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(from the article "Micronesian culture") ...would be instructed for a payment of food and goods. The most-formal training in esoteric knowledge appears to have been given by the specialists known in Chuuk as
(from the article "Maxakali") ...Kapoxo, Paname, and Monoxo-live in the mountains near the border between the Brazilian estados ("states") of Minas Gerais and Bahia, near the headwaters of the Itanhem River. Over the past ...
(from the article "Espirito Santo") ...mountain ranges of the Aimores Mountains on the western border and by isolated groups of hills on the eastern coastal plains. The most important rivers-the Doce, Sao Mateus, and Itapemirim-flow ...
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(from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...of the remaining forests. In the mid-20th century the Brazilian government began to reforest some highland areas, and national parks were established to protect the remnants of the original forest. ...
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(from the article "Paleo-Siberian languages") ...(Eskimo), (2) Koryak, also called Nymylan, with approximately 3,500 speakers, spoken on northern Kamchatka and northward to the Anadyr River basin, (3) the strongly divergent but probably related Itelmen (or ...
(from the article "mathematics, foundations of") ...construction usually ascribed to Church, though he had been anticipated by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). According to Church, the number 2 is the process of iteration; that is, ...
(from the article "computer programming language") ...The conditional IF-THEN or IF-THEN-ELSE control structure allows a program to follow alternative paths of execution. Iteration, or looping, gives computers much of their power. They can repeat a sequence ...
(from the article "aging") ...is an all-important function of an organism's life history, and all other vital processes, including senescence and death, are shaped to serve it. The distinction between semelparous and iteroparous modes ...
(from the article "Niger") ...western Africa. The Tuareg, also nomadic, are divided into three subgroups-the Iullemmiden of the Azaouak region in the west, the Asben (Kel Air) in the Air region, and the Itesen ...
(from the article "Venezuela") ...inflation for the entire year would settle at 16%, more than exceeding the government's goal of 12%. On November 1 the collection of the new tax on financial transactions (known ...
(from the article "statistics") The Ith residual is the difference between the observed value of the dependent variable, yI, and the value predicted by the estimated regression equation, yI. These residuals, computed from the ...
city, seat (1817) of Tompkins county, south-central New York, U.S. It lies at the southern end of Cayuga Lake (one of the Finger Lakes), 55 miles (89 km) southwest of ...
(from the article "Tethys") Tethys's most impressive feature is Ithaca Chasma, a giant crack several kilometres deep that extends along three-quarters of the moon's circumference and accounts for 5-10 percent of its surface. Because ...
private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Ithaca, New York, U.S. It comprises the Roy H. Park School of Communications and schools of business, health sciences and human performance, humanities ...
(from the article "Priscillian") ...consumption of wine and meat. The spread of Priscillianism throughout western and southern Spain and in southern Gaul disturbed the Spanish church, which, led by bishops Hyginus of Merida and ...
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(from the article "Russia") ...attempt to revive the ancient centres of Bulgar and the Crimea, the Jucids (the family of Jochi, son of Genghis Khan, who inherited the western portion of his empire) established ...
(from the article "Agra") ...built by the emperor Akbar, which contains the 17th-century Pearl Mosque (Moti Masjid), constructed of white marble; a palace, the Jahangiri Mahal; Jami Masjid, or Great Mosque; and the elegant ...
(from the article "Russia") ...Ivanov and Karl Bryullov, both of whom were known for Romantic historical canvases. A truly national tradition of painting did not begin, however, until the 1870s with the appearance of ...
a list of villages, towns, cities, and mail stations of the Roman Empire, with the distances between them. They were constructed according to basic concepts formulated by Greek cartographers such ...
(from the article "anga") 6. Itivuttaka ("thus it is said"), sayings of the Buddha introduced by these words; many of them comprise a Khuddaka Nikaya work with this title. The Sanskrit category itivrttaka comprises ...
(from the article "Egypt, ancient") Amenemhet I moved the capital back to the Memphite area, founding a residence named Itjet-towy, "she who takes possession of the Two Lands," which was for later times the archetypal ...
city, Shizuoka ken (prefecture), east-central Honshu, Japan. It is located on the east coast of the Izu Peninsula on Sagami Bay. Although its hot springs were discovered ...
