(from the article "Leiber and Stoller") American songwriters and record producers. Jerry Leiber (in full Jerome Leiber; b. April 25, 1933Baltimore, Md., U.S.) and Mike Stoller (in full Michael Stoller; b. March 13, 1933Belle Harbor, N.Y.,...Atlantic ...
(from the article "Ulm, Battle of") ...25-Oct. 20, 1805), major strategic triumph of Napoleon, conducted by his Grand Army of about 210,000 men against an Austrian Army of about 72,000 under the command of Baron Karl ...
(from the article "Humboldt, Alexander von") ...who lacked funds were given the necessary encouragement, financial assistance, and introductions to the scientific community to insure a successful start in life. Such men as the German chemist Justus ...
German philosopher, mathematician, and political adviser, important both as a metaphysician and as a logician and distinguished also for his independent invention of the differential and integral calculus. [72 Related Articles]
(from the article "Bilfinger, Georg Bernhard") German philosopher, mathematician, statesman, and author of treatises in astronomy, physics, botany, and theology. He is best known for his Leibniz-Wolffian philosophy, a term he coined to refer to his ...
(from the article "Dietrich, Josef") The special SS unit that Dietrich founded in 1932 evolved into the Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler (LAH), which served as Hitler's personal army and later became a division in the Waffen-SS. ...
(from the article "Barnack, Oskar") designer of the first precision miniature camera to become available commercially, the Leica I, which was introduced in 1924 by the Ernst Leitz optical firm at Wetzlar, Ger.significance in photography
(from the article "Selected Breeds of Sheep") Bakewell had more permanent success in developing the Leicester sheep (see photograph), a barrel-shaped animal that produced long, coarse wool and also provided a good yield of high-quality meat. The ...
(from the article "United Kingdom") ...in the hands of Roger, bishop of Salisbury, and his family. One of Roger's nephews was bishop of Ely, and another was bishop of Lincoln. This was resented by the ...
favourite and possible lover of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Handsome and immensely ambitious, he failed to win the Queen's hand in marriage but remained her close friend to the ... [7 Related Articles]
soldier, diplomatist, and patron of literature, younger brother of Sir Philip Sidney and second son of Sir Henry Sidney, English lord deputy in Ireland.
administrative, geographic, and historic county in the East Midlands region of England, bordered by Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, and Derbyshire. The administrative, geographic, and historic counties occupy slightly ...
(from the article "Bakewell, Robert") ...of his ailing father (who died in 1760). There Bakewell became one of the first to breed both sheep and cattle for meat; previously the animals were bred primarily for ...
explorer and naturalist who became one of Australia's earliest heroes and whose mysterious disappearance aroused efforts to find him for nearly a century. [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "dew") ...to measure dew. Among the various instruments are R. Leick's porous gypsum plates and S. Duvdevani's dew gauge, consisting of a wooden slab treated with paint. To determine the amount ...
gemeente (municipality), western Netherlands. It lies at the confluence of the Oude Rijn and Nieuwe Rijn (Old Rhine and New Rhine) rivers, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of The Hague ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") One of the earliest objects inscribed with the fully developed Maya calendar is the Leiden Plate, a jade plaque, now housed in the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, Neth., depicting ...
university in Leiden, Neth., founded in 1575 by William of Orange. It was originally modelled on the Academy of Geneva, an important centre of Calvinistic teaching. By the early 17th ... [3 Related Articles]
zoologist, one of the most distinguished and versatile scientists in the United States, who made important contributions to the fields of comparative anatomy, parasitology, and paleontology. [1 Related Articles]
Norse explorer widely held to have been the first European to reach the shores of North America. The 13th- and 14th-century Icelandic accounts of his life and additional later evidence ... [3 Related Articles]
town and coalfield, east-central South Australia, 350 miles (563 km) by rail north of Adelaide. The original town was named for Harry Leigh, an employee at the local sheep station ... [1 Related Articles]
American fashion model dominated the 1940s and '50s fashion scene, with appearances on more than 50 magazine covers (including 7 for Vogue in 1946 alone) and in a 1952 advertising ...
(from the article "Sotheby's") ...auction (under his own name) early in 1744, selling an estate library of 457 books. Establishing the firm in York Street and handling further libraries over the years, he went ...
