathologist, b. Chelsea, Mass., M.D. Harvard, 1868. He studied under Virchow, and in 1870 he returned to Harvard, where he introduced Virchow's methods and ...

Oneonta

(Encyclopedia)Oneonta ōnēŏnˈtə [key], city (1990 pop. 13,954), Otsego co., E central N.Y., on the Susquehanna River, in a farm area W of the Catskills; settled c.1780, inc. as a city 1909. Oneonta grew after t...

Fleming, Sir Alexander

(Encyclopedia)Fleming, Sir Alexander, 1881–1955, Scottish bacteriologist, discoverer of penicillin (1928) and lysozyme (1922), an antibacterial substance found in saliva and other body secretions. Educated at St....

jargon

(Encyclopedia)jargon, pejorative term applied to speech or writing that is considered meaningless, unintelligible, or ugly. In one sense the term is applied to the special language of a profession, which may be unn...