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Mcphee, John

2005-04-05T16:22:00.000-07:00

After graduating from Princeton University (A.B., 1953), McPhee studied for a year at

Infection, Dacryocystitis and dacryoadenitis

2005-04-05T11:49:00.000-07:00

Inflammation of the tear sac, called dacryocystitis, is a common pediatric infection. It usually occurs after a long-term obstruction of the nasolacrimal duct (a tube that connects the eye with the nose, allowing proper drainage of the eye's secretions). This infection, caused by staphylococci or streptococci, produces tender swelling in the inner corner of the eye

Hesse-kassel

2005-04-04T19:49:00.000-07:00

In 1567 Hesse was partitioned among four sons of Landgrave Philip the Magnanimous, Hesse-Kassel going to William IV the Wise. Hesse-Kassel was the largest, most important, and most northerly of the four Hesse landgraviates. The landgrave William IV introduced sound financial management and a pacific

Floral Decoration, Middle Ages

2005-04-03T01:50:00.000-08:00

Illuminated manuscripts of the Gothic period (from the

Cádiz, Bay Of

2005-04-02T14:16:00.000-08:00

Spanish Bahía De Cádiz, small inlet of the Gulf of Cádiz on the North Atlantic Ocean. It is 7 miles (11 km) long and up to 5 miles (8 km) wide, indenting the coast of Cádiz province, southwestern Spain. It receives the Guadalete River and is partially protected by the narrow Isle of León, on which the major port of Cádiz is located. Other ports along the bay include San Fernando (south), Puerto Real (east), El Puerto

Sea Lettuce

2005-04-02T04:09:00.000-08:00

(Ulva), any member of a genus of green algae usually found growing between high and low tide marks on rocky shores of seas and oceans. Fragments may be washed ashore by wave action. Ulva grows also in brackish water rich in organic matter or sewage. The thallus, which somewhat resembles a lettuce leaf, is a sheet of cells up to 30 cm (12 inches) long and two cells thick

Athletics, Modern development

2005-04-01T21:50:00.000-08:00

The development of the modern sport, however, has come only since the early 19th century. Organized amateur footraces were held in England as early as 1825, but it was from 1860 that athletics enjoyed its biggest surge to that date. In 1861 the West London Rowing Club organized the first meet open to all amateurs, and in 1866 the Amateur Athletic Club (AAC) was founded and conducted the first

Swimming

2005-04-01T20:10:00.000-08:00

In zoology, self-propulsion of an animal through water. See aquatic locomotion.

Novo Mesto

2005-04-01T18:46:00.000-08:00

City, southern Slovenia, on the Krka River. Novo Mesto was founded in 1365 by Rudolf IV of Austria and became an important military base on the Ottoman frontier in the 15th century. Though ravaged twice by fire (1576 and 1664) and once by plague (1599), Novo Mesto developed into an important regional centre. The modern city has a hydroelectric power plant as well as textile, automobile, and chemical-pharmaceutical

Tolkien, J.r.r.

2005-03-30T23:50:00.000-08:00

At age four Tolkien, with his mother and younger brother, settled near Birmingham, England, after his father, a bank manager, died in South Africa. In

Libya

2005-03-30T18:14:00.000-08:00

The Libyan leadership continued to seek improved international relations with the United States and European Union countries. Diplomatic relations had been restored with all except the United States by the beginning of 2002. The outcome of the Lockerbie trial in January 2001 was unconvincing internationally, unsatisfactory from the point of view of the families of

Mckenzie, Robert (trelford)

2005-03-29T00:07:00.000-08:00

Canadian-born British political scientist and television commentator on electoral politics. In the latter role, McKenzie popularized to the British public the word psephology (the study of votes) and the idea of “swing” votes, using a device he called a “swingometer” to show the shifting fortunes of the major parties during the announcement

New Granada, Viceroyalty Of

2005-03-28T01:14:00.000-08:00

The separation of these territories from the viceroyalty of Peru, one of the principal colonial administrative changes effected by the

Cummingtonite

2005-03-27T09:42:00.000-08:00

An amphibole mineral, an iron and magnesium silicate that occurs in metamorphic rocks. For chemical formula and detailed physical properties, see amphibole (table).

