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Toynbee, Arnold Joseph

(Encyclopedia) Toynbee, Arnold Joseph, 1889–1975, English historian; nephew of Arnold Toynbee. Educated at Oxford, he served in the British foreign office during World Wars I and II and was a…

Poznań

(Encyclopedia) PoznańPoznańpôzˈnänyə [key], Ger. PosenPoznańpōˈzən [key], city (1994 est. pop. 589,300), capital of Weilkopolskie prov., W central Poland, port on the Warta River. It is an important…

Salam, Abdus

(Encyclopedia) Salam, Abdus, 1926–96, Pakistani physicist. After attending Government College at Lahore, he received a Ph.D. from Cambridge (1952). He taught in Lahore for three years before…

Interlingua

(Encyclopedia) InterlinguaInterlinguaĭnˌtərlĭngˈgwə [key], name of an artificial language introduced in 1951; also the name of a simplified form of Latin (sometimes called Latino Sine Flexione, or “…

Martineau, James

(Encyclopedia) Martineau, James, 1805–1900, English philosopher and Unitarian clergyman; brother of Harriet Martineau. He strongly upheld the theist position against the negations of physical science…

Meriden

(Encyclopedia) MeridenMeridenmĕrˈĭdən [key], city (1990 pop. 59,479), New Haven co., S central Conn.; settled 1661, inc. as a town 1806, as a city 1867, town and city consolidated 1922. Silverware…

Katonah

(Encyclopedia) Katonah, suburban residential village (1990 pop. 2,400), in Westchester co., SE N.Y., N of New York City. Katohah lies on a reservoir that is part of the Croton River system; the…

Mürren

(Encyclopedia) MürrenMürrenmürˈən [key], village, Bern canton, S central Switzerland, in the Bernese Alps. It is a health and sports center with a splendid view of the Jungfrau and neighboring peaks…

Brookings Institution

(Encyclopedia) Brookings Institution, at Washington, D.C.; chartered 1927 as a consolidation of the Institute for Government Research (est. 1916), the Institute of Economics (est. 1922), and the…

Cannes

(Encyclopedia) Cannes Cannes kän [key], town, Alpes-Maritimes dept., SE France. An important and…