(from the article "Columbus, Christopher") ...died en route), as well as the bad news about Navidad and some complaints about Columbus's methods of government. While Torres headed for Spain, two of Columbus's subordinates, Alonso de ...
(from the article "Velazquez, Diego") ...effect of form, texture, and ornament is achieved in Velazquez's late manner without any definition of detail, in a free, "sketchy" technique. The portraits of the young Infanta Margarita (1659) ...
(from the article "Calderon, Rodrigo, conde de Oliva, marques de Siete Iglesias") ...honoured by the king. There seems little doubt that Calderon exploited his influence for private gain, and he became the main target for the anti-Lerma opposition, headed by the queen, ...
(from the article "tequila") Tequila is mixed with lime juice and an orange-flavoured liqueur to make the Margarita cocktail, which is served in a glass rimmed with salt. Mexicans usually prefer tequila unmixed, accompanied ...
island in the Caribbean Sea, 12 mi (19 km) north of the Peninsula de Araya in northeastern Venezuela. Also known as the Isle of Pearls, Margarita is the largest of ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "brittle mica") ...silicate minerals that has calcium instead of potassium or sodium. The calcium substitution increases the aluminum-to-silicon ratio that enhances hardness. This causes it to break instead of bend. Margarite and ...
(from the article "Western architecture") ...late 12th century). Many remarkable castles were built before and after 1200, incorporating Byzantine and Muslim innovations in military architecture, as at the Krak des Chevaliers or at Margat, "whose ...
town, Thanet district, administrative and historic county of Kent, England. It lies east of the Thames River estuary. A Roman villa existed just outside the town, which has a Norman ...
(from the article "grunt") ...a striped, blue and yellow Atlantic fish up to 46 cm (18 inches) long; the French grunt (H. flavolineatum), a yellow-striped, silvery blue Atlantic species about 30 cm (12 inches) ...
small cat (family Felidae) that ranges from South through Central America and, rarely, into the extreme southern United States. Little is known about the habits of the margay. It lives ...
highest summit of the Ruwenzori Range in East Africa and the third highest in Africa (after Mounts Kilimanjaro and Kenya). Margherita Peak is the highest peak on Mount Stanley. It ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Iran, ancient") Soon afterward (c. 290-280 BC) the two eastern provinces of Margiana and Aria suffered an invasion by nomads. But the invasion was repelled, and the nomads were pushed back beyond ...
city, eastern Uzbekistan. It lies 19 miles (30 km) north of Fergana. Originally known as Margilan, it probably dates to the 2nd-1st century BC, when one branch of the great ...
in finance, the amount by which the value of collateral provided as security for a loan exceeds the amount of the loan. This excess represents the borrower's equity contribution in ...
(from the article "public opinion") ...minority group will be represented. The size of the universe, except for very small populations (e.g., members of Parliament), is not important, because the statistical reliability (also known as margin ...
(from the article "Holocene Epoch") A complicating factor near the periphery of former ice sheets is the so-called marginal bulge. Reginald A. Daly, an American geologist, postulated that, if the ice load pressed down the ...
(from the article "cost") An aspect of cost important in economic analysis is marginal cost, or the addition to the total cost resulting from the production of an additional unit of output. A firm ...
(from the article "crevasse") ...the glacier. Thus, there are longitudinal crevasses, which develop in areas of compressive stress; transverse crevasses, which develop in areas of tensile stress and are generally curved downstream; marginal crevasses, ...
(from the article "probability theory") Often f is called the marginal distribution of X to emphasize its relation to the joint distribution of X and Y. Similarly, g(yj) = ∑Ih(xI, yj) is the (marginal) distribution of ...
in economics, expected rates of return on investment as additional units of investment are made under specified conditions and over a stated period of time. A comparison of these rates ...
(from the article "angiosperm") ...apical meristem. A slight bulge (a leaf buttress) is produced, which in dicots continues to grow and elongate to form a leaf primordium. (Stipules, if present, appear as two small ...
(from the article "Cooper, John M.") U.S. Roman Catholic priest, ethnologist, and sociologist, who specialized in studies of the "marginal peoples" of southern South America, northern North America, and other regions. He viewed these peoples as ...
(from the article "ocean") ...with the movement of the Pacific Plate past the North American Plate. It remains tectonically active today and is related to the San Andreas Fault system of California. A second ...
