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Paulus, Friedrich

(Encyclopedia)Paulus, Friedrich frēˈdrĭkh pouˈlo͝os [key], 1890–1957, German field marshal. He commanded the army at the siege of Stalingrad and was raised to marshal's rank several hours before his surrende...

San Cristóbal, city, Venezuela

(Encyclopedia)San Cristóbal sän krēstōˈbäl [key], city (1990 pop. 220,675), capital of Táchira state, W Venezuela, in a mountainous region near the Colombian border. It is a commercial, transportation, and i...

San Cristóbal

(Encyclopedia)San Cristóbal sän krēstōˈbäl [key], active volcano, c.5,725 ft (1,745 m) high, Chinandega dept., NW Nicaragua. Part of a complex of five volcanic mountains, it is the country's highest volcano a...

nocturne

(Encyclopedia)nocturne nŏkˈtûrn [key] [Fr.,=night piece], in music, romantic instrumental piece, free in form and usually reflective or languid in character. John Field wrote the first nocturnes, influencing Cho...

Vail

(Encyclopedia)Vail vāl [key], town (1990 pop. 3,569), Eagle co., W central Colo., on Gore Creek, in the Gore Range of the Rocky Mts.; founded as a ski resort 1962, inc. as a town 1966. Surrounded by the White Rive...

Windsor, University of

(Encyclopedia)Windsor, University of wĭnˈzər [key], at Windsor, Ont., Canada; nondenominational; coeducational; founded 1857 as Assumption College. It achieved university status in 1953. It has faculties of arts...

Brainerd

(Encyclopedia)Brainerd brāˈnərd [key], city (2020 pop. 14,395), seat of Crow Wing co., central Minn., on ...

Adams, Henry Carter

(Encyclopedia)Adams, Henry Carter, 1851–1921, American economist, b. Davenport, Iowa. He developed an interest in public finance at Johns Hopkins and pursued this field during later studies in Germany. He taught ...

Borger

(Encyclopedia)Borger bôrˈgər [key], city (2020 pop. 12,551), Hutchinson co., extreme N Tex., in the Panh...

magnetic pole

(Encyclopedia)magnetic pole, the two roughly opposite ends of the planet where the earth's magnetic intensity is the greatest, as the north and south magnetic poles. For the magnetic north, it is the direction from...