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- (from the article "Finland") ...and, with a compromise aided by President Koivisto, the Social Democrats and Conservatives, together with some smaller parties, formed a coalition government under Conservative Prime Minister Harri Holkeri. This allowed the Conservatives to return to the cabinet after more than 20 years and forced the Centre Party into opposition for ...
- Holkham Hall
- (from the article "Palladianism") ...Kent complete the triumvirate responsible for the second phase of the style. Burlington's home, Chiswick House (begun 1725), was designed by him as a reinterpretation of Palladio's Villa Rotonda. Holkham Hall, Norfolk (begun 1734), was built by Kent, who is also credited with having invented the English landscape garden. The ...
- Holl, Steven
- (from the article "Architecture") Perhaps the most widely published and admired building of the year in the U.S. was the Bloch Building, an addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo. The architect, American Steven Holl, created a design in which a series of glass-topped art galleries spilled informally down a ...
- Holland
- historical region of The Netherlands, divided since 1840 into the provinces of Noord-Holland (North Holland) and Zuid-Holland (South Holland). It constitutes the flat, low-lying northwestern portion of the modern country. [19 Related Articles]
- Holland
- submersible vessel considered the principal forerunner of the modern submarine, designed by John Holland for the United States Navy and accepted by the Navy in 1900. It was 53 feet (16 metres) long, displaced 74 tons, and was armed with a gun that could fire a 100-pound (45-kilogram) projectile half ... [2 Related Articles]
- Holland
- city, Ottawa county, southwestern Michigan, U.S., on Lake Macatawa, an inlet of Lake Michigan, some 30 miles (50 km) southwest of Grand Rapids. In 1847 A.C. Van Raalte, a minister from The Netherlands, led a group of Dutch settlers to the site, which became a focus for further Dutch immigration. ...
- holland
- plainwoven unbleached or dull-finish linen used as furniture covering or a cotton fabric that is made more or less opaque by a glazed or unglazed finish (called the Holland finish), consisting of oil and a filling material. Originally the name was applied to any fine, plainwoven linens imported from the ...
- Holland College
- (from the article "Prince Edward Island") ...that had originated more than a century earlier, Prince of Wales College and St. Dunstan's University. In 1983 the Atlantic Veterinary College was established within the provincial university. Holland College, also established in 1969, is an institute of applied arts and technology that offers courses in a number of communities ...
- Holland Tunnel
- twin-tube tunnel under the Hudson River connecting Canal Street in Manhattan, New York City, with 12th and 14th streets in Jersey City, N.J. The tunnel was completed in 1927 and opened for traffic on November 13 of that year. It was named for Clifford M. Holland, the engineer who designed ... [1 Related Articles]
- Holland, Clifford Milburn
- (from the article "Holland Tunnel") ...Street in Manhattan, New York City, with 12th and 14th streets in Jersey City, N.J. The tunnel was completed in 1927 and opened for traffic on November 13 of that year. It was named for Clifford M. Holland, the engineer who designed it. The north tube is 8,558 feet (2,608 ...
- Holland, Endesha Ida Mae
- American playwright (b. Aug. 29, 1944, Greenwood, Miss.-d. Jan. 25, 2006, Santa Monica, Calif.), was the author of the riveting From the Mississippi Delta, an autobiographical account of her traumatic childhood in the South, her descent into prostitution, and her experiences as a civil rights activist. The drama was first ...
- Holland, Georg von
- (from the article "logic, history of") ...credited with the very first symbolic logic, he was the first major formulator of a symbolic extensional logic that is familiar today as a logic or algebra of classes. (A correspondent of Lambert, Georg von Holland, had experimented with an extensional theory, and in 1839 the English writer Thomas Solly ...
- Holland, Henry
- English architect whose elegant, simple Neoclassicism contrasted with the more lavish Neoclassical style of his great contemporary Robert Adam. [2 Related Articles]
- Holland, Henry Edmund
- Australian-born labour leader who helped found the New Zealand Labour Party (1916), which he led in Parliament from 1919 to 1933.
- Holland, Henry Fox, 1st Baron
- English politician, notable chiefly for the success with which he exploited public office for private gain. [2 Related Articles]
- Holland, Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd Baron
- British Whig politician, associate of the party leader and reorganizer Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, and nephew and disciple of the statesman Charles James Fox, whose libertarian political ideas he expounded in the House of Lords.
- Holland, John Henry
- one of the pioneering theorists in nonlinear mathematics and the use of new mathematical techniques in understanding problems in disciplines as diverse as economics, biology, and computer science. [1 Related Articles]
- Holland, John Philip
- father of the modern submarine, who designed and built the first underwater vessel accepted by the U.S. Navy. [1 Related Articles]
- Holland, Josiah G.
