(from the article "China") ...variety of forms, including basins, cups, serving stands, and pot supports. The discovery of two pottery models of silkworm chrysalides and 70 shuttlelike objects at a 6th-millennium-BC site at Nanyangzhuang ...
(from the article "xiao") A variant of the xiao, the nanyin dongxiao ("southern sound notched flute"), or chiba (literally "one foot, eight inches") found mainly ...
(from the article "Kenya, Mount") ...Walter Gregory (1893). The British geographer Halford John Mackinder was the first to reach the summit, along with the Swiss guides Cesar Ollier and Joseph Brocherel, in 1899. The town ...
Tai kingdom that arose in the 8th century in what is now western Yunnan province in southern China, a region to which the Tai peoples trace their origin. Many fragmented ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "zhong") ...was either held by hand or placed on a seat with its mouth upward and struck with a mallet. This kind of zhong is also called
(from the article "Jyoetsu") Naoetsu was an important port on the Sea of Japan during the Kamakura period (1192-1333). It experienced a decline in the early 1600s and was known merely as an outport ...
(from the article "fungus") ...or found in the air; yeastlike cells may be spherical or elongate; example genera include Erythrobasidium, Sporobolomyces, and Bannoa. Mycoparasitic; auricularoid basidia may contain mitospores; example genus is Naohidea. ...
(from the article "matsuri") The celebrations usually include a feast (naorai) in which the consecrated offerings of food and drink are consumed by priests and laymen, dancing, theatrical performances, divination, and athletic contests, such ...
(from the article "Leizhou Peninsula") ...extreme southern China, and separated from the island province of Hainan by the 10-mile- (16-km-) wide Qiong Strait. The peninsula is curved; together with two large islands on the east ...
gambling card game played throughout northern Europe under various names and guises. It reached England in the 1880s. Its title may commemorate the deposed Napoleon III.
(from the article "sleep") ...sleep). At birth there may be five or six periods of sleep per day alternating with a like number of waking periods. With the dropping of nocturnal feedings in infancy ...
city, seat (1850) of Napa county, west-central California, U.S. The area was originally inhabited by Wappo Indians, who called the southern part of the valley Napa ("Land of Plenty"). In ...
(from the article "nymph") ...the Nereids inhabited both saltwater and freshwater; the Naiads presided over springs, rivers, and lakes. The Oreads (oros, "mountain") were nymphs of mountains and grottoes; the Napaeae (nape, "dell") and ...
the aluminum salt or soap of a mixture of naphthenic and aliphatic carboxylic acids (organic acids of which the molecular structures contain rings and chains, respectively, of carbon atoms), used ... [4 Related Articles]
the capital in about 750-590 BC of the ancient kingdom of Cush (Kush), situated downstream from the Fourth Cataract of the Nile, near Kuraymah in the northern part of what ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Papua New Guinea") ...sq mi) | Population (2004 est.): 5,695,000 | Capital: Port Moresby | Chief of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by Governors-General Bill Skate (acting) until March 3 ...
city, DuPage and Will counties, northeastern Illinois, U.S. It lies on the West Branch Du Page River, about 30 miles (50 km) west of Chicago. The oldest city in DuPage ... [1 Related Articles]
one of the 12 tribes that in biblical times constituted the people of Israel who later became the Jewish people. The tribe was named after the younger of two sons ... [1 Related Articles]
any of various volatile, highly flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures used chiefly as solvents and diluents and as raw materials for conversion to gasoline. Naphtha was the name originally applied to ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "petroleum refining") The most widespread process for rearranging hydrocarbon molecules is naphtha reforming. The initial process, thermal reforming, was developed in the late 1920s. Thermal reforming employed temperatures of 510°-565° C (950°-1,050° ...
the simplest of the fused or condensed ring hydrocarbon compounds composed of two benzene rings sharing two adjacent carbon atoms; chemical formula, C10H8. It is an important hydrocarbon raw material ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "petroleum") The naphthene series has the general formula CnH2n and is a saturated closed-ring series. This series is an important part of all liquid refinery products, but it also forms most ...
either of two colourless, crystalline organic compounds derived from naphthalene and belonging to the phenol family; each has the molecular formula C10H7OH. Both compounds have long been identified with the ...
(from the article "coloration") Naphthoquinones are encountered in some bacteria and in the leaves, seeds, and woody parts of higher plants. They can be recovered as yellow, orange, red, or purple crystals. They are ...
(from the article "organometallic compound") The reactions of Fischer carbene complexes with alkynes has considerable utility in organic synthesis. For example, naphthyl compounds (i.e., those derived from the fused ring system C10H8) can be synthesized ...
