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- (from the article "airport") ...takeoff of aircraft, lighting and radio navigational aids are provided. These are supplemented by airfield markings, signs and signals, and air traffic control facilities. Support facilities on the airside of ...
- airspeed indicator
- instrument that measures the speed of an aircraft relative to the surrounding air, using the differential between the pressure of still air (static pressure) and that of moving air compressed ...
- airway
- (from the article "traffic control") Airplanes travel along established routes called airways, which are analogous to guideways, even though they are not physical constructions. They are defined by a particular width (e.g., 32 miles) and ...
- Airway Limited
- (from the article "airplane") ...and the Pennsylvania Railroad joined forces to solve, at least in part, these altitude and darkness problems. They organized a rail-plane route between New York City and Los Angeles. The ...
- Airy disk
- (from the article "optics") When a well-corrected lens is used in place of a pinhole, the geometrical ray divergence is eliminated by the focussing action of the lens, and a much larger aperture may ...
- Airy hypothesis
- (from the article "isostasy") The Airy hypothesis says that Earth's crust is a more rigid shell floating on a more liquid substratum of greater density. Sir George Biddell Airy, an English mathematician and astronomer, ...
- Airy, Sir George Biddell
- English scientist who was astronomer royal from 1835 to 1881. [4 Related Articles]
- Aisen
- region, southern Chile, bounded on the east by Argentina and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. Aisen includes the Chonos Archipelago, the Taitao Peninsula, and the mainland between the ...
- Aisin Gioro
- (from the article "China") Under Nurhachi and his son Abahai, the Aisin Gioro clan of the Jianzhou tribe won hegemony among the rival Juchen tribes of the northeast, then through warfare and alliances extended ...
- aisle
- portion of a church or basilica that parallels or encircles the major sections of the structure, such as the nave, choir, or apse (aisles around the apse are usually called ...
- aisling
- in Irish literature, a poetic or dramatic description or representation of a vision. The Vision of Adamnan is one of the best-known examples. In the 18th century the aisling became ...
- Aisne
- (from the article "Picardy") region of France encompassing the northern departements of Oise, Somme, and Aisne. Picardy is bounded by the regions of Nord-Pas-de-Calais to ...
- Aisne River
- (from the article "Champagne-Ardenne") ...through Cote des Bars, a region of scarped limestone hills. The rugged Argonne Massif lies in the northern part of the region and is drained by the ...
- Aisne, First Battle of the
- (from the article "World War I") ...Chemin des Dames ridge. Along the Aisne the preponderant power of the defense over the offense was reemphasized as the Germans repelled successive Allied attacks from the shelter of trenches. ...
- Aistis, Jonas
- poet whose lyrics are considered among the best in Lithuanian literature and who was the first modern Lithuanian poet to turn to personal expression.
- Aistulf
- (from the article "Papal States") ...claim of the Byzantine Empire to sovereignty there. This Donation of Pippin (756) provided the basis for the papal claim to temporal power. In the same year, by the Treaty ...
- aitihasika
- (from the article "Indian philosophy") ...(etymology) of Yaska, a 5th-century- BC Sanskrit scholar, tells of various attempts to interpret difficult Vedic mythologies: the adhidaivata (pertaining to the deities), the aitihasika (pertaining to the tradition), the ...
- Aitken nucleus
- (from the article "condensation nucleus") ...in the atmosphere. Its diameter may range from a few microns to a few tenths of a micron (one micron equals 10-4 centimetre). There are much smaller nuclei in the ...
- Aitken, John
- Scottish physicist and meteorologist who, through a series of experiments and observations in which he used apparatus of his own design, elucidated the crucial role that microscopic particles, now called ...
- Aitken, Robert Grant
- American astronomer who specialized in the study of double stars, of which he discovered more than 3,000. [1 Related Articles]
- Aitutaki Atoll
- one of the southern Cook Islands, a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean. Aitutaki Atoll is volcanic in origin and rises to about ... [1 Related Articles]
- Aitzema, Lieuwe van
- (from the article "Netherlands, The") ...by Pieter Bor and Emanuel van Meteren; the highly polished account by Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, a masterpiece of narration and judgment in the spirit of Tacitus; the heavily factual chronicle ...
