(from the article "pharmaceutical industry") Specialized dosage forms of many types exist. Sprays are most often used to irrigate nasal passages or to introduce drugs into the nose. Most nasal sprays are intended for treatment ...
abnormal growth in the nose. Tumours may be malignant or may remain localized and nonrecurrent. The nose is a common site for tumour growth in the upper respiratory tract because ...
(from the article "speech disorder") Increased nasal resonance leads to open nasality (hypernasal speech), affecting all oral speech sounds that should not be nasal. Organic causes impair the accuracy of palatal occlusion during emission of ...
town and traditional emirate, western Plateau state, central Nigeria. The town lies just north of a fork in the Okwa River, which is a tributary of the Benue River. Nasarawa ...
sanctioning body for stock-car racing in North America, founded in 1948 in Daytona Beach, Fla., and responsible for making stock-car racing a widely popular sport in the United States by ... [7 Related Articles]
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(June 14, 1645), battle fought about 20 miles (32 km) south of Leicester, Eng., between the Parliamentary New Model Army under Oliver Cromwell and Sir Thomas Fairfax and the royalists ... [3 Related Articles]
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(from the article "biblical literature") Until the discovery of the Judaean Desert scrolls, the only pre-medieval fragment of the Hebrew Bible known to scholars was the Nash Papyrus (c. 150 BCE) from Egypt containing the ...
(from the article "game theory") Although solutions to variable-sum games have been defined in a number of different ways, they sometimes seem inequitable or are not enforceable. One well-known cooperative solution to two-person variable-sum games ...
(from the article "Monti, Eugenio") ...Italy. At the 1964 Games in Innsbruck, Austria, Monti and his partner Sergio Siorpaes were the defending world champions and found themselves in heated competition with the British team of ...
(from the article "etiquette") The late 18th and early 19th centuries showed another great flowering of etiquette in Britain when exquisites like Beau Nash and Beau Brummell imposed their whims as rules upon polite ...
(from the article "Crosby, Stills and Nash") ...Stills (b. Jan. 3, 1945Dallas, Texas, U.S.), and Graham Nash (b. Feb. 2, 1942Blackpool, Lancashire, Eng.).HolliesHollies, thefive-piece rock group from ...
American dancer, historian, and archivist (b. Oct. 5, 1919, New York, N.Y.-d. April 13, 2005, New York City), performed in stage musicals, danced with the early notable figures in modern ...
English architect and city planner best known for his development of Regent's Park and Regent Street, a royal estate in northern London that he partly converted into a varied residential ... [6 Related Articles]
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British painter, printmaker, illustrator, and photographer who achieved recognition for the war landscapes he painted during both world wars. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Ice Hockey") ...victory over Finland in the gold medal match. It was Canada's third men's championship in five years. In the final game, in Moscow's Khodynka Arena, Canada jumped to a 3-0 ...
New Zealand statesman who was prime minister in 1957-60 and who earlier, as finance minister during the Great Depression and through World War II, guided the Labour Party's economic recovery ...
(from the article "Appalachian Mountains") ...include the French explorer Samuel de Champlain, who sighted the mountains in 1605 as he sailed along the Maine coast; the American Darby Field, who made the first climb up ...
pamphleteer, poet, dramatist, and author of The Unfortunate Traveller; or, The Life of Jacke Wilton (1594), the first picaresque novel in English. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Maldives") ...of the legislature and judiciary, and allowed women to run for president. The country's first multicandidate presidential election was held in October of that year, and former political prisoner Mohamed ...
in Japanese lacquerwork, form of maki-e (q.v.) that is frequently employed for the background of a pattern. Gold or silver flakes called nashiji-ko are sprinkled onto the surface of the ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "nashiji") in Japanese lacquerwork, form of maki-e (q.v.) that is frequently employed for the background of a pattern. Gold or silver flakes called nashiji-ko are sprinkled onto the surface of the ...
