town, Meurthe-et-Moselle departement, Lorraine region, northeastern France, on the Chiers River, near the borders of Belgium and Luxembourg. A part of the former Duchy of Bar, Longwy was annexed by ...
(from the article "Zhengding") ...late Tang provincial governors who was a pious Buddhist, and in consequence the Buddhist foundations there were comparatively unscathed by the persecution of the religion in the mid-9th century. The ...
city, Fujian sheng (province), southeastern China. It is situated in the mountainous southwestern region of the province on a branch of the Jiulong River, at the centre ...
(from the article "Svalbard") ...Polar Institute, headquartered in Oslo, furthers the work begun by earlier expeditions. The population (there are no indigenous inhabitants) changes seasonally but generally numbers about 3,000. Longyearbyen is the administrative ...
(from the article "qin") ...is called the "great mountain" (yueshan), the low bridge at the narrow end is called the "dragon's gums" (longyin), and the two pegs for ...
(from the article "Amarapura") Long known for its silk weaving, Amarapura is the site of a weaving school. Colourful longyis (skirts worn by both sexes) are produced in a distinctive heavy silk. The town's ...
(from the article "Zimbabwe") ...had resulted in acute shortages of food and fuel and with a rise in inflation from 1,730% in February to 7,892% in September. In spite of the country's economic problems, ...
folklorist and philologist who created the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala (1835, enlarged 1849), from short ballads and lyric poems collected from oral tradition. He also published Kanteletar (1840-41; "Old ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "Hawaiian") The Hawaiians held a vague belief in a future existence. They had four principal gods-Kane, Kanaloa, Ku, and Lono-and innumerable lesser gods and tutelary deities. Animals, plants, places, professions, families, ...
town, capital of Jura departement, Franche-Comte region, eastern France, south-southeast of Dijon. Located at 846 feet (258 m) above sea level in the valley of the Solvan, it is surrounded ...
(from the article "cigar") ...corona, or corona chica, is about 5 in. long; tres petit corona is about 4 12 in. long; half a corona is about 3 34 in. long; Lonsdale is the ...
British boxing award originated in 1909 by Lord Lonsdale, president of the National Sporting Club. The first belt went to a lightweight, Freddie Welsh. A belt was originally given to ... [1 Related Articles]
nee Yardley British crystallographer who developed several X-ray techniques for the study of crystal structure. She was the first woman to be elected (1945) to the Royal Society of London.
(from the article "ocean") ...of the 1870s. It was described in its gross form during the 1950s and '60s by oceanographers, including Heezen, Ewing, and Henry W. Menard. During the 1980s, Kenneth C. Macdonald, ...
English geologist and paleontologist whose studies of fossil corals suggested the existence of an intermediate system of rocks, the Devonian System, between the Carboniferous System (359 million to 299 million ... [1 Related Articles]
gambling card game often mentioned in English literature. The name derives from the French lanturlu, the refrain of a popular 17th-century song. Popularity of the game faded ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Pakistan") ...can exceed 117 °F (47 °C). Jacobabad, in Sind, has recorded the highest temperature in Pakistan, 127 °F (53 °C). In the summer, hot winds called loos ...
(from the article "falconry") ...peregrine falcons in East Anglia) and also partly because of the plowing up of the heathland over which the falconers rode, the centre of English falconry moved to The Netherlands, ...
(from the article "Apeldoorn") ...chemicals, and refrigeration machinery. There are many sanitariums in the district, and the Hoge Veluwe National Park is 8 miles (13 km) southwest. On the town's northern outskirts is Het ...
town ("parish"), Caradon district, administrative and historic county of Cornwall, England. It is divided into East and West Looe by the River Looe, which forms the harbour on the English ...
