city, Ishikawa ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the Noto Peninsula, facing Nanao Bay. During the Tokugawa Era (1603-1867), the castle town served as a naval base for the Maeda daimyo ...
(from the article "Japan") ...reliance on gold, Momoyama paintings provide a vivid contrast to the somber tones of the monochrome paintings of the Muromachi era. A specific genre within this tradition is often referred ...
(from the article "Tani Buncho") ...known in Japanese as the Bunjin-ga, or "Literati Painting") as well as of Yamato-e (traditional Japanese paintings of scenes from daily life). He founded a new school of painting called ...
(from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") The legendary Chimu ruler Nancen Pinco, who began to expand the state, is thought to have begun his reign about 1370, and the names of two predecessors are known; so ...
city and capital of Jiangxi sheng (province), China. The city is situated on the right bank of the Gan River just below its confluence with the Jin ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "China") The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the unified organization of all Chinese land, sea, and air forces. The history of the PLA is officially traced to the Nanchang Uprising of ...
city in east-central Sichuan sheng (province), China. Nanchong is situated in the valley of the Jialing River, which is a northern tributary of the Yangtze River (Chang ...
(from the article "Nicobar Islands") ...to the north, constitute the boundary between the southeastern Bay of Bengal (west) and the Andaman Sea (east). The Nicobar group includes the islands of Car Nicobar (north), Camorta (Kamorta) ...
city, capital, Meurthe-et-Moselle departement, Lorraine region, eastern France, in what was formerly the province of Lorraine, west of Strasbourg, near the left bank of the Meurthe River. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "France") ...The king succeeded in reconciling the Swiss cantons with Austria to form a coalition with France and the Rhenish cities; this coalition invaded Burgundy and defeated and killed Charles the ...
(from the article "logic, history of") ...indicate that two concepts are disjoint-i.e., having no basic concepts in common; in its propositional interpretation, it is equivalent to what became known in the 20th century as the "Sheffer ...
(from the article "India") ...by Hastings in a duel-returned to London in 1780, to continue his vendetta there. The conflict culminated with charges against Hastings of corruption by an Indian official, Nand Kumar (Nandakumar), ...
(from the article "Sikhism") The devotional works of Bhai Gurdas (1551-1637) and Nand Lal (1633-1715) are the only texts aside from the Granths that can be recited in the
king of the Toungoo dynasty of Burma whose reign (1581-99) ended with the dismemberment of the empire established by his father, Bayinnaung. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "mountaineering") ...great Himalayan peaks. A Soviet team climbed Stalin Peak (24,590 feet), later renamed Communism Peak, in 1933; a German party succeeded on Siniolchu (22,600 feet) in 1936; and the English ...
family that ruled Magadha, in northern India, between c. 343 and 321 BC. The Nanda dynasty immediately preceded the dynasty of the Mauryas, and, as with all pre-Maurya dynasties, what ... [2 Related Articles]
Indian politician who twice served briefly as interim prime minister, in 1964 following the death of Jawaharlal Nehru and in 1966 upon the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri (b. July ...
(from the article "South Asian arts") ...in English productions. Norah Richards, an Irish-born actress who came to the Punjab in 1911, produced in 1914 the first Punjabi play, Dulhan ("The Bride"), written by her pupil I.C. ...
(from the article "arts, East Asian") ...there is reference to careful anatomic understanding, this understanding is often rendered in extreme statement. The huge guardian figures created by Unkei and other Kei artists to flank the Nandai-mon ...
(from the article "Hastings, Warren") ...encouraged Indians to bring accusations of malpractices against him, while his friends used various methods to deter such accusations. The most notorious of these episodes concerned one Maharaja Nandakumar, who ...
town, east-central Maharashtra state, western India. It lies on the banks of the Godavari River. Its name is derived from Nanda tat ("Nanda border"), a term that refers to the ...
(from the article "Shaka") Shaka was the son of Senzangakona, chieftain of the Zulu, and Nandi, an orphaned princess of the neighbouring Langeni clan. Because his parents belonged to the same clan, their marriage ...
bull vahana (mount) of the Hindu god Siva. Some scholars suggest that the bull was originally the zoomorphic form of Siva, but from the Kusana (Kushan) age onward (c. 1st ... [1 Related Articles]
Kalenjin-speaking people who inhabit the western part of the highlands of Kenya. Their dialect of Kalenjin is classified in the Nilotic branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family; they are distinct ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "civet") ...places, coming out to forage at night. Except for the arboreal palm civets, such as Paradoxurus (also known as toddy cat because of its fondness for palm juice, or "toddy") ...
