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Franconia Notch (pass, New Hampshire, United States)
scenic pass between the towering peaks of the Franconia (east) and Kinsman (west) ranges in the White Mountains, northwestern New Hampshire, U.S. The pass is located in Grafton county just north of North Woodstock and is about 8 miles (13 km) long. An impressive example of glacial action, the pass includes at its southern end the Flume, a narrow gorge 70 feet ...
Franconia Stories (work by Abbot)
...from St. Nicholas” (1823), sounding against the successful lesson-cum-moral tales of Peter Parley (Goodrich) and the didactic “Rollo” series of Jacob Abbott. The latter’s Franconia Stories (1850–53), however, showing traces of Rousseau and Johann Pestalozzi, is the remote ancestor of those wholesome, humorous pictures of small-town child life in which.....
Franconian (language)
Dutch emerged as a structurally distinct branch of West Germanic as the result of language contact between speakers of North Sea Germanic and speakers of the South Germanic “Franconian,” or Frankish. The crucial early period of this contact occurred in the 7th and 8th centuries and resulted from the expansion of Frankish (Merovingian and early Carolingian) power into the western......
Franconian Forest (mountain region, Germany)
forested highland in extreme northeastern Bavaria Land (state), east-central Germany. It forms a physical and geological link between the highlands of the Fichtel Mountains and the Thuringian Forest. About 30 miles (50 km) long, the forest descends gently north and east toward the ...
Franconodal (Germany)
city, Rhineland-Palatinate Land (state), southwestern Germany. It lies just northwest of Mannheim. First mentioned as Franconodal, a fishing settlement, in 772, it was the site of a powerful Augustinian monastery from 1119 until it passed to the Palatinate in 1562 and was settled by Dutch Protestant refugees. It was chartered in 1577. Although it suffered heavily in the ...
Francophone Democratic Front (political organization, Belgium)
...minorities in several suburban boroughs. The Francophone countermobilization against what was regarded as Flemish interference in city affairs led to the formation of the Brussels-based Francophone Democratic Front in 1964. Whereas the Flemings were intent on preventing the Francophone influence from spreading further, the French-speaking residents of Brussels resented the......
Francqui, Émile (Belgian statesman)
Jaspar became prime minister of a coalition government in 1926 and implemented a series of financial policies designed by his finance minister, Émile Francqui, to remedy the economic crisis; these measures included devaluation of the currency, creation of new taxes, conversion of the public debt, nationalization of the railroads, and financing of public works. These measures revitalized......
Francs Peak (mountain, Wyoming, United States)
...A large plateau, the result of volcanic action, was uplifted in the area, and stream and glacial erosion have produced spectacular features. Eight summits exceed 12,000 feet (3,700 m), including Francs Peak (13,140 feet), the highest point. The range is a source for headstreams of the Bighorn River and embraces portions of the Gallatin, Shoshone, and Custer national forests and the extreme......
Franey, Pierre (French chef)
French chef (b. Jan. 13, 1921, Saint-Vinnemer, Fr.--d. Oct. 15, 1996, Southampton, Eng.), as the masterful head chef (1945-60) at the legendary Le Pavillon restaurant in New York City, used his culinary expertise to elevate the establishment to the rank of the country’s first world-class French restaurant; he later wo...
frangipane (pastry filling)
...Prior to baking, it is often glazed with gum arabic or decorated with chopped almonds, walnuts, raisins, or cherry bits. Macaroon crumbs are often added to ice creams, pie fillings, and puddings. Frangipane is a cream filling made by flavouring butter and crushed macaroons with lemon extract, rum, sherry, or brandy....
frangipani (plant)
Any of the shrubs or small trees that make up the genus Plumeria, in the dogbane family, native to the New World tropics and widely cultivated as ornamentals; also, a perfume derived from or imitating the odour of the flower of one species, P. rubra. The white-edged, yellow flowers of the Mexican frangipani (P. rubra acutifolia) ar...
Franjieh, Suleiman Kabalan (president of Lebanon)
Lebanese politician who, as a leader of one of Lebanon’s powerful Maronite Christian clans and president of Lebanon (1970–76), was considered to be in large part responsible for the country’s descent into civil war in the mid-1970s....
Franju, Georges (French director)
French motion-picture director noted for his short documentary films....
Frank (people)
member of a Germanic-speaking people who invaded the western Roman Empire in the 5th century. Dominating present-day northern France, Belgium, and western Germany, the Franks established the most powerful Christian kingdom of early medieval western Europe. The name France (Francia) is derived from their name....
