duke of Normandy (from 1150), count of Anjou (from 1151), duke of Aquitaine (from 1152), and king of England (from 1154), who greatly expanded his Anglo-French domains and strengthened the ... [33 Related Articles]
also called (until 1369) Enrique, Conde (count) De Trastamara, byname Henry Of Trastamara, or Henry The Fratricide, or The Bastard, Spanish Enrique De Trastamara, or Enrique El Fratricida, or El ... [7 Related Articles]
the first duke of Austria, a member of the House of Babenberg who increased the dynasty's power in Austria by obtaining the Privilegium Minus (a grant of special privileges and ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Western architecture") ...of Michelangelo or Raphael, so that the new period of French architecture partook of Italian Mannerism. The style that resulted lasted until about 1590 and is sometimes known as the ...
duke of Saxony (1142-80) and of Bavaria (as Henry XII, 1156-80), a strong supporter of the emperor Frederick I Barbarossa. Henry spent his early years recovering his ancestral lands of ... [8 Related Articles]
king of England from 1216 to 1272. In the 24 years (1234-58) during which he had effective control of the government, he displayed such indifference to tradition that the barons ... [24 Related Articles]
king of France from 1574, under whose reign the prolonged crisis of the Wars of Religion was made worse by dynastic rivalries arising because the male line of the Valois ... [16 Related Articles]
king of Castile from 1390 to 1406. Though unable to take the field because of illness, he jealously preserved royal power through the royal council, the Audiencia (supreme court), and ... [2 Related Articles]
duke of Bavaria (as Henry VI, 1027-41), duke of Swabia (as Henry I, 1038-45), German king (from 1039), and Holy Roman emperor (1046-56), member of the Salian dynasty. He was ... [18 Related Articles]
(from the article "Thuringia") Landgrave Henry Raspe was elected German ''antiking'' (against Conrad IV) in 1246; he died the next year. After a war over the long-disputed succession (1256-63), Henry III (the Illustrious), margrave ...
(from the article "Henry IV, Part 1") As Part 1 begins, Henry IV, wearied from the strife that has accompanied his accession to the throne, is renewing his earlier vow to make a pilgrimage ...
duke of Bavaria (as Henry VIII, 1055-61), German king (from 1054), and Holy Roman emperor (1084-1105/06), who engaged in a long struggle with Hildebrand (Pope Gregory VII) on the question ... [25 Related Articles]
king of England from 1399 to 1413, the first of three 15th-century monarchs from the house of Lancaster. He gained the crown by usurpation and successfully consolidated his power in ... [15 Related Articles]
king of Navarre (as Henry III, 1572-89) and first Bourbon king of France (1589-1610), who, at the end of the Wars of Religion, abjured Protestantism and converted to Roman Catholicism ... [37 Related Articles]
French art and architecture during the reign of King Henry IV of France (1589-1610). Henry's chief contribution as patron of the arts was in the field of architecture. Although he ... [1 Related Articles]
chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1596-97 and published from a reliable authorial draft in a 1598 quarto edition. Henry IV, Part 1 ... [8 Related Articles]
chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1597-98 and published in a corrupt text based in part on memorial reconstruction in a quarto edition in 1600; a ... [5 Related Articles]
segment of the Colorado Plateau, extending for 40 miles (64 km) in a northwest-southeast direction across Garfield county, southern Utah, U.S. Mount Ellen, which ascends to 11,615 feet (3,540 metres), ...
(from the article "Utrecht") ...centre until it was surpassed by Amsterdam (26 miles [42 km] northwest) in the 15th century. Utrecht's bishops came increasingly under the influence of Holland until the Utrecht bishop Henry ...
bishop of Winchester (from 1129) and papal legate in England (1139-43), who was largely instrumental in having his brother Stephen recognized as king of England (1135). [1 Related Articles]
Scholastic philosopher and theologian, one of the most illustrious teachers of his time, who was a great adversary of St. Thomas Aquinas and whose controversial writings influenced his contemporaries and ...
second and most able of the Latin emperors of Constantinople, who reigned from 1206 to 1216 and consolidated the power of the new empire. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Conrad II") Conrad was the son of Count Henry of Speyer, who had been passed over in his inheritances in favour of a younger brother. Henry was descended, through the marriage of ...
