(from the article "Norfolk Island") ...The island is about 5 miles (8 km) long and 3 miles (5 km) wide. It is volcanic in origin, and its generally rugged terrain, with a mean elevation of ...
British actor (b. Feb. 17, 1934, Allestree, Derbyshire, Eng.-d. Dec. 27, 2003, London, Eng.), was considered among the finest and most versatile performers of his generation. He was at home ...
British shipowner who was responsible for outlining the policy that led to the construction of the largest passenger ships in the world, the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth.
a form of biological resemblance in which a noxious, or dangerous, organism (the model), equipped with a warning system such as conspicuous coloration, is mimicked by a harmless organism (the ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Mead, Margaret") ...Growing Up in New Guinea (1930; new ed., 1975), Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935; reprinted, 1968), Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis (1942, with Gregory Bateson, to whom ...
biologist who founded and named the science of genetics and whose experiments provided evidence basic to the modern understanding of heredity. A dedicated evolutionist, he cited embryo studies to support ... [5 Related Articles]
city, seat (1821) of Independence county, north-central Arkansas, U.S., about 90 miles (145 km) northeast of Little Rock. It lies in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains on the White ...
any of about 60 species of fishes of the family Ogcocephalidae (order Lophiiformes), found in warm and temperate seas. Batfishes have broad, flat heads and slim bodies and are covered ... [2 Related Articles]
process of soaking the body in water or some other aqueous matter such as mud, steam, or milk. The bath may have cleanliness or curative purposes, and it can have ... [3 Related Articles]
town, seat (1820) of Morgan county, in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia, U.S., near the Potomac River. Probably the oldest spa in the nation, it was chartered in 1776 ...
city, unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset, historic county of Somerset, England. Bath lies along the River Avon in a natural amphitheatre of steep hills. Built of local ... [4 Related Articles]
city, port of entry (since 1789), seat (1854) of Sagadahoc county, southwestern Maine, U.S. The city lies along the Kennebec River near its mouth on the Atlantic coast, 36 miles ...
town, Beaufort county, eastern North Carolina, U.S., on the Pamlico estuary. The first proprietary grant in the area (1684) embraced the town site, about 40 miles (65 km) southeast of ...
unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Somerset, southwestern England. It lies southeast of the city of Bristol and encompasses the city of Bath, several small urban areas between Bath ...
chair on wheels intended for use by ladies and invalids. It was devised by James Heath, of Bath, Eng., about 1750. For the next three-quarters of a century it rivaled ...
(from the article "Bath") ...as a separate town in 1781. Its shipbuilding industry (exemplified in the Maine Maritime Museum there) dates from 1762, when Captain William Swanton launched the Earl of Bute. The Bath ...
(from the article "Christianity") ...the alchemical process-that is, Christ was the stone of all wisdom and knowledge. In the alchemist's spiritual forge, the Stone reemerged from the Matrix, the crucible containing the so-called Bath ...
British nobleman who in 1949 turned Longleat House, his financially distressed family's 16th-century home, into a tourist attraction, setting a precedent that was followed by a number of his peers. ...
order of British knighthood established by King George I in 1725, conferred as a reward either for military service or for exemplary civilian merit. Like most chivalric orders, it has ...
politician who, as 3rd Viscount Weymouth, held important office in the British government during two critical periods in the reign of George III. Although he was an outstanding orator, his ...
English Whig politician who became prominent in the opposition to Sir Robert Walpole (first lord of the treasury and chancellor of the Exchequer, 1721-42), after being staunchly loyal to him ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Morocco") Morocco has a number of fine museums situated throughout the country. The Batha Museum, located in Fes and housed in a former 19th-century royal residence, specializes in historical Moroccan art ...
(from the article "South Arabic language") ...the other Semitic languages of Ethiopia, Eritrea, and The Sudan. Modern dialects of the language include Mahri, Shahri (Ehkali), Harsusi, and Bathari on the Arabian shore of the Indian Ocean ...
(from the article "Hot Springs") ...enlarged, it became a national park in 1921 and today covers 9 square miles (23 square km). Central to the park are the 47 hot springs and 8 historic bathhouses ...
