(from the article "Khosrow II") ...resented the Byzantine presence in Armenia, which he had been forced to cede. Using the murder of Maurice (602) and his replacement as emperor by Phocas as a pretext and ...
(from the article "number game") Other number curiosities and oddities are to be found. Thus, narcissistic numbers are numbers that can be represented by some kind of mathematical manipulation of their digits. A whole number, ...
(from the article "mental disorder") A person with this disorder has a grandiose sense of self-importance and a preoccupation with fantasies of success, power, and achievement. The essential characteristic of this disorder is an exaggerated ...
in Greek mythology, the son of the river god Cephissus and the nymph Liriope. He was distinguished for his beauty. According to Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book III, Narcissus's ... [2 Related Articles]
any member of a genus (Narcissus) of bulbous, often fragrant, ornamental plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. The genus contains about 40 species, native primarily to Europe. Daffodil, or narcissus (N. ...
freedman who used his position as correspondence secretary (ab epistulis) to the Roman emperor Claudius (ruled 41-54) to become, in effect, a minister of state. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Eusebius of Caesarea") ...Arius to return to communion with his bishop. But events were moving fast, and at a strongly anti-Arian synod at Antioch, about January 325, Eusebius and two of his allies, ...
a sleep disturbance that is characterized by sudden, uncontrollable spells of sleep during the day, with disturbances of sleep at night. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "cnidarian") ...by having tentacles inserted above umbrellar margin. Oceanic, mostly warmer waters.Medusae with features of both Narcomedusae and Trachymedusae. Polyp unknown.Scalloped margin; gonads on stomach walls. Manubrium...
drug that produces analgesia (pain relief), narcosis (state of stupor or sleep), and addiction (physical dependence on the drug). In some people narcotics also produce euphoria (a feeling of great ... [9 Related Articles]
(from the article "United Nations") The Commission on Narcotic Drugs was authorized by the General Assembly in 1946 to assume the functions of the League of Nations Advisory Committee on Traffic in Opium and Other ...
(from the article "drug use") ...question dictates the position one will take in regard to addiction therapy. In general, the addict can be given his drug, he can be placed on a substitute drug, or ...
town, Puglia (Apulia) regione, southeastern Italy, southwest of Lecce city. Originally the Roman city of Neretum, Nardo was both Byzantine and Norman; it has a 13th-14th-century cathedral in the Gothic ...
(from the article "Orcagna, Andrea") The son of a goldsmith, Orcagna was the leading member of a family of painters, which included three younger brothers: Nardo (died 1365/66), Matteo, and Jacopo (died after 1398) di ...
(from the article "Challenger Expedition") HMS Challenger, a wooden corvette of 2,306 tons, was commanded by Captain (later Sir) George Strong Nares, while Sir C. Wyville Thomson supervised the scientific staff. The ...
king of Siam (1590-1605), regarded as a national hero by the Thai people for having liberated the country from the Myanmar (Burmese). [3 Related Articles]
east-bank tributary of the Vistula River that rises in western Belarus and flows into eastern Poland. The Narew River is 272 miles (438 km) long and drains an area of ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "jewelry") ...Peru. On certain occasions the priests wore tunics made entirely of braided gold sheet applied to the cloth. One of the commonest ornaments worn by important personages and warriors was ...
departamento, southwestern Colombia, bounded by the Pacific Ocean on the west and Ecuador on the south. Its population is concentrated principally in the volcanic Andean highlands above 5,000 feet (1,500 ...
site in northern Kenya known for the 1984 discovery of a nearly complete skeleton of African Homo erectus (also called H. ergaster) dating to approximately 1.5 million years ago.
city, Chiba ken, central Honshu, Japan. It is located approximately 30 miles (50 km) east of Tokyo, on the Ryoso Plateau. Originally an agricultural region producing rice, peanuts (groundnuts), sweet ...
landskap (province) lying mostly in the administrative lan (county) of Orebro, south-central Sweden. It lies between the traditional landskap (provinces) of Vastmanland on the north, Sodermanland on the east, Ostergotland ...
(from the article "international relations") ...courting recognition and assistance from those same powers. The first track was the responsibility of the Comintern (Third International) under Grigory Zinovyev and Karl Radek; the second, of the Narkomindel ...
river in central India, rising in the Maikala Range in east-central Madhya Pradesh state. Following a tortuous course through the hills of Mandla, it enters the structural trough between the ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "India") ...streams flowing into the valley of the Narmada River below. The escarpment appears from the south as an imposing range of mountains. The Narmada valley forms the western and principal ...
