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- (from the article "World War I") On April 9 the Germans began "St. George I" with an attack on the extreme northern front between Armentieres and the canal of La Bassee, their aim being to advance across the Lys River toward Hazebrouck. Such was the initial success of this attack that "St. George II" was launched ...
- St. George II
- (from the article "World War I") ...northern front between Armentieres and the canal of La Bassee, their aim being to advance across the Lys River toward Hazebrouck. Such was the initial success of this attack that "St. George II" was launched the next day, with the capture of Kemmel Hill (Kemmelberg), southwest of Ypres, as its ...
- St. George, Fort
- (from the article "Kennebec River") ...in west-central Maine, U.S. The Kennebec rises from Moosehead Lake and flows south for about 150 miles (240 km) to the Atlantic Ocean. It was explored by Samuel de Champlain between 1604 and 1605. Fort St. George, founded in 1607 at the head of navigation on the river near present-day ...
- St. Giles Church
- (from the article "St. Giles's") The following is section 57 of the article "London," from the 3rd edition (1788-97) of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Although the article is unsigned, it credits the naturalist Thomas Pennant as its main source of information. Pennant's Some Account of London was published in 1790. The excerpt below is presented in modern ...
- St. Hedwig's Cathedral
- (from the article "Berlin") ...and his disciples. Also in this area are the Town Hall, seat of the state parliament (Rotes Rathaus), built of red brick; the former State Council and Central Committee Building; and the rebuilt St. Hedwig's Cathedral, which dates from 1747 and which was the first Roman Catholic church to be ...
- St. Helena, Pool of
- (from the article "Ramla") ...are the Franciscan Hospice of St. Nicodemus and St. Joseph; the Great Mosque (Al-Jami' al-Kabir), built on the foundations of the 12th-century crusader cathedral of St. John; and the Pool of St. Helena, an 8th-century reservoir (cistern) decorated with ornamental pillars and now used by small tourist boats. Pop. (1995 ...
- St. Jacob altarpiece
- (from the article "Wolgemut, Michael") ...Nurnberg painter Hans Pleydenwurff. In the next 40 years he produced a series of large altarpieces, rich with carving and gilding, as well as portraits and book illustrations. The altarpiece of St. Jacob, Straubing, is attributed to the beginning of this activity (c. 1475-76), and those of the Marienkirche, Zwickau ...
- St. James Park
- (from the article "Saint James") Southeast of the palace, on the opposite side of the avenue called the Mall, is St. James's Park (90 acres [36 hectares]), which is the oldest and most ornamental of the royal parks of central London. Originally a marshland, it was landscaped in an elaborate and formalized manner during the ...
- St. John the Baptist, Basilian Order of
- (from the article "Basilian") ...ministry in Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, and the city of Damascus prior to 1832. The Vatican approved their constitution in 1955, and they now have foundations in the United States as well. (4) The Basilian Order of St. John the Baptist, also known as the Order of Suwayr, or the Baladites, ...
- St. John's
- capital and largest city of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, at the eastern end of the Avalon Peninsula. It stands on the steep, western slope of an excellent landlocked harbour that opens suddenly to the Atlantic. The entrance, known as the Narrows, guarded by Signal Hill (500 feet [150 metres]) ... [2 Related Articles]
- St. John's Night
- (from the article "Brazil") In addition to Carnival, there are various official and church holidays during the year, including Independence Day, on September 7, and St. John's Night (Noite de Sao Joao) in June. The latter is celebrated with bonfires, fireworks, and the launching of small paper hot-air balloons. Along the coast on New ...
- St. John, Hospital of
- (from the article "Rome") The Hospital of St. John was founded in the Middle Ages as a dependence of S. Giovanni in Laterano (St. John Lateran), just off the hill, and maintains its Romanesque gateway. The Hospital of St. Thomas, established at the same period, has disappeared save for its mosaic gateway, signed by ...
- St. John, Sir Harold Bernard
- Barbadian politician (b. Aug. 16, 1931, Christ Church, Barbados-d. Feb. 29, 2004, Bridgetown, Barbados), served as prime minister of Barbados in 1985-86 and was the longtime leading light of the ruling Barbados Labour Party. Trained as a lawyer, he entered politics in the late 1950s, while Barbados was still a ...
