(from the article "reproductive system, animal") ...mammal, in contrast to the short genital tubercle of reptiles. Except in ruminants (i.e., cud-chewing animals, such as cattle and deer), cetaceans, and some rodents, the penis terminates in a ...
English self-styled Skeptic and apologist for the Royal Society who defended the reality of witchcraft and ghosts and the preexistence of the soul. Thereby, according to some, he initiated psychical ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Boscawen, Edward") ...the navy at an early age, serving under Vice Admiral Francis Hosier in the West Indies in 1726 and under Admiral Edward Vernon at Portobelo (1739) and at Cartagena (1741). ...
justiciar or chief minister of England (1180-89) under King Henry II who was the reputed author of the first authoritative text on the common law, Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus ...
(from the article "blood disease") Some bleeding disorders are due to abnormalities of platelet function rather than to a defect in platelet number. Glanzmann thrombasthenia, an inherited disorder associated with a mild bleeding tendency, is ...
(from the article "charadriiform") ...Large eyes. 9 species; temperate and tropical regions of Eurasia, Africa, and Australia; New World tropics; length 35-52 cm (14-20 inches).Pratincoles short-billed, long-winged, with medium-long legs ...
canton, east-central Switzerland, comprising the deep, level upper valley of the Linth River, which rises in the southwest in the glaciers of the Todi (11,857 feet [3,614 metres]), highest of ... [2 Related Articles]
town, capital of Glarus canton, eastern Switzerland, on the left bank of the Linth River, at the northeastern foot of the Glarnisch Massif (with four peaks, rising above 8,900 feet ... [1 Related Articles]
segment of the Central Alps lying north of the Vorderrhein River mainly in Glarus canton of east-central Switzerland. The mountains extend east to the Rhine River and north to the ...
Scottish Presbyterian clergyman denounced by his church for opposing the concept of a national religious establishment. He was founder of the Glasites (Sandemanians, q.v.). [1 Related Articles]
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city, west-central Scotland. It is situated along both banks of the River Clyde 20 miles (32 km) from that river's mouth on the western, or Atlantic, coast. Glasgow is Scotland's ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "city mission") In Great Britain the Glasgow City Mission (1826) and the London City Mission (1835) both sought to evangelize and rehabilitate the urban poor. Beginning with home visitation and tract distribution ...
(from the article "Prestwick") burgh (town), South Ayrshire council area, historic county of Ayrshire, western Scotland, on the Firth of Clyde and contiguous with the city of Ayr to the south. Prestwick's international airport, ...
(from the article "Mackintosh, Charles Rennie") Mackintosh's chief architectural projects were the Glasgow School of Art (1896-1909), considered the first original example of Art Nouveau architecture in Great Britain; two unrealized projects-the 1901 International exhibition, Glasgow ...
(from the article "Glasgow") ...an exhibition and conference centre devoted to architecture, design, and city planning. The Glasgow Science Centre explores the effect of science and technology on society and includes the Glasgow Tower. ...
state-supported university in Glasgow, Scot. The university was founded in 1451 by a bull of Pope Nicholas V on the petition of King James II of Scotland. From 1460, lands ... [1 Related Articles]
American theoretical physicist who, with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979 for their complementary efforts in formulating the electroweak theory, which explains the ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Cornish literature") ...and seven-syllable lines, and are related to the miracle plays, morality plays, and mystery plays performed throughout medieval Europe. The main centre for the production of the Cornish plays was ...
(from the article "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") ...Politburo and was replaced as cadres chief by Georgy Razumovsky. Gorbachev's nominee was Aleksandr Yakovlev, who became secretary for propaganda and overseer of the media. His task was to expand ...
an inorganic solid material that is usually transparent or translucent as well as hard, brittle, and impervious to the natural elements. Glass has been made into practical and decorative objects ... [61 Related Articles]
(from the article "industrial glass") Solid glass beads and microspheres used in blast cleaners, shot peening, and reflective paints can be made simply by passing finely fritted glass through a hot flame. Hollow microspheres, used ...
(from the article "projection screen") ...an optical projector is shown. Many materials are suitable for screens, the principal requirement being a high degree of reflectivity. The three most common types of screen are the mat ...