(from the article "art and architecture, Egyptian") ...of earlier times. The impression is certainly one of an extraordinary efflorescence of civilization. Conquest, implicit in unification, is dramatically characterized in the scenes shown on the Narmer Palette (Egyptian ...
town, Umbria regione, central Italy, situated on a hilltop above the Nera River. It originated as the Umbrian Nequinum (later Narnia, after the Roman conquest) and was the birthplace of ...
city and centre of a rayon (sector), Moscow oblast (province), western Russia, on the Nara River southwest of the capital. It was formed in 1926 from three villages and textile ...
19th-century Russian revolutionary organization that regarded terrorist activities as the best means of forcing political reform and overthrowing the tsarist autocracy. [6 Related Articles]
("People's Mountain"), peak of the Nether-Polar section of the Ural Mountains in west-central Russia. Rising to 6,217 feet (1,895 m), it is the highest mountain in the Urals range. Several ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Narodnik") ...liberalization of the tsarist regime. Because Russia was a predominantly agricultural country, the peasants represented the majority of the people (narod): hence the name of the movement, narodnichestvo, or "populism."
member of a 19th-century socialist movement in Russia who believed that political propaganda among the peasantry would lead to the awakening of the masses and, through their influence, to the ... [6 Related Articles]
doctrine or national principle, the meaning of which has changed over the course of Russian literary criticism. Originally denoting simply literary fidelity to Russia's distinct cultural heritage, narodnost, in the ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Buddhism") The Bka'-brgyud-pa school developed from the teachings of the Indian master Tilopa, who transmitted them to the Indian yogi Naropa, the master of Mar-pa, the 11th-century householder-teacher, who was in ...
(from the article "Boulder") ...National Register of Historic Places. Boulder remains a highly desirable location, with a thriving economy fueled by the development of high-technology manufacturing industries. Boulder is home to Naropa University (1974), ...
any of several timber trees of the genus Pterocarpus of the pea family (Fabaceae or Leguminosae). The name refers especially to P. indicus, or India padauk, or the hard wood, ...
town, northeastern New South Wales, Australia. It lies along Narrabri Creek (tributary of the Namoi River), just west of the Nandewar Range. Surveyed in 1859 and declared a municipality in ...
Algonquian-speaking North American Indian tribe that originally occupied most of what is now the U.S. state of Rhode Island west of Narragansett Bay. They had eight divisions, each with a ... [6 Related Articles]
town (township), southeastern Washington county, southern Rhode Island, U.S., at the entrance to Narragansett Bay. The Pettaquamscutt River (north) and Point Judith Pond (south) form the western boundary of the ...
inlet of the North Atlantic, extending northward (from Rhode Island Sound) for 28 mi (45 km) into Rhode Island, U.S., almost dividing the state into two parts. The bay is ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "basketball") ...were of irregular shape with occasional obstructions such as pillars, stairways, or offices that interfered with play. In 1903 it was ruled that all boundary lines must be straight. In ...
(from the article "harness racing") The American pacer descended a different path from that of the trotter. Pacer heritage fuses the blood of the Narragansett pacer, a saddle horse that disappeared by 1850, and the ...
town, south-central New South Wales, Australia, on the Murrumbidgee River. Settled in 1863 as a livestock station, it was proclaimed a town in 1880 and given an Aboriginal name meaning ...
(from the article "motion-picture technology") ...during production is meant merely to serve as a guide track, and nearly all sound is added during postproduction. One last form of speech recorded separately from photography is narration ...
(from the article "motion-picture technology") ...dialogue recorded during production is meant merely to serve as a guide track, and nearly all sound is added during postproduction. One last form of speech recorded separately from photography ...
one who tells a story. In a work of fiction the narrator determines the story's point of view. If the narrator is a full participant in the story's action, the ... [1 Related Articles]
town, southwestern Western Australia. It developed in the 1880s, when the Great Southern Railway came through the site, and a hotel was erected at the trackside. The settlement grew around ...
(from the article "vowel") ...articulation are "wide" and "narrow," "tense" ( fortis) and "lax" (lenis). Wide and narrow refer to the tongue-root position. To form a narrow vowel, the tongue root is retracted toward ...