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(from the article "probability theory") ...after the physicists Leonard Salomon Ornstein and George Eugene Uhlenbeck. The logical outgrowth of these attempts to differentiate and integrate with respect to a Brownian motion process is the Ito ...
(from the article "Architecture and Civil Engineering") The 2006 Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects went to Tokyo architect Toyo Ito, best known for such works as the unique Sendai (Japan) Mediatheque. The ...
(from the article "Physical Sciences") Japan's Hayabusa probe (formerly called MUSES-C) arrived at asteroid Itokawa (named after Hideo Itokawa, Japan's rocket pioneer) on September 12 and became only the second spacecraft to have visited an ...
ethnic group inhabiting the westernmost part of the Niger River delta of extreme southern Nigeria. The Itsekiri make up an appreciable proportion of the modern towns of Sapele, Warri, Burutu, ...
(from the article "Benue-Congo languages") ...Defoid languages comprise two groups: the Akokoid cluster of four languages and the very much larger Yoruboid cluster whose principal members are Yoruba (20,000,000 speakers), Igala (1,000,000), and Itsekiri (Itsepsilonkiri; ...
offshore island, Hiroshima ken (prefecture), Japan, in the Inland Sea. The small island, one of Japan's most scenic locations, is 19 miles (31 km) in circumference and ...
(from the article "dress") ...and colours being a matter of personal taste. Under the uwagi is a plain purple kimono, and under that is a robe known as the
(from the article "South Asian arts") ...first to be built of chloritic schist, which is the favoured material of the later period and which lends itself easily to elaborate sculptural ornamentation. With the Mahadeva temple at ...
(from the article "Gropius, Walter") ...it did not seem incongruous for artists to be teaching applied design. As an introduction to design principles, a beginning course, Vorkurs, was developed by the Swiss painter and sculptor ...
(from the article "Salimiyah") ...the day of judgment in human form for all his creatures to see. When this happens, God's light will overwhelm the scene, and salvation will be granted to everyone and ...
(from the article "Ibn Taymiyyah") ...engaged in intensive polemic activity: either against the Kasrawan Shi'ah in the Lebanon; the Rifa'iyah, a Sufi religious brotherhood; or the ittihadiyah school, which taught that the Creator and the ...
(from the article "Scoresby Sund") ...by large glaciers. The sound, charted by William Scoresby in 1822, is dotted with islands; the largest, Milne Land, is about 60 miles long and 25 miles wide and rises ...
(from the article "International Telecommunication Union") ...includes: (1) the Plenipotentiary Conference, which is the supreme organ of the ITU and meets every four years; (2) World Administrative Conferences, which meet according to technical needs; (3) the ...
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(from the article "Guyana") ...in the 1970s, ending passenger service. A remaining freight line connects the manganese mines at Matthews Ridge with Port Kaituma on the Kaituma River, and another transports bauxite between Ituni ...
(from the article "Aristobulus I") The son of Hyrcanus I, he broke his late father's will and seized the throne from his mother and jailed or killed his brothers. According to the historian Josephus, Aristobulus ...
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(from the article "Congo, Democratic Republic of the") ...installations and radio and TV stations in and around Kinshasa in what was believed to have been an attempted coup. Government forces quickly restored order. On May 14 two warring ...
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(from the article "Ituri Forest") ...Congo River. The total area of the Ituri Forest is approximately 24,300 square miles (62,900 square km). The forest, which is inhabited by both Bantu-speaking and Pygmy peoples, owes its ...
(from the article "Computers and Information Systems") Apple joined the crowd of companies trying to create the "digital living room," where content would flow from one device to another over a wireless network. Apple's iTV, which was ...
(from the article "Quetzalcoatl") ...from the priests. Quetzalcoatl's defeat symbolized the downfall of the Classic theocracy. His sea voyage to the east should probably be connected with the invasion of Yucatan by the Itza, ...
principal pre-Columbian Mayan deity, ruler of heaven, day, and night. He frequently appeared as four gods called Itzamnas, who encased the world. Like some of the other Mesoamerican deities, the ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Aztec") Under the ruler Itzcoatl (1428-40), Tenochtitlan formed alliances with the neighbouring states of Texcoco and Tlacopan and became the dominant power in central Mexico. Later, by commerce and conquest, Tenochtitlan ...
