granitic massif, in the Eastern Highlands, northeastern Queensland, Australia, extending for 40 mi (65 km) along the coast northeast from Nerada to Gordonvale, just south of Cairns. Bounded by the ...
extinct genus of gastropods (snails) found as fossils in rocks of Ordovician to Triassic age (between 208 and 505 million years old). Bellerophon is characteristic of the bellerophontids, a large ...
hero in Greek legend. In the Iliad he was the son of Glaucus, who was the son of Sisyphus of Ephyre (traditionally Corinth). Anteia (or Stheneboea), wife of Proetus, the ...
literature that is an end in itself and is not practical or purely informative. The term can refer generally to poetry, fiction, drama, etc., or more specifically to light, entertaining, ...
city, seat (1814) of St. Clair county, southwestern Illinois, U.S. It lies east of the Mississippi River, about 16 miles (26 km) from St. Louis, Missouri.
city, King county, western Washington, U.S., on the eastern shore of Lake Washington, there bridged to Seattle. The city developed as a primarily residential part of the Puget Sound urban ...
any of about 300 annual, perennial, and biennial herbs that compose the genus Campanula (family Campanulaceae). Bellflowers bear bell-shaped, usually blue flowers. They are native mainly to northern temperate regions, ...
the condition of being in fact engaged in war. A nation is deemed a belligerent even when resorting to war in order to withstand or punish an aggressor. A declaration ...
city, seat (1854) of Whatcom county, northwestern Washington, U.S. Located 18 miles (29 km) south of the Canadian border, it is situated along Bellingham Bay (named in 1792 by Captain ...
Russian explorer who led the second expedition to circumnavigate Antarctica (1819-21) and for whom was named the Bellingshausen Sea, an area of the Antarctic waters.
Italian painter who made Venice a centre of Renaissance art comparable to Florence and Rome. Although the paintings for the hall of the Great Council in Venice, considered his greatest ...
operatic composer with a gift for creating vocal melody at once pure in style and sensuous in expression; his influence is reflected not only in later operatic composers, including the ...
capital of Ticino canton, southern Switzerland, on the Ticino River, at the junction of roads to the St. Gotthard, Lukmanier, and San Bernardino passes, east of Locarno. Possibly of Roman ...
city, northwestern Colombia, on the Rio Porce between the Cordilleras (mountains) Occidental and Central of the Andes at 4,905 feet (1,495 metres) above sea level. Formerly a commercial and manufacturing ...
French-born poet, historian, and essayist who was among the most versatile English writers of the first quarter of the 20th century. He is most remembered for his light verse, particularly ...
in Roman religion, goddess of war, identified with the Greek Enyo. Sometimes known as the sister or wife of Mars, she has also been identified with his female cult partner ...
American novelist whose characterizations of modern urban man, disaffected by society but not destroyed in spirit, earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976. Brought up in a Jewish ...
mechanical contrivance for creating a jet of air, consisting usually of a hinged box with flexible sides, which expands to draw in air through an inward opening valve and contracts ...
village in Rockingham town (township), Windham county, southeastern Vermont, U.S., on the Connecticut River. It was settled about 1753 and named for Colonel Benjamin Bellows, an early property owner.
city, capital of Belluno provincia, in the Veneto regione of northeastern Italy. The city lies at the confluence of the Piave and Ardo rivers, in the Dolomite Alps, north of ...
Modernist architect identified first with regional architecture of the American Northwest, from which his influence spread throughout the world. He was noted for his use of indigenous materials, especially woods ...
city, Western Cape province, South Africa. It lies east of Cape Town within the Cape Peninsula urban area. Originally a village called Twelfth Mile Stone, Bellville was established by proclamation ...
any of five species of woodland plants comprising the genus Uvularia of the lily family (Liliaceae) and native to eastern North America. They are all low perennials with slender, creeping ...
French motion picture actor who embodied the antiheroic spirit of the French New Wave in his early performances and later starred in and produced many commercially successful films that highlighted ...
city, San Mateo county, western California, U.S., near San Mateo. Settled in 1850 as a stagecoach station, it was known for its association with William C. Ralston, a Bank of ...
village, Lafayette county, southwestern Wisconsin, U.S. It lies about 60 miles (100 km) southwest of Madison. The original village was the first seat of the Territory of Wisconsin (created 1836), ...
oldest of the three classic American horse races (with the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness) that constitute the Triple Crown of United States horse racing; it originated in 1867 and ...
capital of Belize. It is located near the town of Roaring Creek, in the Belize River valley, 50 miles (80 km) inland from Belize City, the former capital on the ...
city, southern Minas Gerais estado (state), southeastern Brazil. It lies on the western slope of the Serra do Espinhaco, at an elevation of 2,720 feet (830 m). The first of ...
