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Steffens, Lincoln

(Encyclopedia)Steffens, Lincoln (Joseph Lincoln Steffens), 1866–1936, American editor and author, b. San Francisco, grad. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1889, and studied three years in Europe. Returning to the U...

Tegucigalpa

(Encyclopedia)Tegucigalpa tāgo͞osēgälˈpä [key], city (1997 est. pop. 897,000), capital and largest city of Honduras, in a small valley in the mountains of S central Honduras. The city has diverse light indust...

Triple Alliance, War of the

(Encyclopedia)Triple Alliance, War of the, 1865–70, fought between Paraguay on one side and an alliance of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay on the other. Brazil's military reprisals for injuries to Brazilian subjec...

Piccirilli

(Encyclopedia)Piccirilli pēˌchērēlˈlē [key], family of Italian-American marble cutters and sculptors. In 1888, the father and six sons, all sculptors, migrated from Italy and established a highly successful w...

Ozawa, Seiji

(Encyclopedia)Ozawa, Seiji sāˈjē ōzäˈwä [key], 1935–, Japanese conductor, b. Japanese-occupied Manchuria. A graduate of the Toho School of Music, Ozawa became the first Japanese conductor to gain recogniti...

Chihuahua, state, Mexico

(Encyclopedia)Chihuahua chēwäˈwä [key], state, 94,831 sq mi (245,612 sq km), N Mexico, on the border of ...

Falange

(Encyclopedia)Falange fälänˈhā [key] [Span.,=phalanx], Spanish political party, founded in 1933 as Falange Española by José António Primo de Rivera, son of the former Spanish dictator. Professing generally t...

Gould, George Jay

(Encyclopedia)Gould, George Jay go͞old [key], 1864–1923, U.S. railroad owner, b. New York City; son of Jay Gould. He was associated with his father, inherited all the holdings on Jay Gould's death, and adopted d...

Giannini, A. P.

(Encyclopedia)Giannini, A. P. (Amadeo Peter Giannini) ämädĕˈō, jänēˈnē [key], 1870–1949, American banker and financier, b. San Jose, Calif. The son of Italian immigrants, he joined his stepfather in the ...

Flight 93 National Memorial

(Encyclopedia)Flight 93 National Memorial, memorial, visitors complex, and other facilities at the site of the crash of the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001, near Shanksville, Pa. The grounds, 2...