(from the article "poppy") ...shrubs, native to tropical America, prized for their large, cut leaves; the snow poppy (Eomecon chionantha), a perennial from China, with white, cuplike flowers in sprays; and the flaming poppy ...
(from the article "Las Vegas") ...from legalized gambling and prostitution proved to be a strong attraction for organized crime syndicates. In 1945 Bugsy Siegel, one of the most prominent of these criminals, began constructing the ...
any of five species of tall, pink, wading birds with thick downturned bills. Flamingos have slender legs, long, graceful necks, large wings, and short tails. They range from about 90 ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Anthurium") ...with stems up to 60 cm (2 feet) tall, has a salmon-red, heart-shaped spathe about 5-8 cm (2-3 inches) long; its hybrids produce white, pink, salmon, red, and black-red spathes. ...
(from the article "Anthurium") Flamingo lily (A. andraeanum), with stems up to 60 cm (2 feet) tall, has a salmon-red, heart-shaped spathe about 5-8 cm (2-3 inches) long; its hybrids produce white, pink, salmon, ...
American doo-wop vocal group of the 1950s noted for their tight, pristine harmonies. The principal members were Zeke Carey (b. January 24, 1933, Bluefield, Virginia, U.S., ), Jake Carey (b. ...
(from the article "Roman road system") ...of Messina was known as the Via Popilia. By the beginning of the 2nd century BC, four other great roads radiated outward from Rome: the Via Aurelia, extending northwest to ...
(from the article "priesthood") ...dedicated to the supreme sky god, Jupiter, occupied a unique position socially, politically, and sacerdotally and was subject to strict taboos and regulations because of his sacred office. The flaminica, ...
Roman political leader who was one of the earliest to challenge the senatorial aristocracy by appealing to the people. The Romans called this stance acting as a [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "flame thrower") Modern flame throwers first appeared in the early 1900s when the German army tested two models, one large and one small, submitted by Richard Fiedler. The smaller Flammenwerfer, light enough ...
(from the article "screech owl") ...almost worldwide, notable members of the genus are the common scops owl (Otus scops) of southern Europe, Asia, and Africa; the common screech owl (O. asio) of North America; and ...
(from the article "coin") Alterations in the flan (the coin disk, a term deriving from the French flatir, "to beat flat") led to corresponding changes in the manufacture of dies. In about AD 220 ...
(from the article "custard") ...of eggs, milk, sugar, and flavourings which attains its consistency by the coagulation of the egg protein by heat. Baked custard contains whole eggs, which cause the dish to solidify ...
American jazz pianist (b. March 16, 1930, Detroit, Mich.- d. Nov. 16, 2001, New York, N.Y.), improvised fluent melodies with swing, harmonic ingenuity, and a light touch. A sensitive accompanist, ...
(from the article "Celtic literature") ...again often in metrical form. In a long poem, Fianna batar in Emain ("The Warriors Who Were in Emain"), Cinaed ua Artacain summed up the saga material, while Fland Mainistrech ...
medieval principality in the southwest of the Low Countries, now included in the French departement of Nord (q.v.), the Belgian provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders (qq.v.), and the ... [26 Related Articles]
region that constitutes the northern half of Belgium. Along with the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region, the self-governing Flemish Region was created during the federalization of Belgium, largely along ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Belgium") Bordering the North Sea from France to the Schelde is the low-lying plain of Flanders, which has two main sections. Maritime Flanders, extending inland for about 5 to 10 miles ...
(from the article "Flanders") The origins of Flanders lay in the pagus Flandrensis, an area composed of Brugge (Bruges) and its immediate environs under the administration of the Frankish empire. At first Flandrensis was ...
(from the article "Holocene Epoch") ...of the seas across the continental shelf. The trace of this Holocene rise of sea level was first discerned along the New England coast and along the coast of Belgium, ...
(from the article "tactics") ...a force of light infantrymen in front (elephants were sometimes used, but on the whole they proved as dangerous to their own side as to the enemy). Behind the light ...
(from the article "ship") ...rudders may be fitted (one behind each propeller) in order to take advantage of high water velocity. In addition, a ship that must maneuver well while backing is often fitted ...
fabric made in plain or twill weave, usually with carded yarns. It is napped, most often on both sides, the degree of napping ranging from slight to so heavy that ...