(from the article "chemical industry") ...ammonia with chlorobenzene, obtained from benzene. Benzene and ammonia are required in either case. Similar treatment applied to naphthalene (C10H8) results in naphthylamine. Both aniline and naphthylamine are the parents ...
(from the article "dye") ...fabric (see above Dyeing techniques: Azo dyeing techniques). Since the process was done at ice temperature, some dyes were called ice colours. In 1912 it was found that 2-hydroxy-3-naphthanilide (Naphtol AS, ...
city and port, eastern North Island, New Zealand, on the southwestern shore of Hawke Bay. Laid out in 1856, the town was named for Sir Charles Napier, a 19th-century British ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Precambrian time") ...River gneisses of Ontario in Canada that form a narrow strip between greenstone-granite belts, the Sand River gneisses that occupy a small area between greenstone-granite belts in Zimbabwe, and the ...
(from the article "Pennisetum") Pearl millet (P. glaucum), an annual species, which bears a cattaillike flower cluster, is cultivated in tropical areas for its edible grain. Napier grass, or elephant grass (P. purpureum), a ...
(from the article "Napier, John") ...Virgulas Libri Duo (Study of Divining Rods, or Two Books of Numbering by Means of Rods, 1667); in this he described ingenious methods of multiplying and dividing of small rods ...
Scottish mathematician and theological writer who originated the concept of logarithms as a mathematical device to aid in calculations. [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Homo habilis") ...genus of more-apelike creatures whose remains had been found at many African sites. Formal announcement of the discoveries was made in 1964 by anthropologists Louis S.B. Leakey, Phillip Tobias, and ...
Scottish lawyer, first professor of conveyancing at the University of Edinburgh, who was an innovative editor of the Supplement to the 4th, 5th, and 6th editions of Encyclopaedia Britannica and ... [1 Related Articles]
British field marshal, who had a distinguished military and civil engineering career in India and commanded military expeditions to Ethiopia and China. [2 Related Articles]
admiral in the Portuguese and British navies, controversial commander of the British Baltic Fleet during the Crimean War of 1853-56. Created Conde Napier de Sao Vicente in the Portuguese peerage, ... [2 Related Articles]
British general and historian who fought in the Napoleonic Wars, particularly in the Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal; he wrote the popular History of the War in the Peninsula ...
(from the article "China") ...opium ban in China and gradually became defiant toward Chinese law and order in general, having nothing in mind but making money. After Parliament revoked the East India Company's monopoly ...
(from the article "Larsa") ...in southern Iraq. Larsa was probably founded in prehistoric times, but the most prosperous period of the city coincided with an independent dynasty inaugurated by a king named Naplanum (c. ...
city, capital of Naples provincia, Campania regione, southern Italy. It lies on the west coast of the Italian Peninsula, 120 miles (190 kilometres) southeast ... [15 Related Articles]
resort city, seat (1966) of Collier county, southwestern Florida, U.S. It lies at the edge of Big Cypress Swamp, on the Gulf of Mexico, about 35 miles (55 km) south ...
semicircular inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean Sea), southwest of the city of Naples, southern Italy. It is 10 miles (16 km) wide and extends southeastward ... [1 Related Articles]
state covering the southern portion of the Italian peninsula from the Middle Ages to 1860. It was often united politically with Sicily. [27 Related Articles]
coeducational state university at Naples founded in 1224 as a studium generale by the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II to offset the dominant influence of the university at Bologna. Although ... [2 Related Articles]
river in northeastern Ecuador and northeastern Peru. It flows from the eastern slopes of the Andes in Ecuador and descends generally eastward to the Peruvian border. There it turns southeastward ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Cluj-Napoca") ...historic capital of Transylvania, it is approximately 200 mi (320 km) northwest of Bucharest in the Somesul Mic River valley. The city stands on the site of an ancient Dacian ...
French general, first consul (1799-1804), and emperor of the French (1804-1814/15), one of the most celebrated personages in the history of the West. He revolutionized military organization and training; sponsored ... [184 Related Articles]
nephew of Napoleon I, president of the Second Republic of France (1850-52), and then emperor of the French (1852-70). He gave his country two decades of prosperity under a stable, ... [47 Related Articles]
French civil code enacted in 1804 and still extant, with revisions; it has been the main influence in the 19th-century civil codes of most countries of continental Europe and Latin ... [23 Related Articles]
(from the article "French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars") a series of wars between 1792 and 1815 that ranged France against shifting alliances of other European powers and that produced a brief French hegemony over most of Europe. The ...
