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- city, royal burgh (1160), university town, golfing mecca, and former fishing port in Fife council area and historic county, Scotland. Located on St. Andrews Bay of the North Sea 13 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint Andrews Cathedral
- (from the article "Saint Andrews") The medieval cathedral and priory began with a foundation of Augustinian canons established between 1127 and 1144 by Bishop Robert, who was prior of the Augustinian house at Scone, in ...
- Saint Andrews, University of
- oldest university in Scotland, founded in 1411, located in Fife region. The university buildings, many of which date from the Middle Ages, include St. Salvator's College (1450), St. Leonard's College ... [3 Related Articles]
- Saint Angelo, Fort
- (from the article "Vittoriosa") ...in 1570. The town continued to develop in the 17th century with commercial facilities and shipyards. Although severely damaged in World War II, some of its old fortifications remain, including ...
- Saint Anne's Fortress
- (from the article "Sibenik") ...(1431-1536), which combines Gothic and Renaissance elements, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2000. The City Gates, Loggia, and several Renaissance houses are well preserved. St. Anne's Fortress ...
- Saint Anns Bay
- town and Caribbean port, northern Jamaica, northwest of Kingston. Christopher Columbus anchored there in 1494 and named the spot Santa Gloria. He returned, shipwrecked, to the area in 1503. St. ...
- Saint Anthony
- town, north of the entrance to Hare Bay, on the northern peninsula of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, 306 miles (492 km) northeast of Corner Brook. An old fishing settlement ...
- Saint Anthony's cross
- (from the article "cross") ...with four equal arms; the crux immissa, or Latin cross, whose base stem is longer than the other three arms; the crux commissa, in the form of the Greek letter ...
- Saint Asaph
- cathedral village, Denbighshire (Sir Ddinbych) county, historic county of Flintshire (Sir Fflint), Wales. It stands beween the Rivers Clwyd and Elwy, from which its Welsh name derives. Asaph, the Celtic ...
- Saint Augustine
- oldest continuously settled city in the United States, seat (1822) of St. Johns county, northeastern Florida, about 40 miles (65 km) southeast of Jacksonville. It is situated on a peninsula ... [2 Related Articles]
- Saint Augustine grass
- (Stenotaphrum secundatum), low, mat-forming perennial grass of the family Poaceae, native to central and southeastern North America and Central America and naturalized along many seacoasts of the world. It is ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint Augustine, Second Order of
- (from the article "Augustinian") Among nuns, the term Second Order of St. Augustine applies only to those nuns who are jurisdictionally dependent upon the Augustinian Friars. They were founded in 1264 and, until 1401, ...
- Saint Austell
- town, Restormel borough, administrative and historic county of Cornwall, southwestern England. St. Austell was originally called Trenance and takes its present name from a hermit named St. Austol. England's most ...
- Saint Barbara, Cathedral of
- (from the article "Kutna Hora") The magnificent Gothic Cathedral of St. Barbara, built in the town's most flourishing period in the 13th century, resembles an imperial crown made of stone. Other historical buildings include the ...
- Saint Bartholomew
- (from the article "Plzen") The medieval town square forms the centre of Plzen and is dominated by St. Bartholomew's church, with its slender steeple (335 feet [102 m]), the highest in Bohemia; the Franciscan ...
- Saint Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of
- (August 24/25, 1572), massacre of French Huguenots (Protestants) in Paris plotted by Catherine de Medicis and carried out by Roman Catholic nobles and other citizens. It was one event in ... [11 Related Articles]
- Saint Bartholomew's Hospital
- oldest hospital in London. It lies just southeast of the Central Markets in the Smithfield area of the City of London. It was founded in 1123 by the Augustinian monk ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint Bartholomew, Church of
- (from the article "Durer, Albrecht") In 1506, in Venice, Durer completed his great altarpiece "The Feast of the Rose Garlands" for the funeral chapel of the Germans in the church of St. Bartholomew. Later that ...
- Saint Bartholomew, Church of
- (from the article "Renwick, James, (Jr.)") ...in the Second Empire style Renwick favoured for hospitals, mansions, and other nonecclesiastical structures in the 1850s and '60s. Many of the churches he designed from the 1850s on, notably ...
