Strauss, Franz Josef
(Encyclopedia) Strauss, Franz Josef shtrous [key], 1915–88, West German political figure, leader of the Christian Social Union. He became prominent in the Bavarian Christian Social Union (the Bavarian wing of the...
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Main
(Encyclopedia) Main mīn [key], river, c.310 mi (500 km) long, formed near Kulmbach, E central Germany, by the confluence of the Roter Main and the Weisser Main, both of which rise in the Fichtelgebirge. It then win...
mark
(Encyclopedia) mark, designation for the free village community that was supposed to have been the unit of primitive German social life. According to a theory formulated in the 19th cent. by Georg Ludwig von Maurer ...
Schlick, Moritz
(Encyclopedia) Schlick, Moritz mōˈrĭts shlĭk [key], 1882–1936, German philosopher, b. Berlin, grad. Univ. of Berlin (1904). He taught at Rostock and Kiel before he became (1922) professor of the philosophy of ...
Bamboccianti
(Encyclopedia) Bamboccianti: see Laer, Pieter van.
magnetosphere
(Encyclopedia) magnetosphere: see Van Allen radiation belts.
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Bamboccio, Il
(Encyclopedia) Bamboccio, Il: see Laer, Pieter van.
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Hook of Holland
(Encyclopedia) Hook of Holland: see Hoek van Holland.
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Gherardo delle Notti
(Encyclopedia) Gherardo delle Notti: see Honthorst, Gerrit van.
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Vandyke, Sir Anthony
(Encyclopedia) Vandyke, Sir Anthony: see Van Dyck, Sir Anthony.
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