(from the article "Churchill, Sir Winston") In the autumn of 1922 the insurgent Turks appeared to be moving toward a forcible reoccupation of the Dardanelles neutral zone, which was protected by a small British force at ...
(Jan. 5, 1809), pact signed between the Ottoman Empire and Great Britain at Canak (now Canakkale, Tur.) that affirmed the principle that no warships of any power should enter the ... [1 Related Articles]
city, northwestern Turkey, at the mouth of Koca River (the ancient Rhodius River), on the Asian side of the Dardanelles. Originally a 15th-century Ottoman fortress called Kale-i Sultaniye, it had ...
(from the article "Pakistan") ...Later, large areas of uncultivated land in the Indus River plain of the southern Punjab were irrigated by canals and populated by colonists drawn from other parts of the province. ...
(from the article "Gauthey, Emiland-Marie") French engineer, best known for his construction of the Charolais Canal, or Canal du Centre, which united the Loire and Saone rivers in France, thus providing a water route from ...
(from the article "canals and inland waterways") ...32 wheels run on four rails, and two sets of 14 cables connect the tanks to the two concrete counterweights. Improvements have been made to routes connecting the Seine with ...
(from the article "Midi Canal") ...in 1808, the Midi Canal was isolated from the rest of France's canal system. Between 1850 and 1856, the western end of the canal was extended by 193 km (120 ...
(from the article "fjord") ...arm of the sea, commonly extending far inland, that results from marine inundation of a glaciated valley. Many fjords are astonishingly deep; Sogn Fjord in Norway is 1,308 m (4,290 ...
(from the article "Media and Publishing") Canal Plus Netherlands, which offered digital pay-TV via satellite, cable, and digital video broadcasting, was bought from Vivendi by Dutch firms Greenfield Capital Partners and Airbridge Investments. Britain's biggest commercial ...
(from the article "Goldstein, Eugen") ...1881. His career was spent at the Potsdam Observatory. He was primarily interested in electrical discharges in moderate to high vacuums. In 1886 he discovered what he termed Kanalstrahlen, or ...
historic administrative entity in Panama over which the United States exercised jurisdictional rights from 1903 to 1979. It was a strip of land 10 miles (16 km) wide along the ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Balboa Heights") ...overlooking Balboa city. It is the administrative headquarters for the Panama Canal Company, and the Transisthmian Railway. Murals in the administration building depict the canal's construction. The Canal Zone Library ...
(from the article "Italian literature") ...the writers often consciously or unconsciously introduced elements from their own Northern Italian dialects, thus creating a linguistic hybrid. Writers of important prose works, such as the Venetian Martino da ...
Spanish statesman and prime minister whose anticlerical "Padlock Law" forbade the establishment of new religious orders and introduced obligatory military service. [1 Related Articles]
Italian topographical painter whose masterful expression of atmosphere in his detailed views (vedute) of Venice and London and of English country homes influenced succeeding generations of landscape artists. [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "digestive system disease") Acute canalicular (cholestatic) hepatitis is most commonly caused by certain drugs, such as psychopharmacologics, antibiotics, and anabolic steroids or, at times, by hepatitis viruses. The symptoms are generally those of ...
(from the article "digestive system, human") ...endothelium, probably for the transport of lymph. On neighbouring surfaces the hepatocytes are bound to one another by dense, tight junctions. These are perforated by small channels, called canaliculi, that ...
(from the article "appetizer") ...characteristic "dryness" of which allegedly stimulates the appetite, are customarily served with appetizers. Hors d'oeuvres, small portions of savoury foods, often highly seasoned, and canapes, small pieces of bread, crackers, ...
(from the article "airplane") ...the engine and propeller facing with the line of flight is called a tractor type; if the engine and the propeller face opposite the line of flight, it is a ...
(from the article "Frank, Jacob") ...of the rabbinate and claimed that the Talmud, the rabbinical compendium of law and commentary, should be discarded as blasphemous. They were also partly responsible for the revival of the ...
(from the article "Andean peoples") ...frequently more is known about the pre-Inca occupants than about Cuzco rule. Inca power was broken and decapitated within 40 years of 1532. The ethnic groups, many of which (like ...
(from the article "Guanche and Canario") any of the aboriginal peoples inhabiting, respectively, the western and eastern groups of the Canary Islands when first encountered by the conquering Spaniards at the beginning of the 15th century. ...
German admiral, head of military intelligence (Abwehr) under the Nazi regime and a key participant in the resistance of military officers to Adolf Hitler.
