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Abbot, Charles Greeley

2005-03-17T19:38:00.000-08:00

The youngest of four children of a New Hampshire farming family,

Ufer, Walter

2005-03-15T14:55:00.000-08:00

Ufer studied at the Royal Academy in Dresden, Ger., and at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1911 he abandoned a career in advertising to study painting in Munich and to travel across

Elijah

2005-03-13T20:04:00.000-08:00

Elijah was from Tishbe in Gilead. The narrative in 1 Kings relates how he suddenly appears during Ahab's reign to proclaim a drought in punishment of the cult of Baal that Jezebel was promoting in Israel at Yahweh's expense. Later Elijah meets 450 prophets of Baal in a contest of strength on Mount Carmel to determine which deity is the true God of Israel. Sacrifices are placed

Caucasian Languages

2005-03-10T00:43:00.000-08:00

The North Caucasian languages are divided into two groups: Abkhazo-Adyghian, or the Northwest Caucasian, languages, and Nakho-Dagestanian, or the Northeast Caucasian, languages.

Chaffinch

2005-03-09T02:55:00.000-08:00

(Fringilla coelebs), songbird of the family Fringillidae (order Passeriformes) that breeds in gardens and farmlands of Europe and northern Africa to central Asia (and, by introduction, South Africa). It is the commonest finch in western Europe. The 15-centimetre (6-inch) male is bluish crowned, with rust-brown back, greenish rump, and pinkish to rust face and

Tolima

2005-03-07T13:17:00.000-08:00

Departamento, central Colombia, extending from the Andean Cordillera (mountains) Central across the Magdalena River valley to the Cordillera Oriental. Created in 1861, it occupies an area of 9,097 square miles (23,562 square km). The department ranks first in Colombia in the production of rice and sesame; other crops grown in Tolima include cotton, coffee, corn (maize), bananas, sugarcane,

Africa, Volcanism and rifting

2005-03-04T08:54:00.000-08:00

Tectonic movements during the Miocene and Pliocene scored the African continent with a network of faults that generally trended northeast to southwest and northwest to southeast. Volcanic eruptions and basaltic upwellings accompanied fracturing in the Ahaggar area of southern Algeria, in the Tibesti area of Libya and Chad, in Ethiopia, throughout East Africa,

Mithradates Ii

2005-03-02T11:22:00.000-08:00

Mithradates recovered the eastern provinces that had been overrun by invading Saka nomads during his father's reign. In the west he conquered Mesopotamia and defeated the Armenian king Artavasdes, whose son Tigranes (later Tigranes II) became a Parthian hostage and was redeemed only for the cession

France, History Of, The religious wars and the monarchy

2005-02-28T08:47:00.000-08:00

This succession of civil disturbances brought the French state close to disintegration and posed a threat to the crown that would not be matched again until 1789. The key factor in producing this situation lay in the nature of Calvinism, which provided both a rallying point for a wide cross section of opposition and the organization necessary to make that opposition

Earth, Crustal magnetization

2005-02-27T23:44:00.000-08:00

Magnetic fields measured at the Earth's surface are not entirely produced by the internal dynamo. Radially outward from the Earth's core, the next major source of magnetic field is crustal magnetization. The temperature of the materials constituting the crust is cool enough for them to exist in solid form. The solids may become magnetized by the Earth's main field

Smith, Eliza Roxey Snow

2005-02-24T20:19:00.000-08:00

Eliza Snow grew up from the age of two in Mantua, Ohio. Her family was deeply religious and in the 1820s joined the Campbellite sect of “reformed Baptists.” Mormon proselytizers went to their region

Welk, Lawrence

2005-02-22T21:08:00.000-08:00

Welk, who was raised in a German-speaking hamlet in North Dakota, did not learn English until he was 21, developing an accent that

Lateen Sail

2005-02-21T13:15:00.000-08:00

Triangular sail that was of decisive importance to medieval navigation. The ancient square sail permitted sailing only before the wind; the lateen was the earliest fore-and-aft sail. The triangular sail was affixed to a long yard or crossbar, mounted at its middle to the top of the mast and angled to extend aft far above the mast and forward down nearly to the deck. The