Van Deman, Esther Boise

2005-03-27T06:45:00.000-08:00

Van Deman earned bachelor's (1891) and master's (1892) degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After teaching

Molenbeek-saint-jean

2005-03-25T18:45:00.000-08:00

(French), Flemish Sint-Jans-Molenbeek commune, Brabant province, central Belgium. A residential and industrial suburb west of Brussels, it is one of the communes that make up Greater Brussels. It originated as a distinct village on a slope overlooking a brook (molenbeek, “mill stream”). Molenbeek Ridge was the site from which Louis XIV's forces bombarded Brussels in 1695. Today Molenbeek-Saint-Jean is a highly urbanized

The Revolution

2005-03-25T09:16:00.000-08:00

A scant three years after the end of the Civil War, the United States was embroiled in the issue of suffrage for African-American men, and many suffragists—notably those who formed the American

Parakou

2005-03-25T03:53:00.000-08:00

Town and administrative capital of Borgou province, central Benin (formerly Dahomey), West Africa. It is the terminus of the so-called Benin–Niger Railway, which was originally planned to extend to the Niger River. The railway runs northward from Cotonou, Benin's major port and commercial centre on the Gulf of Guinea, to Parakou, whence goods must be transported by road

Wolfram Von Eschenbach

2005-03-24T21:48:00.000-08:00

An impoverished Bavarian knight, Wolfram apparently served a succession of Franconian lords: Abensberg, Wildenberg, and Wertheim are among the places he names in his work. He also knew the court of

Household, Geoffrey

2005-03-24T20:18:00.000-08:00

Household was educated at Clifton College in Bristol (1914–19) and at Magdalen College at Oxford (1919–22), where he won honours

Ahmad Ibn Hanbal

2005-03-24T20:09:00.000-08:00

For bibliography and information pertaining to Ibn Hanbal's works, see Fuat Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. 1 (1967); for his life and works generally, see W.M. Patton, Ahmed ibn Hanbal and the Mihna (1897); and H. Laoust, “Le Hanbalisme sous le califat de Bagdad,” in Revue des Études Islamiques (1959); and the Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 1 (1960). On Sufism in the Hanbali school of thought, see G. Makdisi, “L'Isnad initiatique soufi de Muwaffaq ad-Din Ibn Qudama,” in L'Herne: Louis Massignon (1970).

Insurance, Worldwide operations

2005-03-23T01:33:00.000-08:00

Because of the great expansion in world trade and the extent to which business firms make investments outside their home countries, the market for insurance on a worldwide scale has expanded rapidly in the 20th century. This development has required a worldwide network of offices to provide brokerage services, underwriting assistance, claims service, and so forth.

Narayanan, Kocheril Raman

2005-03-22T08:05:00.000-08:00

Despite his family's poverty and social status, Narayanan's intellect won him a government-sponsored scholarship. After graduating

Povazská Bystrica

2005-03-21T18:12:00.000-08:00

Economic activities include the manufacture of heavy munitions. One of the town's notable structures is a Gothic church with tombstones dating

Literature, United States.

2005-03-21T05:25:00.000-08:00

One might wonder, however,

Solanaceae

2005-03-21T04:21:00.000-08:00

The nightshade, or potato, family of flowering plants (order Solanales), with about 95 genera and at least 2,400 species, many of considerable economic importance as food and drug plants. Among the most important of these are the potato (Solanum tuberosum); eggplant (S. melongena); tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum); garden, or capsicum, pepper (Capsicum annuum and C. frutescens); tobacco

Nahan

2005-03-20T20:54:00.000-08:00

City, southern Himachal Pradesh state, northwestern India. It lies south-southeast of Simla, the state capital, at the foot of the Siwalik Range and is a trade centre for agricultural produce and timber. Its industries include handweaving, wood carving, and ironworking. Nahan was the capital of the Punjab Hill State of Sirmur during the British rule in India. Pop. (1991 prelim.) 21,867.

