the movement or tendency toward worldwide Christian unity or cooperation. The term, of recent origin, emphasizes what is viewed as the universality of the Christian churches.
semisoft cow's-milk cheese of Holland, usually molded in 2 to 4 pound (0.9 to 1.8 kilogram) spheres and coated in red paraffin; Edam is also produced in red-coated rectangular loaves. ...
dorp (village) in Edam-Volendam gemeente (municipality), Noord-Holland provincie (province), northwestern Netherlands, on the IJsselmeer (Lake IJssel). Named for the dam built on the Ye, which joined the Purmer Lake (now ...
primitive herbivorous relative of mammals that is found in fossil deposits dating from Late Carboniferous to the Early Permian periods (323 to 256 million years ago).
also spelled Eadbert, or Eadberht in Anglo-Saxon England, king of Northumbrians from 737 to 758, a strong king whose reign was regarded by the contemporary scholar and churchman Alcuin as ...
body of ancient Icelandic literature contained in two 13th-century books commonly distinguished as the Prose, or Younger, Edda and the Poetic, or Elder, Edda. It is the fullest and most ...
English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician who did his greatest work in astrophysics, investigating the motion, internal structure, and evolution of stars. He also was the first expositor of the theory ...
county, southeastern New Mexico, U.S., bordered on the south by Texas. Its western region is in the Sacramento section of the Basin and Range province, a rugged area where the ...
fluid current whose flow direction differs from that of the general flow; the motion of the whole fluid is the net result of the movements of the eddies that compose ...
in electricity, motion of electric charge induced entirely within a conducting material by a varying electric or magnetic field or by electromagnetic waves. Eddy currents induced in a power transformer ...
American guitarist responsible for one of rock music's elemental sounds, twang-resonant melodic riffs created on the bass strings of an electric guitar. One of early rock's most influential and popular ...
lighthouse celebrated in folk ballads and seamen's lore, standing on the Eddystone Rocks, 14 miles off Plymouth, Eng., in the English Channel. The first lighthouse (1696-99), built of timber, was ...
town, Osun state, southwestern Nigeria. It lies along the Osun River at a point on the railroad from Lagos, 112 miles (180 km) southwest, and at the intersection of roads ...
gemeente (commune), Gelderland provincie, central Netherlands. It lies on the western edge of the wooded-heath Veluwe region. Founded in the 8th century by the ...
town, southwestern Cameroon, at the head of steamboat navigation of the lower Sanaga River. Aluminum from Fria in Guinea is the basis of the town's aluminum industry, which produces aluminum ...
American physician and physical chemist who elucidated the structure of antibodies-proteins that are produced by the body in response to infection. For this work he shared the Nobel Prize for ...
(Leontopodium alpinum), perennial plant of the family Asteraceae, native to alpine areas of Europe and South America. It has 2 to 10 yellow flower heads in a dense cluster, and, ...
in medicine, an abnormal accumulation of watery fluid in the intercellular spaces of connective tissue. Edematous tissues are swollen and, when punctured, secrete a thin incoagulable fluid. This fluid is ...
district, administrative county of Cumbria, northwestern England, in the eastern part of the county. A line running through the district from the River Tees, past the village of Culgaith and ...
in the Old Testament Book of Genesis, biblical earthly paradise inhabited by the first created man and woman, Adam and Eve, prior to their expulsion for disobeying the commandments of ...
river in northern England. It rises in the fells (uplands) that connect the Lake District with the highlands of the Pennines and flows 90 miles (145 km) northwestward to its ...
broad valley in the administrative county of Cumbria, England, separating the northern Pennines from the Lake District massif. The upper valley lies in the historic county of Westmorland and the ...
town ("parish"), Sevenoaks district, administrative and historic county of Kent, England, south of London near the Surrey border, on the River Eden. It was enlarged after 1970 to accommodate overspill ...
market town, County Offaly, Ire., on the northern edge of the Bog of Allen. The town, including the Court House, was largely built by the marquesses of Downshire in the ...
town, seat of Chowan county, northeastern North Carolina, U.S., on Albemarle Sound. Settled about 1660, the first permanent settlement in colonial North Carolina, it went under several names before it ...
nationalist guerrilla force that, bolstered by British support, constituted the only serious challenge to EAM-ELAS (q.v.) control of the resistance movement in occupied Greece during World War II. Led by ...
chief city, nomos (department) of Pella, Macedonia, Greece, on a steep bluff above the valley of the Loudhias Potamos (river). A swift, fragmented stream flowing through the ...
king of Scots from 1097, eldest surviving son of Malcolm III Canmore and Queen Margaret (granddaughter of King Edmund II of England) and thus the first king of the Scots ...
king of the Mercians and Northumbrians from 957 who became king of the West Saxons, or Wessex, in 959 and is reckoned as king of all England from that year. ...