Teófilo Otoni

2005-02-18T21:17:00.000-08:00

City, east central Minas Gerais state, Brazil, on the Rio Todos os Santos in the Rio Mucuri Valley, at 1,047 ft (319 m) above sea level. It was given city status in 1878. Teófilo Otoni is a trade centre for an agricultural hinterland in which coffee is the principal crop. Livestock raising is also of some importance, and the city has manufacturing and food-processing plants. Extensive mining

Edmund I

2005-02-16T07:20:00.000-08:00

He was the son of the West Saxon king Edward the Elder (reigned 899–924) and the half brother of King Athelstan (reigned 924–939), under whom the political unification of England had been accomplished. On Athelstan's death (939), Olaf Guthfrithson, the Norse king of Dublin,

Chrétien De Troyes

2005-02-14T18:58:00.000-08:00

Little is known of Chrétien's life. He apparently frequented the court

Priapism

2005-02-13T18:19:00.000-08:00

When normal erection occurs, the sides and the bottom of the penis, the corpora cavernosa and the corpus spongiosum, respectively, become engorged with blood so that the penis enlarges, hardens, and assumes an erect position. The major symptom of priapism is pain and tenderness

Furniture, Kinds of accessory furnishings

2005-02-11T06:56:00.000-08:00

Besides the aforementioned kinds of furniture and all the many special forms (which it would be almost impossible to list), there is an extensive group of accessory furnishings that is not furniture in the strict sense but, nevertheless, constitutes an important element in the furnishing of interiors. Included here are clocks and other mechanical works, mirrors,

Guadalupian Stage

2005-02-09T17:56:00.000-08:00

In Guadalupian time the conditions

Iphigeneia

2005-02-07T03:55:00.000-08:00

Iphigeneia served as a key figure

Rhynchotreta

2005-02-04T22:58:00.000-08:00

Extinct genus of brachiopods (lamp shells) commonly found as fossils in Silurian marine rocks (between 438 and 408 million years old). Its small, roughly triangular shell is prominently ornamented by distinct ridges that run lengthwise to the shell margin. Because of its limited time range, Rhynchotreta is a good guide, or index, fossil for Silurian rocks and time.

Potrerillos

2005-02-02T02:40:00.000-08:00

Mining area, Atacama región, northern Chile. The open-pit copper mine lies in the Andean Atacama Desert, 9,440 feet (2,877 m) above sea level and 75 miles (120 km) inland from the port of Chañaral, to which it is linked by rail. Although the deposits are smaller and the ores of poorer quality than at Chuquicamata, the mine and smelter at Potrerillos contribute a substantial portion of Chile's

Jacmel

2005-02-01T02:08:00.000-08:00

Town and port, on the southern coast of Haiti, 24 miles (39 km) southwest of Port-au-Prince across the Tiburon Peninsula. Situated on a hillside overlooking palm-fringed Jacmel Bay, the town flourished under the French as a port for transshipment of sugar, coffee, and cotton. It continues as a commercial centre for such products as bananas, cacao, and honey. After a good road was

Barcelona, Archaeological Museum Of

2005-01-30T22:57:00.000-08:00

In full Archaeological Museum Of Barcelona And Institute Of Prehistory And Archaeology, Spanish Museo Arqueológica De Barcelona E Instituto De Prehistoria Y Arqueología, institution in Barcelona, Spain, notable for its collection of prehistoric objects and for its collection of ancient Greek and Roman art and examples illustrating Iberian archaeology. Exhibits include a scale model of a part of the excavation at Ampurias (Emporiae) and displays of Greek vases, glass, and sculpture. There is a fine statue of Asclepius of the 4th century

Fajardo

2005-01-27T01:13:00.000-08:00

Town, eastern Puerto Rico, on the Fajardo River lowlands. Founded in 1772, it was the scene of fighting during the Spanish–American War (1898). Its principal manufactures are cigars, furniture, and metal and electronic components. It is linked by railway to San Juan and lies about 2 miles (3 km) from its port, Playa de Fajardo, which exports sugar. The town is a tourist centre. The University

Franc

2005-01-26T09:30:00.000-08:00

Originally a French coin but now the monetary unit of a number of countries, notably Switzerland, most French and former Belgian overseas territories, and some African states; at one time it was also the currency of France, Belgium, and Luxembourg. The name was first applied to a gold coin minted by King John II of France in 1360, which bore on one face the Latin legend Johannes

J.p. Morgan Chase & Co.

