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Colmar

(Encyclopedia)Colmar, Ger. Kolmar both: kôlmärˈ [key], city, capital of Haut-Rhin dept., E France, i...

Fécamp

(Encyclopedia)Fécamp fākäNˈ [key], town, Seine-Maritime dept., N France. A major port from the 12th to ...

Coptic art

(Encyclopedia)Coptic art, Christian art in the upper Nile valley of Egypt. Reaching its mature phase in the late 5th and 6th cent., the development of Coptic art was interrupted by the Arab conquest of Egypt betwee...

entablature

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Corinthian entablature showing the parts of the architrave, frieze, and cornice entablature ĕntăbˈləcho͝or [key], the entire unit of horizontal members above the columns or pilasters in c...

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell

(Encyclopedia)Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, 1903–87, American architectural historian, b. Boston. Educated at Harvard, Hitchcock taught at Smith College and New York Univ. His writings, which helped to define modern ...

American Academy in Rome

(Encyclopedia)American Academy in Rome, founded in 1894 as the American School of Architecture in Rome by Charles F. McKim and enlarged in 1897 with the founding of the American Academy in Rome for students of arch...

Albi

(Encyclopedia)Albi älbēˈ [key], town, capital of Tarn dept., S France, in Languedoc, on the Tarn River. A commercial center, its has glassworks and food-processing, textile-manufactu...

Oradea

(Encyclopedia)Oradea –mäˈrĕ [key], Hung. Nagyvárad, Ger. Grosswardein, city (1990 pop. 228,956), W Romania, in Crişana-Maramureş, near the Hungarian border. It is the marketing and shipping center for a liv...

Vicenza

(Encyclopedia)Vicenza vēchānˈtsä [key], city (1991 pop. 107,454), capital of Vicenza prov., Venetia, NE Italy. It is an agricultural, commercial, and highly diversified industrial center. Manufactures include m...

Mars, in Roman religion and mythology

(Encyclopedia)Mars, in Roman religion and mythology, god of war. In early Roman times he was a god of agriculture, but in later religion (when he was identified with the Greek Ares) he was primarily associated with...

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