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Kenmore

(Encyclopedia)Kenmore, village (1990 pop. 17,180), Erie co., NW N.Y., a suburb adjacent to Buffalo; inc. 1899. It is chiefly residential. ...

anoa

(Encyclopedia)anoa ənōˈə [key]: see buffalo. ...

Bill of Rights, in British history

(Encyclopedia)Bill of Rights, 1689, in British history, one of the fundamental instruments of constitutional law. It registered in statutory form the outcome of the long 17th-century struggle between the Stuart kin...

Bill of Rights, in U.S. history

(Encyclopedia)Bill of Rights, in U.S. history: see Constitution of the United States. ...

Hamburg, village, United States

(Encyclopedia)Hamburg hămˈbûrg [key], village (2020 pop. 9,696), Erie co., W N.Y., S of Buffalo; settled ...

sucker

(Encyclopedia)sucker, common name for members of the family Catostomidae, freshwater fish related to the minnows. Like minnows and the less closely related catfishes, the suckers possess an intricate set of bones f...

San Jacinto

(Encyclopedia)San Jacinto, river, c.130 mi (210 km) long, rising in SE Texas as the West Fork and flowing S to Galveston Bay. Its chief tributary is Buffalo Bayou, and both the bayou and the lower river are used fo...

Rogovin, Milton

(Encyclopedia)Rogovin, Milton, 1909–2011, American documentary photographer, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (1931), Univ. of Buffalo (M.A., 1972). An optometrist and a political leftist, he moved (1938) to Buff...

Fargo, William George

(Encyclopedia)Fargo, William George, 1818–81, American pioneer expressman, b. Pompey, N.Y. He had been successively a postrider, freight agent, messenger, and resident agent (1843) for an express company in Buffa...

Bunshaft, Gordon

(Encyclopedia)Bunshaft, Gordon, 1909–90, American architect, b. Buffalo, N.Y. As chief designer for the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Bunshaft was responsible for Lever House, New York City'...