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Aalborg

(Encyclopedia)Aalborg ôlˈbôrg, ôlˈbôr [key], city (2020 pop. 136,000), capital of Nordjylland co., N Denmark, on both sides of the Limfjord; it is Denmark's fourth largest city. I...

Verona, Congress of

(Encyclopedia)Verona, Congress of, 1822, at Verona, Italy, the last European conference held under the provisions of the Quadruple Alliance of 1814. The main problem discussed was the revolution in Spain against Fe...

Blackpool

(Encyclopedia)Blackpool, borough and unitary authority (2021 est. pop. 138,380), Lancashire, NW England, on the Irish Sea. Famed as a traditionally working-class reso...

King, William Lyon Mackenzie

(Encyclopedia)King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874–1950, Canadian political leader, b. Kitchener, Ont.; grandson of William Lyon Mackenzie. An expert on labor questions, he served in Wilfrid Laurier's Liberal admin...

Twenty-one Demands

(Encyclopedia)Twenty-one Demands (1915), instrument by which Japan secured temporary hegemony over China. Japan used its declaration of war against Germany (Aug., 1914) as grounds for invading Kiaochow, the German ...

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

(Encyclopedia)Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scientific panel created (1988) by two United Nations organizations, the UN Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization. Open to all...

International Peace Bureau

(Encyclopedia)International Peace Bureau (IPB), organization est. 1891 in Bern, Switerland, by Fredrik Bajer and other members of the third World Peace Congress. Dedicated to promoting world peace, it brought toget...

Hurwicz, Leonid

(Encyclopedia)Hurwicz, Leonid hûrˈwĭch [key], 1917–2008, Polish-American economist and statistician, b. Russia., grad. Univ. of Warsaw, 1938. Educated in the law, he subsequently studied economics in London, G...

Hunt, Richard Morris

(Encyclopedia)Hunt, Richard Morris, 1828–95, American architect, b. Brattleboro, Vt., studied in Geneva, Switzerland, and at the École des Beaux-Arts; brother of William Morris Hunt. He was a leading practitione...

eurythmics

(Encyclopedia)eurythmics or eurhythmics both: yo͝orĭᵺˈmĭks [key], harmonious bodily movement, especially as expressed according to the system of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, who developed eurythmics (1903) at the ...