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Ohio University

(Encyclopedia)Ohio University, main campus at Athens; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1804, opened 1809 as the first college in the Old Northwest. There are additional campuses at Chiillicothe, Lancaster,...

Lunenburg

(Encyclopedia)Lunenburg lo͞oˈnənbərg [key], town (1991 pop. 2,781), SW N.S., Canada, on Lunenburg Bay, SW of Halifax. It has a large fishing fleet and a fisheries museum. The district was chiefly settled c.1750...

Marquette

(Encyclopedia)Marquette, city (1990 pop. 21,977), seat of Marquette co., N Mich., Upper Peninsula, on Lake Superior; settled 1849, inc. as a city 1871. It is a shipping center for a lumber, farm, and resort region....

kitsch

(Encyclopedia)kitsch [Ger.,=trash], term most frequently applied since the early 20th cent. to works considered pretentious and tasteless. Exploitative commercial objects such as Mona Lisa scarves and abominable pl...

Robinson, Theodore

(Encyclopedia)Robinson, Theodore, 1852–96, American painter, b. Irasburg, Vt. Beginning his career as a realist, Robinson was profoundly influenced by his meeting with Monet in 1888. Translating the impressionist...

Bhavnagar

(Encyclopedia)Bhavnagar bounŭˈgər [key], city, Gujarat state, W India, on the Gulf of Khambat; the chief ...

Stanfield, Clarkson

(Encyclopedia)Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793–1867, English marine and landscape painter. He was first a sailor, then a scenery painter. Later he became known for his paintings of dramatic marine scenes. He is well rep...

Tenafly

(Encyclopedia)Tenafly tĕnˈəflī [key], affluent residential borough (1990 pop. 13,326), Bergen co., NE N.J.; settled 1640, inc. 1894. It is a suburb lying along the Palisades and the east bank of the Hudson Rive...

Campobasso

(Encyclopedia)Campobasso kämˌpōbäsˈsō [key], city, capital of Molise and of Campobasso prov., S central Italy. ...

Pully

(Encyclopedia)Pully pülēˈ [key], town, Vaud canton, W Switzerland, on the Lake of Geneva. It is a residential suburb of Lausanne. The town has a 15th-century church and a museum honoring Charles Ferdinand Ramuz,...