(from the article "tody") ...broad-billed todies may be found on the islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Hispaniola (some systems of classification group them in a single species, Todus subulatus). The fifth, the ...
(from the article "rush") ...as wicks in open oil lamps and for tallow candles (rushlights). J. effusus, called soft rush, is used to make the tatami mats of Japan. The bulrush, also called reed ...
any amphibian of the family Microhylidae, which includes 10 subfamilies and more than 60 genera and more than 300 species. Narrow-mouthed toads are found in North and South America, Africa, ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "telephone and telephone system") ...cellular industry responded with several proposals for increasing capacity without requiring additional spectrum allocations. One analog FM approach, proposed by Motorola in 1991, was known as narrowband AMPS, or NAMPS. ...
(from the article "telephone and telephone system") ...being designed for transmission over standard telephone lines, operate at very low bit rates. In 1990 the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (CCITT) adopted standards for "narrowband" videophone systems ...
(from the article "Earth, geologic history of") ...Compston and his research group at the Australian National University with the aid of an ion microprobe. Compston and his associates found that a water-laid clastic sedimentary quartzite from Mount ...
(from the article "Nisibis, School of") intellectual centre of East Syrian Christianity (the Nestorian Church) from the 5th to the 7th century. The School of Nisibis (now Nusaybin, Tur.) originated soon after 471, when Narsai, a ...
Byzantine general under Emperor Justinian I; his greatest achievement was the conquest of the Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy for Byzantium. [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "patristic literature") Another eminent Edessene writer was Narses (d. c. 503), who became one of the formative theologians of the Nestorian Church. He was the author of extensive commentaries, now lost, and ...
(from the article "Narsimhapur") Narsimhapur district (1,984 sq mi [5,138 sq km]) occupies a narrow alluvial strip between the Narmada River (north) and the Satpura Range (south). Wheat, jowar (sorghum), gram (chick-pea), and oilseeds ...
town, administrative headquarters of Narsimhapur district, Madhya Pradesh state, central India, on the Singri River. Once called Chhota Gadarwara, the town was renamed Narsinghpur after the Narasimha (the man-lion, an ...
town, Rajgarh district, Madhya Pradesh state, central India. A major road and rail junction, it is an agricultural market centre. Cloth weaving is the chief industry. Founded in 1681, it ...
(from the article "Dioscoreales") Nartheciaceae, with four or five genera and 41 species, is included in Dioscoreales based on molecular evidence and the common possession of steroidal saponins. The main genus in the family, ...
long, narrow, enclosed porch, usually colonnaded or arcaded, crossing the entire width of a church at its entrance. The narthex is usually separated from the nave by columns or a ... [1 Related Articles]
The June 9 wedding of Crown Prince Naruhito and Masako Owada in Tokyo was undoubtedly the most talked-about royal event in many years. In earlier times royal brides came from ...
The June 9 wedding of Crown Prince Naruhito and Masako Owada in Tokyo was undoubtedly the most talked-about royal event in many years. In earlier times royal brides came from ...
city, Tokushima ken (prefecture), eastern Shikoku, Japan. The city lies along the Naruto Strait (Naruto-kaikyo), which connects the Inland Sea with the Pacific Ocean. The narrow strait ...
(from the article "whirlpool") ...stream") located near the Lofoten Islands, off the coast of Norway, and whirlpools near the Hebrides and Orkney islands are also well known. A characteristic vortex occurs in the Naruto ...
(from the article "Pilsudski, Jozef") After the adoption of a democratic constitution and a new general election, Pilsudski transmitted his powers on Dec. 14, 1922, to his friend Gabriel Narutowicz, the newly elected president of ...
city, Estonia. It lies along the Narva River, 9 miles (14 km) above the river's outflow into the Gulf of Finland. It was founded in the 13th century and quickly ...
(from the article "Charles XII") The early campaigns-the descent on Zealand (August 1700), which forced Denmark out of the war; the Battle of Narva (November 1700), which drove the Russians away from the Swedish trans-Baltic ...