2005-01-24T11:56:00.000-08:00

The Morgan branch of the corporation traces its history to J.P. Morgan and Company, Inc. (established 1895), and Guaranty Trust Company of New York (1864), which merged in 1959. The bank was renamed Morgan Guaranty

Granite

2005-01-21T05:05:00.000-08:00

Because of its use as paving block and as a building stone, the quarrying of granite was, at one time, a major industrial activity. Except for tombstones, however, for which there

Mammal, The skin and hair

2005-01-19T03:03:00.000-08:00

The skin of mammals is constructed of two layers, a superficial nonvascular epidermis and an inner layer, the dermis or corium. The two layers interdigitate in dermal papillae (fingerlike projections), ridges of sensitive vascular dermis projecting into the epidermis. The outermost layers of the epidermis are cornified (i.e., impregnated with various tough proteins)

Rushworth, John

2005-01-18T04:26:00.000-08:00

Rushworth studied law, perhaps at the University of Oxford (from which he received an M.A. in 1649), and in 1638 was made

Nabul

2005-01-15T19:19:00.000-08:00

Also spelled Nabeul, Latin Neapolis, town, northeastern Tunisia, on the Hammamet Gulf. Formerly a Phoenician settlement, it was destroyed by the Romans in 146 BC and later rebuilt as a Roman colony called Neapolis. It is a noted pottery and ceramics handicraft centre and the eastern terminus of a railroad from Tunis, 40 miles (65 km) northwest. Other industries include stone cutting, quarrying (chalk), citrus fruit and

Gambetta, Léon

2005-01-12T05:29:00.000-08:00

French republican statesman who helped direct the defense of France during the Franco-German War of 1870–71. In helping to found the Third Republic, he made three essential contributions: first, by his speeches and articles, he converted many Frenchmen to the ideals of moderate democratic republicanism. Second, by his political

Indigo

2005-01-10T10:27:00.000-08:00

The naturally occurring precursor

Jainism, Jainism and Islam

2005-01-07T02:18:00.000-08:00

Muslim influence on Jainism can be seen in a number of areas. It has been suggested that the concept of ashatanas—activities that are unsuitable or indecent in a temple—reveals a notion of the sanctity of the temple that recalls Muslim barakah (“holiness”) more than any traditional Jain attitude. The most obvious Islamic influence is in the repudiation of image worship

Apse

2005-01-05T05:38:00.000-08:00

In architecture, a semicircular or polygonal termination to the choir, chancel, or aisle of a secular or ecclesiastical building. First used in pre-Christian Roman architecture, the apse often functioned as an enlarged niche to hold the statue of a deity in a temple. It was also used in the thermae of ancient baths and in basilicas such as the imperial basilica in the

Ukrainka, Lesya

2005-01-03T06:31:00.000-08:00

The daughter of intellectuals, Ukrainka was stricken

Mauermayer, Gisela

2005-01-01T03:34:00.000-08:00

Mauermayer began participating in track-and-field competitions at the age of 13. By 1930 she was competing internationally, and in 1934 she won the first women's pentathlon, at the Women's

Aerospace Industry, Product development and testing

2004-12-30T09:53:00.000-08:00

Initiation of the product development process differs between the military and commercial sectors. In the United States the defense services normally provide detailed mission specifications for desired products, against which contractors submit proposals as part of a competitive process. Proposals are reviewed, and one or more development contractors

Jacobi, Mary Putnam

2004-12-28T22:02:00.000-08:00

Mary Putnam was the daughter of George Palmer Putnam, founder of the publishing firm of G.P. Putnam's Sons, and was an elder sister of Herbert Putnam, later librarian of Congress. The family returned from England in 1848, and Mary grew

Medicine, Naval and air force medicine

2004-12-27T06:08:00.000-08:00

Naval medical services are run on lines similar to those of the army. Junior medical officers are attached to ships or to shore stations and deal with most cases of sickness in their units. When at sea, medical officers have an exceptional degree of responsibility in that they work alone, unless they are on a very large ship. In peacetime, only the larger ships carry a

