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serviced offices

2006-11-01T11:45:00.000-08:00

Office planet have a huge database of serviced offices throughout the UK. serviced offices provide an affordable and hassle free office solution

Sergipe

2005-04-04T02:15:00.000-07:00

Smallest estado (“state”) of Brazil, located on the southern coast of that country's northeastern bulge into the Atlantic Ocean. It is bounded on the east by the Atlantic, on the south and west by the state of Bahia, and on the north by the state of Alagoas, from which it is separated by the São Francisco River. Sergipe has an area of 8,492 square miles (21,994 square km), and the state capital

Gabon Estuary

2005-04-03T23:11:00.000-07:00

French Estuaire Du Gabon, inlet of the Gulf of Guinea, in western Gabon. It is fed by the Como and Mbeï rivers, which rise in the Cristal Mountains to the northeast. The estuary is 40 miles (64 km) long and 9 miles (14 km) wide at its mouth. It was explored in the 1470s by Portuguese navigators who may have named it Gabão (“Hooded Cloak with Sleeves”; hence Gabon) because of its shape, and it was long considered the finest harbour

Philip I

2005-04-01T21:18:00.000-08:00

Philip was the elder son of Henry I of France by his second wife, Anne of Kiev.

Romains, Jules

2005-03-30T18:12:00.000-08:00

Romains studied science and philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. After teaching philosophy

Paekche

2005-03-28T03:59:00.000-08:00

One of three kingdoms into which ancient Korea was divided before 660. Occupying the southwestern tip of the Korean peninsula, Paekche is traditionally said to have been founded in 18 BC in the Kwangju area by a legendary leader named Onjo. By the 3rd century AD, during the reign of King Koi (234–286), Paekche emerged as a fully developed kingdom. By the reign of King Kunch'ogo (346–375), it had established

John Bull

2005-03-26T23:15:00.000-08:00

In literature and political caricature, a conventional personification of England or of English character. Bull was invented by the Scottish mathematician and physician John Arbuthnot as a character in an extended allegory that appeared in a series of five pamphlets in 1712 and later in the same year published collectively as The History of John Bull; he appeared

Cunningham, Glenn

2005-03-23T16:05:00.000-08:00

At the age of 7, Cunningham and his older brother Floyd were badly burned in a schoolhouse fire; Floyd died and Glenn was not expected to be able to walk. Cunningham overcame this adversity, running—and winning—races in high school,

Giotto Di Bondone

2005-03-22T06:04:00.000-08:00

The most important Italian painter of the 14th century, whose works point to the innovations of the Renaissance style that developed a century later. For almost seven centuries Giotto has been revered as the father of European painting and the first of the great Italian masters. He is believed to have been a pupil of the

San Bernardino Mountains

2005-03-20T04:19:00.000-08:00

Segment of the Pacific Coast Ranges, extending southeastward for 55 mi (90 km) from Cajon Pass to San Gorgonio Pass in southern California, U.S. The two main peaks, San Bernardino (10,630 ft [3,240 m]) and San Gorgonio (11,502 ft; highest point in southern California), lie east of the city of San Bernardino. Much of the range is embraced by a division of the San Bernardino National Forest, where the main

Tribune

2005-03-18T17:48:00.000-08:00

Military tribunes (tribuni militum) were originally infantry commanders. Under the early republic there were six to a legion; some were appointed by the consuls (chief executives) or military commanders, and others were elected by the people. Under the empire (after 27 BC) the military tribunate was a preliminary

Ucicky, Gustav

2005-03-17T09:25:00.000-08:00

Ucicky began his career as a cameraman with director Michael Curtiz. He moved to Germany in 1928 and became involved in the state-subsidized studio UFA. His early movies, such as Hocuspocus (1929) and Der unsterbliche

Chaconne

2005-03-17T00:46:00.000-08:00

Also spelled ciaconne fiery and suggestive dance that appeared in Spain about 1600 and eventually gave its name to a musical form. Miguel de Cervantes, Francisco Gómez de Quevedo, and other contemporary writers imply a Mexican origin but do not indicate whether it was indigenous or a Spanish dance modified there. Apparently danced with castanets by a couple or by a woman alone, it