(Hebrew: "Women"), the third of the six major divisions, or orders (sedarim), of the Mishna (codification of Jewish oral laws), which was given its final form early in the 3rd ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Wright, Frances") ...In December 1825, by way of demonstrating her plan, she invested a large part of her fortune in a 640-acre (260-hectare) tract in western Tennessee (near present-day Memphis) that she ...
city, seat of Hillsborough county, southern New Hampshire, U.S., lying along the Merrimack and Nashua rivers. It was settled about 1656 and was chartered in 1673 as Dunstable. It was ...
city, capital (1843) of Tennessee, U.S., and seat (1784-1963) of Davidson county. Nashville lies on the Cumberland River in the north-central part of the state. It is the centre of ... [8 Related Articles]
town, seat of Brown county, south-central Indiana, U.S., 40 miles (64 km) south of Indianapolis. Founded in 1836 as the county seat, it was called Jacksonburg but was renamed in ...
(from the article "Tennessee") ...Appalachians, the Cumberland Plateau has a generally flat, slightly undulating surface cut by deep and sometimes wide river valleys. The Interior Low Plateau in Middle Tennessee is dominated by the ...
(1850), two-session meeting of proslavery Southerners in the United States. John C. Calhoun initiated the drive for a meeting when he urged Mississippi to call for a convention. The resulting ... [1 Related Articles]
southward geologic extension of the Cincinnati Arch that is prominent in central Tennessee, U.S. Ordovician rocks (about 490 to 443 million years in age) constitute the oldest strata exposed in ...
(from the article "Ice Hockey") ...league revenues rose-allowing the cap on team player salaries to rise from $44 million in 2006-07 to $50.3 million for 2007-08. Questions arose, however, about the future of the Nashville ...
(December 15-16, 1864), in the American Civil War, decisive Union victory over the Confederates that ended organized Southern resistance in Tennessee for the remainder of the war. Hoping to cut ...
(from the article "Judaism") ...against Rome (132-135 CE). The term rabbi ("my teacher") was originally an honorific title for the graduates of the academy directed by the nasi, or patriarch, who ...
(from the article "Arabian Desert") ...region of Oman. The eastern Rub' al-Khali, generally thought to be dry and barren, supports much plant life on flanks of giant dunes, including a sweet grass called
Jewish statesman and financier who rose to a position of power in the Ottoman Empire under the sultans Suleyman the Magnificent and Selim II. [1 Related Articles]
lake in southwestern Finland. It extends northward from the city of Tampere, northwest of Helsinki. Approximately 20 mi (32 km) long and 2 to 8 mi (3.2 to 13 km) ...
(from the article "Arabic literature") ...most famously by the 9th-century writer Ibn Qutaybah-analyzed such long poems within a tripartite structure. In an opening section, called the nasib, the poem's speaker comes across ...
town, northwestern Maharashtra state, western India. It lies along the Godavari River and is situated along major road and rail routes at a point about 110 miles (180 km) northeast ...
(from the article "Islamic arts") ...in Muslim India was over. Once more, orthodox religious literature gained preeminence, while poets tried to escape into a fantasy world of dreams. The style of the two leading poets ...
(from the article "Hamdanid Dynasty") ...Allah initiating the Hamdanid dynasty by assuming the post of governor of Mosul (905-929). The dynasty struck an independent course under 'Abd Allah's son Nasir ad-Dawlah al-Hasan (reigned 929-969) and ...
(from the article "Zangid Dynasty") ...to capture Mosul (1182 and 1185); they were, however, forced to accept his suzerainty. The rise to power of Badr ad-Din Lu'lu', a former slave, as regent for the last ...
(from the article "India") ...was killed in the Battle of Ambur (1749), which demonstrated convincingly the superiority of European arms and methods of warfare. The threatening invasion of the new nizam (now a hereditary ...
(from the article "Brahui") The Brahui rose to power in the 17th century, overthrowing a dynasty of Hindu rajas. Under Nasir Khan, the confederacy attained its zenith in the 18th century. Their subsequent history ...
