(from the article "China") ...about 1600 to 1046 BC. (Some scholars date the Shang from the mid-18th to the late 12th century BC.) One must, however, distinguish Shang as an archaeological term from Shang ...
(from the article "Egypt, ancient") ...of much in archaeological method, but he was later surpassed by George Andrew Reisner, who excavated for American institutions from 1899 to 1937. The greatest late 19th-century Egyptologist was Adolf ...
king of the Ostrogoths, the ruler of a vast empire in Ukraine. Although the exact limits of his territory are obscure, it evidently stretched south of the Pripet Marshes between ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Salomon, Erich") ...carpentry and zoology. He received a doctorate in law from the University of Munich, but he practiced law only briefly. His career as a freelance photographer began in 1928, when ...
gemeente (municipality), central Netherlands, near Veluwe Lake, comprising the villages of Ermelo, Nunspeet, and Elspeet. First mentioned in 855, it has ruins of the monastery of the Knights of St. ...
any of several northern weasel (q.v.) species of the genus Mustela, family Mustelidae, called ermine especially during the winter-white colour phase; this white coat is the ermine of the fur ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "heraldry") ...(silver), one of the colours gules (red), azure (blue), vert (green), purpure (purple), or sable (black), or one of the furs ermine (a white field with black spots), ermines (a ...
any of several species of insects belonging to the family Yponomeutidae (order Lepidoptera). Ermine moths are widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere. The hairy caterpillars feed on dandelions and other ... [1 Related Articles]
major Roman road in England between London and York. It ran north from Bishopsgate, London, through Ware, Royston, Godmanchester, and Ancaster to Lincoln (Lindum) and thence to York (Eboracum), crossing ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "French literature") ...(1990; To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life). The quality and variety of women's writing was outstanding. Social issues were addressed in the autobiographical fiction ...
(from the article "Fermanagh") ...in 1973. It is bounded by the districts of Dungannon and Omagh to the northeast and by the Republic of Ireland to the west, south, and east. The district lies ...
lake in Fermanagh district (established 1973), formerly County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is 40 miles (64 km) long and has an average width of 5 miles (8 km) and a ...
(from the article "Austria") ...drawn into the disputes of the Investiture Controversy, in which Pope Gregory VII and King Henry IV (later Holy Roman emperor) fought for control of the church in Germany. In ...
duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (as Ernest III) from 1806 and then, from 1826, duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. He was the uncle of Queen Victoria and the father of her husband, Prince Albert. [1 Related Articles]
grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1892 until his abdication in 1918, at the end of World War I. His father was the grand duke Louis IV, whom he succeeded on ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Bach, Johann Sebastian") ...by 1730. It was temporarily dispelled by the tact of the new rector, Johann Matthias Gesner, who admired Bach and had known him at Weimar; but Gesner stayed only until ...
(from the article "Germany") ...on to his title, thus threatening to give the majority vote in the College of Electors to the Protestants. In the "Cologne War" of 1583 he was expelled by Spanish ...
(from the article "logic, history of") ...a historian of logic, but also one of the few figures in Germany of the time in a philosophy, rather than a mathematics, department, attempted to rally German logic with ...
(from the article "education") ...other, led in the years after about 1650 to the publication of school regulations, free of church regulations. The circumstances in the central German principality of Gotha were typical. The ...
German painter, sculptor, one of the leading advocates of irrationality in art, and an originator of the Automatism movement of Surrealism. His youthful interests were psychiatry and philosophy, but he ... [8 Related Articles]
Swiss researcher and teacher who in 1991 won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his development of techniques for high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Ernst's refinements made NMR techniques ...
(from the article "Hamburg") ...in the Harburg district, is a local museum for the part of Hamburg south of the Elbe but also houses antiquities representing the prehistory and early history of the whole ...
town, northern Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India, on the Cauvery River. Temple inscriptions indicate the prominent role played by the town as early as the 10th century AD. Its name ...
