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(Encyclopedia) George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George), 1895–1952, king of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1936–52), second son of George V; successor of his elder brother, Edward VIII. He attended the ro...
(Encyclopedia) City of Cape Town, metropolitan municipality, South Africa: see Cape Town, City of.
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(Encyclopedia) museums of art, institutions or buildings where works of art are kept for display or safekeeping. The word museum derives from the Greek mouseion, meaning temple to the works of the Muses. This articl...
(Encyclopedia) William III, 1650–1702, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1689–1702); son of William II, prince of Orange, stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and of Mary, oldest daughte...
(Encyclopedia) Campeche, city, capital of Campeche
state, SE Mexico, on the Yucatán peninsula. It is fortified and
surrounded by 18th-century walls. Although it remai...
(Encyclopedia) Anne, 1665–1714, queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1702–7), later queen of Great Britain and Ireland (1707–14), daughter of James II and Anne Hyde; successor to William III.
Queen Anne ...
(Encyclopedia) Gatineau
gătˈĭnō
[key], city, SW Que., Canada, at the junction of the Gatineau and Ottawa
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(Encyclopedia) Córdoba
kôrˈdōvä
[key], city, capital of Córdoba prov., central Argentina, on the
Río ...
(Encyclopedia) Panama, city (1990 pop. 584,803), central Panama, capital and largest city of Panama, on the Gulf of Panama. Founded in 1519 by Pedro Arias de Ávila, the city flourished in early colonial times as th...
(Encyclopedia) equestrianism, art of riding and handling a horse. Horseback riding was practiced as far back as the Bronze Age and was thereafter adapted to commerce, industry, war, sport, and recreation. Diverse st...