(from the article "Brooklyn") ...spelled Breucklyn, Breuckland, Brucklyn, Broucklyn, Brookland, and Brookline (the present spelling became fixed about the close of the 18th century). Later settlements included New Utrecht (1650), Flatbush (1651), Bushwick, and ...
(from the article "freight car") ...to convey fresh or frozen foods over long distances. Another variation of the common boxcar is the stock car with slatted sides, which is used to transport cattle, sheep, and ...
congenital or acquired flatness of the longitudinal arch of the foot. Usually associated with loss of the arch is a rolling outward of the foot and heel, resulting in a ...
Salish-speaking North American Indian tribe of what is now western Montana, U.S., whose original territory extended from the crest of the Bitterroot Range to the Continental Divide of the Rocky ... [3 Related Articles]
any of the flattened marine fish of the family Platycephalidae (order Scorpaeniformes), found in the Indo-Pacific and in tropical regions of the eastern Atlantic. Flatheads are elongated, large-mouthed fish with ... [1 Related Articles]
lake in the Flathead National Forest of northwestern Montana, U.S. Flathead Lake marks the southern limit of the Rocky Mountain Trench, a structural depression extending northward to the Liard Plain ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Flathead Lake") lake in the Flathead National Forest of northwestern Montana, U.S. Flathead Lake marks the southern limit of the Rocky Mountain Trench, a structural depression extending northward to the Liard Plain ...
river rising in the MacDonald Range in southeastern British Columbia, Can., and flowing south for 240 miles (385 km) across the Canada-United States boundary into Montana. After passing between the ... [1 Related Articles]
At the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest, held at the Point Theatre in Dublin, the most successful act was not even entered in the competition. An intermission entertainment entitled Riverdance, starring ...
(from the article "Scruggs, Earl") In 1948 Scruggs and Lester Flatt, the guitarist and tenor singer in the group, left to form their own band, the Foggy Mountain Boys. Flatt & Scruggs became one of ...
(from the article "Monroe, Bill") Monroe's bluegrass sound emerged fully in 1945, when banjoist Earl Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt joined his band. The Blue Grass Boys established the classic makeup of a bluegrass group-mandolin, ...
(from the article "geoid") An ellipsoid of revolution is specified by two parameters: a semimajor axis (equatorial radius for the Earth) and a semiminor axis (polar radius), or the flattening. Flattening (f) is defined ...
the presence of excessive amounts of gas in the stomach or intestine, which sometimes results in the expulsion of the gas through the anus. Healthy individuals produce significant amounts of ... [1 Related Articles]
spoons, forks, and serving implements used at the table. The term flatware was introduced toward the end of the 19th century. Strictly speaking, it excludes knives, which are classified as ...
(from the article "Mississippi") ...ridge, averaging 400 to 600 feet (120 to 180 metres) above sea level, is one of the state's most distinctive features. Its fertile, sandy loam is excellent for orchards. A ...
any of the phylum Platyhelminthes, a group of soft-bodied, usually much flattened invertebrates. A number of flatworm species are free-living, but about 80 percent of all flatworms are parasitic-i.e., living ... [16 Related Articles]
novelist regarded as the prime mover of the realist school of French literature and best known for his masterpiece, Madame Bovary (1857), a realistic portrayal of bourgeois life, which led ... [16 Related Articles]
(from the article "heraldry") ...is the upper half of a saltire (St. Andrew's cross) with the lower half of a pale, forming a Y-shape. The pile is a triangle pointing downward. The flaunch, or ...
(AD 69-96), the ancient Roman imperial dynasty of Vespasian (reigned 69-79) and his sons Titus (79-81) and Domitian (81-96); they belonged to the Flavia gens. [4 Related Articles]
bishop of Antioch from 381 to 404, whose election perpetuated the schism originated by Meletius of Antioch (q.v.), a crucial division in the Eastern Church over the nature of the ...
patriarch of Antioch probably from 498 to 512. He was chosen patriarch by the emperor Anastasius I after he accepted the evasive Henoticon, the decree of union between the Monophysites ...
patriarch of Constantinople from 446 to 449, who opposed the heretical doctrine of the Monophysites (q.v.). He presided at the Synod of Constantinople (448), which condemned the monk Eutyches (q.v.), ... [1 Related Articles]
any of a group of pale-yellow, greenly fluorescent biological pigments (biochromes) widely distributed in small quantities in plant and animal tissues. Flavins are synthesized only by bacteria, yeasts, and green ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "cell") ...the carbon atoms yield carbon dioxide and the hydrogen atoms are transferred to the cell's most important hydrogen acceptors, the coenzymes nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), ...
