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San Gimignano
(Encyclopedia)San Gimignano sän jēmēnyäˈnō [key], town (1991 pop. 6,956), Tuscany, central Italy. It is a tourist center that has fully preserved its medieval aspect. The city walls, the palaces, and the cele...Seghers, Anna
(Encyclopedia)Seghers, Anna äˈnä sēgərs [key], 1900–1983, German novelist, whose original name was Netty Reiling Rádvanyi. She won fame with her first novel of social protest, The Revolt of the Fishermen, (...Segni, Antonio
(Encyclopedia)Segni, Antonio äntôˈnyō sĕnˈyē [key], 1891–1972, Italian political leader. A lawyer, he entered national politics in 1919 as a leader of the Popular party, the forerunner of the Christian Dem...Prince Rupert
(Encyclopedia)Prince Rupert, city (1991 pop. 16,620), W British Columbia, Canada, on Kaien Island, in Chatham Sound near the mouth of the Skeena River, S of the Alaska border. A railroad and highway terminus and an...Tacloban
(Encyclopedia)Tacloban täklōˈbän [key], city (1990 pop. 136,891), capital of Leyte prov., NE Leyte, the Philippines, on an inlet of Leyte Gulf. It is a port and trade center. Tacloban was the first landing plac...Konev, Ivan Stepanovich
(Encyclopedia)Konev, Ivan Stepanovich ēvänˈ styĭpäˈnəvĭch kôˈnyĭf [key], 1897–1973, Soviet field marshal. In World War II he reconquered (1944–45) Ukraine and S Poland from the Germans, took Silesia,...Kwajalein
(Encyclopedia)Kwajalein kwäˈjälān, –lēn, –lĭn [key], coral atoll, 6.5 sq mi (16.8 sq km), central Pacific, in the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands. The largest atoll of the Marshalls, Kwajalein, consis...Épinal
(Encyclopedia)Épinal āpēnälˈ [key], town, capital of Vosges dept., E France, in Lorraine, on the Mosel...Ermeland
(Encyclopedia)Ermeland wôrˈmēə [key], historic region of East Prussia, extending far inland from the Baltic Sea. It was ceded to Poland in 1466 by the Teutonic Knights, passed to Prussia in 1772, and reverted t...Aqtöbe
(Encyclopedia)Aqtöbe or Aktöbe əktyo͞oˈbĭnsk [key], city, NW Kazakhstan, on the Ilek River and the Kazalinsk RR. Aqtöbe has an important ferroalloy plant and chromium comp...Browse by Subject
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