(from the article "Togo") ...for rural development. The EU cautioned, however, that continued aid would depend on the implementation of the August 20 agreement, in particular the establishment of an electoral calendar. Gen. Zakari ...
(Guarani Indian: "spider web"), type of lace introduced into Paraguay by the Spaniards. It is generally characterized by a spoke-like structure of foundation threads upon which many basic patterns are ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Mars") ...of small valleys that resemble terrestrial drainage systems created by flowing water. Examples include Nirgal Vallis, located in the southern hemisphere north of the Argyre impact basin, and Nanedi Vallis, ...
(from the article "Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal") The son of a butcher of Ipswich, Wolsey was educated at the University of Oxford. In 1498 he was ordained a priest, and five years later he became chaplain to ...
in Tibetan Buddhist ceremonies, pleasurable sense perceptions presented to honour tranquil deities. The offerings include a mirror (to please the sense of form, or sight); a bell or stringed musical ... [1 Related Articles]
one of the world's tallest mountains, 26,660 feet (8,126 metres) high, situated in the western Himalayas 17 miles (27 km) west-southwest of Astor, in the Pakistani-administered sector of the Kashmir ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "Afghanistan") ...has been limited to two institutions: Kabul University, founded in 1946 by the incorporation of a number of faculties, the oldest of which is the faculty of medicine, established in ...
one of four colonies (Nangnang, Chinbon, Imdun, and Hyonto) established in 108 BCE by the emperor Wudi of the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) of China when he conquered the ... [2 Related Articles]
mountain range stretching from north to south, west of the Kaema Highlands (q.v.), in central North Korea. The Nangnim Mountains form the watershed between Kwanbuk (the northeastern part of the ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Cho Oyu") mountain, one of the world's highest (26,906 feet [8,201 m]), in the Himalayas on the Nepalese-Tibetan (Chinese) border about 20 miles (30 km) northwest of Mt. Everest. The Nangpa La, ...
(1831-32), disastrous attempt by the British to exact tribute from the Minangkabau people of the Malay state of Naning, near Malacca. Claiming to have inherited a right formerly held by ...
(from the article "Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area") ...that ascribed to the semilegendary emperor Nintoku; the largest tomb of the Tumulus period, the 5th-century structure is surrounded by three moats and occupies some 80 acres (32 hectares). Ancient ...
(from the article "Beijing") ...One of these was established by the Khitans, who, after destroying Youzhou, founded the Liao kingdom (907-1125) and built one of their capitals on approximately the same site, calling it ...
(December 1937-January 1938), mass killing and ravaging of Chinese citizens and capitulated soldiers by soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army after its seizure of Nanjing, China, on Dec. 13, 1937, ...
(from the article "colonialism, Western") ...arrived at the mouth of the Canton River to begin the Opium War. The Chinese capitulated in 1842 after the fleet reached the Yangtze, Shanghai fell, and Nanking was under ...
durable, firm-textured cotton cloth originally made in China and now imitated in various countries. The name is derived from Nanjing, the city in which the cloth is said to have ...
(from the article "heron") ...bills and shorter legs and are more active in the twilight hours and at night. The black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) ranges over the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia; the ...
city, capital of Kiangsu sheng (province) in east-central China. It is a port on the Yangtze River and a major industrial and communications centre. Rich in history, ... [9 Related Articles]
Chinese blue-and-white porcelain made for export during the Qing dynasty (especially in the reign of Kangxi, 1661-1722) at Jingdezhen. It was shipped to Europe in great quantity from the port ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Kiangsu") ...most renowned are the simple Ming tombs (of Ming emperors) and the magnificent Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, at the foot of Tzu-chin Hill. The gastronomic specialty of this ancient capital is ...
(from the article "Telugu language") ...the 6th-century Calukya dynasty and is related to that of the Kannada language. Telugu literature begins in the 11th century with a version of the Hindu epic Mahabharata by the ...
German journalist who was one of the founders of the general-interest weekly magazine Stern, served as its editor, 1948-80, and was acting as its publisher when, in 1983, the magazine ...
Florentine sculptor whose works exemplify the stylistic transition from the Gothic to the Renaissance that occurred in Italy in the early 15th century. [2 Related Articles]
city and capital of the Zhuang Autonomous Region of Guangxi, China. The city is located in the south-central part of Guangxi on the north bank of the Yong River (the ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "algae") ...described, with probably more to be discovered; mostly small, pale green, and spherical; fewer than 15 species; Eustigmatos and Nannochloropsis.
(from the article "mouse") The 19 species of subgenus Nannomys live throughout sub-Saharan Africa in many different habitats: sandy and stony deserts, open grasslands, heath, scrub, dry and wet savannas, lowland ...
