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Paul of Aegina

(Encyclopedia)Paul of Aegina ējīˈnə [key], 7th cent.?, Greek physician. His only extant work is a medical history in seven books; it was translated into English, with a commentary by Francis Adams (3 vol., 1844...

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

(Encyclopedia)Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 8,023 acres (3,247 hectares), W Ohio, NE of Dayton; est. 1917. One of the largest airport installations in the world, it is the air force's...

Temple University

(Encyclopedia)Temple University, mainly in Philadelphia; coeducational; founded 1884 by Russell H. Conwell, chartered 1888 as a college, became a university 1907. In 1965 the university became a state-related insti...

Sunnyvale

(Encyclopedia)Sunnyvale, city (1990 pop. 117,229), Santa Clara co., W Calif., near San Francisco; settled 1849, inc. 1912. A city in Silicon Valley, its many manufactures include semiconductors; machinery and instr...

Beers, Clifford Whittingham

(Encyclopedia)Beers, Clifford Whittingham, 1876–1943, American founder of the mental hygiene movement, b. New Haven, Conn., grad. Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, 1897. After the publication of A Mind That Foun...

South Pasadena

(Encyclopedia)South Pasadena păsˌədēˈnə [key], city (1990 pop. 23,936), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1888. Medical supplies, clothing, and transportation and electronic...

Saint Cloud

(Encyclopedia)Saint Cloud, city (1990 pop. 48,812), seat of Stearns co. and also in Benton and Sherburne counties, central Minn., on the Mississippi River; inc. 1856. Agriculture (dairying, poultry, livestock, grai...

Poplar Bluff

(Encyclopedia)Poplar Bluff, city (1990 pop. 16,996), seat of Butler co., SE Mo., in the Ozark foothills, on the low bluffs of the Black River near the Ark. line; inc. 1870. It is a trade, shipping, and medical cent...

Beloretsk

(Encyclopedia)Beloretsk byĕlərĕtskˈ [key], city, in Bashkortostan, W Siberian Russia, in the Urals and on the ...

DeLand

(Encyclopedia)DeLand də lăndˈ [key], resort city (2020 pop. 37,351), seat of Volusia co., NE Fla.; inc. ...