12) Duisburg. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, at the confluence of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers. Located in the Ruhr district, it is the largest inland port in the world and a...

13) Wesel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, on the Rhine River near the mouth of the Lippe River. It is a river port, a transshipment point, and an industrial center in the...

14) Soest. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany. It is a manufacturing city and an agricultural trade center. Known in the 7th cent., Soest is one of the oldest cities of Germany....

15) Hamm, city, Germany. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, on the Lippe River, in the Ruhr district. The city contains iron and steel foundries and manufactures textiles and machinery, as...

16) John Maurice of Nassau. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...John Maurice of Nassau, 1604-79, Dutch general and colonial administrator, a prince of the house of Nassau-Siegen; grandnephew of William the Silent. The Dutch West...

17) Rhine Province. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...The province was also known as Rhenish Prussia and as the Rhineland. The northern section of the former province (which contained part of the industrial Ruhr district)...

18) Cranmer, Thomas. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...English churchman under Henry VIII; archbishop of Canterbury. A lecturer at Jesus College, Cambridge, he is said to have come to the attention of the king in 1529...

19) Mercator, Gerardus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Flemish geographer, mathematician, and cartographer. He studied in Louvain, where he had a geographical establishment (1534). From 1537 to 1540 he surveyed and mapped...

20) Cromwell, Thomas, earl of Essex. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...While a young man he lived abroad as a soldier, accountant, and merchant, and on his return (c.1512) to England he engaged in the wool trade and eventually became...