Rousseau, Henri

2005-03-16T10:27:00.000-08:00

Byname Le Douanier (French: The Customs Officer) French painter, archetype of the modern naive artist. He expressed himself mainly in richly coloured and meticulously detailed pictures of lush jungles, wild beasts, and exotic figures (e.g., “The Sleeping Gypsy,” 1897, and “The Snake-Charmer,” 1907 [see photograph]). After exhibiting with the Fauves in 1905, he became an object of admiration to avant-garde

Adams, Léonie

2005-03-14T14:43:00.000-08:00

After graduating from Barnard College (A.B., 1922), Adams became editor of The Measure, a literary publication, in 1924. She was persuaded to publish a volume of poetry, Those Not Elect, in 1925. While living in France from 1928 to

Oscillatoria

2005-03-14T04:02:00.000-08:00

Genus of blue-green algae found commonly in a variety of freshwater environments, including hot springs. This unbranched filamentous alga, occurring singly or in tangled mats, derives its name from its rhythmic oscillating motion, which is thought to result from a secretion of mucilage that pushes the filament away from the direction of excretion. Reproduction

Frederick Viii

2005-03-13T08:09:00.000-08:00

Frederick served in the disastrous Danish–German War of 1864, which lost the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg for Denmark. He then assisted his father, Christian IX, in affairs of state. In 1907, as king, he formed a commission to draft a partial home rule bill for Iceland, but nothing came of it. Frederick VIII's popularity

Biblical Literature, The significance of Elijah

2005-03-11T04:14:00.000-08:00

With the dynasty of Omri (c. 876–842), the prophetic movement begins to assume a position of tremendous importance in Israel and Judah. Omri (reigned c. 876–869) reestablished Israel's economic and military significance among the Syrian and Palestinian minor kingdoms, so much so that years after his death the Assyrians referred to the northern kingdom as “the land of Omri.” He is mentioned

Alkaloid

2005-03-10T14:01:00.000-08:00

Alkaloids are found primarily in plants and are especially common in certain families of flowering plants. More

Malamud, Bernard

2005-03-10T07:40:00.000-08:00

His first novel, The Natural (1952), is a fable

Aids

2005-03-08T15:48:00.000-08:00

Byname of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome transmissible disease of the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV slowly attacks and destroys the immune system, the body's defense against infection, leaving an individual vulnerable to a variety of other infections and certain malignancies that eventually cause death. AIDS is the final stage of HIV infection, during which time

Pindus Mountains

2005-03-07T03:25:00.000-08:00

In antiquity, the name Pindus applied to ranges south of the Aracynthus (Zygós) Pass west of Thessaly. Occasionally the Pindus is said to extend into Albania but also to include the Tymphrestos (Timfristós) massif and

Gwalior

2005-03-06T09:26:00.000-08:00

The old city of Gwalior centres on a walled fortress, one of the most famous in India,

Gravesham

2005-03-05T14:05:00.000-08:00

Borough (district), administrative and historic county of Kent, southeastern England. Its centre is the town of Gravesend, but it includes a section of the south bank of the River Thames above and below the town, and it runs inland to the crest of the chalk hills (North Downs) that traverse the county from west to east. The borough was once agricultural, with areas of orchards

Cabriole Leg

2005-03-05T03:25:00.000-08:00

The early

China, The Shantung Hills

2005-03-02T18:43:00.000-08:00

These hills are basically composed of Archean (Early to Middle Precambrian) crystalline shales and granites and of Lower Paleozoic sedimentary rocks (i.e., between 395,000,000 and 570,000,000 years old). Faults have played a major role in creating the present relief, and, as a result, many hills are horsts (blocks of the Earth's crust uplifted along faults), while the valleys have been formed by

Earth, Mantle convection

2005-02-28T14:48:00.000-08:00

Convection of mantle material, at velocities of centimetres per year, has been suggested as the driving force for plate motions, and it is natural to look for some expression of a system of mantle convection currents in the gravitational field. In a thermally driven convecting system, heated mantle material of lower density rises, moves horizontally dragging the

Biblical Literature, Ecclesiastes

2005-02-26T00:37:00.000-08:00

The book of Ecclesiastes is a work of the Hebrew wisdom movement, associated by its title and by tradition with King Solomon. It is evident, however, that the book is of much later composition; the author may have identified himself with the famous king and wise man of the past to give greater authority to his work. The language of the book, including the relatively large

