(from the article "Kangxi") Because the new emperor was not yet quite seven years old, his government was first administered by Sonin, Suksaha, Ebilun, and Oboi-four conservative Manchu courtiers from the preceding reign. One ...
member of an early ascetic sect of Jewish Christians. The Ebionites were one of several such sects that originated in and around Palestine in the first centuries AD and included ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Benue-Congo languages") The largest of the approximately 17 Nupoid languages are Nupe (1,000,000), Gbagyi (700,000), and Ebira (1,000,000). They are spoken in the area north and west of the confluence of the ...
in Japanese mythology, one of the Shichi-fuku-jin ("Seven Gods of Luck"), the patron of fishermen and tradesmen. He is depicted as a fat, bearded, smiling fisherman often carrying a rod ...
ancient city 33 miles (53 km) southwest of Aleppo in northwestern Syria. During the height of its power (c. 2600-2240 BC), Ebla dominated northern Syria, Lebanon, and parts of northern ... [2 Related Articles]
archaic Semitic language, probably the most ancient to survive in substantial form, dating from the third quarter of the 3rd millennium BC. As a Northern Central Semitic language, Eblaite is ...
virus of the family Filoviridae that is responsible for a severe and often fatal viral hemorrhagic fever; outbreaks in primates such as gorillas and chimpanzees as well as humans have ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Gabon") ...as water shortages caused by a broken pump at the Libreville filtration centre forced people to turn to untreated water supplies. On February 1 the government announced that it would ...
(from the article "Ebola") ...Marburg virus, which was discovered in 1967, and the two are the only members of the Filoviridae that cause epidemic human disease. Four strains of Ebola virus, known as Ebola-Zaire, ...
(from the article "Ebola") ...in 1967, and the two are the only members of the Filoviridae that cause epidemic human disease. Four strains of Ebola virus, known as Ebola-Zaire, Ebola-Sudan, Ebola-Cote d'Ivoire, and Ebola-Reston, ...
(from the article "Ebola") ...related to the Marburg virus, which was discovered in 1967, and the two are the only members of the Filoviridae that cause epidemic human disease. Four strains of Ebola virus, ...
(from the article "Ebola") ...is closely related to the Marburg virus, which was discovered in 1967, and the two are the only members of the Filoviridae that cause epidemic human disease. Four strains of ...
town, Campania regione, southern Italy, east of the city of Salerno. The higher and older section of the town dominates the Sele Plain. Historical monuments include a castle of the ...
town, southwestern Cameroon. It lies 70 miles (112 km) south-southwest of Yaounde, at the intersection of roads to Kribi (west), Yaounde (northeast), and Gabon (south). It is a centre of ...
dialect of American English spoken by a large proportion of African Americans. Many scholars hold that Ebonics, like several English creoles, developed from contacts between nonstandard varieties of colonial English ... [1 Related Articles]
wood of several species of trees of the genus Diospyros (family Ebenaceae), widely distributed in the tropics. The best is very heavy, almost black, and derived from heartwood only. Because ... [3 Related Articles]
monthly magazine geared to a middle-class African American readership. It was the first black-oriented magazine in the United States to attain national circulation. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "shozoku") The priest's headgear may be either the black lacquered-silk eboshi, for less formal attire, or the more elaborate kanmuri, worn with the saifuku costume. Priests usually carry a shaku, a ...
black colonial administrator who reached the highest level of the French colonial administrative system and played a crucial role in the adherence of French Equatorial Africa to Charles de Gaulle's ...
(from the article "Mosaferid Dynasty") Ebrahim II (ruled 997-c. 1030) was able to reestablish Mosaferid control over Daylam and to expand southward as far as Zanjan. After Ebrahim's death, however, the history of the dynasty ...
(from the article "Simjurid Dynasty") ...originally a slave of the Samanid king Esma'il. Ahmad was appointed governor of Seistan by the Samanids in c. 912. His descendant Ebrahim Simjuri became governor of Khorasan during the ...
river, the longest in Spain. The Ebro rises in springs at Fontibre near Reinosa in the Cantabrian Mountains, in the Cantabria province of northern Spain. It flows for 565 miles ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Pyrenees") South of the Central Pyrenees the valley of the Ebro-which runs in a general northwest-southeast direction and is blocked by the southwest-northeast-trending Catalonian ranges near the eastern coast of Spain-acts ...
