(from Syriac hirta, "camp"), English Hira, ancient city located south of al-Kufah in south-central Iraq; it was prominent in pre-Islamic Arab history. The town was originally a military encampment, ...
city, northeastern Osaka fu (urban prefecture), Honshu, Japan, lying along the Yodo River. It prospered as a post station and river port between Kyoto and Osaka during the Tokugawa era ...
private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Hiram, Ohio, U.S. It is a liberal arts college affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Along with B.A. degrees in arts, ...
in Japanese lacquerwork, gold decoration in low, or "flat," relief, a basic form of maki-e (q.v.). The pattern is first outlined on a sheet of paper with brush and ink. ...
(Japanese: "flat dust base"), in Japanese lacquerwork, variation of the jimaki technique. For this kind of ground decoration, small, irregularly shaped flakes of sheet gold or silver are used. The ...
Japanese thinker, systematizer, and leader of the Restoration Shinto (also known as Fukko Shinto; q.v.) school. His thought, stressing the divine nature of the emperor, exerted a powerful influence on ...
city, Kanagawa ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies along Sagami Bay of the Pacific Ocean. Hiratsuka developed as a post town along the main Tokyo-Kyoto Highway during the Tokugawa period ...
city, Aomori ken (prefecture), northern Honshu, Japan. The isolated volcanic cone of Mount Iwaki, a pilgrimage site, rises to the west. Located on the Isugaru Plain, Hirosaki developed as a ...
Japanese artist, one of the last great ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world") masters of the colour wood-block print. His genius for landscape compositions was first recognized in the West ...
city and capital of Hiroshima ken (prefecture), southwestern Honshu, Japan, on Hiroshima Bay of the Inland Sea. The city is situated on the delta of the Ota River, whose six ...
ken (prefecture), southwestern Honshu, occupying an area of 3,269 square miles (8,467 square km). The Chugoku Mountains run along the northern boundary, and delta plains are extensively ...
in ancient times, an inland Samnite tribe in the south of Italy. To the north of them were the Pentri and Caraceni, who, with the Hirpini and Caudini, constituted the ...
American literary critic and educator who is best known for his work on cultural literacy, notably for Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (1987). He cowrote The Dictionary ...
major Jewish religious thinker and founder of Trennungsorthodoxie (Separatist Orthodoxy), or Neo-Orthodoxy, a theological system that helped make Orthodox Judaism viable in Germany.
German linguist whose comprehensive Indogermanische Grammatik, 7 vol. (1921-37; "Indo-European Grammar"), remains influential. Earlier, Hirt had made original studies of accent and ablaut (vowel changes) in Indo-European. His concern with ...
songbird family, order Passeriformes, consisting of swallows and martins, 74 species of small, streamlined birds, noted for their strong and nimble flight, found worldwide except in polar regions and certain ...
locality, Rhondda Cynon Taff county borough, historic county of Glamorgan (Morgannwg), Wales, at the northwestern end of the Cynon valley. The Brecon Beacons mountain range rises to the north of ...
Swiss-born German anatomist, embryologist who created the science of histogenesis, or the study of the embryonic origins of different types of animal tissue. His discovery (1886) that each nerve fibre ...
Swiss cardiologist (son of the renowned anatomist of the same name), who discovered (1893) the specialized muscle fibres (known as the bundle of His) running along the muscular partition between ...
city, northwestern Haryana state, northwestern India, on the Sirhind branch of the Western Yamuna Canal. Founded in 1356 by Emperor Firuz Shah Tughluq, it was later an important Mughal centre. ...
archaeological mound in Turkey, long known to bear the remains of the Hellenistic and Roman town of Ilium. It lies on the Kucukmenederes River near the mouth of the Dardanelles. ...
Jewish physician, translator, and political figure who helped inaugurate the golden age of Hebrew letters in Moorish Spain and who was a powerful statesman in a number of major diplomatic ...
also called Kichibe Japanese printmaker, the first great master of ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world"), a genre depicting entertainment districts and other scenes of urban life.
historic mountain site located on the southern coast of Arabia in southern Yemen. On the summit of the mountain are the ruins of an ancient castle, a watchtower, and cisterns ...
in Roman times, region comprising the Iberian Peninsula, now occupied by Portugal and Spain. When the Romans took Hispania from the Carthaginians (206 BC), they divided it into two provinces: ...
second largest island of the West Indies, lying within the Greater Antilles. It is divided politically into the Republic of Haiti (west) and the Dominican Republic (east). The island's area ...
tin-glazed, lustred earthenware made by Moorish potters in Spain, chiefly at Malaga in the 15th century, and in the region of Manises, near Valencia, in the 16th century. The tin ...
a style of Latin writing that probably originated in the British Isles in the 7th century. It is characterized by extreme obscurity intentionally produced by periphrasis (preference for a longer ...
former U.S. State Department official who was convicted in January 1950 of perjury concerning his dealings with Whittaker Chambers, who accused him of membership in a communist espionage ring. His ...