German Literature, Bourgeois Realism

2005-02-25T19:40:00.000-08:00

The deaths of Hegel in 1831 and of Goethe in 1832 released many German writers from the feeling that they stood in the shadow of great men. A new group of writers, only very loosely connected, began to emerge who felt that the aesthetic models of the age of Goethe could be laid aside in favour of a distinctly political form of literature. Inspired by the July Revolution in France

Mineral, Cyclosilicates

2005-02-22T07:53:00.000-08:00

Silicon-oxygen tetrahedrons are linked into rings in cyclosilicate structures, which have an overall Si:O ratio of 1:3. There are three closed cyclic configurations with the following formulas: Si3O9, Si4O12, and Si6O18. The rare titanosilicate benitoite (BaTiSi3O9) is the only mineral that is built with the simple Si3O9 ring. Axinite [(Ca, Fe, Mn)3Al2(BO3)(Si4O12)(OH)] contains Si4O12 rings, along with

Shansi, The people

2005-02-20T10:46:00.000-08:00

Most of the province's people are of Han (Chinese) origin and speak the Northern Mandarin dialect of Chinese. The small minority populations include the Hui (Chinese Muslims), in the T'ai-yüan–Yü-tz'u region, and some Mongols and Manchu around Ta-t'ung. Most of the populace lives in agricultural villages. The highest rural densities occur in the T'ai-yüan Basin, in the southeast

Accessory Mineral

2005-02-18T23:16:00.000-08:00

Any mineral in an igneous rock not essential to the naming of the rock. When it is present in small amounts, as is common, it is called a minor accessory. If the amount is greater or is of special significance, the mineral is called a varietal, or characterizing, accessory and may give a varietal name to the rock (e.g., the mineral biotite in biotite granite). Accessory minerals

Powell, Lewis F. Jr.

2005-02-17T06:52:00.000-08:00

Powell graduated from Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, in 1929 and obtained his law degree from that institution in 1931. He then earned a master's degree in law from the Harvard Law School in 1932 and joined a Richmond law firm that same year. In 1938 he was made partner in

Tank

2005-02-14T04:32:00.000-08:00

The need to cross rivers and other water obstacles led to the development of amphibious tanks, beginning with the British Medium D, designed in 1918. Amphibious tanks built during 1920s and '30s sacrificed armament and armour to achieve low weight in relation to their bulk and, therefore, sufficient buoyancy to float. This confined their usefulness to reconnaissance. A late

Maurice

2005-02-13T02:43:00.000-08:00

Maurice first entered the government as a notary but in 578 was made commander of the imperial forces in the East. Distinguished by his successes against the Persians, he was selected by the emperor

Polar Bear Provincial Park

2005-02-11T18:24:00.000-08:00

Wilderness park, northern Ontario, Canada, on Hudson and James bays. A huge undeveloped area of 9,300 square miles (24,087 square km), it is the largest of Ontario's provincial parks; it was established in 1970. Polar Bear Provincial Park is accessible only by plane or boat, and travel within the park is restricted in order to help preserve the abundant wildlife, which includes caribou, bearded

Antenor

2005-02-08T14:03:00.000-08:00

Antenor's bronze sculpture of the tyrannicides probably dates from about 510. In 480, when Xerxes I captured Athens,

Gerlach, (ludwig Friedrich) Leopold Von

2005-02-07T10:38:00.000-08:00

Participating

Qatar

2005-02-05T14:37:00.000-08:00

In addition, Qatar's Al-Jazeera television station remained

Qatar

2005-02-02T22:59:00.000-08:00

The member countries of the Organisation for European Economic

Mcauley, James Phillip

2005-02-01T18:11:00.000-08:00

Educated at the University of Sydney, he taught for a while, served with Australian forces in World War II, and then became a senior lecturer at the Australian School of Pacific Administration, editor of Quadrant, a literary

Furniture, Functionalist modern

2005-01-28T22:30:00.000-08:00

About 1925, a new rationality began in furniture design, stimulated by the emergence of progressive experiments typified in the works and theories of the Bauhaus, a revolutionary German school of arts and crafts established in 1919 and staffed by leading architects, designers, and painters until Hitler closed it in 1933. Bauhaus instruction used crafts as experimental techniques