(from the article "whitlow grass") any plant belonging to either of two genera (Erophila and Draba), of the mustard family (Brassicaceae); some authorities believe that all these plants belong to one genus, Draba. The genus ...
in Greek religion, god of love. In the Theogony of Hesiod (fl. 700 BC), Eros was a primeval god, son of Chaos, the original primeval emptiness of the universe; but ... [3 Related Articles]
first asteroid found to travel mainly inside the orbit of Mars and the first to be orbited and landed on by a spacecraft. Eros was discovered in 1898 by the ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Christianity") ...of Christianity. This transformation is evident in the New Testament departure from the Hellenistic understanding of love. The classical understanding of love, expressed in the Platonic concept of eros, was ...
removal of surface material from the Earth's crust, primarily soil and rock debris, and the transportation of the eroded materials by natural agencies from the point of removal. [34 Related Articles]
(from the article "river") In contrast to depositional terraces, erosional terraces are specifically related to the processes of floodplain development. Erosional terraces are those in which lateral river migration and lateral accretion are the ...
literary or artistic works having an erotic theme; especially, books treating of sexual love in a sensuous or voluptuous manner. The word erotica typically applies to works in which the ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "dance, Western") ...rumba-like couple dance with an unquestionably erotic character. The Egyptians also knew acrobatic exhibition dances akin to the present-day adagio dances. They definitely were aware of the sensual allure of ...
(from the article "sexual behaviour, human") Whether or not a behaviour is interpreted by society or the individual as erotic (i.e., capable of engendering sexual response) depends chiefly on the context in which the behaviour occurs. ...
(from the article "Freud, Sigmund") To spell out the formative development of the sexual drive, Freud focused on the progressive replacement of erotogenic zones in the body by others. An originally polymorphous sexuality first seeks ...
(from the article "snake") ...has a tiny head and a long neck with the same diameter as the head, which can be inserted deeply into very narrow holes inhabited by its prey. An Asian ...
(from the article "annelid") ...3 toothed jaws or none, noneversible; terrestrial or freshwater; bloodsuckers or carnivorous; size, minute to 20 cm; examples of genera: Hirudo, Haemopis, ...
(from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") In 764, after an epidemic, the Erra epic, the myth of Erra (the god of war and pestilence), was written by Kabti-ilani-Marduk. He invented an original plot, which diverged considerably ...
range of hills in western Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. The hills are situated on the Deccan Plateau and are composed of quartzites and slates of the Cambrian Period (540 ...
glacier-transported rock fragment that differs from the local bedrock. Erratics may be embedded in till or occur on the ground surface and may range in size from pebbles to huge ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Donegal") ...chief rivers are the Finn and Erne. The main mountain ranges are the Blue Stack, whose highest peak is Lavagh More (2,218 feet [676 metres]), and Derryveagh, which reaches 2,467 ...
volcanic island of Vanuatu, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The island, with an area of 376 square miles (975 square km), rises in the interior to 2,907 feet (886 metres) ...
(from the article "baseball") ...into the air), ground balls (balls hit at a downward angle into the ground), and line drives (a ball that is close to and parallel to the ground). Another way ...
in applied mathematics, the difference between a true value and an estimate, or approximation, of that value. In statistics, a common example is the difference between the mean of an ... [10 Related Articles]
(from the article "writ") ...are those, such as the summons, used to initiate an action. Other writs may be used to enforce the judgment of a court (attachment, delivery) or to require a lower ...
(from the article "Indian philosophy") ...an act of inner perception (anuvyavasaya). Knowledge either is memory or is not; knowledge other than memory is either true or false; and knowledge that is not true is either ...
(from the article "telephone and telephone system") ...technology was being standardized for the most recent modems, several other peripheral standards were also being developed. These peripheral standards fell into two categories: error control and compression. In 1988 ...
(from the article "information theory") Shannon's work in the area of discrete, noisy communication pointed out the possibility of constructing error-correcting codes. Error-correcting codes add extra bits to help correct errors and thus operate in ...