(from the article "decretal") ...famous and influential of the decretalists were Tancred (d. c. 1234), archdeacon of Bologna, best known for his work on church marriage law and his manual of ecclesiastical procedural law; ...
landgrave of Thuringia (1227-47) and German anti-king (1246-47) who was used by Pope Innocent IV in an attempt to oust the Hohenstaufen dynasty from Germany. [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Wald, Lillian D.") American nurse and social worker who founded the internationally known Henry Street Settlement in New York City (1893).
(from the article "fingerprint") ...for the fingerprint classification systems developed by Sir Edward R. Henry, who later became chief commissioner of the London metropolitan police, and by Juan Vucetich of Argentina. The Galton-Henry system ...
(from the article "Louis IV") ...of Holland and its dependencies. These successes did not sit well with John of Bohemia, who refused to be pacified either by the donation of Upper Lusatia in 1320 or ...
Portuguese prince noted for his patronage of voyages of discovery among the Madeira Islands and along the western coast of Africa. The epithet Navigator, applied to him by the English ... [8 Related Articles]
second son of King Henry II of England by Eleanor of Aquitaine; he was regarded, after the death of his elder brother, William, in 1156, as his father's successor in ... [1 Related Articles]
king of England (1413-22) of the House of Lancaster, son of Henry IV. As victor of the Battle of Agincourt (1415, in the Hundred Years' War with France), he made ... [14 Related Articles]
(from the article "Henry V") ...14th and early 15th centuries. The main source of the play was Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles, but Shakespeare may also have been influenced by an earlier play about ...
chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, first performed in 1599 and published in 1600 in a corrupt quarto edition; the text in the First Folio of 1623, printed ... [6 Related Articles]
German king (from 1099) and Holy Roman emperor (1111-25), last of the Salian dynasty. He restored virtual peace in the empire and was generally successful in wars with Flanders, Bohemia, ... [17 Related Articles]
king of England from 1422 to 1461 and from 1470 to 1471, a pious and studious recluse whose incapacity for government was one of the causes of the Wars of ... [18 Related Articles]
(from the article "Henry VI, Part 1") Part 1 begins at the funeral of Henry V, as political factions are forming around the boy king, Henry VI. The chief rivalry is between Henry's uncle ...
German king and Holy Roman emperor of the Hohenstaufen dynasty who increased his power and that of his dynasty by his acquisition of the kingdom of Sicily through his marriage ... [18 Related Articles]
chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written sometime in 1589-92 and published in the First Folio of 1623. Henry VI, Part 1 is the first ... [2 Related Articles]
chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written sometime in 1590-92. It was first published in a corrupt quarto in 1594. The version published in the First Folio of ... [2 Related Articles]
chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1590-93. Like Henry IV, Part 2, it was first published in a corrupt quarto, this time in ... [2 Related Articles]
king of England (1485-1509), who succeeded in ending the Wars of the Roses between the houses of Lancaster and York and founded the Tudor dynasty. [24 Related Articles]
count of Luxembourg (as Henry IV), German king (from 1308), and Holy Roman emperor (from 1312) who strengthened the position of his family by obtaining the throne of Bohemia for ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "Western architecture") ...but the style continued to evolve, the application of tracery panels tending to become denser. St. George's Chapel, Windsor (c. 1475-1500), is an interesting prelude to the ornateness of Henry ...
king of England (1509-47) who presided over the beginnings of the English Renaissance and the English Reformation. His six wives were, successively, Catherine of Aragon (the mother of the future ... [68 Related Articles]
chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, produced in 1613 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from a transcript of an authorial manuscript. The primary source of ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Henry VIII") As the play opens, the duke of Buckingham, having denounced Cardinal Wolsey, lord chancellor to King Henry VIII, for corruption and treason, is himself arrested, along with his son-in-law, Lord ...