(from the article "carangid") ...The members of the family are known by various common names. There are the moonfish, pompano, pilot fish, runner, jack (qq.v.), and others. One of the most unusual-looking carangids is ...
narrow southwestern ridge of the Cumberland Plateau and a segment of the Appalachian Mountains, U.S., extending south-southwestward for 75 miles (120 km), from Moccasin Bend, Tenn., on the Tennessee River ... [1 Related Articles]
in the American Civil War, one of the battles that ended the Confederate siege of Union troops at Chattanooga, Tenn. See Chattanooga, Battle of. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "mineral deposit") ...years ago). Many carbonatites are mined or contain such large reserves that they will be mined someday. Among the most important are Mountain Pass, Calif., U.S., a major source of ...
machine for weaving cloth. The earliest looms date from the 5th millennium BC and consisted of bars or beams fixed in place to form a frame to hold a number ... [9 Related Articles]
(from the article "mirage") Sometimes, as over a body of water, a cool, dense layer of air underlies a heated layer. An opposite phenomenon will then prevail (see Figure 2), in which light rays ...
(from the article "Earth sciences") From about the mid-1820s, efforts were made to classify precipitation in terms of the causes behind the lowering of temperature. In 1841 the American astronomer-meteorologist Elias Loomis recognized the following ...
American public radio executive championed the independence of public radio as director (1958-65) of the international broadcaster Voice of America (VOA) and the decentralization of television programming as president (1972-78) ...
(from the article "Low Countries, history of") ...or less fixed at the end of the 13th century were the counties of Flanders and Hainaut, the duchies of Brabant and Limburg (after 1288 joined in personal union), the ...
any of five species of diving birds constituting the genus Gavia, family Gaviidae. Loons were formerly included, along with the grebes, to which they bear a superficial resemblance, in the ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "stunt flying") In November 1913 Beachey became the first to "loop the loop" in the United States, but the first flyer ever to loop was Russian flyer Petr Nesterov (d. 1914, in ...
(from the article "sound") The next two vibrational modes of the string are also represented in Figure 4. For these vibrations the string is divided into equal segments called loops. Each loop is one-half ...
(from the article "navigation") ...transmission and reception led to an improvement in this navigational technique, making it possible to obtain bearings from reference points obscured by fog or darkness. The signals picked up by ...
(from the article "Mexico, Gulf of") ...forms a sill (submarine ridge between basins) at about 1 mile (1.6 km) beneath the surface, and flows out in a clockwise direction via the Straits of Florida. Meandering masses ...
(from the article "Kirchhoff's circuit rules") The second rule, the loop equation, states that around each loop in an electric circuit the sum of the emf 's (electromotive forces, or voltages, of energy sources such as ...
long, U-shaped portion of the tubule that conducts urine within each nephron (q.v.) of the kidney of reptiles, birds, and mammals. The principal function of the loop of Henle appears ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "pile") ...number of loops of warp threads, or else of an infinite number of free ends of either warp or of weft, or filling, threads that stand erect from the foundation ...
(from the article "gasoline engine") ...continues after the inlet ports are covered by the rising piston on the compression stroke, until the exhaust ports are covered and compression of the fresh load begins. This loading ...
35-block area of downtown Chicago, Illinois, U.S. The name probably derives from a cable-car line that circled the city's central business district in the 1880s, though the term's use became ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "roller coaster") In an attempt to reduce the high g-forces of the vertical loop, Edward Prescott built the 1901 Loop-the-Loop at Coney Island, with a softer, oval-shaped design. It was better crafted ...
(from the article "motion-picture technology") ...part or all of the dialogue in a scene may have to be added during postproduction. Production sound is used as a cue or guide track for replacing dialogue, a ...
Austrian architect whose planning of private residences strongly influenced European Modernist architects after World War I. Frank Lloyd Wright credited Loos with doing for European architecture what Wright was doing ... [2 Related Articles]
American novelist and Hollywood screenwriter celebrated for her novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which became the basis of a popular play, two musicals, and two films. By the time of her ...
(from the article "farm building") There are two major cattle-housing methods, the stall barn (or stanchion barn) and the loose-housing system. In the stall barn each animal is tied up in a stall for resting, ...
(from the article "economic regionalism") ...within the EU has produced spillover effects in the political and social arenas, spurring, for example, the creation of the European Parliament and the European Science Council. In contrast, "loose" ...
