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Admiralty Inlet: passage of water located between Brodeur and Borden peninsulas and indenting for 230 miles (370 km) the northwest coast of Baffin Island in the Baffin region of Nunavut territory, Canada. ...
Admiralty Island: (from the article "Alaskan mountains") ...mountains of the archipelago range in elevation from 2,000-3,500 feet in the southern Prince of Wales Mountains to more than 4,000-7,500 feet in the Chilkat Range and the mountains of ...
Admiralty Islands: islands in Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean, an extension of the Bismarck Archipelago comprising about 40 islands. The group lies about 190 miles (300 km) off the northern coast ... [1 Related Articles]
Admiralty Landships Committee: (from the article "tank") ...The vehicle was constructed by the Armoured Car Division of the Royal Naval Air Service, whose ideas, backed by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston S. Churchill, resulted in ...
Admiralty Screen: (from the article "Adam, Robert") Adam's first important work in London was the Admiralty Screen (c. 1760). Through the influence of John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute, a friend of King George III, he was ...
Admiralty Side: (from the article "Saint Petersburg") Much of St. Petersburg's historical and cultural heritage is concentrated on the Admiralty Side. The district centres on the Admiralty. This, the nucleus of Peter's original city, was reconstructed in ...
admissibility: (from the article "evidence") In civil proceedings in the common-law countries, evidence is both ascertained and simultaneously restricted by the assertions of the parties. If the allegations of one party are not disputed or ...
admission: (from the article "evidence") ...law than in continental law. The most commonly cited exceptions to the rule of hearsay relate to statements made by dead or absent persons, statements in public documents, and to ...
admittance: (from the article "electrical impedance") ...component of the impedance (whether predominantly inductive or capacitive), the alternating current either lags or leads the voltage. The reciprocal of the impedance, 1/Z, is called the admittance and is ...
admitted liability insurance: (from the article "insurance") ...Medical costs, including loss of income, are usually paid to passengers suffering permanent total disability without the requirement of proving negligence. This type of coverage has been called admitted liability ...
admonitory mask: (from the article "mask") Masks have served an important role as a means of discipline and have been used to admonish women, children, and criminals. Common in China, Africa, Oceania, and North America, admonitory ...
Admont Bible: (from the article "painting, Western") ...where Salzburg was the leading centre. A strong Italian element is detectable in the illustrations in books of the first half of the 12th century, such as the giant Bible ...
adnation: (from the article "angiosperm") Floral organs are often united or fused: connation is the fusion of similar organs-e.g., the fused petals in the morning glory; adnation is the fusion of different organs-for example, the ...
Ado-Ekiti: town, Ondo state, southwestern Nigeria. It lies in the Yoruba Hills, at the intersection of roads from Akure, Ilawe, Ilesha, Ila (Illa), and Ikare, and is situated 92 miles (148 ...
adobe: a heavy clay soil used to make sun-dried bricks. The term, Spanish-Moorish in origin, also denotes the bricks themselves. [2 Related Articles]
Adobe Acrobat: (from the article "Adobe Systems Incorporated") Another major company initiative in the 1990s-the Adobe Acrobat product family-was designed to provide a standard format for electronic document distribution. Once a document had been converted to Acrobat's portable ...
Adobe Photoshop: (from the article "Adobe Systems Incorporated") ...the Unix and Windows operating systems. The first such application, introduced in 1987, was Adobe Illustrator, a PostScript-based drawing package for artists, designers, and technical illustrators. Adobe Photoshop, an application ...