Midwestern Regionalism

2004-12-24T07:47:00.000-08:00

American literary movement of the late 19th century that centred on the realistic depiction of Middle Western small town and rural life. The movement was an early stage in the development of American Realistic writing. E.W. Howe's Story of a Country Town (1883) and Joseph Kirkland's Zury (1887) and The McVeys (1888) foreshadowed the stories and novels of Hamlin Garland, the foremost representative

Bignoniaceae

2004-12-23T14:03:00.000-08:00

The trumpet creeper or catalpa family of the figwort order of flowering plants (Scrophulariales). It contains about 112 genera and more than 725 species of trees, shrubs, and, most commonly, vines, chiefly of tropical America, tropical Africa, and the Indo-Malayan region. They form an important part of the tropical forest vegetation because of the numerous

China, Yüan China and the West

2004-12-20T02:33:00.000-08:00

As mentioned above, Mongol rulers favoured trade in all their dominions. In China, too, they eliminated state trade controls that had existed under the Sung and Chin, so that internal and external trade reached unprecedented proportions. It seems, however, that China's transcontinental trade with the Middle East and Europe was in the hands of non-Chinese (Persians,

Bar Form

2004-12-19T05:21:00.000-08:00

In music, the structural pattern aab as used by the medieval German minnesingers and meistersingers, who were poet-composers of secular monophonic songs (i.e., those having a single line of melody). The modern term Bar form derives from a medieval verse form, the Bar, consisting of three stanzas, each having the form aab. The musical term thus refers to the melody of a single

Aroostook War

2004-12-17T23:05:00.000-08:00

(1838–39), bloodless conflict over the disputed boundary between the U.S. state of Maine and the British Canadian province of New Brunswick. The peace treaty of 1783 ending the American Revolution had left unclear the location of a supposed “highlands,” or watershed, dividing the two areas. Negotiators from Britain and the United States in subsequent years failed to come to an agreement,

Ueno Zoological Garden

2004-12-15T19:49:00.000-08:00

Japanese Ueno Dobutsuen, oldest and most famous zoological garden in Japan. It was founded in 1882, and its administration was transferred to the Tokyo city government in 1924. Occupying a 32-acre (13-hectare) site in the Ueno district of Tokyo, it is landscaped in traditional Japanese style. The zoo saw much damage in World War II but was rebuilt within 10 years, mainly along prewar lines. A modernization program

Elk

2004-12-13T17:09:00.000-08:00

Elk county was created in 1843. The principal communities are St. Marys, Johnsonburg, and Ridgway, which is the county seat.

Elf Owl

2004-12-11T04:10:00.000-08:00

(Micrathene whitneyi), tiny bird of prey of the family Strigidae (order Strigiformes) of Mexico and the southwestern United States. It is the smallest owl and is about the size of a sparrow. In the cactus deserts, elf owls are among the most common birds, but they also inhabit forested areas, dry grasslands, and wet savanna. They nest in holes in cacti

Iraq, The end of Ottoman rule

2004-12-09T02:29:00.000-08:00

In spite of the European commercial

Bulgarian Language

2004-12-04T20:50:00.000-08:00

Bulgarian Bulgarski ezik South Slavic language written in the Cyrillic alphabet and spoken in Bulgaria and parts of Greece, Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine. Together with Macedonian, to which it is most closely related, Bulgarian contrasts sharply with the other Slavic languages in its almost complete loss of case declension in the noun and in its use of certain grammatical features found

Osei Tutu

2004-12-03T01:34:00.000-08:00

Osei Tutu had been a hostage in the Denkyera court but had escaped eastward to the powerful state of

Anselm Of Canterbury, Saint

2004-11-30T16:58:00.000-08:00

Founder of Scholasticism, a philosophical school of thought that dominated the Middle Ages; he was recognized in modern times as the originator of the ontological argument for the existence of God (based on the idea of an absolutely perfect being, the fact of the idea being in itself

Feldman, Morton

2004-11-29T03:07:00.000-08:00

Feldman studied composition with Wallingford Riegger and Stefan Wolpe. In the 1950s, much more influenced by Abstract Expressionist painters than by other composers, he began using a method of graphic notation that included such devices as indicating

Sachs, (ferdinand Gustav) Julius Von

2004-11-27T09:37:00.000-08:00

Sachs became an assistant to the physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkinje at the University of Prague, where he received the Ph.D. in 1856. In 1859 he was appointed