(from the article "production, theory of") It is now possible to derive the relationship between product prices and factor prices, which is the basis of the theory of income distribution. To this end, the marginal product ...
in economics, a theory developed at the end of the 19th century by a number of writers, including John Bates Clark and Philip Henry Wicksteed, who argued that a business ... [8 Related Articles]
(from the article "propensity to consume") ...of total consumption to total income is known as the average propensity to consume; an increase in consumption caused by an addition to income divided by that increase in income ...
(from the article "propensity to save") ...of total income or of an increase in income that consumers save rather than spend on goods and services. The average propensity to save equals the ratio of total saving ...
(from the article "government budget") ...whereby no tax is paid on the first segment of income and then each subsequent segment is taxed at a higher rate than the previous one. In the United Kingdom ...
(from the article "ocean") ...is oceanic, an island arc develops (Figure 10). The trench forms an arc in plan view, and islands with explosive volcanoes develop on the overriding plate. If the overriding plate ...
in economics, the additional satisfaction or benefit (utility) that a consumer derives from buying an additional unit of a commodity or service. The concept implies that the utility or benefit ... [7 Related Articles]
in economics, the practice of setting the price of a product to equal the extra cost of producing an extra unit of output. By this policy, a producer charges, for ...
(from the article "gastropod") Harp shells (Harpidae), olive shells (Olividae), mitre shells (Mitridae), volute shells (Volutidae), nutmeg shells (Cancellariidae), and marginellas (Marginellidae) generally have operculum reduced or lacking; most are tropical ocean dwellers, active ...
(from the article "Budapest") Below the three hills stretches the city. Opposite Rozsa Hill lies Margit Island, a mile-long park with hotels and swimming pools. Facing Castle Hill on the Pest side of the ...
(from the article "printmaking") The cellocut method was named by its originator, U.S. printmaker Boris Margo, one of the first to experiment extensively with plastics.
(from the article "Yiddish literature") Anna Margolin (pseudonym of Rosa Lebensboym) moved to Odessa, Warsaw, and, finally, New York City. She began publishing poems in 1920 and collected the volume of her
(from the article "Afghanistan") ...is about 3,000 feet (900 metres). The southwestern plateau covers about 50,000 square miles (130,000 square km), one-fourth of which forms the sandy Rigestan region. The smaller Margow Desert of ...
(from the article "American literature") ...(1989), The American Plan (1990), and Take Me Out (2002), the last about a gay baseball player who reveals his homosexuality to his teammates. ...
Russian mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1978 for his contributions to the theory of Lie groups. Margulis attended Moscow State University (Ph.D., 1970).
At a White House ceremony on March 14, 2000, Pres. Bill Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Science to eminent microbiologist Lynn Margulis, one of 12 distinguished recipients. She ...
Greek Orthodox bishop and humanist exponent of Greek culture in Italy, whose attempt to reconcile the theologies of the Eastern and Western churches aroused in Byzantine churchmen suspicion of his ...
(from the article "Attila") ...somewhere near the Caspian Sea in the east. Their first known action on becoming joint rulers was the negotiation of a peace treaty with the Eastern Roman Empire, which was ...
European people, numbering about 670,000 in the late 20th century, who speak a language of the Finno-Ugric family and live mainly in Mari El, Russia, in the middle Volga River ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Pakistan") The largest natural gas deposits are at Sui (on the border between Balochistan and Punjab), discovered in 1953. A smaller field, at Mari, in northeast Sind province, was found in ...
ancient Mesopotamian city situated on the right bank of the Euphrates River in what is now Syria. Excavations, initially directed by Andre Parrot and begun in 1933, uncovered remains extending ... [15 Related Articles]
member of the Finno-Ugric division of the Uralic language family, spoken primarily in the Mari El republic, Russia. The three major dialects of Mari are the Meadow dialect, spoken in ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Love's Labour's Lost") ...(Biron), Longaville, and Dumaine (Dumain)-debate their intellectual intentions. Their plans are thrown into disarray, however, when the Princess of France, attended by three ladies (Rosaline, Maria, and Katharine), arrives on ...
(from the article "Nicholas I") Nicholas was the son of Grand Duke Paul and Grand Duchess Maria. Some three and a half months after his birth, following the death of Catherine II the Great, Nicholas' ...
