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Callicrates
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Callicrates. C5 bc Athenian architect, responsible with Ictinus for the Greek Doric temple known as the Parthenon (447–436), and on his own (probably) for the small Ionic temple of Nikè Apteros ( c. 450–424...
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Greek architecture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...were the Hephaesteion (‘Theseion’), Athens (449–444 BC), and the Parthenon , Athens (447–438 BC), regarded by many commentators as one of the finest works of architecture ever created because of its elegant...
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Uzbekistan
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...increasingly violent and there has been ethnically-based conflict between Tajiks, Russians, and Uzbeks. Capital: Tashkent Area: 447,400 sq km (172,741 sq miles) Population: 24,091,000 (1998 est) Currency: sum Religions: Sunni Muslim; Eastern...
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Estonia
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...the last Russian troops withdrew from Estonia. Capital: Tallin Area: 45,111 sq km(17,413 sq miles) Population: 1,447,000 (1998 est) Currency: 1 kroon = 100 senti Religions: Lutheran Church Ethnic Groups: Estonian 62.0%; Russian 30...
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Leisler Rebellion
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Press, 1953. Voorhees, David W. "The 'Fervent Zeale' of Jacob Leisler." William and Mary Quarterly 51, no. 6 (July 1994): 447 – 472. A. C. Flick / a. r. See also Colonial Society ; New York City ; New York Colony .
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Levittown
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...housing shortage, the Levitts built the four-room look-alike dwellings at the rate of 150 per week, eventually producing 17,447 houses. The first 6,000 units, all Cape Cod – style, were offered for rental. But exploiting the availability...
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Real Estate Industry
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...housing and shopping centers that followed the war. William Levitt started building Levittown on Long Island in 1947, with 17,447 standardized houses produced at the rate of 36 per day for a population of 82,000, and by 1955 this type of sub-division...
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Toll Bridges and Roads
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...interstate standards and contributed to an integrated network. However, tolls were prohibited on all interstates beyond the 2,447 miles of toll expressways operating or under construction in 1956; additionally, federal highway aid could not be used for...
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Evil
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary
...in Africa, debased by savage natives into horrible practices. [Br. Lit.: Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness in Magill III, 447] lobelia traditional symbol of evil. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica , 175] Loki god of fire, evil, and strife who...
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Cottrell, Frederick Gardner
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Patentable Discoveries of Government Technical Research for the Benefit of Industry, ” in Chemical Age , 28 (1920), 447 – 450; “ The Problem of Nitrogen Fixation, I, II, III, ” ibid ., n.s. 11 (1924), 282...
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