Frank, Anne (German diarist)
young Jewish girl whose diary of her family’s two years in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands became a classic of war literature....
Frank, Annelies Marie (German diarist)
young Jewish girl whose diary of her family’s two years in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands became a classic of war literature....
Frank, Barnett (American politician)
American Democratic politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1981– ) and was one of the first openly gay members of Congress....
Frank, Barney (American politician)
American Democratic politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1981– ) and was one of the first openly gay members of Congress....
Frank, Erich (German-American philosopher)
German philosopher whose writings played a role in the emergence of the German existential movement. Neither an idealist nor a constructivist, as were his contemporaries, he believed philosophy’s role was to seek “faith” through understanding rather than religious spirituality or scientific experimentation....
Frank, Fräulein (Russian adventuress)
adventuress and pretender to the Russian throne who claimed to be the daughter of the unmarried empress Elizabeth (reigned 1741–62) and Count Aleksey G. Razumovsky....
Frank, Hans (German politician and jurist)
German politician and lawyer who served as governor-general of Poland during World War II....
Frank, Ilya Mikhaylovich (Soviet physicist)
Soviet winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1958 jointly with Pavel A. Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm, also of the Soviet Union. He received the award for explaining the phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation...
Frank J. Selke Trophy (sports award)
...for the top point scorer; the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy, for the player best combining clean play with a high degree of skill; the Conn Smythe Trophy, for the play-offs’ outstanding performer; the Frank J. Selke Trophy, for the best defensive forward; the Jack Adams Award, for the coach of the year; the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, for the player who best exemplifies sportsmanship,......
Frank, Jacob (Polish religious leader)
Jewish false messiah who claimed to be the reincarnation of Shabbetai Tzevi (1626–76). The most notorious of the false messiahs, he was the founder of the antirabbinical Frankist, or Zoharist, sect....
Frank, Jerome (American psychotherapist)
...distress through psychological techniques, any of which is employed by a trained therapist who adheres to a particular theory of both symptom causation and symptom relief. American psychiatrist Jerome D. Frank classified psychotherapies into “religio-magical” and “empirico-scientific” categories, with religio-magical approaches relying on the shared beliefs of the......
Frank, Johann Peter (German physician)
German physician who was a pioneer in public health....
Frank, John Paul (American lawyer)
American lawyer (b. Nov. 10, 1917, Appleton, Wis.—d. Sept. 7, 2002, Scottsdale, Ariz.), was involved in two of the most important U.S. Supreme Court cases of the second half of the 20th century: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), in which school segregation was declared unconstitutional, and Miranda v. Arizona (1966), which established police procedure...
Frank, Karl Hermann (German politician)
German Nazi of the Sudetenland who became the virtual ruler of Bohemia and Moravia and ordered the destruction of the Czech village of Lidice....
Frank, Leonhard (German writer)
German Expressionist novelist and playwright who used sensationalism and a compact and austere prose to dramatize a favourite theme—the destruction of the individual spirit by bourgeois society....
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (American newspaper)
...published his early sketches. He moved to the U.S. in 1848. There he founded numerous newspapers and journals, including the New York Journal (1854), Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (1855)—having changed his name in 1857—and Frank Leslie’s Boys’ and Girls’ Weekly (1...
Frank O’Connor Short Story Award
annual short-story award first bestowed in 2005 by the Munster Literature Centre (Tigh Litríochta) of Cork, Ire., in honour of Cork native Frank O’Connor, an Irish short-story writer, novelist, and playwright....
Frank, Otto (German businessman)
Early in the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler, Anne’s father, Otto Frank (1889–1980), a German businessman, took his wife and two daughters to live in Amsterdam. In 1941, after German forces occupied the Netherlands, Anne was compelled to transfer from a public to a Jewish school. Faced with deportation (supposedly to a forced-labour camp), the Franks went into hiding on July 9, 1942, wit...
Frank, Reuven (American news producer)
Canadian-born American news producer (b. Dec. 7, 1920, Montreal, Que.—d. Feb. 5, 2006, Englewood, N.J.), contributed a number of innovations in television news broadcasting as an NBC executive from 1950 to 1988. It was Frank who paired Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on The Huntley-Brinkley Report, a show that revolutionized television news with its dramatic use of images and narrati...
Frank, Robert (American photographer)
one of the most influential photographers of the mid-20th century, noted for ironic renderings of American life....
