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Sittwe

(Encyclopedia)Sittwe ăk yăbˈ [key], city (1983 pop. 107,607), capital of Rakhine State, W Myanmar, at the mouth of the Kaladan River and on the Bay of Bengal. It is an important port and rice-milling center. Ori...

Brecon

(Encyclopedia)Brecon brĕkˈnŏk, –nək [key], town (1981 pop. 7,422), Powys, S Wales, at the junction of the Honddu and Usk rivers. It is a market for the surrounding agricultural and cattle-raising area. Brecon...

Agin-Buryat Autonomous Area

(Encyclopedia)Agin-Buryat Autonomous Area ägˈə bo͝oryätˈ [key], former administrative division, S Siberian Russia, in what is now the Transbaykal Territory. Aginskoye was the capital. Formed in 1937, the area...

Bach, Johann Christian

(Encyclopedia)Bach, Johann Christian bäkh [key], 1735–82, German musician and composer; son of J. S. Bach. He went to Italy in 1754, became a Roman Catholic, and composed church music and operas. In 1760 he bec...

Baharampur

(Encyclopedia)Baharampur bûrˈəmpôr [key], city, West Bengal state, E central India. It is a road and rail ...

Yamamoto, Isoroku

(Encyclopedia)Yamamoto, Isoroku yämäˈmōtō [key], 1884–1943, Japanese admiral in World War II. He headed the combined fleet in 1941 and was the mastermind behind Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. After he was ...

Yichang

(Encyclopedia)Yichang ē-chäng [key], city (1994 est. pop. 428,400), SW Hubei prov., China, a river port on the Chang. It is the western terminus for large oceangoing vessels traveling up the Chang from Shanghai; ...

Benda, Wladyslaw Theodor

(Encyclopedia)Benda, Wladyslaw Theodor bäNdäˈ [key], 1873–1948, Polish American painter and illustrator, b. Poland. He studied at the Art Academy in Cracow and in Vienna, San Francisco, and New York City. In ...

Biton and Cleobis

(Encyclopedia)Biton klēōˈbĭs [key], in Greek mythology, sons of the priestess Cydippe. When their mother wanted to see a famous temple of Hera, which was many miles away, the brothers dragged her chariot there....

Borghese Villa

(Encyclopedia)Borghese Villa vēlˈlä o͞ombĕrˈtō prēˈmō [key], summer palace built by Scipione Cardinal Borghese outside the Porta del Popolo, Rome. Begun in 1605, the villa was transformed in the 18th cent...