Szczecin

2005-01-25T10:02:00.000-08:00

German Stettin, port city and capital, Szczecin województwo (province), extreme northwestern Poland, on the western bank of the Oder River near its mouth, 40 miles (65 km) from the Baltic Sea. Shipbuilding and shipping are the main occupations. Evidence suggests that the area was first inhabited by seafaring people 2,500 years ago. In the 8th and 9th centuries Szczecin was a Slavic fishing and commercial

Cincinnati, University Of

2005-01-24T19:18:00.000-08:00

Public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. A comprehensive research and arts university, it offers undergraduate and graduate study in business, applied science, engineering, education, social work, nursing, design, architecture, arts, and sciences. Professional programs are available at the Cincinnati College of Law, the University

Salchow, Ulrich

2005-01-22T22:15:00.000-08:00

Salchow was a generous competitor, and he acknowledged the talents of others. At the 1902 World Championships, Madge Syers finished second

Bartas, Guillaume De Salluste, Seigneur Du (lord Of)

2005-01-20T03:21:00.000-08:00

Though he tried to avoid participating in the Wars of Religion, du Bartas was an ardent Huguenot and a trusted counsellor of Henry of Navarre. His aim was to use the new poetic techniques introduced into France by the literary group known as La Pléiade for

Biblical Literature, The primeval history

2005-01-17T06:34:00.000-08:00

The Bible begins with the creation of the universe. It tells the story with images borrowed from Babylonian mythology, transformed to express its own distinctive view of God and man. Out of primary chaos, darkness, void, depths, and waters God creates the heaven and the earth and all that dwell therein—a coherent order of things—by his will and word alone. He says, “Let there

Accidental

2005-01-16T15:23:00.000-08:00

In music, sign placed immediately to the left of a note to show that the note must be changed in pitch. A sharp () raises a note by a semitone; a flat () lowers it by a semitone; a natural ({natural}) restores it to the original pitch. Double sharps (´) and double flats () indicate that the note is raised or lowered by two semitones. A single natural cancels a double sharp or flat; a natural next

Cloudberry

2005-01-13T04:45:00.000-08:00

Eskimos

Lipoprotein

2005-01-11T03:10:00.000-08:00

Cholesterol

Obbligato

2005-01-09T10:34:00.000-08:00

(Italian: “obligatory”), in music, essential but subordinate instrumental part. For example, in an 18th-century aria with trumpet obbligato, the trumpet part, although serving as accompaniment to the voice, may be as brilliant in its writing as that of the voice itself. The term obbligato accompaniment has a more specialized meaning in some 18th-century music (see accompaniment

Ford, Gerald R.

2005-01-08T08:26:00.000-08:00

Ford was defeated in the November 1976 election by a popular vote of 40.8 million to 39.1 million and an electoral vote of 297 to 240. When, during the race that ultimately ousted President Carter in 1980, Ford was offered the vice presidential role by candidate Ronald Reagan, whom Ford held responsible for dissipating Republican support for his 1976 campaign, he refused. After leaving the White House, Ford happily retired from public life, golfed and skied at his leisure, and ultimately joined the boards of directors of numerous corporations.

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

2005-01-05T18:44:00.000-08:00

The company originated in two earlier companies—Kwaishinsha Co. (founded in 1911 to produce Dat cars) and

Water Polo

2005-01-02T23:02:00.000-08:00

Sport played in a swimming pool by teams of seven with a buoyant ball resembling an association football (soccer ball). The game was originally called “football-in-the-water,” and indeed it is more like association football and basketball than polo, the name of the sport coming from an earlier form of the game in which players rode barrels painted like horses and struck

Floquet, Charles (-thomas)

2004-12-31T21:27:00.000-08:00

Floquet strongly opposed the Second Empire and rapidly made a name for himself as a republican lawyer and journalist. In 1870–71 he participated in the formation of the new republic and

Eugénie

2004-12-29T17:11:00.000-08:00

The daughter of a Spanish noble who fought on the French side during Napoleon I's Peninsular War in Spain, Eugénie went to Paris when Louis-Napoléon became president of the Second Republic in December 1848. They were married in

Palestine, History Of, The rise of Islam

2004-12-26T18:42:00.000-08:00

The successful unification of the Arabian Peninsula by the first caliph, Abu Bakr (AD 632–Aug. 23, 634), made it possible to channel the expansion of the Arab Muslims into new directions. Abu Bakr, therefore, summoned the faithful to a holy war (jihad) and quickly amassed an impressive army. He dispatched three detachments of about 3,000 (later increased to about 7,500) men each to start operations

Cleveland Bay

2004-12-25T19:58:00.000-08:00

The Cleveland Bay is descended

Eads, James B.

