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(Encyclopedia) Louis II or Louis the Stammerer, 846–79, French king. He succeeded (877) his father, Emperor of the West Charles II, as king. On Louis's death his kingdom was divided between his sons Carloman and L...

(Encyclopedia) Kingstown, town (1989 est. pop. 19,300), capital of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, West Indies. The chief port of St. Vincent, Kingstown is an export center for the island's agricultural industry as ...

(Encyclopedia) Beth-anoth bĕth-āˈnŏth [key], in the Bible, town, probably the modern Bayt Anun (West Bank), not far NE of Hebron. ...

(Encyclopedia) South Suburban City, former city, West Bengal state, NE India. A suburb of Kolkata (Calcutta), it was annexed by that city it 1984. ...

(Encyclopedia) Thebez thēˈbēz [key], in the Bible, fortified town where Abimelech was killed, NE of Shechem. It is the modern Tubas (West Bank). ...

(Encyclopedia) Louis the Younger, c.830–882, German king, ruler (876–82) over Saxony, Franconia, and Thuringia, son of Louis the German. He shared the succession to his father's lands with his brothers Carloman ...

(Encyclopedia) Müller, Gerd (Gerhard Müller) gĕrt mülˈər; gĕrˈhärt [key], 1945–, West German soccer player, nicknamed “Der Bomber,” b. Nordlingen. After playing with the TSV 1861 Nordlingen youth team...

(Encyclopedia) Potchefstroom pŏchˈəfstrōm, –stro͞om [key], city, now part and seat of Tlokwe local municipality, North West prov. (in what formerly was part of Transvaal), NE South Africa. Located in a fertil...

(Encyclopedia)  Huff, Sam, 1934-2021, American football Hall of Famer, b. Morgantown, W.V., as Robert Lee Huff, West Virginia Univ. (B.A., 1956). Huff played football...

(Encyclopedia) flamboyant style, the final development in French Gothic architecture that reached its height in the 15th cent. It is characterized chiefly by ornate tracery forms that, by their suggestion of flames,...