(from the article "anseriform") ...involves preening, scratching with the feet, and a general body shake produced by a muscular contraction sweeping from tail to neck. Various wing-stretching movements settle the flight feathers. Bathing movements ...
large body of igneous rock formed beneath the Earth's surface by the intrusion and solidification of magma. It is commonly composed of coarse-grained rocks (e.g., granite or granodiorite) with a ... [3 Related Articles]
third of the four divisions of the Middle Jurassic Series, representing all rocks formed worldwide during the Bathonian Age, which occurred between 167.7 million and 164.7 million years ago during ...
(from the article "Bethlen, Gabor") ...Bethlen as a young man was sent to the court of Prince Sigismund Bathory of Transylvania. Later he helped Istvan Bocskay gain the throne of Transylvania and supported his successor, ...
(from Greek bathys, "deep"), unsuccessful, and therefore ludicrous, attempt to portray pathos in art, i.e., to evoke pity, sympathy, or sorrow. The term was first used in this sense by ...
(from the article "building construction") The primary residential use of water is in the bathroom, which typically includes a bathtub of cast iron or pressed steel with a ceramic porcelain coating (although fibre-glass-reinforced resin is ...
in the Old Testament (2 Samuel 11, 12; 1 Kings 1, 2), wife of Uriah the Hittite; she later became one of the wives of King David and the mother ... [3 Related Articles]
city, east-central New South Wales, Australia. It lies on the south bank of the Macquarie River, west of the Blue Mountains. Founded in 1815 and named after the 3rd Earl ...
city in Gloucester county, northeastern New Brunswick, Canada. It lies at the mouth of the Nepisiguit River, on Bathurst Harbour, a southern arm of Nepisiguit Bay. The original French settlement, ...
island in the Timor Sea, Northern Territory, Australia, separated from Melville Island to the east by Apsley Strait. Densely wooded, it is triangular and has an area of about 1,000 ...
one of the Parry Islands in the Baffin region, Nunavut territory, northern Canada, between the islands of Cornwallis (east) and Melville (west) and north of Parry Channel. Bathurst Island is ...
marine ecologic realm extending down from the edge of the continental shelf to the depth at which the water temperature is 4° C (39° F). Both of these limits are ... [1 Related Articles]
ancient Greek sculptor whose only known work was a marble altar built around an ancient statue of Apollo at Amyclae. This work was commissioned by the Spartans and was described ...
(from the article "Silurian Period") ...invertebrates of the Silurian Period belonged to persistent assemblages, or communities, that commonly conformed to ecological zonation. One way in which zonation expresses itself is through bathymetric gradients (changes in ...
measurement of ocean depth. The earliest technique involved lowering a heavy rope or cable of known length over the side of a ship, then measuring the amount needed to reach ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "crustacean") ...free; furca present; abdominal appendages reduced or absent; South America and New Zealand; freshwater, in spaces between sand grains; about 5 species.Blind, elongated forms, without a rostrum; first thoracic ...
(from the article "marine ecosystem") ...waters-the epipelagic zone-is where photosynthesis occurs; it is roughly equivalent to the photic zone. Below this zone lie the mesopelagic, ranging between 200 and 1,000 metres, the bathypelagic, from 1,000 ...
(from the article "fern") ...shaded lower trunks and branches or in the crowns of trees. A few so-called epiphytic ferns are actually climbers that originate upon the ground and grow up tree trunks. In ...
navigable diving vessel developed by the Swiss educator and scientist Auguste Piccard (with assistance in later years from his son Jacques), designed to reach great depths in the ocean. [2 Related Articles]
spherical steel vessel for use in undersea observation, provided with portholes and suspended by a cable from a boat. Built by the American zoologist William Beebe and the American engineer ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "cephalopod") ...this similarly, adjusting the gases in the chambered shell. Inactive oceanic squids, such as some cranchiids, concentrate ions lighter than seawater in the body chamber, while others, such as Bathyteuthis, ...
any of various oceanographic devices containing temperature- and pressure-sensitive elements and producing a continuous record of underwater temperature and pressure. Recoverable bathythermographs, lowered from a ship at rest or in ... [1 Related Articles]
genus of trilobites (extinct arthropods) that provide a useful index fossil for the Middle Cambrian epoch of North America (520 to 512 million years ago). In Bathyuriscus the head segment ...
