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Akasha: (from the article "Akashic record") ...a compendium of pictorial records, or "memories," of all events, actions, thoughts, and feelings that have occurred since the beginning of time. They are said to be imprinted on Akasha, ...
Akashi: city, Hyogo ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. The city is adjacent to Kobe on the Akashi Strait of the Inland Sea. It developed as a castle town, and many relics of ...
Akashi Shiganosuke: (from the article "sumo") ...athletes make their living at this sport. A complex system of ranking leads to the designation of Yokozuna, or "grand champion." The list of men awarded this title commences with ...
Akashi Strait Bridge: (from the article "Awaji Island") The island is linked to Kobe by the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, which at the time of its opening (1998) was the world's longest suspension bridge. Another suspension bridge, Onaruto Bridge, ...
Akashic record: in occultism, a compendium of pictorial records, or "memories," of all events, actions, thoughts, and feelings that have occurred since the beginning of time. They are said to be imprinted ...
akathisia: (from the article "mental disorder") ...with loss of facial expression, absence of arm-swinging during walking, and a general muscular rigidity); dystonia (sudden, sustained contraction of muscle groups causing abnormal postures); akathisia (a subjective feeling of ...
Akayev, Askar: (from the article "Kyrgyzstan") Area: 198,500 sq km (76,641 sq mi) | Population (2005 est.): 5,146,000 | Capital: Bishkek | Head of state: Presidents Askar Akayev (de jure to April 11; actually deposed March ...
Akbar: greatest of the Mughal emperors of India (reigning 1556-1605), who extended Mughal power over most of the Indian subcontinent. In order to preserve the unity of his empire, Akbar adopted ... [32 Related Articles]
Akbar period architecture: building style that developed in India under the patronage of the Mughal emperor Akbar (reigned 1556-1605). The style is best exemplified by the fort at Agra (built 1565-74) and the ... [2 Related Articles]
Akbia: (from the article "African dance") ...rhythmic patterns form the basis of dance in Africa. The most basic is the continuous repetition of a simple beat at a steady tempo for the duration of a dance. ...
akchang: (from the article "Korean literature") Immediately after the founding of the Yi dynasty at the end of the 14th century and the establishment of the new capital in Seoul, a small group of poetic songs ...
akche: (from the article "coin") The original coinage of the Ottomans consisted of small silver coins (akche, called asper by Europeans). Gold coins were not struck before the end of the 15th century; before and ...
Akcuraoglu, Yusuf: (from the article "Ottoman Empire") ...Its leading exponent was Ismail Bey Gasprinski (Gaspirali), who attempted to create a common Turkish language. Many Pan-Turkists migrated to Ottoman lands, especially after 1905. One of them, Yusuf Akcuraoglu, ...
Ake: (from the article "Ogun") ...of the roads and railways coming from Lagos and other parts of the country. Major tourist attractions are Olumo rock, which according to tradition provided refuge for early Egba settlers; ...
Ake, Claude: Nigerian political scientist and activist who was an expert on African politics and economics, founded and directed the Centre for Advanced Social Science, Port Harcourt, and served as a visiting ...
akeake: (from the article "Sapindales") ...halicacabum (balloon vine), an annual from the tropics and subtropics, is grown for its small balloonlike fruits in many areas, where it sometimes escapes and becomes naturalized. Dodonaea viscosa (hopbush), ...
Akebia: genus of woody vines comprising two species native to Asia but introduced elsewhere for their ornamental foliage and fast growth. The genus belongs to the family Lardizabalaceae.
Akebono: In the ancient Japanese sport of sumo, no foreigner had ever been elevated to yokozuna (grand champion) until Hawaiian-born Chadwick Haheo Rowan, known professionally as Akebono, was promoted to that ...
Akechi Mitsuhide: (from the article "Toyotomi Hideyoshi") ...Operating from a base at Himeji Castle in Harima province, he besieged the daimyo Mori Terumoto at Takamatsu. In 1582, Oda Nobunaga committed suicide after a revolt led by his ...
akee: (Blighia sapida), tree of the soapberry family native to West Africa, widely cultivated throughout tropical and subtropical regions for its edible fruit. The tree grows about 9 metres (30 feet) ... [1 Related Articles]
Akeley, Carl E.: American naturalist and explorer who developed the taxidermic method for mounting museum displays to show animals in their natural surroundings. His method of applying skin on a finely molded replica ... [1 Related Articles]
Akeley, Mary Lee Jobe: (from the article "Akeley, Carl E.") Akeley's second wife, Mary Lee Jobe Akeley (1886-1966), was well known as an explorer and naturalist before her marriage (1924). Upon her husband's death she remained in Africa in charge ...