- St. John, Theodore
- (from the article "1952: Other Winners") Screenplay: Charles Schnee for The Bad and the BeautifulMotion Picture Story: Frederic M. Frank, Theodore St. John, Frank Cavett for The Greatest Show on EarthStory and Screenplay: T.E.B. Clarke for The Lavender Hill MobCinematography, Black-and-White: Robert Surtees for The Bad and the BeautifulCinematography, Color: Winton C....
- St. Johns, Adela Rogers
- American journalist, novelist, and screenwriter best known as a reporter for Hearst newspapers and for her interviews of motion picture stars.
- St. Joseph
- (from the article "Trinidad and Tobago") ...no effective Spanish presence on the island until 1592. In that year Antonio de Berrio came in search of Eldorado (the mythical land of gold); he took official possession of the island and founded St. Joseph, which served as the capital until 1784. Even after 1592 the development of the ...
- St. Joseph's Hospital
- (from the article "Lisbon") ...enlarged and realigned the Rossio, and on its site, 90 years later, the National Theatre of Dona Maria II was erected. Pombal banished the Jesuit order and transformed their establishment into St. Joseph's Hospital to replace the destroyed All Saints Hospital. The medical school scrambled for room at St. Joseph's ...
- St. Leger, Barry
- (from the article "Oriskany, Battle of") ...Revolution, battle between British troops and American defenders of the Mohawk Valley, which contributed to the failure of the British campaign in the North. British troops under Lieutenant Colonel Barry St. Leger were marching eastward across central New York to join with British forces at Albany. En route, they arrived ...
- St. Louis, Martin
- (from the article "Ice Hockey") ...to 12 goals. Brad Richards, who assisted on the first Fedotenko goal, won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the play-offs' Most Valuable Player (MVP). The Lightning's first championship season also brought Martin St. Louis the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL's leading scorer and the Hart Trophy, awarded to the ...
- St. Lucia's Day
- festival of lights celebrated in Sweden, Norway, and the Swedish-speaking areas of Finland on December 13 in honour of St. Lucia. One of the earliest Christian martyrs, St. Lucia was killed by the Romans in AD 304 because of her religious beliefs. [1 Related Articles]
- St. Mary and All Saints, Church of
- (from the article "Chesterfield") ...railway stations on each of three companies' lines. Staveley nearby grew rapidly after the establishment in 1845 of the Staveley Iron and Coal Company. The 14th-century parish church, dedicated to St. Mary and All Saints, has a lead-covered wooden spire 228 feet (69 metres) high, which, as a result of ...
- St. Mary of Zion, Church of
- (from the article "Aksum") ...relates the tradition of the transference of the Ark of the Covenant from Jerusalem to Aksum by King Menilek I, legendary son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (Makeda). According to tradition, the Church of St. Mary of Zion contains the Ark of the Covenant. Over the centuries, however, ...
- St. Mary Peak
- (from the article "Flinders Ranges") ...land. Southward beyond Crystal Brook, the highland region continues as the Mount Lofty Ranges. The Flinders exceed 3,000 feet (900 metres) at several points, reaching 3,825 feet (1,166 metres) at St. Mary Peak, the state's second highest peak. The ranges contain Ediacara fauna, an assemblage of fossilized Precambrian animals. Scenic ...
- St. Mary Redcliffe
- (from the article "Bristol") The most striking ecclesiastical building in Bristol to survive the war is the church of St. Mary Redcliffe, a 14th-century structure whose grandeur of proportion and majestic Perpendicular Gothic design have made it one of the most celebrated parish churches in England. Bristol's cathedral church, which originated as the abbey ...
- St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, Church of
- (from the article "Fulton") ...Churchill delivered his "Iron Curtain" speech on March 5, 1946. To commemorate the occasion, the college brought from London and reconstructed on its campus the 12th-century Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, redesigned by Sir Christopher Wren in the 17th century. A document signed by President John F. Kennedy ...
- St. Mary's Cathedral
- (from the article "Cork") ...Protestant cathedral of St. Fin Barre, designed by William Burges and completed in 1879, replaced a structure that had been built in 1735 on the site of the 7th-century monastery. The Roman Catholic St. Mary's Cathedral was built in 1808. Queen's College, opened in 1849, became part of the National ...
