(from the article "langur") The gray, or Hanuman, langur (S. entellus) of the Indian subcontinent is almost black when newborn and gray, tan, or brown as an adult. Regarded as sacred ...
city, northern Rajasthan state, northwestern India, on the right bank of the Ghaggar River. Previously called Bhatner ("The Fortress of the Bhatti Rajputs"), it became Hanumangarh in 1805 when annexed ...
large urban and industrial area, east-central Hubei sheng (province), central China. Located on the right bank of the Han River at its confluence with the Yangtze River ... [2 Related Articles]
city, southwestern Shaanxi sheng (province), central China. It is situated in a long, narrow, and fertile basin along the Han River, between the Qin (Tsinling) and Micang ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Chinese literature") ...(1966-76), when the only literature available were a few carefully screened works by Lu Hsun, a handful of model revolutionary Peking operas, and the revolutionary-romantic novels of Hao Jan. After ...
(from the article "Su Shi") ...made significant efforts to loosen poetic conventions on form and content, especially in ci, and became known as the founder of the haofang ("heroic ...
in Zoroastrianism, sacred plant and the drink made from it. The preparation of the drink from the plant by pounding and the drinking of it are central features of Zoroastrian ... [12 Related Articles]
(from the article "dress") ...a later fashion of wearing skirt-trousers (hakama) over a full-length black kimono, which, together with the short black haori coat, was until fairly recently ...
in ancient Egyptian religion, personification of the annual inundation of the Nile River. Hapi was the most important among numerous personifications of aspects of natural fertility, and his dominance increased ...
(from the article "Moses") ...parents were from the tribe of Levi, one of the groups in Egypt called Hebrews. Originally the term Hebrew had nothing to do with race or ethnic origin. It derived ...
(Korean: "art of coordinated power"), a Korean form of unarmed self-defense based on the circular foot sweeps and kicks of traditional Korean tae kyon but incorporating punches and circular throws ...
(from the article "animal behaviour") Males of certain African cichlid fish (genus Haplochromis) deceive females by means of a body pattern that resembles cichlid eggs. The females, which are mouth breeders, take into their mouths ...
(from the article "biblical literature") Haplography, or the accidental omission of a letter or word that occurs twice in close proximity, can be found, for example, in the Dead Sea Scroll text of Isaiah.
(from the article "reproductive system, animal") ...a new female. When the new individual matures, it will probably reproduce parthenogenetically. If, however, there are no males in the population, the haploid eggs can develop into haploid males ...
(from the article "algae") ...unfavourable, sexual reproduction is induced. A sexually reproducing organism typically has two phases in its life cycle. In the first stage, each cell has a single set of chromosomes and ...
(from the article "life cycle") The life cycle characteristic of bacteria is termed haplontic. This term refers to the fact that it encompasses a single generation of organisms whose cells are haploid (i.e., contain one ...
(from the article "chondrostean") ...as in either the holosteans or the teleosts. Members of the Late Paleozoic order Tarrasiiformes had an elongated body and a diphycercal caudal fin that was continuous with the dorsal ...
(from the article "linguistics") ...ultimately from the Latin peregrinus; the l sound results from dissimilation of the first r under the influence of the second r. A special case of dissimilation is haplology, in ...
(from the article "bryophyte") ...with elaters and thickenings on the jacket cell walls; opening by 1-4 longitudinal lines; mainly of mid-latitudes, most species in the Australasian and Indo-Malayan region; 2 genera, Haplomitrium (12 species) ...
(from the article "Sapindales") ...Australia and New Zealand to the Pacific Islands. Agathosma (135 species) is endemic to South Africa. Boronia (about 100 species) is one of the largest endemic Australian genera. Haplophyllum (about ...
(from the article "branchiopod") ...elements; antennae large, branched, with 12-15 swimming setae; freshwater and marine, with radiation into endemic species in the Caspian Sea. Contains only 1 genus, Leptodora, a plankton feeder; carapace ...
(from the article "primate") 4 genera of about 20 African species. 3 fossil genera. Miocene to Holocene.2 infraorders of 9 living families containing 41 living genera; 8 fossil families contain about ...
