city, Blount county, eastern Tennessee, U.S., about 15 miles (25 km) south of Knoxville and adjacent to Maryville. The city is a gateway to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which ...
(from the article "Hand, Learned") Because several Supreme Court justices disqualified themselves, Hand's court rendered the final decision (1945) in a major antitrust suit against the Aluminum Company of America (usually called the Alcoa case). ...
(from the article "aluminum processing") During World War II the Alcoa combination process was developed for processing lower-grade ores containing relatively high percentages of silica. Very briefly, this process reclaims the alumina that has combined ...
town, west-central Portugal. It lies at the confluence of the Alcoa and Baca rivers, just south-southwest of the city of Leiria. Alcobaca is notable for its Cistercian monastery (Mosteiro de ...
(from the article "China") ...for them to be revised in the year 1868, at which time the Qing were able to negotiate with due preparations and in an atmosphere of peace for the first ...
British schoolteacher and amateur astronomer (b. Aug. 28, 1912, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Eng.-d. Dec. 15, 2000, England), was ranked as one of the world's finest amateur astronomers; his 10 major discoveries ...
architect, bishop, and statesman who founded Jesus College, Cambridge, and who was regarded as one of the most eminent pre-Reformation English divines.
(from the article "Bobsleigh, Skeleton, and Luge") On the women's side, Canadian sliders Lindsay Alcock and Michelle Kelly had another great season. Alcock collected two gold and two silver medals on the five-race circuit, as well as ...
(from the article "Latin American architecture") ...structure built in steel, with large infill brick panels inset as a sunscreen. This structure is a synthesis of Louis I. Kahn and Mies van der Rohe but is not ...
Portuguese nun, long believed to have written Lettres portugaise (1669; "Portuguese Letters"), a collection of five love letters, though most modern authorities reject her authorship. [1 Related Articles]
any of a class of organic compounds characterized by one or more hydroxyl (&singlehorzbond;OH) groups attached to a carbon atom of an alkyl group (hydrocarbon chain). Alcohols may be considered ... [15 Related Articles]
the drinking of beverages containing ethyl alcohol. Alcoholic beverages are consumed largely for their physiological and psychological effects, but they are often consumed within specific social contexts and may even ... [23 Related Articles]
(from the article "alcohol consumption") ...intestine. In general, a lower percentage of the alcohol is degraded in a young woman's stomach than in a young man's because a young woman's gastric secretions contain lower levels ...
(from the article "Branch Davidian") ...federal agents were killed in the assault. A lengthy standoff between the group and government agents then followed. It ended on April 19, after some 80 members of the group, ...
(from the article "Graham, Thomas") ...concept of polybasic acids developed. In 1835 he reported on the properties of the water of crystallization in hydrated salts; he also obtained definite compounds of salts and alcohol, the ...
any fermented liquor, such as wine, beer, or distilled spirit, that contains ethyl alcohol, or ethanol (CH3CH2OH), as an intoxicating agent. A brief treatment of alcoholic beverages follows. For full ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "hepatitis") ...hepatitis, a disorder associated with a malfunction of the immune system, generally occurs in young women. Treatment for autoimmune hepatitis includes corticosteroids, which help to reduce symptoms. Alcoholic hepatitis results ...
voluntary fellowship of alcoholic persons who seek to get sober and remain sober through self-help and the help of other recovered alcoholics. Although general conventions meet periodically and Alcoholics Anonymous ... [2 Related Articles]
excessive and repetitive drinking of alcoholic beverages to the extent that the drinker repeatedly is harmed or harms others. The harm may be physical or mental; it may also be ... [12 Related Articles]
(from the article "Latin American art") ...emerged, leading to works that reveal a more informal, human quality. A fine example of this tradition is a pastel (an informal, spontaneous medium much favoured by Rococo artists) self-portrait ...
star with apparent magnitude of 4.01. The ability to see the dim star Alcor with the unaided eye may have been regarded by the Arabs (and others) as a test ... [1 Related Articles]
public, coeducational institution of higher learning near Lorman, Mississippi, U.S. It is a land-grant university consisting of schools of Arts and Sciences, Business, Education and Psychology, Nursing, and Agriculture and ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "electronic game") In 1972 Bushnell, Dabney, and Al Alcorn, another Ampex alumnus, founded the Atari Corporation. Bushnell asked Alcorn to design a simple game based on Ping-Pong, explaining by way of inspiration ...