(from the article "Abu Sir") Although numerous excavations in the area have usually yielded disturbed remains, in 1998 a team of archaeologists from Charles University in Prague uncovered the intact sarcophagus of Iufaa, a priest ...
(from the article "Woodall Mountain") ...county in the extreme northeastern part of the state, just southwest of Iuka in the westernmost foothills of the southern Appalachians. During the American Civil War it was the site ...
(from the article "Niger") ...Fulani, who are dispersed throughout the country, are mostly nomadic; they are also found dispersed throughout western Africa. The Tuareg, also nomadic, are divided into three subgroups-the Iullemmiden of the ...
(from the article "genius") In its earliest meaning in private cult, the genius of the Roman housefather and the iuno, or juno, of the housemother were worshiped. These certainly were not the souls of ...
(from the article "scorpion") 56 species absent from North America; formerly called Ischnuridae. 21 species found in arid regions of the Americas as well as Turkey and Greece. Female reproductive system ...
(from the article "ancient Rome") ...abuse of magisterial power continued. A series of Porcian laws were passed to protect citizens from summary execution or scourging, asserting the citizen's right of appeal to the assembly (ius ...
(from the article "Jihlava") ...in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands, along the Jihlava River. From about 1240, its prosperity rested on its silver mines. A royal mint operated there from about 1260, and a codified town ...
(from the article "Martial") ...miles [19 km] northeast of Rome), which may have been given to him by Polla, the widow of Lucan. In time Martial gained the notice of the court and received ...
(from the article "crystal") ...electrons form insulators. Those that have three to five valence electrons tend to have covalent bonds and form semiconductors. There are exceptions to these rules, however, as is the case ...
tsar of the Second Bulgarian empire from 1186 to 1196, during one of the most brilliant periods of the restored Bulgarian nation. He and his brother Peter II were founders ... [1 Related Articles]
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(from the article "Montenegro") ...died out in 1421, the focus of Serb resistance shifted northward to Zabljak (south of Podgorica). There a chieftain named Stefan Crnojevic set up his capital. Stefan was succeeded by ...
(from the article "Dubna") ...(province), western Russia. The city lies along the Volga River where it is joined by the Moscow Canal (completed 1937). Dubna is a new city, incorporated in 1956; in 1960 ...
city, western Ukraine. It lies along the Bystritsa River just above its confluence with the Dniester River. Founded in 1662 as the Polish town of Stanislawow (Ukrainian: Stanyslaviv), it occupied ...
(from the article "painting, Western") ...Pavlovich Bryullov, with his monumental painting "The Last Days of Pompeii" (1830-33; State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg). A completely different trend appears in the work of Aleksandr Ivanov, the first ...
(from the article "Literature") ...the West over the past quarter century. Some had already dubbed this the first great book of the 21st century, and Kantor had been tipped to receive the first Bolshaya ...
(from the article "Profumo affair") ...London dancer Christine Keeler by Stephen Ward, an osteopath with contacts in both the aristocracy and the underworld. Also present at this gathering was a Russian military attache, Eugene Ivanov, ...
(from the article "Russia") In May, Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov promised to speed up the modernization of Russia's armed forces. He stopped short of promising that conscription would be eliminated altogether but said his ...
(from the article "Track and Field Sports") ...record of 14 min 38.59 sec that included a 58.2-sec time for the final 400 m and 28.1 sec for the last 200 m. In both events Dibaba led an ...
(from the article "Tennis") ...in which she played. Remarkably, three Serbian players inched close to the top of the world charts. Novak Djokovic concluded the year ranked number three among the men, while Jelena ...
oblast (province), western Russia, occupying an area of 9,225 sq mi (23,900 sq km), northeast of Moscow astride the middle Volga River and centred on Ivanovo city. The surface is ...
city and administrative centre of Ivanovo oblast (province), western Russia, on both banks of the Uvod River. It was created from two villages, Ivanovo and Voznesensk, in 1871; until 1932 ...
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