Sotie

2005-03-19T22:17:00.000-08:00

Also spelled Sottie, short satirical play popular in France in the 15th and early 16th centuries, in which a company of sots (“fools”) exchanged badinage on contemporary persons and events. The sots, wearing the traditional short jacket, tights, bells, and dunce cap of the fool, also introduced acrobatics and farcical humour into the sketches. At first the sotie was used as an introductory piece

'uthman Ibn 'affan

2005-03-19T11:02:00.000-08:00

'Uthman

Antarctica

2005-03-18T03:23:00.000-08:00

The 40 Antarctic Treaty nations met in Italy in November

Sapru, Sir Tej Bahadur

2005-03-17T07:28:00.000-08:00

Educated at Agra College, Allahabad, Sapru practiced law before the High Court at Allahabad from 1896. He was a member of

Subarnarekha River

2005-03-17T04:50:00.000-08:00

River in northeastern India, rising in southern Bihar state. The Subarnarekha (meaning “streak of gold”) flows east through a copper-mining region and leaves the Chota Nagpur plateau by the Hundrugbagh waterfall. Continuing eastward, it flows across West Bengal state to enter the Bay of Bengal after a 290-mile (470-kilometre) course. The Kanchi and Karkari rivers are its chief

Accent

2005-03-17T01:24:00.000-08:00

Accent has various

Tlalpan

2005-03-16T10:42:00.000-08:00

Delegación, central distrito federal (“federal district”), central Mexico. At 1,425 feet (2,294 m) above sea level in the Valley of Mexico, it is on the northeastern slopes of the extinct Cerro Ajusco volcano. In the district are remains of a pre-Columbian town, and 1.5 miles (2.5 km) west of Tlalpan is the Cuicuilco Pyramid, considered to be the oldest man-made structure on the North American continent

Absalon

2005-03-16T09:33:00.000-08:00

Scion of a powerful Zealand family, Absalon helped his childhood friend gain the Danish throne as Valdemar I (1156–57) and was named bishop of Roskilde in 1158. As the king's closest adviser, he initially supported Valdemar's alliance with Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy

Sikhism, Sectarian differences

2005-03-15T10:51:00.000-08:00

The first dissenters from the mainstream of Sikhism—known as the Udasis—were followers of Nanak's elder son, Sri Chand. The order inclined toward asceticism and later furnished priests (mahants) for gurdwaras. They were ousted from control by the SGPC in 1925. Followers of Ram Rai, who was passed over by his father, Har Rai (seventh Guru), in favour of a younger son, Hari Krishen (eighth Guru), broke

Biblical Literature, The Deuteronomic theology of history

2005-03-15T08:29:00.000-08:00

The Deuteronomic “theology of history” shows through very clearly in Judges: unless the people of the Covenant remain faithful and obedient to Yahweh, they will suffer the due consequences of disobedience, whether it be an overtly willful act or an unthinking negligence in keeping the Covenant promise. The Deuteronomist worked out a formula for his theology of

Jackson, Rachel

2005-03-14T20:40:00.000-08:00

As Rachel was reluctantly preparing to move to Washington, D.C., following Andrew's electoral victory in 1828—she said that she “would rather be a door-keeper in the house of God than to live in that palace in Washington”—she died of a heart attack. She was buried on the grounds of the Hermitage on Christmas Eve in what was to be her inaugural gown. A young niece, Emily Donelson, became the surrogate first lady; after Emily's death in 1836, Sarah Yorke Jackson, the wife of Andrew Jackson, Jr., became the official White House hostess.

