(from the article "Amino acid content of some proteins") ...globulins, insoluble in water, can be extracted from seeds by treatment with 2 to 10 percent solutions of sodium chloride. Many plant globulins have been obtained in crystalline form; they ...
(from the article "Processing additives and their uses") EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) or its sodium salt has the property of combining with certain metal ions to form a molecular complex that locks up or chelates the calcium ion so ...
(from the article "King Lear") The subplot concerns the Earl of Gloucester, who gullibly believes the lies of his conniving illegitimate son, Edmund, and spurns his honest son, Edgar. Driven into exile disguised as a ...
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. ... [5 Related Articles]
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 ... [1 Related Articles]
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 ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "English literature") ...gay-thrived. One of the more-durable talents to emerge from it was Caryl Churchill, whose Serious Money (1987) savagely encapsulated the finance frenzy of the 1980s. David Edgar ...
(from the article "Illinois") After his election as governor in 1990, Jim Edgar followed a more fiscally prudent path than his fellow Republican Thompson. Edgar, aided somewhat by a healthy national economy, put the ...
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, ...
(from the article "number game") If a finite number of points are connected by lines (Figure 13A), the resulting figure is a graph; the points, or corners, are called the vertices, and the lines are ...
(from the article "ceramic composition and properties") ...to stress), and they possess this extremely useful property owing to imperfections called dislocations within their crystal lattices. There are many kinds of dislocations. In one kind, known as an ...
(from the article "ecotone") ...may exist along a broad belt or in a small pocket, such as a forest clearing, where two local communities blend together. The influence of the two bordering communities on ...
(from the article "art conservation and restoration") ...perform a variety of treatments, including tear realignment and repair, reduction of planar deformations, and the introduction of consolidating adhesives to reattach cleaving paint. The practice of edge lining (sometimes ...
(from the article "sound") Basic to flutes and recorders, an edge tone is a stream of air that strikes a sharp edge, where it creates pressure changes in the air column that propagate down ...
(from the article "Bono") He was born of a Roman Catholic father and a Protestant mother (who died when he was just age 14). In Dublin in 1977, he and school friends David Evans ...
(from the article "Roses, Wars of the") ...Warwick differed with the King on foreign policy. In 1469 civil war was renewed. Warwick and Edward's rebellious brother George, duke of Clarence, fomented risings in the north; and in ...
(from the article "Sitka") ...Forest. Nearby is Sitka National Historical Park, the site of a pivotal battle between Russians and Tlingit Indians in 1804; it also contains the Russian Bishop's House, trails, and totem ...
(from the article "sea star") Sea stars belong to three orders: Phanerozonia, Spinulosa, and Forcipulata. Edged sea stars, order Phanerozonia, have distinct marginal plates and therefore tend to be rigid. Members of the order have ...
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 ...
(Oct. 23, 1642), first battle of the English Civil Wars, in which forces loyal to the English Parliament, commanded by Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of Essex, fatally delayed Charles I's ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Belize") Belize's best-known contemporary author is Zee Edgell. Her most widely read novel, Beka Lamb (1982), describes the emerging sense of nationalism in the 1950s in Belize City through the eyes ...
American electrical engineer and photographer who was noted for creating high-speed photography techniques that he applied to scientific uses. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Kuiper belt") The Irish astronomer Kenneth E. Edgeworth speculated in 1943 that the distribution of the solar system's small bodies was not bounded by the present distance of Pluto. Kuiper developed a ...
(from the article "Germany") Unlike the Bavarians, the Saxons were not politically united. Their independent edhelingi (nobles) lived on estates among forest clearings, dominating the frilingi (freemen),
unique assemblage of soft-bodied organisms preserved worldwide as fossil impressions in sandstone from the Proterozoic Eon at the close of Precambrian time. These fauna represent an important landmark in the ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Ediacara fauna") Fossils of Ediacara organisms have been discovered in some 30 localities over five continents, including seven sites in North America. The principal occurrence is in South Australia's Ediacara Hills, which ...
(from the article "crab") Many crabs are eaten by humans. The most important and valuable are the edible crab of the British and European coasts (Cancer pagurus; see photograph) and, in North America, the ...
(from the article "dormouse") any of 27 species of small-bodied Eurasian, Japanese, and African rodents. The largest, weighing up to 180 grams (6.3 ounces), is the fat, or edible, dormouse (Glis ...
(from the article "apodiform") ...of plant and animal substances (such as leaves, moss, hair, feathers) held together and fastened to the cave wall with a mucilaginous secretion of the salivary glands. The nest of ...
(from the article "Germanic law") ...who invaded Italy in 568, had no single code of custom, but their kings issued edicts from the mid-7th century onward. In the Frankish kingdom the Merovingian kings called their ...
(from the article "constitutiones principum") enactments or legislation issued by the ancient Roman emperors. The chief forms of imperial legislation were (1) edicta, or proclamations, which the emperor, like other magistrates, might issue, (2) mandata, ...