Akeman Street: (from the article "Cirencester") ...Churn. Cirencester occupies the site of the Romano-British Corinium, capital city of the Dobuni tribe, at the junction of the important Roman and British roads known as Fosse Way, Ermine ...
Akenside, Mark: poet and physician, best known for his poem The Pleasures of Imagination, an eclectic philosophical essay that takes as its starting point papers on the same subject written by Joseph ...
Akerblad, Johan David: (from the article "hieroglyph") ...stone's own declaration, in the Greek portion, that the text was identical in all three cases, several significant advances were made in translation. A.I. Silvestre de Sacy, a French scholar, ...
Akerlof, George A.: American economist who, with A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz, won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 for laying the foundation for the theory of markets with asymmetric ... [1 Related Articles]
akermanite: (from the article "akermanite") mineral composed of dicalcium magnesium disilicate, Ca₂MgSi₂O₇, one end-member of the melilite mineral series (see melilite).TABLEsilicate mineralsSilicate minerals
Akers, Ronald L.: American criminologist widely known for his social learning theory of crime. After earning a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Kentucky (1966), Akers taught at several universities before joining ... [1 Related Articles]
Akesson, Birgit: Swedish dancer and choreographer (b. March 24, 1908, Malmo, Swed.-d. March 24, 2001, Stockholm, Swed.), sought to replace conventional expressionistic modern dance techniques with a new idiom of dance as ...
akh: in Egyptian religion, the spirit of a deceased person and, with the ka and the ba, a principal aspect of the soul. By enabling ... [1 Related Articles]
Akha: (from the article "Hani") A distinct subgroup of the Hani known as the Akha live in China, as well as parts of Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. They are believed to be of ...
Akhal-Teke: (from the article "Selected breeds of light horses") ...seventh-tenths of all sheep in the republic. There are several prized varieties of Karakul pelts: the glistening black arabi, the golden sur, and the silver-gray shirazi. The Akhal Teke and ...
Akhand Kirtani Jatha: (from the article "Sikhism") The third sect, the Akhand Kirtani Jatha, emerged during the early 20th century. The members of this group are distinguished by their divergent interpretation of one of the Five Ks. ...
Akhawayn University, Al-: (from the article "Morocco") ...branches in Casablanca and Fes; the Hassan II Agriculture and Veterinary Institute in Rabat, which conducts leading social science research in addition to its agricultural specialties; and Al-Akhawayn University in ...
akhbar: (from the article "Shi'ite") ...felt that the only sound source of legal interpretation was the direct teachings of the 12 infallible imams, in the form of their written and oral testaments (
Akhbariyyah: (from the article "Shi'ite") ...had expanded and matured, precipitating doctrinal disputes that often became vitriolic between factions within the Ithna 'Ashari religious community. One faction, known as the Akhbariyyah, felt that the only sound ...
Akhdar Mountains: mountain range of northeastern Libya that extends along the Mediterranean coast for about 100 miles (160 km) in an east-northeasterly direction between the towns of al-Marj and Darnah. Rising sharply ...
Akhdar, al-Jabal al-: (from the article "Hajar, al-") ...(The Stone) range includes the Ru'us al-Jibal overlooking the Strait of Hormuz, the al-Gharbi al-Hajar (Western Hajar), the vast massif of al-Jabal Al-Akhdar (Green Mountain), the Jabal Nakhl, the ash-Sharqi ...
Akhenaton: king of Egypt (1353-36 BC) of the 18th dynasty, who established a new monotheistic cult of Aton (hence his assumed name, Akhenaton, meaning "One Useful to Aton"). [16 Related Articles]
akhet: (from the article "Egypt") ...the Nile rested the prosperity, the very continuity, of the land. The three seasons of the Egyptian year were even named after the land conditions produced by the river:
Akhisar: town, western Turkey, in a fertile plain on the Great Zab River (the ancient Lycus). The ancient town, originally called Pelopia, was probably founded by the Lydians. It was made ...