Ogunde, Hubert

2005-03-14T02:30:00.000-08:00

Nigerian playwright, actor, theatre manager, and musician who was a pioneer in the field of Nigerian folk opera (drama in which music and dancing play a significant role). He was the founder of the Ogunde Concert Party (1945), the first professional theatrical company in Nigeria. Often regarded as the father of Nigerian theatre, Ogunde sought to

Radioactivity

2005-03-12T13:06:00.000-08:00

An unstable nucleus will decompose spontaneously, or decay, into a more stable configuration but will do so only in a few specific ways by emitting certain particles or certain forms of electromagnetic

'abd Al-rahman Iii

2005-03-12T02:36:00.000-08:00

'Abd al-Rahman succeeded his grandfather 'Abd Allah as emir of Córdoba in October 912 at the age of 21. Because of his intelligence and character he had been the obvious favourite of his grandfather, who had designated him heir presumptive in preference to the other royal princes. In appearance he is described as having been light-skinned, handsome, thickset, and short-legged.

Typhoid Mary

2005-03-12T00:16:00.000-08:00

Mary was first recognized as a carrier of the typhoid bacteria during an epidemic of typhoid fever in 1904 that spread through Oyster Bay, New York, where she worked as a cook. By the time the disease had been traced

Man Orchid

2005-03-11T00:32:00.000-08:00

The flower spike, about 10 to 45 cm (4 to 18 inches) tall, may bear up to 90 greenish or yellowish flowers, which have an unpleasant odour.

Race, South Africa

2005-03-10T22:45:00.000-08:00

Although race categories and racial ideology are both arbitrary and subjective, race was a convenient way to organize people within structures of presumed permanent inequality. South Africa's policy of apartheid exhibited the same basic racial ideology as the North American system but differed in two respects: the systematic state classification of races

Orange Bowl

2005-03-10T01:00:00.000-08:00

The game was first played in 1933 to attract winter tourists to Florida a month

Masaka

2005-03-09T07:59:00.000-08:00

Town, southern Uganda, situated about 80 miles (130 km) southwest of Kampala (the national capital), at an elevation of 4,300 feet (1,310 m). Roads connect it with Mbirizi, Lyantonde, and Mbarara. It is a market town and important commercial centre for the surrounding rich coffee-growing area. Its industries produce processed meat and fish, beverages, footwear, furniture, bakery products, glass,

Faber, Peter

2005-03-09T06:54:00.000-08:00

French Pierre Lefevre, or Pierre Favre, Latin Petrus Faber French Jesuit theologian and a cofounder of the Society of Jesus, who was tutor and friend of Ignatius Loyola at Paris. He was appointed professor of theology at Rome by Pope Paul III (1537), founded Jesuit colleges at Cologne and in Spain, and was a delegate to the Council of Trent.

Koforidua

2005-03-07T20:47:00.000-08:00

Town, southeastern Ghana. It lies in the Densu River basin, near the southeastern base of the Kwahu Plateau. Koforidua is one of the country's oldest cocoa-producing centres. With the completion in 1923 of the Accra-Kumasi railway, it became an important road and rail junction. As cocoa production has moved westward to areas of virgin soil, Koforidua has become increasingly

Quantity Theory Of Money

2005-03-07T15:17:00.000-08:00

Economic theory relating changes in the price levels to changes in the quantity of money. In its developed form, it constitutes an analysis of the factors underlying inflation and deflation. As developed by the English philosopher John Locke in the 17th century, the Scottish philosopher David Hume in the 18th century, and others, it was a weapon against the mercantilists

Powell, Cecil Frank

2005-03-07T13:18:00.000-08:00

British physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1950 for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion (pi-meson), a heavy subatomic particle. The pion proved to be the hypothetical particle proposed in 1935 by Yukawa Hideki of Japan in his theory

Insurance, Insurable interest

2005-03-07T10:24:00.000-08:00

Closely associated with the above legal principles is that of insurable interest. This requires that the insured be exposed to a personal loss if the peril insured against should occur. Otherwise it would be possible for a person to take out a fire insurance policy on the property of others and collect if the property burned. Any financial interest in property, or

Durian

2005-03-06T18:27:00.000-08:00

The fruit is spherical and 15 to 20 centimetres (6 to 8 inches) in diameter. It has a hard external husk, or shell, covered

Arevaci

2005-03-06T13:09:00.000-08:00

The Arevaci and the Belli rose up against the Romans in the Celtiberian War, which

Plantagenet, House Of

2005-03-06T10:34:00.000-08:00

Although well established, the surname Plantagenet has little historical justification. It seems to have