American artist whose installations featuring fluorescent lighting tubes emit a rich, ambient monochrome or multicoloured light that subtly reshapes the interior spaces in which they are displayed. He was one ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Timon of Athens") ...feast, invites his fair-weather friends, serves them warm water, and throws it in their faces. Leaving Athens filled with hatred, he goes to live in a cave. There he is ...
(from the article "Vespasian") ...His mother, Vespasia Polla, also belonged to the equestrian order in society but had a brother who entered the Senate. In his early life Vespasian was somewhat overshadowed by his ...
Roman legal writer and politician who made public the technical rules of legal procedure, which had been kept secret by the patricians and the pontifices (advisers to the king, dictator, ...
(from the article "virus") ...virus, eastern and western equine encephalitis viruses), the other non-arthropod-borne and designated rubivirus (the causative agent of German measles).Viruses of this family are enveloped and spherical in shape, with ...
any of a class of nonnitrogenous biological pigments (biochromes) that includes the anthocyanins and the anthoxanthins. Extensively represented in plants, the flavonoids are of relatively minor and limited occurrence in ... [4 Related Articles]
in particle physics, property that distinguishes different members in the two groups of basic building blocks of matter, the quarks and the leptons. There are six flavours of subatomic particle ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "food additive") Flavour enhancers are compounds that are added to a food in order to supplement or enhance its own natural flavour. The concept of flavour enhancement originated in Asia, where cooks ...
any of the liquid extracts, essences, and flavours that are added to foods to enhance their taste and aroma. Flavourings are prepared from essential oils, such as almond and lemon; ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "heterocyclic compound") The flavylium cation is the parent of the anthocyanidines, substances that in chemical combination with sugars form the anthocyanin pigments, the common red and blue colouring matters of flowers and ...
(genus Linum usitatissimum), plant of the family Linaceae and its fibre, which is second in importance among the bast fibre (q.v.) group. The flax plant is cultivated both for its ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "community ecology") The best-studied example is that of wild flax (Linum marginale) and flax rust (Melampsora lini) in Australia. Local populations of flax plants and flax rust harbour multiple matching genes for ...
(from the article "Red Hot Chili Peppers") ...friends Anthony Kiedis(b. Nov. 1, 1962Grand Rapids, Mich., U.S.), Flea (original name Michael Balzary; b. Oct. 16, 1962Melbourne, Austl.), Hillel...
any of a group of bloodsucking insects that are important carriers of disease and can be serious pests. Fleas are parasites that live on the exterior of the host (i.e., ... [5 Related Articles]
any member of the insect subfamily Alticinae (Halticinae) belonging to the leaf beetle family Chrysomelidae (order Coleoptera). These tiny beetles, worldwide in distribution, are usually less than 6 mm (0.25 ... [2 Related Articles]
any of the plants of the genus Erigeron of the family Asteraceae, order Asterales, containing about 200 species of annual, biennial, and perennial herbs native primarily to temperate parts of ...
in French architecture, any spire; in English it is an architectural term for a small slender spire placed on the ridge of a church roof. The fleche is usually built ...
(from the article "Descartes, Rene") In 1606 Descartes was sent to the Jesuit college at La Fleche, established in 1604 by Henry IV (reigned 1589-1610). At La Fleche, 1,200 young men were trained for careers ...
(from the article "metalwork") ...taken from popular art were widely used. The type of strokes used fall into three categories: long, engraved lines; dots set close together to form a pattern; and a technique ...