(from the article "lepidopteran") ...hidden beneath prothorax; many with toxic, irritant setae; adults with heavy hairy bodies and vestigial proboscises. 240 species in Central and South America; larvae similar to those ...
(Fremontodendron californicum), shrub of the hibiscus, or mallow, family (Malvaceae), native to southwestern North America. The lower leaf surfaces have a felty texture. The shrub grows up to 5 metres ...
Australian zoologist and outspoken environmentalist, who was named Australian of the Year 2007 in recognition of his role as an effective communicator in explaining environmental issues and in bringing them ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Nadelman, Elie") In 1919 Nadelman married Viola Spiess Flannery, a wealthy socialite, and the couple, folk-art enthusiasts, opened the Museum of Folk and Peasant Art (later called the Museum of Folk Arts) ...
(from the article "1955: Other Winners") ...for The Rose TattooCinematography, Color: Robert Burks for To Catch a ThiefArt Direction, Black-and-White: Tambi Larsen and Hal Pereira for The Rose TattooArt Direction, Color: William Flannery and Jo Mielziner ...
(from the article "fluid mechanics") ...adopted for the wings of aircraft has been sketched already in Figure 17B. The rear edge is made as sharp as possible for reasons that have already been explained, and ...
in phonetics, a consonant sound produced by a single quick flip of the tongue against the upper part of the mouth, often heard as a short r in Spanish (e.g., ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "harbours and sea works") Dry dock entrances are closed by gates of different designs, of which the sliding caisson and the flap gate, or box gate, are perhaps the most popular. The sliding caisson ...
(from the article "transplant") Flap grafts as used by Tagliacozzi are particularly valuable if fat as well as skin has been lost. The procedure of raising a flap and keeping the donor site adjacent ...
any of approximately 40 species of lizards that make up the seven genera of the family Pygopodidae. Confined to Australia and southern New Guinea, these lizards have elongated bodies and ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "United States") ...give up their social and economic independence after the war had ended. Having won the right to vote when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920, the new "emancipated" woman, ...
combustible device used to emit a dazzlingly bright light for signaling or illumination on railroads and highways and in military operations. In pyrotechnics the term is applied either to a ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "petroleum refining") One of the prominent features of every oil refinery and petrochemical plant is a tall stack with a small flame burning at the top. This stack, called a flare, is ...
any star that varies in brightness, sometimes by more than one magnitude, within a few minutes. The cause is thought to be the eruption of flares much larger than, but ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "boiler") ...and temperatures. A wide variety of sizes and designs of watertube boilers are used in ships and factories. The express boiler is designed with small water tubes for quick generation ...
(from the article "Computers and Information Systems") ...make data portable. The standard floppy disk, almost unchanged for a decade, stored up to 1.44 MB, whereas CDs stored up to about 700 MB. Various models of finger-sized flash-memory ...
(from the article "cereal processing") ...starch in suspension and soluble potato solids in solution. The starch is separated and washed free from the solubles, the water is removed by centrifugal action, and the damp starch ...
(from the article "computer memory") EPROM (erasable programmable ROM), EAROM (electrically alterable ROM), and flash memory are types of nonvolatile memories that are rewritable, though the rewriting is far more time-consuming than reading. They are ...
(from the article "desalination") Distillation remains the most widely used desalination process. Either a multiple-effect or a flash evaporator may be used. The first consists of a series of evaporators in which salt water ...
(from the article "flood") The discharge volume of an individual stream is often highly variable from month to month and year to year. A particularly striking example of this variability is the flash flood, ...
any of several devices that produce brief, intense emissions of light useful in photography and in the observation of objects in rapid motion. [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "chemical kinetics") ...radiation that provides spectroscopic evidence of what occurred after the initial pulse. The first of these methods, developed in 1949 by British chemists R.G.W. Norrish and George Porter, was the ...
the lowest temperature at which a petroleum product will burn. Below this temperature insufficient petroleum vapour is available to support combustion. Before gasoline became important, kerosene was the main petroleum ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "flash lamp") The first flash lamp used in photography was invented in Germany in 1887; it consisted of a trough filled with Blitzlichtpulver ("flashlight powder"), a mixture of magnesium, potassium chlorate, and ...