Lorentz Transformations

2005-03-05T13:02:00.000-08:00

Set of equations in relativity physics that relate the space and time coordinates of two systems moving at a constant velocity relative to each other. Required to describe high-speed phenomena approaching the speed of light, Lorentz transformations formally express the relativity concepts that space and time are not absolute; that length, time, and mass depend

San Antonio De Los Baños

2005-03-04T19:38:00.000-08:00

City, west central La Habana province, west central Cuba. Lying on the Río San Antonio de los Baños, the settlement prospered and became a health resort because of its thermal springs. It is also a commercial and manufacturing centre for the surrounding agricultural lands, which produce tobacco, sugarcane, and pineapples. Cigars, clothes, and yeast are manufactured,

Shichi-go-san

2005-03-04T04:45:00.000-08:00

(Japanese: “Seven-Five-Three”), one of the most important festivals for Japanese children, observed annually on November 15. On this date girls of three and seven years of age and boys of five years of age are taken by their parents to the Shinto shrine of their tutelary deity to offer thanks for having reached their respective ages and to invoke blessings for the future. In

Aleni, Giulio

2005-03-03T17:07:00.000-08:00

Aleni entered the Society of Jesus in 1600 and was sent to the Far East. He landed at Macau in 1610 and went to China three years later. During his more than 30 years in China, he adopted that country's dress and manners. He built several churches

Babassu Palm

2005-03-03T06:51:00.000-08:00

(Orbignya martiana, O. oleifera, or O. speciosa), tall palm tree with feathery leaves that grows wild in tropical northeastern Brazil. The kernels of its hard-shelled nuts are the source of babassu oil, similar in properties and uses to coconut oil and used increasingly as a substitute for it. Babassu oil is used as a food in cooking and as a fuel and a lubricant;

Thompson, Daley

2005-03-02T13:22:00.000-08:00

The son of a Nigerian father and a Scottish mother, Thompson made his debut in the decathlon at age 16, winning a competition in Cwmbrân, Wales. Thompson's score of 6,685 points was a British junior record, and in that

Respiratory Therapy

2005-03-02T09:50:00.000-08:00

One of the conditions frequently dealt with is obstruction of breathing passages, in which therapy may consist of clearing the airway of mucus or liquid secretion

Irene Ducas

2005-03-02T08:33:00.000-08:00

When Alexius became emperor in April 1081 he reportedly planned to repudiate Irene and wed Mary, who had been married to the former emperors Michael VII

Münster

2005-03-02T01:50:00.000-08:00

Regierungsbezirk (administrative district), northwestern North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany. Münster is bordered by The Netherlands to the west, Lower Saxony Land to the north, and Detmold district to the east, Arnsberg to the south, and Düsseldorf to the southwest. The district occupies an area of 2,663 square miles (6,897 square km) and is coextensive with

Uffizi Gallery

2005-02-28T10:14:00.000-08:00

Italian Galleria Degli Uffizi, art museum in Florence that has the world's finest collection of Italian Renaissance painting, particularly of the Florentine school. It also has antiques, sculpture, and more than 100,000 drawings and prints. In 1559 the grand duke of Tuscany, Cosimo I de' Medici, engaged the painter-architect Giorgio Vasari to plan a building for the offices (uffizi) of the government judiciary.

Corax

2005-02-28T09:25:00.000-08:00

There is little reliable information about Corax's life or his work, of which nothing survives. He was active at a time when democratic constitutions had replaced tyrannies in Sicily. He specialized in the theory of forensic oratory and is said to have advocated argument

Fujiwara Tadahira

2005-02-28T06:38:00.000-08:00

Japanese statesman who assumed the leadership of the Fujiwara family in 909 upon the death of his brother Tokihira. Although in his later years Tokihira had begun to dominate the government, he had never assumed the title of kampaku (chancellor). The post had been created and first assumed by their father, Fujiwara Mototsune, and allowed to lapse by the emperor

