Japanese automotive manufacturer, maker of Mazda passenger cars, trucks, and buses. The company is affiliated with the Sumitomo group. It is headquartered at Hiroshima.
dualistic religion that rose to prominence in the late 5th century in Iran from obscure origins. According to some scholars, Mazdakism was a reform movement seeking an optimistic interpretation of ...
town, northwestern Lithuania. It lies along the Virvycia River. The first oil refinery in the Baltic states began operation in 1980 about 12 miles (20 km) northwest of the town, ...
medieval drinking bowl of turned (shaped on a lathe) wood, usually spotted maple. The oldest extant examples, dating from the early 14th century, are mounted with silver or silver-gilt bands ...
American cell biologist who was notable for his work in nuclear and cellular physiology, especially the mechanisms involved in mitosis (the process by which the chromosomes within the nucleus of ...
lowland territory in east-central Poland, located west of Podlasia in the basin of the middle Vistula and lower Bug rivers. Mazovia included the Plock-Ciechanow region (to which the name Mazovia ...
valley district, east-central Poland. Located in the eastern part of the central lowlands, it is directly south of the Masurian Lakeland and west of the Podlasian Lowland along the border ...
wojewodztwo (province), east-central Poland. It is bounded by the provinces of Warminsko-Mazurskie to the north, Podlaskie to the northeast, Lubelskie to the southeast, Swietokrzyskie to the south, ...
Polish folk dance for a circle of couples, characterized by stamping feet and clicking heels and traditionally danced to the music of bagpipes. The music is in 34 time with ...
Muslim Arab dynasty that ruled central Iraq from its capital at al-Hillah in the period from about 961 to 1150. The Mazyad family, which belonged to the Bedouin tribe of ...
Genoese propagandist and revolutionary, founder of the secret revolutionary society Young Italy (1832), and a champion of the movement for Italian unity known as the Risorgimento. An uncompromising republican, he ...
capital and largest town of Swaziland. Located in the Highveld of western Swaziland, Mbabane developed near the cattle kraal of the Swazi king Mbandzeni in the late 19th century. The ...
town, southeastern Uganda. It lies at the western foot of the extinct volcano Mount Elgon, 75 miles (120 km) northeast of Jinja. Located in a fertile coffee-growing region, Mbale is ...
town, south-central Cameroon. It lies along the Nyong River south of Yaounde. Located within the forest zone, it has a major plywood factory, powered by electricity from the hydroelectric complex ...
city, northwestern Congo (Kinshasa). It lies on the Equator about 435 miles (700 km) northeast of Kinshasa, the national capital. It was a colonial administrative centre from 1886. It is ...
town, southwestern Uganda. It is located at an elevation of about 4,850 feet (1,480 metres), at a point 167 miles (270 km) southwest of Kampala, and is linked by road ...
club established for African writers, artists, and musicians at Ibadan and Oshogbo in Nigeria. The first Mbari Club was founded in Ibadan in 1961 by a group of young writers ...
South American Indians of the Argentine, Paraguayan, and Brazilian Chaco, speakers of a Guaycuruan language. At their peak of expansion, they lived throughout the area between the Bermejo and Pilcomayo ...
group of peoples living along the middle Cross River in Nigeria. Numbering about 100,000 in the late 20th century, they speak a language of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo ...
city, south-central Congo (Kinshasa). It is situated on the Mbuji-Mayi River. It was developed by Europeans as a mining town after diamonds were found in the area in 1909. The ...
tomb figure of carved wood covered with a sheet of copper or brass, created by the Kota tribe of Gabon, Africa, to protect the dead. Its traditional function, as a ...
second largest ethnolinguistic group of Angola, comprising a diversity of peoples who speak Kimbundu, a Bantu language. Numbering about 2,420,000 in the late 20th century, they occupy much of north-central ...
American rock group, one of the most controversial and ultimately influential bands of the late 1960s. The principal members were Rob Tyner (original name Robert Derminer; b. Dec. 12, 1944, ...
U.S. secretary of the treasury (1913-18), a founder and chairman (1914) of the Federal Reserve Board, and director general of the U.S. railroads during and shortly after World War I ...
city, seat (1907) of Pittsburg county, southeastern Oklahoma, U.S., south of Eufaula Reservoir and Dam and the South Canadian River. It originated as a trading post, built in 1870 by ...
city, Hidalgo county, southern Texas, U.S., in the irrigated lower Rio Grande valley, 7 miles (11 km) from the International Bridge to Reynosa, Mexico, and some 50 miles (80 km) ...
U.S. lawyer and social leader who originated the phrase "the Four Hundred" to designate New York City's society leaders. McAllister was shortening an invitation list for Mrs. William Astor when ...
American author and publisher and an exemplar of the literary expatriate in Paris during the 1920s. Many of his short stories, however, are based on his own youthful experiences living ...
rare hereditary deficiency of the enzyme glycogen phosphorylase in muscle cells. In the absence of this enzyme, muscles cannot break down animal starch (glycogen) to meet the energy requirements of ...
river in northeastern Northern Territory, Australia, rising about 45 miles (70 km) south of Anthony Lagoon, along the scarp that marks the northern edge of the Barkly Tableland, and flowing ...
American journalist and broadcaster, perhaps best remembered for the warm, down-home personality she projected on her highly popular long-running radio program.
(1869), refusal of the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case involving the Reconstruction Acts. The court's refusal marked the apogee of Radical Republican power to determine national policy.
American writer in the Southern gothic tradition whose novels about wayward characters in the rural American South and Southwest are noted for their dark violence, dense prose, and stylistic complexity.
U.S. senator, whose entry into the 1968 race for the Democratic presidential nomination ultimately led President Lyndon B. Johnson to drop his bid for reelection.
U.S. senator who dominated the early 1950s by his sensational but unproved charges of Communist subversion in high government circles. In a rare move, he was officially censured for unbecoming ...
American biologist who, with Oswald Avery and Colin M. MacLeod, provided the first experimental evidence that the genetic material of living cells is composed of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
general who skillfully reorganized Union forces in the first year of the American Civil War (1861-65) but drew wide criticism for repeatedly failing to press his advantage over Confederate troops.
American scientist whose discovery in the 1940s and '50s of mobile genetic elements, or "jumping genes," won her the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1983.
British naval officer and explorer who discovered the tragic fate of the British explorer Sir John Franklin and his 1845 expedition to the North American Arctic. Before his own successful ...
American zoologist whose study of the mechanisms of heredity led to his 1901 hypothesis that an extra, or accessory, chromosome was the determiner of sex. The discovery of the sex-determining ...
Irish naval officer who followed the Arctic waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and thereby completed the first crossing of the Northwest Passage.
county, western South Carolina, U.S. It consists of a piedmont region bordered to the west by the Savannah River and its impoundment, J. Strom Thurmond Lake, which it shares with ...
English-born American journalist who gained a considerable reputation as a New York Times foreign correspondent and became the first woman member of the editorial board of the Times.
American newspaper editor and publisher, popularly known as Colonel McCormick, whose idiosyncratic editorials made him the personification of conservative journalism in the United States. Under his direction the Chicago Tribune ...
American operatic tenor who performed with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for three decades, first in secondary roles but later as a principal.
U.S. Supreme Court case decided in 1819, in which Chief Justice John Marshall affirmed the constitutional doctrine of Congress' "implied powers." It determined that Congress had not only the powers ...
