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It was also the first edition of Britannica to include biographies of living people. Sixteen maps of the famous 9th edition of Stielers Handatlas were exclusively translated to English, converted to imperial units, printed in Gotha, Germany, by Justus Perthes and the maps became a part of this edition. Later editions only included Perthes' maps ...
Navarangpura, also spelled Navrangpura, is an area in the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India. The neighborhood was one of the first to be developed outside of the Old City. Navrangpura, along with residential societies, houses many cafes and restaurants which are popular among college students.
In addition, Alabama produces aerospace and electronic products, mostly in the Huntsville area, the location of NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center and the U.S. Army Materiel Command, headquartered at Redstone Arsenal. Mercedes-Benz U.S. International in Tuscaloosa County was the first automotive facility to locate within the state.
Montgomery's central location in Alabama's Black Belt has long made it a processing hub for commodity crops such as cotton, peanuts, and soybeans. In 1840 Montgomery County led the state in cotton production, [ 59 ] and by 1911, the city processed 160,000–200,000 bales of cotton annually. [ 60 ]
The Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition (1768–1771) is a 3-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. It was developed during the encyclopaedia's earliest period as a two-man operation founded by Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell , in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was sold unbound in subscription format over a period of ...
Burlington Township is a township in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.It is a suburb of Philadelphia and is part of the South Jersey region of the state. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 23,983, [10] [11] its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 1,389 (+6.1%) from the 2010 census count of 22,594, [20] [21] which in turn reflected ...
In 1567, Spanish explorer Captain Juan Pardo and his party encountered a Native American village named "Tanasqui" in the area while traveling inland from modern-day South Carolina; however, it is unknown if this was the same settlement as Tanasi. [b] The town appeared on British maps as early as 1725.
The Highland Rim is a geographic term for the area in Tennessee, North Alabama, and Kentucky which surrounds the Central Basin.Geologically, the Central Basin is a dome.The Highland Rim is a cuesta surrounding the basin, and the border where the difference in elevation is sharply pronounced is an escarpment.