Search

Search results

Displaying 291 - 300

Cobb, Henry Nichols

(Encyclopedia) Cobb, Henry Nichols, 1926–2020, American modernist architect, b. Boston, grad. Harvard Graduate School of Design (1949). At Harvard he met I. M. Pei, with whom he established a New…

Ali, Irfaan

(Encyclopedia) Ali, Irfaan (Mohammed Irfaan Ali), 1980–, Guyanese political leader. He worked for the Caribbean Development Bank before he was first elected to Guyana's national assembly in 2006. A…

Delaware Water Gap

(Encyclopedia) Delaware Water GapDelaware Water Gapdĕlˈəwâr, –wər [key], scenic gorge, 2 mi (3.2 km) long, cut by the Delaware River through Kittatinny Mt., on the N.J.–Pa. line; located in a…

Duque Márquez, Iván

(Encyclopedia) Duque Márquez, Iván, 1976–, Colombian lawyer and political leader, b. Bogotá, grad. Sergio Arbolida Univ., Bogotá, 2000, studied American Univ. and Georgetown Univ., Washington, D.C.…

Judaea

(Encyclopedia) Judaea or JudeaJudeaboth: j&oomacr;dēˈə [key] [Lat. from Judah], region, Greco-Roman name for S Palestine. It varied in size in different periods. In the time of Jesus it was both…

Lauenburg

(Encyclopedia) LauenburgLauenburglouˈənb&oobreve;rkh [key], former duchy, NE central Germany, on the right bank of the lower Elbe. The duchy belonged to a branch of the house of Saxony from the…

Limerick, county, Republic of Ireland

(Encyclopedia) LimerickLimericklĭmˈərĭk [key], county (1991 pop. 161,956), 1,037 sq mi (2,686 sq km), SW Republic of Ireland. Limerick is the county seat. The region is an agricultural plain lying S…

Einaudi, Luigi

(Encyclopedia) Einaudi, LuigiEinaudi, Luigilwēˈjē ānouˈdē [key], 1874–1961, president of Italy (1948–55). A noted economist, a senator for life from 1919, and an opponent of Fascism after 1924,…

Fleming, Walter Lynwood

(Encyclopedia) Fleming, Walter Lynwood, 1874–1932, American historian, b. near Brundidge, Ala. He taught at West Virginia Univ. (1904–7) and at Louisiana State Univ. (1907–17) before becoming…

Neuss

(Encyclopedia) NeussNeussnois [key], city (1994 pop. 148,560), North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany. It is a rail junction and canal port, near the left bank of the Rhine opposite Düsseldorf. Its…