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RIDGEWOOD, village and township, New Jersey, Bergen County; altitude 139 feet; 22 miles northwest york of New York and 5 miles northeast of Paterson; on the Erie Railroad, with through express service as well as commuters' trains to New York. A little west of the Erie runs the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad, with a station at Midland Park. The eastern section of Ridgewood spreads out into the Paramus Valley and extends to Saddle River. Hohokus Brook flows through its center. The community is exclusively residential with no manufacturing.

Further Reading: Cottrell, Leonard, Hannibal (New York 1961); De Beer, Sir Gavin, Hannibal's March t London 1967); Livy, The War with Hannibal, tr. by A. de Selincourt (Baltimore 1965); Polybius, The Histories, tr. by Mortimer Chambers (New York 1966). HANNIBAL, han'a-bal, a city in northeastern Missouri, in Marion and Rails counties, is on the Mississippi River about 110 miles (176 km) northwest york of St. Louis. It is famous as the boyhood home of Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens). The city is the transportation and warehousing center of a rich agricultural region.

GOSHEN, go'shan, a residential village in southeastern New York, the seat of Orange county, is situated about 50 miles (80 km) northwest york of New York City. Goshen is famous as a center of harness-horse racing; it has been called "the cradle of the trotter." Harness races are held annually for one week in July at the Historic Track, which has been registered as a national historic place. The Hall of Fame of the Trotter has the world's largest collection of Currier and Ives lithographs of harness horses.