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Moore, Henry

(Encyclopedia)Moore, Henry, 1898–1986, English sculptor. Moore's early sculpture was angular and rough, strongly influenced by pre-Columbian art. About 1928 he evolved a more personal style which has gained him a...

Goldin, Nan

(Encyclopedia)Goldin, Nan, 1953–, American photographer, b. Washington, D.C. She left home in her early teens for a series of mainly urban bohemian undergrounds; her earliest photographs were evocative black-and-...

Confessing Church

(Encyclopedia)Confessing Church, Ger. Bekennende Kirche, German Protestant movement. It was founded in 1933 by Martin Niemoeller as the Pastors' Emergency League and was systematically opposed to the Nazi-sponsored...

Dandie Dinmont terrier

(Encyclopedia)Dandie Dinmont terrier dănˈdē dĭnˈmŏnt [key], breed of hardy, long-bodied terrier developed in England and Scotland and first recorded as a distinct type in the very early 18th cent. It stands f...

silage

(Encyclopedia)silage ĕnˈsəlĭj [key], succulent, moist feed made by storing a green crop in a silo. The crop most used for silage is corn; others are sorghum, sunflowers, legumes, and grass. In a sealed silo, ty...

woodchuck

(Encyclopedia)woodchuck or groundhog, common name of a North American species of marmot, Marmota monax. This large rodent is found in open woods and ravines throughout most of Canada and the NE United States. Its h...

Guntur

(Encyclopedia)Guntur go͞onto͞orˈ [key], city, Andhra Pradesh state, SE India. Located in the Krishna River ...

Andong, city, South Korea

(Encyclopedia)Andong änˈdŭngˈ [key], city, North Gyeongsang (Kyongsang) prov., E South Korea. It is a railroad junction, terminus of the navigable portion of the Nakdong River, and ...

Depew

(Encyclopedia)Depew, town (2020 pop. 15,178), Erie co., W central N.Y., a suburb of Buffalo; inc. 1894. Depew has diverse manufactures that include plastics, food pro...

Chita

(Encyclopedia)Chita chētäˈ [key], city (1989 pop. 366,000), capital of Chita region, SE Siberian Russia, at the confluence of the Chita and Ingoda rivers and on the Trans-Siberian RR. Railroad and food-processin...