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Hohenzollern, former province, Germany
(Encyclopedia) Hohenzollern, former province of Germany. After 1945 it became part of the temporary state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern, which was included in the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952.…Kleist, Heinrich von
(Encyclopedia) Kleist, Heinrich vonKleist, Heinrich vonhīnˈrĭkh fən klīst [key], 1777–1811, German dramatic poet. He is one of the most evocative and disturbing of the German Romantic writers. Kleist…Kaine, Tim
(Encyclopedia) Kaine, Tim (Timothy Michael Kaine), 1958–, U.S. politician, b. St. Paul, Minn., B.A. Univ. of Missouri, 1979, J.D. Harvard, 1983. After a clerkship, he was a lawyer in private practice…Epirus, despotate of
(Encyclopedia) Epirus, despotate of. When, in 1204, the army of the Fourth Crusade set up the Latin Empire of Constantinople on the ruins of the Byzantine Empire, an independent Greek state emerged…capacitance
(Encyclopedia) capacitance, in electricity, capability of a body, system, circuit, or device for storing electric charge. Capacitance is expressed as the ratio of stored charge in coulombs to the…Unser, Al
(Encyclopedia) Unser, Al (Alfred Unser, Sr.) Unser, Al ŭnˈsər [key] 1939–2021, American automobile racing driver, b.…Ploieşti
(Encyclopedia) PloieştiPloieştiployĕshtˈ [key], city (1990 pop. 259,014), S central Romania, in Walachia. It is the chief center of the Romanian petroleum industry and of the Ploieşti oil region. The…San Francisco Symphony
(Encyclopedia) San Francisco Symphony, orchestra founded 1911. It has performed at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall since 1980. Henry Hadley, the original music director, was followed by Alfred…Royal Shakespeare Company
(Encyclopedia) Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), a British repertory theater. The company, established in 1960, was based on the earlier Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon. It is a…O'Neill, Peter Charles Paire
(Encyclopedia) O'Neill, Peter Charles Paire, 1965–, Papua New Guinea political leader, grad. Univ. of Papua New Guinea, 1986. A businessman before he was first elected to parliament in 2002, he…Trending
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