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Inglewood
Inglewood city (1990 pop. 109,602), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential and industrial suburb of Los Angeles, in an oil-producing area; founded 1873, inc. 1908. Its manufactures include motor-vehicle parts, furniture, processed food, plastics, and electronic equipment. Northrop Rice Aviation... Read more |
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Forum Exhibition
Forum Exhibition (in full, Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters). An exhibition arranged in New York in 1916 by the critic Willard Huntington Wright with the support of the magazine The Forum, to which he was a regular contributor. The purpose of the exhibition was to pinpoint the best... Read more |
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Blandford Forum
Blandford Forum, England/UK Chipping Blandford, Blaneford St Mary Probably ‘Ford where Gudgeon are found’ from the Old English blægna ‘gudgeon’ and ford. The Latin forum ‘market’ was added in recognition of the former name Chipping Blandford from the... Read more |
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forum
forum market and meeting place in ancient Roman towns in Italy and later in the provinces, corresponding to the Greek agora . By extension the word forum often indicates the meeting itself in modern usage. The forum was usually square or rectangular in shape and had, among other buildings, a... Read more |
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Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski , 1882-1977, American conductor, b. London. Stokowski studied in England and at the Paris Conservatory. He was organist and choirmaster at St. Bartholomew's Church, New York City (1905-8), and was conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony (1909-12). As conductor of the Philadelphia... Read more |
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Court of Claims
COURT OF CLAIMS A state judicial tribunal established as the forum in which to bring certain types of lawsuits against the state or its political subdivisions, such as a county. The former designation given to a federal tribunal created in 1855 by Congress with original jurisdiction |
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Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre
Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre (New York). The 299‐seat performance space housed in the same building as the larger Vivian Beaumont Theatre is Lincoln Center's Off‐Broadway venue. Architect Eero Saarinen and scenic designer Jo Mielziner designed the two theatres as nontraditional... Read more |
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Nonaligned Movement
Nonaligned Movement organized movement of nations that attempted to form a third world force through a policy of nonalignment with the United States and Soviet Union. Yugoslavia, India, Indonesia, Egypt, and Ghana were instrumental in founding (1961) the movement, which grew out of the Bandung... Read more |
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Davos
Davos , town (1990 pop. 10,957), Grisons canton, E Switzerland, on the Landwasser River. It is a famous winter sports center and a health resort. Since 1971 (except for 2002-3), Davos has hosted the annual conference of what is now the World Economic Forum; the conference draws national leaders and... Read more |
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Imola
Imola , city (1991 pop. 62,567), Emilia-Romagna, N central Italy, on the Aemilian Way. It is an agricultural and market center, known for its ceramics. A Roman town ( Forum Cornelii ), it later (11th cent.) became a free commune. The city was subsequently ruled by tyrants (including the Visconti and... Read more |
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