(from the article "automation") ...the system responds one way; under different circumstances, it responds in another way. There are several reasons for providing an automated system with decision-making capability, including (1) error detection and ...
(from the article "servomechanism") All servomechanisms have at least these basic components: a controlled device, a command device, an error detector, an error-signal amplifier, and a device to perform any necessary error corrections (the ...
(from the article "statistics") ...distances from each point in the scatter diagram (see Figure 4) to the estimated regression line: Sigma(y − y)2. SSE is also commonly referred to as the error sum of ...
(from the article "telecommunication") ...the transmitted signal-in this case so that errors caused by noise during transmission can be corrected at the receiver. The process of encoding for protection against channel errors is called ...
(from the article "learning theory") ...extinction) eventually permits single-trial learning. Theoretically, organisms learn to learn by inhibiting erroneous behaviour; thus, Harry F. Harlow, a proponent of this view, called it an error-factor theory.
(from the article "servomechanism") All servomechanisms have at least these basic components: a controlled device, a command device, an error detector, an error-signal amplifier, and a device to perform any necessary error corrections (the ...
(from the article "international payment and exchange") ...including monetary movements, must be equal, but it usually happens that the figures do not in fact balance. U.S. statisticians call the residual figure that has to be inserted to ...
(from the article "Ersari carpet") any of a colourful variety of floor coverings handmade by Ersari Turkmen of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Contrary to the custom of the other Turkmen, the Ersaris have no proper
any of a colourful variety of floor coverings handmade by Ersari Turkmen of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Contrary to the custom of the other Turkmen, the Ersaris have no proper [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Allgemeine Enzyklopadie der Wissenschaften und Kunste") ..."Universal Encyclopaedia of Sciences and Arts"), monumental uncompleted German encyclopaedia of which 167 volumes were published from 1818 to 1889. Founded by a German bibliographer, Johann Samuel Ersch, who began ...
(from the article "Bangladesh") ...were executed. Meanwhile, the civilian vice president, Abdus Sattar, was confirmed as president by a nationwide election in 1981, but he was ill, and real power was exercised by Lieut. ...
(from the article "China") ...of his dynasty. The legitimate heir was compelled to commit suicide when his younger brother usurped the throne. Capable and loyal servants, including Li Si and Gen. Meng Tian, were ...
(from the article "Architecture and Civil Engineering") Ralph Erskine also died in March at the age of 91. Born in London, Erskine married in Sweden and became one of Scandinavia's top architects. He was especially known for ...
(from the article "Childers, Erskine H") Childers was given the same Christian name as his father, Robert Erskine, who became a leading figure in the struggle for Irish independence, was minister for publicity in the Republican ...
British Whig lawyer who made important contributions to the protection of personal liberties. His defense of various politicians and reformers on charges of treason and related offenses acted to check ... [2 Related Articles]
fashion illustrator of the 1920s and creator of visual spectacle for French music-hall revues. His designs included dresses and accessories for women; costumes and sets for opera, ballet, and dramatic ...
tool industry of the coastal regions of northern Europe, dating from about 9000 to 3500 BC. The Ertebolle industry, named after Ertebolle, Den., where it was first recognized, is classed ... [1 Related Articles]
Turkish-born American music magnate (b. July 31, 1923, Istanbul, Turkey-d. Dec. 14, 2006, New York, N.Y.), was a jazz enthusiast who together with Herb Abramson, a music-industry professional, founded (1947) ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Hebrew literature") ...Their chief weapon was satire, and the imitation by Joseph Perl of the Epistolae obscurorum virorum (1515; "Letters of Obscure Men") of Crotus Rubianus and the essays of Isaac Erter ...
(from the article "Osman I") Osman was descended from the Kayi branch of the Oguz Turkmen. His father, Ertugrul, had established a principality centred at Sogut. With Sogut as their base, Osman and the Muslim ...
(from the article "insect") Larvae, which vary considerably in shape, are classified in five forms: eruciform (caterpillar-like), scarabaeiform (grublike), campodeiform (elongated, flattened, and active), elateriform (wireworm-like), and vermiform (maggot-like). The three types of pupae ...
