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Pekin

(Encyclopedia)Pekin pēˈkĭn [key], city (1990 pop. 32,254), seat of Tazewell co., central Ill., a port on the Illinois River; inc. 1839. A processing, rail, and shipping point in a grain, livestock, and dairying ...

Lynbrook

(Encyclopedia)Lynbrook, village (1990 pop. 19,208), Nassau co., SE N.Y.; inc. 1911. It is a suburb of New York City on the south shore of Long Island. There is sheet-metal and furniture manufacture. Old Church date...

Lüdenscheid

(Encyclopedia)Lüdenscheid lüˈdənshīt [key], city (1994 pop. 80,280), North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany. It is an industrial center; manufactures include aluminum, metal products, plastics, and synthetics. L�...

Kirkland

(Encyclopedia)Kirkland, city (1990 pop. 40,052), King co., W Wash., a suburb of Seattle on Lake Washington; inc. 1905. The city produces semiconductors, transformers, prefabricated metal buildings, heating and navi...

Willmar

(Encyclopedia)Willmar wĭlˈmär [key], city (1990 pop. 17,531), seat of Kandiyohi co., central Minn.; settled 1856, inc. as a city 1901. It is a railroad division point and a shipping center for grain and livestoc...

Rancho Cordova

(Encyclopedia)Rancho Cordova rănˈchō kôrdōˈvə [key], uninc. residential city (1990 pop. 48,731), Sacramento co., N Calif. A suburb of Sacramento, it experienced rapid growth in the late 20th cent. Nursery pr...

cyano group

(Encyclopedia)cyano group sīˈənō, sī-ănˈō [key], in chemistry, functional group that consists of a carbon atom joined to a nitrogen atom by a triple bond; it can be joined to an atom or another group by a s...

cloth of gold

(Encyclopedia)cloth of gold, fabric woven wholly or partly of gold threads. From remote times gold has been used as material for weaving either alone or with other fibers. In India tapestries were made from gold th...

Falkirk

(Encyclopedia)Falkirk fŏlˈkûrk [key], town, Falkirk council area, central Scotland, on the Forth and Cly...

Norwalk

(Encyclopedia)Norwalk nôrˈwôkˌ [key]. 1 City (1990 pop. 94,279), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; settled in the 1850s, inc. 1957. With the arrival (1875) of the Southern Pacific RR, it became a center for the dairy ...