one of the most widely known post-World War II motion-picture directors of Italy. His films Roma citta aperta (1945; Open City) and Paisa (1946; Paisan) focussed international attention on the ...
borough (district), administrative and historic county of Lancashire, England. It lies immediately north of Greater Manchester, in the ancient Forest of Rossendale, from which it takes its name. The River ...
one of the most important of English women poets both in range and quality. She excelled in works of fantasy, in poems for children, and in religious poetry.
English painter and poet who helped found the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of painters treating religious, moral, and medieval subjects in a nonacademic manner. Dante Gabriel was the most illustrious ...
Italian poet, revolutionary, and scholar, known for his esoteric interpretation of Dante but best known as the father of several talented children, all of whom were born in England, to ...
Italian architect and theoretician who advocated the use of a limited range of building types and concern for the context in which a building is constructed. This postmodern approach, known ...
open-pit uranium mine, largest (in area) of its kind in the world, located in the extremely arid Namib Desert of Namibia, about 25 miles (40 km) northeast of the small ...
Italian composer noted for his operas, particularly his comic operas, of which The Barber of Seville (1816), Cinderella (1817), and Semiramide (1823) are among the best known. Of his later, ...
city, southeastern British Columbia, Canada. The city is located at the head of Trail Creek Valley, in the Selkirk Mountains, just to the north of the U.S. (Washington) border.
Italian painter and decorator, an exponent of the expressive style that is often called early, or Florentine, Mannerism, and one of the founders of the Fontainebleau school.
19th-century Italian sculptor generally credited, along with Rodin, with introducing the technique of Impressionism into sculpture. Rosso's work has been much studied since World War II by sculptors interested in ...
Polish-born American author and social scientist best known for his popular books on Yiddish and for his comic novels featuring the immigrant night-school student Hyman Kaplan.
city, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania Land (state), northeastern Germany. It lies at the head of the Warnow River estuary, 8 miles (13 km) south-southeast of its Baltic outport at ...
(Count) military officer and statesman who was a close associate and adviser to Emperor Paul I of Russia (reigned 1796-1801) and served as military governor of Moscow during Napoleon's invasion ...
city and administrative centre of Rostov oblast (province), southwestern Russia. It lies along the lower Don River, 30 miles (50 km) above the latter's mouth on the Sea of ...
Russian-born archaeologist and one of the 20th century's most influential authorities on ancient Greek and Roman history, particularly their economic and social aspects.
city, seat (1889) of Chaves county, southeastern New Mexico, U.S. It lies along the Hondo River near the Pecos River. Founded as a trading post in 1871 by Van C. ...
town and naval base in Fife council area and historic county, Scotland, on the north shore of the Firth of Forth. The naval base played a vital role in both ...
any of several plant diseases, caused by any of hundreds of species of soil-borne bacteria and fungi. They are characterized by plant decomposition and putrefaction. The decay may be hard, ...
one of the Mariana Islands, part of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in the western Pacific Ocean. Rota is situated 32 miles (51 km) northeast of Guam. ...
internal-combustion engine in which the combustion chambers and cylinders rotate with the driven shaft around a fixed control shaft to which pistons are affixed; the gas pressures of combustion are ...
civilian service club founded in the United States in 1905 by Paul P. Harris, a Chicago attorney, to foster the "ideal of service" as a basis of enterprise, to encourage ...
printing press that prints on paper passing between a supporting cylinder and a cylinder containing the printing plates. It may be contrasted to the flatbed press (q.v.), which has a ...
physiological changes that occur in the body when it is subjected to intense gyrational or centrifugal forces, as in tumbling and spinning. Tumbling and spinning are a hazard to pilots ...
Polish-born British physicist who became a leading critic of nuclear weaponry. He was a founding member (1957), secretary-general (1957-73), and president (1988-97) of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World ...
American teacher, farmer, machinist, and sporadic author whose novel Call It Sleep (1934) was one of the neglected masterpieces of American literature in the 1930s.
journalist and regional novelist who, particularly in his later novels, mourned the passing of an age of stability he saw represented by the last pre-World War I years of the ...
American novelist and short-story writer whose works are characterized by an acute ear for dialogue, a concern with Jewish middle-class life, and the painful entanglements of sexual and familial love. ...
southernmost mountain region of the Sauerland in the Middle Rhine Highlands of southeastern North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), west-central Germany. The round-topped hills reach their highest point at the heath-covered Kahler ...
Lutheran theologian of the German idealist school, which held, in general, that reality is spiritual rather than material and is discerned by studying ideas rather than things.
city, Bavaria Land (state), south-central Germany. The city lies above the deep valley of the Tauber River, on the scenic "romantic route" between Wurzburg and the Bavarian ...
district, administrative county of East Sussex, historic county of Sussex, England. Rother is a mainly rural district in the easternmost part of Sussex surrounding (but not including) the borough of ...
medieval German romance (c. 1160) that is the earliest record of the type of popular entertainment literature circulated by wandering minstrels. It combines elements from German heroic literature (without the ...
town and metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of South Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England, at the confluence of the Rivers Don and Rother just north of Sheffield. Rotherham town expanded ...