(from the article "military communication") ...signal communication. The development of the Morse Code of dots and dashes used with key and sounder was soon used to augment the various means of visual signaling. Vice Admiral ...
(from the article "metallurgy") Flash smelting is a relatively recent development that has found worldwide acceptance. It is an autogenous process, using the oxidation of sulfides in an unroasted charge to supply the heat ...
array of wavelengths detectable in the emissions from the limb of the Sun during the flash periods of a few seconds just after the beginning of totality during a solar ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Tohono O'odham") Traditionally, unlike the Pima, the Tohono O'odham did not store water to irrigate their fields, instead practicing a form of flash-flood farming. After the first rains, they planted seeds in ...
in motion pictures and literature, narrative technique of interrupting the chronological sequence of events to interject events of earlier occurrence. The earlier events often take the form of reminiscence. The ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "flashbulb") one-time light bulb giving a single bright burst of light, used in photography. See flash lamp.major referenceflash lampThe flashbulb, developed ...
(from the article "stained glass") To these refinements of the craft was added one wholly new technique, the abrasion of flashed glass. Ruby glass, whose unique composition made this technique possible, was a laminated glass, ...
(from the article "brick and tile") ...and buffs. Ordinary clays and shales are associated with the red ranges. By regulating the oxidizing conditions in the kiln, browns, purples, and blacks can be obtained. The process is ...
(from the article "geyser") ...or gas bubbles begin to form in the conduit, hot water spills from the vent of the geyser, and the pressure is lowered on the water column below. Water at ...
(from the article "lighthouse") ...belong. The regulations are too lengthy to quote in full, but essentially a lighthouse may display a single flash, regularly repeated at perhaps 5-, 10-, or 15-second intervals. This is ...
(from the article "eye disease") Flashing lights in the field of vision are caused by stimulation of the retina by mechanical means. Most commonly this occurs when the vitreous degenerates and pulls slightly on its ...
any of three species of fishes in the family Anomalopidae (order Beryciformes), characterized by the presence of luminescent organs just below the eye. They are among the few species of ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "military technology") ...jaws, or dogs, on the upper end that held the smoldering end of a length of match. Pulling up on the bottom of the serpentine brought the tip of the ...
(from the article "flashtube") electric discharge lamp giving a very bright, very brief burst of light, useful in photography and engineering. See flash lamp.PHOTOGRAPHfalling drop of milkFalling drop of milk, i
(from the article "standing to sue") The U.S. Supreme Court noted in Flast v. Cohen (1968) that "the issue of standing is related only to whether the dispute sought to be adjudicated will be presented in ...
(from the article "accidental") in music, sign placed immediately to the left of (or above) a note to show that the note must be changed in pitch. A sharp (♯) raises a note by ...
characters as described by the course of their development in a work of literature. Flat characters are two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the ...
any of approximately 500 species of beetles (insect order Coleoptera) that are red, yellow, or brown and easily recognized by their narrow, flattened bodies. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "baking") A large part of the world's population consumes so-called flat breads on a daily basis. Tortillas and pita bread are representative examples. Traditional tortillas are made from a paste of ...
(from the article "agricultural technology") ...two strips of land are finished, the last furrows cut leave a trench about twice the width of one bottom, called a dead furrow. When land is broken by continuous ...
any of about 1,000 species of small, flat, dark-coloured insects (order Heteroptera) that are usually found under stones, in crevices in dead or dying trees, or under loose bark. Nearly ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "chasing") Chasing is the opposite of embossing, or repousse, in which the metal is worked from the back to give a higher relief. A particular form of chasing, called flat chasing, ...
(from the article "database") ...systems were arranged sequentially (i.e., alphabetically, numerically, or chronologically); the development of direct-access storage devices made possible random access to data via indexes. In flat databases, records are organized according ...
(from the article "puppetry") Hitherto, all the types of puppets that have been considered have been three-dimensional rounded figures. But there is a whole family of two-dimensional flat figures. Flat figures, worked from above ...
