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Beaune

(Encyclopedia) Beaune Beaune bōn [key], town, Côte-d'Or dept., E France, in Burgundy. It is a noted…

Friedländer, Max J.

(Encyclopedia) Friedländer, Max J.Friedländer, Max J.frēdˈlĕndər [key], 1867–1958, German art historian. Educated in Munich, he became director of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin. He left…

Brown, Robert

(Encyclopedia) Brown, Robert, 1773–1858, Scottish botanist and botanical explorer. In 1801 he went as a naturalist on one of Matthew Flinders's expeditions to Australia, returning (1805) to England…

Leiden

(Encyclopedia) Leiden or LeydenLeydenboth: līˈdən [key], city (1994 pop. 114,892), South Holland prov., W Netherlands, on the Old Rhine (Oude Rijn) River. Manufactures include medical equipment,…

intermolecular forces

(Encyclopedia) intermolecular forces, forces that are exerted by molecules on each other and that, in general, affect the macroscopic properties of the material of which the molecules are a part.…

Allen, Woody

(Encyclopedia) Allen, Woody, 1935–, American actor, writer, and director, one of contemporary America's leading filmmakers, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., as Allen Stewart Konigsberg. Allen began his career…

Hanson Biography

HansonmusiciansBirthplace: Tulsa, Oklahoma Tulsa-based musical group who took over the pop airwaves with their 1997 major label debut, Middle of Nowhere, and accompanying hit single, “MMMBop…

William Hanna Biography

William HannacartoonistBorn: 7/14/1910Birthplace: Melrose, New Mexico pioneering animator who, with his partner, Joseph Barbera, masterminded the cartoon characters Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, and…

2006 Sprint U.S. Freestyle Championships

(March 23–26, 2006, Killington, Vt.)MenHalfpipe—Scott Hibbert, CanadaMoguls—David Babic, Washington, Vt.Aerials—Jeret Peterson, Boise, IdahoDual Moguls—Sho Kashima, Zephyr Cove, Nev.…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Exposition, Part 7

Part 7Away with themes of war! away with war itself! Hence from my shuddering sight to never more return that show of blacken'd, mutilated corpses! That hell unpent and raid of blood, fit…