Akhlame: ancient Semitic nomads of northern Syria and Mesopotamia and traditional enemies of the Assyrians. They are first mentioned about 1375 BC in an Egyptian source (one of the Tell el-Amarna ...
Akhmadulina, Bella: Russian-language poet of Tatar and Italian descent, a distinctive voice in post-Stalinist Soviet literature.
Akhmatova, Anna: Russian poet recognized at her death as the greatest woman poet in Russian literature. [3 Related Articles]
Akhmetov, Daniyal: (from the article "Kazakhstan") Area: 2,724,900 sq km (1,052,090 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 15,472,000 | Capital: Astana | Head of state and government: President Nursultan Nazarbayev, assisted by Prime Ministers Daniyal Akhmetov ...
Akhmim: town, Sawhaj muhafazah (governorate), Upper Egypt, on the east bank of the Nile, above Sawhaj on the west bank. Extensive necropolises dating from the 6th dynasty (c. 2345-c. 2181 BC) ...
Akhmimic: (from the article "Coptic language") ...around Asyut, flourished in the 4th century. In it are preserved a text of the Gospel According to John and of the Acts of the Apostles, as well as a ...
Akhtal, al-: poet of the Umayyad period (661-750), esteemed for his perfection of Arabic poetic form in the old Bedouin tradition. [2 Related Articles]
Akhtiarska Bay: (from the article "Sevastopol") city and seaport, Crimea, southern Ukraine, in the southwestern Crimean Peninsula on the southern shore of the long, narrow Akhtiarska Bay, which forms a magnificent natural harbour. West of the ...
Akhtuba River: (from the article "Volga River") ...(Between the Samara Bend and Volgograd it receives only the relatively small left-bank tributaries of the Samara, Bolshoy Irgiz, and Yeruslan.) Above Volgograd the Volga's main distributary, the Akhtuba, branches ...
Akhundzadeh, Mirza Fath 'Ali: (from the article "Azerbaijan") ...the study of the Azerbaijani language were 'Abbas Qoli Agha Baqikhanli (Bakikhanov), who wrote poetry as well as histories of the region, and Mirza Fath 'Ali Akhundzadeh (Akhundov), author of ...
Akhuryan: (from the article "Aras River") The swift-flowing, unnavigable Aras provides most of the sediment forming the Kura-Aras delta. Principal tributaries of the Aras are the Arpa Cayi (Akhuryan), which receives the waters of the Kars ...
Akhyaliyyah, Layla al-: (from the article "Arabic literature") ...or elegy, and it is in this role that the voice of the female poet is prominently heard, as, for example, in the verses of the 7th-century poets al-Khansa' and ...
Aki Matsuri: (from the article "Shinto") Each Shinto shrine has several major festivals each year, including the Spring Festival (Haru Matsuri, or Toshigoi-no-Matsuri; Prayer for Good Harvest Festival), Autumn Festival (Aki Matsuri, or Niiname-sai; Harvest Festival), ...
Aki, Keiiti: Japanese seismologist (b. March 30, 1930, Yokohama, Japan-d. May 17, 2005, Reunion), developed the concept of the "seismic moment"-a quantitative means of measuring the amount of energy released by an ...
Akiba ben Joseph: Jewish sage, a principal founder of rabbinic Judaism. He introduced a new method of interpreting Jewish oral law (Halakha), thereby laying the foundation of what was to become the Mishna, ... [12 Related Articles]
Akidjan, Andrew: (from the article "Syrian Catholic Church") ...at unification with Rome were made, without success, in 1237 and 1247. With the establishment of the Capuchins and Jesuits in Aleppo in 1626, however, conversions to Catholicism followed; and ...
Akif, Mehmed: (from the article "Islamic arts") ...ballast of Arabo-Persian prosody and instead turning to the language of the people, unadulterated by any foreign vocabulary. The stirrings of social criticism could be discerned after 1907. Mehmed Akif ...
Akihito: emperor of Japan from 1989. As scion of the oldest imperial family in the world, he was, according to tradition, the 125th direct descendant of Jimmu, Japan's legendary first emperor. [6 Related Articles]
Akii-Bua, John: Ugandan athlete who in 1972 became the first, and thus far the only, Ugandan to win an Olympic gold medal when he triumphed in the 400-m hurdles in 47.82 seconds, ...