(from the article "Italy") Area: 301,336 sq km (116,346 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 59,051,000 | Capital: Rome | Chief of state: President Giorgio Napolitano | Head of government: Prime Minister Romano Prodi ...
city, Elkhart county, northern Indiana, U.S., 26 miles (42 km) southeast of South Bend. Founded in 1874, it adopted an Algonquian Indian name (probably meaning "flour") and developed along the ...
in geology, large body or sheet of rock that has been moved a distance of about 2 km (1.2 miles) or more from its original position by faulting or folding. ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "textile") Napping is a process that may be applied to woollens, cottons, spun silks, and spun rayons, including both woven and knitted types, to raise a velvety, soft surface. The process ...
(from the article "Health and Disease") ...for participants taking celecoxib (200 mg twice daily) compared with those who were taking a placebo. Less than a week later, a study of the potential of celecoxib and the ...
(from the article "cybercrime") ...recording industry's greatest nightmare. In the United States, the recording industry, represented by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), attacked a single file-sharing service, Napster, which from 1999 to ...
town, Upper Egypt. It lies on the west bank of the Nile, in the great bend of the river, opposite Qus, in Qina muhafazah (governorate). One of the oldest regions ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "South Asian arts") ...are professional performers belonging to the lower classes. They exploit all the tricks of exaggeration, absurdity, malapropism, comic gags, and lewd references. In the performance of a naqal (comic sketch), ...
(from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") ...successor. The choice is all the more difficult to explain in that Esarhaddon, unlike his father, was friendly toward the Babylonians. It can be assumed that his energetic and designing ...
(from the article "Arabic literature") In 1847 Marun al-Naqqash, who had recently returned from a stay in Italy, obtained permission from the Ottoman authorities in Syria to produce in his house Al-Bakhil, ...
(from the article "Iran, ancient") ...about 180 miles (290 km) southwest of Shiraz, Shapur I is shown triumphing over three Roman emperors-Gordian III, Philip the Arabian, and Valerian. At Naqsh-e Bahram, north of Kazerun, Bahram ...
(from the article "Iran, ancient") ...relics of Sasanian art are the great rock sculptures carved on the limestone cliffs that are found in many parts of the country. The best-known groups are at Naqsh-e Rostam ...
(from the article "Persepolis") ...on the opposite side of the Pulvar River, rises a perpendicular wall of rock in which four similar tombs are cut at a considerable height from the bottom of the ...
(from the article "Ahmad Sirhindi, Shaykh") Shaykh Ahmad joined the mystical order Naqshbandiyah, the most important of the Indian Sufi orders, in 1593-94. He spent his life preaching against the inclination of Akbar and his successor, ...
(from the article "Koch") ...by Khen kings; but early in the 16th century Cooch Behar became the centre of the kingdom of the Koch king Biswa Singh, invading from northeastern Bengal. The greatest monarch ...
ken (prefecture), southern Honshu, Japan. The prefecture occupies the central part of the Kii Peninsula. Its southern and northeastern portions are mountainous, while the northwest is composed of the lowland ...
city, Nara ken (prefecture), southern Honshu, Japan. The city of Nara, the prefectural capital, is located in the hilly northeastern edge of the Nara Basin, 25 miles (40 km) east ... [4 Related Articles]
important water channel in Sindh province, Pakistan. From its source above Rohri, it runs southward and discharges into the Puran River, an old channel of the Indus River, which flows ...
(from the article "Kurokawa Kisho") ...art museum built there since World War II. To represent the dropping of the atomic bomb on the city, Kurokawa designed an empty circular space at the core of the ...
in Nara, Japan, art museum devoted primarily to Buddhist art. Exhibits include dry-lacquer works, wooden statues, and lacquered wood from the earlier and later Heian periods. There are Kamakura sculptures, ...
(AD 710-784), in Japanese history, period in which the imperial government was at Nara, and Sinicization and Buddhism were most highly developed. Nara, the country's first permanent capital, was modeled ... [11 Related Articles]
(from the article "Chinese literature") In the field of tz'u writing, the 17th-century Manchu poet Nara Singde (Sinicized name, Na-lan Hsing-te) was outstanding; but even he lapsed into conscious imitation of Southern T'ang models except ...
(from the article "Belarus") ...by a ship canal, thereby connecting the Baltic and Black seas. The rivers are generally frozen from December to late March, after which occur about two months of maximum flow. ...
town, southeastern South Australia. It lies 190 miles (310 km) southeast of Adelaide, near the Victoria border. Founded as Kincraig in 1845, it took its present name in 1869 from ...