(from the article "Musa") ...of his followers, did not fail to create a most favourable impression. The Cairo that Mansa Musa visited was ruled over by one of the greatest of the Mamluk sultans, ...
(from the article "North Africa") ...Banu Ghaniyah invaded eastern Algeria in 1184 and, with local Arab tribal support, brought Almohad authority in the region to an end. In 1203 they took control of Tunisia as ...
city, capital of Dhi Qar muhafazah (governorate), southeastern Iraq. It lies along the Euphrates River in a flat, date-growing area. Built largely of sun-dried brick and enclosed ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Innu") ...a large forested area paralleling the northern shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, lived in birch-bark wickiups or wigwams, and subsisted on moose, salmon, eel, and seal. The northern ...
Islamic style of handwritten alphabet developed in the 4th century of the Islamic era (i.e., the 10th century AD). From the beginning of Islamic writing, two kinds of scripts existed ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "nervous system, human") ...sinus and enters the orbit via the superior orbital fissure. Branches in the orbit are (1) the lacrimal nerve, serving the lacrimal gland, part of the upper eyelid, and the ...
(from the article "eye disease") ...toward the nose and are drained through two tiny holes (called puncta) connected by small tubes to the upper part of the lacrimal sac. The lower part of the sac ...
(from the article "Epstein-Barr virus") Other rare disorders have also been linked with Epstein-Barr virus. These include the African lymphoid cancer called Burkitt lymphoma; nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a cancer of the nasal sinuses and throat that ...
(from the article "diphtheria") ...In faucial diphtheria, the most common type, the infection is limited mostly to the tonsillar region; most patients recover if properly treated with diphtheria antitoxin. In the most fatal form, ...
(from the article "diagnosis") The use of fibre-optic nasopharyngolaryngoscopes permits visualization of structures inside the nasal passages such as the sinus openings, larynx, and vocal cords. A more thorough examination can be performed than ...
(from the article "diagnosis") The use of fibre-optic nasopharyngolaryngoscopes permits visualization of structures inside the nasal passages such as the sinus openings, larynx, and vocal cords. A more thorough examination can be performed than ...
(from the article "nose") ...The roof of the mouth and the floor of the nose are formed by the palatine bone, the mouth part of which is commonly called the hard palate; a flap ...
(from the article "Mandaeanism") ...origin, basing their case on the quasi-historical Mandaean document, the Haran Gawaita, which narrates the exodus from Palestine to Mesopotamia in the 1st century AD of a group called Nasoreans ...
(from the article "Vanua Levu Island") ...in 1643, the volcanic Vanua Levu ("Great Land") was formerly called Sandalwood Island. It has an area of 2,145 square miles (5,556 square km). The central mountain range, culminating at ...
(from the article "Iran") The Samanid aura lasted from 819 until it was eclipsed in 999. Its supremacy in northeastern Islam began in 875, when the Samanid emir, Nasr I, received the license to ...
(from the article "Iran") ...(died 940/941), who had crystallized the language and imagery of Persian lyrical poetry as Ferdowsi (died between 1020 and 1026) was to do for that of the epic, patrons such ...
Egyptian religious leader who from 1986 was the supreme guide of the country's largest Islamic fundamentalist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, as it grew in power and influence (b. Jan. 20, ...
(from the article "Tunisia") ...and Omar Mestiri (publisher of Kalima, an online newspaper), were connected with cyberjournalism. The government continued to campaign against those who persistently opposed it, notably Radia Nasraoui, a lawyer whose ...
(from the article "Islamic arts") ...semihistorical popular epics seems to have been considerable. Apart from heroic figures, the Muslim peoples further share a comic character-basically a type of low-class theologian, called Nasreddin Hoca in Turkish, ...
last of the Muslim dynasties in Spain, rising to power following the defeat of the Almohads at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, in 1212. They ruled Granada from ... [2 Related Articles]
In early August 1994 the Bangladeshi feminist author Taslima Nasrin, disguised in the traditional shrouding dress of Muslim women, made her way through Dhaka and onto a plane. Thus began ... [1 Related Articles]
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historical region of Germany, and the noble family that provided its hereditary rulers for many centuries. The present-day royal heads of The Netherlands and Luxembourg are descended from this family, ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Macmillan, Harold") The Nassau agreement (December 1962) between Macmillan and Kennedy, that the United States should furnish nuclear missiles for British submarines, enraged Charles de Gaulle, who then was head of the ...
coral formation of the Cook Islands, a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean. The only island of the northern Cooks that is not ...