American actress (b. July 6, 1927, Merced, Calif.-d. Oct. 3, 2004, Beverly Hills, Calif.), had a half-century-long career that comprised some 60 motion pictures as well as television appearances, but ...
British actress who achieved motion picture immortality by playing two of American literature's most celebrated Southern belles, Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche DuBois. [2 Related Articles]
academic painter of immense prestige in his own time. After an education in many European cities, he went to Rome in 1852, where his social talents won him the friendship ...
(from the article "infrared astronomy") ...released by the detection equipment itself) and special interference filters for ground-based telescopes, were introduced during the early 1960s. By the end of the decade, Gerry Neugebauer and Robert Leighton ...
Scottish Presbyterian minister and devotional writer who accepted two Anglican bishoprics in Scotland in an attempt to reconcile proponents of the presbyterian form of church government with their episcopal opponents. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Stockelsdorf faience") ...what was probably an earlier stove-tile factory, Stockelsdorf began to make faience in 1771, specializing in tea trays and stoves. Between about 1773 and about 1775 Johann Buchwald (as director) ...
(from the article "Football") ...year. Bush led Division I-A with 8.7 yd per carry and 2,890 all-purpose yards on catches, kick returns, and 1,740 yd rushing. Bush was USC's third Heisman winner in four ...
(from the article "Hannover") ...the Kreuzkirche (Church of the Cross; 1333). The ruined Sankt Giles's (or Aegidienkirche) Church (1347) remains as a memorial to war victims. New government offices have been built around the ...
prolific and versatile poet, a master of Finnish poetic forms, the scope of whose talent ranges from the visionary and mystical to topical novels, pamphlets, and critical journalism.
the southeastern province of Ireland, comprising the counties of Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Offaly, Longford, Louth, Meath, Laoighis, Westmeath, Wexford, and Wicklow. In its present form it incorporates the ancient ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Dublin") ...Molesworths, followed his example and began building houses and entire streets. In 1745-48 the earl of Kildare erected a palace at the end of Molesworth Street; Kildare House, renamed Leinster ...
(from the article "Ireland") ...tuatha, known as the Five Fifths (Cuig Cuigi), occurred about the beginning of the Christian era. These were Ulster (Ulaidh), Meath (Midhe), Leinster (Laighin), Munster (Mumhain), and Connaught (Connacht).
(from the article "Wexford") ...south by the Irish Sea and from west to north by Counties Kilkenny, Carlow, and Wicklow. The Blackstairs Mountains-which have two main peaks, Blackstairs Mountain (2,402 feet [732 metres]) and ...
compilation of Irish verse and prose from older manuscripts and oral tradition and from 12th- and 13th-century religious and secular sources. It was tentatively identified in 1907 and finally in ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Yamasaki, Minoru") ...Smith, Hinchman and Grylls; one of his projects was a modern addition for the Neoclassic-style Federal Reserve Bank building there. He resigned in 1949 to become a partner with George ...
(from the article "slipmouth") Slipmouth are small, deep-bodied, compressed fishes that usually attain lengths of less than 15 cm (6 inches). Leiognathus equula, the largest species, reaches 30 cm (12 inches). Slipmouth are abundant ...
(from the article "slipmouth") ...less than 15 cm (6 inches). Leiognathus equula, the largest species, reaches 30 cm (12 inches). Slipmouth are abundant in shallow coastal waters and are widely used for food. One ...
(from the article "muscle tumour") abnormal tissue growth located in or originating from muscle tissue. Tumours may either arise in muscle tissue or spread to it. Three major types of muscle tumours are leiomyomas, rhabdomyomas, ...
a genus of small New Zealand frogs belonging to family Leiopelmatidae (order Anura). There are three known species, and all are 30 to 40 mm (1.2 to 1.6 inches) long. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Anura") ...The parents depart, leaving the eggs to develop and subsequently hatch. In some Eleutherodactylus species and in the New Zealand leiopelmatid Leiopelma hochstetteri, the ...