(species Serinus canaria), popular cage bird of the family Carduelidae (order Passeriformes). It owes its coloration and sustained vocal powers to 400 years of selective breeding by humans. Varieties called ... [4 Related Articles]
(species Tropaeolum peregrinum), annual climbing herb, of the family Tropaeolaceae, native to northwestern South America and introduced to other regions as a cultivated garden plant. It grows to a height ... [1 Related Articles]
part of a clockwise-setting ocean-current system in the North Atlantic Ocean. It branches south from the North Atlantic Current and flows southwestward along the northwest coast of Africa as far ... [4 Related Articles]
comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Spain, consisting of an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, the nearest island being 67 miles (108 km) off the northwest African mainland. ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "London") ...Street, to the west, that had been vacated by newspaper publishers in their shift from hot-type production to computer typesetting. The most spectacular secondary centre was the business city of ...
(from the article "San Juan River") ...and the Pacific. The San Juan River has been the source of several boundary disputes between Nicaragua and Costa Rica regarding Costa Rica's use of the river. The conflict dates ...
card game of the rummy family, developed in Buenos Aires, Arg., and Montevideo, Uruguay, in the 1940s and popular in the United States and Great Britain from the 1950s on. ... [2 Related Articles]
mountain range on the Planalto Central (Brazilian Highlands) in western Minas Gerais estado (state), southeastern Brazil. Extending 150 miles (240 km) from the Goias state border in the north to ...
(from the article "Canaveral, Cape") The northern part of the wildlife refuge overlaps Canaveral National Seashore, established in 1975. The national seashore covers an area of 90 square miles (233 square km) between New Smyrna ...
cape and city in Brevard county, east-central Florida, U.S. The cape is a seaward extension of Canaveral Island, a barrier island running southeastward along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. ... [4 Related Articles]
federal capital of the Commonwealth of Australia. It occupies part of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) in southeastern Australia and is about 150 miles (240 km) southwest of Sydney. Canberra ... [10 Related Articles]
(from the article "Australian Capital Territory") ...basin, began in 1962, followed by Belconnen in 1966, Tuggeranong in 1973, and Gungahlin in 1990. Further urban development has been limited by topographical and environmental constraints. Under the Canberra ...
(from the article "Australian Capital Territory") The Canberra Institute of Technology provides a wide range of trade and paraprofessional education. The University of Canberra (UC), the Australian National University (ANU), the University College at the Australian ...
(from the article "Modoc and Klamath") ...in which about 80 warriors and their families retreated to the California Lava Beds, a land of complex ravines and caves; there they mounted an effective resistance. After the murder ...
American journalist (b. July 27, 1924, Chicago, Ill.-d. Oct. 15, 2000, New York, N.Y.), as senior film critic for the New York Times, delivered thousands of highly influential reviews and ...
(from the article "Ross, Betsy") ...1773, she was disowned by the Society of Friends. Her husband was killed in 1776 while serving in the militia, and Ross took over the upholstering business he had founded. ...
lively and risque dance of French or Algerian origin, usually performed onstage by four women. Known for its high kicks in unison that exposed both the petticoat and the leg, ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Silurian Period") ...Arabia (Tabuk Formation) and throughout large parts of North Africa. In South America, which was fused with Africa during the Silurian Period, glaciation persisted well into the Wenlock Epoch. The ...
(from the article "typography") ...of calligraphy. Among them are Lutetia, a modern roman and italic of great distinction; Romulus, a family of text types that includes a sloped roman letter instead of the conventional ...
in calligraphy, script that in the 16th century became the vehicle of the New Learning throughout Christendom. It developed during the preceding century out of the antica ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "diplomatics") ...or cancellarii (higher, Roman provincial officials of the 5th and 6th centuries, who stood at the barriers, cancelli, of the council rooms), but, by the 9th century, the title of ...
(from the article "Rome") The three architecturally celebrated palaces in this palace-studded quarter are the Cancelleria, the Farnese, and the Massimo alle Colonne. Because all the pertinent documents were destroyed in the Spanish sack ...
light, porous bone enclosing numerous large spaces that give a honeycombed or spongy appearance. The bone matrix, or framework, is organized into a three-dimensional latticework of bony processes, called trabeculae, ... [2 Related Articles]
(Latin: Crab), in astronomy, zodiacal constellation lying between Leo and Gemini at about 8 hours 25 minutes right ascension (the coordinate of the celestial sphere analogous to longitude on the ...
group of more than 100 distinct diseases characterized by the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body. Cancer affects one in every three persons born in developed countries and ... [89 Related Articles]
latitudes approximately 23°27' N and 23°27' S of the terrestrial Equator, respectively. These latitudes correspond to the northernmost and southernmost declinations of the Sun's ecliptic (q.v.) to the celestial equator. ...
