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- segment of the Coast Ranges (see Pacific mountain system), west-central California, U.S. The rugged range extends southeastward for about 140 miles (225 km) from Carmel Bay to the Cuyama River ...
- Santa Luzia Island
- island of Cape Verde, in the Atlantic Ocean, about 400 mi (640 km) off the West African coast between the islands of Sao Nicolau and Sao Vicente. It has an ... [1 Related Articles]
- Santa Maria
- city, central Rio Grande do Sul estado (state), southern Brazil, lying in the Jacui River valley at an elevation of 502 feet (153 metres). Founded in 1797, ...
- Santa Maria
- Christopher Columbus' flagship on his first voyage to America. About 117 feet (36 metres) long, the "Santa Maria" had a deck, three masts, and forecastle and sterncastle and was armed ... [2 Related Articles]
- Santa maria
- (from the article "South America") The forests of the swamps (igapos), where the ground is inundated or very marshy throughout the year, cover the lowlands. Characteristic trees are, among others, jacareubas (Calophyllum brasiliense), which is ...
- Santa Maria
- largest of the Banks Islands in Vanuatu, southwestern Pacific Ocean. The island, with an area of 132 square miles (342 square km), is rugged and rises to Garet, an active ...
- Santa Maria d'Aracoeli
- (from the article "Rome") The church of Sta. Maria d'Aracoeli, built before the 6th century, remade in its present form in the 13th, is lined with columns rifled from Classical buildings. It is the ...
- Santa Maria da Vitoria
- (from the article "Batalha") town, west-central Portugal, just south of Leiria city. The town is dominated by the great Dominican abbey of Santa Maria da Vitoria, also known simply as Batalha ("Battle"). In the ...
- Santa Maria de la Antigua del Darien
- (from the article "Balboa, Vasco Nunez de") ...Ojeda had departed. On the advice of Balboa the settlers moved across the Gulf of Uraba to Darien, on the less hostile coast of the Isthmus of Panama, where they ...
- Santa Maria de la Encarnacion
- (from the article "Granada") ...and it is dotted with fine Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassical churches, convents, monasteries, hospitals, palaces, and mansions. At the centre of the city stands the Gothic Cathedral of Santa Maria ...
- Santa Maria de Montserrat
- (from the article "Montserrat") ...as Mons Serratus ("Saw-Toothed Mountain") and to the Catalans as Montsagrat ("Sacred Mountain"), it is famous for its unusual appearance and the Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat, which ...
- Santa Maria degli Angeli
- (from the article "Western architecture") Soon after the commencement of the Pazzi Chapel, Brunelleschi began a central-plan church, that of Santa Maria degli Angeli (begun 1434) at Florence, which was never completed. It was very ...
- Santa Maria dei Frari
- Franciscan church in Venice, originally built in the mid-13th century but rebuilt in Gothic style in the 15th century. This important example of Venetian Gothic ecclesiastical architecture (often referred to ... [2 Related Articles]
- Santa Maria dei Miracoli
- (from the article "Rome") ...The streets were there first, so the churches were ingeniously squeezed into awkward, different-sized plots between them. Sta. Maria in Montesanto, on the east, has an oval plan and dome, ...
- Santa Maria dei Miracoli
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...and a slight knowledge of Renaissance architecture to the region of Lombardy. The style was transferred to Venice by such Lombard architects as Pietro Lombardo and Mauro Coducci. The church ...
- Santa Maria del Carmine, Church of
- (from the article "Florence") ...historical significance as well, because it became a kind of pantheon containing the tombs of famous Florentine scholars, writers, artists, and patriots. Across the Arno lies the modest Carmelite church ...
- Santa Maria del Carmine, Church of
- (from the article "Masaccio") After the Giovenale Triptych, Masaccio's next important work was a sizable, multi-paneled altarpiece for the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine at Pisa in 1426. This important commission demonstrates his ...
- Santa Maria del Fiore, Cathedral of
- (from the article "building construction") ...who conceived a building's form, as opposed to the builder, who executed it. The first building in which the designer and the builder were separate persons was the Campanile, or ...
- Santa Maria del Popolo
- (from the article "Rome") The church next to the gate, Sta. Maria del Popolo, which stood for centuries before the piazza existed and gives its name to the area, was founded in 1227 to ...
- Santa Maria del Priorato
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...Juvarra's designs for a tomb for the King of France (1715?) served as a source for Piranesi in his design for the Piazza of the Knights of Malta in Rome ...
