city, northwestern Bihar state, northeastern India. An agricultural trade centre, it also manufactures brass, metalware, and leather goods. The headquarters of the Bettiah Raj estate, established in the 17th century, ...
flirtatious, seductive cartoon character of 1930s animated short films produced by Max Fleischer and directed by his brother Dave. Modeled on the sexy, coy flapper of the 1920s, in particular ...
city, south-central Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It is a major road and agricultural trade centre; sawmilling, oilseed milling, essential-oil distilling, and silk growing are its chief industries. Formerly called ...
birch family of flowering plants, usually placed in the order Fagales; some authorities, however, have placed the family in the order Betulales. The family contains six genera and 120-150 species. ...
("Containing Reeds"), river in northern India, rising in the Vindhya Range just north of Hoshangabad. It flows generally northeast through Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh states and empties into the ...
prime minister and foreign minister of Saxony (1858-66) and of the Austrian Empire (1867-71), who negotiated the Ausgleich, or "Compromise" (1867), establishing the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, and who also helped ...
French publisher and editor who directed Le Monde from the paper's founding in 1944 until 1969. Under his direction, Le Monde became an independent, self-supporting, and highly prestigious daily with ...
German avant-garde sculptor and performance artist whose works, characterized by unorthodox materials and ritualistic activity, stirred much controversy.
controversial figure in post-World War II British politics and one of the finest orators of the time. To achieve mastery as a speaker, he had first to overcome a speech ...
economist who helped shape Britain's post-World War II welfare state policies and institutions through his Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942), also known as the Beveridge Report.
town, unitary authority of East Riding of Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England, just north of Kingston upon Hull. The town of Beverley grew in close association with a monastery ...
city, Essex county, northeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It is situated on Beverly Harbor, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, just north of Salem. Settled about 1626, it was named for Beverley, ...
city, western Los Angeles county, California, U.S., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles. The original inhabitants of the region, the Tongva (or Gabrielino) Indians, first made contact with ...
British trade unionist and statesman, one of the most powerful British union leaders in the first half of the 20th century. He also proved to be a forceful minister of ...
runic monument in Cumbria, Eng., dating from the late 7th or early 8th century. Although the top of the cross has been lost, a weather-beaten, 15-foot (4.5-metre) shaft remains, showing ...
town, Rother district, administrative county of East Sussex, historic county of Sussex, England, just west of Hastings on the English Channel. The coastal resort dates from the 1880s, but the ...
outer borough of London, on the eastern perimeter of the metropolis. It is part of the historic county of Kent, on the south bank of the River Thames. Bexley extends ...
title among Turkish peoples traditionally given to rulers of small tribal groups, to members of ruling families, and to important officials. Under the Ottoman Empire a bey was the governor ...
American quilt designer, the first to create a line of fabrics especially geared to the needs of quilters. In the 1980s she became a major figure in the resurgence of ...
type of steam locomotive characterized by tremendous hauling capacity and light axle loads. This British-built locomotive had two articulated pivoting chassis, each with its own wheels, cylinders, and water tanks. ...
town, southeastern Guinea, western Africa, in the Guinea Highlands. The town was founded by Dyula traders in the early 13th century as a collecting point for slaves and kola nuts ...
(Prince) Russian foreign minister who was closely linked with the major diplomatic affairs of Catherine II the Great, including her idea of reestablishing the Byzantine Empire under her grandson Constantine.
city, Herault departement, Languedoc-Roussillon region, southern France, 9 miles (14 km) from the Mediterranean Sea, on a hilly site overlooking the Orb River where it is intersected by the Canal ...
trick-and-meld card game related to pinochle, both of which derive from the 19th-century French game of binocle, itself a development of the card game sixty-six.
American entrepreneur who played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, Inc., an online merchant of books (and later of ...
("Practical Vows of Samantabhadra"), a Mahayana ("Greater Vehicle") Buddhist text that has also made an important contribution to the Tantric Buddhism of Tibet. Closely related to the Avatamsaka-sutra ("Discourse on ...
city, central Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state, southern India. It lies along the Bhadra River, near the Baba Budan Range. The proximity of iron, manganese, and limestone deposits, along with the ...
city, eastern Bihar state, northeastern India, just south of the Ganges River. The city has major road and rail connections and trades in agricultural produce and cloth. Major industries include ...
(Sanskrit: "Song of God"), one of the greatest and most beautiful of the Hindu scriptures. It forms part of Book VI of the Indian epic the Mahabharata ("Great Epic of ...
(Sanskrit: "One Devoted to Bhagavat [Lord]"), member of the earliest Hindu sect of which there is any record, representing the beginnings of theistic, devotional worship and of modern Vaisnavism (worship ...
