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Alps
Mountain system, S central Europe. The Alps extend in a crescent about 750 mi (1,200 km) from the Mediterranean coast between France and Italy to Vienna, and cover more than 80,000 sq mi (207,000 sq km). Several peaks rise above 10,000 ft (3,000 m); the highest is Mont Blanc. The Alps form a divide between the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Black Sea, and give rise to several major European rivers, incl. the Rhô ne, Danube, and Po. Glaciers cover about 1,500 sq mi (3,900 sq km), mostly at elevations above 10,000 ft (3,000 m). The St. Gotthard Pass is one of the Alps' notable tunnels. Grenoble, Innsbruck, and Bolzano are major alpine cities.
Edessa
Chief city (pop., 1991: 18,000), Macedonia, Greece. Located on a steep bluff above the valley of the Loudhiá s River, it is a prominent trading and agricultural center. The assumption that it was Aigai, the first capital of ancient Macedonia, has been challenged by archaeological discoveries at Verghina. Fought over by the Bulgarians, Byzantines, and Serbs, Edessa was taken by the Turks in the 15th cent. In 1912 it passed to Greece.
Fauset
U.S. novelist, critic, poet, and editor. Born in Snow Hill, N.J., she studied at Cornell and the Univ. Of Pennsylvania. As literary editor of The Crisis (1919-26), she discovered and encouraged writers of the Harlem Renaissance, incl. L. Hughes, C. Cullen, C. McKay, and Jean Toomer. In her own works, incl. her best-known novel, Comedy: American Style (1933), she portrayed mostly middle-class black characters forced to deal with self-hate as well as racial prejudice.
Faust
Legendary German necromancer or astrologer who sold his soul to the devil for knowledge and power. There was a historical Faust (perhaps two; both died c.1540), who traveled widely performing magic, referred to the devil as his crony, and had a wide reputation for evil. The Faustbuch (1587), a collection of tales purportedly by Faust, told of such reputed wizards as Merlin and Albertus Magnus. It was widely translated; an English version inspired C. Marlowe's Tragicall History of D. Faustus (1604), which emphasized Faust's eternal damnation. Magic manuals bearing Faust's name did a brisk business; the classic Magia naturalis et innaturalis was known to J. W. von Goethe, who, like G. Lessing, saw Faust's pursuit of knowledge as noble; in Goethe's great Faust the hero is redeemed. Inspired by Goethe, many artists took up the story, incl. H. Berlioz (in the dramatic cantata The Damnation of Faust) and C. Gounod (in the opera Faust).
flysch
Sequence of shales interbedded with thin, hard, graywacke-like sandstones. Such sequences are usually thousands of yards thick, but the individual beds are only a few inches to a few yards thick. The occasional presence of fossils indicates marine deposition. The term originally was applied to a formation of the Tertiary period in the N Alpine region, but it now ...
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