(from the article "drawing") ...the object to be drawn to be viewed in line with a screen on the drawing surface. Fixed points can be marked with relative ease on the resultant system of ...
(from the article "catfish") The ictalurids are more or less typical catfishes; others, however, may be distinctive in appearance or behaviour. The glass catfish (Kryptopterus bicirrhus), for example, is a popular aquarium fish of ...
(from the article "industrial glass") In some glasses it is possible to bring about a certain degree of crystallization in the normally random atomic structure. Glassy materials that exhibit such a structure are called glass ...
(from the article "migration") ...than three inches), a metamorphosis occurs. The leptocephali are transformed into so-called elvers, which are bottom-dwelling, pigmented, and cylindrical in form. They arrive in coastal waters as glass eels and ...
(from the article "acid-base reaction") ...method for determining the concentration of one of the species in the scheme A + H2O &rlarr2; B + H3O+. For example, a hydrogen electrode (or more commonly a glass ...
any of a group of tree frogs found in the New World tropics, some species of which have transparent bellies and chests. In glass frogs the viscera are visible, and ... [3 Related Articles]
musical instrument consisting of a set of graduated, tuned glass bowls sounded by the friction of wetted fingers on their rims. It was invented by Benjamin Franklin and was derived ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Architecture") ...Kahn's art museum at Yale University was also given a long-needed restoration, as was Yale's Art and Architecture Building by American architect Paul Rudolph. In June a famous Modernist house, ...
group of 11 principal peaks, the highest of which is Beerwah (1,824 feet [556 m]), in southeastern Queensland, Australia, 45 miles (70 km) north of Brisbane. Composed of volcanic trachyte, ...
(from the article "Glass House Mountains") ...by the English navigator Captain James Cook, who supposedly named them because of their resemblance to glass furnaces in Yorkshire, Eng., they were explored in 1799 by Matthew Flinders. The ...
any lizard of the genus Ophisaurus in the family Anguidae, so named because the tail is easily broken off. The Eastern glass lizard, Ophisaurus ventralis, occurs in southeastern North America ...
(from the article "painting") Glass paintings are executed with oil and hard resin or with watercolour and gum on glass sheets. These have been a folk art tradition in Europe and North America and, ...
(from the article "silica mineral") ...which commonly contain more than one-half quartz by weight. Some strata consist almost entirely of quartz over large lateral distances and tens or hundreds of metres in thickness. Known as ...
any of a class (Hexactinellida, also called Hyalospongiae, or Triaxonia) of sponges characterized by a skeleton that consists of silica spicules (needlelike structures) often united into a delicate geometric network-e.g., ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "industrial glass") ...(the supercooled liquid) to the seemingly solid state (glass) is gradual, with no evidence of any discontinuities in properties. The transition takes place over a range of temperatures called the ...
(from the article "industrial glass") ...Figure 1 is the glass transition temperature, or Tg; this would be located at the lower end of the transformation range.) In crystallization, on the other hand, the transition from ...
(from the article "Bonding types and glass transition temperatures of representative amorphous solids") ...is plotted vertically. The temperature Tb is the boiling point, Tf is the freezing (or melting) point, and Tg is the glass transition temperature. In scenario 1 the liquid freezes ...
(from the article "fibreglass") Fibreglass wool, an excellent sound and thermal insulator, is commonly used in buildings, appliances, and plumbing. Glass filaments and yarns add strength and electrical resistivity to molded plastic products, such ...
On May 4, 2008, on-screen host Ira Glass launched the premiere episode of the second season of This American Life, the cable television adaptation of his long-running public radio program ...
(from the article "Canadian literature") ...Sharon Pollock's Blood Relations (1981), a powerful drama about the accused murderer Lizzie Borden; and Betty Lambert's Jennie's Story (1984). Joanna Glass's plays, ranging ...
the practice of shaping a mass of glass that has been softened by heat by blowing air into it through a tube. Glassblowing was invented by Syrian craftsmen in the ... [6 Related Articles]
borough (town), Gloucester county, southwestern New Jersey, U.S. It lies 17 miles (27 km) south of Camden. Hollybush (1849), the home of the president of Rowan College of New Jersey ...