Gambaga Scarp

2005-02-27T03:01:00.000-08:00

Line of cliffs along the Volta River basin, northeastern Ghana, western Africa. The scarp forms the elevated northern boundary of the Volta River basin and the eastern section of the granite plateaus of Wa and Mamprusi. To the south is another narrow plateau, followed by a gradual descent to the surrounding land. The Gambaga's steep erosional scarps reveal a composition

Criminology, Typologies

2005-02-26T15:57:00.000-08:00

The typological method involves classifying offenses, criminals, criminal associations, criminal areas, or whatever according to some criteria of relatedness or similarity. Thus there have been attempts to dichotomize criminals as either “normal” or “abnormal,” “habitual” or “professional,” or to form a continuum of criminals from the “insane” at one extreme through

Earth Exploration

2005-02-25T11:16:00.000-08:00

By the beginning of the 20th century most of the Earth's surface had been explored, at least superficially, except for the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Today the last of the unmarked areas on land maps have been filled in by radar and photographic mapping from aircraft and satellites. One of the last areas

Narayanan, Kocheril Raman

2005-02-25T08:50:00.000-08:00

Despite his family's poverty and social status, Narayanan's intellect won him a government-sponsored scholarship. After graduating

Plymouth Porcelain

2005-02-25T02:46:00.000-08:00

Cookworthy found deposits of kaolin (a soft, white clay, also called china clay) and china stone (or petuntse, a partly decomposed

Sun Company, Inc.

2005-02-23T11:51:00.000-08:00

The company was incorporated in 1971 as the successor to a New Jersey oil and gas business incorporated in 1901. The earlier company had been formed as the Sun Oil Company of Ohio in 1886. In 1975 the Sun Company was restructured into 14 separate business units to provide flexibility in expanding

Rykov, Aleksey Ivanovich

2005-02-23T11:41:00.000-08:00

Rykov joined the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party at the age of 18, became a member of its Bolshevik wing, conducted revolutionary activities both inside Russia

Liquid

2005-02-23T03:23:00.000-08:00

In physics, one of the three principal states of matter, intermediate between gas and crystalline solid.

Masina, Giulietta

2005-02-23T02:39:00.000-08:00

Masina began acting in student theatre productions when she was in her teens. Although she enrolled as a student

Bone Conduction

2005-02-22T21:58:00.000-08:00

The conduction of sound through the bones of the skull. Two types of bone conduction are recognized. In compressional bone conduction, high-pitched sounds cause the segments of the skull to vibrate individually. The vibrations, by compressing the bony case of the inner ear, stimulate the sensory cells that are involved in perceiving sound waves in the air. In inertial

Frederick I

2005-02-22T11:25:00.000-08:00

Byname Frederick Barbarossa (Italian: Redbeard) duke of Swabia (as Frederick III, 1147–90) and German king and Holy Roman emperor (1152–90), who challenged papal authority and sought to establish German predominance in western Europe. He engaged in a long struggle with the cities of northern Italy (1154–83), sending six major expeditions southward. He died while on the Third Crusade to the Holy Land.

Middlesex

2005-02-22T10:37:00.000-08:00

County, northeastern Massachusetts, U.S., west and northwest of Boston and bordered on the north by New Hampshire. The county consists of an upland region drained by the Merrimack, Nashua, Assabet, Concord, Sudbury, and Shawsheen rivers. Other waterways include Whitehall and Cambridge reservoirs, Lake Cochituate, and historic Walden Pond. Parklands include more than

Biography

2005-02-21T04:54:00.000-08:00

Form of nonfictional literature, the subject of which is the life of an individual. One of the oldest forms of literary expression, it seeks to recreate in words the life of a human being, that of the writer himself or of another person, drawing upon the resources, memory and all available evidences—written, oral, pictorial.

