11) Beaujolais. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...(bozhola´) (KEY) , hilly region, Rhone dept., E central France, W of the Saone between Macon and Lyons. It is one of the great wine areas of France, famous for its...
12) Saone-et-Loire. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Saône-et-Loire, (son-a-lwar´) (KEY) , department (1990 pop. 558,500), E France, in Burgundy. Macon is the capital....
13) Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...(si´dnstrik´r) (KEY) , 1892-1973, American author, b. Hillsboro, W.Va., grad. Randolph-Macon Women's College, 1914. Pearl Buck was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in...
14) Dodd, William Edward. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...American historian and diplomat, b. Clayton, N.C. He was professor of history at Randolph-Macon College (1900-1908) and at the Univ. of Chicago (1908-33). From June,...
15) Reed, Stanley Forman. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Reed, Stanley Forman, 1884-1980, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1938-57), b. Macon co., Ky. After receiving the B.A. degree from both Kentucky Wesleyan...
16) Saone. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...in the Vosges Mts. near Epinal, E France, and flowing SW past Gray, Chalon-sur-Saone, and Macon to join the Rhone River at Lyons. An important transportation link...
17) Ocmulgee. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Atlanta, NW Ga., by the confluence of the Yellow, South, and Alcovy rivers. It flows SE past Macon to join the Oconee River and form the Altamaha River near Lumber...
18) Auber, Daniel-Francois-Esprit. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
2001
...from his collaboration with the librettist Scribe. Their first success together was Le Macon (1825), and among the long succession that followed were Fra Diavolo...
19) Burgundy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...capital; other cities are Autun, Auxerre, Beaune, Bourg-en-Bresse, Chalon-sur-Saone, and Macon. 1Burgundy west of the Saone River is generally hilly; the southeast...
20) Lynchburg. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...supply base in the Civil War; in 1864, a Union attempt to take the city failed. Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg College, Virginia Theological Seminary and...
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