2004-12-22T07:26:00.000-08:00

His writings are collected in Estill McHenry (ed.), Addresses and Papers of James B. Eads (1884). Florence L. Dorsey, Road to the Sea: The Story of James B. Eads and the Mississippi River (1947), is the standard work, a well-documented biography, based on research in technical and family papers. Louis How, James B. Eads (1900, reissued 1970), is by Eads's grandson. H.J. Hopkins, A Span of Bridges (1970), offers a good account of the building of the bridge. Quinta Scott and Howard S. Miller, The Eads Bridge (1979), includes a photographic essay.

Wuppertal

2004-12-19T07:25:00.000-08:00

City, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany. The city extends for 10 miles (16 km) along the steep banks of the Wupper River, a right-bank tributary of the Rhine, northeast of Düsseldorf. Formed as Barmen-Elberfeld in 1929 through the amalgamation of the towns of Barmen, Elberfeld, Beyenburg, Cronenberg, Ronsdorf, and Vohwinkel, the name was changed to Wuppertal

Quadruple Alliance

2004-12-17T01:22:00.000-08:00

Alliance formed on April 22, 1834, between Britain, France, and the more liberal claimants to the thrones of Spain and Portugal against the conservative claimants to those thrones. The alliance successfully supported Maria Cristiana, who was acting as regent for Isabella II in Spain and had allied herself with the liberals against the pretender Don Carlos in the First

Drachma

2004-12-14T13:24:00.000-08:00

Silver coin of ancient Greece and the former monetary unit of modern Greece. Its name derives from the Greek verb “to grasp,” and its original value was equivalent to that of a handful of arrows. The early drachma had different weights in different regions. From the 5th century BC, Athens gained commercial preeminence, and the Athenian drachma became the foremost currency.

Niger-congo Languages

2004-12-12T15:29:00.000-08:00

In the 19th century, scholars began to attempt classification of the various Niger-Congo languages. Sigismund W. Koelle, a German missionary of the Church Missionary Society working among freed slaves in Freetown (now in Sierra Leone), produced his monumental work, Polyglotta Africana, in 1854. He obtained lists of 283 words in 156 languages and grouped them so as to reflect what

Crusade, The institutions of the First Kingdom

2004-12-11T17:07:00.000-08:00

The four principalities established by the crusaders—three after the loss of Edessa in 1144—were loosely connected, and such limited suzerainty as the king of Jerusalem exercised over the others became largely nominal after the midcentury. Each of the states was organized into a pattern of feudal lordships by the ruling minority. The institutions of the Kingdom of

Eusebius Of Caesarea

2004-12-09T14:14:00.000-08:00

Eusebius was baptized and ordained at Caesarea, where he was taught by the learned presbyter Pamphilus, to whom he was bound by ties of respect and affection

Ear, Human, Disturbances of the vestibular system

2004-12-06T14:19:00.000-08:00

The relation between the vestibular apparatus of the two ears is reciprocal. When the head is turned to the left, the discharge from the left horizontal canal is decreased, and vice versa. Normal posture is the result of their acting in cooperation and in opposition. When the vestibular system of one ear is damaged, the unrestrained activity of the other causes a continuous

Uisang

2004-12-05T15:21:00.000-08:00

Uisang became a monk about 650, and at 37 he went with his friend the monk Wonhyo to China, where he studied

Animal Development

2004-12-03T23:46:00.000-08:00

The processes that lead eventually to the formation of a new animal starting from cells derived from one or more parent individuals. Development thus occurs following the process by which a new generation of organisms is produced by the parent generation.