Akilov, Akil: (from the article "Tajikistan") ...143,100 sq km (55,300 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 6,736,000 | Capital: Dushanbe | Chief of state: President Imomali Rakhmonov (from April Imomalii Rakhmon) | Head of government: Prime ...
Akimetes, Saint Alexander: (from the article "Acoemeti") ...Byzantine monasteries who were noted for their choral recitation of the divine office in constant and never interrupted relays. Their first monastery, at Constantinople, was founded in about 400 by ...
Akimiski: (from the article "James Bay") ...Generally less than 200 feet (60 m) deep, the bay is 275 miles (443 km) long and 135 miles (217 km) wide and contains numerous islands, all of which are ...
Akimov, Nikolay Pavlovich: scenic designer and producer, known for the diversity of his bold experiments in stage design and dramatic interpretation-most especially for his cynical reinterpretation of Hamlet (1932), in which the king's ...
akinci: (from the article "Ottoman Empire") ...these forces became mainly Christian, and, as they came to dominate the Ottoman army, the older Turkmen cavalry forces were maintained along the frontiers as irregular shock troops, called akincis, ...
Akindynos, Gregorios: Byzantine monk and theologian who was the principal opponent of Hesychasm, a Greek monastic movement of contemplative prayer. He was eventually condemned for heresy.
akinete: (from the article "Nostoc") ...a gelatinous mass. Ranging from microscopic to walnut-sized, masses of Nostoc may be found on soil and floating in quiet water. Reproduction is by fragmentation. A special thick-walled cell (akinete) ...
Akinola, Peter: In 2007 Anglican Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria stirred up controversy when he created an American diocese to welcome discontented Episcopal parishes to a more conservative branch of the Anglican ...
Akinsowon, Christiana Abiodun: (from the article "Aladura") The Cherubim and Seraphim society is a distinct section of the Aladura founded by Moses Orimolade Tunolase, a Yoruba prophet, and Christiana Abiodun Akinsowon, an Anglican who had experienced visions ...
Akintola, Samuel Ladoke: administrator and politician, premier of the Western Region of Nigeria and an early victim of the January 1966 military coup.
Akinyele, Sir Isaac B.: (from the article "Aladura") ...to doctrines of divine healing-their exclusion of polygamists, and their assertion of full control over the movement. In 1938-41 the ablest leaders, including Babalola and Isaac B. Akinyele (later Sir), ...
Akishino, Prince: (from the article "Japan") On September 6, five days before her 40th birthday, Princess Kiko, the wife of Emperor Akihito's second son, Prince Akishino, gave birth to a 2.5-kg (5-lb 10-oz) baby boy, who ...
Akita: ken (prefecture), northwestern Honshu, Japan, on the Sea of Japan coast. Its area of 4,483 square miles (11,612 square km) is divided between lowlands (west) and a plateau region (east). ...
Akita: breed of working dog that originated in the mountains of northern Japan. In 1931 the Japanese government designated the breed as a national treasure. It was employed as a hunting ...
Akitu: (from the article "worship") ...to the fount of natural and historical existence, and participate in the renewal of the world order. In the ancient Near East, such celebrations were of fundamental significance for the ...
Akitu House: (from the article "Babylon") ...the river. From Esagila northward passed the paved Processional Way, its walls decorated with enameled lions. Passing through the Ishtar Gate, adorned with enameled bulls and dragons, it led to ...
Akjoujt: (from the article "Mauritania") The copper deposits of Akjoujt are extensive, with a copper content of more than 2 percent. Exploitation was begun in 1969 by Somima (Societe Miniere de Mauritanie), of which 54 ...
Akkad: ancient region in what is now central Iraq. Akkad was the northern (or northwestern) division of ancient Babylonian civilization. The region was located roughly in the area where the Tigris ... [12 Related Articles]
Akkadian language: extinct Semitic language of the Northern Peripheral group, spoken in Mesopotamia from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BC. [13 Related Articles]
Akkadian literature: (from the article "epic") Another Babylonian epic, composed around 2000 BC, is called in Akkadian Enuma elish, after its opening words, meaning "When on high." Its subject is not heroic but mythological. It recounts ...
