Christian Democratic politician who was several times prime minister of Italy in the period from 1972 to 1992. He was one of Italy's most skillful and powerful politicians in the ...
prince of Rostov-Suzdal (1157) and grand prince of Vladimir (1169), who increased the importance of the northeastern Russian lands and contributed to the development of government in that forest region.
king of Hungary (1205-35) whose reign was marked by controversy with barons and the great feudatories and by the issuance of the Golden Bull of 1222 (q.v.), which has been ...
bishop of Caesarea, and the author of possibly the most significant Greek commentary on the book of Revelation (Apocalypse) from the era of the Church Fathers. His annotations seem to ...
archbishop, advocate of conciliar rule in the Western church-i.e., the supremacy of a general council of bishops over the papacy. Because of his personal animosity and eccentric conduct toward Pope ...
French Dominican friar who, as an ambassador of Louis IX (St. Louis) of France, led a diplomatic mission destined for the court of the Mongol khan Guyuk. His report of ...
American actor, a handsome leading man who appeared in such films of the 1940s as The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), Laura (1944), A Walk in the Sun (1945), and The Best ...
U.S. soldier and air force officer who contributed signally to the evolution of U.S. bombardment aviation during his command (1935-39) of the General Headquarters Air Force, first U.S. independent air ...
naturalist, explorer, and author, who led many important scientific expeditions for which he obtained financial support through his public lectures and books, particularly on central Asia and eastern Asia.
chemist and physicist who established the concepts of critical temperature and pressure and showed that a gas will pass into the liquid state, and vice versa, without any discontinuity, or ...
city, Bari province, Puglia (Apulia) region, southeastern Italy, on the eastern slopes of the Murge plateau, just south of Barletta. Andria was perhaps the Netium mentioned by the 1st-century BC ...
Roman slave who allegedly lived about the time of the emperor Tiberius or Caligula and who became the hero of a story by Aulus Gellius. The story, taken originally from ...
in Greek legend, the daughter of Eetion (prince of Thebe in Mysia) and wife of Hector (son of King Priam of Troy). All her relations perished in or shortly after ...
in Greek mythology, beautiful daughter of King Cepheus and Queen Cassiope of Joppa in Palestine (called Ethiopia) and wife of Perseus. Cassiope offended the Nereids by boasting that Andromeda was ...
in astronomy, constellation of the northern sky at about one hour right ascension (the coordinate on the celestial sphere analogous to longitude on the Earth) and 40° north declination (angular ...
(catalog numbers NGC 224 and M31), great spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda, the nearest external galaxy (except for the Magellanic Clouds, which are companions of the Milky Way Galaxy, ...
Greek archaeologist who discovered ancient royal tombs in northern Greece possibly belonging to the Macedonian King Philip II, the father of Alexander III the Great.
Byzantine emperor from 1183 to 1185, the last of the Comnenus dynasty, who attempted to reform the government but whose bitter opposition to Western Christianity precipitated a Norman invasion.
Byzantine emperor who was the son of Michael VIII Palaeologus. During Andronicus's reign (1282-1328) the Byzantine Empire declined to the status of a minor state, confined by the Ottoman Turks ...
Byzantine emperor from 1376 to 1379. Conspiring against his father, John V Palaeologus, he was imprisoned and deprived of his rights to the succession. John's rivals, the Genoese, however, helped ...
Greek astronomer best known as the architect of the horologium at Athens called the Tower of the Winds. Andronicus also built a multifaced sundial in the sanctuary of Poseidon on ...
Greek philosopher noted for his meticulous editing and commentary of Aristotle's works, which had passed from one generation to the next in such a way that the presumed quality of ...
head of the Soviet Union's KGB (State Security Committee) from 1967 to 1982 and his country's leader as general secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee from November 1982 until ...
island, most northerly and second largest of the Cyclades group of Greek Aegean Islands. Andros has an area of 145 square miles (380 square km). Wooded, well-watered, and mountainous, it ...
largest island of The Bahamas, 25 miles (40 km) west of New Providence island and about 125 miles (200 km) east-southeast of Florida, U.S. A flat, heavily forested island, Andros ...
English administrator in North America who made an abortive attempt to stem growing colonial independence by imposing a kind of supercolony, the Dominion of New England.
county, southwestern Maine, U.S. Its topography includes lowlands in the south and a hilly upland region in the north. The county is bisected from north to south by the Androscoggin ...
river in northeastern New Hampshire and southern Maine, U.S. It flows south from Umbabog Lake to Gorham, N.H., east to Jay, Maine, and then south again to the Atlantic Ocean. ...