(from the article "jai alai") The modern three-walled playing court, or cancha, averages about 53.3 m long by 15.2 m wide and is 12.2 m or more high. The walls and the floor are made ...
town located in northwestern Guinea-Bissau. Canchungo lies between the Cacheu and Mansoa rivers in an area of coastal lowlands and is a major producer of oil-palm vegetable oil for export. ...
(Portuguese: "songbook"), collection of Portuguese lyrics (cantigas) dating from the 12th century. The earliest examples of Portuguese-Galician poetry, composed from the 12th to the 14th century, were collected during the ...
rare feldspathoid mineral, an aluminosilicate that contains sodium and calcium carbonate and occurs as an alteration product of nepheline and feldspar in nepheline-syenite and related rocks. It also is found ... [1 Related Articles]
city and adjacent island resort area, Quintana Roo estado (state), southeastern Mexico. Ciudad Cancun (Cancun city) is located on the northeastern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, facing ... [1 Related Articles]
class of people in India generally considered to be outcastes and untouchables. According to the ancient law code the Manu-smrti, the class originated from the union of a Brahmin (the ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Murad II") During Murad's reign the office of grand vizier (chief minister) came to be dominated by the Candarli family. The Janissary corps (elite forces) gained in prominence, and the hereditary Turkish ...
(from the article "Mehmed II") ...eager to take advantage of the accession of a child to the Ottoman throne-succeeded in organizing a crusade. Edirne was the scene of violent rivalry between the powerful grand vizier ...
(from the article "kaziasker") The title was created by Sultan Murad I (reigned 1360-89), who appointed Candarli Kara Halil as the first kaziasker. In that office he accompanied the army in campaigns and dispensed ...
(from the article "Gyges") According to all the ancient sources, Gyges came to the throne after slaying King Candaules and marrying his queen, but there are several versions of the event itself. Herodotus wrote ...
unit of luminous intensity in the International System of Units (SI), defined as the luminous intensity in a given direction of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "ceremonial object") ...by acolytes (light bearers). The Easter (Paschal) candle, made of beeswax around a wood core, had a candle holder appropriate to its size. At Westminster, in England, during the 14th ...
Spanish-born architect, designer of reinforced-concrete (ferroconcrete) structures distinguished by thin, curved shells that are extremely strong and unusually economical. [1 Related Articles]
in architecture, a decorative motif derived from the pedestal or shaft used to support a lamp or candle. The Romans, developing Hellenistic precedents, made candelabra of great decorative richness. Two ...
(from the article "Uganda") ...is heaviest in the south and typically becomes wooded savanna (grassy parkland) in central and northern Uganda. Where conditions are less favourable, dry acacia woodland, dotted with the occasional candelabra ...
(from the article "fungus") ...lichen; included in subclass Ostropomycetidae; examples of genera include Coccotrema, Icmadophila, Ochrolechia, and Pertusaria.Forms lichens; commonly grows on rocks ...
hard, yellowish tan to brown wax found as a coating on candelilla shrubs, Euphorbia antisyphilitica or Euphorbia cerifera, which grow wild in northern Mexico and Texas. Candelilla wax resembles carnauba ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Southeast Asian arts") In Indonesia, the word candi refers to any religious structure based on an Indianized shrine with a pyramidal tower. This was the essential form on which virtually ...
demon-destroying form of the Hindu goddess Sakti, particularly popular in eastern India. She is known by various names, such as Mahamaya, or Abhaya (Sanskrit: "She Who is Without Fear"), and ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Aquileia") ...adopting the title of patriarch in defiance of the Pope. The see remained schismatic when the patriarch Paolino I fled to Grado (the earlier foreport of Aquileia) after the Lombard ...
(from the article "Minimum number of nucleotide differences in genes coding for cytochrome c in 20 different organisms") ...but not present in human cells. Flucytosine inhibits RNA and DNA synthesis. When administered parenterally, 5-FC is used primarily in the treatment of systemic cryptococcal and Candida ...
(from the article "candidiasis") infectious disease produced by the yeastlike fungus Candida albicans and closely related species. A common inhabitant of the mouth, vagina, and intestinal tract, Candida ordinarily causes no ill effects, except ...
poet whose love songs addressed to the washerwoman Rami were popular in the medieval period and were a source of inspiration to Vaisnava and Sahajiya religious movements that explored parallels ... [2 Related Articles]
infectious disease produced by the yeastlike fungus Candida albicans and closely related species. A common inhabitant of the mouth, vagina, and intestinal tract, Candida ordinarily causes no ill effects, except ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "Brazilian literature") ...experiences in the New World. But Coutinho also underscores that Brazilian literature was born under the influence of the Baroque through the writings of Jesuits such as Anchieta. In this ...
