A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 Saint Louis Zoo ... Saint-Andre, Jacques d'Albon, seigneur de Saint Louis Zoo zoo in St. Louis, Mo., U.S., built on the grounds of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition ... Saint Louis-San Francisco Railway Company railroad with lines in nine southern and central U.S. states before it merged with Burlington ... [1 Related Articles] Saint Lucia island state in the Caribbean Sea. The second largest of the Windward group in the ... [20 Related Articles] Saint Lucia Game Reserve sanctuary on the northeastern coast of KwaZulu/Natal province, South Africa. It encompasses Lake St. Lucia, ... Saint Lucia Labour Party (from the article "Saint Lucia") Independence was finally achieved Feb. 22, 1979, with Saint Lucia remaining a parliamentary democracy within ... Saint Lucia, flag of national flag consisting of a blue field (background) with a central triangular emblem of yellow, ... Saint Luke's (from the article "Western architecture") ...build than a Neoclassical one, with its requisite stone portico; this determined the widespread utilization ... Saint Luke, Academy of (from the article "Zuccaro, Federico") ...(1607; "The Idea of Sculptors, Painters, and Architects") and in a series of frescoes in ... Saint Luke, Academy of (from the article "Ramsay, Allan") ...of the 1721 Poems, Ramsay changed from wigmaker to bookseller, and his shop became a ... Saint Luke, Guild of (from the article "pottery") ...taken over by potters who retained such names as The Three Golden Ash-Barrels, The Four ... Saint Margaret's Church church in the London borough of Westminster, since 1614 the official church of the House ... Saint Mark's Tower (from the article "Western architecture") ...of intensive reflection, from which he emerged with fabulous drawings for the Doheny ranch in ... Saint Martial (from the article "Latin literature") Notker's sequences are alive with dramatic possibility, and at St. Gall the practice of troping, ... Saint Martin island at the northern end of the Leeward group of the Lesser Antilles in the ... [3 Related Articles] Saint Martin (from the article "Gregory of Tours, Saint") ...in his religious devotion: initially Gregory was a follower of Julian, martyr of the Auvergne, ... Saint Martin's Lent (from the article "church year") ...earliest reference to a season of Advent is the institution by Bishop Perpetuus of Tours ... Saint Martin-in-the-Fields (from the article "Gibbs, James") Gibbs's mature style represents a highly proficient synthesis of both Baroque and Palladian sources. His ... Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, Academy of (from the article "Marriner, Sir Neville") Encouraged by Pierre Monteux, Marriner began to conduct, specializing in Baroque music. After 10 successful ... Saint Martinville city, seat (1811) of St. Martin parish, southern Louisiana, U.S. It lies on Bayou Teche, ... Saint Mary's county, southern Maryland, U.S. It consists of a tidewater peninsula bordered by the Patuxent River ... Saint Mary's Abbey (from the article "Western sculpture") ...of the Great Portal, with its carved tympanum, voussoirs, and side figures, was virtually ignored. ... Saint Mary's Cathedral (from the article "Tange Kenzo") ...Gymnasiums; the two structures featured sweeping curved roofs and an asymmetrical but balanced design that ... Saint Mary's College (from the article "Notre Dame, University of") ...included a men's college, an elementary school, a college-preparatory school, a vocational ("manual labour") school, ... Saint Mary's Falls Canal (from the article "canals and inland waterways") ...the Welland Canal linking Lakes Ontario and Erie. Opened in 1829, it overcame the 327-foot ... Saint Mary, Cathedral of (from the article "Kilkenny") St. Canice's Cathedral, begun about 1192, occupies the site of a 6th-century church founded by ... Saint Mary, Cathedral of (from the article "Western architecture") The Gothic Revival survived into the 20th century, though largely for ecclesiastical architecture. Truro Cathedral, ... Saint Mary, Church of (from the article "Asmara") ...Catholic cathedral (1922) and the Grand Mosque (1937). Other notable structures include the former palace ... Saint Mary, Church of (from the article "Cotswold") ...of the Perpendicular Gothic architectural style of the 14th-16th centuries, reflect the district's former wealth; ... Saint Mary, Church of (from the article "Harrow") ...architecture in Harrow includes the 14th-century Headstone Manor, a half-timbered structure guarded by a moat; ... Saint Mary, Feast of (from the article "church year") ...a schedule of 33 Sundays per annum