(from the article "East African mountains") ...from Mount Kenya. The second highest mountain in Africa, Mount Kenya has a girth of about 95 miles at 8,000 feet, from which it rises boldly to its restricted summit ...
(from the article "Georgia") On May 23 former intelligence chief Irakli Batiashvili was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for his imputed support of the abortive July 2006 insurrection led by Emzar Kvitsiani. Twelve associates ...
method of dyeing in which patterned areas are covered with wax so they will not receive the colour. The method is used mainly on cottons and in the traditional colours ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Iraq") ...feet (100 to 400 metres). A height of 3,119 feet (951 metres) is reached at Mount 'Unayzah ('Unazah) at the intersection of the borders of Jordan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. ...
narrow, well-populated coastal plain, northeastern Oman, fronting the Gulf of Oman for about 150 miles (240 km) and extending from Oman's border with the United Arab Emirates near Shinas southeast ... [2 Related Articles]
Muslim sects-the Ismailis (Arabic: Isma'iliyah), in particular-that interpreted religious texts exclusively on the basis of their hidden, or inner, meanings (Arabic: batin) rather than their literal meanings (zahir). This type ...
soldier and dictator who twice ruled Cuba-first in 1933-44, when he gave the nation a strong, efficient government, and again in 1952-59 as a dictator, jailing his opponents, using terrorist ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Molucca Sea") ...The sea's floor is subdivided into three zones, which serve to conduct deep water from the Pacific to the lesser seas. The deepest depression of the Molucca Sea is the ...
Uruguayan journalist who became active in politics and served as president of his country from 1947 to 1951 and chief executive officer in 1953-54. [1 Related Articles]
statesman who, as president of Uruguay (1903-07 and 1911-15), is generally credited with transforming his country into a stable democratic welfare state. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Uruguay") Area: 176,215 sq km (68,037 sq mi) | Population (2005 est.): 3,256,000 | Capital: Montevideo | Head of state and government: Presidents Jorge Batlle Ibanez and, from March 1, Tabare ...
town, southeastern Turkey, in the centre of the nation's oil-producing region. It is located about 5 miles (8 km) west of the town of Siirt and lies in a region ...
(from the article "Victoria") ...forbidding settlement in the territory, which was then part of the colony of New South Wales. In November 1834 the Henty family landed stock and stores at Portland, on the ...
city, northeastern Algeria. It lies along the Wadi Tilatou and is situated on a well-watered plain that is bounded on the south by the Aures Massif and on the north ...
unincorporated place, central Saskatchewan, Canada. It lies on the east bank of the South Saskatchewan River, 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Prince Albert. The site was settled about 1870 ...
(from the article "conductor") For nearly two centuries, conductors favoured a baton, or thin wand, in the right hand as a device for emphasizing the metrical outline, reserving the left hand for indicating entries ...
(from the article "athletics") The relays involve four runners per team, each member carrying a baton for 25 percent of the total distance before passing it to the next team runner. Two events, the ...
city, capital of Louisiana, U.S., and seat (1811) of East Baton Rouge parish. Baton Rouge is a port situated at the head of deepwater navigation on the Mississippi River, in ... [1 Related Articles]
Italian painter, who in his own time was ranked with Anton Raphael Mengs as a painter of historical subjects. Probably his portraits are now better known, as he invented the ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "amphibian") ...e.g., maxillopalatine; few or no caudal vertebrae; and reduced or usually no girdle or limb skeleton. 6 extant families and about 170 living species.Middle Jurassic to Lower ...
(from the article "Caudata") ...17 species in eastern North America, and Plethodontinae, with 25 genera (including Plethodon in North America and the bolitoglossines Bolitoglossa in Central and South America, Batrachoseps in western North America, ...
genus of freshwater red algae ranging in colour from violet to blue-green. The long, branched, threadlike filaments bear dense whorls of branchlets, resembling beads on a string. Spores are formed ...
(from the article "caprimulgiform") ...nesting of nightjars, frogmouths construct nests on the horizontal forks of trees. In the genus Podargus the nest is of twigs and other plant matter and the two or three ...