- St. Mary's Church
- (from the article "Krakow") Thousands of historic buildings and sites dot the city. Most prominent are the many churches, including St. Mary's Church (Kosciol Mariacki), the main section of which dates from 1497. It contains a stained-glass window from 1370 and a magnificent altar (1477-89) by Veit Stoss (Wit Stosz). Wawel Cathedral houses several ...
- St. Mary's Well
- (from the article "Nazareth") ...Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire (AD 313). The only site in Nazareth that can be definitely identified as dating back to New Testament times is the town well, now called St. Mary's Well; others are in dispute between the various churches.
- St. Mary's, Abbey Church of
- (from the article "Tewkesbury") ...administrative and historic county of Gloucestershire, England, at the confluence of the Severn and Warwickshire Avon rivers. A small Benedictine abbey was founded in 715 on the site of the present Abbey Church of St. Mary's. The later medieval abbey was consecrated in 1123 and rebuilt after a fire in ...
- St. Mary, Community of
- (from the article "Cannon, Harriet Starr") ...of the House of Mercy, a rescue house and reformatory for young women; the Sheltering Arms orphanage; and St. Barnabas' House for homeless women and children. The five women eventually founded the Community of St. Mary in 1865, the first women's monastic order constituted by an Anglican bishop. Sister Harriet ...
- St. Menas
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...also influenced by those of Constantinople, the Greek countries, and Italy. The cathedral of Hermopolis (al-Ashmunayn), built about 430-440 in southern Egypt, and the martyrium-church of St. Menas, nearer the coast (first half of the 5th century), combine the influences of Constantinople and Italy in the three-lobed sanctuary, the transept, ...
- St. Michael the Archangel, Cathedral of
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...with its international importance. The Kremlin and two of its important churches were rebuilt by Italian architects between 1475 and 1510. These churches, the Assumption (Uspensky) Cathedral and the cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel, were largely modeled after the churches of Vladimir. The Italians were required to incorporate the ...
- St. Michael's Agreement
- (from the article "Belgium") ...between the two ethnolinguistic groups led to major administrative restructuring during the 1970s, '80s, and '90s. A series of constitutional reforms dismantled the unitary state, culminating in the St. Michael's Agreement (September 1992), which laid the groundwork for the establishment of the federal state (approved by the parliament in July ...
- St. Michael's Church
- (from the article "Sustris, Federico") In about 1580-81 Sustris went to Munich, where he built his best-known work, St. Michael's Church. He began planning the structure in 1582 in collaboration with Wolfgang Muller. Sustris was essentially self-taught as an architect, and his contribution to the work-the design of the chancel and transepts-is less structural than ...
- St. Multose
- (from the article "Kinsale") ...of Scilly and Summer Cove, Kinsale is much frequented by visitors and hosts an annual regatta. A wine museum is located in Desmond Castle, a former customs house that was built in the 15th century. St. Multose, a medieval church built in the late 12th century, is among the Church ...
- St. Nicholas Cathedral
- (from the article "Religion") Bartholomew became the first Orthodox patriarch to visit Latin America when he went to Havana in January to consecrate a new church and meet with Cuban Pres. Fidel Castro. Church officials said the St. Nicholas Cathedral was the first new church of any faith to be built in Cuba during ...
- St. Nicholas Quarter
- (from the article "Berlin") ...during World War II, but restoration was completed in 1987, the 750th anniversary of Berlin's founding. The church, capped by two steeples, serves as the centrepiece of the old city enclave, the St. Nicholas Quarter (Nikolaiviertel), which includes replicas of townhouses from three centuries.
- St. Nicholas Tower
- (from the article "Moscow") ...who designed most of the main towers; its belfry was added in 1624-25. The chimes of its clock are broadcast by radio as a time signal to the whole country. Also on the Red Square front is the St. Nicholas (Nikolskaya) Tower, built originally in 1491 and rebuilt in 1806. ...
- St. Patrick's College
- (from the article "Maynooth") ...built by Gerald FitzMaurice (died 1203) and an early manorial church that has been incorporated into the Church of Ireland. In medieval times Maynooth was at the perimetre of the English Pale. St. Patrick's College at Maynooth is the largest Roman Catholic seminary in the British Isles; it was established ...