Valens

2004-11-24T23:34:00.000-08:00

Eastern Roman emperor from 364 to 378. He was the younger brother of Valentinian I, who assumed the throne upon the death of the emperor Jovian (Feb. 17, 364). On March 28, 364, Valentinian appointed Valens to be co-emperor. Valens was assigned to rule the Eastern part of the empire, while Valentinian took the throne in the West. Soon Valens was challenged by the pagan Procopius, who had himself

Benedict (x)

2004-11-22T18:33:00.000-08:00

Original name Giovanni Mincio , Latin Johannes Mincius antipope from April 1058 to January 1059. His expulsion from the papal throne, on which he had been placed through the efforts of the powerful Tusculani family of Rome, was followed by a reform in the law governing papal elections. The new law, enacted in 1059, established an electoral body, which subsequently became the Sacred College of Cardinals, charged with

Nageire

2004-11-20T06:40:00.000-08:00

(Japanese: “thrown in”), in Japanese floral art, the style of arranging that stresses fresh and spontaneous designs adhering only loosely to the classical principles of triangular structure and colour harmony. A single long branch with shorter branches and flowers at the base arranged in a tall upright vase are characteristic of the nageire style. Nageire was originally

China, The Ch'ang-pai Mountains

2004-11-19T10:30:00.000-08:00

To the southeast of the Manchurian Plain is a series of ranges comprising the Ch'ang-pai, Chang-kuang-ts'ai, and Wan-ta mountains, which in Chinese are collectively known as the Ch'ang-pai Shan, or “Forever White Mountains”; broken by occasional open valleys, they reach altitudes mostly between 1,500 and 3,000 feet. In some parts the scenery is characterized by rugged peaks and precipitous

Amniocentesis

2004-11-16T19:10:00.000-08:00

The surgical insertion of a hollow needle through the abdominal wall and into the uterus of a pregnant female and the aspiration of fluid from the amniotic sac for analysis. Examination of the amniotic fluid itself as well as the fetal cells found in the fluid can reveal such things as fetal sex (the significant factor in inherited diseases that are sex-linked), chromosomal

Cumberland

2004-11-15T06:14:00.000-08:00

Cumberland lies along the northwest coast of England, facing the Solway

Augustine, Saint

2004-11-13T08:48:00.000-08:00

De doctrina christiana (books 1–3 396/397, book 4 426; Christian Doctrine) was begun in the first years of Augustine's episcopacy but finished 30 years later. This imitation of Cicero's Orator for Christian purposes sets out a theory of the interpretation of scripture and offers practical guidance to the would-be preacher. It was widely influential in the Middle Ages as an educational

Kazinczy, Ferenc

2004-11-11T23:29:00.000-08:00

Born of a well-to-do family of the nobility, Kazinczy learned German and French as a child and entered a famous Protestant college at Sárospatak in 1769. While there, he published his first book, a small geography

Ma'an

2004-11-08T14:21:00.000-08:00

Town, southern Jordan. It is a regional trade centre for the sparsely settled southern part of the country, which is inhabited mainly by the Huwaytat and other Bedouin tribes. Ma'an is the chief road and rail junction of southern Jordan. The town lies on the Hejaz-Jordan Railway, which runs north-south and connects to Damascus (Syria) in the north. The part of the rail line south

Latacunga

2004-11-07T06:00:00.000-08:00

Capital of Cotopaxi province, north central Ecuador, in an Andean basin on the upper Río Patate, at an elevation of 9,055 ft (2,760 m). The city dates from precolonial times, when it was frequented by Incan royalty because of its thermal springs. Latacunga lies 20 mi (32 km) southwest of the active volcano Cotopaxi and has been seriously damaged by eruptions and by attendant earthquakes.

Space Perception, Visual cues

2004-11-04T09:32:00.000-08:00

Perhaps the most important perceptual cues of distance and depth depend on so-called binocular disparity; that is, since the eyes are imbedded at different points in the skull, they receive slightly different (disparate) images of any given object. The two retinal images of the same object seem to be combined perceptually in the brain into one three-dimensional experience.