(from the article "bigeye") ...environments in all of the major oceans. Most species are carnivorous and nocturnal. In the Atlantic the common bigeye (Priacanthus arenatus) attains a length of about 41 cm (16 inches). ...
any of about 24 small Indo-Pacific fishes of the family Chandidae (or Ambassidae, order Perciformes), most with more or less transparent bodies. Sometimes placed with the snooks and Nile perch ...
(from the article "papermaking") The density or specific gravity of paper is calculated from the basis weight and caliper and may vary over wide limits. Glassine, for example, may be 1.4 grams per cubic ...
any decorative article made of glass, often designed for everyday use. From very early times glass has been used for various kinds of vessels, and in all countries where the ... [9 Related Articles]
any of about 30 species of succulent herbs constituting the genus Salicornia, of the amaranth family (Amaranthaceae). They are annual plants native to salt marshes around the world. The jointed, ...
(from the article "industrial glass") Another nonoxide group is the glassy metals, formed by high-speed quenching of fluid metals. Perhaps the most studied glassy metal is a compound of iron, nickel, phosphorus, and boron that ...
(from the article "sweeper") ...Atlantic, and Indian oceans. Sweepers have elongate-oval, compressed bodies with well-developed fins and tail. The eyes are unusually large. A few species have luminescent organs along the body. The glassy ...
(from the article "igneous rock") Aphanitic and glassy textures represent relatively rapid cooling of magma and, hence, are found mainly among the volcanic rocks. Slower cooling, either beneath the Earth's surface or within very thick ...
town ("parish"), Mendip district, administrative and historic county of Somerset, England. It is situated on the slopes of a group of hills that rise from the Brue Valley to a ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Performing Arts") ...He impressed crowds across the U.S., where he appeared alongside Stephen and Damian Marley (sons of reggae hero Bob Marley), and in Britain, where he made his first major appearance ...
French poet of the Parnassian school, known for his small poems of satiric comment and for his peripatetic life as a strolling actor and improvisationalist.
Polish-born poet and literary critic who in 1920 helped establish the Inzikhist ("Introspectivist") literary movement. In later years he was one of the outstanding figures in mid-20th-century American Yiddish literature. [1 Related Articles]
American physicist, who won one-half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2005 for contributions to the field of optics, the branch of physics that deals with the physical properties ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Saturninus, Lucius Appuleius") Roman politician who, with Gaius Servilius Glaucia, opposed the Roman Senate from 103 to 100, at first with the cooperation of the prominent general Gaius Marius.history of Roman Republic
(from the article "arsenopyrite") ...for determining their symmetry. A series of minerals in which cobalt partially replaces iron is called cobaltian arsenopyrites; those in which the Co:Fe ratio lies between 1:2 and 6:1 are ...
disease caused by an increase in pressure within the eye as a result of blockage of the flow of aqueous humour, a watery fluid produced by the ciliary body. (The ... [5 Related Articles]
greenish ferric-iron silicate mineral with micaceous structure [(K, Na)(Fe3+,Al, Mg)2(Si, Al)4O10(OmicronH)2], characteristically formed on submarine elevations ranging in depth from 30 to 1,000 metres (100 to 3,300 feet) below sea ... [3 Related Articles]
common amphibole mineral, a sodium, magnesium, and aluminum silicate that occurs only in crystalline schists formed from sodium-rich rocks by low-grade metamorphism characteristic of subduction zones. Glaucophane typically occurs in ... [2 Related Articles]
one of the major divisions of the mineral facies classification of metamorphic rocks, the rocks of which, because of their peculiar mineralogy, suggest formation conditions of high pressure and relatively ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "gull") The glaucous gull (L. hyperboreus) is mostly white with pinkish legs and a yellow bill with a red spot. It inhabits northern seas, but sometimes it winters as far south ...
(from the article "Glaucus") Glaucus, the son of the Cretan king Minos and his wife Pasiphae, fell into a jar of honey, when a child, and was smothered. The seer Polyeidus finally discovered the ...