margrave of Tuscany, duke of Saxony (as Henry II), and duke of Bavaria, a member of the Welf dynasty, whose policies helped to launch the feud between the Welf and ... [1 Related Articles]
statement that the weight of a gas dissolved by a liquid is proportional to the pressure of the gas upon the liquid. The law, which was first formulated in 1803 ... [2 Related Articles]
American civil rights leader who was head of the Mississippi branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1960 to 1993; he persevered in the fight ...
promontory at the southern entrance to Chesapeake Bay, on the Atlantic coast in the northeast corner of the city of Virginia Beach, southeastern Virginia, U.S. Cape Henry Memorial, a stone ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Dreyfus, Alfred") The affair was made absurdly complicated by the activities of Esterhazy in inventing evidence and spreading rumours, and of Major Hubert Joseph Henry, discoverer of the original letter attributed to ...
(from the article "Swimming") Australian sprinter Jodie Henry was a triple winner. She captured the 100-m freestyle, posting a world record (53.52 sec) in the semifinals, and anchored Australian teams that set world records ...
one of the first great American scientists after Benjamin Franklin. He aided Samuel F.B. Morse in the development of the telegraph and discovered several important principles of electricity, including self-induction, ... [6 Related Articles]
American author of some 50 children's books that featured tales about animals, notably the classic novel Misty of Chincoteague (1947), a story about a wild horse and one of the ...
American short-story writer whose tales romanticized the commonplace-in particular the life of ordinary people in New York City. His stories expressed the effect of coincidence on character through humour, grim ... [1 Related Articles]
brilliant orator and a major figure of the American Revolution, perhaps best known for his words "give me liberty or give me death," which he delivered in 1775. He was ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "electronic music") In 1948 two French composers, Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, and their associates at Radiodiffusion et Television Francaise in Paris began to produce tape collages (analogous to collages in the ...
(from the article "Finland, Church of") ...changed from the Roman Catholic to the Lutheran faith during the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. Christianity was known in Finland as early as the 11th century, and in ...
In mid-2004 Thierry Henry clinched the 2003-04 Golden Shoe as Europe's leading association football (soccer) goal scorer (with 30) and helped the English Football Association (FA) club Arsenal to another ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "soft drink") To Thomas Henry, an apothecary in Manchester, Eng., is attributed the first production of carbonated water, which he made in 12-gallon barrels using an apparatus based on Priestley's. Jacob Schweppe, ...
English physician and chemist who in 1803 proposed what is now called Henry's law, which states that the amount of a gas absorbed by a liquid is in proportion to ... [1 Related Articles]
river, southeastern Idaho, U.S., that rises in Henrys Lake in Caribou-Targhee National Forest, near the Montana line, and flows south and southwestward, past St. Anthony to join the Snake River ...
Scottish poet, the finest of early fabulists in Britain. He is described on some early title pages as schoolmaster of Dunfermline-probably at the Benedictine abbey school-and he appears among the ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Rorschach, Hermann") In 1917 Rorschach discovered the work of Szyman Hens, who had studied the fantasies of his subjects using inkblot cards. In 1918 Rorschach began his own experiments with 15 accidental ...
(from the article "Restormel") Gently rolling and elevated, the interior of Restormel is composed of hard sandstone soils. Inland from the south and dominating the landscape, however, is a granite intrusive called the Hensbarrow ...
(from the article "Bollandist") ...manuscripts, 18 volumes of lives of the saints with notes attached. After Rosweyde's death in 1629, Jean Bolland organized a group that continued to gather material and, especially on the ...
(from the article "Literature") The year also saw the publication of Kerstin Hensel's novel Falscher Hase, which focused on the life of an East German policeman, Heini Paffrath, who had moved from West Berlin ...
(from the article "Krebs, Sir Hans Adolf") At the University of Freiburg (1932), Krebs discovered (with the German biochemist Kurt Henseleit) a series of chemical reactions (now known as the urea cycle) by which ammonia is converted ...
(from the article "animal development") ...mammals; distinctly elongated in higher mammals and birds, it is called the primitive streak, a thickened and slightly depressed part of the epiblast that is thickest at the anterior end, ...
physiologist who first used the name plankton to describe the organisms that live suspended in the sea (and in bodies of freshwater) and are important because practically all animal life ...
