French architect remembered primarily for the sketchbook compiled while he travelled in search of work as a master mason. The book is made up of sketches and writings concerning architectural ...
city, Castellon province, in the autonomous community (region) of Valencia, eastern Spain. The city is northeast of Valencia city on the Rio Mijares, just southwest of Castellon de la Plana. ...
capital, Guaira department, southern Paraguay. Founded in 1576 on the Parana River, the settlement was moved in 1682 to its present site at the edge of the westward extension of ...
capital of Meta departamento, central Colombia, situated on the eastern slopes of the Andean Cordillera (mountains) Oriental. Founded in 1840, the city was named after Antonio Villavicencio, who was an ...
port town, Asturias provincia and comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community"), northwestern Spain, in the Costa Verde resort area. The town is a fishing port northeast of Oviedo city, where the Villaviciosa ...
harbour town and Mediterranean resort, Alpes-Maritimes departement, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region, southeastern France. Situated on the wooded slopes surrounding the magnificent roadsteads immediately east of Nice, the town is dominated by ...
town, Rhone departement, Rhone-Alpes region, east-central France, located 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the Saone River. Founded in the 12th century, the town became the capital of the Beaujolais ...
island in Guanabara Bay, southeastern Brazil, connected by a causeway to Rio de Janeiro's Santos Dumont Airport on the mainland. In 1555 French Huguenots from nearby Laje Island under Nicolas ...
French soldier, chronicler, marshal of Champagne, and one of the leaders of the Fourth Crusade (1201-04), which he described in his Conquest of Constantinople. He was the ...
town, Val-de-Marne departement, Paris region, southern suburb of Paris, France. It has a psychiatric hospital and a cancer research institute and manufactures glass, sheet metal, and aircraft parts. Pop. (1982) ...
American ballet dancer who in 1986 became the founding artistic director of the Miami City Ballet. As a dancer, he was one of the principal performers of the New York ...
city, Alicante provincia, in the comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community") of Valencia, southeastern Spain. It lies about 45 miles (70 km) northeast of Murcia. Dating from Roman times, Villena was later ...
city, Rhone departement, Rhone-Alpes region, east-central France. Villeurbanne forms the eastern part of the metropolitan agglomeration of Lyon. It is located on the right bank of the Rhone River. The ...
French poet, dramatist, and short-story writer whose work reflects a revolt against Naturalism and a combination of Romantic idealism and cruel sensuality. His hatred of the mediocrity of a materialistic ...
one of the greatest French lyric poets. He was known for his life of criminal excess, spending much time in prison or in banishment from medieval Paris. His chief works ...
type of 16th-century Italian secular song similar to the villanella but having its origins in folk music. The villota has no structural uniformity and usually weaves a ...
in anatomy any of the small, slender, vascular projections that increase the surface area of a membrane. Important villous membranes include the placenta and the mucous-membrane coating of the small ...
river in east-central Siberia, flowing mainly through Sakha (Yakutiya) in eastern Russia. The longest tributary of the Lena, it has a length of 1,647 miles (2,650 km) and a drainage ...
Pacific Ocean resort, Valparaiso region, central Chile, just northeast of Valparaiso city. A large municipal gaming casino, beaches, and a pleasant summer climate attract substantial numbers of domestic and foreign ...
small metal perfume container usually made of gold or silver and containing a pierced metal tray beneath which was placed a piece of sponge soaked in an aromatic substance such ...
(Pali and Sanskrit: "Basket of Discipline"), the oldest and smallest of the three sections of the Buddhist canonical Tipitaka ("Triple Basket") and the one that regulates monastic life and the ...
city, seat (1790) of Knox county, southwestern Indiana, U.S., on the Wabash River, 51 miles (82 km) north of Evansville. Indiana's oldest city, Vincennes figured prominently in early American history ...
city, Val-de-Marne departement, Paris region, eastern residential suburb of Paris, France, immediately outside the city limits. It is connected to Paris by the Metro (subway).
pottery made at Vincennes, near Paris, from c. 1738, when the factory was probably founded by Robert and Gilles Dubois, until 1756 (three years after it had become the royal ...
French saint, founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists, or Vincentians) for preaching missions to the peasantry and for educating and training a pastoral clergy.
acute and painful infection of the tooth margins and gums that is caused by the symbiotic microorganisms Bacillus fusiformis and Borrelia vincentii. The chief symptoms are painful, swollen, bleeding gums; ...
