city, Lower Saxony Land (state), northwestern Germany. It lies near the Ems River estuary and the North Sea coast of Ostfriesland (East Frisia). Founded about 800, it ...
grass-green variety of beryl (q.v.) that is highly valued as a gemstone. The name comes indirectly from the Greek smaragdos, a name that seems to have been given to a ...
town, central Queensland, Australia, on the Nogoa River, at the junction of the Capricorn and Gregory highways, 172 miles (276 km) west of Rockhampton. P.F. MacDonald, an early settler, established ...
in evolutionary theory, the rise of a system that cannot be predicted or explained from antecedent conditions. George Henry Lewes, the 19th-century English philosopher of science, distinguished between resultants and ...
private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. It is a specialized college with a focus on communication and the performing arts. The college offers master's degree programs ...
British band known for its role in the development of art rock during the 1970s. The members were Keith Emerson (b. Nov. 1, 1944, Todmorden, Lancashire, Eng., ), Greg Lake ...
granular rock consisting of a mixture of the mineral corundum (aluminum oxide, Al2O3) and iron oxides such as magnetite (Fe3O4) or hematite (Fe2O3). Long used as an abrasive or polishing ...
any of the Frenchmen, at first mostly aristocrats, who fled France in the years following the French Revolution of 1789. From their places of exile in other countries, many emigres ...
regione, north-central Italy. It comprises the provincie of Bologna, Ferrara, Forli, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Ravenna, Reggio nell'Emilia, and Rimini. The region extends from the Adriatic Sea (east) almost across the ...
American political program and donor network dedicated to identifying and helping to elect to political office Democratic women candidates who favour the right of women to choose to have an ...
physician, explorer, and governor of the Equatorial province of Egyptian Sudan who contributed vastly to the knowledge of African geography, natural history, ethnology, and languages.
power of government to take private property for public use without the owner's consent. Constitutional provisions in most countries require the payment of compensation to the owner. In countries with ...
poet who transformed both the form and content of Romanian poetry, creating a school of poetry that strongly influenced Romanian writers and poets in the late 19th and early 20th ...
("commander," or "prince"), in the Muslim Middle East, a military commander, governor of a province, or a high military official. Under the Umayyads, the emir exercised administrative and financial powers, ...
in astronomy, a bright, diffuse light sometimes associated with supernova remnants or with stars whose temperatures exceed 20,000 K. The excitation process necessary to provide observed optical and radio energies ...
in automotive engineering, means employed to limit the discharge of noxious gases from the internal-combustion engine. There are four main sources of these gases: the engine exhaust, the crankcase, the ...
English Presbyterian minister and writer who first publicly adopted the name Unitarian to designate a liberal, rational approach to God as a single person (as opposed to Christian belief in ...
in Japanese Buddhist mythology, the overlord of hell (Jigoku), corresponding to the Indian deity Yama. He judges the souls of men, while his sister judges the souls of women. The ...
duke of Savoy who recovered most of the lands his father Charles III had lost to France and Spain. A skilled soldier and a wily diplomat, he was also an ...
gemeente (municipality), Drenthe provincie (province), northeastern Netherlands, on the Hondsrug ridge. It was a centre of the fen colonies (veenkolonien) established in the 19th century to convert the surrounding peat ...
cow's-milk cheese of Switzerland made by a process that originated in the Emme River valley (Emmental) in the canton of Bern. The essential process is followed in most other dairying ...
German nun and mystic whose visions were recorded in The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (1833), by the German Romantic writer Clemens Brentano.
lawyer in Ireland and, later, in the United States, a leader of the nationalist Society of United Irishmen, and elder brother of the Irish revolutionary Robert Emmet.
town, Frederick county, northern Maryland, U.S., near the Pennsylvania border, 23 miles (37 km) north-northeast of Frederick. Settled in the 1780s as Poplar Fields or Silver Fancy, it was renamed ...
any of the annual presentations made for outstanding achievement in television in the United States. The name Emmy derives from Immy, a nickname for image orthicon, a camera tube used ...
any substance that softens the skin by slowing evaporation of water. Sesame, almond, and olive oils were used in ancient Egypt; beeswax, spermaceti, almond oil, borax, and rosewater in Greece; ...
private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. It is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The university consists of Emory College (a liberal arts institution), Oxford College ...
a distinct feeling or quality of consciousness, such as joy or sadness, that reflects the personal significance of an emotion-arousing event. In modern times the subject of emotion has become ...
town, northeastern KwaZulu/Natal province, South Africa, directly northwest of Richard's Bay on the Indian Ocean and northeast of Durban. The beginnings of the modern settlement can be traced to 1851, ...
the ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. It is a term coined in the early 20th century, equivalent to the ...
title designating the sovereigns of the ancient Roman Empire and, by derivation, various later European rulers; it is also applied loosely to certain non-European monarchs.
drama in eight scenes by Eugene O'Neill, produced in 1920 and published in 1921. The Emperor Jones was the playwright's first foray into Expressionist writing.