(from the article "ancient Rome") Hadrian also improved legal administration. He had his expert jurists codify the edictum perpetuum (the set of rules gradually elaborated by the praetors for the interpretation of ...
(from the article "Germanic law") ...applied to Visigoths and Romans alike, the two peoples by then having substantially fused. The Lex Burgundiorum and the Lex Romana Burgundiorum of the same period had similar functions, while ...
(from the article "Vorskla River, Battle of the") As a result of internal conflicts within the Golden Horde, the khan Tokhtamysh was deposed and replaced by Temur Kutlugh as khan and Edigu as emir. In order to restore ...
(from the article "Curling") At the world junior curling championship held in March in Trois-Rivieres, Que., Niklas Edin edged Switzerland's Stefan Rindlisbacher 5-4 to give Sweden its first junior gold since 1989. Norway's Linn ...
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 ...
(from the article "Tristan da Cunha") ...and a central volcanic cone (6,760 feet [2,060 metres]) that is usually cloud-covered. The climate is wet, windy, and mild. About 66 inches (1,675 mm) of rain falls annually on ...
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 ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "Edinburgh") Edinburgh Castle, 443 feet (135 metres) above sea level, dominates the city. Archaeological excavations have shown that the Castle Rock, previously thought to have first been fortified as a stronghold ...
(from the article "Performing Arts") ...was insecure. There were, however, fanfares for the reopening of the Theatre Royal in Bury St. Edmunds and the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry. David Greig was the most prominent playwright ...
(from the article "Edinburgh: A City of Stories") ...fame) also keeps a home in the city, and novelist Kate Atkinson, who won a Whitbread Book Award for Behind the Scenes at the Museum, is another Edinburgh resident. Meantime, ...
(from the article "Performing Arts") Sir Brian McMaster's last year in charge of the Edinburgh International Festival was marked by an acclaimed program of concerts and theatre productions, notably Peter Stein's wide-screen Troilus and Cressida ...
(from the article "Edinburgh") ...Hundreds of thousands of visitors come for the theatre, ballet, music, films, and art expositions and the general excitement. The festival closes with a skirl of the Scottish bagpipes, part ...
(from the article "Scottish Enlightenment") ...the Society for the Improvement of Medical Knowledge appeared in 1733 as Medical Essays and Observations. Even more definitive of the Scottish Enlightenment were the activities of the Edinburgh Philosophical ...
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 ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Cecil, William, 1st Baron Burghley") ...court. On Elizabeth's accession, in 1558, Cecil was appointed her sole secretary. His first major diplomatic achievement was to persuade a reluctant queen to intervene in Scotland and conclude the ...
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 ... [9 Related Articles]
(from the article "eye, human") ...is through the autonomic system, the parasympathetic nerve cells belonging to the oculomotor nerve (the third cranial nerve) occupying a special region of the nucleus in the midbrain called the ...
(from the article "Alfred") ...submitted "except King Alfred." He harassed the Danes from a fort in the Somerset marshes, and until seven weeks after Easter he secretly assembled an army, which defeated them at ...
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 ... [10 Related Articles]
(from the article "Ottoman Empire") ...1440-42. Although Murad finally defeated Hunyadi at the Battle of Zlatica (Izladi) in 1443, the increased influence of the Turkish notables at Murad's court led the sultan to agree to ...
(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 ... [5 Related Articles]
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 ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "General Electric Co.") The company was incorporated in 1892, acquiring all the assets of the Edison General Electric Company and two other electrical companies. Edison General had been founded as the Edison Electric ...
(from the article "Edison, Thomas Alva") A widower with three young children, Edison, on Feb. 24, 1886, married 20-year-old Mina Miller, the daughter of a prosperous Ohio manufacturer. He purchased a hilltop estate in West Orange, ...
(from the article "Menlo Park") unincorporated community, Middlesex county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S. It lies 16 miles (25 km) southwest of Newark. Menlo Park is the site of the Edison Memorial Tower and State Park ...
American jazz trumpeter who was noted for his muted stylings; he was a soloist in Count Basie's classic late-1930s band, appeared in the noted Gjon Mili short film
American inventor who, singly or jointly, held a world record 1,093 patents. In addition, he created the world's first industrial research laboratory. [37 Related Articles]
(from the article "Orangeburg") ...and chemicals) and educational services. Orangeburg is the seat of Claflin College (1869), South Carolina State University (1896), and Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College (1966; opened 1968). The Edisto Memorial Gardens have ...
(from the article "National Botanic Gardens of South Africa") ...such sites throughout South Africa as regional gardens or reserves. Karoo Botanic Garden at Worcester, for example, maintains more than 5,000 varieties, mostly South African succulents, and the Edith Stephens ...
(from the article "textual criticism") ...taste, sometimes right but much more often wrong, and resting as a rule on nothing more solid than a superficial sense of elegance. In consequence, by the 1470s, when the ...