- Saint Basil the Blessed
- church constructed on Red Square in Moscow between 1554 and 1560 by Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible, as a votive offering for his military victories over the khanates of Kazan ... [3 Related Articles]
- Saint Bernard
- working dog credited with saving the lives of some 2,500 people in 300 years of service as pathfinder and rescue dog at the hospice founded by St. Bernard of Montjoux ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint Bernard, hospice of
- (from the article "Great Saint Bernard Pass") A famous hospice on the pass, founded by St. Bernard in the 11th century, still provides a resting place and rescue services to travelers, though helicopter rescue and a new ...
- Saint Blaise, Bay of
- (from the article "Dias, Bartolomeu") ...north that he sighted land on February 3. He had thus rounded the Cape without having seen it. He called the spot Angra de Sao Bras (Bay of St. Blaise, ...
- Saint Boniface
- historical district of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, at the confluence of the Seine and Red rivers. It was founded in 1818 upon the site of an earlier settlement by Swiss mercenaries ...
- Saint Brice's Day massacre
- (from the article "United Kingdom") ...They were led by formidable leaders: from 991 to 994 by Olaf Tryggvason, later king of Norway, and frequently from 994 by Sweyn, king of Denmark. Ethelred's massacre of the ...
- Saint Catharines
- city, regional municipality of Niagara, southeastern Ontario, Canada, on the south shore of Lake Ontario, at the entrance to the Welland Ship Canal. Named after the first wife of Robert ...
- Saint Catherine's
- Greek Orthodox monastery situated on Mount Sinai more than 5,000 feet (1,500 m) above sea level in a narrow valley north of Mount Musa in the Sinai peninsula. Often incorrectly ... [6 Related Articles]
- Saint Catherine, Mount
- (from the article "Grenada") Grenada is volcanic in origin, with a ridge of mountains running north and south-the steeper slopes to the west and a more gradual incline to the east and southeast. The ...
- Saint Catherines
- (from the article "Sea Islands") The Sea Islands were early looked upon as private kingdoms. St. Catherines was awarded to Mary Musgrove, an Indian princess, in payment of a debt claimed against James Oglethorpe; it ...
- Saint Charles
- city, seat of St. Charles county, eastern Missouri, U.S., on bluffs overlooking the Missouri River, there bridged to St. Louis, 22 miles (35 km) southeast. One of the earliest settlements ...
- Saint Charles
- (from the article "Lisbon") Lisbon's municipal orchestra was founded in 1971. The city is also the site of the National Conservatory, which offers advanced instruction in both music and drama. The St. Charles and ...
- Saint Charles, Church of
- (from the article "Vienna") The Church of St. Charles, a vast structure dedicated to St. Charles Borromeo, was erected just outside the city walls in 1716-39. This Baroque edifice is fronted by a severely ...
- Saint Christoffel, Mount
- (from the article "Netherlands Antilles") The southern islands are generally low in elevation, though hills rise to 787 feet (240 metres) at Brandaris on Bonaire and 1,230 feet (375 metres) at Mount Saint Christoffel on ...
- Saint Christopher Hospice
- (from the article "hospital") ...the infirm, the needy, and the ill. In modern Britain the hospice movement developed gradually from its beginning in 1905, when the Sisters of Charity founded the St. James Hospice ...
- Saint Clair River
- outlet for Lake Huron, forming part of the boundary between Michigan, U.S. (west), and Ontario, Can. (east). Flowing southward into Lake Saint Clair, with a fall of 5.7 feet (1.7 ...
- Saint Clair's Defeat
- (November 4, 1791), one of the worst defeats ever suffered by U.S. forces in Indian warfare, precipitated by British-Indian confrontation with settlers and militia in the Northwest Territory following the ...
- Saint Clair, Lake
- lake in west-central Tasmania, Australia, lying at the southern boundary of Cradle Mountain-Lake St. Clair National Park at the terminus of a 53-mile [85-kilometre] walking track from the mountain. It ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint Clair, Lake
- expansive shallow basin, forming part of the boundary between Michigan, U.S., and Ontario, Can. Roughly circular, with a surface area of 467 square miles (1,210 square km), it connects with ...
- Saint Clare, Order of
- (from the article "Poor Clare") ...1263/64, Pope Urban IV issued a rule permitting common ownership of property, greater self-governance for the order, and other concessions. The monasteries adopting this rule came to be called the ...
