11) Chianti, Monti. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
..., small range of the Apennines, c.15 mi (25 km) long, in Tuscany, central Italy, W of the Arno River; rises to c.3,000 ft (915 m). The celebrated Chianti wines are...
12) Fiesole. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...and gardens of this tourist center are beautifully situated on a hill overlooking the Arno valley and the city of Florence. An ancient Etruscan town called Faesulae,...
13) Ligurian Sea. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of Corsica and Elba; the Gulf of Genoa is its northernmost part. The sea receives the Arno River from the east. The ports of Genoa, La Spezia, and Livorno are on...
14) Della-Cruscans. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...in Italy at the end of the 18th cent. who published pretentious, sentimental verse in The Arno (1784) and The Florence Miscellany (1785). Robert Merry, writing as...
15) Tiber. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...SW through Rome to empty into the Tyrrhenian Sea by two mouths. It is connected with the Arno River by the Chiana Canal, an important route between Rome and Florence....
16) Marshall Islands. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...reefs, and a land area of 70 sq mi (181 sq km). The major atolls are Majuro, the capital; Arno; Ailinglaplap; Jaluit, with a fine natural harbor, the archipelago's...
17) Ross, Harold Wallace. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...as E. B. White, Dorothy Parker, James Thurber, and Wolcott Gibbs, and in cartoons by Peter Arno and Charles Addams. 1See T. Kunkel, ed., Letters from the Editor:...
18) Ammanati, Bartolomeo. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...in 1557, he became architect to Cosimo de' Medici. He made the Santa Trinita bridge over the Arno and a number of fountains, among them the Neptune fountain for the...
19) Kapitza, Peter. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of open scientific thought in the USSR. Kapitza shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson....
20) Apennines. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...left 4800 people dead. Of the many rivers rising in the Apennines, the few important ones (Arno, Tiber, and Volturno) all flow W into the Tyrrhenian Sea. The N and...
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