Cullen, Countee

2004-11-30T00:34:00.000-08:00

Reared by a woman who was probably his paternal grandmother, Countee at age 15 was unofficially adopted by the Reverend F.A. Cullen, minister of Salem M.E. Church, one of Harlem's largest congregations. He won a citywide poetry contest as a schoolboy and saw his winning stanzas

China, The Shih-liu kuo (Sixteen Kingdoms) in the north (303439)

2004-11-29T13:13:00.000-08:00

The term Sixteen Kingdoms traditionally denotes the plethora of short-lived non-Chinese dynasties that from 303 came to rule the whole or parts of northern China. Many ethnic groups were involved, including ancestors of the Turks (such as the Hsiung-nu, possibly related to the Huns of late Roman history, and the Chieh), the Mongolians (Hsien-pei), and the Tibetans (Ti and Ch'iang).

Celestial Mechanics

2004-11-27T22:40:00.000-08:00

In the broadest sense, the application of classical mechanics to the motion of celestial bodies acted on by any of several types of forces. By far the most important force experienced by these bodies, and much of the time the only important force, is that of their mutual gravitational attraction. But other forces can be important as well, such as atmospheric drag on

Tetragrammaton

2004-11-25T01:24:00.000-08:00

The four Hebrew letters, YHWH, in the name of God. See Yahweh.

Gaddis, William Thomas

2004-11-23T17:23:00.000-08:00

American writer of complex satiric works who was considered one of the most important post-World War II modernist novelists and whose first novel, The Recognitions (1955), became an underground classic; he published only three more novels--JR (1975), Carpenter's Gothic (1985), and A Frolic of His Own (1994)--and had finished another, Agape Agape, which was to be published posthumously (b. Dec. 29, 1922, New

Gaddis, William Thomas

2004-11-20T07:05:00.000-08:00

The C&O acquired the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1963 but continued to operate it as a separate system. In 1973 the

Gobi

2004-11-19T14:28:00.000-08:00

Information on the Gobi is available in surveys of explorations in the area: Jack Autrey Dabbs, History of the Discovery and Exploration of Chinese Turkestan (1963), a comprehensive introduction with a bibliography; and Sven Hedin, Central Asia and Tibet, trans. from Swedish, 2 vol. (1903, reissued 1969), and Across the Goby Desert (1931, reprinted 1968; originally published in Swedish, 1928). Other records of archaeological and geographic explorations in the area include Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay: Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China, 2 vol. (1912, reprinted 1987), and On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks: Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China (1933, reissued 1971); Owen Lattimore, Inner Asian Frontiers of China (1940, reprinted 1988); Paul Pelliot, Les Grottes de Touen-Houang: peintures and sculptures bouddhiques des époques des Wei, des T'ang, et des Song, 6 vol. in 4 (1914–24); Peter Hopkirk, Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia (1980); and Basil Davidson, Turkestan Alive: New Travels in Chinese Central Asia (1957). Specific treatments of the Gobi are Mildred Cable, The Gobi Desert (1942, reprinted 1987); and Alonzo W. Pond, Climate and Weather in the Central Gobi of Mongolia (1954). An overview of the contemporary economic and social situation is presented in Terry Cannon and Alan Jenkins (ed.), The Geography of Contemporary China: The Impact of Deng Xiaoping's Decade (1990).

Gräfe, Karl Ferdinand Von

2004-11-15T07:39:00.000-08:00

German surgeon who helped to create modern plastic surgery. A superintendent of German military hospitals during the Napoleonic Wars (1800–15), he also served as professor of surgery and director of the surgical clinic at the University of Berlin (1810–40). He improved the English surgeon Joseph Carpue's adaptation of the “Indian method” and

Iran, Ancient, The Old Elamite period

2004-11-12T22:55:00.000-08:00

The earliest kings in the Old Elamite period may date to approximately 2700 BC. Already conflict with Mesopotamia, in this case apparently with the city of Ur, was characteristic of Elamite history. These early rulers were succeeded by the Awan (Shustar) dynasty. The 11th king of this line entered into treaty relations with the great Naram-Sin of Akkad (reigned c. 2254–c. 2218 BC). Yet a new ruling

Puelche

2004-11-11T15:43:00.000-08:00

Little is known of the Puelche prior to the

Roberts, Joseph Jenkins

2004-11-08T19:34:00.000-08:00

A native of Virginia, Roberts was the son of free “blacks” whose heritage was more than seven-eighths white. At the age of 20 he immigrated to Liberia with his mother and younger brothers, became a merchant, and also became an unofficial aide to the white governor of the colony, Thomas H.