(from the article "Origen") ...this free lay teacher and especially angry when Origen was allowed to preach at Caesarea Palestinae. In about 229-230 Origen went to Greece to dispute with another follower of Valentinus, ...
(from the article "food preservation") Candied and glaceed fruits are made by slow impregnation of the fruit with syrup until the concentration of sugar in the tissue is sufficiently high to prevent growth of spoilage ...
(Vandellia cirrhosa), scaleless, parasitic catfish of the family Trichomycteridae found in the Amazon River region. A translucent, eellike fish about 2.5 cm (1 inch) long, the candiru feeds on blood ... [1 Related Articles]
light source now mostly used for decorative and ceremonial purposes, consisting of wax, tallow, or similar slow-burning material, commonly in cylindrical form but made in many fanciful designs, enclosing and ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "candlefish") species of smelt of the genus Thaleichthys (q.v.).characteristicssmeltAmong related Pacific species are the rainbow herr
in the Christian church, festival on February 2, commemorating the occasion when the Virgin Mary, in obedience to Jewish law, went to the Temple in Jerusalem both to be purified ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "tung tree") ...tung tree grows to a height of 7.5 m (25 feet). It has large leaves, lobed or unlobed, attractive white flowers with reddish centres, and apple-sized globular fruit. The tung ...
bowling game played on a standard tenpin lane with slender, cylindrical pins about 15 inches (38 cm) tall and tapered at both ends. The ball is 4.5 inches in diameter ...
stand designed to hold a candlestick, often composed of a column rising from tripod legs and supporting a circular or polygonal tray. Stands of this type evolved from medieval metal ...
(from the article "girandole") elaborate wall bracket incorporating one or more candleholders and frequently a mirror to reflect the light. An object of luxury, it was usually embellished with carving and gilding. Although the ...
(from the article "senna") ...of yellow flowers. Coffee senna, or styptic weed (C. occidentalis), native to North and South America, is widely grown in the Old World tropics for its cathartic and laxative properties. ...
(from the article "Connecticut") ...on the southern slope of Mount Frissell in the northwest corner. It is drained by one major river, the Housatonic, and numerous tributaries. The state is dotted with lakes, the ...
egg-grading process in which the egg is inspected before a penetrating light in a darkened room for signs of fertility, defects, or freshness. First used to check embryo development in ...
Swiss botanist who introduced new methods of investigation and analysis to phytogeography, a branch of biology that deals with the geographic distribution of plants.
Swiss botanist who established scientific structural criteria for determining natural relations among plant genera. After Charles Darwin's introduction of the principles of organic evolution, Candolle's criteria provided the empirical foundation ...
(from the article "Uruguay") ...in Argentina. One of the most famous tangos, La cumparsita (1917), was written by the Uruguayan composer Gerardo Matos Rodriguez. The candombe is a ...
(from the article "African music") ...But the music and dance of these areas became accessible indirectly, as European observers saw African captives playing musical instruments in New World countries. In Brazil the music of the ...
(reigned c. 321-c. 297 BC), founder of the Maurya dynasty and the first emperor to unify most of India under one administration. Credited with saving the country from maladministration and ... [7 Related Articles]
(reigned c. 380-c. 415), powerful emperor of northern India, son of Samudra Gupta and grandson of Candra Gupta I. During his reign, art, architecture, and sculpture flourished, and the cultural ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Gahadavala Dynasty") ...discovered in Uttar Pradesh and issued from Varanasi. The dynastic power became gradually consolidated in the period of the first three rulers: Yasovi-Graha, Mahicandra, and Candradeva (c. 1089-1103). By the ...
principal representative of the Prasangika school of Buddhist logic. Candrakirti wrote the famous commentary the Prasannapada ("The Clear Worded") on the thought of the Buddhist sage Nagarjuna. Although there were ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "South Asian arts") ...Vishnu temple at Deogarh, built entirely of stone. The pyramidal superstructure of each consists essentially of piled-up cornice moldings of diminishing size, which are decorated primarily with candrasala (ogee arch) ...
(from the article "India") ..."son of a king"). The name was assumed by royal families that claimed Kshatriya status and linked their lineage either with the Suryavamshi (solar) or the Candravamshi (lunar), the royal ...