(from the article "wrestling") ...jacket and special trousers are worn. Catch-hold styles require the contestants to take a prescribed hold before the contest begins; often this grip must be maintained throughout the struggle. Loose ...
(from the article "air warfare") ...to cover the lead pair from surprise attack. This tactic was favoured by the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War. By contrast, the U.S. Navy had developed the World ...
town, south-central Thailand, north of Bangkok. Lop Buri is a rice-collecting centre situated on the Lop Buri River and on the country's main north-south highway and railway. Founded as Lavo ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "ear disease") Lop ear, excessive protrusion of the ear from the side of the head, is a more frequent but less serious deformity of the outer ear. Surgery may be performed to ...
former saline lake in northwestern China that is now a salt-encrusted lake bed. It lies within the Tarim Basin of the eastern Takla Makan Desert, in the Uygur Autonomous Region ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Sakhalin Island") ...100 miles (160 km) wide, covering 29,500 square miles (76,400 square km). There is a lowland plain in the north, but most of the land is mountainous, reaching an elevation ...
(from the article "Gabon") ...of Gabon's timber industry. The rainforest is inhabited by antelope, monkeys, gorillas, numerous tropical birds, and several varieties of elephants. Gabon has several national parks, including Lope National Park (originally ...
(from the article "Portuguese literature") ...do descobrimento e conquista da India pelos Portugueses (1551-61; "History of the Discovery and Conquest of India by the Portuguese") of the chronicler and notary Fernao Lopes de Castanheda, a ...
(from the article "Portugal") ...winning Olympic gold medals and world championships. Rosa Mota won the marathon at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, South Korea, a world championship title, and three European championships; and ...
Portuguese historian, the first and greatest of the Portuguese royal chroniclers and the most accomplished writer of 15th-century Portuguese prose. He occupies a special place in medieval historiography because he ... [1 Related Articles]
American rap singer and songwriter (b. May 27, 1971, Philadelphia, Pa.-d. April 25, 2002, near La Ceiba, Honduras), was a member of the ultrasuccessful female rhythm-and-blues group TLC, which had ...
(from the article "Sofala") Tome (or Thome) Lopes, who accompanied Vasco da Gama to India in 1502 and left a narrative of the voyage, sought to identify Sofala with Solomon's Ophir and stated that ...
(from the article "Honduras") ...led to the congressional election of Ramon Villeda Morales (1957-63), a Liberal who brought some modernization to the transportation system and to labour legislation. In 1963 Colonel Osvaldo Lopez Arellano ...
(from the article "Spain") ...Ferdinand had to rely either on inefficient traditionalists who could raise no money in the European money markets or on the more liberal ministers who were able financiers. Ministers such ...
(from the article "Venezuela") Eleazar Lopez Conteras, who had been war minister under Gomez, succeeded him and served as president until 1941. Lopez restored civil liberties, sanctioned political activity, and permitted labour to organize ...
(from the article "Spanish literature") ...fame with Un drama nuevo (1867; A New Drama), whose characters, members of William Shakespeare's acting company, include Shakespeare himself. Adelardo Lopez de Ayala ...
Spanish poet and court chronicler who observed firsthand the happenings of his time and, unlike earlier chroniclers, recorded them objectively. His Cronicas (standard ed., 1779-80) are marked by this personal ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Western architecture") Spanish Baroque was similar to Italian Baroque but with a greater emphasis on surface decorations. Alonso Cano, in his facade of the Granada Cathedral (1667), and Eufrasio Lopez de Rojas, ...
Spanish priest, first modern Chess writer and analyst, and developer (though not inventor) of the Ruy Lopez opening, which is still one of the most popular in Chess. It begins ...