(Jan. 30 [Feb. 9, New Style], 1667), long-lasting treaty that ended the Thirteen Years' War (1654-67) between Russia and Poland for control of Ukraine. In 1654 the Russian government accepted ...
Polish novelist, short-story writer, and political dissident noted for his attention to moral issues important in 20th-century Poland and for his realistic fiction.
city, Jaen provincia, in the comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community") of Andalusia, southern Spain, northwest of Jaen city, on the Guadalquivir River. Called Isturgi, or Ilurgia, by the Celto-Iberians, it was ...
sound laboratory so designed as to minimize sound reflections as well as external noise. External sound is excluded by physical isolation of the structure, by elaborate acoustical filters in the ...
one of the British Virgin Islands and the northernmost of the Lesser Antilles, a chain separating the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, lying about 80 miles (130 km) east-northeast of ...
channel in the West Indies, connecting the Atlantic Ocean with the Caribbean Sea; it is 40 miles (65 km) wide and separates the British Virgin Islands (west) from the Leeward ...
town, southern Togo, lying on the Gulf of Guinea near the border of Benin. Founded in the late 17th century by Ane peoples fleeing from Asante attacks in Elmina (now ...
one of five poets renowned among the Welsh in the 6th century, according to Nennius in his Historia Brittonum (written c. 800). (The other poets are Taliesin, Talhaearn Tad Awen, ...
condition in which the red cells of the blood (erythrocytes) are reduced in number or volume or are deficient in hemoglobin, their oxygen-carrying pigment. There are close to 100 different ...
device for measuring the speed of airflow in the atmosphere, in wind tunnels, and in other gas-flow applications. Most widely used for wind-speed measurements is the revolving-cup electric anemometer, in ...
any of about 120 species of perennial plants constituting the genus Anemone of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). Many colourful varieties of the tuberous poppylike anemone, A. coronaria, are grown for ...
any of about 12 species of Indo-Pacific fishes constituting the genus Amphiprion of the family Pomacentridae (order Perciformes), noted for their association with large sea anemones. Anemone fishes live and ...
one of the leading Roman composers of his time, who succeeded his master, Palestrina, as composer to the Papal Chapel in 1594. Most of Anerio's early works are secular, but ...
medical specialty dealing with anesthesia and related matters, including resuscitation and pain. The development of anesthesiology as a specialized field came about because of the dangers of anesthesia, which involves ...
agent which produces a local or general loss of sensation, including pain. General anesthesia involves loss of consciousness, usually for the purpose of relieving the pain of surgery. Local anesthesia ...
a bulge or enlargement of some point in the wall of a blood vessel (usually an artery) resulting from disease of the vessel wall. Disease or injury can weaken an ...
American biochemist who, with Stanford Moore and William H. Stein, received the 1972 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for research clarifying the relationship between the molecular structure of proteins and their ...
in the Khmer language, a person of royal blood, usually translated "prince" or "princess." For articles on such persons, see the personal name; e.g., for Ang Duong, see Duong.
(Pali and Sanskrit: "limb," or "division"), any of several categories into which Buddhist canonical writings were divided in early times, beginning before the Abhidhamma (scholastic) works were added to the ...
river in southeast central Russia. It is the outlet for Lake Baikal and a major tributary of the Yenisey River, which it joins near Yeniseysk. The river flows for 1,105 ...
Roman imperial postal system modeled on that of Achaemenidian Persia, probably originally established in the 6th century BC by Cyrus the Great. The name was derived from the Greek form ...
city, Irkutsk oblast (province), southeast central Russia, on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Founded in 1948, Angarsk grew rapidly as a major centre of oil refining and petrochemicals. The city's industrial products ...
in international law, the right of belligerents to requisition for their use neutral merchant vessels, aircraft, and other means of transport that are within their territorial jurisdiction. Generally, the right ...
11th-century memorial stone found in Uppland, Swed., bearing a runic inscription carved by Asmund Kareson (Osmundus), earliest known professional rune carver in Uppland. The stone is inscribed with a Maltese ...
waterfall in the Guiana Highlands in Bolivar state, southeastern Venezuela, on the Churun River, a tributary of the Caroni, 160 miles (260 km) southeast of Ciudad Bolivar. The highest waterfall ...
chartered city, central Luzon, Philippines. The city lies on the principal north-south highway and railway lines 50 miles (82 km) north of Manila. Angeles is the site of Angeles University ...
any of various unrelated fishes of the order Perciformes. The angelfishes, or scalares, popular in home aquariums are members of the genus Pterophyllum and the cichlid (q.v.) family. They are ...