(from the article "Anura") Some other South American genera of Hylidae also exhibit the phenomenon of direct development of eggs carried on the backs of the females. In Flectonotus and
(from the article "admiral") In the U.S. Navy a fleet admiral ranks with a general of the army or general of the air force. Admiral ranks with general and vice admiral with lieutenant general. ...
(from the article "rackets") In its beginnings, rackets was played in rather formless fashion without set rules. In Fleet Prison the game was well established by the middle of the 18th century, and in ...
(from the article "Northcliffe, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount") ...Without Being Vulgar") and Forget-Me-Not, for the new reading public of women. These formed the basis for what became the Amalgamated Press (from 1959 Fleetway Press), the ...
(from the article "Wyre") ...the moor uplands of the Pennines, and most of the borough is rural and agricultural. Most of the population is concentrated near the coast at Fleetwood, Thornton Cleveleys, and Poulton-le-Fylde. ...
British blues band that evolved into the hugely popular Anglo-American pop-rock group whose 1977 album Rumours was one of the biggest-selling albums of all time. The original ...
(from the article "Fleetwood Mac") ...the hugely popular Anglo-American pop-rock group whose 1977 album Rumours was one of the biggest-selling albums of all time. The original members were Mick Fleetwood(b. June ...
British actress who was a mainstay of the British classical theatre for almost 30 years, particularly in dozens of acclaimed roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre ...
(from the article "Naples") ...Gulf of Pozzuoli and to the southeast by the more extended indentation of the Gulf of Salerno-the city is situated between two areas of volcanic activity: Mount Vesuvius to the ...
(from the article "perissodactyl") Male zebras and horses follow mares in estrus. The stallion, after smelling the spot where a mare has urinated or defecated, exhibits "flehmen" (a characteristic display in which the head ...
American brothers, producers of animated cartoons featuring such characters as Betty Boop and Popeye. Producer Max Fleischer (b. July 19, 1883, Vienna, Austria, -d. Sept. 11, 1972, Woodland Hills, Calif., ...
(from the article "Fleischer brothers") ...first cartoon film in 1915. The mechanically inclined Max invented the rotoscope, a time- and labour-saving device in which live-action film frames are traced as a guide for animated action. ...
(from the article "Fleischer brothers") The Fleischer brothers were sons of an Austrian tailor who took his family to America in 1887. They completed their first cartoon film in 1915. The mechanically inclined Max invented ...
In December 2007 American pianist Leon Fleisher reached a high point in a remarkable career when he was awarded a Kennedy Center Honor in Washington, D.C. A child prodigy, Fleisher ...
an unknown Flemish painter and leading artist of the northern Renaissance, whose work is characterized by naturalistic and sculptural conceptions that signalize the replacement of the decorative International Style of ... [1 Related Articles]
members of the two predominant cultural and linguistic groups of modern Belgium. The Flemings, who constitute more than half of the Belgian population, speak Netherlandic (Flemish) and live mainly in ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "railroad") ...Columbia a railroad connection with the Canadian network within 10 years. An agreement was reached with little knowledge of where and how such a rail line could be built. A ...
suspense-fiction novelist whose character James Bond, the stylish, high-living British secret service agent 007, became one of the most successful and widely imitated heroes of 20th-century popular fiction. [2 Related Articles]
outstanding lyrical poet of 17th-century Germany. He brought a new immediacy and sincerity to the innovations of metre and stanza introduced by his teacher, Martin Opitz.
(from the article "All-England (Wimbledon) Tennis Championships—doubles") ...and 1981-becoming the first man since Bill Tilden to win that title three consecutive times-and again in 1984. He also won the Wimbledon Singles in 1981, 1983, and 1984. With ...
American soprano noted for the beauty and richness of her voice and for the thought and sensitivity she brought to the texts. Fleming's repertoire was extraordinarily broad, spanning three centuries ... [1 Related Articles]
Canadian-born U.S. oceanographer who conducted wide-ranging studies in the areas of chemical and biochemical oceanography, ocean currents (particularly those off the Pacific coast of Central America), and naval uses of ...