(from the article "Naracoorte") ...goldfields. Created a municipality in 1924, it now serves as a market for wool, wheat, and dairy products. Limestone quarrying and lumbering are also undertaken, and tourism based on nearby ...
king of Siam (1656-88), who was best known for his efforts in foreign affairs and whose court produced the first "golden age" of Thai literature. [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "Assam") ...its capital at Pragjyotishapura (now Guwahati). Ancient Kamarupa included roughly the Brahmaputra River valley, Bhutan, the Rangpur region (now in Bangladesh), and Koch Bihar, in West Bengal. King Narakasura and ...
American organization, founded in 1969 to centralize state abortion-rights efforts and continuing its mission thereafter to protect and promote reproductive freedom. The organization consists of three related entities: NARAL Pro-Choice ...
(from the article "Mesopotamian religion") ...of Akkad (c. 2334-c. 2154 BC), from obscurity to fame and his victory over Lugalzagesi of Uruk form the theme of several epic tales. The sudden eclipse of the Akkadian ...
founder and first king (reigned 1404-34) of the Mrohaung dynasty in Arakan, the maritime country lying to the west of Lower Burma on the Bay of Bengal, which had been ...
(from the article "India") At his death in 1491, following the siege of Udayagiri (and his own imprisonment there) by Orissa, Narasimha left his kingdom in the hands of his chief minister, Narasa Nayaka, ...
city, Chiba ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. Narashino is situated on the northeastern shore of Tokyo Bay. Formed in 1951 by the merger of Minomi, Maka, Tsuda-numa, and ...
(Sanskrit: "Man-Lion"), fourth of the 10 avatars (incarnations) of the Hindu god Vishnu. The demon Hiranyakasipu, twin brother of the demon overthrown by Vishnu in his previous incarnation as Varaha, ...
(from the article "Ganga Dynasty") ...Muslims of Bengal, who invaded Orissa in 1206. Rajaraja's son Anangabhima III, however, repulsed the Muslims and built the temple of Meghesvara at Bhuvanesvara. Narasimha I, the son of Anangabhima, ...
(from the article "Ganga Dynasty") ...death of Narasimha in 1264, the Eastern Gangas began to decline; the sultan of Delhi invaded Orissa in 1324, Muslims raided in 1353, and Vijayanagar defeated the Orissan powers in ...
(from the article "India") ...but the principal source of supply of Middle Eastern horses for the military as well. The death in 1470 of Kapilendra of Orissa temporarily relieved military pressure in the east; ...
(from the article "India") Mahendravarman's successor, Narasimhavarman I (reigned c. 630-668), also called Mahamall or Mamalla, avenged the Pallava defeat by capturing Vatapi. He sent two naval expeditions from Mahabalipuram to Sri Lanka to ...
(from the article "Ngasaunggyan, Battle of") ...the demise of the Pagan dynasty of Myanmar (Burma). After unifying China, the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan sent envoys to neighbouring kingdoms, obliging them to accept Mongol vassalage. The Pagan ...
town, extreme southern Thailand, on the east coast of the Malay Peninsula. Narathiwat is a minor port inhabited largely by Malay Muslims. Fishing and shipping are the main activities. The ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Hinduism") ...cosmogony greatly expands upon the complex cosmogonies of the Brahmanas, Upanishads, and epics. According to one of many versions of the story of the origin of the universe, in the ...
(from the article "Swami-Narayani") ...among the Vallabhacarya, a prominent devotional sect renowned for the deference paid to its gurus (spiritual leaders). The sect was founded in Ahmedabad about 1804 by Swami Narayana, who emphasized ...
Indian politician and diplomat, who was the president of India from 1997 to 2002. He was the first member of the country's lowest social caste, the group traditionally considered to ... [4 Related Articles]
city, east-central Bangladesh, situated along both banks of the Sitalakhya River at its confluence with the Dhaleswari. The chief river port for nearby Dhaka, the city also has steamer connections ...
ancient Roman province that lay between the Alps, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Cevennes Mountains. It comprised what is now southeastern France. [5 Related Articles]
city, Aude departement, Languedoc-Roussillon region, southeastern France. It lies on a vine-growing plain 8 miles (13 km) from the Mediterranean and east of Carcassonne.
(from the article "Stael, Germaine de") ...the family residence near Geneva. It was here that she gained fame by establishing a meeting place for some of the leading intellectuals of western Europe. Since 1789 she had ...
French writer of best-selling crime novels who collaborated with Pierre Boileau on 43 thrillers, about 100 short stories, and 4 plays; their Celle qui n'etait plus (1952) was filmed as ...
