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Melitopol
(Encyclopedia) MelitopolMelitopolmālyētôˈpəl [key], city (1989 pop. 174,000), S Ukraine, on the Molochnoy River. A manufacturing center, it produces heavy machinery and has flour mills and food-…limner
(Encyclopedia) limnerlimnerlĭmˈnər [key], the work of untrained, generally anonymous artists active in the English American colonies. Characteristic examples of their paintings show flat, awkward,…Lanús
(Encyclopedia) LanúsLanúslän&oomacr;sˈ [key], city (1991 pop. 466,755), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. An administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area, it is named for Anacarsis Lanús…Dornoch
(Encyclopedia) Dornoch Dornoch dôrˈnŏkh, –nŏk [key], town, Highland, N Scotland, on Dornoch Firth. It is a summer…Gladbeck
(Encyclopedia) Gladbeck Gladbeck glätˈbĕk [key], city, North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany, an industrial…Soho
(Encyclopedia) SohoSohosōhōˈ, sə– [key], district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in…Faguet, Émile
(Encyclopedia) Faguet, ÉmileFaguet, Émileāmēlˈ fägāˈ [key], 1847–1916, French literary critic and historian. His prolific studies stimulated interest in French intellectual history of the 17th, 18th…Cranston
(Encyclopedia) Cranston, industrial city (2020 pop. 82,934), Providence co., central R.I., a residential suburb of Providence; inc. as a town 1754, as…Calmet, Augustin
(Encyclopedia) Calmet, AugustinCalmet, AugustinōgüstăNˈ kälmāˈ [key], 1672–1757, French biblical scholar, a Benedictine abbot at Nancy and Sens. His critical commentaries were widely studied until…bugle
(Encyclopedia) bugle, brass wind musical instrument consisting of a conical tube coiled once upon itself, capable of producing five or six harmonics. It is usually in G or B flat. Its principal use…Trending
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