Spanish general and conservative political leader, who supported Queen Isabella II and served six times as prime minister of Spain from 1844-66. [3 Related Articles]
town and ice-free seaport, northern Norway, near the head of Ofotfjorden. It is a major transshipment point for iron ore from the rich Kiruna-Gallivare mines in northern Sweden, since the ... [1 Related Articles]
historic town, northern Madhya Pradesh state, central India, just east of the Sind River. Traditionally said to have been the capital of Raja Nala of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata, the ...
a small, toothed whale found along coasts and in rivers throughout the Arctic. Males possess a long, straight tusk that projects forward from above the mouth. [1 Related Articles]
inland port and capital of the Nenets autonomous okrug (district), Arkhangelsk oblast (region), northwestern Russia. It lies on the Pechora River 68 miles (110 km) from its mouth on the ...
oblasty (province), southeastern Kyrgyzstan. The least accessible part of the country, inhabited mainly by Kyrgyz people, it occupies the inner Tien Shan at an elevation of 4,300 feet (1,300 metres) ...
city and administrative centre of Naryn oblasty (province), Kyrgyzstan. It lies along the Naryn River at an elevation of 6,725 feet (2,050 metres). Founded as a fortified point on the ...
river in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan that is fed by the glaciers and snows of the central Tien Shan (mountains). It becomes the Syr Darya (river) after merging with the Karadarya ...
(from the article "Western architecture") The Baroque appeared in Russia toward the end of the 17th century. The Russians imaginatively transformed its modes into a clearly expressed national style that became known as the Naryshkin ...
(from the article "Russia") ...Alexis was married to Nataliya Naryshkina. In 1676, however, Alexis himself died, and Fyodor, a sickly son of his first wife, Mariya Miloslavskaya, succeeded him. A struggle began between the ...
(from the article "Naryshkina, Natalya Kirillovna") Immediately after Alexis' death, Natalya's adherents, known as the Naryshkin party, tried to obtain the throne for Peter. But Fyodor, the eldest son of Alexis by his first wife, succeeded ...
(from the article "Western architecture") ...into a clearly expressed national style that became known as the Naryshkin Baroque, a delightful example of which is the church of the Intercession of the Virgin at Fili (1693) ...
second wife of Tsar Alexis of Russia and mother of Peter I the Great. After Alexis' death she became the centre of a political faction devoted to placing Peter on ... [2 Related Articles]
American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an articulate chronicler of inner-city street life.
(from the article "Arabic literature") ...order of length: the longest (Al-Baqarah ["The Cow"], with 286 verses) is second while a selection of very short suras comes at the end of the Qur'an, with the six ...
(from the article "'ilm al-hadith") ...of al-Bukhari (d. 870), Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (d. 875), Abu Da'ud (d. 888), at-Tirmidhi (d. 892), Ibn Majah (d. 886), and an-Nasa'i (d. 915)-came to be recognized as canonical in ...
in phonetics, speech sound in which the airstream passes through the nose as a result of the lowering of the soft palate (velum) at the back of the mouth. In ... [8 Related Articles]
(from the article "skull") ...join with the temporal and maxillary bones to form the zygomatic arch below the eye socket; the palatine bone; and the maxillary, or upper jaw, bones. The nasal cavity is ...
(from the article "nasal polyp") lump of tissue that protrudes into the nasal cavity and sometimes obstructs it. Polyps can form as the result of allergic conditions or of inflammation and infection. Allergic polyps are ...
any of several thin, scroll-shaped bony elements forming the upper chambers of the nasal cavities. They increase the surface area of these cavities, thus providing for rapid warming and humidification ... [5 Related Articles]
in marine birds and reptiles that drink saltwater, gland that extracts the salt and removes it from the animal's body. Its function was unknown until 1957, when K. Schmidt-Nielsen and ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "drug") ...Examples include nitroglycerin, which is absorbed from under the tongue (sublingually) to act on the heart and relieve anginal pain, and acetaminophen, an analgesic sometimes taken in suppositories. Nasal insufflation, ...
(from the article "pharynx") The pharynx consists of three main divisions. The anterior portion is the nasal pharynx, the back section of the nasal cavity. The nasal pharynx connects to the second region, the ...
lump of tissue that protrudes into the nasal cavity and sometimes obstructs it. Polyps can form as the result of allergic conditions or of inflammation and infection. Allergic polyps are ...
(from the article "body modifications and mutilations") For the insertion of decorative objects through the nose, perforation of the septum or of one or both of the wings, or alae (or both procedures combined), was widespread among ...