- Saint Clements Island
- islet (40 acres [16 hectares]) in the Potomac River, St. Mary's county, southern Maryland, U.S., just off Coltons Point. The first Maryland settlers under the Calverts (Barons Baltimore) landed there ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint Cloud
- city, seat of Stearns county, central Minnesota, U.S. Located at the junction of the Mississippi and Sauk rivers, in a dairy-farming and grain region, it lies about 65 miles (105 ...
- Saint Cloud State University
- coeducational institution of higher learning in St. Cloud, central Minnesota, U.S. It is part of the Minnesota State University system. St. Cloud State University opened in 1869 as Third State ...
- Saint Croix
- largest island of the U.S. Virgin Islands, in the Caribbean Sea, some 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Puerto Rico and 40 miles (65 km) south of St. Thomas. It ... [2 Related Articles]
- Saint Croix International Historic Site
- (from the article "Calais") ...for aid given during the American Revolution. The manufacture of wood products remains the economic mainstay; blueberries are harvested locally. Nearby are Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge and St. Croix Island ...
- Saint Croix River
- river that rises as an outlet of the Chiputneticook Lakes, Maine, U.S., and flows south-southeast into Passamaquoddy Bay, an inlet of the Bay of Fundy; its entire 75-mile (121-km) length ... [2 Related Articles]
- Saint Croix River
- tributary of the Mississippi River, rising in Douglas county, Wis., U.S., in the northwestern part of the state. It flows 164 miles (264 km) southwestward into the Mississippi River at ...
- Saint Cyr, Henri
- Swedish equestrian in dressage who was one of only two people to win two Olympic gold medals in both the individual and team competitions (1952 and 1956). He is recognized ... [2 Related Articles]
- Saint Cyriacus, Church of
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...into contact with Classical art, was the great builder; about 1001 he founded the abbey church of St. Michael in his episcopal city of Hildesheim. At an earlier date (961) ...
- Saint David's
- cathedral city, historic and present county of Pembrokeshire, Wales, in the Alun river valley. Situated in an area important for Celtic Christianity, St. David's Cathedral became a medieval pilgrimage centre ... [2 Related Articles]
- Saint David's Head
- (from the article "Pembrokeshire") ...Hills) is especially rich in megalithic remains-dolmens, alignments, standing stones, and stone circles. A prehistoric earthwork known as Warrior's Dyke still stands amid the high cliffs of St. David's Head. ...
- Saint David, Fort
- British stronghold near the town of Cuddalore, about 100 miles (160 km) south of Madras on the southeastern coast of India. The fort was sold by the Marathas to the ...
- Saint Dmitry, Cathedral of
- (from the article "Vladimir-Suzdal school") ...complicate the attribution of particular works to the Kievan or Vladimir-Suzdal schools. Impossible to dispute are frescoes that decorate the Suzdalian churches, including the Cathedrals of St. Dmitry and the ...
- Saint Edmundsbury
- borough (district), administrative and historic county of Suffolk, England, with its headquarters at Bury Saint Edmunds. Its area stretches across the whole breadth of the county from the Essex border ...
- Saint Edward's Crown
- coronation crown of the kings and queens of England that consists of a gold- and jewel-encrusted base surmounted by a cross. The crown's appellation was first used in the 13th ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint Edward's sapphire
- rose-cut gem with a fine blue colour set in the finial cross of the imperial state crown of England. Reported to date from Edward the Confessor's coronet in 1042, it ...
- Saint Egidius
- (from the article "Poprad") ...with natural history exhibits of the mountain area, is located in Poprad. Spisska Sobota, a small town and now a suburb of Poprad, is noted for its 13th-century Gothic Church ...
- Saint Eirene, Church of
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...patronage of the emperor Justinian, one of the greatest builders of all time. He was responsible for four major churches in Constantinople: Saints Sergius and Bacchus, a centralized building; the ...
- Saint Elias Mountains
- segment of the Pacific Coast Ranges, extending southeastward for about 250 miles (400 km) from the Wrangell Mountains to Cross Sound along the Canada-United States (Alaska) border. Many peaks exceed ... [7 Related Articles]
- Saint Elias, Mount
- second highest peak (18,008 feet [5,489 m]) of the St. Elias Mountains, on the Canada-United States (Alaska) border, 70 miles (110 km) northwest of Yakutat, Alaska. The mountain rises north ... [7 Related Articles]
- Saint Elizabeth
- (from the article "Marburg") ...three years of her life there in charitable works. Until the Reformation her bones were preserved in the shrine in her honour, a masterpiece of the Rhenish goldsmiths' craft, in ...
