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Andamanese: aboriginal inhabitants of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal. They belong to Negrito stock, which is represented also by the Semang of Malaysia and the Pygmies ...
Andamanese language: language spoken by the indigenous people of the Andaman Islands. The number of speakers of the language has been steadily decreasing. Andamanese dialects are usually classified into northern, central, and ...
Andania mysteries: ancient Greek mystery cult, held in honour of the earth goddess Demeter and her daughter Kore (Persephone) at the town of Andania in Messenia. A long inscription of 92 BC ...
Andean Community: South American organization founded to encourage industrial, agricultural, social, and trade cooperation. Formed in 1969 by the Cartagena Agreement, the group originally consisted of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Chile; ...
Andean Geosyncline: a linear trough in the Earth's crust in which rocks of the Mesozoic Era (245 to 66.4 million years ago) and Cenozoic Era (66.4 years ago to the present) were ...
Andean peoples: aboriginal inhabitants of the area of the Central Andes in South America.
Anderlecht: municipality, Brabant province, central Belgium. It lies along the Charleroi-Brussels Canal, just southwest of Brussels, and is one of the 19 communes making up the Greater Brussels area.
Anders, William A: U.S. astronaut who participated in the Apollo 8 flight (Dec. 21-27, 1968), in which the first manned voyage around the Moon was made. The astronauts, including Anders, Frank Borman, and ...
Anders, Wladyslaw: army officer who commanded the Polish forces in the Middle East and Italy during World War II and became a leading figure among the anticommunist Poles who refused to return ...
Andersen Nexo, Martin: writer who was the first Danish novelist to champion social revolution. His works helped raise social consciousness in Denmark and throughout Europe.
Andersen's disease: extremely rare hereditary metabolic disorder produced by absence of the enzyme amylo-1:4,1:6-transglucosidase, which is an essential mediator of the synthesis of glycogen. An abnormal form of glycogen, amylopectin, is produced ...
Andersen, Hans Christian: unique master of the fairy tale whose stories are famous throughout the world; he is also the author of plays, novels, poems, travel books, and several autobiographies. While many of ...
Andersen, Hjallis: Norwegian speed skater who won the most decisive victory in the men's 10,000-metre event in Olympic history. He also set a world record in the 10,000-metre event that he would ...
Andersen, Tryggve: novelist and short-story writer of the Neoromantic movement in Norway who depicted the conflict between the bureaucratic and peasant cultures and who helped revive Dano-Norwegian literature.
Anderson: county, northwestern South Carolina, U.S. It consists of a piedmont region in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains between the Saluda River to the northeast and the Savannah River ...
Anderson: city, seat (1826) of Anderson county, northwestern South Carolina, U.S., in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was founded in 1826 on what had been Cherokee Indian land. ...
Anderson: city, seat (1828) of Madison county, east-central Indiana, U.S. It lies along the White River, in a corn- (maize-) and wheat-producing region, 39 miles (63 km) northeast of Indianapolis. Founded ...
Anderson, Carl David: American physicist who, with Victor Francis Hess of Austria, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936 for his discovery of the positron, or positive electron, the first known particle ...
Anderson, Dame Judith: Australian-born stage and motion-picture actress.
Anderson, Elda Emma: American physicist who played a pivotal role in developing the field of health physics.
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett: English physician who sought the admission of women to professional education, especially in medicine.
Anderson, Helen Eugenie Moore: American diplomat, the first woman to serve in the post of U.S. ambassador.
Anderson, John Henry: Scottish conjurer and actor, the first magician to demonstrate and exploit the value of advertising.
Anderson, Laurie: American performance artist, composer, and writer whose work explores a remarkable range of media and subject matter.
Anderson, Leroy: American conductor, arranger, and composer of "Sleigh Ride," "Blue Tango," and other popular light orchestral music with memorable, optimistic melodies and often unusual percussion effects.
Anderson, Lindsay: English critic and stage and motion-picture director.
Anderson, Margaret: founder and editor of the Little Review magazine, the "little magazine" in which she introduced works by many of the best-known American and British writers of the 20th century.
Anderson, Marian: American singer, one of the finest contraltos of her time.
Anderson, Mary: American actress whose popularity rested in great part on her exceptional beauty and highly successful publicity.
Anderson, Maxie: balloonist who, with Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman, made the first transatlantic balloon flight and, with his son Kristian, made the first nonstop trans-North American balloon flight.
Anderson, Maxwell: prolific playwright noted for his efforts to make verse tragedy a popular form.
Anderson, Patrick: English-born Canadian poet whose writings are characterized by a rapid juxtaposition of contrasting images that reflects mainly the influence of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.
Anderson, Philip W.: American physicist and corecipient, with John H. Van Vleck and Sir Nevill F. Mott, of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physics for his research on semiconductors, superconductivity, and magnetism.
Anderson, Poul: prolific American writer of science fiction and fantasy, often praised for his scrupulous attention to scientific detail.
Anderson, Regina M.: American librarian, playwright, and patron of the arts whose New York City home was a salon for Harlem Renaissance writers and artists.
Anderson, Richard Heron: Confederate general in the American Civil War.
Anderson, Sherwood: author who strongly influenced American writing between World Wars I and II, particularly the technique of the short story. His writing had an impact on such notable writers as Ernest ...
Anderson, Viv: professional football (soccer) player and the first person of African descent (his parents were from the West Indies) to play for England's national football team (1978). Anderson, 1.85 metres (6 ...
Andersonville: village in Sumter county, southwest-central Georgia, U.S., that was the site of a Confederate military prison from February 1864 until May 1865 during the American Civil War. Andersonville was the ...