- Aiud
- (from the article "Alba") ...its tributaries. Neolithic artifacts have been found at Alba Iulia (q.v.; the county capital) and other sites in the judet. A Celtic community (3rd century BC) was situated at Aiud, ...
- Aius Locutius
- (from the article "Roman religion") ...of veneration both toward happenings that affected human beings regularly and, sometimes, toward single, unique manifestations, such as a mysterious voice that once spoke and saved them in a crisis ...
- AIV process
- (from the article "Virtanen, Artturi Ilmari") ...silage. Knowing that the fermentation product, lactic acid, increases the acidity of the silage to a point at which destructive fermentation ceases, he developed a procedure (known by his initials, ...
- Aivalli
- (from the article "South Asian arts") The early phase, as in Tamil Nadu, opens with the rock-cut cave temples. Of the elaborate and richly sculptured group at Badami, one cave temple is dated 578, and two ...
- Aix-en-Provence
- city, Bouches-du-Rhone departement, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region, southern France, north of Marseille. Lying on the plain 1 mile (1.6 km) from the right bank of the Arc River, it is on ...
- Aix-la-Chapelle, Congress of
- (Oct. 1-Nov. 15, 1818), the first of the four congresses held by Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and France to discuss and take common action on European problems following the ... [5 Related Articles]
- Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of
- (from the article "France") ...and more bullying. His invasion of the Spanish Netherlands in 1667 and the ensuing War of Devolution frightened the Dutch into the Triple Alliance with England and Sweden, which led ...
- Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of
- (Oct. 18, 1748), treaty negotiated largely by Britain and France, with the other powers following their lead, ending the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48). The treaty was marked by ... [11 Related Articles]
- Aix-les-Bains
- city and Alpine spa, Savoie departement, Rhone-Alpes region, southeastern France, southwest of Geneva. A summer and winter resort with a beach on Bourget Lake (France's largest lake) and an aerial ...
- Aix-Marseille I, II, and III, Universities of
- coeducational, state-financed, autonomous institutions of higher learning at Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, founded under France's 1968 Orientation Act, reforming higher education. The institutions developed out of the original University of Provence, ...
- Aiyanar
- (from the article "gramadevata") An exceptional male village deity is Aiyanar, who in South India is the village watchman and whose shrine is always separate from those of the female goddesses. A similar male ...
- Aiyar, Rajam
- (from the article "South Asian arts") Quite different is the Kamalampal Carittiram ("The Fatal Rumor"), by Rajam Aiyar, whom many judge to be the most important prose writer of 19th-century Tamil literature. In this work, the ...
- Aizawa Yasushi
- Japanese nationalist thinker whose writings helped provoke the movement that in 1868 overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate and restored power to the emperor.
- Aizawl
- town and capital of Mizoram state, northeastern India. It is situated on a ridge at an elevation of about 2,950 feet (900 m) and is the most populous town in ... [1 Related Articles]
- Aizen Temple
- (from the article "Ueno") ...of the Kii Peninsula. The city developed around a castle built in 1611 and still retains some of its early character. Hakuho Park is on the site of the old ...
- Aizoaceae
- (from the article "Caryophyllales") ...plants that resemble stones. The garden plants include carnations, pinks, four-o'clocks, amaranths, portulacas, and Madeira vines. Vegetables in the order include beets, spinach, and Swiss chard. Aizoaceae includes ice plants, ...
- Aizu-wakamatsu
- city, Fukushima ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, in the centre of the Aizu basin, surrounded by volcanic mountains. A castle was built on the site in 1384. Much of the present ...
- Aja states
- (from the article "western Africa, history of") ...from its traditional rivalry with the adjacent savanna kingdoms of Nupe and Borgu and to use its cavalry to assert control of the trade routes through the open country southwestward ...
- Ajabure
- (from the article "African dance") ...Zulu and Ndebele men in Southern Africa recall the victories of past warriors. Among the Owo-Yoruba the stately Totorigi dance is for senior men and women, while adolescent boys perform ...
- Ajaccio
- town, capital of Corse-du-Sud departement, Corsica region, France, and Mediterranean port, on the west coast of the island of Corsica. Napoleon's birthplace, Maison Bonaparte, ... [1 Related Articles]
- ajaeng
- large Korean bowed zither having seven strings. Its body is about 160 cm (62 inches) long and 25 cm (10 inches) wide and is made of paulownia wood. The [2 Related Articles]
- ajaeng sanjo
- (from the article "ajaeng") ...t'ang-ak) and the Korean (hyang-ak) styles, each of which has a characteristic pentatonic tuning. The modern ajaeng sanjo is basically a smaller version of ...