American actor, dancer, artist, and writer (b. April 2, 1908, Belleville, Ill.-d. July 6, 2003, Torrance, Calif.), began his career dancing with his younger sister, Vilma, in nightclubs, in vaudeville, ...
formation of bubbles in the bodily fluids because of an extreme reduction in the surrounding pressure. Aircraft pilots are susceptible to ebullism when they venture into the upper atmosphere; the ...
division of Pleistocene time in northern Europe (the Pleistocene epoch began about 1,600,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago). The Eburon glacial stage preceded the Waal interglacial stage ...
(from the article "Low Countries, history of") ...the coast of northern France and in Flanders lived the Morini; to the north of them, between the Schelde River and the sea, the Menapii; in Artois, the Nervii; between ...
novelist committed to social reform who introduced naturalism and realism to Portugal. He is often considered to be the greatest Portuguese novelist and is certainly the leading 19th-century Portuguese novelist. [2 Related Articles]
card game usually played for a stake with nonplayers making side bets. The game was highly popular in France and England in the 19th century but declined thereafter.
ancient city on the site of which stands the modern city of Hamadan (q.v.), Iran. Ecbatana was the capital of Media and was subsequently the summer residence of the Achaemenian ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "Africa") ...Channel. Elsewhere, traces of the Permian are of continental rather than marine origin and are included in the Karoo System in South Africa. There, the Lower Permian strata are known ...
(Latin: "Behold the Man"), theme prevalent in western Christian art of the 15th to 17th century, so called after the words of Pontius Pilate to the Jews who demanded the ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "anomaly") ...is the angle between lines drawn from the Sun to the perihelion B and to a point (not shown) moving in the orbit at a uniform rate corresponding to the ...
(from the article "tapestry") ...the famed Kashmir shawls and, along with many other crafts, was probably introduced into Kashmir from Persia, in the 16th century. In contemporary European tapestries this technique, usually called eccentric ...
arrangement of mechanical parts used to obtain a reciprocating straight-line motion from a rotating shaft; it serves the same purpose as a slider-crank mechanism and is particularly useful when the ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "celestial mechanics") ...of the ellipse. A focus is separated from the centre C of the ellipse by the fractional part of the semimajor axis given by the product ae, where e < ...
(from the article "conic section") ...plane curves that are the paths (loci) of a point moving so that the ratio of its distance from a fixed point (the focus) to the distance from a fixed ...
(from the article "logistics") After World War II the most notable effort to produce a theory of logistics was by a retired rear admiral, Henry E. Eccles, whose Logistics in the National Defense appeared ...
Australian research physiologist who received (with Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley) the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the chemical means by which impulses are ... [3 Related Articles]
("gathering of those summoned"), in ancient Greece, assembly of citizens in a city-state. Its roots lay in the Homeric agora, the meeting of the people. The Athenian Ecclesia, for which ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "Christadelphian") The local organization, called an ecclesia, is the principal unit of government in the group; there is no general overall organization, and no distinction is made between clergy and laity. ...
(Preacher), an Old Testament book of wisdom literature that belongs to the third section of the biblical canon, known as the Ketuvim (Writings). In the Hebrew Bible, Ecclesiastes stands between ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "Church Commissioners") The Ecclesiastical Commissioners were created by act of Parliament in 1836. Subsequent legislation greatly extended their administrative powers and also vested in them a great deal of church property. The ...
tribunal set up by religious authorities to deal with disputes among clerics or with spiritual matters involving either clerics or laymen. Although such courts are found today among the Jews ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "Russia") There were also ecclesiastical schools. The seminaries and theological academies not only trained future members of the episcopate and officials of the Holy Synod but also staffed government bureaus on ...
the conventions affecting the use of the arms associated with the church's administrative and collegiate bodies and the portrayal of the arms of clerics. Abbeys, priories, and dioceses have their ...
(from the article "Italy") ...Honorius III aimed at stopping the growth of heresy. Gregory's rhetoric appealed to papal claims based on the Donation of Constantine and expressed his earlier concerns about Frederick's abuse of ...
