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Blagoveshchensk
(Encyclopedia)Blagoveshchensk bləgəvyĕshˈchĭnsk [key], city, capital of Amur region, Russian Far East, at the confluence ...Bourke-White, Margaret
(Encyclopedia)Bourke-White, Margaret bûrkˈ hwīt [key], 1904–71, American photo-journalist, b. New York City. One of the original staff photographers at Fortune, Life, and Time magazines, Bourke-White was noted...Western Australia
(Encyclopedia)Western Australia, state (2016 pop. 2,474,410), 975,920 sq mi (2,527,633 sq km), Australia, comprising the entire western part of the continent. It is bounded on the N, W, and S by the Indian Ocean. P...Lubumbashi
(Encyclopedia)Lubumbashi lo͞obo͞ombäˈshē [key], city (1984 pop. 564,830), capital of Haut-Katanga province, SE Congo (Kinshasa), near the border with Zambia. The second largest city of the country, it is a com...Ladysmith
(Encyclopedia)Ladysmith, town, part and seat of Emnambithi-Ladysmith local municipality, KwaZulu-Natal prov., E South Africa. The town has railroad yards and food-processing, textile, and tire factories. It is the ...Rogovin, Milton
(Encyclopedia)Rogovin, Milton, 1909–2011, American documentary photographer, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (1931), Univ. of Buffalo (M.A., 1972). An optometrist and a political leftist, he moved (1938) to Buff...Cheb
(Encyclopedia)Cheb khĕp [key], Ger. Eger, city, NW Czech Republic, in Bohemia, near the German border. A c...Zwickau
(Encyclopedia)Zwickau tsvĭkˈou [key], city (1994 pop. 107,988), Saxony, E central Germany, on the Mulde River. It is an industrial city and until the late 1970s was the center of a coal mining region. Manufacture...Goslar
(Encyclopedia)Goslar gôsˈlär [key], city, Lower Saxony, central Germany, at the northern foot of the Har...Great Bear Lake
(Encyclopedia)Great Bear Lake, largest lake of Canada and fourth largest of North America, c.12,275 sq mi (31,800 sq km), c.190 mi (310 km) long and from 25 to 110 mi (40–177 km) wide, Northwest Territories, on t...Browse by Subject
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