Akkadian writing: (from the article "cuneiform") Before these developments had been completed, the Sumerian writing system was adopted by the Akkadians, Semitic invaders who established themselves in Mesopotamia about the middle of the 3rd millennium. In ...
Akkerman, Convention of: (from the article "Edirne, Treaty of") ...and opened the Straits of the Dardanelles and Bosporus to Russian shipping. Furthermore, in the Balkans, the Ottomans acknowledged Greece as an autonomous but tributary state, reaffirmed the Convention of ...
Akko: city, northwest Israel. It lies along the Mediterranean Sea, at the north end of the Bay of Haifa (formerly Bay of Acre). Its natural harbour was a frequent target for ... [2 Related Articles]
AKM rifle: (from the article "AK-47") ...rate of 600 rounds per minute. It is manufactured in several countries in two basic designs. One has a wooden stock, the other a folding metal stock. In the 1980s ...
Ako: city, Hyogo ken (prefecture), western Honshu, Japan. During the Heian period (794-1185), it was a seaside resort for courtesans from Kyoto. It became a castle town in the 17th century, ...
Akokoid languages: (from the article "Benue-Congo languages") The Defoid languages comprise two groups: the Akokoid cluster of four languages and the very much larger Yoruboid cluster whose principal members are Yoruba (20,000,000 speakers), Igala (1,000,000), and Itsekiri ...
Akola: city, north-central Maharashtra state, western India, on the Murna River. An important road and rail junction in the Tapti River valley, it is a commercial centre trading chiefly in cotton. ...
Akombo: (from the article "Tiv") Some Tiv have converted to Christianity, and a lesser number have adopted Islam; but their traditional religion, based on the manipulation of forces (akombo) entrusted to humans by a creator ...
Akosombo Dam: rock-fill dam on the Volta River, near Akosombo, Ghana, completed in 1965 as part of the Volta River Project. Its construction was jointly financed by the government of Ghana, the ... [3 Related Articles]
Akra: (from the article "Palestine") ...taxes from the cities of Judaea. Antiochus's official attacked the city of Jerusalem by guile and largely destroyed it. He then built a fortified position on the citadel, called by ...
akriyavada: set of beliefs held by heretic teachers in India who were contemporaries of the Buddha. The doctrine was a kind of antinomianism that, by denying the orthodox karmic theory of ...
Akron: city, seat (1842) of Summit county, northeastern Ohio, U.S. It lies along the Cuyahoga River, about 40 miles (64 km) south-southeast of Cleveland. Akron is the centre of a metropolitan ... [2 Related Articles]
Akron Pros: (from the article "Pollard, Fritz") ...He was the first African American selected to a backfield position on Walter Camp's All-America team (1916) and the first African American head coach in the National Football League (NFL), ...
Akron, University of: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Akron, Ohio, U.S. While the university is known for its research in polymer engineering and science, it also offers a curriculum of liberal ...
Akrotiri: British military enclave in south-central Cyprus that was retained as a "sovereign base area" by the United Kingdom under the London Agreement of 1959 granting the independence of Cyprus. Located ...
Akrotiri: (from the article "Aegean civilizations") ...minimal. Similarly, in the Cyclades there are few signs of any gap in occupation as a result of the eruption. The settlements on Thera, however, lay buried deep in pumice. ...
Aksai Chin: (from the article "India") China and India, however, had not resolved a dispute over several areas of their border, most notably the section demarcating a barren plateau in Ladakh-most of which was called Aksai ...
aksak: an important pattern in the rhythmic structure of folk and vernacular traditional music of the Middle East, particularly Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan, and of the Balkans. It is characterized by ...
Aksakov, Ivan Sergeyevich: (from the article "Aksakov, Konstantin Sergeyevich") His brother Ivan Sergeyevich Aksakov (1823-86), who also was an early Slavophile, became a controversial journalist, newspaper publisher, and proponent of Pan-Slavism in the later 19th century.Russian Slavophile movement
Aksakov, Konstantin Sergeyevich: Russian writer and one of the founders and principal theorists of the Slavophile movement. [1 Related Articles]
Aksakov, Sergey Timofeyevich: novelist noted for his realistic and comic narratives and for his introduction of a new genre, a cross between memoir and novel, into Russian literature. [2 Related Articles]