("sensitivity"), important movement occurring in German instrumental music during the early 18th century and characterized by an emphasis upon the expression of a variety of deeply felt emotions within a ...
abnormal distension of the lungs with air. The air ducts and the air sacs, or alveoli, are distended and there is destruction of the partitions between alveoli and loss of ...
in Roman law, leases granted either for a long term or in perpetuity with most of the rights of full ownership, the only stipulation being that an annual rent be ...
steel-framed 102-story building completed in New York City in 1931. It rises to a height of 1,250 feet (381 m) and was the first skyscraper of such great vertical dimension. ...
in philosophy, the attitude that beliefs are to be accepted and acted upon only if they first have been confirmed by actual experience. This broad definition accords with the derivation ...
town, Firenze (Florence) provincia, Toscana (Tuscany) regione, north-central Italy, on the lower Arno River. During the medieval Florentine wars, Empoli was the scene of the Ghibelline congress of 1260, where ...
city, seat (1860) of Lyon county, east-central Kansas, U.S. It lies between the Cottonwood and Neosho rivers. Established in 1857 by a town company whose charter prohibited the sale and ...
public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Emporia, Kan., U.S. It consists of the schools of Business and of Library and Information Management, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, ...
in mysticism and religion, a state of "pure consciousness" in which the mind has been emptied of all particular objects and images; also, the undifferentiated reality (a world without distinctions ...
accumulation of pus in a cavity of the body, usually in the pleura, which are the serous membranes covering the lungs. Empyema is usually the result of a microbial, usually ...
river, northwestern Germany. It rises on the south slope of the Teutoburger Forest and flows generally northwest and north through the Lander of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony to the ...
report of an encounter between King William I of Prussia and the French ambassador; the telegram was sent from Ems (Bad Ems) in the Prussian Rhineland on July 13, 1870, ...
German theologian, lecturer, editor, and polemicist who is remembered chiefly for his long public controversy with Martin Luther at the onset of the Reformation.
region along the lower Ems River, in Lower Saxony Land (state), northwestern Germany. It lies on both sides of the river, from the town of Lingen to the Ems estuary. ...
flightless bird of Australia and second largest living bird: the emu is more than 1.5 m (5 feet) tall and may weigh more than 45 kilograms (100 pounds). The emu ...
any of the three species of the Australian genus Stipiturus, of the songbird family Maluridae. In these tiny birds the narrow, cocked tail consists of six wispy feathers-in quality, like ...
in foods, any of numerous chemical additives that encourage the suspension of one liquid in another, as in the mixture of oil and water in margarine, shortening, ice cream, and ...
in physical chemistry, mixture of two or more liquids in which one is present as droplets, of microscopic or ultramicroscopic size, distributed throughout the other. Emulsions are formed from the ...
family of hard-shelled turtles native to both the Old and New Worlds, primarily in the Northern Hemisphere. The emydid turtles comprise more than 25 genera and 85 living species-roughly one-half ...
oasis, archaeological site, and kibbutz (communal settlement) in southeastern Israel on the west bank of the Dead Sea. Because of its spring in an otherwise totally arid country, the site ...
in the decorative arts, technique of enamelwork in which the design is incised on rock crystal or glass paste and the incisions lined first with gold and then with opaque ...
in anatomy, the hardest tissue of the body, covering part or all of the crown of the tooth in mammals. Enamel, when mature, consists predominantly of apatite crystals containing calcium ...
portrait on a small opaque, usually white, enamel surface annealed to gold or copper plate and painted with metallic oxides. Since the pigments used are not vitreous enamels, this is ...
technique of decoration whereby metal objects or surfaces are given a vitreous glaze that is fused onto the surface by intense heat to create a brilliantly coloured decorative effect. It ...
(from Greek enantios, "opposite"; morphe, "form"), also called Antimer, or OpticalAntipode, either of a pair of objects related to each other as the right hand is ...
sulfosalt mineral, copper arsenic sulfide (Cu3AsS4), that is occasionally an important ore of copper. It occurs as heavy, metallic-gray crystals and masses in veins and replacement deposits. Economically valuable deposits ...
village, Andorra, on a headstream of the Riu (river) Valira. Its agricultural economy is supplemented by tourism, especially skiing. Encamp has a broadcasting transmitter of Radio Andorra. Above the village ...
city, southeastern Paraguay. The city was founded in 1614 on the west bank of the Upper Parana River, opposite Posadas, Arg., to which it is linked by a bridge completed ...