(from the article "Russell, John Russell, 1st Earl, Viscount Amberley Of Amberley And Of Ardsalla") ...the franchise. But more significant, in the 1850s the national temper had changed. An age of reform had given way to a mood of self-complacency, even of belligerence. This was ...
deuterocanonical biblical work (accepted in the Roman Catholic canon but noncanonical for Jews and Protestants), an outstanding example of the wisdom genre of religious literature that was popular in the ... [2 Related Articles]
(Latin: "little churches within the church"), the revival in 1727 of the Hussite Unitas Fratrum, or Unity of Brethren, within the framework of the established Lutheran church of Saxony. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Western architecture") Pugin's doctrines were taken up by the Anglican reformers, the Tractarians of Oxford and the Camdenians of Cambridge. The Ecclesiological Society, into which the Camden Society was transformed in 1845, ...
(from the article "Christianity") Believing that divine truth and human salvation are at stake, Christians take the formulation of doctrine with the utmost seriousness. Ecclesiology, in which the church itself is the topic of ...
(from the article "Automobile Racing") ...those of how to meet costs and who, in the longer term, would control the commercial-rights income, which was variously estimated at between $50 million and $800 million annually. Power ...
(from the article "skin") ...are coiled tubes of epidermal origin, though they lie in the dermis. Their secretory cells surround a central space, or lumen, into which the secretion is extruded. There are two ...
in classical Greek theatre, stage mechanism consisting of a low platform that rolled on wheels or revolved on an axis and could be pushed onstage to reveal an interior or ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "arachnid") Growth occurs by molting, or ecdysis. In many arachnids the first molt occurs while the animal is still within the egg. The newly hatched arachnid is small, and the exoskeleton ...
(from the article "arthropod") Molting is under hormonal control, and there is a long preparatory phase that precedes the process. The steroid hormone ecdysone, secreted by specific endocrine centres and circulated in the blood, ...
also spelled Egfrith Anglo-Saxon king of the Northumbrians from 670 who ultimately lost his wars against the Mercians on the south and the Picts on the north. [2 Related Articles]
mathematician, statesman, and the leading Spanish dramatist of the last quarter of the 19th century. Along with the Provencal poet Frederic Mistral, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "nebula") ...nebulae is not by images but by spectra, by means of prisms (in the earlier part of the century), diffraction gratings, or crystals in the case of X rays. A ...
(from the article "intelligence") ...an immense variety of electronic espionage activities, many of which make use of sophisticated listening devices placed on planes and ships and in ground installations overseas. The NSA's "Echelon" computer ...
genus of about 100 species of succulent plants, in the stonecrop family (Crassulaceae), native from Texas to Argentina. Many are popularly called hen-and-chickens because of the way new plantlets, or ...
poet, fiction writer, cultural promoter, and political activist who played a significant role in the development of Argentine literature, not only through his own writings but also through his sponsoring ... [1 Related Articles]
monster of Greek mythology, half woman, half serpent. Her parents were either the sea deities Phorcys and Ceto (according to Hesiod's Theogony) or Tartarus and Gaia (in ...
any of three species of peculiar egg-laying mammals from Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea that eat and breathe through a bald, tubular beak protruding from a dome-shaped body covered in ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "coneflower") any of three genera of weedy plants in the family Asteraceae, all native to North America. Some species in each genus have reflexed ray flowers. Purple-flowered perennials of the genus ...
(from the article "barrel cactus") ...for a group of more or less barrel-shaped cacti, family Cactaceae, native to North and South America. It is most often used for two large-stemmed North American genera, Ferocactus and ...
(from the article "heart urchin") The common heart urchin (Echinocardium cordatum) occurs in all oceans. Spatangus purpureus is common on the coasts of western Europe, the Mediterranean, and western Africa.
(from the article "hedgehog cactus") The Echinocereus viridiflorus complex, with small fragrant green to brown flowers, is the northernmost group, growing from Mexico to Wyoming and South Dakota. The
(from the article "coloration") ...and physiological importance are the K vitamins. Another series within the naphthoquinone class manifests conspicuous red, purple, or sometimes green colours in a few animal types. These are the echinochromes ...
formation of cysts, or hydatids, at the site of infestation by the larval form of Echinococcus granulosus, a tapeworm common in sheep, cattle, camels, dogs, and many other mammals. The ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "cestodiasis") Visceral and somatic cestodiasis include the following infections: (1) Echinococcosis, or hydatic disease, is caused by the larval stage of Echinoccocus granulosus or E. multilocularis. In humans the first organism ...
any of a variety of invertebrate marine animals belonging to the phylum Echinodermata, characterized by a hard, spiny covering or skin. Beginning with the Lower Cambrian Period almost 570,000,000 years ... [23 Related Articles]
(from the article "burhead") E. cordifolius, which has a creeping stem and large, ovate leaves, occurs in southern North America. E. tenellus has spear-shaped leaves about 5 cm long and occurs throughout eastern and ...