- Saint Elmo's fire
- luminosity accompanying brushlike discharges of atmospheric electricity that sometimes appears as a faint light on the extremities of pointed objects such as church towers or the masts of ships during ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint Fergus
- village and gas pipeline terminal, in the council area and historic county of Aberdeenshire, on the northeastern coast of Scotland 5 miles (8 km) north of Peterhead. St. Fergus is ...
- Saint Fin Barr
- (from the article "Cork") The Gothic Revival-style Protestant cathedral of St. Fin Barre, designed by William Burges and completed in 1879, replaced a structure that had been built in 1735 on the site of ...
- Saint Florian, Church of
- (from the article "Altdorfer, Albrecht") ...was the leafy and impenetrable forests of Germany and Austria. He was also among the first to depict sunset lighting and picturesque ruins in twilight. Several of his altar panels ...
- Saint Francis Church
- (from the article "Cochin") Cochin, set among picturesque lagoons and backwaters, attracts a considerable tourist trade. At Fort Cochin is St. Francis Church, built by the Portuguese in 1510 and reputedly the first European ...
- Saint Francis College
- private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Loretto, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is sponsored by the Franciscans of the Third Order Regular of the Roman Catholic church. This liberal arts college ...
- Saint Francis River
- river rising in the St. Francois Mountains, southeastern Missouri, U.S., and flowing south to the edge of the Ozark Plateau at Wappapello, Mo. It continues across the Mississippi alluvial plain ...
- Saint Francis, Church of
- (from the article "Ravenna") ...that is the earliest example in Italy of the decorative use of majolica. This church also has impressive capitals in its nave and a fine apse mosaic depicting the Transfiguration ...
- Saint George
- town and parish, southern coast of St. George's Island, northern Bermuda. One of the oldest English settlements in the Western Hemisphere, St. George was founded in 1612 by colonists in ...
- Saint George
- city, seat (1863) of Washington county, southwestern Utah, U.S., on the Virgin River, near the Arizona border. Settled in 1861 as a cotton-growing centre by a Mormon group, it was ...
- Saint George's
- town and capital of Grenada, an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea. The town is situated on the island's southwestern coast, on a small peninsula with a shallow exterior bay ... [5 Related Articles]
- Saint George's Cay
- islet in the Caribbean Sea, 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Belize City, Belize, of which it is considered a part. Offshore, in 1798, the British defeated a Spanish armada ...
- Saint George's Channel
- wide passage extending for 100 miles (160 km) between the Irish Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. It has a minimum width of 47 miles (76 km) between Carnsore Point ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint George's Chapel
- part of Windsor Castle in the district of Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, Eng. This chapel was designed for the Order of the Garter and was begun by Edward IV. It ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint George, Fort
- citadel built by the English East India Company in Madras, India, later becoming the British capital in South India. The fort, named in honour of Britain's patron saint, is well ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint Gereon
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...the present San Nazaro Maggiore (begun in 382), is cruciform in plan with an apse in the east, built in imitation of the church of the same name at Constantinople. ...
- Saint Giles, cathedral of
- (from the article "Edinburgh") A number of important buildings line the Royal Mile. At its heart is the cathedral of St. Giles (the High Kirk of Edinburgh) of the Church of Scotland. It has ...
- Saint Gommarus' Church
- (from the article "Lier") ...destroyed during the bombardment of Antwerp in 1914, some medieval buildings survived, including the beguinage (a retreat for secular nuns; 13th century), the Gothic belfry (1369), and Saint Gommarus' Church ...
- Saint Gotthard Pass
- mountain pass in the Lepontine Alps of southern Switzerland, an important motor and railway route between central Europe and Italy. The pass lies at an elevation of 6,916 feet (2,108 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint Gotthard Tunnel
- (from the article "Great tunnels of the world") ...3,773 feet (1,150 m). The railway (opened 1882) through the tunnel connects Luzern, Switz., with Milan. This route includes several spiral tunnels in the Reuss and Ticino river valleys. In ...