Israeli labour organization that includes workers in the cooperative and collective agricultural settlements as well as in most industries. Organized in 1920, Histadrut is the largest voluntary organization in Israel ...
biologically active substance found in a great variety of living organisms. It is distributed widely, albeit unevenly, throughout the animal kingdom and is present in many plants and bacteria and ...
any member of the approximately 2,500 species of the insect family Histeridae (order Coleoptera). Hister beetles are carnivorous and are usually found around carrion, fungi, or dung. They are shiny ...
tyrant of the Anatolian city of Miletus under the Persian king Darius I and a reputed instigator of the revolt (499-494) of the Ionian Greeks against Darius.
an amino acid obtainable by hydrolysis of many proteins. A particularly rich source, hemoglobin (the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells) yields about 8.5 percent by weight of histidine. First ...
series of organized, integrated processes by which cells of the primary germ layers of an embryo differentiate and assume the characteristics of the tissues into which they will develop. Although ...
branch of biology concerned with the composition and structure of plant and animal tissues in relation to their specialized functions. The terms histology and microscopic anatomy are sometimes used interchangeably, ...
any of a group of simple alkaline proteins usually occurring in cell nuclei, combined ionically with DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) to form nucleoproteins (q.v.). A unit in which a molecule of ...
infection with the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum, occurring in humans and other animals. The disease is contracted by the inhalation of dust containing spores of the fungus.
literary criticism in the light of historical evidence or based on the context in which a work was written, including facts about the author's life and the historical and social ...
geographic study of a place or region at a specific time or period in the past, or the study of geographic change in a place or region over a period ...
the branch of linguistics concerned with the study of phonological, grammatical, and semantic changes, the reconstruction of earlier stages of languages, and the discovery and application of the methods by ...
a novel that has as its setting a period of history and that attempts to convey the spirit, manners, and social conditions of a past age with realistic detail and ...
branch of economic thought, developed chiefly in Germany in the last half of the 19th century, that sought to understand the economic situation of a nation in the context of ...
the writing of history, especially the writing of history based on the critical examination of sources, the selection of particulars from the authentic materials in those sources, and the synthesis ...
the discipline that studies the chronological record of events (as affecting a nation or people), based on a critical examination of source materials and usually presenting an explanation of their ...
University of Oxford collection of early scientific instruments and apparatus. Although not given its present name until 1935, the museum began in 1924. In that year, the collection of early ...
publication that appeared, over the course of some 40 years, in six volumes and nearly 6,000 pages chronicling the American woman suffrage movement in great, but incomplete, detail. It consists ...
one of the 12 soil orders in the U.S. Soil Taxonomy. Histosols are formed under waterlogged conditions typical of peat bogs, moors, and swamps. Under such conditions, the accumulated tissues ...
one of the 30 soil groups in the classification system of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Histosols are low-density, acidic soils with a high proportion of organic material. Formed ...
city, Oita ken (prefecture), Kyushu, Japan, in the centre of the Hita plateau. It grew as a castle town in the late 16th century and is now a market for ...
city, Ibaraki ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. Its industrial development began with the discovery of copper in the locality in 1591. Large-scale copper smelting was introduced during the Meiji period (1868-1912), ...
highly diversified Japanese manufacturing corporation that comprises more than 1,000 subsidiaries, including 335 overseas corporations. Headquarters are in Tokyo.
American pharmacologist who, along with Gertrude B. Elion and Sir James W. Black, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1988 for their development of drugs that became ...
publication by feminist Shere Hite in 1976 that, while flawed in its handling of statistics, challenged numerous accepted notions about female sexuality.
organization set up by Adolf Hitler in 1933 for educating and training male youth in Nazi principles. Under the leadership of Baldur von Schirach, head of all German youth programs, ...
leader of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party (from 1920/21) and chancellor (Kanzler) and Fuhrer of Germany (1933-45). He was chancellor from January 30, 1933, and, after President ...
(Japanese: "Way of Man"), Japanese religious sect founded by Miki Tokuharu (1871-1938); it was revived in a modified form after World War II as PL Kyodan (q.v.; from the English ...
(Japanese: "man-god"), a way of distinguishing certain characteristics of Japanese religion by focusing on the close relationship between a deity and his transmitter, such as a seer or a shaman. ...
member of an ancient Indo-European people who appeared in Anatolia at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC; by 1340 BC they had become one of the dominant powers of ...
system of pictographic writing used in the Syrian Hittite states for writing an eastern dialect of the Luwian language (q.v.) chiefly in the period from the 10th to the 8th ...
most important of the extinct Indo-European languages of Anatolia; it was closely related to Luwian, Lydian, Lycian, and Palaic. Hittite is known primarily from the approximately 25,000 cuneiform tablets or ...
German physicist who first computed the electricity-carrying capacity of charged atoms and molecules (ions), an important factor in understanding electrochemical reactions.