(from the article "steroid") ...avoid certain grasshoppers and butterflies that store cardenolides of the plants upon which they feed. The skin of the poison frog, Phyllobates aurotaenia, produces a deadly alkaloid, batrachotoxin (14), which ...
(from the article "Nakh languages") languages spoken in the Caucasus in southwestern Russia and in the Akhmeta district of Georgia. The Nakh language group includes Chechen, Ingush, and Bats (Tsova-Tushian). Because Bats has no written ...
a tactical military organization composed basically of a headquarters and two or more companies, batteries, or similar organizations and usually commanded by a field-grade officer. The term has been used ... [1 Related Articles]
Arab astronomer and mathematician who refined existing values for the length of the year and of the seasons, for the annual precession of the equinoxes, and for the inclination of ... [1 Related Articles]
(French: "beating"), in ballet, an extension of the leg to the front, side, or back, either repeatedly or as a single movement. Among representative types are battement tendu ("stretched beating"), ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "battement") ...until the point of the stretched foot barely touches the ground; grand battement ("large beating"), in which the leg is lifted to hip level or higher and held straight; battement ...
(from the article "battement") (French: "beating"), in ballet, an extension of the leg to the front, side, or back, either repeatedly or as a single movement. Among representative types are battement tendu ("stretched beating"), ...
(from the article "art conservation and restoration") To counteract both the shrinkage and the bowing (especially the latter), restorers in the past placed wooden strips called battens, or more complex structures called cradles, across the back of ...
mixture of flour and liquid with other ingredients, such as leavening agents, shortening, sugar, salt, eggs, and various flavouring materials, used to make baked products. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "baseball") ...nine fielders take up assigned positions in the playing field; one fielder, called the pitcher, stands on a mound in the centre of the diamond and faces the base designated ...
(from the article "dance") ...and above all in the aerial quality of the movement. Ballet dancers rarely move close to the ground, and they frequently seem to defy gravity through the height of their ...
ancient and medieval weapon consisting of a heavy timber, typically with a metal knob or point at the front. Such devices were used to batter down the gates or walls ... [1 Related Articles]
area on the south bank of the River Thames in the London borough of Wandsworth. It is known for its riverside park and its (now defunct) power station; in the ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Battersea") ...by road and rail bridges over the Thames. The Albert Bridge (1873), which is illuminated every evening, is an iron cantilever and suspension bridge of fanciful design. To its western ...
type of painted enamelware considered the finest of its kind to be produced in England during the mid-18th century. It is especially noted for the high quality of its transfer ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Battersea") In a zone that was previously known for its unruly carnivals lies Battersea Park, which was opened in 1853 on the Thames riverfront. The park incorporated an amusement park in ...
(from the article "baseball") The pitcher and catcher together are known as the battery or as batterymen. As a fielder, the pitcher may function as an emergency first baseman, and he fields bunts or ...
in electricity and electrochemistry, any of a class of devices that convert chemical energy directly into electrical energy. Although the term battery, in strict usage, designates an assembly of two ... [21 Related Articles]
(from the article "Burlington") ...for the Burling family, who were pioneer landowners. Settlement began in 1773 with the opening of a sawmill and shipbuilding business. Burlington was a military post, and during the War ...
(from the article "Charleston") The Battery (White Point Gardens), conspicuous for monuments and military relics, stands at the city's southern extremity, overlooking the rivers and the harbour. Fort Sumter National Monument, commemorating the first ...
(from the article "aesthetics") ...in the modern sense. The thesis that imitation is the common and distinguishing feature of the arts was put forward by James Harris in Three Treatises (1744) and subsequently made ...
(from the article "Alba Iulia") The city also has a 13th-century Roman Catholic cathedral (Romanesque), an 18th-century fortress, and the Batthyaneum Library, founded in 1794 by Ignatius Batthyany, a Catholic bishop, and containing many incunabula ...
statesman who during the revolution of 1848 was premier of the first Hungarian parliamentary government and a martyr for Magyar independence. [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "North Africa") The dynasty of Battus ended about 440 BC with the establishment of a democratic constitution like that of Athens, and the general prosperity of Cyrenaica continued through the 4th century ...