(from the article "protist") Small endoparasites of cells and tissues of mostly certain marine invertebrates; spores structurally complex but without polar filaments or tubes; flagella not present; flattened mitochondrial cristae; infective sporoplasms contain unique ...
any protozoan of the sporozoan subclass Haplosporea. They are internal parasites of invertebrates and lower vertebrates. Representative genera are Ichthyosporidium in fish, Coelosporidium in cockroaches, and the type genus Haplosporidium ...
(from the article "annelid") ...clitellum 1 cell thick; 4 pairs of setae per segment; size, minute to 3 m; examples of genera: Moniligaster, Drawida.Chiefly aquatic worms; male ...
(from the article "annelid") ...gonopores several segments behind segments containing the testes or, when 2 pairs of testes are present, in more posterior segment; size, minute to 30-40 cm; examples of genera:
(from the article "Anthropology and Archaeology") ...One of these gene loci, microcephalin (MCPHI), was thought to control the proliferation or differentiation (or both) of immature nerve cells in the formation of nervous tissue. A haplotype (haploid ...
(from the article "pine") Many botanists consider the genus Pinus to contain two subgenera. Haploxylon, or soft, pines have one fibrovascular bundle; Diploxylon, or hard, pines have two.
event that combined elements of painting, poetry, music, dance, and theatre and staged them as a live action. The term Happening was coined by American artist Allan Kaprow in the ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Aristotle") Aristotle's approach to ethics is teleological. If life is to be worth living, he argues, it must surely be for the sake of something that is an end in itself-i.e., ...
town, south-central Labrador, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, on the western end of Lake Melville and near the mouth of the Churchill River. Goose Bay was established in 1941 as ... [1 Related Articles]
small molecule that stimulates the production of antibody molecules only when conjugated to a larger molecule, called a carrier molecule. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "organometallic compound") ...same way as for any organic compound. The number of carbon atoms on a group that are attached to the metal is indicated by the superscript in etan. This convention ...
a colourless protein of the alpha-globulin fraction of human serum (liquid portion of blood plasma after the clotting factor fibrinogen has been removed) that transports hemoglobin freed from destroyed red ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "fungus") ...on euglena, some are biotrophic with other Oomycota or algae; may have naked thalli; example genera include Pseudosphaerita and Rozellopsis.Parasitic on algae or plant roots, including roots of sugar ...
(from the article "Maori") ...and common allegiance to a chief or chiefs (ariki). Traditionally, at the day-to-day level, the most important social groups were the hapuu (subtribe), which ...
Afghan resistance leader (b. 1957/58, Nangarhar province, Afg.-d. Oct. 26, 2001, Kabul, Afg.), was an audacious guerrilla commander in Afghanistan's war against the Soviet Union and later became an internationally ...
(from the article "Cricket") ...altering the condition of the ball during play, potentially making it easier to take wickets. After lengthy high-level discussions with officials of the Pakistan Cricket Board, Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq did ...
(Arabic: "reality," "truth"), in Sufi (Muslim mystic) terminology, the knowledge the Sufi acquires when the secrets of the divine essence are revealed to him at the end of his journey ...
(from the article "Kazakhstan") ...Nominally, the khans commanded a formidable force of mounted warriors, but, in reality, they depended on the loyalty of the beys and batyrs. The last son of Kasym Khan to ...
(from the article "Arabic literature") ...of the group elaborated on his efforts and brought the genre to a level of real maturity: if Muhammad's brother Mahmud Taymur was certainly the most prolific, both Yahya Haqqi ...
(from the article "Bangladesh") Area: 147,570 sq km (56,977 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 140,661,000 | Capital: Dhaka | Chief of state: President Iajuddin Ahmed | Head of government: Chief Advisers ...
seventh Sikh Guru, whose administration marked a period of decline in the fortunes of the Sikh community. Unlike his grandfather, the great military Guru Hargobind, Har Rai was a man ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Iranian religion") ...realm of the Endless Lights, and below the earth was the realm of darkness and chaos. The earth itself rested on the cosmic sea called Varu-Karta. In the centre of ...
politician who was prime minister of Japan from 1918 to 1921 and who established the political party as a fundamental institution of politics in Japan.