- (from the article "Dickinson, Emily") ...on the development of a female poet, seem to have played a formative role for Dickinson, validating the idea of female greatness and stimulating her ambition. Though she also corresponded with Josiah G. Holland, a popular writer of the time, he counted for less with her than his appealing wife, ...
- Holland, Kingdom of
- (from the article "Netherlands, The") Renamed the Kingdom of Holland, the Netherlands received as its monarch Napoleon's younger brother Louis. The four years of his kingship constituted one of the strangest episodes in Dutch history. Louis Bonaparte was a stranger in the land, yet he took its interests to heart, evading his brother's commands and ...
- Holland, Parts of
- formerly one of the three separately administered divisions of the historic county of Lincolnshire, England. It now forms two county districts; the borough of Boston, the northern portion, includes the ancient port and its rural surroundings, while the mainly rural South Holland district is centred on the market town of ...
- Holland, Sir Erskine
- English legal writer and teacher of international law whose outstanding work, Elements of Jurisprudence, underwent 13 editions from 1880 to 1924.
- Holland, Sir Sidney
- leader of New Zealand's National Party (1940-57) who, as prime minister (1949-57), suppressed union unrest and relaxed government controls over the economy.
- Holland, Vyvyan Oscar Beresford
- writer and translator, the second son of the poet and playwright Oscar Wilde. When Wilde was imprisoned in 1895 after a celebrated trial for homosexual offenses, his two sons were hurried abroad; their name was changed to Holland and they lived in secret. Holland wrote a moving account of his ...
- Holland-Dozier-Holland
- American production and songwriting team credited with largely shaping the sound of Motown Records in the 1960s. Brian Holland (b. Feb. 15, 1941, Detroit, Mich., U.S., ), Lamont Dozier (b. June 16, 1941, Detroit, ), and Eddie Holland (b. Oct. 30, 1939, Detroit, ) crafted hits for nearly every major ... [5 Related Articles]
- Hollande, Francois
- (from the article "France") ...Royal's domestic problems were confirmed only when, the day after parliamentary elections in June, she announced that she had separated from her partner and the father of her four children, Francois Hollande, the head of the Socialist Party. This explained elements of tension that had appeared during the campaign, such ...
- Hollander beater
- (from the article "papermaking") An important milestone in papermaking development, the Hollander beater consists of an oval tank containing a heavy roll that revolves against a bedplate. The roll is capable of being set very accurately with respect to the bedplate, for the progressive adjustment of the roll position is the key to good ...
- Hollander, John
- (from the article "American literature") ...highlighted by such poems as Reflections on Espionage (1976), Blue Wine (1979), and Powers of Thirteen (1983), John Hollander, like Merrill, displayed enormous technical virtuosity. Richard Howard imagined witty monologues and dialogues for famous people of the past in poems collected ...
- Hollar, Wenceslaus
- Bohemian etcher whose works are a rich source of information about the 17th century. [1 Related Articles]
- Hollenburg, Treaty of
- (from the article "Austria") After Albert's death in 1395, new Habsburg family troubles arose, differences that the treaties of Hollenburg (1395) and Vienna (1396) tried to settle. Under the Vienna treaty, the line of Leopold III split into two branches, resulting in three complexes of Austrian territories-a state of affairs that was to reappear ...
- Holler, Carsten
- (from the article "Art and Art Exhibitions") ...through artworks designed to simulate altered realities as well as artworks composed of drugs or works representing transcendental states undergone by artists. Exhibition highlights included Carsten Holler's Upside Down Mushroom Room (2000) and Charles Ray's 1990 photograph Yes, a self-portrait made while under the influence of LSD and presented in ...
- Hollerith, Herman
- American inventor of a tabulating machine that was an important precursor of the electronic computer. [3 Related Articles]
- Holles, Denzil Holles, 1st Baron
- English Presbyterian who was a leading but moderate Parliamentary opponent of King Charles I. Later in his career he served in the government of Charles's son King Charles II. [1 Related Articles]
- Holley, Marietta
- American humorist who popularized women's rights and temperance doctrines under the pen names Josiah Allen's Wife and Samantha Allen.
- Holley, Robert William
- American biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Marshall Warren Nirenberg and Har Gobind Khorana. Their research helped explain how the genetic code controls the synthesis of proteins. [3 Related Articles]
- Hollick-Kenyon, Herbert
- (from the article "Antarctica") ...previously unseen. Innovations by Byrd included the use of an autogiro in 1933-34 and six helicopters in 1946-47. Meanwhile, the courageous flight of Lincoln Ellsworth, an American, and Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, a Canadian pilot, across uncharted lands and icefields on the first aerial crossing of the continent from Nov. 23 to ...
