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Italy

(Encyclopedia) CE5 ItalyItalyĭtˈəlē [key], Ital. Italia, officially Italian Republic, republic (2015 est. pop. 59,504,000), 116,303 sq mi (301,225 sq km), S Europe. It borders on France in the…

Lenau, Nikolaus

(Encyclopedia) Lenau, NikolausLenau, Nikolausnēˈkōlous lāˈnou [key], pseud. of Nikolaus Niembsch Edler von StrehlenauNikolaus Niembsch Edler von Strehlenaunēmpsh ādˈlər fən shtrāˈlənou [key], 1802–50…

Brewer's: Young Germany

A literary school headed by Heinrich Heine, whose aim was to liberate politics, religion, and manners from the old conventional trammels. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…

Victoria, empress of Germany

(Encyclopedia) Victoria (Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa), 1840–1901, empress of Germany, daughter of Victoria of England. In 1858 she married the German crown prince (later Emperor Frederick III).…

Paris Pacts

(Encyclopedia) Paris Pacts, four international agreements signed in Paris on Oct. 23, 1954, to establish a new international status for West Germany. Since the end of World War II, West Germany had…

Gothic architecture and art

(Encyclopedia) Gothic architecture and art, structures (largely cathedrals and churches) and works of art first created in France in the 12th cent. that spread throughout Western Europe through the…

Symonds, John Addington

(Encyclopedia) Symonds, John AddingtonSymonds, John Addingtonsĭmˈənz [key], 1840–93, English author. Educated at Harrow and Oxford, constant ill health exiled him for the greater part of his life to…

Frémont, John Charles

(Encyclopedia) Frémont, John Charles, 1813–90, American explorer, soldier, and political leader, b. Savannah, Ga. He taught mathematics to U.S. naval cadets, then became an assistant on a surveying…

Ticino , river, Switzerland and Italy

(Encyclopedia) Ticino, Lat. Ticinus, river, 154 mi (248 km) long, rising in Ticino canton, S Switzerland, and flowing generally S through Lago Maggiore into N Italy, joining the Po River below Pavia…