- Ajanta Caves
- Buddhist rock-cut cave temples and monasteries, near Ajanta village, north-central Maharashtra state, western India, celebrated for their wall paintings. The temples are hollowed out of granite cliffs on the inner ... [5 Related Articles]
- Ajar
- (from the article "Ajaria") The population includes Georgians, Russians, Armenians, and the Ajars themselves, a Georgian population Islamicized under Turkish rule. Although the Ajars are not a nationality distinct from other Georgians, they do ...
- Ajar-Imeretinsky
- (from the article "Ajaria") Two east-west ranges, the Ajar-Imeretinsky in the north and the Shavshetsky in the south, rise from the Black Sea coastal lowlands to more than 9,200 feet (2,800 metres). Between the ...
- Ajaria
- autonomous republic in Georgia, in the southwestern corner of that country, adjacent to the Black Sea and the Turkish frontier. It is largely mountainous with the exception of a narrow ... [2 Related Articles]
- Ajatasatru
- (from the article "Patna") Pataliputra was founded in the 5th century BC by Ajatasatru, king of Magadha (South Bihar). His son Udaya (Udayin) made it the capital of Magadha, which it remained until the ...
- Ajax
- in Greek legend, son of Telamon, king of Salamis, described in the Iliad as being of great stature and colossal frame, second only to the Greek hero Achilles in strength ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ajax
- in Greek legend, son of Oileus, king of Locris; he was said to be boastful, arrogant, and quarrelsome. For his crime of dragging King Priam's daughter Cassandra from the statue ...
- Ajax of Amsterdam
- (from the article "football (soccer)") ...aesthetically pleasing consequences. Players such as Johan Cruyff and Johan Neeskens provided the perfect outlets for this highly fluent and intelligent playing system. Holland's leading club-Ajax of Amsterdam-helped direct total ...
- Ajdukiewicz, Kazimierz
- Polish logician and semanticist who was the chief contributor to the Warsaw school of philosophy and logic, which analyzed the relationship of language and knowledge. He is credited with developing ...
- Ajigawa Bridge
- (from the article "bridge") ...first major suspension bridge to use a single cable. The towers are delta-shaped, with diagonal suspenders running from the cable down the centre of the deck. On the same road ...
- Ajit
- Indian actor whose charming villainy and outrageous double entendres made him a national folk hero during a film career that spanned several decades in Bollywood, the nickname for Mumbai (Bombay), ...
- Ajita Kesakambalin
- (from the article "Indian philosophy") ...adharma) and thus all moral efficacy of human deeds; by determinists, such as the Ajivika Makkhali Gosala, who denied sin and freedom of will; and by materialists, such as Ajita ...
- ajiva
- in the Jainist philosophy of India, "nonliving substance," as opposed to jiva, "soul" or "living matter." Ajiva is divided into: (1) akasa, "space," (2) dharma, "that which makes motion possible," ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ajivika
- an ascetic sect that emerged in India about the same time as Buddhism and Jainism and that lasted until the 14th century; the name may mean "following the ascetic way ... [3 Related Articles]
- Ajjul, Tall al-
- ancient site in southern Palestine, located at the mouth of the Ghazzah Wadi just south of the town of Gaza (modern Ghazzah). The site, often called "ancient Gaza," was excavated ...
- Ajka
- (from the article "Veszprem") ...counties of Hungary until the 1980s, owing to its developed mining, chemical industry, and aluminum foundry, as well as the famed manufacturing of porcelain and china in Herend and crystal ...
- Ajman
- constituent emirate of the United Arab Emirates (formerly Trucial States, or Trucial Oman); the smallest state of the country. It is composed of three sections; the principal portion, on the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ajmer
- city, central Rajasthan state, northwestern India. The city is on the lower slopes of Taragarh Hill, on the summit of which stands a fortress. It was probably founded about 1100 ... [3 Related Articles]
- ajnana
- (from the article "jnana") ...or reality. The cognitive experience of the supreme object sets the soul free from the transmigratory life and the polarities this imposes upon thought. Its opposite, ajnana ...