(from the article "Bonin Islands") The islands command a strategic position astride the Pacific approaches to East Asia. They were discovered by the Spanish navigator Ruy Lopez de Villalobos in 1543 and were vaguely claimed ...
populist Mexican politician who served as head of the Federal District government (2000-05) and ran, unsuccessfully, for president of Mexico in 2006. [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "Nicaragua") On Sept. 21, 1956, a day after Somoza's Nationalist Liberal Party of Nicaragua (Partido Liberal Nacionalista de Nicaragua; PLN) had nominated him for another term, a Liberal poet named Rigoberto ...
(from the article "Colombia") ...against labour unions in the banana industry and because of the lack of unity in the Conservative Party itself. Although Olaya ruled much like his Conservative predecessors had, the presidency ...
Argentine politician and political confidante who was virtual prime minister during the regime of President Isabel Martinez de Peron. [1 Related Articles]
Colombian Roman Catholic prelate exerted enormous influence as a conservative leader in the Latin American Bishops' Council until 1990, when he became even more powerful as president of the Pontifical ...
(from the article "Brennan, William") ...establishing a defendant's right to examine the reports of government witnesses. In his dissents in KerCalifornia and LopezUnited States (both 1963), Brennan argued for the right to privacy as implicit ...
American baseball player and manager (b. Aug. 20, 1908, Tampa, Fla.-d. Oct. 30, 2005, Tampa), managed the Cleveland Indians (1951-56) and the Chicago White Sox (1957-65 and 1968-69) to the ...
American writer best known for his books on natural history and the environment. In such works as Of Wolves and Men (1978) and Arctic Dreams: Imagination and ...
second dictator of Paraguay, who ended his country's isolation, sought to modernize Paraguay, and became deeply involved in international disputes. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Sanchez, Salvador") ...to Antonio Becerra for the vacant Mexican bantamweight (118 pounds) championship on Sept. 9, 1977. Sanchez became the World Boxing Council (WBC) featherweight champion by knocking out American Danny ("Little ...
dictator of Paraguay during the Paraguayan War (also known as the War of the Triple Alliance), in which Paraguay was practically destroyed by Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Tejano") ...upon the big band lineup popularized by swing bands, quickly incorporated Mexican folk music and conjunto traditions. By the mid-1950s bandleader and vocalist Isidro Lopez had made ...
American actress and musician who began acting in the late 1980s and quickly became one of the highest-paid Latina actresses in the history of Hollywood. She later found crossover success ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Colombia") In 1849 Gen. Jose Hilario Lopez, of the radical faction of the Liberal Party, became president. It was his task to implement the reforms passed in 1850, which galvanized political ...
poet who is famous for his depictions of the people and life of his native city. Except for short periods during which he served in minor consular posts in Munich ...
(from the article "Wrestling") Host country Hungary (41 points) won the Greco-Roman team title, ahead of Russia (27 points) and Turkey (26 points). Mijail Lopez of Cuba won his first world title in Greco-Roman ...
(from the article "golf") ...throughout the 1960s. Star players who emerged during the following decade include Jan Stephenson, Jo-Anne Carner, Amy Alcott, and Judy Rankin. The most notable player to emerge during the '70s ...
(from the article "Cuba, flag of") In the 19th century in New York City, anti-Spanish Cuban exiles under the leadership of Narciso Lopez adopted a flag suggested by the poet Miguel Teurbe Tolon. His design, which ...
(from the article "Niger-Congo languages") ...was also recorded. In 1591 the Italian mathematician Filippo Pigafetta included a number of Kongo words and phrases in a description of the kingdom of Congo that he based on ...
(from the article "Performing Arts") ...such real-world issues as racism and sex with the earnest glee-and the human-and-puppet format-of television's Sesame Street. Created by book writer Jeff Whitty and songwriters Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, ...
(from the article "perissodactyl") ...canals), with separate low, rounded cusps-the bunodont condition. Increasing specialization for grazing resulted in fusion of the cusps into ridges (lophs), thus teeth of this kind are called lophodont. Lower ...
(from the article "hypermastigote") Representative genera are Lophomonas in the cockroach and Holomastigotoides in the termite. Hypermastigotes are essential to termites' digestive processes, and the protozoans may account for half the total weight of ...