Requests, Court Of

2004-11-03T22:33:00.000-08:00

Called the Court of Poor Men's Causes until 1529, it was a popular court because of the limited expense of bringing suit before it. Modeled after the French Chambre

Alimentary Canal

2004-11-01T09:07:00.000-08:00

Also called digestive tract pathway by which food enters the body and solid wastes are expelled. The alimentary canal includes the mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and anus. See digestion.

Beyers, C.f.

2004-10-29T17:52:00.000-07:00

A graduate of Victoria College (now Stellenbosch University), Beyers migrated to the Transvaal, where he was naturalized and practiced as a lawyer. Joining the Boer forces in 1899, he rose

Triconodon

2004-10-27T09:52:00.000-07:00

Genus of extinct primitive mammals found in Europe as fossil deposits of the Late Jurassic (163 to 144 million years ago). Triconodon is representative of the triconodonts, known throughout the world in regions as widely separated as North America, Europe, and China. Triconodon, a relatively large animal for its time (most early mammals were very small), was about the size of

Tachycardia

2004-10-26T09:42:00.000-07:00

In physiology and medicine, a heart rate of more than 100 beats per minute. Tachycardia occurs normally during and after exercise or during stress and represents no danger to healthy individuals. In some cases, however, tachycardia occurs without apparent cause and is an arrhythmia, i.e., a pathological deviation from the normal heartbeat rhythm. Most arrhythmias are

Yungang Caves

2004-10-24T03:30:00.000-07:00

The caves are among the earliest remaining examples of the first major flowering of Buddhist art in China. About 20 major cave temples and many smaller

Astika

2004-10-22T16:49:00.000-07:00

In Indian philosophy, any orthodox school of thought, defined as one that accepts the authority of the Vedas (sacred scriptures of ancient India); the superiority of the Brahmans (the class of priests), who are the expositors of the law (dharma); and a society made up of the four traditional classes (varna). The six orthodox philosophic systems are those of Samkhya and Yoga,

Valenciennes

2004-10-20T09:47:00.000-07:00

The town flourished under the counts

Franceville

2004-10-17T07:58:00.000-07:00

Franceville is now an active trading centre in a mining region. The exploitation of manganese at Mouanda and uranium at Mounana, both to the northwest,

Yermak Timofeyevich

2004-10-15T21:28:00.000-07:00

In 1579 the merchant and factory-owning Stroganov family enlisted the assistance of Yermak and a band of Cossacks to defend its possessions against attacks by Siberian tribesmen. Yermak set out with an expeditionary

World War Ii, Iraq and Syria, 194041

2004-10-14T01:52:00.000-07:00

In 1940 Prince 'Abd al-Ilah, regent of Iraq for King Faysal, had a government divided within itself about the war; he himself and his foreign minister, Nuri as-Said, were pro-British, but his prime minister, Rashid Ali al-Gailani, had pro-German leanings. Having resigned office in January 1941, Rashid Ali on April 3 seized power in Baghdad with help from some army officers and announced

Hardinge (of Lahore And Kings Newton), Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount

2004-10-11T18:55:00.000-07:00

Hardinge entered the army in 1799 and, during the Napoleonic Wars, served with distinction as a staff officer in the Peninsular War (1808–14). In the Hundred Days (1815), he was a brigadier general with the Prussian army at the Battle of Ligny and

Iowa, Cultural life

2004-10-11T08:18:00.000-07:00

A widely dispersed population with small urban centres makes it difficult for Iowans to support many of the cultural amenities that exist in large urban settings. Traveling shows, including theatre and dance, symphonies, and guest artists visit many places in the state each year. The major cultural centres are the universities and colleges. The fine arts are notably

Skanderbeg

2004-10-09T16:19:00.000-07:00

A son of John (Gjon) Kastrioti, prince of Emathia, George was early given as hostage to the Turkish sultan. Converted to Islam and educated at Edirne, Turkey, he was given the name Iskander—after Alexander the Great—and the rank of bey (hence Skanderbeg) by Sultan Murad II. During the defeat of the Turks at

Performing Arts, Iberia.

