Greek poet, probably of the Aegean island of Cos, author of mimes-short dramatic scenes in verse of a world of low life similar to that portrayed in the New Comedy. ...
most celebrated of the orators and writers of the Second Sophistic, a movement that revitalized the teaching and practice of rhetoric in Greece in the 2nd century AD.
one of a party of influential Jewish supporters of the Herodian dynasty (c. 55 BC-c. AD 93), which ruled in all or parts of Palestine and neighbouring areas. Noted in ...
the wife of Herod Antipas, who was tetrarch (ruler appointed by Rome) of Galilee, in northern Palestine, from 4 BC to AD 39. She conspired to arrange the execution of ...
Renaissance court poet whose works are representative of the amalgam of Platonism and Christian humanism that produced the modern concept of Platonic love.
a couplet of rhyming iambic pentameters often forming a distinct rhetorical as well as metrical unit. The origin of the form in English poetry is unknown, but Geoffrey Chaucer in ...
narrative verse that is elevated in mood and uses a dignified, dramatic, and formal style to describe the deeds of aristocratic warriors and rulers. It is usually composed without the ...
narrative prose tales that are the counterpart of heroic poetry in subject, outlook, and dramatic style. Whether composed orally or written down, the stories are meant to be recited, and ...
in poetry, a rhymed quatrain in heroic verse with rhyme scheme abab. The form was used by William Shakespeare and John Dryden, among others, and was also called an elegiac ...
the verse form in which the heroic poetry of a particular language is, or according to critical opinion should be, composed. In classical poetry this was dactylic hexameter, in French ...
city and port of entry, north-central Sonora state, northern Mexico, contiguous with the city of Nogales, in Santa Cruz County, Ariz. The city is a Mexican-U.S. trading centre in cattle ...
highly addictive morphine derivative that makes up a large portion of the illicit traffic in narcotics. Heroin is made by treating morphine with acetic anhydride; the resulting substance is four ...
any of about 60 species of long-legged wading birds of the subfamily Ardeinae of the family Ardeidae (order Ciconiiformes) and generally including several species usually called egrets (see egret). The ...
coral formation of the Capricorn Group, in the southern Great Barrier Reef, in the Coral Sea, off the east coast of Queensland, Australia. The island, with an area of 42 ...
Greek geometer and inventor whose writings preserved for posterity a knowledge of the mathematics and engineering of Babylonia, ancient Egypt, and the Greco-Roman world.
French chemist who invented the electric-arc furnace-widely used in making steel-and, independently of the simultaneous work of Charles M. Hall of the United States, devised the electrolytic process for preparing ...
mild viral infection caused by several enteroviruses, most of which are in the subgroup Coxsackie A, seen most commonly in young children. The most distinctive symptom is a rash on ...
infection, of either the skin or the genitalia, caused by either of two strains of the herpes simplex virus. Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) is responsible for cold sores ...
acute viral infection affecting the skin and nerves, characterized by groups of small blisters appearing along certain nerve segments. The lesions are most often seen on the back and may ...
scientific study of amphibians and reptiles. Like most other fields of vertebrate biology (e.g., ichthyology, mammalogy), herpetology is composed of a number of cross-disciplines: behaviour, ecology, physiology, anatomy, paleontology, taxonomy, ...
Uruguayan poet who was one of the most original poets writing in Spanish in the early 20th century. His poetry, extremely controversial in its own time for its innovations in ...
lyric poet and man of letters who was one of the leading figures in the first School of Sevilla (Seville), a group of 16th-century Spanish neoclassic poets and humanists who ...
architect, principal designer of the monumental Escorial, a structure that expressed the ideals of imperial Spain in the 16th century. Serving as the royal inspector of monuments, he witnessed the ...
primitive carnivorous dinosaur or close relative of dinosaurs found as fossils in Argentine deposits from the Late Triassic Period (227 million to 206 million years ago). It had long, powerful ...
American naval architect who was recognized as the foremost yacht designer of his day and who was frequently called "the Wizard of Bristol." Herreshoff designed and built five America's Cup ...
English cleric and poet, the most original of the "sons of Ben [Jonson]," who revived the spirit of the ancient classic lyric. He is best remembered for the line "Gather ...
American cartoonist who created "Krazy Kat," a comic strip whose originality in terms of fantasy, drawing, and dialogue was of such high order that many consider it the finest strip ...
city, Williamson county, southern Illinois, U.S. It lies about 15 miles (25 km) northeast of Carbondale. Settled in 1816, Herrin was a coal-mining centre from the 1890s to the 1930s. ...
species of slab-sided, northern fish belonging to the family Clupeidae (order Clupeiformes). The name herring refers to either the Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus harengus) or the Pacific herring (C. harengus ...