- Ajo
- town, Pima county, southwestern Arizona, U.S. Spaniards mined in the area in the 1750s, and the Ajo Copper Company (1854) was the first incorporated mining concern in the Arizona Territory. ...
- Ajodhia, Jules Rattankoemar
- (from the article "Suriname") Area: 163,820 sq km (63,251 sq mi) | Population (2005 est.): 493,000 | Capital: Paramaribo | Head of state and government: President Ronald Venetiaan, assisted by Prime Ministers Jules Rattankoemar ...
- ajoene
- (from the article "organosulfur compound") ...and has antimicrobial, anticandidal (antiyeast), and antifungal properties; it also inhibits lipid synthesis in vitro. Allicin can be transformed into an unsaturated sulfoxide disulfide called ajoene, which has anticlotting (antithrombotic) ...
- Ajun
- (from the article "African dance") ...by ritual societies in many cultures. Hausa women, for example, find healing through dance and spirit possession in the Bori cult. Among the Jukun of Nigeria, a similar organization is ...
- Ajun-Kpa
- (from the article "African dance") ...in a house shrine, the sufferer is taught songs and dances that have a therapeutic function culminating in a ceremony in which the initiate publicly joins the members of the ...
- Ajuran
- (from the article "Somaliland") ...Ocean. They exported gums and resins, ostrich feathers, and slaves, waged war against the Christian Ethiopians of the interior, and organized themselves into sultanates (Adal, centred at Seylac, and Ajuran, ...
- Ajyad, Mount
- (from the article "Mecca") ...(277 metres) above sea level in the dry beds of the Wadi Ibrahim and several of its short tributaries. It is surrounded by the Sirat Mountains, the peaks of which ...
- Ak Koyunlu
- Turkmen tribal federation that ruled northern Iraq, Azerbaijan, and eastern Anatolia from AD 1378 to 1508. [8 Related Articles]
- Ak Saray tomb
- (from the article "Samarkand") ...a building that was commissioned by Timur's favorite Chinese wife, and Timur's tomb itself, the Gur-e Amir mausoleum, built about 1405. To the second half of the 15th century belongs ...
- Ak Zhol
- (from the article "Kazakhstan") ...seats (42) in the new Parliament. A bloc formed by two pro-presidential parties obtained 11 seats; Asar, the party of the president's daughter Dariga, won 4 seats; and the moderate ...
- Ak Zhol
- (from the article "Kyrgyzstan") Parliamentary elections were held on December 16. Bakiyev's Ak Zhol (Bright Path) party scored a resounding victory in the elections, capturing 71 of the 90 seats in the legislature. The ...
- AK-47
- 1947, Soviet assault rifle, one of the most widely used shoulder weapons in the world. The initials AK represent Avtomat Kalashnikov, Russian for "automatic Kalashnikov," for its designer, Mikhail Timofeyevich ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ak-Ink
- (from the article "Budapest") ...geography, and there is ample evidence of human settlement on the Danube's western side from Neolithic times onward. Two miles north of Castle Hill, in what became Obuda, a settlement ...
- Ak-Mechet
- (from the article "Simferopol") ...is the site of Neapolis, occupied by the Scythians from the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD; but modern Simferopol was founded by the Russians in 1784, adjacent ...
- Ak-Saray
- (from the article "Timurid Dynasty") ...the effect. The Gur-e Amir, Timur's mausoleum in Samarkand, is the most notable example. The tiled dome, rising above a polygonal chamber, is fluted and slightly bulbous. Of the Ak-Saray, ...
- Aka
- (from the article "Bambuti") The Bambuti is a collective name for four populations of Ituri Pygmies-the Sua, Aka, Efe, and Mbuti-each of which has formed a loose economic and cultural interdependency with an agriculturalist ...
- Aka
- (from the article "Himalayas") Arunachal Pradesh is the homeland of several groups-the Abor or Adi, Aka, Apa Tani, Dafla, Khampti, Khowa, Mishmi, Momba,...
- Aka Uku
- (from the article "Jukun") ...of offices, which had both a political and a religious aspect; the priesthood practiced an involved form of religion marked by diurnal and annual rounds of ritual and sacrifice. The ...
