river in northern Alberta, Canada, forming the southernmost part of the Mackenzie River system. From its source in the Columbia Icefield (Canadian Rocky Mountains) near the Continental Divide, the river ... [4 Related Articles]
lake in Canada, astride the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, just south of the Northwest Territories. The lake, 208 mi (335 km) long by 32 mi wide, has an area of 3,064 sq ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Columbia Icefield") ...on a flat-lying plateau that has been severely truncated by erosion to form a huge massif. The glacial area extends between the summits of Mount Columbia (12,294 feet [3,747 metres]) ...
part of the original Northwest Territories in Canada. The district was created in 1882 and enlarged by an eastward extension in 1895. It was abolished in 1905. Its area comprised ...
one of the largest North American Indian language families, consisting of about 38 languages. Speakers of Athabaskan languages often use the same term for a language and its associated ethnic ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Amalasuntha") When her husband died, Amalasuntha was left with a son, Athalaric, and a daughter. At Theodoric's death, in 526, Athalaric was 10 years old, and the highly educated Amalasuntha assumed ...
in the Old Testament, the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel and wife of Jeham, king of Judah. After the death of Ahaziah, her son, Athaliah usurped the throne and reigned ... [2 Related Articles]
in Greek mythology, king of the prehistoric Minyans in the ancient Boeotian city of Orchomenus. His first wife was Nephele, a cloud goddess. But later Athamas became enamoured of Ino, ... [1 Related Articles]
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a Christian profession of faith in about 40 verses. It is regarded as authoritative in the Roman Catholic and some Protestant churches. It has two sections, one dealing with the ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Romania") Political infighting jeopardized Romania's international peacekeeping role in June when Defense Minister Theodor Athanasiu suddenly called for Romania to pull out its 890 troops from Iraq. This was a bid ...
Byzantine monk and patriarch of Constantinople, who directed the opposition to the reunion of Greek and Latin churches decreed by the Second Council of Lyon in 1274. His efforts in ...
Byzantine monk who founded communal monasticism in the hallowed region of Mt. Athos, a traditional habitat for contemplative monks and hermits. [2 Related Articles]
theologian, ecclesiastical statesman, and Egyptian national leader; he was the chief defender of Christian orthodoxy in the 4th-century battle against Arianism, the heresy that the Son of God was a ... [24 Related Articles]
(from the article "Atharvaveda") collection of hymns and incantations that forms part of the ancient sacred literature of India known as the Vedas. See Veda.Brahmanas
in general, the critique and denial of metaphysical beliefs in God or spiritual beings. As such, it is usually distinguished from theism, which affirms the reality of the divine and ... [13 Related Articles]
(from the article "Existentialism") ...lead in two directions: it can lead to insisting on the lack of meaning-i.e., on the absurdity of existence and of every possible project-as it does in Sartre, in Camus, ...
(from the article "tamarisk") ...and salt-water spray. The salt cedar, or French tamarisk (T. gallica), is planted on seacoasts for shelter; it is cultivated in the United States from South Carolina to California. The ...
(from the article "fungus") ...Lycoperdaceae; included in subclass Agaricomycetidae; example genera include Agaricus, Armillaria, Coprinus, and Pleurotus. Mycorrhizal, found primarily on conifers and hardwood trees; included in subclass Agaricomycetidae; example genera include Athelia, ...
small eminence, formerly an island, rising above the drained marshes around the confluence of the Rivers Tone and Parrett in the administrative and historic county of Somerset, England. In 878 ...
(from the article "Haba, Alois") ...his earliest mature work using microtones was the Third String Quartet (1922). His opera Matka (The Mother), first performed in 1931, was his crowning achievement; in it he uses nonthematic ...
in Greek religion, the city protectress, goddess of war, handicraft, and practical reason, identified by the Romans with Minerva (q.v.). She was essentially urban and civilized, the antithesis in many ... [21 Related Articles]
(from the article "Tegea") ancient Greek city of eastern Arcadia, 4 miles (6.5 km) southeast of the modern town of Tripolis. The Temple of Athena Alea at Tegea was described by the Greek geographer ...
(from the article "Lindos") ...coast of Rhodes and the site of one of the three city-states of Rhodes before their union (408 BC). Lindos was the site of Danish excavations (1902-24, resumed 1952) that ...