Adobe Systems Incorporated: American developer of printing, publishing, and graphics software. Adobe was instrumental in the creation of the desktop publishing industry through the introduction of its PostScript printer language. Its headquarters are ... [2 Related Articles]
Adoimara: (from the article "Afar") ...Cooperation in larger units such as subtribe or tribe is induced only by warfare against other tribes or neighbouring peoples. Two distinct classes, the Asaimara ("Red Men") and the Adoimara ...
adolescence: transitional phase of growth and development between childhood and adulthood. In many societies adolescence is narrowly equated with puberty and the cycle of physical changes culminating in reproductive maturity. [14 Related Articles]
Adolf: German king from May 5, 1292, to June 23, 1298, when he was deposed in favour of his Habsburg opponent, Albert I. [4 Related Articles]
Adolf: duke of Nassau from 1839 to 1867, who, as grand duke of Luxembourg from 1890 to 1905, was the first ruler of that autonomous duchy.
Adolf Frederick: king of Sweden from 1751 to 1771. He was the son of Christian Augustus (1673-1726), Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, and of Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach. [3 Related Articles]
Adolf Friedrich: (from the article "Virunga Mountains") ...clear though distant view of the three eastern volcanoes; and Count Adolf von Gotzen, a German, explored the two western volcanoes in 1894. The first maps resulted from the major ...
Adolf of Cologne: (from the article "Philip") ...years old, and the German princes were unwilling to accept him as king. The princes favourable to the Hohenstaufens elected Philip German king in March 1198. The opposing party, led ...
Adolph III: (from the article "Hamburg") ...of Holstein, further promoted the economic development of Hamburg as Lubeck's port on the North Sea. In the autumn of 1188 a group of Hamburg entrepreneurs received from their feudal ...
Adolph V of Berg: (from the article "Limburg") The direct male line of the house of Arlon continued to rule Limburg until 1282. When war broke out between Count Reinald of Guelders (who had married into the rights ...
Adolphe, Marquis de Custine: (from the article "Nicholas I") Or to refer to Adolphe, marquis de Custine, whose lasting literary fame rests on his denunciation of the Russia of Nicholas I: "Virgil's Neptune . . . one could not ...
Adomi Bridge: (from the article "Ho") ...Its agricultural basis was strengthened after 1870 by the development of German kola nut plantations and by expanding cacao cultivation. The town's modern commercial importance was ensured by the Volta ...
Adoni: city, western Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. It lies 140 miles (225 km) southwest of Hyderabad, on the Madras-Bombay railway route. Adoni was once the stronghold for the rulers of ...
Adonias Filho: novelist, essayist, journalist, and literary critic whose works of fiction embrace universal themes within the provincial setting of Brazil's rural northeast.
Adonic line: (from the article "prosody") followed by a shorter line, called an Adonic, - ˘ ˘ - - .
Adonijah: in the Old Testament, the fourth son of David, the natural heir to the throne. David's favourite wife, Bathsheba, organized an intrigue in favour of her son Solomon. Shortly after ... [3 Related Articles]
Adonis: Lebanese poet and literary critic who was a leader of the modernist movement in Arabic poetry in the second half of the 20th century. [3 Related Articles]
Adonis: in Greek mythology, a youth of remarkable beauty, the favourite of the goddess Aphrodite (identified with Venus by the Romans). Traditionally, he was the product of the incestuous love Smyrna ... [2 Related Articles]
Adonis, Joe: major American crime-syndicate boss in New York and New Jersey.
Adonizedek: (from the article "Jerusalem") ...narrative mentions the meeting of the Canaanite Melchizedek, said to be king of Salem (Jerusalem), with the Hebrew patriarch Abraham. A later episode in the biblical text mentions another king, ...
adoptees-rights movement: (from the article "adoption") Beginning in the 1970s, a growing adoptees-rights movement in the United States called for the repeal of confidentiality laws in most states that prevented adoptees as adults from viewing their ...
adoptianism: (from the article "Christianity") Heresies have survived or reemerged in the course of history: Arianism continued among the Teutonic tribes until the 7th century and in 18th-century England; "adoptianism" reappeared in Spain and France ...
adoption: (from the article "publishing, history of") In the United States the boards of education in some of the larger states review the available textbooks and approve a selection for use in their school districts. This selection ...
adoption: the act of establishing a person as parent to one who is not in fact or in law his child. Adoption is so widely recognized that it can be characterized ... [14 Related Articles]
Adoption of Children Act: (from the article "adoption") The first modern adoption legislation, the Adoption of Children Act, was passed in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in 1851. It required judges to determine that adoptive parents had "sufficient ...