- Akademgorodok
- scientific research city located near Novosibirsk at the northeast corner of the Novosibirsk Reservoir, south-central Russia. Akademgorodok is home to numerous research institutes and is the seat of the Siberian ... [1 Related Articles]
- Akademiya Nauk Range
- ("Academy of Sciences Range"), mountain range, western Pamirs, central Tajikistan. The mountains, extending north-south, are approximately 68 miles (110 km) in length and are composed mostly of sedimentary and metamorphic ... [1 Related Articles]
- akadinda
- (from the article "African music") Triple interlocking is another type, used, for instance, in Zambia in drum music and also in southern Uganda in the music of the akadinda xylophone. Here a group of three ...
- Akagera National Park
- (from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...of the Virungas. There, among the volcanoes, lives Rwanda's main tourist attraction, the mountain gorilla. For sheer diversity of animal life, however, no other region can match the resources of ...
- Akaishi Range
- (from the article "Japanese Alps") mountains, central Honshu, Japan. The term Japanese Alps was first applied to the Hida Range in the late 19th century but now also includes the Kiso and Akaishi ranges to ...
- Akaka Falls
- waterfall, Hawaii county, northeastern Hawaii island, Hawaii, U.S. A central feature of Akaka Falls State Park (65 acres [26 hectares]), it is easily reached by foot trail. The waterfall is ...
- Akakayi
- (from the article "African dance") ...richly coloured, close-fitting costumes with face masks and elaborate headpieces of embroidered cloth, which allow for a dance that accelerates into a climax of rapid, abrupt movement. The Nago and ...
- Akal Takht
- (Punjabi: "Throne of the Timeless One"), the chief centre of religious authority for the Sikh community of India. The Akal Takht is located at the city of Amritsar (Punjab state), ... [3 Related Articles]
- Akalanka
- (from the article "Indian philosophy") ...The Tattvarthadhigama-sutra of Umasvatis, however, is the first systematic work, and Siddhasena (7th century AD) the first great logician. Other important figures are Akalanka (8th century), Manikyanandi, Vadideva, Hemchandra (12th ...
- Akali
- (Punjabi: "Timeless One," or "Eternal One"), a movement in Sikhism; also any member of suicide squads in the armies of the Sikhs, a religious group of India. The Akali suicide ... [2 Related Articles]
- akam
- (from the article "South Asian arts") In the Tolkappiyam and the anthologies, poems are classified by theme into akam ("interior") and puram ("exterior"), the former highly structured love poems, the latter heroic poems on war, death, ...
- Akama Shrine
- (from the article "Shimonoseki") The city's attractions include the Shimonoseki Aquarium. The Akama Shrine hosts an annual festival in April commemorating the defeat at the city site of the Taira (Heike) clan in the ...
- Akan
- ethnolinguistic grouping of peoples of the Guinea Coast who speak Akan languages (of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family). They include the speakers of the Akyem, Anyi, Asante (Ashanti), ... [5 Related Articles]
- Akan languages
- dialect cluster of the Nyo group within the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Its principal members are Asante (Ashanti), Fante (Fanti), Brong (Abron), and Akuapem. The Akan cluster ... [3 Related Articles]
- Akan states
- historical complex of gold-producing forest states in western Africa lying between the Comoe and Volta rivers (in an area roughly corresponding to the coastal lands of the modern republics of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Akaniaceae
- (from the article "Brassicales") Akaniaceae and Tropaeolaceae both have large zygomorphic flowers with eight stamens and an ovary with three compartments, with the ovules at the apex of each. Geographically and morphologically they might ...
- Akapana
- (from the article "Tiwanaku") The principal buildings of Tiwanaku include the Akapana Pyramid, a huge platform mound or stepped pyramid of earth faced with cut andesite; a rectangular enclosure known as the Kalasasaya, constructed ...
- Akari
- (from the article "Physical Sciences") On February 22 Japan launched the Akari (Astro-F) satellite from Uchinoura. It carried a 67-cm (26-in) near- to far-infrared telescope, and its mission was to produce an infrared map of ...
- Akaroa
- community, eastern South Island, New Zealand. It is situated on the shore of French Bay, inside Akaroa Harbour, which is a rocky inlet on the Banks Peninsula formed when the ...
- akasha
- (from the article "ajiva") in the Jainist philosophy of India, "nonliving substance," as opposed to jiva, "soul" or "living matter." Ajiva is divided into: (1) akasa, "space," (2) dharma, "that which makes motion possible," ...
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