- Saint Gotthard Tunnel
- (from the article "tunnels and underground excavations") ...air from water-powered fans and a horizontal diaphragm at mid-height, forming an exhaust duct at top of the tunnel. Mont Cenis was soon followed by other notable Alpine railroad tunnels: ...
- Saint Helen's Island
- (from the article "Montreal") By 1900 Montreal's population reached 270,000, and it began to annex several cities, towns, and villages on its outskirts. It purchased Ile Sainte-Helene (St. Helen's Island) in 1908, the site, ...
- Saint Helena
- island and British overseas territory in the South Atlantic Ocean, lying 1,200 miles (1,950 km) west of the southwestern coast of Africa. St. Helena has a maximum length (southwest-northeast) of ... [5 Related Articles]
- Saint Helens
- (from the article "Saint Helens") urban area and metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of Merseyside, historic county of Lancashire, England. It lies in the industrial belt between Liverpool and Manchester. Coal pits were exploited in the ...
- Saint Helens
- urban area and metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of Merseyside, historic county of Lancashire, England. It lies in the industrial belt between Liverpool and Manchester. Coal pits were exploited in the ...
- Saint Helens, Mount
- volcanic peak in the Cascade Range, southwestern Washington, U.S. Its eruption on May 18, 1980, was one of the greatest volcanic explosions ever recorded in North America. [6 Related Articles]
- Saint Helier
- chief town, resort, parish, and the capital of Jersey, in the Channel Islands. The town lies along St. Aubin's Bay opposite a tidal island known as L'Islet (accessible by causeway ...
- Saint Hilaire, Marcq
- (from the article "navigation") ...of the altitudes and azimuths of a few familiar stars. Routine trigonometric procedures for making the needed computations had been introduced by Thomas H. Sumner of the United States in ...
- Saint Ignace
- city, seat (1882) of Mackinac county, southeastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan, U.S. It lies on the Straits of Mackinac opposite Mackinaw City, with which it is linked by the 5-mile- ...
- Saint Isaac's Cathedral
- iron-domed cathedral in St. Petersburg that was designed in Russian Empire style by Auguste de Montferrand. Covering 2.5 acres (1 hectare), it was completed in 1858 after four decades of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint Ives
- town (parish), Huntingdonshire district, administrative county of Cambridgeshire, historic county of Huntingdonshire, England, on the north bank of the River Ouse. It was originally a village called Slepe. St. Ives ...
- Saint Ives
- town ("parish"), Penwith district, administrative and historic county of Cornwall, England. In 1497 the pretender Perkin Warbeck was proclaimed king when he anchored in St. Ives harbour. Clustered around the ...
- Saint Jakov, Cathedral of
- (from the article "Sibenik") Historically, the town has been distinguished for culture and scholarship. The Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Jakov (1431-1536), which combines Gothic and Renaissance elements, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage ...
- Saint James
- neighbourhood of the Greater London borough of Westminster. Lying south of the Soho district, west of Whitehall, and north and east of Buckingham Palace, St. James is known for its ...
- Saint James's Church
- (from the article "rood screen") ...allowed to remain, but thereafter they were more often called chancel screens. Some English rood screens have escaped destruction, and some have been restored-such as the excellent example in St. ...
- Saint John
- largest city in New Brunswick, Canada, on the Bay of Fundy, at the mouth of the St. John River. The site, visited by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain in ... [3 Related Articles]
- Saint John
- smallest of the U.S. Virgin Islands, just east of St. Thomas and 80 miles (130 km) east of San Juan, P.R. With a total area of 20 square miles (50 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Saint John of Ephesus, Church of
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...basilica plan, of three or five aisles with an apse in the east, remained no less popular in Greece, on the islands, in the Balkans (Stobi in Serbia), and in ...
- Saint John of Nepomuk, Church of
- (from the article "Asam, Cosmas Damian") The Church of St. John of Nepomuk in Munich (1733-46), also known as the Asamkirche in honour of the brothers, is their masterwork and is an early contribution to the ...
- Saint John of the Studium
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...made in the eastern Mediterranean area in the 5th century. The progress cannot be followed exactly because so much has been destroyed, but the earliest surviving church in Constantinople, that ...
- Saint John River
- river rising in Guinea, West Africa. Its source is northwest of the Nimba Range, and with its upper reach (the Mani River) it forms part of the Guinea-Liberia border. Entering ...
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