- Santa Maria del Rosario
- (from the article "Cento") town, Emilia-Romagna regione, north-central Italy, on the Reno River, 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Bologna. A chapel was built in the church of Santa Maria del Rosario for the ...
- Santa Maria della Consolazione
- (from the article "Western architecture") Several churches present the same qualities as the Tempietto on a larger physical scale. The church of Santa Maria della Consolazione (1504-1617) at Todi, probably by Bramante, is likewise centralized ...
- Santa Maria della Pace
- (from the article "Bramante, Donato") ...influential cardinal of Naples, who had a deep interest in letters, the arts, and antiquity. Carafa commissioned the first work in Rome known to be by Bramante: the monastery and ...
- Santa Maria della Piazza
- (from the article "Ancona") Notable landmarks, restored since the war, include the marble Arch of Trajan (AD 115); the 11th- to 12th-century Church of Santa Maria della Piazza, with an ornate facade dating from ...
- Santa Maria della Salute
- (from the article "Longhena, Baldassare") Longhena's masterpiece, the Church of Santa Maria della Salute (1631/32-1687) at the entrance to the Grand Canal in Venice, was commissioned by the republic in thanksgiving to God for deliverance ...
- Santa Maria della Vittoria
- (from the article "Rome") Built 1605-26, Sta. Maria della Vittoria harbours an unfailing crowd pleaser, Bernini's "Ecstasy of St. Teresa" (1645-52). It is a chapel conceived entirely in theatrical terms, even to having the ...
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- (from the article "Milan") ...palaces. Leonardo da Vinci's fresco the "Last Supper," one of the most famous paintings of the Renaissance, is located in the former refectory of the Dominican monastery of Sta. Maria ...
- Santa Maria delle Vergini, Church of
- (from the article "Macerata") ...to the Papal States about 1445. Noteworthy buildings in the city include the Loggia dei Mercanti (1485-91), the neoclassical Sferisterio (sports arena), the cathedral (1771-90), and the Church of Santa ...
- Santa Maria di Montesanto
- (from the article "Rome") ..."twin" churches (1662) framing the entrance to three streets. The streets were there first, so the churches were ingeniously squeezed into awkward, different-sized plots between them. Sta. Maria in Montesanto, ...
- Santa Maria di Piedigrotta
- (from the article "Naples") Suburban Naples incorporates the headland of Posillipo, which joins the city at the yachting port of Mergellina-signaled by the church of Santa Maria del Parto. The nearby church of Santa ...
- Santa Maria di Siponto
- (from the article "Manfredonia") ...see, Puglia (Apulia) region, east central Italy, on the southern slope of the Promontorio del Gargano at the head of the Golfo (gulf) di Manfredonia, northeast of Foggia. The Romanesque ...
- Santa Maria in Campitelli
- (from the article "Rainaldi, Carlo") ...twin churches of Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria in Monte Santo in the Piazza del Popolo (Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Carlo Fontana also worked on them). Generally regarded ...
- Santa Maria in Trastevere
- (from the article "Rome") ...and palaces continued to be built during the Renaissance (the Palazzo Farnesina) and even in the 18th century (the Palazzo Corsini). Some authorities-not all from Trastevere-claim Sta. Maria in Trastevere ...
- Santa Maria Island
- one of the southernmost Galapagos Islands, in the eastern Pacific Ocean about 600 miles (965 km) west of mainland Ecuador. Originally named for the British king Charles II, it ...
- Santa Maria Island
- southeasternmost island of the Azores archipelago (a part of Portugal), in the North Atlantic Ocean. It has an area of 37 square miles (97 square km). Its economy is based ...
- Santa Maria la Real de las Huelgas
- (from the article "Burgos") ...the murder of Sancho, his brother and predecessor on the throne. Other historic landmarks include the Gothic churches of San Nicolas (1505) and San Esteban (1280-1350); the monastery of Santa ...
- Santa Maria Maggiore
- (from the article "Como") ...The city itself centres on the modern Piazza Cavour, which opens onto the lake and divides the lakeside promenade into eastern and western sections. Notable landmarks include the Cathedral of ...
- Santa Maria Maggiore
- (from the article "Rome") Located on the Esquiline, Sta. Maria Maggiore was founded in 432, just after the Council of Ephesus, which raised the Virgin above all created things; it was thus the first ...