Adoptionism: either of two Christian heresies: one developed in the 2nd and 3rd centuries and is also known as Dynamic Monarchianism (see Monarchianism); the other began in the 8th century in ... [4 Related Articles]
adoration: (from the article "'alenu") ...by Christian church authorities, who interpreted a sentence as a slighting reference to Jesus and so ordered its deletion. Reform Judaism uses a modified form of the 'alenu that is ...
Adoration of the Magi: (from the article "Magi") The Adoration of the Magi-i.e., their homage to the infant Jesus-early became one of the most popular themes in Christian art, the first extant painting on the subject being the ...
Adorno Family: Genoese family prominent in the politics of that city's "popular" (democratic) dogeship (1339-1528), when the old aristocracy was exiled and new families seized power. Branches of the family became prominent ...
Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund: German philosopher who also wrote on sociology, psychology, and musicology. [4 Related Articles]
Adoula, Cyrille: (from the article "Congo") ...bastion of secessionism, the pro-Lumumba Stanleyville government, to be brought to heel. Meanwhile, following the convening of parliament in Leopoldville, a new civilian government headed by Cyrille Adoula came to ...
Adour River: river in southwestern France. The Adour River rises in the central Pyrenees near Tourmalet Pass, just south of Midi de Bigorre Peak, and flows in a curve, north, then west, ...
Adoxaceae: (from the article "Dipsacales") Adoxaceae used to include only the herbaceous genera Adoxa and Sinadoxa, but two more genera, Viburnum (175 species) and Sambucus (elderberry, 9 species), were added under APG II. These latter ...
Adrano: town, eastern Sicily, Italy. It lies near the Simeto River on a lava plateau on the western slopes of Mount Etna, northwest of Catania city. It originated as the ancient ...
Adrar: palm grove settlement, the largest of the Touat oasis group, southwestern Algeria, in the Sahara. Adrar's historical name was given it by the local Berber people, the Timmi, who established ... [1 Related Articles]
Adrar: traditional region of central Mauritania in western Africa. It consists of a low central massif with noticeable cliffs that rise to about 800 feet (240 m). The terrain is arid ...
Adrastus: (from the article "Seven Against Thebes") ...on which of them was to succeed to the Theban throne and decided to rule in alternate years. As Eteocles' turn came first, Polyneices withdrew to Argos, where he married ...
adrenal cortex: (from the article "Glands and hormones of the human endocrine system") The adrenal cortexcortisonecortisone a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex. Introduced in 1948 for its anti-inflammatory effect in the ...
adrenal crisis: (from the article "endocrine system, human") The symptoms of adrenal insufficiency increase in intensity over time and eventually (after several months) lead to acute adrenal insufficiency, known as adrenal crisis. Adrenal crisis is characterized by fever, ...
adrenal gland: either of two small triangular endocrine glands that are located above each kidney. In humans each adrenal gland weighs about 5 grams (about 0.18 ounce) and measures about 30 mm ... [16 Related Articles]
adrenal hormone: (from the article "lactation") ...lactation in women is inferred from the results of studies done on animals and from clinical observations that are in agreement with the results of animal studies. Prolactin, growth hormone, ...
adrenal medulla: (from the article "Glands and hormones of the human endocrine system") The adrenal medullaautonomic nervous systemnervous system, humanThe endocrine system...lie above the kidney, are composed of the cortex and the medulla. ...
adrenal tumour: (from the article "adrenal gland") ...hyperfunction may be congenital or acquired. Congenital hyperfunction is always due to hyperplasia (enlargement) of both adrenal glands, whereas acquired hyperfunction may be due to either an adrenal tumour or ...