(Sanskrit: "Ancient Stories of the Lord"), the most celebrated text of a variety of Hindu sacred literature in Sanskrit that is known as the Puranas, and the specific text that ...
river in West Bengal state, northeastern India, forming the western boundary of the Ganges (Ganga) Delta. A distributary of the Ganges, it leaves that river just northeast of Jangipur, flows ...
("brotherhood"), important instrument of caste self-government in India; the bhaiband is the council formed by the heads of families that belong to the same lineage in a particular area, thus ...
the healing Buddha, widely worshiped in Tibet, China, and Japan. According to popular belief in those countries, some illnesses are effectively cured by merely touching his image or calling out ...
town, central Nepal, in the Nepal Valley, southeast of Kathmandu. Said to have been founded by Raja Ananda Malla in 865, it was for 200 years the most important settlement ...
(from Sanskrit bhaj, "to allot," "to revere"), in Hinduism, a devotional movement emphasizing the intense emotional attachment and love of a devotee toward his personal god. Bhakti assumes a dualistic ...
Indian religious leader and author who in 1965 founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, commonly known as the Hare Krishna movement.
town, northeastern Myanmar (Burma), on the Irrawaddy River at the head of navigation. The town stretches along the river's east bank in a series of villages approached through a narrow ...
any of the units, usually 8,000 syllables in length, into which Pali Buddhist texts were divided in ancient times for purposes of recitation. The system developed as a means of ...
town, northeastern Maharashtra state, western India, on the Wainganga River, east of Nagpur. As a fording place across the river, it developed as a commercial centre; industries include the manufacture ...
plateau in Madhya Pradesh state, north-central India, in the South Central Highlands. Having an area of about 4,000 square miles (10,000 square km), it constitutes a transitional zone between the ...
most popular folk dance of the Punjab (India and Pakistan), performed on all festive occasions, particularly at sowing and harvest celebrations. The brightly dressed villagers dance vigorously in a large ...
town, eastern Rajasthan state, northwestern India. It lies 34 miles (55 km) west of Agra. The town, which was the capital of the former princely state of Bharatpur, was founded ...
former state of India ruled by Hindu princes of the Jat clan, or caste, situated in east Rajputana, India, lying to the south of Delhi and bordering on the Mathura ...
Sanskrit poet who was the author of Kiratarjuniya ("Arjuna and the Mountain Man"), one of the classical Sanskrit epics classified as a mahakavya ("great poem"). His poetry, characterized by its ...
village, 120 miles (190 km) southwest of Allahabad, in northeastern Madhya Pradesh state, India. Bharhut is famous for the ruins of a Buddhist stupa (shrine) discovered there by Major General ...
early Indian sculpture of the Sunga period (mid-2nd century BC) that decorated the great stupa, or relic mound, of Bharhut, in Madhya Pradesh state, now largely destroyed. Most of the ...
Hindu philosopher and poet-grammarian, author of the Vakyapadiya ("Words in a Sentence"), regarded as one of the most significant works on the philosophy of language, earning for him a place ...
(Sanskrit: "that which has to be discussed"), in Indian philosophy, a long commentary on a basic text of a system or school, (shorter commentaries are called vakyas, or vrttis). Bhasyas ...
city, south-central Punjab state, northwestern India. The city is a major rail hub, with lines converging on it from other Indian states and from nearby Pakistan. It is a trade ...
town, southeastern West Bengal state, northeastern India, just east of the Hooghly River. Connected by road and rail with Calcutta, it is a major jute-, cotton-, and paper-milling centre. Bhatpara ...
Sanskrit poet and grammarian, author of the influential Bhattikavya, which is a mahakavya ("great poem"), or classical epic composed of a variable number of ...
in Buddhism, a representation of the endless cycle of rebirths governed by the law of dependent origination (pratitya-samutpada), shown as a wheel clutched by a monster, symbolizing impermanence.
Indian dramatist and poet, whose dramas, written in Sanskrit and noted for their suspense and vivid characterization, rival the outstanding plays of Kalidasa.
town, south-central Gujarat state, west-central India, on the western shore of the Gulf of Cambay of the Arabian Sea. Founded in 1723, it has become an important commercial and industrial ...
(Sanskrit: "identity and difference"), an important branch of Vedanta, an orthodox system of Hindu philosophy. Its principal author was Bhaskara, probably a younger contemporary of the great thinker Sankara of ...
in Buddhism, one who has renounced worldly life and joined the mendicant and contemplative community. While individuals may enter the monastic life at an early age-some renunciate communities include children ...