- St. Paul's Church
- (from the article "Parris, Alexander") ...Boston project was the David Sears House (1816) on Beacon Street, now the Somerset Club. He was also responsible for numerous other private homes in Boston. One of Parris' best-known designs is his St. Paul's Church (1819), which, with its graceful Ionic portico fronting a Greek-temple-type structure, marked the beginning ...
- St. Paul's Church
- (from the article "Mount Vernon") St. Paul's Church (1763), used during the Revolution as a British military hospital, was dedicated a national historic site in 1943. Inc. village, 1853; city, 1892. Pop. (1990) 67,153; (2000) 68,381.
- St. Paul's Church
- (from the article "Birmingham") ...Art Gallery, which is noted for its Pre-Raphaelite paintings and its English watercolours. St. Philip's Cathedral (1715), in its green churchyard, forms another focus, while the Georgian area around St. Paul's Church (1779) also has a character of its own. Other centres have formed around St. Chad's Cathedral (Roman Catholic), ...
- St. Peter and St. Paul, Cathedral of
- (from the article "Saint Petersburg") ...(12 metres) high and 12 feet (4 metres) thick, with 300 cannons mounted on the bastions. Above the squat horizontal lines of the fortress's massive walls soars the slender, arrowlike spire of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, a golden landmark for the city. The cathedral was built ...
- St. Peter's Church
- (from the article "Bautzen") ...railway junction, and its economy is broadly based, including a thriving service sector and a variety of manufacturing activities. Notable buildings include the Ortenburg Castle (1483-86) and St. Peter's Church (1220-1497), which has been shared since 1523 by Roman Catholics and Protestants and has, since 1921, served as the Roman ...
- St. Petersburg paradox
- (from the article "probability and statistics") ...there were some cases where a straightforward application of probability mathematics led to results that seemed to defy rationality. One example, proposed by Nicolas Bernoulli and made famous as the St. Petersburg paradox, involved a bet with an exponentially increasing payoff. A fair coin is to be tossed until the ...
- St. Polten Seminary
- (from the article "Religion") ...in April; Bernard Cardinal Law, who resigned as archibishop of Boston following a sex scandal there in 2002, took up his new position as head of a basilica in Rome. In August the Vatican closed the St. Polten Seminary outside Vienna after Austrian authorities said they found 40,000 videos and ...
- St. Simons Island
- (from the article "Sea Islands") ...Sir Robert Montgomery, who included them in his Margravate of Azilia on the mainland; he termed the group Golden Islands in a promotional booklet (1720). The Battle of Bloody Marsh (1742), fought on St. Simons Island, saved the Georgia colony from the Spaniards.
- St. Stephen's Cathedral
- (from the article "Esztergom") ...Catholicism in Hungary, and its archbishops are primate cardinals (since 1991, the archdiocese has been known as Esztergom-Budapest). Esztergom's fortress, last restored in the 18th century, is still largely intact atop Varhegy (Castle Hill). The town's great cathedral (built 1822-60), modeled on St. Peter's in Rome, overlooks the Danube and ...
- St. Stephen's Day
- one of two holidays widely observed in honour of two Christian saints. In many countries December 26 commemorates the life of St. Stephen, a Christian deacon in Jerusalem who was known for his service to the poor and his status as the first Christian martyr (he was stoned to death ...
- St. Stephen, Cathedral of
- (from the article "Zagreb") ...of St. Marcus, the Baroque Church of St. Catherine, the palaces of Zrinski and Orsic, a former Jesuit monastery, and the Neoclassical Draskovic Palace. Kaptol has the Gothic Cathedral of St. Stephen (13th-15th century), whose sacristy contains a 13th-century fresco; the cathedral was restored at the end of the 19th ...
- St. Superan, Pierre de
- (from the article "Greece, history of") ...claim to the principality. Upon his death in 1383 the Navarrese exercised effective political control over the Frankish territories under the commanders of the company. The last Navarrese prince, Pierre de St. Superan, joined the Ottomans in 1401 to raid Byzantine possessions in the southern Peloponnese; he died in 1402. ...
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