adrenergic drug: any of various drugs that interfere with the functioning of the sympathetic nervous system by affecting the release or action of norepinephrine and epinephrine. The former are hormones, secreted by ... [1 Related Articles]
adrenergic nerve fibre: nerve fibre that releases the neurotransmitter norepinephrine (also known as noradrenaline) at the synapse, or junction, between a nerve and its end organ, which may be a muscle, gland, or ... [1 Related Articles]
adrenergic receptor: (from the article "Drugs acting on cholinergic and adrenergic receptors") Receptors sensitive to norepinephrine and epinephrine are called adrenergic receptors. They are divided into two types, alpha and beta. These are further classified into subtypes alpha₁, alpha₂, beta₁, and beta₂.
adrenocortical hyperfunction: (from the article "adrenal gland") Adrenocortical hyperfunction may be congenital or acquired. Congenital hyperfunction is always due to hyperplasia (enlargement) of both adrenal glands, whereas acquired hyperfunction may be due to either an adrenal tumour ...
adrenocorticotropic hormone: a polypeptide hormone formed in the pituitary gland that regulates the activity of the outer region (cortex) of the adrenal glands. In mammals the action of ACTH is limited to ... [19 Related Articles]
Adret, Solomon ben Abraham: outstanding spiritual leader of Spanish Jewry of his time (known as El Rab de Espana [the Rabbi of Spain]); he is remembered partly for his controversial decree of 1305 threatening ... [2 Related Articles]
Adrets, Francois de Beaumont, baron des: French military leader of the Wars of Religion, notorious for his cruelty.
Adria: town and episcopal see in the Veneto regione of northern Italy, on the Bianco Canal just east of Rovigo. Founded by the Etruscans or the Veneti of northeastern Italy, it ...
Adriamandisoarivo: (from the article "Boina") The other son, Adriamandisoarivo, continued the migration northward and established his rule over a second Sakalava kingdom, Boina. At his death about 1710, Boina covered the broad coastal plain between ...
Adrian: (from the article "Theodore of Canterbury, Saint") Appointed by Pope St. Vitalian, Theodore was consecrated in 668 and then set out from Rome with SS. Adrian, abbot of Nerida, Italy, and Benedict Biscop, later abbot of Wearmouth ...
Adrian: city, seat (1838) of Lenawee county, southeastern Michigan, U.S., on the River Raisin, 40 miles (65 km) southwest of Ann Arbor. Addison J. Comstock settled the site in 1826 as ...
Adrian I: pope from 772 to 795 whose close relationship with the emperor Charlemagne symbolized the medieval ideal of union of church and state in a united Christendom. [8 Related Articles]
Adrian II: pope from 867 to 872. [1 Related Articles]
Adrian III, Saint: pope from 884 to 885.
Adrian IV: the only Englishman to occupy the papal throne (1154-59). [7 Related Articles]
Adrian V: pope for about five weeks in 1276.
Adrian VI: the only Dutch pope, elected in 1522. He was the last non-Italian pope until the election of John Paul II in 1978. [3 Related Articles]
Adrian, Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron: British electrophysiologist who with Sir Charles Sherrington won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1932 for discoveries regarding the nerve cell.
Adrianople, Battle of: (Aug. 9, AD 378), battle fought at present Edirne, in European Turkey, resulting in the defeat of a Roman army commanded by the emperor Valens at the hands of the ... [6 Related Articles]
Adrianople, Peace of: (from the article "Peter I") ...light terms from the inept Turkish negotiators, who allowed him to retire with no greater sacrifice than the retrocession of Azov. The Turkish government soon decided to renew hostilities; but ...
Adrianople, Peace of: (from the article "Transcaucasia, history of") ...the Russian lines of communication in Armenia were ill-prepared, and the Turks were able to support an attempt by Circassian exiles to reoccupy their homeland. But this failed, and, by ...