Frank, Sidney Edward (American businessman)
American businessman (b. Oct. 2, 1919, Montville, Conn.—d. Jan. 10, 2006, San Diego, Calif.), devised clever marketing strategies for the American launches of the German herbal liqueur Jägermeister, which became a mainstay among college students, and Grey Goose vodka, which became the best-selling premium vodka...
Frank, Sir Charles (English physicist)
English physicist known for his work in the study of crystals....
Frank, Sir Frederick Charles (English physicist)
English physicist known for his work in the study of crystals....
Frank, Stephen (American frontiersman)
...northwest of Lexington. Frankfort was founded in 1786 on the Kentucky River by General James Wilkinson. The name is a corruption of the name Frank’s Ford, which was derived from an incident in which Stephen Frank, a frontiersman, was killed (1780) in an Indian skirmish at a local fording place on the river. Twice during Frankfort’s early history the capitol building was burned, an...
Frank v. Mangum (law case)
...Kansas, in which the court struck down a Kansas statute prohibiting an employer from preventing union membership among his employees by force or coercion. Another memorable opinion, in Frank v. Mangum, drew vigorous dissent from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes on the grounds that it validated mob law. Pitney resigned from the court on Dec. 31, 1922....
Frank-Read mechanism (physics)
...Frank) confirmed Frank’s theory by presenting the first photographs of screw dislocations. In 1950 Frank and American physicist Thornton Read simultaneously discovered what came to be known as the Frank-Read mechanism for generating dislocations in a crystal....
Frank-Starling mechanism (medicine)
...is necessary for the dysfunctional ventricle to maintain normal cardiac output and stroke volume (the volume of blood ejected with each contraction). This acute compensatory mechanism, called the Frank-Starling mechanism (named for German physiologist Otto Frank and British physiologist Ernest Henry Starling), may be sufficient in patients with mild heart failure who only require ventricular......
Frankau, Hazel (American theatrical designer and writer)
theatrical designer and writer, the first major woman designer for the American stage....
Frankel, Bernice (American entertainer)
May 13, 1922New York, N.Y.April 25, 2009Los Angeles, Calif.American actress who portrayed an outspoken, acerbic-tongued feminist in the television sitcom Maude (1972–78) and a sharp-witted divorcée who shares a home with her mother (played by Estelle Getty) and two othe...
Frankel, Zacharias (German theologian)
rabbi and theologian, a founder of what became Conservative Judaism....
Franken (historical duchy, Germany)
one of the five great stem, or Stamm (tribal), duchies—the other four being Saxony, Lotharingia (Lorraine), Swabia, and Bavaria—of early medieval Germany. Today it is divided between Rhenish Franconia, now located in the Länder (states) of Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, and Hesse, and East Franconia, now in the Länder of Baden-W...
Franken, Al (American comedian, political commentator, and politician)
American comedian, political commentator, and Democratic U.S. senator from Minnesota (2009– )....
Franken, Alan Stuart (American comedian, political commentator, and politician)
American comedian, political commentator, and Democratic U.S. senator from Minnesota (2009– )....
Frankenhausen, Battle of (German history)
Müntzer appealed to the Saxon princes to implement his program, but they banished him. He found a following among the rebels of the German Peasants’ Revolt (1524–25) and led them at the Battle of Frankenhausen, where they were butchered, and he was captured and beheaded. Luther execrated Müntzer’s memory because he seized the sword in defense of the gospel and ch...
Frankenheimer, John (American director)
American television and film director who was considered one of the most important and creatively gifted directors of the 1950s and early ’60s, especially noted for such classic movies as The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). He enjoyed a second surge of success in the 1990s when he produced a number of outstand...
Frankenheimer, John Michael (American director)
American television and film director who was considered one of the most important and creatively gifted directors of the 1950s and early ’60s, especially noted for such classic movies as The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). He enjoyed a second surge of success in the 1990s when he produced a number of outstand...
Frankeniaceae (plant family)
...Central Asia but scarce in other ecosystems. The cactus family is very prominent in deserts in the Americas but absent elsewhere. Another example is the smaller and generally less well-known family Frankeniaceae, which is typical of salty habitats and reaches its greatest diversity in deserts from North Africa to Central Asia and in western South America....
Frankenstein (monster)
the title character in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, the prototypical “mad scientist” who creates a monster by which he is eventually killed. The name Frankenstein has become popularly attached to the creature itself, who has become the best-known monster in the history of motion pictures....
Frankenstein (film by Whale [1931])
American horror film, released in 1931, that was based on a stage adaptation of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The film’s hulking monster, portrayed by Boris Karloff with a flat head and protruding neck bolts, is one of the most recognizable characters ...