(from the article "Nike") ...have a separate cult at Athens. As an attribute of both Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and the chief god, Zeus, Nike was represented in art as a small figure ...
(from the article "Western architecture") ...sites) rather than stone. Several new Doric temples were also built in the lower city of Athens and in the Attic countryside. The Ionic order was used only for the ...
(from the article "Phidias") The colossal statue of the Athena Parthenos, which Phidias made for the Parthenon, was completed and dedicated in 438. The original work was made of gold and ivory and stood ...
(from the article "Priene") ...excavations have revealed one of the most beautiful examples of Greek town planning. The city's remains lie on successive terraces that rise from a plain to a steep hill upon ...
(from the article "Athens") According to Pausanias, the Greek traveller and geographer of the 2nd century AD, the colossal 30-foot-high bronze seated statue of Athena Promachos (Athena Who Fights in the Foremost Ranks), by ...
(from the article "Paestum") ...Doric temples in a remarkable state of preservation. During the ensuing Roman period a typical forum and town layout grew up between the two ancient Greek sanctuaries. Of the three ...
Greek grammarian and author of Deipnosophistai ("The Gastronomers"), a work in the form of an aristocratic symposium, in which a number of learned men, some bearing the names of real ... [1 Related Articles]
Greek Christian philosopher and apologist whose Presbeia peri Christianon (c. 177; Embassy for the Christians) is one of the earliest works to use Neoplatonic concepts to interpret Christian belief and ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Meier, Richard") Building upon the success of his series of spectacular private residences, starting in the mid-1970s Meier began to receive large public commissions, including the Atheneum (1975-79) in New Harmony, Ind.; ...
(from the article "Greek calendar") ...seems to have been in force as early as the 8th century BC. Months, each of which contained either 30 or 29 days, began with the new moon. The Greek ...
(from the article "ancient Greek civilization") The eastern Greeks of the islands and mainland felt themselves particularly vulnerable and appealed to the natural leader, Sparta. The Spartans' proposed solution was an unacceptable plan to evacuate Ionia ...
Greek Stoic philosopher who was the teacher of the younger Octavian, who later became the emperor Augustus. He is to be distinguished from Athenodorus Cordylion, also a Stoic, who became ... [1 Related Articles]
market town, County Galway, Ireland. It was founded in the 13th century during the Anglo-Norman colonization. Much of the medieval town wall (1211) survives, together with the keep of the ...
city, seat (1819) of Limestone county, northern Alabama, U.S., in the Tennessee River valley, about 25 miles (40 km) west of Huntsville. Settled in 1807 and named for Athens, Greece, ...
city, seat (1871) of Clarke county (with which it was consolidated in 1990), northeastern Georgia, U.S., on the Oconee River. Founded in 1801 as the seat of the University of ... [2 Related Articles]
city, seat of McMinn county, southeastern Tennessee, U.S. It lies in the Tennessee River valley, between the Great Smoky Mountains (east) and the Cumberland Plateau (west), about 55 miles (90 ...
city, seat (1805) of Athens county, southeastern Ohio, U.S. It lies along the Hocking River, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Columbus. It was founded in 1800 by the ...
historic city and capital of Greece. Many of classical civilization's intellectual and artistic ideas originated there, and the city is generally considered to be the birthplace of Western civilization. [106 Related Articles]
(from the article "Olympic Games") The inaugural Games of the modern Olympics were attended by as many as 280 athletes, all male, coming from 12 countries. The athletes competed in 43 events covering athletics (track ...
(from the article "Olympic Games") The 2004 Olympic Games returned home to Greece, birthplace of the ancient Games and site of the inaugural modern Olympics. The excitement surrounding the homecoming was tempered by security concerns ...
(from the article "Greece") ...of the past and for running the country's museums. Public library provision is relatively limited, and there is no adequate national library. The country's most prestigious learned society is the ...
(from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...a far-reaching program of educational and cultural propaganda aimed at instilling a sense of Hellenic identity in the very large Greek populations that remained under Ottoman rule. The University of ...
any member of the order Atheriniformes, containing 15 families of marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes, including the flying fishes (see ), needlefishes, silversides, and cyprinodonts. The last group, the Cyprinodontidae, ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "liquid") In a solution in which the molecules of one component are much larger than those of the other, the assumption that the solution is regular (i.e., that SE = 0) ...