Meramec River

2005-02-20T18:16:00.000-08:00

Tributary of the Mississippi River rising in the Ozark Mountains, near Salem in Dent county, southeast Missouri, U.S. The river winds 207 miles (333 km) generally north, northeast, and southeast through the limestone Meramec Caverns and Meramec State Park (near Sullivan) to enter the Mississippi River 20 miles (32 km) below St. Louis. Lead was mined along its banks in the 1700s, and the river

Military Aircraft, Mach 2

2005-02-19T13:41:00.000-08:00

A fourth generation of fighters began to appear in the 1960s, capable of maximum speeds ranging from about Mach 1.5 to 2.3. Top speeds varied with the intended mission, and increasing engine power, aerodynamic sophistication, and more compact and capable radars and avionics began to blur the differences between two-seat, all-weather fighters and single-seat air-superiority

A Cappella

2005-02-19T10:22:00.000-08:00

The a cappella style arose about the time of the composer Josquin des Prez, in the late 15th century, and reached preeminence with Palestrina in the late 16th century in the music

Wintour, Charles Vere

2005-02-19T01:53:00.000-08:00

British journalist and editor who, while at the helm of London's Evening Standard (1959–76 and 1978–80), turned the struggling tabloid into one of the nation's most highly respected evening newspapers; Wintour was made M.B.E. in 1945 and elevated to C.B.E. in 1978 (b. May 18, 1917, Dorset, Eng.—d. Nov. 4, 1999, Tisbury, Wiltshire, Eng.).

Acarina

2005-02-18T17:44:00.000-08:00

Subclass of the arthropod class Arachnida that includes the mite and tick (qq.v.).

Meramec River

2005-02-18T14:41:00.000-08:00

American organization formed at a convention in Washington, D.C., as the product of the merger in 1896 of the National Federation of Afro-American Women and the National League of Colored Women—organizations that had arisen out of the African American women's club movement. Founders of the NACW included Harriet Tubman, Frances E.W. Harper, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, and Mary

Tarn

2005-02-18T06:45:00.000-08:00

A small mountain lake, especially one set in a glaciated steep-walled amphitheatre known as a cirque (q.v.).

Nizhnevartovsk

2005-02-18T01:40:00.000-08:00

City and port, Khanty-Mansi autonomous okrug (district), Tyumen oblast (province), west-central Russia. It lies along the right bank of the Ob River. The city grew rapidly, especially in the 1970s, as a result of the discovery of large oil fields nearby. Along with Surgut, Nizhnevartovsk is a major administrative centre of the middle Ob oil fields. It also has a gas-processing plant.

Rocket And Missile System, Surface-to-air

2005-02-16T07:21:00.000-08:00

Guided surface-to-air missiles, or SAMs, were under development when World War II ended, notably by the Germans, but were not sufficiently perfected to be used in combat. This changed in the 1950s and '60s with the rapid development of sophisticated SAM systems in the Soviet Union, the United States, Great Britain, and France. With other industrialized nations following suit,

Grayback

2005-02-16T01:41:00.000-08:00

Any of several North American fishes including the alewife (q.v.), cisco (see whitefish), and Menominee whitefish.

Offa

2005-02-15T19:18:00.000-08:00

A member of an ancient Mercian ruling family, Offa seized power in the civil war

Philip Iii

2005-02-15T01:51:00.000-08:00

Philip, the second son of Louis IX of France (Saint Louis), became heir to the throne on the death of his elder brother Louis (1260). Accompanying his father's crusade against

Spanish Literature

2005-02-14T08:10:00.000-08:00

Although literature in the vernacular was not written until

Sculpture, Western, Early Christian

2005-02-14T07:48:00.000-08:00

Early in the 20th century it was thought that Christian art began after the death of Christ or, at least, in the second half of the 1st century AD. But later discoveries and studies showed that a truly Christian art—that is, with a style quite distinctive from Pagan Roman art—did not exist before the end of the 2nd or beginning of the 3rd century. When it ended, or rather developed

Silage

2005-02-14T02:08:00.000-08:00

Also called ensilage forage plants such as corn (maize), legumes, and grasses that have been chopped and stored in tower silos, pits, or trenches for use as animal feed. Since protein content decreases and fibre content increases as the crop matures, forage, like hay, should be harvested in early maturity. The green material should be chopped fine enough to assure good packing and the exclusion