(from the article "1975: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: Frank Pierson for Dog Day AfternoonAdapted Screenplay: Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman for One Flew over the Cuckoo's NestCinematography: John Alcott for Barry LyndonArt Direction: Ken Adam and ...
(from the article "Portugal") ...throne was raging. On the murder of Peter in 1369, several Castilian towns offered Ferdinand their allegiance, which he was unwise enough to accept. Henry II duly invaded Portugal, and, ...
recess opening off a room or other space enclosed by walls or hedges. In medieval architecture it was commonly used as a sleeping space off the main body of a ...
town, Alicante provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Valencia, southeastern Spain. It lies in rugged foothills at the confluence of the ...
Anglo-Latin poet, educator, and cleric who, as head of the Palatine school established by Charlemagne at Aachen, introduced the traditions of Anglo-Saxon humanism into western Europe. He was the foremost ... [11 Related Articles]
(from the article "cnidarian") ...and sea whips. Colonies commonly arborescent with axial skeleton of gorgonin and/or calcareous spicules. Polyps rarely dimorphic. Tropical and subtropical.Soft corals. Small to massive colonial forms. Lower parts of ...
(from the article "Pleiades") in Greek mythology, the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione: Maia, Electra, Taygete, Celaeno, Alcyone, Sterope, and Merope. They all had children by gods (except Merope, ...
(from the article "Pleiades") ...and several hundred stars, of which six or seven can be seen by the unaided eye and have figured prominently in the myths and literature of many cultures. In Greek ...
(from the article "turtle") ...(120 per acre) in the red-eared slider. In contrast, the North American bog turtle (Clemmys muhlenbergi) lives in isolation, each bog containing only a dozen or fewer adults. The Aldabra ...
atoll, one of the world's largest, in the Indian Ocean about 600 miles (1,000 km) southwest of the Seychelles group, and part of the Republic of the Seychelles. The Aldabras, ... [1 Related Articles]
river in eastern Siberia, Russia. It rises in the Stanovoy Range and flows northwestward in a huge curve to join the Lena River at Batamay. The Aldan River is 1,412 ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Arctic") ...the Norwegian coast) and the northwestern corner of Russia. The two other blocks are smaller. The Angaran Shield is exposed between the Khatanga and Lena rivers in north-central Siberia and ...
reddish giant star in the constellation Taurus. Aldebaran is one of the 15 brightest stars, with an apparent visual magnitude of 0.86. Its diameter is approximately 50 times that of ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Britten, Benjamin") ...Chester miracle plays. The Rape of Lucretia marked the inception of the English Opera Group, with Britten as artistic director, composer, and conductor. This undertaking gave rise to the Aldeburgh ...
any of a class of organic compounds, in which a carbon atom shares a double bond with an oxygen atom, a single bond with a hydrogen atom, and a single ... [9 Related Articles]
(from the article "industrial polymers, major") Aldehyde condensation polymers are compounds produced by the reaction of formaldehyde with phenol, urea, or melamine. The reaction is usually accompanied by the release of water and other by-products. The ...
(from the article "alcohol consumption") ...ADH present in the liver cells. The alcohol molecule is converted by this action to acetaldehyde, itself a highly toxic substance, but the acetaldehyde is immediately acted upon by another ...
(from the article "carbohydrate") ...monosaccharides containing five carbon atoms, and hexose (hex = six) is used for those containing six. In addition, because the monosaccharides contain a chemically reactive group that is either an ...
(from the article "Brazil") ...to protecting and converting the Indians and raising the moral level of the colonists. As soon as they converted Indians to Christianity, the Jesuits settled them in
American children's author whose books achieved great popularity for the wholesome interest and variety of their situations and characters and the clearly moral but not sombre lessons of their plots.
