(Sanskrit: "joy," or "bliss"), in Indian philosophy of the Upanisads and the school of Vedanta, an important attribute of the supreme being Brahman. Bliss is characteristically used in the Taittiriya ...
morning daily Bengali-language newspaper published in Kolkata (Calcutta). One of India's largest non-English-language newspapers in terms of circulation, Ananda Bazar Patrika was founded in 1922 and is ...
in Greek literature, necessity or fate personified. In Homer the personification has not yet occurred, although even the gods admit they are limited in their freedom of action. Ananke is ...
town, southwestern Andhra Pradesh state, south-central India. The town is located 120 miles (190 km) north of Bangalore (Karnataka state) on the Hyderabad-Bangalore main road. The town's name is derived ...
in the Theravada ("Way of the Elders") tradition of Buddhism, a heinous sin that causes the agent to be reborn in hell immediately after death. There are five sins of ...
town in the Indian-held sector of Jammu and Kashmir state, about 30 miles (50 km) southeast of Srinagar, on the Jhelum River. Located north of the Pir Panjal Range, it ...
metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable. First found in early Spartan marching songs, anapestic metres were widely used in Greek ...
(Greek: "a carrying up or back"), a literary or oratorical device involving the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several sentences or clauses, as in the ...
in immunology, a severe, immediate, potentially fatal systemic allergic reaction to contact with a foreign substance, or antigen, to which an individual has become sensitized.
town, south-central Goias state, south-central Brazil, on the Corumba River, 3,182 feet (970 metres) above sea level. It was given city status in 1907. Today it is a rapidly growing ...
cluster of doctrines and attitudes centred on the belief that government is both harmful and unnecessary. Anarchist thought developed in the West and spread throughout the world, principally in the ...
a North American civilization that developed from about AD 100 to modern times, centring generally on the area where the boundaries of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah intersect. (Anasazi ...
Byzantine emperor from 491 who perfected the empire's monetary system, increased its treasury, and proved himself an able administrator of domestic and foreign affairs. His heretical monophysite religious policies, however, ...
pope from April or June 911 to 913. Because his pontificate came during a period when Rome was under the control of the house of Theophylactus, he had little authority ...
theologian and abbot of the Monastery of St. Catherine, on Mt. Sinai, whose writings, public disputes with various heretical movements in Egypt and Syria, and polemics against the Jews made ...
a technique of printmaking from a plate on which all but the design to be printed is etched away, leaving the design in relief. In zinc etching, the most popular ...
one of three minerals composed of titanium dioxide (TiO2), the other two being rutile and brookite. It is found as hard, brilliant crystals of tetragonal symmetry and various colours in ...
in geology, the differential, or partial, melting of rocks. Each mineral in a rock has its own melting temperature, which is decreased to varying degrees by its close association with ...
(from Greek anatithenai: "to set up," or "to dedicate"), in the Old Testament, a creature or object set apart for sacrificial offering. Its return to profane use was strictly banned, ...
the peninsula of land that today constitutes the Asian portion of Turkey. Because of its location at the point where the continents of Asia and Europe meet, Anatolia was, from ...
extinct Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages spoken in Anatolia from sometime in the 3rd millenium BC until the early centuries of the present era, when they were gradually supplanted by Greek. ...
beliefs and practices of the ancient peoples and civilizations of Turkey and Armenia, including the Hittites, Hattians, Luwians, Hurrians, Assyrian colonists, Urartians, and Phrygians. For historical background, see Anatolia.
southernmost island of Vanuatu, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Volcanic in origin, it has a circumference of 35 miles (56 km) and an area of 25 square miles (65 square ...
a field in the biological sciences concerned with the identification and description of the body structures of living things. Gross anatomy involves the study of major body structures by dissection ...
in literature, the separating or dividing of a topic into parts for detailed examination or analysis. Among the better-known examples are John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit and Robert ...
bipedal duck-billed dinosaurs (hadrosaurs) of the Late Cretaceous Period, commonly found as fossils in North American rocks 70 million to 65 million years old. Related forms such as
in Buddhism, the doctrine that there is in humans no permanent, underlying substance that can be called the soul. Instead, the individual is compounded of five factors (Pali
the first king of all of Myanmar, or Burma (reigned 1044-77), who introduced his people to Theravada Buddhism. His capital at Pagan on the Irrawaddy River became a prominent city ...
Greek philosopher of nature remembered for his cosmology and for his discovery of the true cause of eclipses. He was associated with the Athenian statesman Pericles.
