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aerial and satellite photography

(Encyclopedia) aerial and satellite photography, technology and science of taking still or moving-picture photographs from a camera mounted on a balloon, airplane, satellite, rocket, or spacecraft.…

building and loan association

(Encyclopedia) building and loan association: see savings and loan association.

Central Provinces and Berar

(Encyclopedia) Central Provinces and Berar: see Madhya Pradesh.

Broadstairs and Saint Peter's

(Encyclopedia) Broadstairs and Saint Peter's, town, Kent, SE England. The town is in the region known as the Isle of Thanet. It is a residential area…

Canadian art and architecture

(Encyclopedia) Canadian art and architecture, the various types and styles arts and structures produced in the geographic area that now constitutes Canada. For a discussion of the art of indigenous…

Weymouth and Melcombe Regis

(Encyclopedia) Weymouth and Melcombe RegisWeymouth and Melcombe Regiswāˈməth, mĕlˈkəm rēˈjĭs [key], town (1991 pop. 38,384), Dorset, SW England, on Weymouth Bay. It is a port and a resort town with…

Victoria and Albert Museum

(Encyclopedia) Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London, opened in 1852 as the Museum of Manufacturers at Marlborough House. It originally contained a nucleus of contemporary objects of…

black-and-tan coonhound

(Encyclopedia) black-and-tan coonhound: see coonhound, black-and-tan.

Uralic and Altaic languages

(Encyclopedia) Uralic and Altaic languagesUralic and Altaic languagesy&oobreve;rălˈĭk, ăltāˈĭk [key], two groups of related languages thought by many scholars to form a single Ural-Altaic…

Ptolemy XIV

(Encyclopedia) Ptolemy XIV, d. 44 b.c., king of ancient Egypt (47–44 b.c.), the last of the Macedonian dynasty, but for his sister, Cleopatra. He was a child when his brother Ptolemy XIII drowned.…