- Santa Maria Novella
- Italian Gothic-style church of the Dominicans in Florence. It was planned by two Dominican brothers, Sisto and Ristoro, and construction began c. 1278 and was completed in 1350, except for ... [8 Related Articles]
- Santa Maria presso San Satiro
- (from the article "Bramante, Donato") ...a print made in 1481 by a Milanese engraver, Bernardo Prevedari, from a Bramante drawing representing a ruined temple with human figures. About the same time, Bramante was working on ...
- Santa Maria, Cathedral of
- (from the article "Murcia") The Segura River divides the city into an older, northern sector and a more modern, southern sector. The 14th-century Gothic-style Cathedral of Santa Maria was restored in the 18th century. ...
- Santa Maria, Cathedral of
- (from the article "Sevilla") ...with a maze of narrow and twisting streets, small enclosed squares, and houses built and decorated in the Moorish style. There is a somewhat more spacious layout in the central ...
- Santa Marta
- city, northern Colombia. It is situated on a small bay of the Caribbean Sea, 40 miles (64 km) east-northeast of the mouth of the Magdalena River, to which it is ... [1 Related Articles]
- Santa Marta Mountains
- Andean mountain range, northern Colombia, bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea and encircled on three sides by the coastal lowlands. The volcanic massif rises abruptly from the coast, ... [3 Related Articles]
- Santa Mina, Mount
- (from the article "Equatorial Guinea") ...in Sao Tome and Principe and about 400 miles southwest of Bioko. Like the latter, it is a volcanic island but is less high; it consists of a conglomeration of ...
- Santa Monica
- city, Los Angeles county, southern California, U.S. Lying on Santa Monica Bay, it is surrounded by the city of Los Angeles. Santa Monica was laid out in 1875 by Senator ...
- Santa Monica Mountains
- (from the article "Los Angeles") ...National Recreation Area (1978), the largest such preserve in an American metropolis. Jointly managed by the U.S. National Park Service, the California Department of Parks and Recreation, and the Santa ...
- Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
- (from the article "Los Angeles") ...terrain. Exposition Park, Hancock Park, and Elysian Park are among other popular city recreation areas. Of the regional parks, the most important is the sprawling 239-square-mile (619-square-km) Santa Monica Mountains ...
- Santa Prisca
- (from the article "mystery religion") ...Io, a Greek heroine equated with Isis. Isiac frescoes dating from the time of the emperor Caligula in the 1st century AD are also found in the ruins on the ...
- Santa River
- river, west-central Peru, rising in the snowcapped Nevado de Tuco in the Andean Cordillera Blanca and flowing into Aguash and Conococha lakes. From the latter it emerges as the Santa ... [1 Related Articles]
- Santa Rosa
- city, capital of La Pampa provincia (province), central Argentina. Founded in 1892, the city developed as an agricultural centre processing grain (wheat) and cattle from the eastern ...
- Santa Rosa
- (from the article "Guadalupe") ...by Navajo Indians, whites settled permanently in the region in the 1860s, and the county was established in 1891. The junction of the Rock Island and Southern Pacific railroads at ...
- Santa Rosa
- city, seat (1854) of Sonoma county, western California, U.S. It is situated on Santa Rosa Creek, at the foot of the Sonoma Mountains, 50 miles (80 km) north-northwest of San ...
- Santa Rosa de Cabal
- city, Risaralda department, west central Colombia, on the western slopes of the Andean Cordillera (mountains) Central. It is a commercial and manufacturing centre for the fertile agricultural and pastoral hinterland. ...
- Santa Rosa de Copan
- city, northwestern Honduras. It is located in the highlands at 3,806 feet (1,160 metres) above sea level, near the Alash Higuito River, a tributary of the Mejocote. Founded in the ...
- Santa Rosa Island
- (from the article "Channel Islands") San Miguel, the westernmost of the park's islands, is administered by the U.S. Navy. It comprises a windswept tableland with a rocky coast, and its climate is often rainy and ...
- Santa Sabina
- (from the article "Rome") ...and the Temple of Diana remains only as a street name. Under the 4th-century church of Sta. Prisca is one of the best preserved and maintained Mithraic basilicas in the ...
- Santa Scolastica
- (from the article "Western architecture") Giacomo Antonio Domenico Quarenghi, who was to work in Russia for Catherine II, built the monastery of Santa Scolastica, Subiaco (1774-77), with a barrel-vaulted nave characteristic of the new taste. ...
- Santa Sindone
- (from the article "Guarini, Guarino") In San Lorenzo (1668-87) and Santa Sindone (1667-90; "Holy Shroud") in Turin, Guarini, working on a centralized plan, converted domes to an open lacework of interwoven masonry arches. (Santa Sindone ...