(from the article "industrial glass") The Romans were perhaps the first to develop flat glass for use as windows: a bathhouse window of greenish blue colour, most likely obtained by casting, was discovered in the ...
any member of the insect family Silvanidae (order Coleoptera), closely related to and sometimes included in the flat bark beetle (q.v.) family Cucujidae. These beetles are usually less than 3 ...
(from the article "molding") (1) The fascia, face, or band is a continuous member with a flat surface, parallel to the surface that it ornaments and either projecting from or slightly receding into it. ...
(from the article "roof") Two main types of roofs are flat roofs and sloping ones. The flat roof (see 1 in the Figure) has historically been widely used in the Middle East, the American ...
(from the article "computer graphics") ...may be diffuse, from a single source, or both. There are several approaches to rendering the interaction of light with surfaces. The simplest shading techniques are flat, Gouraud, and Phong. ...
(from the article "building construction") ...greatly simplified the design of concrete structures. In the Johnson-Bovey Building (1905) in Minneapolis, the American engineer C.A.P. Turner employed concrete floor slabs without beams (called flat slabs or flat ...
(from the article "income tax") ...is not always clear when income is earned and when taxes are incurred; a direct tax on consumer spending would require the subtraction of net saving (or exemption of capital ...
(from the article "trumpet") ...from the Renaissance onward, the most important being the trombone. A German trumpet with a sliding mouthpipe, the tromba da tirarsi, was sometimes used in the music of Bach. The ...
(from the article "building construction") ...being two great airship hangars for the U.S. Navy in New Jersey-the first built in 1922 with a span of 79 metres (262 feet), the second in 1942 with a ...
(from the article "stringed instrument") The other important subdivision of the zither family is the flat zither; in Africa it is made either from a hollowed plank over which strings are fastened (board zither) or ...
breed of sporting dog, powerful and deep-chested, strong enough to handle large birds and furred game. The breed was developed in the 1870s in England by S.E. Shirley, a founder ...
(from the article "mouse") ...narrow hind feet with bald soles, and sharp, small claws. The thinly furred tail appears hairless; it may be about as long as the head and body, or it can ...
(Felis planiceps), extremely rare Asian cat found in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. One of the smallest members of the cat family, Felidae, the adult is from 40 to ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Myobatrachidae") ...about 4 cm (1.5 inches) long. It was named for the dark, crosslike pattern on its back, and it frequents dry regions and lives underground, emerging from its burrow after ...
(from the article "tunnels and underground excavations") ...in at least three borings at different orientations furnish the data needed for computing the existing geostress. When measurement is desired only at the surface of the drift, the so-called ...
(from the article "mining") Many of the ore deposits mined today had their origins in an ocean, lake, or swamp environment, and, although they may have been pressed, compacted, and perhaps somewhat distorted over ...
(from the article "electronics") Display devices convey information in visible form from electronic devices to human viewers. Common examples are the faces on digital watches, numerical indicators on stereo equipment, and the picture tubes ...
(from the article "solar energy") ...either into thermal energy (heat) or into electrical energy, though the former is easier to accomplish. Two main types of devices are used to capture solar energy and convert it ...
(from the article "marsupial mouse") ...tail is thickly furred and resembles a bottle brush when the hairs are erected. Tuans are arboreal but may raid poultry yards. In both appearance and behaviour the flat-skulled marsupial ...
(from the article "piddock") The flat-topped piddock (Penitella penita), from the Arctic Ocean to Lower California, bores into hard clay, sandstone, and cement, sometimes damaging man-made structures. Some Penitella and Diplothyra species bore into ...
(from the article "sea turtle") ...hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) is largely tropical and common in coral reef habitats, where it feeds on sponges and a variety of other invertebrates. The flatback ...
(from the article "motion-picture technology") ...a vertical device with one or more sound heads and a small viewplate that preserves much of the image brightness without damaging the film. Many European editors, from the 1930s ...
printing press employing a flat surface for the type or plates against which paper is pressed, either by another flat surface acting reciprocally against it or by a cylinder rolling ... [1 Related Articles]
any of six species of Central and South American birds belonging to the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae (order Passeriformes). Flatbills, which constitute the genera Rhynchocyclus and Ramphotrigon, are distinguished by ...