Anderssen, Adolf: chess master considered the world's strongest player from his victory in the first modern international tournament (London, 1851) until his defeat (1858) by the American Paul Morphy in match play ...
Andersson, Bibi: Swedish actress noted primarily for her appearance in films by Ingmar Bergman.
Andersson, Dan: poet and prose writer, an early practitioner of working-class literature who became one of the few popular Swedish poets.
Andersson, Johan Gunnar: Swedish geologist and archaeologist whose work laid the foundation for the study of prehistoric China. In 1921, at a cave near Chou-k'ou-tien in the vicinity of Peking, on the basis ...
Andes Mountains: mountain system of South America and one of the great natural features of the Earth.
andesite: any member of a large family of rocks that occur in most of the world's volcanic areas. Andesites occur mainly as surface deposits and, to a lesser extent, as dikes ...
Andhra Pradesh: state of India, located in the southeastern part of the subcontinent. It is bounded by the states of Tamil Nadu (formerly Madras) to the south, Karnataka (Mysore) to the west, ...
Andijon: city, extreme eastern Uzbekistan. Andijon lies in the southeastern part of the Fergana Valley. The city, which stands on ancient deposits of the Andijon River, dates back at least to ...
andiron: one of a pair of horizontal iron bars upon which wood is supported in an open fireplace. The oldest of fireplace furnishings, andirons were used widely from the Late Iron ...
Andisol: one of the 12 soil orders in the U.S. Soil Taxonomy. Andisols are defined by the single property of having volcanic-ash parent material. Although these soils exist in all climatic ...
Ando Tadao: one of Japan's leading contemporary architects. He is best known for his minimalist concrete buildings.
Andocides: Athenian orator and politician.
Andong: city, North Kyongsang do (province), east-central South Korea. It lies 215 miles (345 km) from the mouth of the Naktong River, at the terminus of its navigable section, near a ...
Andorra: small independent European coprincipality situated among the south slopes of the Pyrenees Mountains and bounded by Spain (south and west) and by France (north and east). It is one of ...
Andorra la Vella: town, capital of the independent coprincipality of Andorra. It lies near the confluence of the Valira and the Valira del Norte rivers in the narrow Gran Valira valley, on the ...
Andosol: one of the 30 soil groups in the classification system of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Andosols are highly porous, dark-coloured soils developed from parent material of volcanic origin, ...
Andover: town (township), Essex county, northeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies in the Merrimack River valley just south of Lawrence and 20 miles (32 km) north of Boston. Settled in 1642, it ...
Andover: market town, Test Valley district, administrative and historic county of Hampshire, England. It lies among chalk hills on the River Anton, a tributary of the Test, about 14 miles (22 ...
Andrada e Silva, Jose Bonifacio de: Brazilian statesman who played a key role in Brazil's attainment of independence from Portugal. He is known to Brazilians as the "Patriarch of Independence."
Andrade, Eugenio de: Portuguese poet who, influenced by Surrealism, used concrete images that include earth, water, and the human body to explore such themes as love, nature, and death. His work is widely ...
Andrade, Jorge: one of the most powerful playwrights within the wave of theatrical renewal that began in Brazil just after 1950.
Andrade, Mario de: writer whose chief importance was his introduction of a highly individual prose style that attempted to reflect colloquial Brazilian speech rather than "correct" Portuguese. He was also important in Brazil's ...
Andrade, Mario Pinto de: Angolan writer and nationalist leader.
Andrade, Oswald de: poet, playwright, and novelist, social agitator and revolutionary, one of the leaders of Brazil's Modernist movement in the arts.
andradite: calcium-iron garnet, perhaps the most spectacular garnet because of its high dispersion (separation of light into colours), even greater than that of diamond, and refractive index. It is found in ...
Andragoras: Seleucid satrap (governor) of Parthia during the mid-3rd century. He apparently defied Seleucid imperial authority, which was weakly established in his area, and issued coins on which his image bore ...
Andrassy, Gyula, Count: Hungarian prime minister and Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (1871-79), who helped create the Austro-Hungarian dualist form of government. As a firm supporter of Germany, he created, with the imperial German chancellor ...
Andre Le Chapelain: French writer on the art of courtly love, best known for his three-volume treatise Liber de arte honeste amandi et reprobatione inhonesti amoris (c. 1185; "Book of the Art of ...
Andre, John: British army officer who negotiated with the American general Benedict Arnold and was executed as a spy during the American Revolution (1775-83).
Andrea da Barberino: ballad singer, prose writer, and compiler of epic tales.
Andrea Da Firenze: Florentine fresco painter whose considerable ability is demonstrated by his works in the church of Sta. Maria Novella in Florence.
Andrea del Sarto: Italian painter and draftsman whose works of exquisite composition and craftsmanship were instrumental in the development of the Florentine-Roman school in the first half of the 16th century. His most ...
Andreani, Andrea: Italian printmaker known especially for his chiaroscuro printing, a technique developed in the early 16th century to facilitate shading. In this technique, several woodblocks are used for the same print, ...
Andreanof Islands: one of several smaller groups of islands within the Aleutian Islands, southwestern Alaska, U.S. They lie between the Pacific Ocean (south) and the Bering Sea (north) and extend east-west for ...
Andreas-Salome, Lou: Russian-German writer remembered for her friendships with the great men of her day.
Andreini, Francesco: actor of commedia dell'arte who, with his wife, Isabella (see Andreini, Isabella), was a founder and star performer of the Compagnia dei Gelosi, one of the earliest and most famous ...
Andreini, Giovambattista: actor of commedia dell'arte and son of Francesco and Isabella Andreini. Giovambattista was also the author of the play Adamo ("Adam"), which, it has been claimed, suggested the idea of ...