(from the article "Football") ...ahead 28-25 with 1 minute 3 seconds left in regulation play, but Damon Duval's field goal at the gun forced overtime (in which each team takes possession at its opponent's ...
Scottish bacteriologist whose discovery of penicillin (1928) prepared the way for the highly effective practice of antibiotic therapy for infectious diseases. Fleming shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine ... [6 Related Articles]
one of Hollywood's most popular motion-picture directors during the 1930s. With producer David O. Selznick, he was responsible for completing Gone with the Wind (1939). [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Melbourne") ...for active sports participants. Spectators find good accommodations at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which holds 100,000 and is used for both cricket and Australian Rules football, and at the Flemington ...
art of the 15th, 16th, and early 17th centuries in Flanders, known for its vibrant materialism and unsurpassed technical skill. From the van Eycks through Bruegel to Rubens, the Flemish ... [11 Related Articles]
(from the article "Flemish bond") in masonry, method of bonding bricks or stones in courses. See bond.bondbondAmong the more common types of bond are the ...
(from the article "Belgium") ...speaking people (more than one-half of the total population), who are concentrated in the five northern and northeastern provinces (West Flanders, East Flanders [West-Vlaanderen, Oost-Vlaanderen], Flemish Brabant, Antwerp, and Limburg). ...
(from the article "Belgian literature") Flemishcontribution byConscienceConscience, HendrikBelgian romantic novelist who so dominated the birth and developm
the 19th- and 20th-century nationalist movement of Flemish-speaking people in Belgium. It has sought political and cultural equality with, or separation from, the less numerous but long-dominant French-speaking Walloons. The ...
(from the article "Western architecture") ...Mannerism, which came into England primarily from Flanders. The pilasters and half columns have raised bands across their middles, and the gables crowning the corner towers are decorated with Flemish ...
German anatomist, a founder of the science of cytogenetics (the study of the cell's hereditary material, the chromosomes). He was the first to observe and describe systematically the behaviour of ... [1 Related Articles]
city, Schleswig-Holstein Land (state), Germany. A port at the head of Flensburg Fjord, it is Germany's most northerly large city. First mentioned in 1240, it was chartered ...
(from the article "nuclear weapon") ...in the West. The military implications of such a discovery were immediately apparent, but Soviet research was brought to a halt by the German invasion in June 1941. In early ...
any member of a family of insects in the fly order, Diptera, that are similar in appearance to the house fly but are characterized by blackish stripes on the gray ...
(from the article "grease") ...a low content of free fatty acids. Yellow grease is made from darker parts of the hog and may include parts used to make white grease. Brown grease contains beef ...
a group of late 19th-century English poets associated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The term was invented by the Scottish author Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901) and appeared as the title of ...
(from the article "Classification of fruits") There are two broad categories of fruits: fleshy fruits, in which the pericarp and accessory parts develop into succulent tissues, as in tomatoes, oranges, and cherries; and dry fruit, in ...
(from the article "Marshall, John") In commerce law Marshall led the court in deciding a number of cases brought in response to the emerging American economy and the government's attempts to regulate it. FletcherPeck (1810) ...
(from the article "Arctic Ocean") ...of ice drift. The most striking feature of the surface circulation pattern is the large clockwise gyre (circular motion) that covers almost the entire Amerasia Basin. Fletcher's Ice Island (T-3) ...
American anthropologist whose stature as a social scientist, notably for her pioneer studies of Native American music, has overshadowed her influence on federal government Indian policies that later were considered ...
(from the article "Red Rum") Bought as a crippled seven-year-old, he was reconditioned by his trainer Ginger McCain who ran him on the sand and in the sea. In 1973, ridden by Brian Fletcher, Red ...
British entertainer (b. June 25, 1913, Watford, Hertfordshire, Eng.-d. Jan. 2, 2005, St. Peter Port, Guernsey), appeared regularly on BBC radio and television for more than six decades. Fletcher first ...
(from the article "Coral Sea, Battle of the") ...Japanese plan to seize Port Moresby and alerted all available sea and air power. When the Japanese landed at Tulagi on May 3, carrier-based U.S. planes from a task force ...