2004-10-08T13:01:00.000-07:00

Two Catalan directors made notable films; Ventura Pons's Anita no perd

Hardinge (of Lahore And Kings Newton), Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount

2004-10-08T05:02:00.000-07:00

World congresses of the BWA are held every

Tlemcen

2004-10-07T18:25:00.000-07:00

Also spelled (after 1981) Tilimsen, town, northwestern Algeria. It lies near the Moroccan border. Tlemcen is backed by the cliffs of the well-watered Tlemcen Mountains and overlooks the fertile Hennaya and Maghnia plains. Lying at an elevation of 2,648 feet (807 m), Tlemcen is located sufficiently inland to avoid the humidity of the Mediterranean coast but is near enough to receive cooling sea breezes in summer.

Andrew Of Carniola

2004-10-06T22:01:00.000-07:00

From the scant data available on Andrew's life, it appears that he was

Argentine Basin

2004-10-03T06:24:00.000-07:00

Submarine basin in the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, lying directly east of Argentina. Its deepest sections, the western and southwestern margins, are called the Argentine Abyssal Plain and reach a maximum depth of 20,381 feet (6,212 m). The basin is bounded by the Rio Grande Rise (north), the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (east), the Falkland Rise (south), and the South American continental shelf

Alabama, Government

2004-10-03T03:22:00.000-07:00

Alabama is governed by a bicameral legislature and a governor and cabinet. The legislature consists of 35 senators and 105 representatives who meet annually in regular sessions and are elected for four-year terms. The constitution, a complex and, some have claimed, outdated and often inadequate document, dates from 1901. After various poll tax and other tax provisions aimed

Hardness Tester

2004-10-02T13:45:00.000-07:00

Brinell hardness is determined by forcing a hardened steel or carbide ball of known diameter under a known load into a surface and measuring the diameter of the

Steel, Annealing

2004-09-30T15:51:00.000-07:00

To make steel ductile for subsequent forming operations, an annealing treatment is applied. In annealing, the steel is usually held for several hours at several degrees below Ar1 (shown by the P-S-K line in the figure) and then slowly cooled. This precipitates and coagulates the carbides and results in large ferrite crystals. Cold-formed steel is usually annealed and

Harbour Grace

2004-09-30T05:11:00.000-07:00

Town, southeastern Newfoundland, Canada. It lies on the northeast coast of Avalon Peninsula, 32 miles (51 km) west-northwest of St. John's, across Conception Bay. Settled about 1550, it was probably named for Le Havre-de-Grâce (Le Havre, France). Peter Easton, the pirate, had his headquarters there about 1600. Since 1856 the town has been the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop. Until the 1920s it was one of the

Pierce, Jane

2004-09-29T15:29:00.000-07:00

At the end of Franklin's single term, the couple traveled to Europe for a year and a half, but by 1860 they had returned to Concord, New Hampshire. Jane also spent time with relatives in Massachusetts. When she died in 1863, she was buried near her children.

Midsummer Night's Dream, A

2004-09-28T06:16:00.000-07:00

Comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, produced in 1595–96 and published in 1600 in a quarto edition from the author's fair copy. The version published in the First Folio was taken from a second quarto edition, with some reference to a promptbook. One of the “great,” or “middle,” comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream, with a multilayered examination of love and its vagaries,

Huidobro, Vicente

2004-09-27T18:58:00.000-07:00

In full Vicente García Huidobro Fernández Chilean poet, self-proclaimed father of the short-lived avant-garde movement known as Creacionismo (“Creationism”). Huidobro was a prominent figure in the post-World War I literary vanguard in Paris and Madrid as well as at home in Chile, and he did much to introduce his countrymen to contemporary European, especially French,

Agrimony

2004-09-25T04:06:00.000-07:00

Any plant of the genus Agrimonia, of the rose family (Rosaceae). The name particularly denotes A. eupatoria, an herbaceous, hardy perennial that is native to Europe but is widespread in other northern temperate regions, where it grows in hedge banks and the borders of fields. A. eupatoria grows to about 120 cm (4 feet) tall and has alternate feather-formed

T Tauri Star

2004-09-25T01:32:00.000-07:00

Any of a class of very young stars having a mass approximately equal to that of the Sun. So called after a prototype identified in a bright region of gas and dust known as the Hind's variable nebula, the T Tauri stars are characterized by erratic changes in brightness. They represent an early stage in stellar evolution, having only recently been formed by the rapid gravitational

