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(Encyclopedia) William and Mary in Virginia, College of, mainly at Williamsburg; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1693, opened 1694 by Episcopalians under James Blair. It became a university in 1779. The se...
(Encyclopedia) Kent. 1 Industrial city (1990 pop. 28,835), Portage co., NE Ohio; settled in 1805 as Franklin Mills, combined with Carthage and renamed as Kent 1863, inc. as a city 1920. Machinery and processed foods...
(Encyclopedia) Anderson.
1 City (2020 pop. 54,788), seat of Madison co., E central Ind., on the White
River; inc. 1838. It is a manufacturing center in a fertile farm area; food products, aircraft
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(Encyclopedia) zoning, legislative regulations by which a municipal government seeks to control the use of buildings and land within the municipality. It has become, in the United States, a widespread method of cont...
(Encyclopedia) Michoacán mēchōäkänˈ [key], state (1990 pop. 3,548,199), 23,202 sq mi (60,093 sq km), S Mexico. Morelia is the capital. Dominated by the mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental and the volcanic...
(Encyclopedia) National Museum of the United States: see Smithsonian Institution.
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(Encyclopedia) United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference: see Bretton Woods Conference.
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(Encyclopedia) Energy, United States Department of, executive department of the federal government responsible for coordinating national activities relating to the production, regulation, marketing, and conservation...
(Encyclopedia) Wheeler, William Almon, 1819–87, American legislator, vice president of the United States (1877–81), b. Malone, N.Y. Admitted to the New York bar (1845), he was district attorney of Franklin co., ...
(Encyclopedia) Sheldon, Edward Austin, 1823–97, American educator, b. Wyoming co., N.Y., studied at Hamilton College. After illness forced him to cut short his own education, he held a variety of positions in the ...