(from the article "infancy") The ideal food for the young infant is human milk, though infant formula is an adequate substitute. Babies can usually be weaned after they are six months old, and the ...
(from the article "Zoroastrianism") ..."king of kings"). The ehrpat, originally a religious teacher, was especially entrusted with the care of the fire. The modern equivalent of the word, herbad or ervad, designates a priest ...
(from the article "anarchism") ...Perlman, and Hakim Bey and other writers associated with the anarchist publisher Autonomedia in New York City. African American anarchism, as represented in the writings of former Black Panther Lorenzo ...
U.S. senator best known as chairman of the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, which investigated the Watergate Scandal during the administration of Richard M. Nixon. [1 Related Articles]
Northern Irish Protestant militant and politician abandoned the illegal loyalist paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) to join the UVF's political wing, the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP), which he headed ...
American collegiate and professional basketball player who was one of the most colourful and exciting figures in the game during the 1970s and '80s. At 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 ...
(from the article "fruit spot") ...softening discoloration and often a disintegration of tissue. All fruits are susceptible; infection commonly starts at a wound, the stem end, or the underside. Bacterial decays that are caused by ...
(from the article "Art and Art Exhibitions") On the subject of image manipulation, acclaimed Magnum Photos photographer Erwitt made his position clear during an interview with Black & White Photography magazine on the occasion of his exhibition ...
(from the article "boa") The true boas are divided into two subfamilies, Boinae and Erycinae. Boinae includes the boa constrictor (Boa constrictor), tree boas (genus Corallus), and anacondas ...
(from the article "amphibian") ...Mississippian to Upper Permian. Flattened skull, shortened preorbital and elongate postorbital regions; palatal openings enlarged.Upper Mississippian to Late Permian. Flattened skull, long preorbital and shortened postorbital regions; palatal ...
genus of extinct primitive amphibians found as fossils in Permian rocks in North America (the Permian period occurred from 299 million to 251 million years ago). Eryops was a massive ...
contagious infection of the skin and underlying tissue, caused by group A B-hemolytic streptococcus bacteria. Erysipelas causes affected areas of skin to turn bright red and become slightly swollen. The ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "erysipelothrix infection") Erysipeloid, wound infection with E. rhusiopathiae, is a hazard to veterinarians, farmers, and animal handlers; it also yields to antibiotics.
any of several infectious diseases caused by the widespread bacterium Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, found in water, soil, and decaying matter. Among the distinct diseases it causes are swine erysipelas (including diamond-skin ...
(from the article "erysipelothrix infection") any of several infectious diseases caused by the widespread bacterium Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, found in water, soil, and decaying matter. Among the distinct diseases it causes are swine erysipelas (including diamond-skin ...
(from the article "fungus") ...causes gall formation, especially on beech trees; spherical, dimpled ascocarps that are yellow to orange in colour; example genus includes Cyttaria.Parasitic on plants; ascospores or conidia germinate ...
any abnormal redness of the skin. Erythema is caused by dilation and irritation of the superficial capillaries; the augmented flow of blood through them imparts a reddish hue to the ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "erythema") Those erythematous conditions that are directly caused by specific agents include endemic erythema, or pellagra, due to a dietary deficiency of the vitamin niacin; and erythema ab igne, due to ...
(from the article "rheumatic fever") ...and contracture of the heart valves and a marked decrease in life expectancy. Other symptoms of rheumatic fever include nodules beneath the skin and skin rashes, the most typical of ...
(from the article "conjunctivitis") A severe form of conjunctivitis that may culminate in blindness occasionally accompanies erythema multiforme, an eruption on the skin and mucous membranes that sometimes occurs in association with a systemic ...
(from the article "erythema") Erythema nodosum is a hypersensitivity reaction most commonly associated with streptococcal infection, drugs (particularly oral contraceptives), and sarcoidosis (a systemic disease characterized by the formation of granulation, or scarlike, tissue). ...