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (novel by Shelley)
the title character in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, the prototypical “mad scientist” who creates a monster by which he is eventually killed. The name Frankenstein has become popularly attached to the creature itself, who has become the best-known monster in the history of motion pictures....
Frankenstein Unbound (film by Corman)
...enormous, in large part because of his discovery and promotion of young actors and directors. Though Corman officially retired from directing in 1971, he made a comeback with the well-received Frankenstein Unbound (1990), starring Raul Julia and Bridget Fonda. In that year he also published his autobiography, the aptly titled How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a.....
Frankenthal (Germany)
city, Rhineland-Palatinate Land (state), southwestern Germany. It lies just northwest of Mannheim. First mentioned as Franconodal, a fishing settlement, in 772, it was the site of a powerful Augustinian monastery from 1119 until it passed to the Palatinate in 1562 and was settled by Dutch Protestant refugees. It was chartered in 1577. Although it suffered heavily in the ...
Frankenthaler, Helen (American painter)
American Abstract Expressionist painter whose brilliantly coloured canvases have been much admired for their lyric qualities....
Frankenwald (mountain region, Germany)
forested highland in extreme northeastern Bavaria Land (state), east-central Germany. It forms a physical and geological link between the highlands of the Fichtel Mountains and the Thuringian Forest. About 30 miles (50 km) long, the forest descends gently north and east toward the ...
Frankfort (Kentucky, United States)
capital (since 1792) of Kentucky, U.S., and seat of Franklin county, located 50 miles (80 km) east of Louisville and 26 miles (42 km) northwest of Lexington. Frankfort was founded in 1786 on the Kentucky River by General James Wilkinson. The name is a corruption of the name Frank’s Ford, which was...
Frankfort, Henri (American archaeologist)
American archaeologist who completed a well-documented reconstruction of ancient Mesopotamian culture, established the relation between Egypt and Mesopotamia, and discovered much new information on both civilizations....
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
city, Hessen Land (state), western Germany. The city lies along the Main River about 19 miles (30 km) upstream from its confluence with the Rhine River at Mainz. Pop. (2003 est.) city, 643,432; (2000 est.) urban agglom., 3,681,000....
Frankfurt am Main City Zoological Garden (zoo, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
municipal zoological garden in Frankfurt am Main, Ger. It was founded in 1858 by the Frankfurt Zoological Society. Because the original site of the zoo was not large enough to allow for the expansion of the collection, in 1874 the zoo was relocated to ...
Frankfurt an der Oder (Germany)
city, Brandenburg Land (state), eastern Germany. It lies on the west bank of the Oder River opposite the Polish town of Słubice, which before 1945 was the Frankfurt suburb of Dammvorstadt. An early medieval settlement of Franconian colonists and traders, Frankfurt was chartered in 1253 and joined...
Frankfurt Ballet (ballet company)
...his own dynamic and unconventional vision. Forsythe left the company in 1980 to freelance and created works for companies that included the Munich State Opera Ballet, Netherlands Dance Theatre, the Frankfurt Ballet, and the Paris Opéra Ballet....
Frankfurt, Diet of
...in 1308 as Henry VII. The house of Luxembourg (Luxemburg) was not a major territorial power, and Henry lost no time in exploiting his new status to extend its possessions. Under his direction the Diet of Frankfurt (1310) closed the long-disputed question of the Bohemian succession by awarding the kingdom, with the consent of the Bohemian estates, to Henry’s son John. Thus, in common with...
Frankfurt, Harry (American philosopher)
...the hard determinist’s argument at a different juncture. In an influential paper, Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility (1969), the American philosopher Harry Frankfurt questioned whether the ability to do otherwise is truly necessary for freedom. Suppose that John is on his way to a voting booth and is undecided about whether to vote for candidate A...
Frankfurt International Airport (airport, Frankfurt, Germany)
Where one building must serve a larger number of aircraft gates, the pier concept, originally developed in the 1950s, has been found very useful. Frankfurt International Airport in Germany and Schiphol Airport near Amsterdam still use such terminals. In the late 1970s, pier designs at Chicago’s O’Hare and Atlanta’s Hartsfield successfully handled in excess of 45 million mainly...
Frankfurt Land Company (German association)
...law in Germany and, from 1680 to 1682, traveled throughout western Europe as a tutor to a young German noble. In April 1683 he became the agent for an association of German Quakers, called the Frankfurt Land Company, who wished to purchase land within the Pennsylvania proprietorship. Pastorius arrived in Philadelphia that summer, purchased 15,000 acres of land from William Penn, and in the......