(from the article "Anura") ...stream-adapted tadpoles; northwestern North America; 1 genus (Ascaphus), 2 species; adult length about 5 cm (2 inches).9 presacral vertebrae (i.e., anterior to the pelvic girdle); parahyoid ...
genus of birds of the babbler family Timaliidae (order Passeriformes), with two species: the silver-eared mesia, or silver-ear (L. argentauris), and the red-billed leiothrix (L. lutea), which is known to ...
(from the article "1939: Other Winners") ...Rennahan for Gone with the WindArt Direction: Lyle Wheeler for Gone with the WindOriginal Score: Herbert Stothart for The Wizard of OzScoring: Richard Hageman, Frank Harling, John Leipold, Leo Shuken ...
city, western Saxony Land (state), east-central Germany. It lies just above the junction of the Pleisse, Parthe, and Weisse Elster rivers, about 115 miles (185 km) southwest ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Eck, Johann") Eck was friendly with Martin Luther until the appearance in 1517 of the latter's Ninety-five Theses, which Eck assailed as heretical in a tract published in 1518. In the celebrated ...
(from the article "Augsburg Interim") ...Protestant electors objected to the Catholic emphasis of the Augsburg Interim and refused to abide by it. Charles attempted to force its acceptance, an action that led the Protestants to ...
(from the article "Telemann, Georg Philipp") ...Neuenkirche. Telemann reorganized the collegium musicum, the student musical society, into an efficient amateur orchestra that gave public concerts (then a novelty) and became director of the Leipzig Opera, for ...
zoological garden in Leipzig, Ger., noted for its carnivore collection. The zoo was opened in 1878 and taken over by the city in 1920. Occupying a 22-hectare (54-acre) site, the ...
(Oct. 16-19, 1813), decisive defeat for Napoleon, resulting in the destruction of what was left of French power in Germany and Poland. The battle was fought at Leipzig, in Saxony, ... [8 Related Articles]
coeducational state-controlled institution of higher education in Leipzig, Ger. It was renamed Karl Marx University of Leipzig in 1953 by the communist leadership of East Germany; the original name was ... [1 Related Articles]
town, west-central Portugal. The town is located 70 miles (115 km) north of Lisbon, a few miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean. It originated as the Roman town of Collippo ...
(from the article "Latin American art") Economic realities informed the work of many artists at the end of the 20th century. The rapid devaluation of South American currencies from the 1980s inspired Jac Leirner, a Brazilian ...
German dramatist whose most important work, Julius von Tarent (1776), was the forerunner of Friedrich Schiller's famous Sturm und Drang masterpiece Die Rauber (1781; The Robbers).
(from the article "protozoan") ...the trypanosomes and their relatives (hemoflagellates), morphological variation occurs during the various stages of the life cycle in both the mammalian and insect host. Among species of Leishmania, which cause ...
human protozoal infection spread by the bite of a sandfly. Leishmaniasis occurs worldwide but is especially prevalent in tropical areas. Three major forms of the disease are recognized: visceral, cutaneous, ...
(from the article "United States") ...The process of royal consolidation was accelerated when in 1688 the colony, along with the New England and New Jersey colonies, was made part of the ill-fated Dominion of New ...
provincial militia captain who seized the reins of British colonial government in New York (Leisler's Rebellion) and exercised effective control over the area for more than 18 months in 1689-91. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "folk art") ...requirements. In the folk group, in which occupations were often seasonal or dependent on weather and where people had to provide their own amusements, the creation of useful objects became ...
(from the article "Jenney, William Le Baron") In Jenney's design for the Leiter Building, Chicago (1879; enlarged 1888; later demolished), he made a tentative approach to skeleton construction, and the facade was prophetic of the glass curtain ...
port of Edinburgh, lying north of the city centre on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth. It is part of the council area of the City of Edinburgh, ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Surrey") ...by two east-west ridges-the chalk hills of the North Downs just south of the Thames valley and, farther south, a band of lower greensand rocks, which includes the highest point ...
(from the article "Scotland") James's government ratified the Reformed church settlement, and more permanent measures of church endowment were taken. The Concordat of Leith (1572) allowed the crown to appoint bishops with the church's ...
American scientist (b. March 12, 1927, Detroit, Mich.-d. Dec. 23, 2005, Ann Arbor, Mich.), revolutionized the field of holography by using continuous-wave laser beam technology to make three-dimensional holographic images. ...