(from the article "Law, Crime, and Law Enforcement") ...Slobodan Milosevic, upon his initiative, had asked to be removed from the case; the judges denied the request, and Milosevic continued to serve as his own primary counsel. In March ...
in Japanese religion, any of numerous Shinto purification ceremonies. Harai rites, and similar misogi exercises using water, cleanse the individual so that he may approach a deity or sacred power ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "harai") ...part in worship, beginning a festival, or taking out a religious procession. The simpler rites consist of washing the hands or rinsing the mouth or having the priest shake over ...
the first king to claim sovereignty over all Norway. One of the greatest of the 9th-century Scandinavian warrior chiefs, he gained effective control of Norway's western coastal districts but probably ... [3 Related Articles]
Norwegian king who, along with his brothers, overthrew Haakon I about 961 and ruled oppressively until about 970. He is credited with establishing the first Christian missions in Norway. [1 Related Articles]
king of Norway (1045-66). His harsh suppression of lesser Norwegian chieftains cost him their military support in his unsuccessful struggle to conquer Denmark (1045-62). [4 Related Articles]
king of Norway (1130-36), a ruthless sovereign whose feud with his fellow king Magnus IV the Blind over the Norwegian throne marked the beginning of a period of civil wars ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Arabian religion") The sanctuaries, sometimes carved in the rock on high places, consisted of a haram, a sacred open-air enclosure, accessible only to unarmed and ritually clean people in ritual clothes. There ...
(from the article "Israel") ...the Egyptian and Iraqi forces that menaced the south and central parts of the coastal plain. However, the old walled city of Jerusalem, containing the Western Wall, the last remnant ...
(from the article "Islamic arts") ...to non-Arab traditions. Even the rather sophisticated art created in earlier times by the Palmyrenes or by the Nabataeans had almost no impact on Islamic art, and the primitively conceived ...
(from the article "Saudi Arabia") ...Islamist groups accused of carrying out acts of sabotage in the kingdom and abroad. The authorities even cracked down on charitable organizations accused of funding suspected radical groups. The al-Haramain ...
(from the article "Kenya") ...population. The problem was compounded as the number of secondary schools grew. Because the government could not provide enough government-funded schools, community-built harambee secondary schools were developed. ...
(from the article "Eritrea") Despite their tribulations, Eritreans had at least one reason to celebrate in 2006: the Red Sea Boys, the country's association football (soccer) team, thought to be minnows, handily beat Kenya's ...
(from the article "Bundi") The original princely state of Bundi was known as Haraoti. It came under British paramountcy as a result of a treaty in 1818 and became part of the state of ...
village on the left bank of a now dry course of the Ravi River, west-southwest of the town of Sahiwal, in the Punjab, in eastern Pakistan. The village stands on ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "India") ...so extensive a set of relations as those implicit in the size and uniformity of the Harappan state and the extent of trade contacts must have called for a well-developed ...
capital of Zimbabwe, lying in the northeastern part of the country. The city was founded in 1890 at the spot where the British South Africa Company's Pioneer Column halted its ... [11 Related Articles]
inhabitants of oases in the Sahara, especially in southern Morocco and Mauritania, who constitute a socially and ethnically distinct class of workers. [3 Related Articles]
town, west-central Liberia, West Africa. It lies along the Farmington River, 15 miles (24 km) upstream from the Atlantic Ocean. Since 1926 it has been the centre of the vast ...
city, capital of Heilongjiang sheng (province), northeastern China. It is located on the south bank of the Sungari (Songhua) River. The site of the city is generally ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Heilungkiang") Harbin is an important educational centre, especially in engineering and applied science. The Harbin Institute of Technology was founded in 1920 to train technical personnel for the Chinese Eastern Railway. ...
district, administrative county of Leicestershire, England. The district lies mostly within the historic county of Leicestershire, but it includes an area in Market Harborough that lies to the south of ...
town, southeastern Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It lies on the northeast coast of Avalon Peninsula, 32 miles (51 km) west-northwest of St. John's, across Conception Bay. Settled about 1550, ...
(Phoca vitulina), nonmigratory, earless seal (family Phocidae) found throughout the Northern Hemisphere. The harbour seal is whitish or grayish at birth and as an adult is generally gray with black ...
any part of a body of water and the manmade structures surrounding it that sufficiently shelters a vessel from wind, waves, and currents, enabling safe anchorage or the discharge and ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Hamburg") Having absorbed Altona, Harburg, and Wandsbek in 1937, Hamburg has become Germany's major industrial city. All processing and manufacturing industries are represented there. Hamburg treats most of the country's copper ...
