American paleontologist who did much to unify existing knowledge of North American fossil vertebrates by constructing catalogs that have become standard references.
also called Sir Gilbert Of The Haye Scottish translator of works from the French, whose prose translations are the earliest extant examples of literary Scots prose.
(Nov. 18, 1903), agreement between the United States and Panama granting exclusive canal rights to the United States across the Isthmus of Panama in exchange for financial reimbursement and guarantees ...
(1900-01), either of two agreements between Britain and the United States, the second of which freed the United States from a previous commitment to accept international control of the Panama ...
East African people who speak a Bantu language (also called Hays) and inhabit the northwestern corner of Tanzania between the Kagera River and Lake Victoria.
scholar, university president, and U.S. senator from California (1977-83). He is best known for his popular writings on semantics and for his career as president of San Francisco State College ...
in Japanese music, any of various combinations of flute and percussion instruments. In no and kabuki drama, the hayashi normally consists of a flute plus the hourglass-shaped hand drum (ko-tsuzumi) ...
Japanese scholar who, with his son and grandson, established the thought of the great Chinese Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi as the official doctrine of the Tokugawa shogunate (the hereditary military ...
American geologist who was a pioneer investigator of the western United States. His explorations and geologic studies of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains helped lay the foundation of the ...
American architect who fought for the aesthetic integrity of her design for the Woman's Building of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The building was the only design of ...
Austrian composer who was one of the most important figures in the development of the Classical style in music during the 18th century. He helped establish the forms for the ...
Austrian-born British economist noted for his criticisms of the Keynesian welfare state and of totalitarian socialism. In 1974 he shared the Nobel Prize for Economics with Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal.
river in northeastern Manitoba, Canada, rising from several lakes in the central part of the province and flowing northeastward for 300 miles (500 km) across the Canadian Shield (a region ...
American sprinter who, although he was relatively slow out of the starting block and had an almost lumbering style of running, was a remarkably powerful sprinter with as much raw ...
American first lady (1877-81), the wife of Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States, and the first presidential wife to graduate from college.
19th president of the United States (1877-81), who brought post-Civil War Reconstruction to an end in the South and who tried to establish new standards of official integrity after eight ...
American collegiate gridiron football coach whose career coaching record was 238 games won, 72 lost, and 10 tied. He developed 58 All-American players, and his Ohio State University teams (1951-78) ...
northernmost of the Cumberland Islands, at the northern entrance to Whitsunday Passage (Coral Sea), off northeastern Queensland, Australia. An inshore coral-fringed continental island, it measures 2 miles (3 km) by ...
violent confrontation between police and labour protesters in Chicago on May 4, 1886, that dramatized the labour movement's struggle for recognition in the United States.
diplomat and foreign minister of the Habsburg Empire (1879-81) who secured a treaty with Serbia giving Austria-Hungary virtual control over Serbian foreign policy.
American lawyer, political leader, and spokesman for the South, best-remembered for his debate with Daniel Webster (1830), in which he set forth a doctrine of nullification.
city, seat (1867) of Ellis county, central Kansas, U.S. It lies on Big Creek. The city was founded in 1867 after the establishment of Fort Hays (a frontier post built ...
prominent American political figure who was president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA, later called the Motion Picture Association of America) from 1922 to 1945. Because ...
king of Little Armenia, now in Turkey, from 1224 to 1269; the account of his travels in western and central Asia, written by Kirakos Gandzaketsi, a member of his suite, ...
city, seat (1885) of Sawyer county, northwestern Wisconsin, U.S. It lies on the Namekagon River, in a lake region west of Chequamegon National Forest, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast ...
city, Alameda county, California, U.S. Located 25 miles (40 km) southeast of San Francisco and 15 miles (25 km) south of Oakland, Hayward lies at the eastern terminus of the ...
people of Mongol descent dwelling in the mountains of central Afghanistan. They number about 1,650,000, of whom about 1,500,000 live in Afghanistan, and the remainder in Iran. One group, the ...
dice game dating at least to the 13th century and possibly of Arabic origin: the word hazard derives from the Arabic al-zahr ("die"). It was immensely popular ...
city, seat of Perry county, southeastern Kentucky, U.S. It lies on the North Fork Kentucky River in the Cumberland foothills just east of Daniel Boone National Forest (Redbird Purchase Unit), ...
city, south-central Bihar state, northeastern India, on the Hazaribag plateau. The city is a major road junction and agricultural trade centre. It houses the offices of the Damodar Valley Corporation, ...
national park, north-central Jharkhand state, northeastern India. The sanctuary is situated on a hilly plateau at an average elevation of 2,000 feet (600 metres), about 55 miles (90 km) north ...
city, Luzerne county, east-central Pennsylvania, U.S. It lies on Spring Mountain of the Buck Mountain Plateau, at an elevation of 1,624 feet (495 metres), 24 miles (39 km) south of ...
English writer best known for his humanistic essays. Lacking conscious artistry or literary pretention, his writing is noted for the brilliant intellect it reveals.
Chinese scholar who cofounded the philosophical movement qingtan ("pure conversation"), in which groups of scholars used Daoist terms and concepts to give new meanings to Confucian texts. ...
intentional or unintentional artificial deformation of the human skull. Some Indians of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America produced head flattening by binding an infant's head to a cradleboard; ...
pain in various parts of the head. Headaches affect nearly everyone at some time in their life, recurrent headaches approximately 10 percent of persons. Headaches vary widely in their intensity ...
machine for harvesting grain, developed in the United States, Canada, and Australia; along with the binder, it was standard equipment for harvesting wheat in the United States and Canada until ...
practice of removing and preserving human heads. Headhunting arises in some cultures from a belief in the existence of a more or less material soul matter on which all life ...
in prosody, a line of verse that is lacking the normal first syllable. An iambic line with only one syllable in the first foot is a headless line, as in ...
small loudspeaker (earphone) held over the ear by a band or wire worn on the head. Headphones are commonly employed in situations in which levels of surrounding noise are high, ...
any of several fishes of the families Chilodontidae and Anostomidae (order Characiformes). All species are small, reaching a maximum length of 20 cm (8 inches), and are confined to freshwater ...