Ovarian Cancer

2004-11-07T06:24:00.000-08:00

A disease characterized by the abnormal growth of cells in the ovaries, the internal reproductive organs that produce the ova, or egg cells, in women. Most ovarian cancers begin in the outer layer of the ovaries, although some cancers develop from the connective tissue that holds the ovary together or from the cells that serve as precursors for eggs.

Spitfire

2004-11-04T09:43:00.000-08:00

The Spitfire was a low-wing monoplane that was first flown in 1936 and was first put into service with the Royal Air Force in 1938. It was modified continuously throughout the war to serve in a variety

Jewel Cave National Monument

2004-11-02T23:27:00.000-08:00

The caverns consist of a series of chambers joined by narrow passages. They are noted for their jewel-like calcite crystals, including nailhead and dogtooth spar, which are found throughout the

Turkic Languages

2004-10-31T10:06:00.000-08:00

Group of closely related languages that form a subfamily of the Altaic languages. The Turkic languages show close similarities to each other in phonology, morphology, and syntax, though Chuvash, Khalaj, and Sakha differ considerably from the rest. The earliest linguistic records are Old Turkic inscriptions, found near the Orhon River in Mongolia and the Yenisey

Biblical Literature, Zechariah

2004-10-30T00:37:00.000-07:00

Though little is known about Zechariah's

Chad

2004-10-28T16:29:00.000-07:00

Although

Trichinosis

2004-10-26T16:39:00.000-07:00

Also called Trichiniasis, a disorder resulting from infestation with the small roundworm Trichinella spiralis, commonly acquired by humans by the eating of undercooked pork containing encapsulated larvae of the parasite. In the stomach and small intestine, the capsular coating is digested, and the liberated larvae invade the mucosal lining of the small intestine, becoming adults within

Haakon Iv Haakonsson

2004-10-24T21:36:00.000-07:00

Acknowledged as the illegitimate posthumous son of Haakon III and the grandson of Sverrir of Norway,

Bashkortostan

2004-10-21T03:18:00.000-07:00

From Mount Yamantau, the highest peak in the southern Urals, elevation generally decreases southward and westward, with the heavily forested mountains giving way to open steppe interspersed with islands

Mapu, Abraham

2004-10-20T19:13:00.000-07:00

Author of the first Hebrew novel, Ahavat Ziyyon (1853; Annou: Prince and Peasant), an idyllic historical romance set in the days of the prophet Isaiah. Couched in florid biblical language, it artfully depicts pastoral life in ancient Israel; the book attained immediate popularity

Metaphysical Poet

2004-10-18T17:19:00.000-07:00

Their work is a blend of emotion and intellectual ingenuity,

Ibn Muqlah

2004-10-15T04:04:00.000-07:00

One of the foremost calligraphers of the 'Abbasid Age (750–1258), reputed inventor of the first cursive style of Arabic lettering, the naskhi script, which replaced the angular Kufic as the standard of Islamic calligraphy. In the naskhi script Ibn Muqlah introduced the rounded forms and curved lines that in later styles were

Dwiggins, William Addison

2004-10-13T02:27:00.000-07:00

After studying with Frederic Goudy in Chicago, Dwiggins moved in 1906 to Hingham, Mass., where he earned his living

Bach, Johann Sebastian, Early years

2004-10-12T19:55:00.000-07:00

J.S. Bach was born at Eisenach, Thuringia, on March 21, 1685, the youngest child of Johann Ambrosius Bach and Elisabeth Lämmerhirt. Ambrosius was a string player, employed by the town council and the ducal court of Eisenach. Johann Sebastian started school in 1692 or 1693 and did well in spite of frequent absences. Of his musical education at this time, nothing definite is known; however,

Morris

2004-10-10T02:27:00.000-07:00

County, northern New Jersey, U.S., bounded by the Musconetcong River and Lake Hopatcong to the west, the Pequannock and Pompton rivers to the north, and the Passaic River to the east. It consists largely of a piedmont and upland region, with swampy lowlands in the southeast, and is drained by the Black, Rockaway, and Raritan (south branch) rivers. Among its numerous lakes are

