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Charlotte Amalie
(Encyclopedia) Charlotte Amalie Charlotte Amalie əmälˈē [key], town, capital of the Virgin Islands of the United…duress
(Encyclopedia) duressduressdy&oobreve;ˈrĭs, d&oobreve;ˈ–, d&oobreve;rĕsˈ [key], in law, actual or threatened violence or imprisonment, by reason of which a person is forced to enter into…Donner, Richard
(Encyclopedia) Donner, Richard, 1930-2021, American film director, b. Bronx, N.Y., as Richard Donald Schwartzberg. Donner came from a Russian, Jewish…Amur
(Encyclopedia) AmurAmuräm&oobreve;rˈ [key], Chin. Heilongjiang, river, c.1,800 mi (2,900 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Shilka and Argun rivers, NE Asia, at the Russian-Chinese border…gag rules
(Encyclopedia) gag rules, in parliamentary procedure, rules limiting or prohibiting free debate on a particular issue. In U.S. history, the term is applied especially to procedural rules in force in…Gallaudet University
(Encyclopedia) Gallaudet University, at Washington, D.C.; coeducational; with federal support. It was founded (1856) as the Kendall School, a training school for deaf and blind students, by Edward…Hand, Learned
(Encyclopedia) Hand, LearnedHand, Learnedlûrˈnəd [key], 1872–1961, American jurist, b. Albany, N.Y. He received his law degree from Harvard in 1896. He was a judge of the U.S. District Court for New…Harvey, William Hope
(Encyclopedia) Harvey, William Hope, 1851–1936, American writer on economics, called Coin Harvey, b. Buffalo, Putnam co., W.Va. He studied at Marshall College, practiced law, and interested himself…Herzog, Roman
(Encyclopedia) Herzog, Roman, 1934–2017, German political leader and legal scholar. After receiving his doctorate in law from Ludwig Maximilian Univ., Munich (1958), he taught there, at the Free Univ…Brčko
(Encyclopedia) Brčko, internationally supervised self-governing district, NE Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Sava River, part of both the Federation of…Trending
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