(from the article "Alden, John; and Alden, Priscilla") John Alden was hired as a cooper by the London merchants who financed the expedition to the New World. Priscilla Mullins went to America with her parents and younger brother. ...
Pilgrims who in 1620 immigrated to America on the Mayflower and took part in the founding of the Plymouth Colony, the first permanent English colony in New England.
(from the article "Alden, John; and Alden, Priscilla") John Alden was hired as a cooper by the London merchants who financed the expedition to the New World. Priscilla Mullins went to America with her parents and younger brother. ...
any of about 30 species of ornamental shrubs and trees constituting the genus Alnus, in the birch family (Betulaceae), distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere and western South America on cool, ... [3 Related Articles]
woody shrub or small tree, of the buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae), native to western Asia, Europe, and northern Africa. It has been introduced into North America and other regions, where it ... [1 Related Articles]
German chemist who was the corecipient, with the German organic chemist Otto Diels, of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their development of the Diels-Alder reaction, or diene synthesis, ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Alliance Party of Northern Ireland") ...and 1972, Oliver Napier acted as de facto leader during that period. Since then, the party has been led by Phelim O'Neill (1972-73), Napier (1973-84), John Cushnahan (1984-87), Lord John ...
any insect of the megalopteran family Sialidae, characterized by long, filamentous antennae and two pairs of large wings (anterior wing length 20 to 50 mm [ 34 inch to 2 ... [2 Related Articles]
member of the legislative body of a municipal corporation in England and the United States. In Anglo-Saxon England, ealdormen, or aldermen, were high-ranking officials of the crown who exercised judicial, ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Virginia, University of") In 1904 Edwin A. Alderman was elected the first president; previously the chief administrative officer had been the chairman of the faculty. Under Alderman (1904-31), the university established its basic ...
one of the Channel Islands, in the English Channel, separated from the Normandy coast (Cap de la Hague) by the dangerously swift 10-mile (16-km) Race of Alderney. Swinge Race, on ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Wesley, John") ...and he also discovered Martin Luther's commentary on the Letter of Paul to the Galatians, which emphasized the scriptural doctrine of justification by grace through faith alone. On May 24, ...
(from the article "Rushmoor") ...the district on the south, and the Basingstoke Canal bisects it east-west. The district is a major centre of the United Kingdom's military establishment. A military camp, established at the ...
American inventor (b. Oct. 21, 1914, Cleveland, Ohio-d. Feb. 11, 2005, Los Angeles, Calif.), created (1968) the first example of what became known as the crash-test dummy, a device modeled ...
king of Northumbria (685-704) and patron of literature. An illegitimate son of Oswiu and the Irish princess Fina, he succeeded to the throne when his brother Ecgfrith was killed at ...
(c. 639-709), West Saxon abbot of Malmesbury, the most learned teacher of 7th-century Wessex, a pioneer in the art of Latin verse among the Anglo-Saxons, and the author of numerous ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Manutius, Aldus, the Elder") the leading figure of his time in printing, publishing, and typography, founder of a veritable dynasty of great printer-publishers, and organizer of the famous Aldine Press. Manutius produced the first ...
poet, novelist, critic, and biographer who wrote searingly and sometimes irascibly of what he considered to be hypocrisy in modern industrialized civilization. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Tasso, Torquato") ...(1605; "Mount of Olives") and Le sette giornate del mondo creato (1607; "The Seven Days of Creation"). In May 1592 he was given hospitality in Rome by Cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini, ...
(from the article "aldehyde") Another important reaction of a carbon nucleophile with an aldehyde is the aldol reaction (also called aldol condensation), which takes place when any aldehyde possessing at least one alpha-hydrogen is ...
(from the article "acid-base reaction") Self-condensation of aldehydes, the so-called aldol condensation, occurs readily, when catalyzed by bases, to give beta-hydroxy aldehydes. The prototype of this reaction is the conversion of acetaldehyde to beta-hydroxybutyraldehyde, or ...
(from the article "metabolism") ...the reverse reaction is an aldol condensation-i.e., an aldehyde (glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate) combines with a ketone (dihydroxyacetone phosphate)-the enzyme is commonly called aldolase. The two three-carbon fragments produced in step [4], ...