Fjord

2004-10-07T08:31:00.000-07:00

Also spelled Fiord, long narrow arm of the sea, commonly extending far inland, that results from marine inundation of a glaciated valley. Many fjords are astonishingly deep; Sogn Fjord in Norway is 1,308 m (4,290 feet) deep, and Canal Messier in Chile is 1,270 m (4,167 feet). The great depth of these submerged valleys, extending thousands of feet below sea level, is compatible only with a glacial origin. It is assumed

Irrawaddy River

2004-10-06T10:04:00.000-07:00

The peoples living on the river's banks are culturally diverse. On the upper reaches, the Kachin, who practice shifting agriculture, predominate. In the middle and lower basins, the Burmese are the dominant group, cultivating wheat, cotton, and oilseeds in the central dry zone and rice and jute to the south and in the delta region, where rainfall is more plentiful. Also

Australia, Flag Of

2004-10-03T15:36:00.000-07:00

Thought was given to an all-Australian flag long before confederation was achieved on January 1, 1901. For example, in 1823 a National Colonial Flag displayed four white eight-pointed stars on a red cross on a white field with the Union Jack. From 1831 until as late as the 1920s there was a somewhat similar design known as the Australian Federation Flag, with a blue cross and five white stars.

Altizer, Thomas J.j.

2004-10-02T19:04:00.000-07:00

A graduate of the University of Chicago (A.B. 1948, A.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1955), Altizer taught religion first at Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.), from 1954 to 1956, and then at Emory University (Atlanta, Ga.) from 1956 to 1968 before becoming a professor of English at the State University of New York at Stony

Biblical Literature, Lamentations of Jeremiah

2004-09-30T08:55:00.000-07:00

The Lamentations of Jeremiah consists of five poems (chapters) in the form of laments for Judah and Jerusalem when they were invaded and devastated by the Babylonians in 586 BCE, for the sufferings of the population, and for the poet himself during and after the catastrophe. These grief-stricken laments are intermingled with abject confessions of sin and prayers for divine

Régence Style

2004-09-27T01:10:00.000-07:00

Transition in the decorative arts from the massive rectilinear forms of Louis XIV furniture to those prefiguring the Rococo style of Louis XV. The style encompasses about the first 30 years of the 18th century, when Philippe II, duc d'Orléans, was regent of France. The restraint arrived at during this period resulted from a strong reaction against the pomposity of the

GeneralFeather

serviced offices

Sergipe

Gabon Estuary

Philip I

Romains, Jules

Paekche

John Bull

Cunningham, Glenn

Giotto Di Bondone

San Bernardino Mountains

Tribune

Ucicky, Gustav

Chaconne

Rousseau, Henri

Adams, Léonie

Oscillatoria

Frederick Viii

Biblical Literature, The significance of Elijah

Alkaloid

Malamud, Bernard

Aids

Pindus Mountains

Gwalior

Gravesham

Cabriole Leg

China, The Shantung Hills

Earth, Mantle convection

Biblical Literature, Ecclesiastes

German Literature, Bourgeois Realism

Mineral, Cyclosilicates

Shansi, The people

Accessory Mineral

Powell, Lewis F. Jr.

Tank

Maurice

Polar Bear Provincial Park

Antenor

Gerlach, (ludwig Friedrich) Leopold Von

Qatar

Qatar

Mcauley, James Phillip

Furniture, Functionalist modern

Szczecin

Cincinnati, University Of

Salchow, Ulrich

Bartas, Guillaume De Salluste, Seigneur Du (lord Of)

Biblical Literature, The primeval history

Accidental

Cloudberry

Lipoprotein

Obbligato

Ford, Gerald R.

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

Water Polo

Floquet, Charles (-thomas)

Eugénie

Palestine, History Of, The rise of Islam

Cleveland Bay

Eads, James B.

Wuppertal

Quadruple Alliance

Drachma

Niger-congo Languages

Crusade, The institutions of the First Kingdom

Eusebius Of Caesarea

Ear, Human, Disturbances of the vestibular system

Uisang

Animal Development

Cullen, Countee

China, The Shih-liu kuo (Sixteen Kingdoms) in the north (303439)

Celestial Mechanics

Tetragrammaton

Gaddis, William Thomas

Gaddis, William Thomas

Gobi

Gräfe, Karl Ferdinand Von

Iran, Ancient, The Old Elamite period

Puelche

Roberts, Joseph Jenkins

China, The Shih-liu kuo (Sixteen Kingdoms) in the north (303439)