Pyrophyllite

2004-09-24T21:17:00.000-07:00

Very soft, pale-coloured silicate mineral, hydrated aluminum silicate, Al2(OH)2 Si4O10, that is the main constituent of some schistose rocks. The most extensive commercial deposits are in North Carolina, but pyrophyllite is also mined in California, Canada, and South Africa. Talclike foliated masses occur in the Urals, in Switzerland, and in other localities. For detailed

Kwara

2004-09-23T03:54:00.000-07:00

Kwara state consists mostly of wooded savanna, but there are forested regions in the south. Almost all of its savanna area was conquered by the Fulani in the early 19th century, and the region remained part

Chemical Compound, Aldehydes and ketones

2004-09-22T20:55:00.000-07:00

Similar to the double bond of alkenes, the carbon-oxygen double bond is made up of a s bond, whose electron pair lies between the bonded

Poe, Edgar Allan, Short stories. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

2004-09-21T03:16:00.000-07:00

(1840); The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe (1843), includes “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Man That Was Used Up”; Tales (1845), includes “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” “The Gold Bug,” “The Black Cat,” and “The Purloined Letter”; “The Masque of the Red Death” (1842); “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1843); “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843); “The Premature Burial” (1844); “The Cask of Amontillado” (1846).

Rhys, Jean

2004-09-20T02:36:00.000-07:00

The daughter of a Welsh doctor and a Creole mother, Rhys lived and was educated

Yambol

2004-09-18T13:22:00.000-07:00

Also spelled Jambol town, east-central Bulgaria, on the Tundzha (Tundja) River. North of the present town are the ruins of Kabyle (or Cabyle), which originated as a Bronze Age settlement in the 2nd millennium BC and was conquered by the Macedonians under Philip II in 342–341 BC. Taken by Rome in 72 BC, Kabyle became a city in the Roman province of Thrace, governing the middle reaches of the Tundzha (ancient Tonsus)

Sarajevo

2004-09-17T14:26:00.000-07:00

Capital and cultural centre of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It lies in the narrow valley of the Miljacka River at the foot of Mount Trebevic. The city retains a strong Muslim character, having many mosques, wooden houses with ornate interiors, and the ancient Turkish marketplace (the Bašcaršija); much of the population is Muslim. The city's principal mosques are the Gazi Husreff-Bey's

FatWindow

Abbot, Charles Greeley

Ufer, Walter

Elijah

Caucasian Languages

Chaffinch

Tolima

Africa, Volcanism and rifting

Mithradates Ii

France, History Of, The religious wars and the monarchy

Earth, Crustal magnetization

Smith, Eliza Roxey Snow

Welk, Lawrence

Lateen Sail

Teófilo Otoni

Edmund I

Chrétien De Troyes

Priapism

Furniture, Kinds of accessory furnishings

Guadalupian Stage

Iphigeneia

Rhynchotreta

Potrerillos

Jacmel

Barcelona, Archaeological Museum Of

Fajardo

Franc

J.p. Morgan Chase & Co.

Granite

Mammal, The skin and hair

Rushworth, John

Nabul

Gambetta, Léon

Indigo

Jainism, Jainism and Islam

Apse

Ukrainka, Lesya

Mauermayer, Gisela

Aerospace Industry, Product development and testing

Jacobi, Mary Putnam

Medicine, Naval and air force medicine

Midwestern Regionalism

Bignoniaceae

China, Yüan China and the West

Bar Form

Aroostook War

Ueno Zoological Garden

Elk

Elf Owl

Iraq, The end of Ottoman rule

Bulgarian Language

Osei Tutu

Anselm Of Canterbury, Saint

Feldman, Morton

Sachs, (ferdinand Gustav) Julius Von

Valens

Benedict (x)

Nageire

China, The Ch'ang-pai Mountains

Amniocentesis

Cumberland

Augustine, Saint

Kazinczy, Ferenc

Ma'an

Latacunga

Space Perception, Visual cues

Requests, Court Of

Alimentary Canal

Beyers, C.f.

Triconodon

Tachycardia

Yungang Caves

Astika

Valenciennes

Franceville

Yermak Timofeyevich

World War Ii, Iraq and Syria, 194041

Hardinge (of Lahore And Kings Newton), Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount

Iowa, Cultural life

Skanderbeg

World War Ii, Iraq and Syria, 194041