(from the article "alchemy") Zosimos credits these innovations mainly to Maria (sometimes called "the Jewess"), who invented the apparatus, and to Agathodaimon, probably a pseudonym. Neither is represented (beyond Zosimos' references) in the Venice-Paris ...
(from the article "Spain") For 10 years Philip IV's widow, Maria Anna of Austria, acted as regent for Charles II (1665-1700). She allowed her government to be dominated by her confessor, the Austrian Jesuit ...
queen of Naples and wife of King Ferdinand IV of Naples. She held the real power in Naples, and, under the influence of her favourite, Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet, ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Scarlatti, Domenico") By the spring of 1709 Scarlatti had taken over his father's position in Rome as musical director and composer to the exiled queen Maria Casimira of Poland. Until her departure ...
(from the article "Canova, Antonio, marchese d'Ischia") The French invasion of Rome in 1798 sent Canova northward. In Vienna he worked on a funerary monument to Maria Christina (1798-1805) in the Augustinerkirche. In 1802, at the Pope's ...
(from the article "Marias Islands") ...Maria Madre, 44 square miles (114 square km) in area and rising to an elevation of 2,011 feet (613 m). Nearby Maria Magdalena is second in area (32 square miles ...
queen consort (1879-85) of Alfonso XII of Spain whose tact and wisdom as queen regent (1885-1902) for her son Alfonso XIII were instrumental in giving Spain a degree of peace ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Portugal") In 1846 the movement of Maria da Fonte, a popular rising against higher taxation to improve roads and reforms in public health in which almost all parties joined, put an ...
(from the article "Sancho IV") ...of Fes (1290). Sancho owed much to his ablest supporter, Lope Diaz de Haro, whom he killed in anger during an argument at Alfaro (1288). He also depended greatly on ...
(from the article "Portugal") ...when he began to rule. Afonso himself was feebleminded, but the country was capably governed by Luiz de Vasconcelos e Sousa, conde de Castelo Melhor, until 1667. At that point, ...
island in the Tasman Sea, 4 mi (6 12 km) off the east coast of Tasmania, Australia. Extending 12 mi north-south and up to 8 mi east-west, it comprises two ...
Belgian-born Italian royal (b. Aug. 4, 1906, Ostend, Belg.-d. Jan. 27, 2001, Geneva, Switz.), was the last queen of Italy for 27 days, from May 9, 1946, when her husband ...
(from the article "stained glass") ...with a series of crude, yet remarkably effective, stained-glass windows through which shafts of light fairly explode into the church. Simultaneously, in Dominikus Bohm's and Heinz Bienefeld's Church of Maria ...
(from the article "Godoy, Manuel de") ...bodyguard. He attracted the attention of Maria Luisa of Parma, wife of the heir to the throne, and soon became her lover. When her husband ascended the throne in 1788 ...
(from the article "Ursins, Marie-Anne de la Tremoille, princesse des") After Ursins helped arrange the marriage of Philip V of Spain, grandson of Louis XIV of France, to Maria Luisa of Savoy, Louis sent her to Spain to be the ...
(from the article "Marias Islands") ...km) southeast of the tip of Baja California, the islands are administered by the state of Nayarit, Mexico. They consist of several rocky, rugged islands. Largest of the Marias is ...
(from the article "Marias Islands") ...of several rocky, rugged islands. Largest of the Marias is northernmost Maria Madre, 44 square miles (114 square km) in area and rising to an elevation of 2,011 feet (613 ...
(from the article "Andronicus I Comnenus") A cousin of the emperor Manuel I Comnenus (reigned 1143-80), Andronicus opposed the unpopular regency of the dowager empress Maria of Antioch after Manuel's death. In the spring of 1182 ...
archduchess of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (1740-80), wife and empress of the Holy Roman emperor Francis I (reigned 1745-65), and mother of the Holy Roman emperor Joseph ... [25 Related Articles]
(from the article "Martin, Maria") ...North America (150 plates, 1845-48), and she also contributed a number of drawings to John Edwards Holbrook's North American Herpetology (1836-42). Audubon named the Maria's woodpecker (Picus martinae), a subspecies ...