(from the article "cardiovascular disease") ...the heart. As a result, the disorder was termed coronary thrombosis or coronary occlusion (blockage of a coronary artery). Later evidence indicated, however, that, though thrombotic occlusion of an atheromatous ...
chronic disease caused by the deposition of fats, cholesterol, calcium, and other substances in the innermost layer of endothelium of the large and medium-sized arteries. Atherosclerosis is the most common ... [16 Related Articles]
(from the article "atherosclerosis") ...including salts of calcium and other minerals, smooth muscle cells, and cellular debris of varying composition. This causes the initially tiny lesions to enlarge and thicken to form atheromas, or ...
(from the article "Laurales") Atherospermataceae species also have opposite, serrate leaves. There are as many stamens as perianth parts. The hypanthium becomes woody and splits when mature. The dry fruits (achenes) have a tuft ...
town in the metropolitan borough of Wigan, metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, historic county of Lancashire, England. The manor was held by the Atherton family from the early 13th century ...
highland region that is part of the Great Dividing Range (Eastern Highlands) in northeastern Queensland, Australia. The plateau region is bounded by the Palmer (north) and Burdekin (south) rivers and ...
American novelist, noted as an author of fictional biography and history. Atherton's biography of Nikolay Petrovich Rezanov appeared in the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (see ...
(from the article "cerebral palsy") In the athetoid type of cerebral palsy, paralysis of voluntary movements may not occur, and spastic contractions may be slight or absent. Instead, there are slow, involuntary spasms of the ...
slow, purposeless, and involuntary movements of the hands, feet, face, tongue, and neck (as well as other muscle groups). The fingers are separately flexed and extended in an entirely irregular ... [1 Related Articles]
On April 20, 2007, Susan Athey of Harvard University became the first woman to win the John Bates Clark (JBC) medal, the American Economic Association award granted biennially to the ...
(from the article "Arabic literature") The increasingly prominent role that belles lettres came to occupy in the life of the court and its patronage system was reflected in a later work of compilation, Diya' al-Din ...
town, southern suburb of Paris, in Essonne departement, Ile-de-France region, northern France. Athis-Mons lies near the confluence of the Orge and Seine rivers and ...
(from the article "Guy") ...on May 19, 1302, and on the following July 11 a French army of invasion was defeated near Courtrai. The aged Guy died in captivity before the French recognized the ...
(from the article "Thamud") ...half of the 7th century AD. Although the Thamud probably originated in southern Arabia, a large group apparently moved northward at an early date, traditionally settling on the slopes of ...
(from the article "mycosis") ...or systemic disease. Superficial fungal infections, also called dermatophytosis, are confined to the skin and are caused by Microsporum,Trichophyton, or Epidermophyton; athlete's foot, for example, is caused by Trichophyton ...
(from the article "Pacific-10 Conference") California, Stanford, USC, UCLA, and Washington formed the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU); after Washington State joined the new conference in 1962 and Oregon and Oregon State in 1964, ...
(from the article "Kretschmer, Ernst") ...theory that certain mental disorders were more common among people of specific physical types. Kretschmer posited three chief constitutional groups: the tall, thin asthenic type, the more muscular athletic type, ...
a variety of competitions in running, walking, jumping, and throwing events. Although these contests are called track and field (or simply track) in the United States, they are generally designated ... [16 Related Articles]
town, County Westmeath, Ireland. It lies on the River Shannon just south of Lough (lake) Ree. Located at a major east-west crossing of the Shannon, it has always been an ...
Dutch soldier in English service who completed the conquest of Ireland for King William III of England (William of Orange, stadholder of the United Provinces) against the forces of the ...
town (township), Worcester county, north-central Massachusetts, U.S. It lies on the Millers River, north of Quabbin Reservoir. Settled in 1735, it was known by the Algonquian name of Pequoiag until ...
mountainous traditional region covering approximately 450 square miles (1,165 square km) in northern Perth and Kinross council area, historic county of Perthshire, Scotland. Enclosed by several ranges of the Grampians, ...
a leading Scottish Royalist and defender of the Stuarts from the time of the English Civil Wars (1642-51) until after the accession of William and Mary (1689).