British newspaper proprietor who, with his brother Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, built the most successful journalistic empire in British history and created popular journalism in that country. A shy ...
royal burgh, coastal resort, and chief town of the island of Bute, Argyll and Bute council area, historic county of Buteshire, Scotland, lying on the island's eastern coast near the ...
American painter whose works introduced contemplative introspection into the melodramatic post-World War II Abstract Expressionist school; his use of colour as the sole means of expression led to the development ...
most famous of all European banking dynasties, which for some 200 years exerted great influence on the economic and, indirectly, the political history of Europe. The house was founded by ...
British zoologist who became a great collector and founded the Rothschild Natural History Museum in London. The eldest son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, he received his titles ...
American big-time gambler, bootlegger, and friend of high-placed politicians and businessmen, who dominated influence-peddling in the 1920s in New York City. He was the prototype for F. Scott Fitzgerald's character ...
island about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Timor, across the narrow Roti Strait, Nusa Tenggara Timur provinsi (province), Indonesia. Roti lies between the Indian Ocean on the west and ...
any of the approximately 2,000 species of microscopic invertebrates that constitute the class Rotifera, or Rotaria (phylum Aschelminthes). Rotifers are so named because the circular arrangement of moving cilia (tiny ...
system of printing based on the transfer of fluid ink from depressions in a printing plate to the paper. It is an intaglio process, so-called because the design to be ...
city ("district"), Bay of Plenty local government region, north-central North Island, New Zealand. It lies at the southwestern end of Lake Rotorua, for which it is named. Founded in the ...
lake in north-central North Island, New Zealand, and largest of a group of about 20 lakes, including Rotoiti and Tarawera, that were formerly called the Hot Lakes. The lake is ...
one of the major French Neoclassical playwrights of the first half of the 17th century. He shares with Pierre Corneille the credit for the increased prestige and respectability that the ...
medieval European stringed musical instrument. The name is frequently applied to the boxlike lyres with straight or waisted sides frequently pictured in medieval illustrations of musical instruments. Some surviving writings, ...
depopulated election district that retains its original representation. The term was first applied by English parliamentary reformers of the early 19th century to such constituencies maintained by the crown or ...
town (township), Schenectady county, eastern New York, U.S. It adjoins the city of Schenectady south of the Mohawk River. The Jan Mabie House (1671) recalls early Dutch colonial settlement, as ...
major European port and second largest city of The Netherlands, in the provincie of Zuid-Holland (South Holland). It lies about 19 miles (30 km) from the North Sea, to which ...
Australian island in the Indian Ocean, lying 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Fremantle (at the mouth of the Swan River, near Perth), Western Australia. A coastal limestone fragment, the ...
breed of working dog descended from a cattle dog left by the Roman legions in Rottweil, Ger. The Rottweiler accompanied local butchers on buying expeditions from the Middle Ages to ...
island of Fiji in the South Pacific, 400 miles (640 km) by sea-route north-northwest of Suva, the Fijian capital. Rotuma comprises one large volcanic island-Rotuma Island (18 square miles [46 ...
in Classical and Neoclassical architecture, building or room within a building that is circular or oval in plan and covered with a dome. The ancestor of the rotunda was the ...
French painter, printmaker, ceramicist, and maker of stained glass who, drawing inspiration from French medieval masters, united religious and secular traditions divorced since the Renaissance.
industrial town, Nord departement, Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, northern France, just northeast of Lille. It is situated on the Canal de Roubaix in the plain of Flanders near the Belgian frontier and ...
faience (tin-glazed earthenware) and porcelain wares that made Rouen, Fr., a major pottery centre. In the 16th century faience was used as an element of architectural decoration and in apothecary ...
ancient province of south central France, corresponding to much of the modern departements of Aveyron and Tarn-et-Garonne. It was bounded on the north by Auvergne, on the south and southwest ...
author of "La Marseillaise," the French national anthem. A lowly army officer and only a moderate republican, Rouget de Lisle never wrote anything else of significance. He composed both the ...
in the Spanish-American War, one of a regiment of U.S. cavalry volunteers recruited by Theodore Roosevelt and composed of cowboys, miners, law-enforcement officials, and college athletes, among others. Their colourful ...
French statesman who was highly influential as a conservative minister under the Second Empire and as a leader of the Bonapartist party under the Third Republic.
(from French: "small wheel"), gambling game in which players bet on which red or black numbered compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball (spun in the opposite direction) will ...
Provencal poet and teacher, a founder and leader of the Felibrige, a movement dedicated to the restoration and maintenance of Provencal language, literature, and customs. Felibrige stimulated the renaissance of ...