Mexican string orchestra composed of 3 to 12 performers playing a variety of stringed and brass instruments. (In addition to referring to an ensemble, the term mariachi is also used ... [1 Related Articles]
(c. 57-29 BC), Jewish princess, a popular heroine in both Jewish and Christian traditions, whose marriage (37 BC) to the Judean king Herod the Great united his family with the ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "antiphon") The four Marian antiphons are long hymns, not true antiphons but independent compositions especially noted for their beauty: the "Salve Regina" ("Hail, Holy Queen"), "Ave Regina caelorum" ("Hail, Queen of ...
(from the article "Juan Jose de Austria") ...played an active part in the political intrigues that marked the minority of the feeble new king, his half brother, Charles II. In 1669 he headed a military uprising that ...
(from the article "Measure for Measure") ...and is further outraged when her brother begs her to reconsider. On the advice of the disguised Vincentio, Isabella schedules the rendezvous but secretly arranges for her place to be ...
city, east-central Minas Gerais estado (state), southeastern Brazil. It is located on the Carmo River in the Doce River basin, at 2,287 feet (697 metres) above sea ...
island arc, a series of volcanic and uplifted coral formations in the western Pacific Ocean, about 1,500 miles (2,400 km) east of the Philippines. They are the highest slopes of ... [4 Related Articles]
submarine trench in the floor of the western North Pacific Ocean, situated east of the Mariana Islands. It is the deepest such trench known, part of the western Pacific system ... [3 Related Articles]
city, west-central Cuba. Situated in a slightly hilly area along the northern coast, Marianao was founded in 1726. Since 1900, with the growth of Havana (10 miles [16 km] to ...
(from the article "2007: Other Winners") ...Will Be BloodArt Direction: Dante Ferretti (art direction) and Francesca Lo Schiavo (set direction) for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet StreetOriginal Score: Dario Marianelli for ...
(from the article "Verdi, Giuseppe") ...the most revered figure in modern Italian music, died in 1868, Verdi proposed that a requiem mass in his honour be composed by himself and a dozen of his contemporaries. ...
(from the article "Western sculpture") ...was at a low ebb; and the dry, frankly propagandist nature of the decoration of the Borghese and Sistine chapels in Sta. Maria Maggiore, Rome, reveals this only too clearly. ...
a religious congregation of the Roman Catholic church founded by William Joseph Chaminade at Bordeaux, Fr., in 1817. The Marianists, including the Brothers of Mary, developed from the sodality (a ...
spa town, western Czech Republic. It is situated on the edge of the wooded hills southwest of Karlovy Vary. Its more than 40 mineral springs were long the property of ...
(from the article "Marianus Scotus") ...Germany. It was popular with other medieval chroniclers because it was based on many ancient and early medieval scholarly works. The chronicler should not be confused with another Irish monk, ...
chronicler who wrote a universal history of the world from creation to 1082 that disputed the chronology of the Paschal calendar formulated by Dionysius Exiguus, a 6th-century theologian. Marianus' Chronicon, ... [1 Related Articles]
archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of west-central Mexico. Lying approximately 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Cape Corrientes and about 230 miles (370 km) southeast of the ...
(from the article "Lewis Range") ...the range is within the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, while most of the remainder is included in the Flathead and Lewis and Clark national forests and the Bob Marshall Wilderness ...
river in Glacier county, northwestern Montana, U.S. It is formed by the confluence of Cut Bank, Dupuyer, and Birch creeks and Two Medicine River and flows generally southeastward. The river ...
(from the article "Literature") ...readers to go through the childhood and apprenticeship of a poet in Tiempo de guerras perdidas.Baile y sueno, the second book of the trilogy Tu rostro manana by Javier ...
(from the article "Grunewald, Matthias") Another important clerical commission came from a canon in Aschaffenburg, Heinrich Reitzmann. As early as 1513 he had asked Grunewald to paint an altar for the Mariaschnee Chapel in the ...
political leader and essayist who was the first Peruvian intellectual to apply the Marxist model of historical materialism to Peruvian problems. [4 Related Articles]
town, east-central Austria, in the Salza River valley amid the north Styrian Alps north of Kapfenberg. Founded in 1157 by the monks of St. Lambrecht's Abbey, it is the most ...
city, central Lolland island, Denmark, on Maribo Lake. The city (chartered 1416) grew up around an early 15th-century Bridgettine convent, the chapel of which survives as the cathedral of the ...