Frankfurt National Assembly (German history)
German national parliament (May 1848–June 1849) that tried and failed to create a united German state during the liberal Revolutions of 1848....
Frankfurt on the Main (Germany)
city, Hessen Land (state), western Germany. The city lies along the Main River about 19 miles (30 km) upstream from its confluence with the Rhine River at Mainz. Pop. (2003 est.) city, 643,432; (2000 est.) urban agglom., 3,681,000....
Frankfurt School (German research group)
group of researchers associated with the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, Ger., who applied Marxism to a radical interdisciplinary social theory. The Institute for Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung) was founded by Carl Grünberg in 1923 as an adjunct of the Univ...
Frankfurt, Treaty of (Europe [1871])
...the most outspoken critic of Napoleon III’s foreign policy and had repeatedly warned the country of the Prussian danger. He set out at once to negotiate a settlement with Bismarck; on March 1 the Treaty of Frankfurt was ratified by a large majority of the assembly. The terms were severe: France was charged a war indemnity of five billion francs plus the cost of maintaining a German occup...
Frankfurt Zoo (zoo, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
municipal zoological garden in Frankfurt am Main, Ger. It was founded in 1858 by the Frankfurt Zoological Society. Because the original site of the zoo was not large enough to allow for the expansion of the collection, in 1874 the zoo was relocated to ...
frankfurter (sausage)
highly seasoned sausage, traditionally of mixed pork and beef. Frankfurters are named for Frankfurt am Main, Ger., the city of their origin, where they were sold and eaten at beer gardens....
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German newspaper)
daily newspaper published in Frankfurt am Main, one of the most prestigious and influential in Germany....
Frankfurter, Felix (United States jurist)
associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1939–62), a noted scholar and teacher of law, who was in his time the high court’s leading exponent of the doctrine of judicial self-restraint. He held that judges should adhere closely to precedent, disregarding their own opinions, and decide only “whether legislators could in reason have enacted such a law.”...
Frankfurter Gelehrte Anzeigen (German periodical)
...in manuscript, and Goethe, already well-connected at the cultivated local court of Darmstadt, was asked to start reviewing for a new intellectual Frankfurt journal, the Frankfurter Gelehrte Anzeigen (“Frankfurt Review of Books”), which was hostile to the enlightened despotism of the German princely states, notably Prussia and Austria. He thereby......
Frankfurter Nationalversammlung (German history)
German national parliament (May 1848–June 1849) that tried and failed to create a united German state during the liberal Revolutions of 1848....
Frankie and Johnny (ballad)
...Musgrave” is killed by Lord Barnard when he is discovered in bed with Lady Barnard, and the lady, too, is gorily dispatched. The murders of “Jim Fisk,” Johnny of “Frankie and Johnny,” and many other ballad victims are prompted by sexual jealousy. One particular variety of crime ballad, the “last goodnight”, represents itself falsely to be the......
frankincense (gum resin)
aromatic gum resin containing a volatile oil that was valued in ancient times in worship and as a medicine and is still an important incense resin. Frankincense is obtained from trees of the genus Boswellia (family Burseraceae), and particularly...
frankincense family (plant family)
family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales, composed of about 16 genera of resinous trees and shrubs. They are native primarily to tropical America, but a few species occur in Africa and Asia. Members of the family have leaves that alternate along the stem and are composed of many leaflets, solitary or clustered flow...
Frankish dialect (language)
...marking; and an eastern area (Limburg, eastern North Brabant, Gelderland), where umlaut alternations are still used for morphological marking. These dialects have traditionally been called “Frankish”; the dialects of the northeastern part of the Netherlands (Overijssel, Drenthe, Groningen) have been called “Saxon” and show certain affinities with Low German dialects ...
Frankist sect (Jewish religion)
Jewish false messiah who claimed to be the reincarnation of Shabbetai Tzevi (1626–76). The most notorious of the false messiahs, he was the founder of the antirabbinical Frankist, or Zoharist, sect....
Frankl, Viktor Emil (Austrian psychologist)
Austrian psychiatrist and psychotherapist (b. March 26, 1905, Vienna, Austria--d. Sept. 2, 1997, Vienna), developed the psychological approach known as logotherapy, widely recognized as the "third school" of Viennese psychotherapy after the "first school" of Sigmund Freud and the "second school" of ...