(from the article "The Brill Building") ...Building professionals tended to focus more narrowly on elevating the craft of songwriting. The flagship company of Brill Building pop music (actually located across the street at 1650 Broadway) was ...
a steroid hormone secreted by the adrenal gland. It serves as the principal regulator of the salt and water balance of the body (a mineralocorticoid) and has a small effect ... [14 Related Articles]
(from the article "dating") ...to argon gas of mass 40 (40Ar) formed the basis of the first widely used isotopic dating method. Since radiogenic argon-40 was first detected in 1938 by the American geophysicist ...
U.S. senator and financier whose work on the Aldrich-Vreeland Currency Act of 1908 and chairmanship of the National Monetary Commission (1908-12) helped prepare the way for the Federal Reserve Act ... [1 Related Articles]
poet, short-story writer, and editor whose use of the surprise ending influenced the development of the short story. He drew upon his childhood experiences in New Hampshire in his popular ... [1 Related Articles]
one of the several isomers (compounds with the same composition but different structures) of hexachlorohexahydrodimethanonaphthalene, a chlorinated hydrocarbon formerly used as an insecticide. Aldrin was first prepared in the late ...
(from the article "carnivorous plant") The family Droseraceae comprises four genera (Aldrovanda, Dionaea, Drosera, and Drosophyllum) and about 115 species, nearly all of which belong to the genus Drosera, of the sundew family. Aldrovanda are ...
fermented malt beverage, full-bodied and somewhat bitter, with strong flavour and aroma of hops. Popular in England, where the term is now synonymous with beer, ale was until the late ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "measurement system") ...being 18.5 inches wide throughout and 8 inches deep." Similarly, in 1707 the wine gallon was defined as a round measure with an even bottom and containing 231 cubic inches; ...
("TITON"), Cuban filmmaker (b. Dec. 11, 1928, Havana, Cuba--d. April 16, 1996, Havana), worked within the stringencies of revolutionary Cuba to satirize bureaucracy. Regarded as the nation's finest director, he ...
poet, patriot, and political figure, an archetype of the 19th-century Italian poet-patriots. His love poems and passionate diatribes against the Austrian government brought him renown. [1 Related Articles]
(aleatory from Latin alea, "dice"), 20th-century music in which chance or indeterminate elements are left for the performer to realize. The term is a loose one, describing ... [9 Related Articles]
(from the article "COBRA") ...exhibition was held in 1951 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Liege, Belgium. COBRA included among its members Karel Appel, Corneille (Corneille Guillaume Beverloo), Constant (Nieuwenhuis), Pierre Alechinsky, Lucebert (Lubertus ...
lyric poet and dramatist, the first collector of Romanian popular songs to emphasize their aesthetic values and a leader of the movement for the union of the Romanian principalities. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "fungus") ...prevail among forms with highly developed thalli. Lecanora and Lecidea, for example, have individual algal cells with as many as five haustoria that may extend to the cell centre. Alectoria ...
(from the article "galliform") ...the tongue. The mound is maintained within a degree or two of 33 °C (91 °F) throughout the period of several months that there are eggs in it. Observations of ...
first significant black African poet writing in Portuguese to deal with the theme of blackness. He was the literary ancestor to the later, more vehement modern poets.
(from the article "Portugal") ...as former centre-right prime minister Anibal Cavaco Silva battled with two Socialist candidates-former prime minister and president Mario Soares and Socialist Party stalwart Manuel Alegre, who ran as an Independent-in ...
poet, essayist, and journalist who was a major voice in the literature of contemporary Central America. Noted for her testimonio (testament) concerning the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, she was best ...
(from the article "tavern") The hostelries of Roman England were derived from the cauponae and the tabernae of Rome itself. These were followed by alehouses, which were run by women (alewives) and marked by ...
prolific and influential Brazilian sculptor and architect whose Rococo statuary and religious articles complement the dramatic sobriety of his churches. [7 Related Articles]
Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of 1927, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977. He was strongly influenced by the Surrealist technique of poetic composition. [2 Related Articles]
