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Bodleian Library

(Encyclopedia) Bodleian LibraryBodleian Librarybŏdˈlēən, bŏdlēˈən [key], at the Univ. of Oxford. The original library, destroyed in the reign of Edward VI, was replaced in 1602, chiefly through the…

Steffens, Lincoln

(Encyclopedia) Steffens, Lincoln (Joseph Lincoln Steffens), 1866–1936, American editor and author, b. San Francisco, grad. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1889, and studied three years in Europe.…

World Intellectual Property Organization

(Encyclopedia) World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), specialized agency of the United Nations, with headquarters at Geneva. WIPO became an agency in 1974, but its roots go back to 1883…

accounting

(Encyclopedia) accounting, classification, analysis, and interpretation of the financial, or bookkeeping, records of an enterprise. The professional who supplies such services is known as an…

poll

(Encyclopedia) poll, technique for ascertaining the attitudes or opinions of the total, or some segment of the total, population on given questions, usually on political, economic, and social…

Ma Ying-jeou

(Encyclopedia) Ma Ying-jeouMa Ying-jeoumä yēng-jō [key], 1950–, Taiwanese political leader, president of Taiwan (2008–16), b. Hong Kong, grad. National Taiwan Univ. (LL.B., 1972), New York Univ. (LL.…

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

(Encyclopedia) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scientific panel created (1988) by two United Nations organizations, the UN Environment Program and the World Meteorological…

Kimhi

(Encyclopedia) KimhiKimhikĭmˈhē [key] or KimchiKimchikĭmˈkhē [key], family of Jewish scholars and grammarians in Spain and France. Joseph ben Isaac Kimhi, c.1105–c.1170, besides writing a Bible…

Arlington, county, United States

(Encyclopedia) Arlington, county (2020 pop. 238,643), N Va., across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. Arlington is a residential and commercial suburb of Washington. Within its…

Luria, Salvador Edward

(Encyclopedia) Luria, Salvador Edward, 1912–1991, American physician, b. Turin, Italy, M.D., Univ. of Turin, 1935. He conducted research and taught at the Institute of Radium in Paris (1938–40),…