(from the article "1939: Other Winners") ...of OzScoring: Richard Hageman, Frank Harling, John Leipold, Leo Shuken for StagecoachSong: "Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz; music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by E.Y. HarburgHonorary Award: Ralph ...
French general who distinguished himself against the Spanish and in the civil wars of the Fronde (1648-53), which began as an uprising of the members of the Parlement of Paris ...
British lawyer, journalist, politician, and cabinet member in five British Liberal governments, who in 1894 achieved a major reform in death duties, or estate taxation.
(from the article "acid-base reaction") This kind of behaviour has led to a classification of Lewis acids and bases into "hard" and "soft" categories; as a rule, hard acids react preferentially with hard bases and, ...
(from the article "acid-base reaction") This kind of behaviour has led to a classification of Lewis acids and bases into "hard" and "soft" categories; as a rule, hard acids react preferentially with hard bases and, ...
(from the article "Blakey, Art") American drummer and bandleader noted for his extraordinary drum solos, which helped define the offshoot of bebop known as "hard bop" and gave the drums a significant solo status. His ...
(from the article "candy") Sugar has the property of forming a type of noncrystalline "glass" that forms the basis of hard candy products. Sugar and water are boiled until the concentration of the solution ...
(from the article "carboxylic acid") ...hexanoic (caproic), octanoic (caprylic), and decanoic (capric) acids, respectively. Common names for these three acids are derived from the Latin caper, meaning "goat." Some hard cheeses (e.g., Swiss cheese) contain ...
(from the article "cider") ...juice that has not been subjected to any permanent preservative treatment is generally called sweet cider, whereas juice that has been permitted to undergo some natural fermentation is designated hard ...
(from the article "Computers and Information Systems") A new technology called "perpendicular recording," which sharply increased the amount of data that could be stored on a hard-disk drive, debuted in PCs. By recording bits of data vertically ...
(from the article "Fort Stanwix, Treaties of") ...portion of this cession was in fact beyond Iroquois territory, and the British negotiated additional agreements with the Cherokee verifying the new boundaries in what is now West Virginia at ...
(from the article "United States") ...of contributions and limited the amounts of contributions to candidates for federal office. Individuals were allowed to contribute directly to a candidate no more than $1,000 in so-called "hard money" ...
(from the article "journalism") Although the core of journalism has always been the news, the latter word has acquired so many secondary meanings that the term "hard news" has gained currency to distinguish items ...
(from the article "palate") in vertebrate anatomy, the roof of the mouth, separating the oral and nasal cavities. It consists of an anterior hard palate of bone and, in mammals, a posterior soft palate ...
(from the article "pine") Pines are softwoods, but commercially they may be designated as soft pines or hard pines. Soft pines, such as white, sugar, and pinon pines, have relatively soft timber, needles in ...
(from the article "porcelain") The three main types of porcelain are true, or hard-paste, porcelain; artificial, or soft-paste, porcelain; and bone china. Porcelain was first made in China-in a primitive form during the T'ang ...
(from the article "computer") ...real-time systems if they must guarantee schedules that handle all events even in a worst case and "soft" if missed deadlines are not fatal. An aircraft control system is a ...
(from the article "cereal processing") Characteristic variations of the different types of wheat are important agricultural considerations. Hard wheats include the strong wheats of Canada (Manitoba) and the similar hard red spring (HRS) wheats of ...
(from the article "cereal processing") Wheats intermediate in character include the hard red winter (HRW) wheats of the central United States and wheat from Argentina. There are important differences between spring and winter varieties. Spring ...
(from the article "sauce") ...noir) for a distinctive taste that is sharpened with lemon juice, vinegar, or capers. For beurre blanc, a reduced seasoning liquid is beaten into softened butter before it can melt ...
(from the article "tick") This group has a worldwide distribution, and all species are assigned to three families: Argasidae, comprising the soft ticks, and Nuttalliellidae and Ixodidae, together comprising the hard ticks. The family ...
water that contains salts of calcium and magnesium principally as bicarbonates, chlorides, and sulfates. Ferrous iron may also be present; oxidized to the ferric form, it appears as a reddish ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "flour") ...containing approximately 8-12 percent protein, produce flours that are suitable for products requiring minimal structure, such as cakes, cookies (sweet biscuits), piecrusts, and crackers. Hard wheats, which are high in ...