Nigerian playwright of Efik affiliation whose simple and popular plays treating various aspects of African culture and tradition have been widely read and acted in Nigeria. His style has been ...
British botanist, clergyman, and geologist who popularized botany at the University of Cambridge by introducing new methods of teaching the subject. [1 Related Articles]
American puppeteer, creator of the Muppets of television and motion pictures. He coined the term Muppets as a meld of "marionettes" and "puppets"; his characters and those of his assistants ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "victimology") Victimology first emerged in the 1940s and '50s, when several criminologists (notably Hans von Hentig, Benjamin Mendelsohn, and Henri Ellenberger) examined victim-offender interactions and stressed reciprocal influences and role reversals. ...
(from the article "Mongolia") The third mountain block, the smaller and lower Hentiyn (Khentei) range, trends southwest to northeast of Ulaanbaatar; it reaches a maximum height of about 9,200 feet, but in general its ...
(from the article "Horton, George Moses") ...students. From the 1820s, they regularly commissioned him to create love poems, including clever acrostic compositions based on the names of their lovers. He received literary training from Caroline Lee ...
German composer whose operas, ballets, symphonies, and other works are marked by an individual and advanced style wrought within traditional forms. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "troparion") ...refrain may have been called syntomon ("concise," "brief"). Other designations of troparia reflect their liturgical position, manner of performance, or content. Heothinon ("in the morning") refers to the 11 hymns ...
(from the article "virus") ...nm in diameter that contain linear double-stranded DNA. This family consists of one genus, asfivirus, which contains the African swine fever virus.Small enveloped, spherical virions about 42 nm in ...
anticoagulant drug that is used to prevent blood clots from forming during and after surgery and to treat various heart, lung, and circulatory disorders in which there is an increased ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "serum albumin") ...vessels. Albumin also acts as a carrier for two materials necessary for the control of blood clotting: (1) antithrombin, which keeps the clotting enzyme thrombin from working unless needed, and ...
(from the article "human cardiovascular system") ...are paired. The celiac artery arises from the aorta a short distance below the diaphragm and almost immediately divides into the left gastric artery, serving part of the stomach and ...
(from the article "digestive system, human") ...superior mesenteric vein. At the porta hepatis the portal vein divides into two large branches, each going to one of the major lobes of the liver. The porta hepatis is ...
(from the article "digestive system disease") Hepatic encephalopathy refers to changes in the brain that occur in patients with advanced acute or chronic liver disease. If liver cells are damaged, certain substances that are normally cleansed ...
(from the article "poison") ...on the skin (primary photosensitivity), or the toxicity may result from liver damage caused by the metabolism of a toxic plant and failure of the breakdown products to be eliminated ...
(from the article "porphyria") Two main groups of porphyria are recognized: (1) erythropoietic and (2) hepatic. In the first, the overproduction occurs in relation to hemoglobin synthesis by cells in the bone marrow; in ...
(from the article "circulation") ...portal systems, areas of the venous system that begin in capillaries in tissues and join to form veins, which divide to produce another capillary network en route to the heart. ...
(from the article "tanager") ...tanagers breeding in temperate North America are the scarlet tanager (Piranga olivacea), summer tanager (P. rubra), and western tanager (P. ludoviciana). A less showy bird, the hepatic tanager (P. flava), ...
any of a group of veins that transports blood from the liver to the inferior vena cava, which carries the blood to the right atrium of the heart. In its ... [1 Related Articles]
any of about seven species of small herbaceous plants of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae) that grow in shady wooded areas of the North Temperate Zone.
(from the article "hepatica") The plants were once believed to have therapeutic value in the treatment of liver diseases. The common hepatica of eastern North America is H. americana, with silky hairy leaves and ...
(from the article "hepatica") ...plants were once believed to have therapeutic value in the treatment of liver diseases. The common hepatica of eastern North America is H. americana, with silky hairy leaves and flowers. ...
inflammation of the liver that results from a variety of causes, both infectious and noninfectious. Infectious agents that cause hepatitis include viruses and parasites; noninfectious substances include certain drugs and ... [2 Related Articles]