(from the article "palm") ...at or below the surface of the soil and producing the crown at ground level, while others are high-climbing vines. Rare instances of regular branching (in Allagoptera, Chamaedorea, Hyphaene, Nannorrhops, ...
(from the article "pencil fish") ...(family Hemiodontidae). Several species of pygmy pencil fish belong to the genus Nannostomus (family Lebiasinidae) and reach a length of 2.5 to 4 cm (1 to 2 inches). N. eques, ...
(from the article "pencil fish") ...aquarium fishes as Anostomus anostomus (family Anostomidae) and various species of Hemiodus (family Hemiodontidae). Several species of pygmy pencil fish belong to the genus Nannostomus (family Lebiasinidae) and reach a ...
(from the article "pencil fish") ...Several species of pygmy pencil fish belong to the genus Nannostomus (family Lebiasinidae) and reach a length of 2.5 to 4 cm (1 to 2 inches). N. eques, N. beckfordi, ...
(from the article "donkey orchid") ...and drooping. The common donkey orchid (Diuris longifolia) bears from three to five flowers about 4 cm (1.5 inches) long. Other well-known species are cat's face (D. filifolia) and nanny-goat ...
(from the article "Albania") ...sq km (11,082 sq mi) | Population (2005 est.): 3,130,000 (not including Albanians living abroad) | Capital: Tirana | Chief of state: President Alfred Moisiu | Head of government: Prime ...
(from the article "Physical Sciences") ...no potential hazard to living organisms and their environment. Joseph Hughes of the Georgia Institute of Technology and co-workers reported, however, that buckyballs form into clumps called nano-C60 upon contact ...
(from the article "Nanotechnology-Small Is Beautiful") Some of the most exciting nanoscale technology has no practical application as yet. Such technology includes the self-assembling "nano-elevators" reported by developers at the University of California, Los Angeles, in ...
(from the article "microelectromechanical system") ...design and modeling tools, and the need for more reliable packaging. A current research focus is on exploring properties at nanometre dimensions (i.e., at billionths of a metre) for devices ...
(from the article "nanotechnology") Two very different paths are pursued. One is a top-down strategy of miniaturizing current technologies, while the other is a bottom-up strategy of building ever-more-complex molecular devices atom by atom. ...
(from the article "International System of Units (SI)") ...high-energy gamma rays can be shorter than 10−16 metre, which is one-millionth of the diameter of an atom. Visible light and X rays are often described in units of angstroms ...
(from the article "Physical Sciences") Nanoparticles, such as buckyballs (soccer-ball-shaped molecules [C60] made of 60 carbon atoms), are ultrasmall particles whose unusual properties sparked substantial interest for their potential use in commercial and industrial products. ...
(from the article "Physical Sciences") As more consumer products included nanoscale materials-materials manufactured from particles 1 to 100 billionths of a metre in size-researchers worked to understand their possible effects on environment and health. In ...
(from the article "nanotechnology") ...such traditional applications for physical sensing generally rely on microscale sensing devices, the advent of nanoscale materials and structures has led to new electronic, photonic, and magnetic nanosensors, sometimes known ...
the manipulation and manufacture of materials and devices on the scale of atoms or small groups of atoms. The "nanoscale" is typically measured in nanometres, or billionths of a metre ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "geomagnetic field") ...terms of the rate of change of potential, volts per metre (V/m). Magnetic fields are measured in units of tesla (T). The tesla is a large unit for geophysical observations, ...
(from the article "Life Sciences") ...(with Northern Illinois University) a major symposium at which most of the world's experts on tyrannosaurs presented papers. The primary point of debate at the symposium was the status of ...
(from the article "nanotechnology") ...for working at the nanoscale have become essential to electronic engineering, and nanoengineered materials have begun to appear in consumer products. For example, billions of microscopic "nanowhiskers," each about 10 ...
(from the article "nanotechnology") Carbon nanotubes have remarkable electronic, mechanical, and chemical properties. Depending on their specific diameter and the bonding arrangement of their carbon atoms, nanotubes exhibit either metallic or semiconducting behaviour. Electrical ...
(from the article "pipa") One type of pipa very popular in Fujian and Taiwan is sometimes called nanpa ("southern pipa"). An important instrument in the ...
(from the article "Xi River system") The Xi's main headstream is generally considered to be the Nanpan River, which rises in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau at an elevation of about 6,900 feet (2,100 metres). The Nanpan drops ...
city in north-central Fujian sheng (province), China. Nanping occupies an important position in the communications network of northern Fujian. It is situated on the northwest bank of ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Kublai Khan") The bulk of the population belonged to the third and fourth classes, the han-jen, or northern Chinese, and the man-tzu, or southern barbarians, who lived in what had been Sung ...