(from the article "burhead") E. cordifolius, which has a creeping stem and large, ovate leaves, occurs in southern North America. E. tenellus has spear-shaped leaves about 5 cm long and occurs throughout eastern and ...
(from the article "echinoderm") ...microscopic spicules; includes living orders Dendrochirotida, Dactylochirotida, Aspidochirotida, Elasipodida, Molpadiida, and Apodida; 1,100 living species.Fossil and living forms (Ordovician 460,000,000 years ago to ...
genus of cystoids, an extinct group related to the sea lily and starfish, found as fossils in Ordovician marine rocks (between 505 and 438 million years old). It is a ...
(from the article "flatworm") ...(immature form) fork-tailed; penetration glands present; 1-2 pairs of protonephridia; about 1,350 species.Cercaria with simple tail and many cyst-producing glands; life cycle with 3 hosts; about 1,360 species.
(from the article "echinoderm") ...system with tube feet on oral surface of body; water-vascular canals form double ring; includes order Peripodida; 2 living species.Fossil and living forms (Lower Cambrian about 570,000,000 years ago ...
(from the article "order") ...form (the Doric), the capital consists (in ascending order) of three parts; the necking, which is a continuation of the shaft but which is set off from it visually by ...
(from the article "bugloss") any plant of the genera Lycopsis and Echium of the family Boraginaceae; they are weedy, bristly annuals with small, bright-blue flowers that have hairy white throats. The blooms resemble small ...
(from the article "pottery") ...Bizen (Okayama Prefecture), which has produced an excellent unglazed stoneware from the Heian period to the 20th century; Tamba (Kyoto Prefecture); Shigaraki (Shiga Prefecture); and Echizen (Fukui Prefecture). The wares ...
in Greek mythology, a mountain nymph, or oread. Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book III, relates that Echo offended the goddess Hera by keeping her in conversation, thus preventing her from spying on ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "acoustics") Certain acoustic problems often result from improper design or from construction limitations. If large echoes are to be avoided, focusing of the sound wave must be avoided. Smooth, curved reflecting ...
either of two experimental communications satellites launched into orbit around the Earth by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the 1960s. Consisting of aluminum-coated Mylar balloons that were ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "sand dune") ...dunes are formed around topographic obstructions and in sheltered zones on the lee of small hills into which the sand migrates. If the wind meets a high scarp or large ...
(from the article "Franconia Notch") ...ledges of granite (48 feet [15 metres] high) shaped like a face on the mountainside 1,200 feet (366 metres) above Profile Lake, it collapsed in 2003 despite numerous efforts to ...
(from the article "keyboard instrument") ...cylindrical resonators. There were no pedals, but the manual compass almost invariably extended to the third G below middle C. If there was a third manual, it consisted of a ...
(from the article "dam") After World War II, plans were made by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to build a hydroelectric power dam across the Green River at Echo Park Canyon within the boundaries ...
(from the article "Earth exploration") Most seismic work utilizes reflection techniques. Sources and Geophones are essentially the same as those used in refraction methods. The concept is similar to echo sounding: seismic waves are reflected ...
(from the article "telephone and telephone system") ...over a single-pair circuit operating over the PSTN. Two breakthroughs were required in this effort. First, in order to fit high-speed full-duplex data transmission over a single telephone circuit, echo ...
a type of verse in which repetition of the end of a line or stanza imitates an echo. The repetition usually constitutes the entire following line and changes the meaning ...
diagnostic technique that uses ultrasound (high-frequency sound waves) to produce an image of the internal structures of the heart. A piezoelectric transducer placed on the surface of the chest converts ... [2 Related Articles]
method for detecting abnormalities within the cranial cavity, based on the reflection of high-frequency sound pulses delivered to the head through a probe held firmly to the scalp. The reflected ...
(from the article "autism") ...to parents or certain adults often develops later. Speech develops slowly and abnormally (it is often atonal and arrhythmic) or not at all. It may be characterized by meaningless, noncontextual ...