to be observed in numbered sequence in place ... Saint Marylebone neighbourhood of the City of Westminster, London. Formerly (until 1965) part of the metropolitan borough ... Saint Marys City historic district and village, St. Mary's county, southern Maryland, U.S., on St. Marys River some ... [1 Related Articles] Saint Marys River outlet for Lake Superior, forming part of the boundary between Michigan, U.S., and Ontario, Can. ... [1 Related Articles] Saint Matthew Island (from the article "Alaska") The islands of the Bering Sea represent a small but unique Arctic maritime environment, typified ... Saint Michael and Saint George, The Most Distinguished Order of British order of knighthood founded in 1818 by the Prince Regent, later King George IV, ... Saint Michael's Anglican Cathedral (from the article "Bridgetown") Today Bridgetown is a crowded and picturesque mixture of old and new. St. Michael's Anglican ... Saint Michael's Mount granite island about 400 yards (365 metres) offshore in Mount's Bay on the English Channel, ... Saint Michael, Cathedral of (from the article "Spence, Sir Basil") ...and worked in Sir Edwin Lutyens' office on drawings for the Viceroy's House in New ... Saint Michael, Church of (from the article "Ottonian art") ...(projections at each end of the nave) were elaborated with double transepts. Ottonian architecture was ... Saint Michael, Church of (from the article "Haworth") ...town of Keighley. In 1820 the Reverend Patrick Bronte brought his wife and six children-including ... Saint Monday (from the article "United Kingdom") ...hours of labour diminished and became more regular. Before then, work and nonwork activities had ... Saint Moritz town, or Gemeinde (commune), Graubunden canton, southeastern Switzerland. Saint Moritz lies in ... [3 Related Articles] Saint Moritz Olympics (from the article "Olympic Games") The second Winter Olympics, held at a ski resort, were marred by bad weather. The ... Saint Moritz Olympics (from the article "Olympic Games") After an absence of 12 years as a result of World War II, Olympic competition ... Saint Nicholas Cathedral (from the article "spire") In Germany the timber spires of the Romanesque era evolved into Gothic stone spires of ... Saint Nicholas Day feast day (December 6) of St. Nicholas, patron saint of Russia and Greece, of a ... Saint Nicholas, Cathedral of (from the article "Stockholm") ...well-preserved city nucleus, with the original network of streets and many of its buildings dating ... Saint Nicodemus and Saint Joseph, Hospice of (from the article "Ramla") Interesting sites in the city, aside from the White Tower, are the Franciscan Hospice of ... Saint Olaf College private coeducational institution of higher learning in Northfield, southeastern Minnesota, U.S. It is a liberal ... Saint Pancras Station (from the article "Western architecture") ...trussed arches sprang from small points across a huge space, 385 feet (117 metres) long ... Saint Patrick's Cathedral (from the article "Dublin") ...was replaced about 140 years later by a more magnificent Norman structure. By the 19th ... Saint Patrick's Cathedral (from the article "Renwick, James, (Jr.)") ...prominent structure, which was one of the first American designs to show a true understanding ... Saint Patrick's Church (from the article "Newry") ...was planted by St. Patrick. Because of its position in a gap of the hills, ... Saint Patrick's Day feast day (March 17) of St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. Born in Roman Britain ... [1 Related Articles] Saint Patroclus, cathedral of (from the article "Soest") ...economically. Although the city was heavily damaged in World War II, many timbered houses, old ... Saint Paul city, capital of Minnesota, U.S., and seat of Ramsey county. Situated in the southeastern part ... [3 Related Articles] Saint Paul monastery (from the article "Benedict Biscop, Saint") founder and first abbot of the celebrated twin monasteries of SS. Peter (at Wearmouth) and ... Saint Paul River river rising in southeastern Guinea, western Africa. Its source is in the mountains east of ... Saint Paul's (from the article "Mdina") ...Vecchia ("Old City"). Mdina retains intact its remarkable fortifications with a complete wall and contains ... Saint Paul's Cathedral in London, cathedral of the Anglican bishop. It is located within the central City of ... [8 Related Articles] Saint Paul's Church (from the article "Melaka") A low hill on the river's southern bank is occupied by the ruins of the ... Saint Paul's School one of the major public (i.e., privately endowed) schools in England. It was founded in ... [1 Related Articles] Saint Peter and