American mathematician and teacher (b. Nov. 16, 1924, San Francisco, Calif.-found dead April 29, 2005, Los Angeles, Calif.), authored The Calculus, a classic textbook credited with having changed the methods ...
(German: "leading motive"), recurring musical theme appearing usually in operas but also in symphonic poems. It is used to reinforce the dramatic action, to provide psychological insight into the characters, ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "Bobsleigh, Skeleton, and Luge") In men's doubles action, Germans Patric Leitner and Alexander Resch returned to the track in full form and battled with Italy's Christian Oberstolz and Patric Gruber throughout the nine-race World ...
county in the province of Connaught (Connacht), Ireland. It is bounded by Northern Ireland (east) and Counties Donegal (north), Cavan (east), Longford (south), and Roscommon and Sligo (west). The southern ...
(from the article "Codona Family") ...to master the triple aerial somersault and the first to discover that the slope of the ground altered the arc of trapeze swings and thus affected the timing of the ...
(from the article "Yiddish literature") H. Leivick (pseudonym of Leivick Halpern), who was born in Belorussia, spent several years imprisoned for political activities and immigrated to the United States in 1913. While he worked as ...
principal port serving the city of Porto and northern Portugal. It is an artificial harbour on the Atlantic Ocean, within the town of Matosinhos, 5.5 miles (9 km) northwest of ...
peninsula, some 75 miles (120 km) from north to south and 30 miles (48 km) east to west, jutting out southward from the coast of Guangdong province, extreme southern China, ...
(from the article "Spanish literature") ...El Conde Alarcos (1917), adding dignity to his pessimistic view of an absurd reality in El senor de Pigmalion (1921). Generally overlooked is Maria de la O ...
French geneticist (b. June 13, 1926, Montrouge, France--d. April 3, 1994, Paris, France), identified (1959) the human chromosomal abnormality linked to Down syndrome, or trisomy 21, one of the most ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "bryophyte") ...and the mosses Mittenia and Schistostega), leaf surfaces (the moss Ephemeropsis and the liverwort genus Metzgeria and many species of the liverwort family Lejeuneaceae), salt pans (the liverwort Carrpos), bases ...
in animal behaviour, communal area in which two or more males of a species perform courtship displays. Lek behaviour, also called arena behaviour, is found in a number of insects, ... [10 Related Articles]
(from the article "Netherlands, The") A region with a very specific character has been formed by the great rivers-Rhine, Lek, Waal, and Maas (Meuse)-that flow from east to west through the central part of the ...
(from the article "Telakhon") ...Bible was rejected as not revealing the mysteries of Western knowledge. Renewed opposition to the Burmese led to armed clashes and the removal and death of the Phu Chaik in ...
(from the article "intelligence") The Lekem Bureau of Scientific Relations was a small, clandestine intelligence organization that recruited spies in Western countries until it was disbanded in 1986 following the arrest of Jonathan Pollard, ...
(from the article "Judaism") ...of the Sabbath candles by the wife or, in her absence, by the husband. In the synagogue the Sabbath is ushered in at sunset with the recital of selected psalms ...
(from the article "Lesotho") ...African authorities placed severe restrictions on the movement of goods and people across the border, effectively closing it. In response, the pro-South African faction in Lesotho, led by Maj. Gen. ...
group of West Slavic languages composed of Polish, Kashubian and its archaic variant Slovincian, and the extinct Polabian language. All these languages except Polish are sometimes classified as a Pomeranian ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Chess") ...through fifth places were claimed by Topalov, Etienne Bacrot of France, Loek van Wely of The Netherlands, and Peter Svidler of Russia. Kramnik and Adams were tied for fifth-sixth, and ...
in ancient Greek pottery, oil flask used at baths and gymnasiums and for funerary offerings. The flask has a long, cylindrical body gracefully tapered to the base, and a narrow ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "baseball") ...during spring training trips to Cuba and sometimes had postseason games against black clubs in the United States. In 1909, for example, the Chicago Cubs won three close games in ...
American poet and writer of miscellany, best-known for the "Hans Breitmann Ballads," which reproduce the dialect and humour of the Philadelphia Germans (also called Pennsylvania Dutch).