Frankland, Agnes Surriage, Lady (American colonial figure)
American colonial figure whose romantic ascent from humble beginnings to British nobility made her the subject of many fictional accounts....
Frankland, Sir Edward (British scientist)
English chemist who was one of the first investigators in the field of structural chemistry....
Franklin (Washington, United States)
city, Pierce county, western Washington, U.S., on the Puyallup River. Settled in 1854 and known as Franklin, it was destroyed in a raid (1855) by Puyallup and Nisqually Indians from whom the land had been claimed. The area was resettled by Ezra Meeker in 1859. Laid out in 1877, it was named Puyallup, meaning “generous people” in the Puyallup language. Located in an...
Franklin (county, Maine, United States)
county, west-central Maine, U.S. It consists of a mountainous region bordered to the northwest by Quebec, Canada. Some of the county’s highest peaks—Mount Abraham and Sugarloaf, Crocker, and Saddleback mountains—are located along the Appalachian National Scenic Trail. The chief waterways are Rangeley, Webb, and Kennebago lakes and the Sand...
Franklin (New Hampshire, United States)
city, Merrimack county, central New Hampshire, U.S., at the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers (there forming the Merrimack). The locality was settled in 1748 as Salisbury and was renamed for Benjamin Franklin when the present town was formed in 1828 from parts of Andover, Northfield, Salisbury, and Sanbornton. It was ch...
Franklin (county, Pennsylvania, United States)
county, southern Pennsylvania, U.S., bordered to the south by Maryland and to the west by Tuscarora Mountain. The county, lying almost wholly within the Appalachian Ridge and Valley physiographic province, consists of a broad central valley that rises to mountains in the west and east. The principal waterw...
Franklin (county, New York, United States)
county, northeastern New York state, U.S., bordered by Quebec, Canada, to the north and mostly occupied by Adirondack Park (1892), one of the largest parks in the United States and the nation’s first forest preserve. The low hills in the north, forested in hardwoods, give way to the Adirond...
Franklin (county, Massachusetts, United States)
county, northwestern Massachusetts, U.S., bordered by New Hampshire and Vermont to the north. It consists of a mountainous, forested region bisected north-south by the Connecticut River. Other waterways include the Deerfield, Millers, and Falls rivers and part of Quabbin Reservoir, one of the world’s largest impoundments of high-quality water. More than...
Franklin (county, Vermont, United States)
county, northwestern Vermont, U.S. It is bordered by Quebec, Canada, to the north, Lake Champlain to the west, and the Green Mountains to the east. The lowlands of the west rise up into the foothills and mountains of the east. The principal waterway is the Missisquoi River, which flows through the Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge and empt...
Franklin (historical state, United States)
unofficial state (1785–90) of the United States of America, comprising the eastern portion of what is now Tennessee and extending to “unclaimed” lands to the west....
Franklin (Tennessee, United States)
city, seat of Williamson county, central Tennessee, U.S., on the Harpeth River, about 20 miles (32 km) south of Nashville. Settled in 1799 and named for Benjamin Franklin, it was a highly successful agricultural centre prior to the American Civil War. It is known for the bloody battle fought there on November 30, 1864....
Franklin (Pennsylvania, United States)
city, seat of Venango county, northwest Pennsylvania, U.S., at the junction of French Creek and the Allegheny River, 70 miles (113 km) north of Pittsburgh. The site was early occupied by the Indian village of Venango and after 1750 by forts of the French (Fort-Machault), the British (Fort Venango), and the Americans (Fort Franklin). The U.S....
Franklin and Marshall College (college, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States)
private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is a liberal arts college offering bachelor’s degree programs only, including preprofessional curriculums. Students can study in England,...
Franklin, Aretha (American singer)
American singer who defined the golden age of soul music of the 1960s. Franklin’s mother, Barbara, was a gospel singer and pianist. Her father, C.L. Franklin, presided over the New Bethel Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan, and was a minister of national influence. A singer himself, he was noted fo...
Franklin, Aretha Louise (American singer)
American singer who defined the golden age of soul music of the 1960s. Franklin’s mother, Barbara, was a gospel singer and pianist. Her father, C.L. Franklin, presided over the New Bethel Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan, and was a minister of national influence. A singer himself, he was noted fo...
Franklin, Battle of (United States history)
city, seat of Williamson county, central Tennessee, U.S., on the Harpeth River, about 20 miles (32 km) south of Nashville. Settled in 1799 and named for Benjamin Franklin, it was a highly successful agricultural centre prior to the American Civil War. It is known for the bloody battle fought there on November 30, 1864....