Saint Paul abbey (from the article "Bath") ...Bath lies along the River Avon in a natural amphitheatre of steep hills. Built of ... Saint Peter in Chains (from the article "Rome") Originally the Basilica Eudoxiana, S. Pietro in Vincoli (St. Peter in Chains) was built in ... Saint Peter Port chief town, resort, parish, and capital of Guernsey, Channel Islands, located on the east coast ... [1 Related Articles] Saint Peter Street (from the article "metalwork") ...entirely of cast iron. No other city in the U.S. has two- and even three-story ... Saint Peter's Basilica present basilica of St. Peter's in Rome, begun by Pope Julius II in 1506 and ... [22 Related Articles] Saint Peter's Cathedral (from the article "Peterborough") The flat city site is dominated by St. Peter's Cathedral, a structure begun in 1118 ... Saint Peter's Church (from the article "Malmo") ...Link, a bridge and tunnel system that opened in 2000. Malmo's historic buildings include Malmohus ... Saint Peter's College private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. It is a ... Saint Peter's Italian Church (from the article "London") ...Boston. Its alien communities were small (mostly fewer than 1,000 people) and localized, and some ... Saint Peter, Cathedral of (from the article "stained glass") England has only fragmentary remains of 12th-century glass. The nave clerestory windows in York Minster ... Saint Peter, Church of (from the article "Leuven") The three-story town hall is one of the richest and most detailed examples of pointed ... Saint Peter, monastery of (from the article "Benedict Biscop, Saint") founder and first abbot of the celebrated twin monasteries of SS. Peter (at Wearmouth) and ... Saint Petersburg city and port, extreme northwestern Russia. A major historical and cultural centre and an important ... [17 Related Articles] Saint Petersburg city, Pinellas county, west-central Florida, U.S. It is situated at the southern tip of Pinellas ... [2 Related Articles] Saint Petersburg porcelain pottery ware produced from 1744 to the present day by the principal Russian factory, the ... [1 Related Articles] Saint Petersburg State University coeducational state institution of higher learning in St. Petersburg, founded in 1819 as the University ... Saint Petersburg, Declaration of (from the article "war, law of") ...Promulgated to Union forces by President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War, the Lieber ... Saint Petersburg, Protocol of (from the article "Greece, history of") In 1826, by the Protocol of St. Petersburg, Britain and Russia committed themselves to a ... Saint Petersburg, Treaty of (from the article "Russia") ...harbours of Riga, Revel, and the new St. Petersburg. After 1721 Peter also extended the ... Saint Phalle, Catherine Marie-Agnes Fal de French-born artist (b. Oct. 29, 1930, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France-d. May 21, 2002, La Jolla, Calif.), first ... Saint Philip Neri (from the article "Borromini, Francesco") ...He never divorced himself completely from the anthropometric basis of design, however; he insisted, at ... Saint Polyeuktos, Church of (from the article "Western architecture") The process of development that began in such examples had greatly advanced by the end ... Saint Ruprecht's Church (from the article "Vienna") ...Augustinians, the Church of Maria am Gestade, and the Church of the Friars Minor (officially ... Saint Sauveur (from the article "Argall, Sir Samuel") ...the Powhatan Indian princess Pocahontas, whom he held hostage for the return of seven English ... Saint Saviour, Basilian Order of (from the article "Basilian") ...Leo XIII, these Basilians spread into Galicia, Ruthenia, Yugoslavia, and Romania and then followed immigrants ... Saint Servatius, Cathedral of (from the article "Maastricht") Maastricht's landmarks include the St. Servatius Bridge (c. 1280) over the Maas, the Dinghuis, or ... Saint Servatius, Church of (from the article "Quedlinburg") ...medieval churches survive, contributing to a thriving tourist industry. The city is dominated by the ... Saint Severus, Church of (from the article "Erfurt") Erfurt is dominated by the cathedral and the Church of St. Severus, which stand side-by-side ... Saint Sophia (from the article "painting, Western") Wall paintings were important during this period, but only one decoration by trained artists in ... Saint Sophia (from the article "Western architecture") ...in the Monastery of the Caves (1073-78). All of these churches were built in the ... Saint Sophia, Cathedral of (from the article "Belarus") One of the oldest surviving monuments of architecture in the country is the Cathedral of ... Saint Sophia, Cathedral of (from the article "Western architecture") ...death of the city in the 16th century; it was there that the fundamental features ... Saint Stephen's Basilica (from the article "Hild, Jozsef") ...Palace (1827; destroyed in World War II), the Nako Palace (1833), the Ullmann Palace, and ... Saint Stephen's Cathedral cathedral in Vienna that was burned out in the course of the Battle of Vienna ... [1 Related Articles] Saint Stephen's Crown greatly venerated crown of Hungary, the symbol of Hungarian nationhood, without which no sovereign was ... [1 Related Articles] Saint Stephen's Green (from the article "Dublin") The oldest and largest of the city's squares is St. Stephen's Green, recorded in 1224 ... Saint Stephen's, Walbrook (from the article "Western architecture") ...the Baroque spirit in his late works by unifying them with a refined compositional vigour. ... Saint Stephen, Chapel of (from the article "painting, Western") In England the decoration of the royal Chapel of St. Stephen's (c. 1360) was apparently, ... Saint Swithin's Day (July 15), one of the several days from which, in folklore, the weather for a ... Saint Thomas city, seat of Elgin county, southeastern Ontario, Canada, on Kettle Creek, just north of Lake ... Saint Thomas chief island of the U.S. Virgin Islands in the eastern Caribbean, situated 40 miles (64 ... [2 Related Articles] Saint Thomas, Hospital of (from the article "Rome") The Hospital of St. John was founded in the Middle Ages as a dependence of ... Saint Trinian's (from the article "Searle, Ronald") British graphic satirist, best known for his cartoons of the girls at an imaginary school ... Saint Valentine's Day Massacre (Feb. 14, 1929), mass murder of a group of unarmed bootlegging gang members in Chicago. ... [4 Related Articles] Saint Vincent island of the Windward group in the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean Sea, about ... Saint Vincent and the Grenadines island country lying within the Lesser Antilles, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It consists of ... [20 Related Articles] Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, flag of vertically striped blue-yellow-green national flag with three green lozenges (diamonds) in the centre. The flag's ... Saint Vincent de Paul, Society of (from the article "Ozanam, Antoine Frederic") French historian, lawyer, and scholar who founded the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Saint Vincent, Cape cape, southwesternmost Portugal, forming with Sagres Point a promontory on the Atlantic Ocean. To the ... Saint Vincent, Gulf triangular inlet of the Indian Ocean, on the southeast coast of South Australia, between Yorke ... Saint Vitus' Cathedral (from the article "Bohemian school") The major architectural monuments of the Bohemian school are Charles's palace (Karlstejn Castle) and the ... Saint Vladimir (from the article "Kiev") ...Khreshchatyk at right angles is the wide, poplar-lined Boulevard of Taras Shevchenko, on which stands ... Saint, Eva Marie (from the article "1954: Best Supporting Actress") Other Nominees Saint, Lucien (from the article "Tunisia") ...Destour leader. Two years later the aged bey, Muhammad al-Nasir, requested that the program of ... Saint, the (from the article "Charteris, Leslie") author of highly popular mystery-adventure novels and creator of Simon Templar, better known as "the ... Saint-Acheul locality near Amiens in the Somme River valley, Somme departement, Picardie region, northern France. Saint-Acheul ... Saint-Affrique town, Aveyron departement, Midi-Pyrenees region, southern France. The town is situated about 60 miles (96 ... Saint-Amand-les-Eaux town and spa, Nord departement, Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, northern France, at the junction of the Elnon ... Saint-Amand-les-Eaux ware tin-glazed earthenware and porcelain made in the French town of that name in the 18th ... Saint-Amand-Montrond town, Cher departement, Centre region, central France. The town, which is situated some 25 miles ... Saint-Amant, Marc-Antoine Girard, sieur de one of the most original and interesting of French early 17th-century poets and one of ... Saint-Andre Cathedral (from the article "Bordeaux") ...of Montesquieu and Michel de Montaigne (the latter's tomb is at the university, founded 1441). ... Saint-Andre, Andre Jeanbon French Protestant clergyman who became a member of the Committee of Public Safety that ruled ... Saint-Andre, Jacques d'Albon, seigneur de (lord of) favourite of King Henry II of France, who made him successively member of ... [1 Related Articles]

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