(from the article "Glaucus") Glaucus, grandson of Bellerophon, was a Lycian prince who assisted Priam, king of Troy, in the Trojan War. When he found himself opposed in combat to his hereditary friend Diomedes, ...
(from the article "Glaucus") Glaucus of Potniae near Thebes was the son of Sisyphus (king of Corinth) by his wife Merope and father of the hero Bellerophon. According to one legend, he fed his ...
(from the article "Croatia") ...on the basis of command responsibility, with the unlawful killing during the 1993 Medak Pocket military operation of at least 29 Serbian civilians and at least 5 captured soldiers. On ...
American professional baseball player. A dominant pitcher in the 1990s and 2000s, he won two Cy Young awards and was repeatedly named to the Major League Baseball (MLB) National League ...
(from the article "Literature") Austrian author Thomas Glavinic, whose novel Die Arbeit der Nacht (2006) had been well received, followed up with another novel, Das bin doch ich. Like Herrndorf, Glavinic played with the ...
(from the article "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") ...suppressed political dissidence by shutting down hostile newspapers and subjecting all publications to preventive censorship. In 1922 they set up a central censorship office, known for short as Glavlit, with ...
(from the article "Gulag") ...of the early 1920s. Indeed, the Gulag was officially disbanded; its activities were absorbed by various economic ministries, and the remaining camps were grouped in 1955 under a new body, ...
(from the article "Business Overview") ...and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel voted in October to ban cough and cold medicines for children under six years of age, and another FDA panel decided to back a ...
ice coating that forms when supercooled rain, drizzle, or fog drops strike surfaces that have temperatures at or below the freezing point; the accumulated water covers the surface and freezes ...
(from the article "arts, East Asian") ...an almost porcelaneous stoneware was developing, covered with a thin feldspathic glaze, the ancestor of the celadon glaze of the T'ang dynasty and later. Another technique, which appears in the ...
(from the article "1927/28: Other Winners") Original Story: Ben Hecht for UnderworldAdaptation: Benjamin Glazer for 7th HeavenTitle Writing: Joseph FarnhamCinematography: Charles Rosher and Karl Struss for SunriseArt Direction: William Cameron Menzies for The Dove and...
(from the article "pottery") Early fired earthenware vessels held water, but, because they were still slightly porous, the liquid percolated slowly to the outside where it evaporated, cooling the contents of the vessel. Thus, ...
(from the article "textile") Glazing imparts a smooth, stiff, highly polished surface to such fabrics as chintz. It is achieved by applying such stiffeners as starch, glue, shellac, or resin to the fabric and ...
(from the article "building construction") ...windows are still the major form, but hinged types-including casement, hopper, and awning forms-are also used. Sliding glass panel doors are also used, particularly in warmer regions. Glazing is still ...
(from the article "explosive") Glazing (the next operation) consists of tumbling the grains for several hours in large wooden cylinders, during which friction rounds off the corners, and, aided by forced air circulation, brings ...
(from the article "Stone Age") ...stone, stone rings, and nephrite and copper objects appear; close parallels in stone and bone industry, as well as in art style, are found from northern Scandinavia and northern Russia ...
city and administrative centre of Glazov rayon (sector) in Udmurtiya republic, Russia. Founded in 1780 as a point of Udmurt settlement, it is on the Cheptsa River. Industrial activities include ...
American businesswoman whose resourceful management skills were largely responsible for the success of her family's machine-tool business and that of other companies and institutions.
(from the article "Russian literature") ...The central genre of Old Russian literature was probably hagiography, and a number of interesting saints' lives date from the earliest period. Both a chronicle account and two lives of ...
(from the article "mimicry") ...of the genus Phallus, found in woodlands and meadows of the Northern Hemisphere. The cap of the young stinkhorn is covered with a thick, greenish-black, shiny layer of gelatinous spore ...
(from the article "honey locust") A thornless variety, Gleditsia triacanthos inermis, is a popular city tree, valued for its slender growth habit, lacy effect, and light, filtered shade. It has given rise to several horticultural ...
(from Old English gleo: "music" or "entertainment," used in this sense in Beowulf), vocal composition for three or more unaccompanied solo male voices, including a countertenor. It ... [1 Related Articles]