(from the article "Stein, Karl, Reichsfreiherr vom und zum") Returning to his ancestral castle in March 1807, Stein used his enforced leisure to compose the now famous Nassau Memorandum (Nassauer Denkschrift). A comprehensive program for the reform of the ...
(from the article "Nassau") historical region of Germany, and the noble family that provided its hereditary rulers for many centuries. The present-day royal heads of The Netherlands and Luxembourg are descended from this family, ...
army officer, prime minister (1954-56), and then president (1956-70) of Egypt, who became a controversial leader of the Arab world, creating the short-lived United Arab Republic (1958-61), twice fighting wars ... [27 Related Articles]
reservoir on the Nile River, in Upper Egypt and northern Sudan. It was created by the impounding of the Nile's waters by the Aswan High Dam, which was built in ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "hymenopteran") The so-called Nassonow gland, opening on the dorsal side of the abdomen, produces a substance that is used to mark the entrance to the bee hive as well as food ...
(from the article "protozoan") ...suctorians, which lack cilia in the trophic stage and feed via tentacles, and the chonotrichs, which are usually sessile ectosymbionts of crustaceans.Often well-developed oral/cytopharyngeal zones; typical genera are Nassula, ...
(from the article "protozoan") Other ciliates lack complex oral cilia and gather their food by other means. Nassula has a complex cytostome and cytopharynx supported by a basketlike cytopharyngeal structure composed of microtubules. This ...
predominant style of Persian calligraphy during the 15th and 16th centuries. The inventor was Mir 'Ali of Tabriz, the most famous calligrapher of the Timurid period (1402-1502). [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Pavement") ...by Steve West (b. 1967, Richmond, Va.) in 1993. Percussionist Bob Nastanovichb. Aug. 27, 1967Rochester, N.Y.) and bassist Mark...
(from the article "Romania") Adrian Nastase, a former prime minister, was formally charged with corruption in February. This led to a crisis within the Social Democratic Party (PSD), which he led from 2000 to ...
Romanian tennis player known for his on-court histrionics and outstanding Davis Cup play. He was the first European to surpass $1 million in career prize money and was ranked number ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Indian philosophy") ...systems, namely, the Nyaya, Vaisesika, Samkhya, Yoga, Purva-mimamsa, and Vedanta schools of philosophy, and unorthodox (nastika) systems, such as Buddhism and Jainism. Indian thought has been concerned with various philosophical ...
(from the article "Hel") ...trickster god Loki, and her kingdom was said to lie downward and northward. It was called Niflheim, or the World of Darkness, and appears to have been divided into several ...
any of various annual plants of the genus Tropaeolum, in the family Tropaeolaceae, native to Mexico, Central America, and northern South America and introduced into other regions as cultivated garden ... [1 Related Articles]
Indonesian politician (b. Dec. 3, 1918, Kotanopan, North Sumatra, Dutch East Indies-d. Sept. 6, 2000, Jakarta, Indon.), was a leader in winning (1949) Indonesian independence from The Netherlands and thereafter ...
in Burmese folk religion, any of a group of spirits that are the objects of an extensive, probably pre-Buddhist cult; in Thailand a similar spirit is called phi. Most important ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "South Asian arts") ...at any of the poetic moments characteristic of the strophic lyric-the author reverts to verse, sometimes in mid-sentence. Two principal types of play are distinguished: the nataka, which is based ...
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former province of South Africa. It was the smallest of the four traditional provinces and occupied the southeastern part of the country. [9 Related Articles]
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