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Mariazell

(Encyclopedia)Mariazell märēˌätsĕlˈ [key], town, Styria prov., E central Austria. It is a winter and summer resort. Chiefly noted as a place of pilgrimage, it is famous for its 12th-century wood carving of th...

Jekyll, Gertrude

(Encyclopedia)Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843–1932, British artist, landscape gardener, and crafts artist. She was associated with William Robinson and Edwin Lutyens in developing an informal and natural style of garden. ...

Kelso

(Encyclopedia)Kelso, city (1990 pop. 11,820), seat of Cowlitz co., SW Wash., on the Cowlitz River near the Columbia, in a fertile farm area; inc. 1889. Boatbuilding, fishing, and dairy farming are the major industr...

Neustrelitz

(Encyclopedia)Neustrelitz noiˌshtrāˈlĭts [key], city (1994 pop. 25,194), Mecklenburg–West Pomerania, N Germany. It is a transportation center and has metalworks, publishing houses, and wood mills. Neustrelitz...

lintel

(Encyclopedia)lintel, in architecture, the horizontal member that spans an opening, such as a door or window, or that connects two columns. The post-and-lintel, or trabeated, system of construction, with spans limi...

Saint Jérôme

(Encyclopedia)Saint Jérôme săN zhārōmˈ [key], city (1991 pop. 23,384), S Que., Canada, on the North River, NW of Montreal. It is an industrial center with woolen and paper mills. Rubber and wood products are ...

Barber, John Warner

(Encyclopedia)Barber, John Warner, 1798–1885, American engraver, b. East Windsor, Conn. He opened (1823) a business in New Haven, where he produced religious and historical books, illustrated with his own wood an...

Barking and Dagenham

(Encyclopedia)Barking and Dagenham bärˌkĭng ən dăgˈnəm, bôˌ– [key], outer borough of Gre...

chryselephantine

(Encyclopedia)chryselephantine krĭsˌĕləfănˈtĭn, –tīn [key], Greek sculptural technique developed in the 6th cent. b.c. Sculptures, especially temple colossi, were made with an inner core of wood overlaid ...

Grants Pass

(Encyclopedia)Grants Pass, city (2020 pop. 39,189), seat of Josephine co., SW Oreg., on the Rogue River, in a heavily forested area; inc. 1887. It has meat-processing...