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(Encyclopedia) Dallapiccola, Luigi lo͞oēˈjē dälˌläpēkˈkōlä [key], 1904–75, Italian composer, b. Pazan, Istria (now in Croatia). Dallapiccola was in a detention camp during World War I; because his wife ...

(Encyclopedia) Carlisle, city and district, Cumbria, NW England, near the junction of the Caldew, Eden, and Petteril rivers. The city of Carlisle is an important rail ...

(Encyclopedia) Rydz-Śmigły or Śmigły-Rydz, Edward rĭtsˈ-shmēgˈlĭ [key], 1886–1941, Polish politician. He served under Piłsudski in the Polish Legions (1914–17), in the war with Soviet Russia (1920), an...

(Encyclopedia) Enns ĕns [key], town, Upper Austria prov., N central Austria, on the Enns River near its con...

(Encyclopedia) Goshen. <1> City (2020 pop. 34,517), seat of Elkhart co., N Ind., on the Elkhart River; inc. 1868. Goshen is in a farm and dairy region; poultry ...

(Encyclopedia) relocation center, in U.S. history, camp in which Japanese and Japanese-Americans were interned during World War II. Fearing a Japanese invasion, the military leaders, under authority of an executive ...

(Encyclopedia) Isabey, Jean Baptiste zhäN bätēstˈ ēzäbāˈ [key], 1767–1855, French portrait painter and miniaturist. He was a pupil of J. L. David and was greatly influenced by Fragonard. His portraits are ...

(Encyclopedia) Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor do͞oˈēvôr [key], 1863–1945, British statesman, of Welsh extraction. Lloyd George was a brilliantly eloquent, forceful, and creative statesman...

(Encyclopedia) Amnon. In the Bible, David's eldest son. He raped his half-sister Tamar and was killed for it by her brother Absalom.

(Encyclopedia) milu: see Père David's deer.