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Karst

(Encyclopedia)Karst kärst [key], Ital. Carso, Slovenian Kras, limestone plateau, W Slovenia, N of Istria and extending c.50 mi (80 km) SE from the lower Isonzo (Soča) valley between the Bay of Trieste and the Jul...

Cluny Museum

(Encyclopedia)Cluny Museum, 14th- and 15th-century Gothic and Renaissance structure in Paris, built by Pierre de Chaslus, abbot of Cluny, and rebuilt by Jacques d'Ambroise. The site is that of the ancient Roman bat...

Young, Mahonri Mackintosh

(Encyclopedia)Young, Mahonri Mackintosh məhŏnˈrē [key], 1877–1957, American sculptor, painter, and etcher, b. Salt Lake City, studied at the Art Students League and at Julian's Academy, Paris; grandson of Bri...

Maurer, Alfred Henry

(Encyclopedia)Maurer, Alfred Henry môrˈər [key], 1868–1932, American painter, b. New York City. He was apprenticed as a lithographer, taught himself painting, and went to Europe in 1897, studying briefly at th...

Caesar

(Encyclopedia)Caesar sēˈzər [key], ancient Roman patrician family of the Julian gens. There are separate articles on its two most distinguished members, Julius Caesar and Augustus. Another distinguished member o...

Karfiol, Bernard

(Encyclopedia)Karfiol, Bernard kärˈfēŏl [key], 1886–1952, American painter, b. Budapest of American parents; educated in Brooklyn, N.Y. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City and at Jul...

Ingersoll, Charles Jared

(Encyclopedia)Ingersoll, Charles Jared ĭngˈgərsôl [key], 1782–1862, American political leader and author, b. Philadelphia; son of Jared Ingersoll (1749–1822). In several influential publications, including ...

Eilshemius, Louis Michel

(Encyclopedia)Eilshemius, Louis Michel īlshēˈmēəs [key], 1864–1941, American painter, b. near Newark, N.J. The son of a wealthy Dutch importer, he spent much of his youth abroad. After two years at Cornell h...

Dinaric Alps

(Encyclopedia)Dinaric Alps dīnârˈĭk [key], Ital. Alpi Dinariche, Serbo-Croatian Dinara Planina, mountain system, extending c.400 mi (640 km) along the east coast of the Adriatic Sea from the Isonzo River, NE It...

Tomonaga, Sinichiro

(Encyclopedia)Tomonaga, Sinichiro or Sin-Itiro, 1906–79, Japanese physicist, Ph.D. Kyoto Imperial Univ., 1939. He was a professor at Bunrika Univ. (now Tokyo Univ. of Education) from 1941 to 1956, then served pre...