Anglo-Saxon prince, who, at the age of about 15, was proposed as king of England after the death of Harold II in the Battle of Hastings (Oct. 14, 1066) but ...
town (township), seat of Dukes county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. The town comprises Chappaquiddick Island and the eastern tip of the island of Martha's Vineyard. The oldest settlement on the island, ...
county, western South Carolina, U.S. It consists of a hilly piedmont region bounded to the southwest by the Savannah River border with Georgia. Much of the county is within the ...
assemblage of relatively advanced multicellular Precambrian animals found as fossils in the Pound Quartzite of the Ediacara Hills, north of Adelaide, South Australia (the Precambrian began about 3.8 billion years ...
public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is one of 14 universities in Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education. The university includes the schools of Liberal ...
city, seat (1908) of Hidalgo county, extreme southern Texas, U.S., in the lower Rio Grande valley, 55 miles (89 km) west-northwest of Brownsville. With McAllen and Pharr it forms a ...
capital city of Scotland, located in southeastern Scotland with its centre near the southern shore of the Firth of Forth, an arm of the North Sea that thrusts westward into ...
Scottish magazine that was published from 1802 to 1929, and which contributed to the development of the modern periodical and to modern standards of literary criticism. The Edinburgh Review was ...
coeducational, privately controlled institution of higher education at Edinburgh, one of the most noted of Scotland's universities. It was founded in 1583 as "the Town's College" under Presbyterian auspices by ...
city, extreme western Turkey. It lies at the junction of the Tunca and Maritsa (Turkish: Meric) rivers near the borders of Greece and Bulgaria. The largest and oldest part of ...
(Sept. 14, 1829), pact concluding the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-29, signed at Edirne (ancient Adrianople), Tur.; it strengthened the Russian position in eastern Europe and weakened that of the Ottoman ...
township (town), northern Middlesex county, New Jersey, U.S., just northeast of New Brunswick. It is the site of Menlo Park, where the inventor Thomas A. Edison established his research laboratory ...
English biographer of St. Anselm and historian whose accounts are a uniquely accurate and credible portrait of the 12th-century monastic community at Canterbury.
city, Oklahoma county, central Oklahoma, U.S., immediately north of Oklahoma City. Writer Washington Irving visited the site now known as Edmond in 1832 and reported on it in A Tour ...
city, capital of Alberta, Canada. It lies along the North Saskatchewan River, in the centre of the province. Edmonton traces its origin to Fort Edmonton, a Hudson's Bay Company fur-trading ...
king of the English from April 23 to Nov. 30, 1016, surnamed "Ironside" for his staunch resistance to a massive invasion led by the Danish king Canute.
distinguished scholar, outspoken archbishop of Canterbury, one of the most virtuous and attractive figures of the English church, whose literary works strongly influenced subsequent spiritual writers in England. After studies ...
city, seat (1873) of Madawaska county, northwestern New Brunswick, Canada, at the junction of the St. John and Madawaska rivers, 177 miles (285 km) northwest of Fredericton. Settled by Acadians ...
people of southern Nigeria who speak a language of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The Edo numbered about 3.8 million at the turn of the 21st century. ...
Japanese city that was renamed Tokyo at the Meiji Restoration (1868), when the imperial capital was moved there. In the 1590s Edo became the headquarters for Tokugawa Ieyasu and the ...
state, southern Nigeria. It is bounded by the states of Kogi to the northeast and east, Anambra to the east, Delta to the southeast and south, and Ondo to the ...
ancient land bordering ancient Israel, in what is now southwestern Jordan, between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. The Edomites probably occupied the area about the 13th century ...
American reformer and public official, a strong influence on behalf of woman suffrage and an important figure in securing and enforcing labour standards both in California and at the federal ...
discipline that is concerned, in this context, mainly with methods of teaching and learning in schools or school-like environments as opposed to various nonformal and informal means of socialization (e.g., ...
a genre popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in which a plan of education was set forth for a young person. The education novel was similar to ...
history of the evolution of the formal teaching of knowledge and skills, from prehistoric and ancient times to the present, in all parts of the world, and with the various ...
the field of inquiry, speculation, and application in which philosophical methods are applied to the study of a problem, topic, or issue in education. Characteristic of these methods is the ...
theoretical and research branch of modern psychology, concerned with the learning processes and psychological problems associated with the teaching and training of students. The educational psychologist studies the cognitive development ...