Moréas, Jean

2005-02-13T18:30:00.000-08:00

Early inspired by a French governess who instilled in him a passion for French poetry, Moréas moved to Paris in 1879, becoming a familiar figure in the literary circles frequenting the cafés and in the literary pages of newspapers and reviews. He published

Spain, Society

2005-02-12T19:46:00.000-08:00

In discussing the influx of the Muslims into Spain, the various social groups into which the population was divided have already been pointed out: Arabs (baladiyyun and Syrians), Berbers, muwallads, Mozarabs, Jews, and slaves. The Muslim population continued to increase during the early centuries of the occupation because of the wave of conversions that markedly reduced

Talbot, William Henry Fox

2005-02-12T18:51:00.000-08:00

English chemist, linguist, archaeologist, and pioneer photographer. He is best known for his development of the calotype (q.v.), an early photographic process that was an improvement over the daguerreotype of the French inventor L.-J.-M. Daguerre. Talbot's calotypes involved the use of a photographic

Sokodé

2005-02-11T11:26:00.000-08:00

Town, central Togo. A historically important trading centre because of its location in a gap of the Togo Mountains, Sokodé is Togo's second largest town and a major centre for commercial trade. Industrial activities there include cotton ginning and sugar processing. Sokodé has road links with Kara to the north and Lomé, the national capital, to the south. The Tem (Cotocoli),

Talladega

2005-02-11T08:25:00.000-08:00

City, seat (1834) of Talladega county, east-central Alabama, U.S., in the foothills of the southern Appalachian Mountains, about 60 miles (100 km) east of Birmingham. The site was originally inhabited by Creek Indians, and its name was derived from Creek words meaning “border town.” On November 9, 1813, Andrew Jackson defeated a large force of Creek there, and the Creek were forced out in the 1830s. During

Encaustic Painting

2005-02-10T15:37:00.000-08:00

Painting technique in which pigments are mixed with hot, liquid wax. After all of the colours have been applied to the painting surface, a heating element is passed over them until the individual brush or spatula marks fuse into a uniform film. This “burning in” of the colours is an essential element of the true encaustic technique. Encaustic wax has many of the properties

BentChess

Mcphee, John

Infection, Dacryocystitis and dacryoadenitis

Hesse-kassel

Floral Decoration, Middle Ages

Cádiz, Bay Of

Sea Lettuce

Athletics, Modern development

Swimming

Novo Mesto

Tolkien, J.r.r.

Libya

Mckenzie, Robert (trelford)

New Granada, Viceroyalty Of

Cummingtonite

Van Deman, Esther Boise

Molenbeek-saint-jean

The Revolution

Parakou

Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Household, Geoffrey

Ahmad Ibn Hanbal

Insurance, Worldwide operations

Narayanan, Kocheril Raman

Povazská Bystrica

Literature, United States.

Solanaceae

Nahan

Sotie

'uthman Ibn 'affan

Antarctica

Sapru, Sir Tej Bahadur

Subarnarekha River

Accent

Tlalpan

Absalon

Sikhism, Sectarian differences

Biblical Literature, The Deuteronomic theology of history

Jackson, Rachel

Ogunde, Hubert

Radioactivity

'abd Al-rahman Iii

Typhoid Mary

Man Orchid

Race, South Africa

Orange Bowl

Masaka

Faber, Peter

Koforidua

Quantity Theory Of Money

Powell, Cecil Frank

Insurance, Insurable interest

Durian

Arevaci

Plantagenet, House Of

Lorentz Transformations

San Antonio De Los Baños

Shichi-go-san

Aleni, Giulio

Babassu Palm

Thompson, Daley

Respiratory Therapy

Irene Ducas

Münster

Uffizi Gallery

Corax

Fujiwara Tadahira

Gambaga Scarp

Criminology, Typologies

Earth Exploration

Narayanan, Kocheril Raman

Plymouth Porcelain

Sun Company, Inc.

Rykov, Aleksey Ivanovich

Liquid

Masina, Giulietta

Bone Conduction

Frederick I

Middlesex

Biography

Biblical Literature, The Deuteronomic theology of history