- Santa Sofia
- (from the article "Mantegna, Andrea") ...Padua, later claiming that Squarcione had profited considerably from his services without giving due recompense. The award to Mantegna of the important commission for an altarpiece for the church of ...
- Santa Susanna
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...of the architecture of the Western world in the 17th century. A northern Italian, Maderno worked most of his life in Rome where, about 1597, he designed the revolutionary facade ...
- Santa Trinita, Ponte a
- (from the article "Ammannati, Bartolommeo") Two other major works by Ammannati in Florence are the Bridge of Santa Trinita (1567-69), which contains elliptical arches, and the Fountain of Neptune (1567-70; destroyed 1944, rebuilt 1957); the ...
- Santa, Mount
- (from the article "La Plata River") river in east-central Puerto Rico, rising on the western slope of Mount Santa (2,963 feet [903 metres]), a peak of the Sierra de Cayey. Part of the stream is impounded ...
- Santa-Clara
- cape situated on the Atlantic coast of northwestern Gabon, Africa. Extending south from the larger peninsula that separates the Gabon estuary from Corisco Bay, the cape juts into the mouth ...
- Santagostini, Mario
- (from the article "Italian literature") ...and enigmatic Giuseppe Piccoli; antilyrical self-ironist Paolo Ruffilli; and Vivian Lamarque, whose childlike fairy-tale tone occasionally makes way for a mischievous home truth. Also notable are Mario Santagostini, whose early ...
- Santalaceae
- the sandalwood family (order Santalales), which includes about 36 genera and more than 400 species of semiparasitic shrubs, herbs, and trees, distributed in tropical and temperate regions. In some genera ... [1 Related Articles]
- Santalales
- the sandalwood order of flowering plants, consisting of 8 families, 151 genera, and about 1,000 species. All the families in Santalales are parasitic to some degree, attaching either to the ...
- Santali language
- a Munda language spoken primarily in the east-central Indian states of West Bengal, Jharkhand, and Orissa. At the turn of the 21st century there were approximately 6 million speakers of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Santamaria, Juan
- (from the article "Alajuela") ...from Spain in 1821; five years later it suffered from a plot to restore Spanish control over Costa Rica. For a brief period in the 1830s Alajuela served as the ...
- Santamaria, Ramon
- Cuban-born American conga drummer (b. April 7, 1922, Havana, Cuba-d. Feb. 1, 2003, Miami, Fla.), played for years with mambo stars (Perez Prado, Tito Puente, Cal Tjader) before forming his ...
- Santana
- American musical group whose use of salsa and mambo-style percussion exposed a wide rock audience to traditional Latin American music. The original members were Carlos Santana (b. July 20, 1947, ...
- Santana Formation
- (from the article "Life Sciences") A remarkable pterosaur specimen recently found in the Early Cretaceous Santana Formation of Brazil has the tooth of a spinosaurid theropod dinosaur embedded in one of the cervical vertebrae-an indication ...
- Santana Lopes, Pedro
- (from the article "Portugal") Area: 92,152 sq km (35,580 sq mi) | Population (2005 est.): 10,513,000 | Capital: Lisbon | Chief of state: President Jorge Sampaio | Head of government: Prime Ministers Pedro Santana ...
- Santana, Carlos
- By winning three Latin Grammys and nine Grammy Awards-including Album of the Year for Supernatural and Song of the Year for "Smooth"-Latino rocker Carlos Santana staged a ...
- Santana, Johan
- (from the article "Baseball") For the first time in modern major league history, no pitchers won 20 games in a full season. Minnesota's Johan Santana and Chien-Ming Wang of the Yankees each recorded 19 ...
- Santana, Pedro
- (from the article "Dominican Republic") From 1844 until 1899 several caudillos (military strongmen) dominated the Dominican Republic, most notably Pedro Santana and Buenaventura Baez, two dictatorial presidents who prevented the growth of democracy and sold ...
- Santanachelys gaffneyi
- (from the article "turtle") ...of existing families. Softshell turtles (family Trionychidae) are the first modern turtles found in the fossil record, appearing in the Cretaceous Period. The oldest sea turtle (Santanachelys gaffneyi) is known ...