(from the article "gastropod") A problematic group including amber snails (Succineidae), which inhabit swamps and damp areas, and peculiar slugs from the South Pacific (Athoracophoridae).A group possessing marginal teeth of radula with squarish ...
mountain in northern Greece, site of a semiautonomous republic of Greek Orthodox monks inhabiting 20 monasteries and dependencies (skites), some of which are larger than the parent monasteries. It occupies ... [11 Related Articles]
(from the article "Alaskan mountains") ...into the Bering Sea. Several major rivers have eroded headward into the range to form low passes, the best-known being Anaktuvuk Pass, at an elevation of 2,200 feet in the ...
Indian Buddhist reformer whose teachings formed the basis of the Tibetan Bka'-gdams-pa ("Those Bound by Command") sect of Buddhism, founded by his disciple 'Brom-ston. [4 Related Articles]
lake in southwestern Guatemala. It lies in a spectacular setting in the central highlands at about 5,128 feet (1,563 metres) above sea level. The lake, 1,049 feet (320 metres) deep, ...
one of the southern Cook Islands, a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean. A raised coral atoll, Atiu has a circumference of roughly ...
British mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 primarily for his work in topology. Atiyah received a knighthood in 1983 and the Order of Merit in 1992. He ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "mathematics") ...1960s Atiyah, the American Isadore Singer, and others found ways of connecting this work to the study of a wide variety of questions involving partial differentiation, culminating in the celebrated ...
(from the article "Buddhism") ...those initiated into the Kriya can attain Buddhahood after seven lives, the Upayoga after five lives, the Yoga after three lives, the Mahayoga in the next existence, the Anuyoga at ...
(from the article "scorpaeniform") In contrast to the cyclopterids, the greenlings are pelagic fishes that adopt a benthic (bottom) life only during the spawning season. One of the best-known members, the Atka mackerel (Pleurogrammus ...
(from the article "Eskimo-Aleut languages") ...people living in eight villages from the Alaska Peninsula westward through Umnak Island, Aleutian Islands, and in the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea, which were settled beginning in 1800; ...
(from the article "The Craze for Curbing Carbs") ...thought to be on carb-restrictive diets in 2004, a number great enough to send shockwaves through the food industry. The phenomenon was not limited to the United States, birthplace of ...
(from the article "crime") ...mental impairment may be considered at the time of sentencing as a mitigating factor that reduces the punishment associated with the crime. For example, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in ...
influential American country-and-western guitarist and record company executive who is often credited with developing the Nashville Sound. [2 Related Articles]
American dancer and choreographer (b. Sept. 30, 1913, Pratt City, Ala.-d. April 19, 2003, Las Vegas, Nev.), created the synchronized moves that characterized many of the Motown acts of the ...
(from the article "Track and Field Sports (Athletics)") ...by injury earlier in the season, he displayed dominating acceleration in his quarterfinal and semifinal. Powell eased up at the end of both races, so much so in the semifinal ...
(from the article "rackets") ...to 1902, when he resigned, and was also a great player of real tennis. The foremost English amateurs have included Sir William Hart-Dyke, the first amateur to hold the world ...
American cardiologist and nutritionist (b. Oct. 17, 1930, Columbus, Ohio-d. April 17, 2003, New York, N.Y.), wrote seven best-selling diet books-beginning in 1972 with Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution-advocating that dieters ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "graphic design") Software for Apple's 1984 Macintosh computer, such as the MacPaint™ program by computer programmer Bill Atkinson and graphic designer Susan Kare, had a revolutionary human interface. Tool icons controlled by ...
It is no surprise that a painfully shy person would hide behind a mask, but it can be highly risky to borrow that mask's main features from a gargoyle. Such ...
statesman who, as prime minister of New Zealand in the depression-ridden 1880s, implemented a policy of economic self-reliance and government austerity.
American jockey (b. June 17, 1916, Toronto, Ont.-d. May 5, 2005, Beaver Dam, Va.), became the first jockey to win more than a million dollars in earnings in a single ...
(from the article "Squash") ...might finally become an Olympic event. A decision was expected in July 2005. The other major news in 2004 was the crowning of two new champions in December. In Kuala ...
city, capital (1868) of Georgia, U.S., and seat (1853) of Fulton county (but also partly in DeKalb county), in the northwestern part of the state. It lies in the foothills ... [5 Related Articles]