French statesman and man of letters who was the longtime leader of the Radical Party; he served in nine different cabinets and was premier of France three times (1924-25, 1926, ...
liberal German Protestant theologian who taught that faith should be grounded in the direct experience of the reality of the life of Christ rather than in doctrine. A disciple of ...
hereditary deficiency of the liver enzyme glycogen phosphorylase, which governs the metabolic breakdown of glycogen to the simple sugar glucose, which can then be used to meet the body's energy ...
American chemist and educator who, with Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1986 for his pioneering use of molecular beams to ...
German-born British astronomer noted for her contributions to the astronomical researches of her brother, Sir William Herschel; she executed many of the calculations connected with his studies and, on her ...
German-born British astronomer, the founder of sidereal astronomy for the systematic observation of the heavens. He discovered the planet Uranus, hypothesized that nebulae are composed of stars, and developed a ...
unincorporated community within Derry township, Dauphin county, south-central Pennsylvania, U.S. It is situated 12 miles (19 km) east of Harrisburg. The community was founded in 1903 by the entrepreneur Milton ...
American biologist who, along with Max Delbruck and Salvador Luria, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1969. The prize was given for research done on bacteriophages (viruses ...
American manufacturer and philanthropist who founded the Hershey Chocolate Corporation and was instrumental in popularizing chocolate candy throughout much of the world.
Hungarian-born Israeli biochemist who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Aaron J. Ciechanover and Irwin Rose for their joint discovery of the mechanism by which the cells of ...
American anthropologist noted for having opened up the study of the New World Negro as a new field of research. Herskovits was also known for his humanistic and relativistic writings ...
municipality, Liege province, eastern Belgium. It lies along the Meuse River and the Liege-Maastricht Canal. Herstal was originally a Carolingian settlement, and its name is probably derived from the German ...
village ("parish"), Wealden district, administrative county of East Sussex, historic county of Sussex, England. The parish is the site of the well-known castle of Herstmonceux, completed about 1444 by Sir ...
city, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), western Germany. It is situated in the heavily industrial Ruhr district, immediately southwest of Recklinghausen. First mentioned in the 9th century as a dependency of ...
town ("parish"), East Hertfordshire district, administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, England. It lies along the River Lea north of London. Hertford was first recorded as the scene of a ...
English lord whose secret marriage to an heir to the throne angered Queen Elizabeth I and probably influenced her choice of James VI of Scotland as her successor.
administrative and historic county of southern England, adjoining Greater London to the south. The administrative county and the historic county cover slightly different areas. The administrative county comprises 10 districts: ...
(count of) conservative German statesman and philosopher who became imperial chancellor during the last year of World War I but was little more than a caretaker for the military, which ...
borough (district), administrative county of Hertfordshire, England. Most of the borough belongs to the historic county of Hertfordshire, but the eastern part of the borough, including Potters Bar, lies in ...
German embryologist and cytologist who was the first to recognize that the fusion of the nuclei of the sperm and ovum was the essential event in fertilization.
German biologist particularly noted for the development of the germ-layer theory, which proposes that all organs and tissues are derived variously from three basic tissue layers, and for his contributions ...
unit of frequency. The number of hertz (abbreviated Hz) equals the number of cycles per second. The frequency of any phenomenon with regular periodic variations can be expressed in hertz, ...
German physicist who, with James Franck, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1925 for the Franck-Hertz experiment, which confirmed the quantum theory that energy can be absorbed by an ...
chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth and author of books on Judaism and of influential commentaries on the Bible expressing a fundamentalist viewpoint.
(count of) Prussian statesman and foreign minister who aimed at the expansion of Prussia and its establishment as the arbiter of Europe through a strong alliance between Britain, the Netherlands, ...
soldier and statesman who held the post of prime minister of the Union of South Africa from 1924 to 1939. His political principles, as first stated in his speeches in ...
Danish astronomer who classified types of stars by relating their colour to their absolute brightness-an accomplishment of fundamental importance to modern astronomy. The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of stellar types was named ...
in astronomy, graph in which the absolute magnitudes (intrinsic brightness) of stars are plotted against their spectral types. Of great importance to theories of stellar evolution, it evolved from charts ...
a Germanic people originally from Scandinavia. They raided towns in the Roman Empire, scoring their greatest success in AD 267, when they captured Byzantium and sacked Greek cities. Two years ...
inlet and city on the Pacific Ocean between Fraser Island and Burnett Heads, southeastern Queensland, Australia. The bay was named in 1770 by the British navigator Captain James Cook and ...
politician and wit whose Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second are of first importance and, along with the writings of Horace Walpole, are largely responsible for many of ...