- Santander
- port city, capital of Cantabria provincia (province) and comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), northern Spain. It is situated on the narrow coastline along the southern ... [3 Related Articles]
- Santander, Francisco de Paula
- soldier and statesman who fought beside Simon Bolivar in the war for South American independence and who served as president of the newly formed New Granada (Colombia) from 1833 until ... [4 Related Articles]
- Santangel, Luis de
- (from the article "Native American") ...businessmen, and scientists. Having lost so many of its best minds, Spain faced a very slow economic recovery, if it was to recover at all. Seeking new sources of income, ...
- Santaolalla, Gustavo
- (from the article "2005: Other Winners") ...Dion Beebe for Memoirs of a GeishaArt Direction: John Myhre (art direction) and Gretchen Rau (set decoration) for Memoirs of a GeishaOriginal Score: Gustavo ...
- Santarem
- city, west-central Para estado (state), northern Brazil. It is situated on the right bank of the Tapajos River, near its confluence with the Amazon River. Santarem was ... [1 Related Articles]
- Santarem
- city, central Portugal. It lies along the Tagus (Portuguese: Tejo) River, 47 miles (76 km) northeast of Lisbon. [2 Related Articles]
- Santareno, Bernardo
- poet and dramatist, considered one of Portugal's leading 20th-century playwrights.
- Santayana, George
- Spanish-American philosopher, poet, and humanist who made important contributions to aesthetics, speculative philosophy, and literary criticism. From 1912 he resided in Europe, chiefly in France and Italy. [4 Related Articles]
- Santee
- (from the article "Santee") a major group within the Sioux (q.v.) nation of North American Indians. Santee descendants numbered more than 3,200 individuals in the early 21st century.division of Sioux
- Santee River
- (from the article "Santee-Wateree-Catawba river system") ...River. The Wateree continues southward through a series of lakes and reservoirs, the largest being Wateree Lake (15 miles [24 km] long), to its junction with the Congaree. From this ...
- Santee-Wateree-Catawba river system
- inland waterway 538 miles (866 km) long, in the southeastern United States, rising as the Catawba River in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. The Catawba flows east ...
- Santelli, Giorgio
- Hungarian-born Italian fencing master, thought by many to be the greatest American fencing coach of the 20th century.
- Santelli, Italo
- (from the article "Santelli, Giorgio") As a small child, Giorgio Santelli began taking fencing lessons from his father, the great Italian master Italo Santelli, who was one of the founders of the formidable Hungarian school ...
- Santer, Jacques
- "The right man in the right place at the right time," as he was called by British Prime Minister John Major, or the lowest common denominator, as others said of ...
- Santeria
- the most common name given to a religious tradition of African origin that was developed in Cuba and then spread throughout Latin America and the United States. [2 Related Articles]
- Santhal
- tribal people of eastern India, numbering about 5,380,000 in the late 20th century. Their greatest concentration is in the states of Bihar, West Bengal, and Orissa. Some 65,000 also live ... [1 Related Articles]
- santi
- (from the article "Hinduism") ...merits hoped to win a safe world (loka) or condition. The meticulous effort to purify oneself from every evil also involved shanti, the observance ...
- Santi Asoke
- (from the article "Buddhism") Two new Buddhist groups, Santi Asoke (founded 1975) and Dhammakaya, are especially interesting. Santi Asoke, a lay-oriented group that advocates stringent discipline, moral rectitude, and political reform, has been very ...
- Santi Giovanni e Paolo
- (from the article "Rome") In the medieval confines of the only fortified abbey left in Rome stands SS. Quattro Coronati, today sheltering nuns and their charges, deaf-mute children. The basilica of SS. Giovanni e ...
- Santi Giovanni e Paolo
- (from the article "Piazzetta, Giovanni Battista") ...most famous Venetian painter of the 18th century. In about 1725-27 he undertook his only ceiling painting, the "Glorification of St. Dominic," for the Chapel of the Sacrament in Santi ...
- Santi Quattro Coronati
- (from the article "Rome") In the medieval confines of the only fortified abbey left in Rome stands SS. Quattro Coronati, today sheltering nuns and their charges, deaf-mute children. The basilica of SS. Giovanni e ...
- Santi, Gino P.
- American engineer whose long career with the U.S. Air Force was most notable for his development of the pilot ejection system (b. 1916/17?--d. April 3, 1997).
- Santiago
- region metropolitana, central Chile, bordering Argentina on the east, Valparaiso region on the north and west, and O'Higgins region on the south. Santiago, created a province in 1826 and a ...
- santiago
- (from the article "Morris dance") ...to the Middle East, India, and parts of Central and South America. Notable examples are the Perchten dancer-masqueraders of Austria, the ritual dances such as the moriscas (or moriscos), santiagos, ...
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