(from the article "Media and Publishing") ...four publishing groups-Bertelsmann, Hachette (now incorporating Hodder Headline), Pearson, and News Corp.-accounted for almost one-half of total sales by value. In June 2005, however, Editis, the second largest French publisher, ...
(from the article "textual criticism") Critical texts are edited according to conventions that vary with the type of text (classical, medieval, modern) but follow certain general principles. In some cases, as with newly edited papyri ...
(from the article "protein") ...alpha-amino group (&singlehorzbond;NH2) of the N-terminal amino acid with phenyl isothiocyanate; subsequent mild hydrolysis does not affect the peptide bonds; the procedure, called the Edman degradation, can be applied repeatedly; ...
English biographer of St. Anselm and historian whose accounts are a uniquely accurate and credible portrait of the 12th-century monastic community at Canterbury. [1 Related Articles]
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 ...
(from the article "New Zealand literature") ...world was sharpened by her sense of ironies and contradictions; Anne French, who made gossip into high art; and Leigh Davis, a poet and literary theorist who gave up poetry ...
American writer of historical novels that explored the lives of "ordinary" characters; his best-known book, Drums Along the Mohawk (1936), chronicled the struggles of pioneer farmers during the American Revolution ...
(from the article "linguistics") The famous French linguistic atlas of Jules Gillieron and Edmond Edmont was based on a completely different concept. Using a questionnaire of about 2,000 words and phrases that Gillieron had ...
(from the article "Football") The Edmonton Eskimos won the 2005 Canadian Football League (CFL) championship by defeating the Montreal Alouettes 38-35 in the Grey Cup on November 27 at Vancouver in the second overtime ...
(from the article "Ice Hockey") Carolina won its first Stanley Cup on June 19, 2006, with a 3-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers at Raleigh, N.C., that gave the Hurricanes the series four games to ...
(from the article "King Lear") The subplot concerns the Earl of Gloucester, who gullibly believes the lies of his conniving illegitimate son, Edmund, and spurns his honest son, Edgar. Driven into exile disguised as a ...
(from the article "Alexander IV") ...followed the policies of his predecessor Innocent IV: he continued war on Manfred, Emperor Frederick II's bastard son (who was crowned king of Sicily in 1258), by excommunicating him and ...
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. [2 Related Articles]
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 ...
U.S. senator and constitutional lawyer, who for a quarter of a century was a participant in the most important legislative developments of the time. [1 Related Articles]
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. ... [4 Related Articles]
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 ...
(from the article "Japan") In the early 19th century the urban culture that had arisen in the 17th century reached full maturity. Supported originally by wealthy townspeople and warriors, this Edo urban culture spread ...
(from the article "Benue-Congo languages") ...of languages. Delta-Edoid consists of three languages; southwestern Edoid, five languages, the largest of which is Urhobo (400,000); north-central Edoid, six languages, of which the principal one is Edo (1,000,000 ...
(from the article "Benue-Congo languages") The 21 Edoid languages are spoken in southern Nigeria, primarily in Bendel state but in neighbouring states as well. The Edoid family can be divided into four main groups of ...
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 ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Edom") 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 ...
(from the article "Beaujolais") From the 10th to the 13th century, the seigneurs (lords) of Beaujeu gradually enlarged their possessions into a considerable feudal lordship. Edouard I de Beaujeu, marshal of France, fought at ...
(from the article "1938: Other Winners") ...lyrics by Leo RobinHonorary Award: J. Arthur Ball, Deanna Durbin, Mickey Rooney, Harry M. WarnerHonorary Award: Walt Disney for Snow White and the Seven DwarfsHonorary Award: Jan Domela, Farciot Edouart, ...
(from the article "echinoderm") ...about 375,000,000-460,000,000 years ago; small, disk-shaped; theca composed of numerous plates; ambulacral system with multiple branching.Lower Cambrian to Lower Carboniferous about 340,000,000-570,000,000 years ago; discoid to cylindrical; 5 well-developed ...
(from the article "echinoderm") ...years ago; discoid to cylindrical; 5 well-developed straight or curved ambulacral food grooves radiate from a central mouth.Middle Ordovician about 375,000,000 years ago; stalked form with spheroidal theca; 5 ...
the first full-size stored-program computer, built at the University of Cambridge, Eng., by Maurice Wilkes and others to provide a formal computing service for users. EDSAC was built according to ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "automotive industry") ...may be an interval of five years between this survey and the appearance of the new car in the dealers' showrooms, there is a distinct element of risk, as illustrated ...
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 ...
(from the article "International Olympic Committee presidents") ...responsible for determining all questions of Olympic eligibility and competition in their sport. The International Federation of Rowing Associations was founded in 1892, even before the IOC. In 1912 Sigfrid ...
(from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") The national university, established in 1962 and renamed Eduardo Mondlane University in 1976 for the first president of Frelimo, offers courses through a range of faculties, centres, and schools. Other ...