Adrianople, Treaty of: (from the article "Isaac II Angelus") ...was passing through Byzantine territory. Isaac tried to protect himself by concluding a treaty with Saladin, the sultan of Egypt, but he was soon forced to assist Frederick; Isaac concluded ...
Adriatic Karst: (from the article "cave") ...These are closed depressions with flat and alluviated bottoms that may be as much as 60 kilometres in diameter. Many of these depressions are elongate parallel to the geologic structure ...
Adriatic Sea: arm of the Mediterranean Sea, lying between the Italian and Balkan peninsulas. The Strait of Otranto at its southeasterly limit links it with the Ionian Sea. It is about 500 ... [2 Related Articles]
Adroa: (from the article "Lugbara") ...by rainmakers and the heads of large family groups. Government-appointed chiefs are set over large areas. The majority of Lugbara still practice ancestor worship; they believe in a creator god, ...
Adroque, Esteban: (from the article "Almirante Brown") ...(province). The county was founded in 1873, and the county seat is often referred to as Adroque, the name of its founder, and its railroad station bears that name. Esteban ...
adrsta: (from the article "Indian philosophy") ...organ, or an object. Chapter 5 deals with the notion of action and the connected concept of effort, and the next traces various special phenomena of nature to the supersensible ...
Adso of Montier-en-Der: Benedictine monk and abbot whose treatise on the Antichrist became the standard work on the subject from the mid-10th to the 13th century.
adsorption: capability of all solid substances to attract to their surfaces molecules of gases or solutions with which they are in contact. Solids that are used to adsorb gases or dissolved ... [8 Related Articles]
adsorption and surface reaction: (from the article "adhesive") ...pores in the adherend surface or around projections on the surface. The second, interdiffusion, results when liquid adhesive dissolves and diffuses into adherend materials. In the third mechanism, adsorption and ...
adsorption chromatography: (from the article "chromatography") In adsorption chromatography solute molecules bond directly to the surface of the stationary phase. Stationary phases may contain a variety of adsorption sites differing in the tenacity with which they ...
adsorption isotherm: (from the article "chromatography") ...For a given species, the ratio of the times spent in the moving and stationary regions is equal to the ratio of its concentrations in these regions, known as the ...
adsorption theory: (from the article "adhesive") ...have been the object of physical and chemical study since at least the 1960s, with the result that a number of theories of adhesion exist. The main mechanism of adhesion ...
Adua: (from the article "African dance") ...dance into an ecstatic trance in which they are caught and controlled by dance organizers. A more ordered line-and-soloist pattern is used by Asante women in the Kumasi district of ...
Aduatuci: (from the article "Low Countries, history of") ...France and in Flanders lived the Morini; to the north of them, between the Schelde River and the sea, the Menapii; in Artois, the Nervii; between the Schelde and the ...
Adud ad-Dawlah: greatest ruler (949-983) of the Iranian Buyid dynasty. [4 Related Articles]
adularia: a feldspar mineral and potassium aluminosilicate (KAlSi₃O₈). It commonly forms colourless, glassy, prismatic, twinned crystals in low-temperature veins of felsic plutonic rocks and in cavities in crystalline schists. Typical occurrences ...
Adulis: (from the article "eastern Africa, history of") ...the Red Sea region. Its people spoke Ge'ez, a Semitic language, and they mostly worshiped Middle Eastern gods, although here and there a traditional African deity survived. Its port of ...
Adullam: ancient city and modern development region, in the upper part of Ha-Shefela, central Israel. The mound of Tel 'Adullam, or Horbat ("Ruins of") 'Adullam (Arabic: Tall Ash-Shaykh Madhkur), 22.5 miles ...
Adullamite: member of a group of English politicians who rebelled against their leaders in the Liberal Party and defeated the Reform Bill of 1866. Their name was derived from the biblical ...
adult education: any form of learning undertaken by or provided for mature men and women. In a 1970 report, the National Institute of Adult Education (England and Wales) defined adult education as ... [5 Related Articles]