(from the article "Arctic Ocean") ...at a depth of 14,070 feet. The geographic north pole is located over the floor of the Fram Basin near its juncture with the Lomonosov Ridge. The smallest of the ...
ocean-water sampler devised late in the 19th century by the Norwegian oceanographer Fridtjof Nansen and subsequently modified by various workers. The standard Nansen bottle has a capacity of 1.25 litres ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Arctic Ocean") The Eurasia Basin is divided into two smaller basins by a trans-Arctic Ocean extension of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. This Arctic segment of the global ridge system is called the Nansen ...
international office opened by the League of Nations in 1931 to complete the work of Fridtjof Nansen, who had been the League of Nations' high commissioner for refugees from 1921 ... [1 Related Articles]
Norwegian explorer, oceanographer, statesman, and humanitarian who led a number of expeditions to the Arctic (1888, 1893, 1895-96) and oceanographic expeditions in the North Atlantic (1900, 1910-14). For his relief ... [10 Related Articles]
in Mesopotamian religion, Sumerian city goddess of Nina (modern Surghul, Iraq) in the southeastern part of the Lagash region of Mesopotamia. According to tradition, Nanshe's father Enki (Akkadian: Ea) organized ...
(from the article "Nantahala River") river rising in the Nantahala Mountains southwest of Asheville, North Carolina, U.S., near the border between Georgia and North Carolina. It flows 40 miles (64 km) north through Nantahala National ...
river rising in the Nantahala Mountains southwest of Asheville, North Carolina, U.S., near the border between Georgia and North Carolina. It flows 40 miles (64 km) north through Nantahala National ...
city, capital of the Hauts-de-Seine departement, Ile-de-France region. Located on the east bank of a loop of the meandering Seine River, and separated from Paris by the suburbs of Puteaux ...
city, capital of Loire-Atlantique departement, Pays de la Loire region, western France. Nantes is situated at the head of the estuary of the Loire River, where it is joined by ... [1 Related Articles]
law promulgated at Nantes in Brittany on April 13, 1598, by Henry IV of France. It granted a large measure of religious liberty to his Protestant subjects, the Huguenots. The ... [21 Related Articles]
autonomous, state-financed coeducational institution of higher learning at Nantes, in western France. Founded in 1970 under the 1968 law reforming French higher education, the university replaced the former University of ...
the outstanding French portrait engraver of his age, whose achievement resulted in the elevation of engraving from a humble craft to a fine art. He became known by his crayon ... [1 Related Articles]
an English granular, soft-paste porcelain, pure white in colour, containing bone ash. It was made at a factory founded in 1813 by William Billingsley at Nantgarw, Glamorgan, Wales. Translucent and ...
a confederacy of Algonquian-speaking North American Indians who lived along the eastern shores of what are now Maryland and southern Delaware; their name means "tidewater people." They were related to ...
city, Luzerne county, northeast-central Pennsylvania, U.S., on the Susquehanna River, about 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Wilkes-Barre. In the early 18th century white settlers were attracted to the site ...
(from the article "Japan") Japanese is broadly divided linguistically into the two major dialects of Hondo and Nanto. The Hondo dialect is used throughout Japan and may be divided into three major subdialects: Eastern, ...
(from the article "Akaroa") In 1838 a French whaler, Captain Jean Langlois, agreed with the local Maori chiefs to buy 30,000 acres (12,000 hectares) of the peninsula. He returned to France to organize the ...
(from the article "Ellington, Duke") ...The singular blues-based melodies; the harsh, vocalized sounds of his trumpeter, Bubber Miley (who used a plunger ["wa-wa"] mute); and the sonorities of the distinctive trombonist Joe ("Tricky Sam") Nanton ...
city, eastern Jiangsu sheng (province), China. It is situated on the northern shore of the head of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) estuary. Northward, it is connected ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "museums, history of") ...Tokyo National Museum and National Science Museum. Although some learned-society museums existed in China in the late 19th century, the first museum in the strict sense of the word was ...
island in the Atlantic Ocean, about 30 miles (48 km) south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, U.S., across Nantucket Sound. It is separated from Martha's Vineyard (15 miles [24 km] west) ... [1 Related Articles]
town (parish), Crewe and Nantwich borough, administrative and historic county of Cheshire, England, in the Weaver valley. The town dates from Roman times, when its salt deposits were important. Today ...
city, southwestern Henan sheng (province), China. Nanyang is situated on the Bai River, which is a tributary of the Han River. It was from early times an ...