- Holliday junction
- (from the article "nucleic acid") ...are nicked to produce single strands; these subsequently invade the other duplex, where base pairing leads to a four-stranded DNA structure. The cruciform junction within this structure is called a Holliday junction, named after Robin Holliday, who proposed the original model for homologous recombination in 1964. The Holliday junction travels ...
- Holliday, Cyrus K.
- (from the article "Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, The") ...exercised great influence on the settlement of the southwestern United States. It was renamed the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad in 1863 and acquired its modern name in 1895. Its founder was Cyrus K. Holliday, a Topeka lawyer and business promoter, who sought to build a railroad along the ...
- Holliday, Doc
- gambler, gunman, and sometime dentist of the American West. [3 Related Articles]
- Holliday, Judy
- American actress noted for her distinctive voice and her warm, intelligent portrayal of funny and endearing "dumb blondes" on stage and in film. [3 Related Articles]
- Holliday, Matt
- (from the article "Baseball") ...the upstart Rockies secured their first pennant by winning four consecutive games over the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Rockies clinched it on October 15 by beating the Diamondbacks 6-4 at home. Matt Holliday, who slammed a three-run home run during a six-run fourth inning, was voted MVP of the series. The ...
- Hollies, the
- five-piece rock group from Manchester, England, that enjoyed many hits in the 1960s both before and after losing singer-guitarist Graham Nash to a more celebrated partnership with David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Neil Young. The principal members were Allan Clarke (b. April 15, 1942, Salford, Lancashire, England, ), Graham Nash ...
- Hollinger Inc.
- (from the article "Media and Publishing") ...the majority of newspaper subscription sales had been made by telemarketers. Another factor was the 2004 scandal in which a number of popular newspapers-the Chicago Sun-Times, owned by Hollinger Inc.; New York's Newsday and Hoy, owned by the Tribune Co.; and the Dallas Morning News, owned by Belo, among others-inflated ...
- Hollingshead, John
- (from the article "theatre music") ...Gaiety Girl, staged in 1893 by George Edwardes at the Gaiety Theatre, London. A romantic farce adorned by the songs of Sidney Jones, it was successfully exported to New York in the same year. John Hollingshead (Edwardes' predecessor at the Gaiety Theatre) wrote in 1903:The invention or discovery of musical ...
- Hollingsworth-Richards, Mellisa
- (from the article "Bobsleigh, Skeleton, and Luge") In women's skeleton action, Canadian Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards gained the World Cup title after finishing on the podium in every race during the 2005-06 season. At the Olympics she took the bronze. The gold medalist in Turin, Maya Pedersen of Switzerland, also had a tremendous World Cup season, earning six medals ...
- Hollingworth Lake
- (from the article "Rochdale") Rochdale has an art gallery, museum, and parks and recreational facilities. The borough also includes the towns of Heywood and Middleton, several smaller towns, and areas of open countryside. Hollingworth Lake (117 acres [47 hectares]) is 3.5 miles (5.6 km) northeast. Area metropolitan borough, 62 square miles (160 square km). ...
- Hollingworth, Leta
- (from the article "gifted child") ...mental and social adjustment, among the gifted group as compared with nongifted children. In another early 20th-century study, which focused on children with IQs greater than 180, psychologist Leta Hollingworth found that individuals within this group were very sensitive to the ways in which they differed from others and often ...
- Hollister, Charles Davis
- American marine geologist whose pioneering studies of the deep-sea floor revealed the strong currents and storms that occur there; in the 1970s he extracted a 30-m (100-ft) core sample that contained a continuous 65 million-year-long record of ocean-basin history (b. March 18, 1936, Santa Barbara, Calif.-d. Aug. 23, 1999, Wyoming).
- Holloch Cave
- (from the article "cave") ...karst terrain from France to the Balkan Peninsula. In France the Vercors Plateau is pavement karst featuring many deep caves, including the Berger Shaft-one of the deepest in Europe. The Holloch Cave, the world's third longest at 133 kilometres, is found in the Swiss Alps. Individual limestone massifs capped with ...
- Holloko
- (from the article "Nograd") ...inhabited by Hungarians-situated on the opposite side of the border established by the Treaty of Trianon-was re-annexed to Hungary. A popular tourist destination is the old village of Holloko; designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987, it is noted for traditional Paloc weaving and embroidery. Area 982 square miles ...
- Holloman Air Force Base
- (from the article "Alamogordo") ...gordo "fat"), it became a division point on the Southern Pacific Railroad and developed as a lumber town and agricultural-market centre. The Holloman Air Force Base was constructed there during World War II, and the first atomic bomb was exploded at the "Trinity Site" (60 miles [97 ...
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