Roman Catholic bishop of Dili who, with Jose Ramos-Horta, received the 1996 Nobel Prize for Peace for their efforts to bring peace to East Timor (Timor Timur) during the period ...
town, Montreal region, southern Quebec province, Canada. It lies on the west (left) bank of the Richelieu River. First settled in 1694, Beloeil, the name of which means "beautiful view" ...
village, Hainaut province, Wallonia region, Belgium, situated between Mons and Tournai. It has been known since the 14th century as the seat of the princely family of Ligne, the most ...
city, Amur oblast (region), far eastern Russia. Situated in the Zeya-Bureya Plain and on the Tom River, it was founded in 1860 and became a city in ...
city, Rock county, southern Wisconsin, U.S. It lies along the Illinois state line at the confluence of the Rock River and Turtle Creek, about 15 miles (25 km) south of ...
private coeducational liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin, U.S. Beloit College is Wisconsin's oldest college, chartered by the territorial legislature in 1846. The following year instruction began in the Middle ...
French naturalist whose discussion of dolphin embryos and systematic comparisons of the skeletons of birds and humans mark the beginnings of modern embryology and comparative anatomy.
city, Bashkortostan, west-central Russia. It lies near the headwaters of the Belaya River, a tributary of the Kama. It was founded as a mining settlement in 1762 when a metallurgical ...
trick-and-meld card game derived from klaberjass about 1920 and now the most popular card game in France. The original game was for two players, and there are versions for three ...
Soviet geologist and geophysicist who in 1942 advanced the theory that the Earth's material has gradually differentiated according to its density to produce the present internal structure of the Earth ...
forest in western Belarus and eastern Poland. It is one of the largest surviving areas of primeval mixed forest (pine, beech, oak, alder, and spruce) in Europe and occupies more ...
city, Kemerovo oblast (province), south-central Russia, on the small Bachat River. Incorporated in 1930, it is an important coal-mining city of the Kuznetsk Coal Basin. A large ...
town ("parish"), Amber Valley district, administrative and historic county of Derbyshire, England. It lies on the east bank of the River Derwent. Belper is probably a corruption of Beaurepair, the ...
in machinery, a pair of pulleys attached to usually parallel shafts and connected by an encircling flexible belt (band) that can serve to transmit and modify rotary motion from one ...
major division of late Precambrian rocks in North America (the Precambrian lasted from 3.8 billion to 540 million years ago). The series was named for prominent exposures in the Belt ...
festival held on the first day of May in Ireland and Scotland, celebrating the beginning of summer and open pasturing. Beltane is first mentioned in a glossary attributed to Cormac, ...
a small, toothed whale found mainly in the coastal waters of the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas but also in rivers and deep offshore waters. It is an extremely vocal ...
one of the Katun Mountains, a series of snowcapped peaks in Russia. The highest mountain in the Russian portion of the Altai Mountains, Belukha reaches a height of 14,783 feet ...
(Italian: "beautiful view"), architectural structure built in an elevated position to provide lighting and ventilation and to command a fine view. Roofed but open on one or more sides, a ...
Hellenistic sculpture fragment of a male nude (5 feet 2 58 inches [1.59 m] high) in the Vatican Museum; the work is signed by the Athenian sculptor Apollonius the son ...
city, seat (1837) of Boone county, northern Illinois, U.S. It lies on the Kishwaukee River, about 75 miles (120 km) northwest of downtown Chicago. The area was settled in 1835 ...
fortress and settlement comprising the third defense belt around Moscow, which joined the Kremlin and Kitay-gorod on the left bank of the Moskva River. Built between 1585 and 1593 of ...
leading theorist and poet of Russian Symbolism, a literary school deriving from the modernist movement in western European art and literature and indigenous Eastern Orthodox spirituality, expressing mystical and abstract ...
cosmonaut who served as the pilot of the Voskhod 2 spacecraft during the Soviet Union's eighth manned space mission, launched March 18, 1965, the flight on which Aleksey Leonov, Belyayev's ...