Greek philosopher of nature and one of three thinkers of Miletus traditionally considered to be the first philosophers in the Western world. Of the other two, Thales held that water ...
American novelist and educator whose fiction expresses his Mexican American heritage, the tradition of folklore and oral storytelling in Spanish, and the Jungian mythic perspective.
former city of the ancient province of Cilicia in Anatolia that was important in the Roman and Byzantine periods. It was located in what is now south-central Turkey. The original ...
ancient Mesopotamian town located on the left bank of the Euphrates River, downstream from modern Ar-Ramadi in central Iraq. Originally called Massice and Fairuz Sapur, it was destroyed by the ...
in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus or Poseidon and king of the Leleges of Samos. In the Argonautic expedition, after the death of Tiphys, the helmsman of the Argo, ...
Portuguese Jesuit acclaimed as a poet, dramatist, and scholar. He is considered one of the founders of the national literature of Brazil and is credited with converting more than a ...
in Greek legend, member of the junior branch of the royal family of Troy; he was king of Dardanus on Mount Ida. There the goddess Aphrodite met him and, enamoured ...
device, usually of metal, attached to a ship or boat by a cable or chain and lowered to the seabed to hold the vessel in a particular place by means ...
city (municipality), south-central Alaska, U.S. Lying at the base of the Chugach Mountains, it is a port at the head of Cook Inlet (a bay of the Pacific Ocean). In ...
any of numerous schooling saltwater fishes of the family Engraulidae (order Clupeiformes) related to the herring and distinguished by a large mouth, almost always extending behind the eye, and by ...
(Grias cauliflora), evergreen tree of the family Lecythidaceae, native to the West Indies. The name is also applied to its edible fruit, for which the tree is cultivated. The plant ...
genus of extinct marine gastropods (snails) found as fossils only in marine deposits of Cretaceous age (between 144 and 66.4 million years old). It is thus a useful guide or ...
the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and ...
any of the peoples diverse in origin, language, traditions, stage of development, and territorial extension who inhabited pre-Roman Italy, a region heavily influenced by neighbouring Greece, with its well-defined national ...
in English property law, the right of a building or house owner to the light received from and through his windows. Windows used for light by an owner for 20 ...
the state centred on the city of Rome. This article discusses the period from the founding of the city and the regal period, which began in 753 BC, through the ...
subject of a celebrated literary dispute that raged in France and England in the 17th century. The "Ancients" maintained that Classical literature of Greece and Rome offered the only models ...
Prussian statesman, foreign minister, historian, and political philosopher who worked with the Austrian statesman Metternich to preserve the reactionary European political settlement of 1815.
a leader of the 1809 coup d'etat that deposed the absolutist Swedish king Gustav IV, and a champion of liberal political, economic, and social causes in the first half of ...
city, central Panama, just northeast of Balboa city. It is a residential and medical centre. As Balboa and Panama City have grown, Ancon has become virtually a suburb of the ...
town and commune in Los Lagos region, Chiloe provincia, southern Chile. It lies on the northern coast of Chiloe Island, across the Straits of Chacao from the mainland. Founded in ...
traditionally the fourth king of Rome, from 642 to 617 BC. The details of his reign, provided by Roman historians such as Livy (64 or 59 BC-AD 17), must be ...
fjord, in the Norwegian Sea, indenting northwestern Norway, located between the islands of And (west) and Senja (east). The fjord, which is divided between Nordland and Troms fylker (counties), penetrates ...
Japanese philosopher considered to be one of the forerunners of the 19th-century movement to restore power to the emperor. He was also one of the first Japanese to study European ...
city, seat (1841) of Covington county, southern Alabama, U.S., near the Conecuh River, about 85 miles (135 km) south of Montgomery. It originated in 1841 as New Site, when the ...
comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community") and historical region of Spain, encompassing the provincias of Huelva, Cadiz, Seville, Malaga, Cordoba, Jaen, Granada, and Almeria. The
(Al2SiO5), aluminum silicate mineral that occurs in relatively small amounts in various metamorphic rocks, particularly in altered sediments. It is found in commercial quantities in the Inyo Mountains, Mono county, ...
union territory, India, lying roughly 800 miles (1,300 km) east of the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka. The peaks of a submerged mountain range, the islands of the Andamans and ...
island group, Andaman and Nicobar Islands union territory, India, lying about 850 miles (1,370 km) east of the Indian subcontinent. The Andamans are one of the two major groups of ...
marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean. It is bounded to the north by the Irrawaddy River delta of Myanmar (Burma); to the east by peninsular Myanmar, Thailand, and Malaysia; ...
