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Jyväskylä

(Encyclopedia) JyväskyläJyväskyläyüˈvăsküˌlă [key], city (1998 pop. 76,948), Western Finland prov., S central Finland. Situated on Lake Päijänne, it is an important port. Paper and wood products,…

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

(Encyclopedia) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, N.Y.; coeducational; founded and opened 1824 as Rensselaer School; chartered 1826. It was called Rensselaer Institute from 1837 to 1861. The…

Post, George Browne

(Encyclopedia) Post, George Browne, 1837–1913, American architect, b. New York City, grad. New York Univ., 1858, in civil engineering, and studied architecture with R. M. Hunt. He was one of the…

Ohio State University

(Encyclopedia) Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878.…

Tufts University

(Encyclopedia) Tufts University, main campus at Medford, Mass.; coeducational; chartered 1852 by Universalists as a college for men. It became a university in 1955. Jackson College, formerly a…

Colvin, Sir Sidney

(Encyclopedia) Colvin, Sir SidneyColvin, Sir Sidneykōlˈvĭn [key], 1845–1927, English man of letters. Slade professor of fine arts at Cambridge and keeper of prints at the British Museum, he was a…

Goldwater, Robert

(Encyclopedia) Goldwater, Robert, 1907–73, American art historian, b. New York City. Goldwater taught at Queens College, N.Y., from 1934 to 1957, when he was appointed professor of fine arts at New…

Victoria, city, United States

(Encyclopedia) Victoria, city (1990 pop. 55,076), seat of Victoria co., S Tex., on the Guadalupe River, in a prosperous farm, cattle, and oil area. The Victoria Barge Canal (completed in 1962)…

Zuloaga, Ignacio

(Encyclopedia) Zuloaga, IgnacioZuloaga, Ignacioēgnäˈthyō th&oomacr;lōäˈgä [key], 1870–1945, Spanish painter. He was the son of a celebrated Basque goldsmith. Zuloaga lived chiefly in Paris after…

Berners, Juliana

(Encyclopedia) Berners, Bernes, or Barnes, JulianaBerners, Bernes, or Barnes, Julianabŭrˈnərz, bärnz [key], supposed early 15th-century author of a popular verse treatise on hunting. The treatise is…