American rockabilly singer whose swaggering, black-leather-clad image defined the look of the rock rebel. Discharged from the U.S. Navy in 1955 following a motorcycle accident in which his leg was ...
a Roman Catholic society of priests and brothers founded at Paris in 1625 by St. Vincent de Paul for the purpose of preaching missions to the poor country people and ...
governor of the Roman province of Lugdunensis (east-central and northern Gaul) who led a revolt in Gaul against the emperor Nero. His rebellion, begun in March 68, was followed by ...
broken range of hills forming the southern escarpment of the central upland of India. From Gujarat state on the west, it extends about 675 miles (1,086 km) across Madhya Pradesh ...
site of paleoanthropological excavations in the Hrvatsko Zagorje region of Croatia, known for Neanderthal remains found there in the 1970s; Neanderthal DNA has since been successfully isolated from some specimens. ...
any of several venomous (rear-fanged) members of the family Colubridae that are extremely slender-almost stringlike. They blend into the foliage of trees, where they capture chameleons and other small vertebrates. ...
sour liquid that is made by the fermentation of any of numerous dilute alcoholic liquids into a liquid containing acetic acid. Vinegar may be produced from a variety of materials: ...
insect of the genus Drosophila of the family Drosophilidae (order Diptera). Drosophila species number about 1,000. Some species, particularly D. melanogaster, are used extensively in laboratory and field experiments on ...
city, Cumberland county, southern New Jersey, U.S, about 35 miles (56 km) south of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It lies along the Maurice River (there dammed for flood control and drainage). The ...
Canadian-born American economist who made major contributions to the theory of cost and production, international economics, and the history of economics.
group of artists who exhibited together in Belgium during the years 1891-93, having been brought together by a common interest in Symbolist painting. Like their French and German contemporaries, these ...
city, north-central Vietnam, located on the Ca River delta, 160 miles (260 km) south of Hanoi. The Ca River enters the Gulf of Tonkin just northeast of Vinh. An important ...
town, Mekong delta region, southern Vietnam. It is a river port on the right bank of the Tien River; it has a hospital and commercial airport. It also has served ...
city, seat (1907) of Craig county, northeastern Oklahoma, U.S. It lies northeast of Tulsa along the old Osage Trace (later Texas Road), a route used by fur trappers and pioneers ...
the wooded land in North America that was visited and named by Leif Eriksson about the year AD 1000. Its exact location is not known, but it was probably somewhere ...
oblast (province), west-central Ukraine. It is located on the Volyn-Podilsk Upland and includes part of the basins of the Southern (Pivdennyy) Buh and Dniester rivers. Its gently rolling hills are ...
city and administrative centre of Vinnytsya oblast (province), west-central Ukraine. It lies along the Southern (Pivdennyy) Buh River. Founded in 1363 as a fortress by Prince Algirdas of Lithuania, it ...
Russian mathematician known for his contributions to analytic number theory, especially his partial solution of the Goldbach conjecture (proposed in 1742), that every integer greater than two can be expressed ...
peak in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains of western Antarctica, overlooking Ronne Ice Shelf. Discovered in 1935 by the American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, it is, at 16,066 feet ...
trick-taking card game, popular around the Baltic Sea, and a significant contributor to the development of bridge. It developed from a game called Siberia, played in St. Petersburg in the ...
a colourless, flammable, toxic gas belonging to the family of organic halogen compounds, and used principally in making polyvinyl chloride (q.v.), an important synthetic resin.
any of various organic chemical compounds, including acrylic compounds and styrene and its derivatives, that are useful in making plastic film; sheeting; upholstery; floor tile; inflatable and solid toys; buttons; ...
a colourless, flammable, nontoxic, chemically stable gas belonging to the family of organic halogen compounds and used as the starting material in making polyvinyl fluoride (q.v.), a plastic used in ...
a colourless, dense, toxic, volatile, flammable liquid belonging to the family of organic halogen compounds, used principally in combination with vinyl chloride, acrylonitrile, or methyl methacrylate for the manufacture of ...
bowed, stringed musical instrument used principally in chamber music of the 16th to the 18th century. The viol shares with the Renaissance lute the tuning of its six strings (two ...
stringed musical instrument, the tenor of the violin family. It is built in proportions similar to those of the violin but has a body length of 37 to 43 centimetres ...
genus of about 500 species of herbs or low shrubs, including the small, solid-coloured violets and the larger-flowered, often multicoloured violas and pansies. Viola occur naturally worldwide but are found ...
