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  1. Medford | Historic Town, Mystic River, Middlesex County | Britannica

    Dec 31, 2025 · It lies on Massachusetts Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean. The city proper has an unusually small area for a major city, and more than one-fourth of the total—including part of the …

  2. Massachusetts - Students | Britannica Kids | Homework Help

    Much of the heritage of the United States is embodied in Massachusetts. The windswept seacoast of this small northeastern state may have been the first part of what is now…

  3. Recitative | Baroque, Opera, Aria | Britannica

    The English word opera is an abbreviation of the Italian phrase opera in musica (“work in music”). It denotes a theatrical work consisting of a dramatic text, or libretto (“booklet”), that has been set to …

  4. Vienna State Opera | History & Facts | Britannica

    The English word opera is an abbreviation of the Italian phrase opera in musica (“work in music”). It denotes a theatrical work consisting of a dramatic text, or libretto (“booklet”), that has been set to …

  5. James Plimpton | American inventor | Britannica

    …was designed in 1863 by James Plimpton of Medford, Massachusetts, who broke from the in-line construction and used two parallel pairs of wheels, one set near the heel of the boot and the other …

  6. Tufts University - Encyclopedia Britannica

    Dec 9, 2025 · Tufts University, private, nonsectarian, coeducational institution of higher education, located in Medford where it meets Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S. Tufts grants undergraduate, …

  7. Medford | Rogue Valley, Jackson County, Wineries | Britannica

    Founded in 1884 as a depot on the Oregon and California (now Southern Pacific) Railroad, it was named for Medford, Massachusetts, and grew as a shipping point for pears and lumber.

  8. Opera | History & Facts | Britannica

    5 days ago · The English word opera is an abbreviation of the Italian phrase opera in musica (“work in music”). It denotes a theatrical work consisting of a dramatic text, or libretto (“booklet”), that has been …

  9. Fidelio | opera by Beethoven | Britannica

    In opera: Viennese masters Like Die Zauberflöte, Beethoven’s Fidelio (1805, revised 1806 and 1814) rose above the limitations of its singspiel genre, becoming something bigger and grander.

  10. Opera - German Romantic, Music, Drama | Britannica

    Dec 20, 2025 · Opera - German Romantic, Music, Drama: Romanticism—part philosophical, part literary, and part aesthetic—made its first appearances in opera in three works composed between …