(from the article "thunderstorm") ...large storms. Airplanes flying through large storms at altitudes of about 10,000 metres (33,000 feet) have measured updrafts exceeding 30 metres (98 feet) per second. The strongest updrafts occur in ...
(from the article "Olympic Games") When the IOC awards the Olympic Games to a city, an organizing committee for the Olympic Games (OCOG) replaces the successful bid committee, often including many of that committee's members. ...
(from the article "Brown, Herbert Charles") ...University of Chicago. His dissertation, under the direction of Hermann Schlesinger, involved the reaction of diborane with aldehydes and ketones. It was the beginning of a lifetime's devotion to organoborane ...
in embryology, the series of organized integrated processes that transforms an amorphous mass of cells into a complete organ in the developing embryo. The cells of an organ-forming region undergo ... [4 Related Articles]
any of a class of organic compounds that contain at least one halogen (fluorine [F], chlorine [Cl], bromine [Br], or iodine [I]) bonded to carbon. They are subdivided into alkyl, ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "alcohol") Grignard and organolithium reagents are powerful tools for organic synthesis, and the most common products of their reactions are alcohols. A Grignard reagent is formed by reaction of an alkyl ...
any member of a class of substances containing at least one metal-to-carbon bond in which the carbon is part of an organic group. Organometallic compounds constitute a very large group ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "Guaniguanico, Cordillera de") low range of hills in Pinar del Rio province, western Cuba. It extends about 40 mi (64 km) northeast from Mantua and comprises the Sierra de los Organos and the ...
a subclass of organic substances that contain sulfur and that are known for their varied occurrence and unusual properties. They are found in diverse locations, including in interstellar space, inside ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "organometallic compound") Organometallic compounds containing lead, tin, and mercury are all commercially significant. A large number of organotin compounds, for example, are used as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, stabilizers for polyvinyl chloride, and fire ...
(from the article "nutrition") ...their energy requirements. If the electron-donor materials utilized to form reduced coenzymes consist of inorganic compounds, the organism is said to be lithotrophic; if organic, the organism is organotrophic.heterotroph
originally, any musical instrument (later in particular an organ); the term attained its lasting sense, however, during the Middle Ages in reference to a polyphonic (many-voiced) setting, in certain specific ... [10 Related Articles]
(from the article "music, Western") ...reduced to the role of sustaining each tone while the organal part indulged in free melismata (groups of notes sung to a single syllable), either improvised or composed. This new ...
(from the article "nervous system, human") ...such chemical agents do not have free passage, because the capillaries form a blood-brain barrier, but at these special sites they have direct access to central neurons. One of the ...
(from the article "Brazil") ...segment of the escarpment along the Atlantic coast. The range extends from southeastern Minas Gerais to eastern Parana; in the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro, where the range is also ...
climactic physiological state of heightened sexual excitement and gratification that is followed by relaxation of sexual tensions and the body's muscles. [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "electronic organ") ...organ and was operated with keyboards and a pedal board. Another notable early electronic organ was the Rangertone (1931), invented by Richard H. Ranger of the United States. In 1934 ...
(from the article "Reich, Wilhelm") Reich's political and sexual ideas led to a break with the psychoanalytic movement in 1934, after which he devoted himself to orgonomy, an attempt to measure "orgones," units of cosmic ...
meteorite that fell on the village of Orgueil, near Toulouse, France, in May 1864 and that is often used to infer the relative proportions of elements in the solar system ...
the second ruler of the Ottoman dynasty, which had been founded by his father, Osman I. Orhan's reign (1324-60) marked the beginning of Ottoman expansion into the Balkans. [4 Related Articles]
oldest extant Turkish writings, discovered in the valley of the Orhon River, northern Mongolia, in 1889 and deciphered in 1893 by the Danish philologist Vilhelm Thomsen. They are on two ... [4 Related Articles]
river in north-central Mongolia. The river lies entirely within Mongolia and rises from the heavily forested slopes of the Hangayn Mountains. It flows east out of the mountains and then ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Pyrenees") ...developed stronger associations with Africa than with the rest of Europe, and they have become tied to the sea. From Carlit Peak (9,584 feet) near the eastern limit of the ...
(from the article "star cluster") The constellation of Cygnus has five T associations, and Orion and Taurus have four each. The richest is Ori T2, with more than 400 members; it has a diameter of ...
(from the article "acarid") ...phytophagous; many species economically important; cosmopolitan; about 135 families and 14,100 species.Usually strongly sclerotized and slow moving, 0.2-1.5 mm in size; eyes and stigmata absent; ...
type of Japanese ceramics, usually glazed in blue or green and first appearing during the Keicho and Genna eras (1596-1624). The name Oribe is derived from Furuta Oribe, a pupil ... [3 Related Articles]
second president of Uruguay (1835-38), a member of the Treinta y Tres Orientales, the legendary 33 nationalists who successfully fought for Uruguayan independence in the Cisplatine War (1825-28). [2 Related Articles]
(Ourebia ourebia), swift African antelope, family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla), living on sub-Saharan grasslands in pairs or small herds. The oribi is a graceful animal with a silky coat, large ears, ...
in architecture, a bay window in an upper story, supported from below by projecting corbels, or brackets of stone or wood. Usually semi-hexagonal or rectangular in plan, oriels first became ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Western architecture") ...such neglected qualities as precision, standardization, and efficient strength. British parallels to these American examples include Gardner's Warehouse, Glasgow (1855-56), by John Baird and Oriel Chambers, Liverpool (1864), by Peter ...
(from the article "Greece, history of") ...units, the praetorian prefectures. Most of the Greek provinces were in the praetorian prefecture of Illyricum, except Rhodope, which, as a province of the diocese of Thrace, was in the ...
(from the article "Husayni, Faysal ibn 'Abd al-Qadir al-") ...and Arab, in support of U.S.-mediated peace negotiations, and he was often invited to represent the Palestinian point of view on Israeli radio and television. Al-Husayni's home, Orient House, served ...
luxury train that ran from Paris to Constantinople (Istanbul) for more than 80 years (1883-1977). Europe's first transcontinental express, it initially covered a route of more than 1,700 miles (about ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "beech") ...sieboldii) are grown as ornamentals in the Western Hemisphere. The Mexican beech, or haya (F. mexicana), a timber tree often 40 m (130 feet) tall, has wedge-shaped leaves. The Oriental ...
(from the article "bittersweet") any of several vines with colourful fruit. The genus Celastrus, in the staff tree family (Celastraceae), includes the American bittersweet, or staff vine (C. scandens), and the Oriental bittersweet (C. ...
(from the article "fluke") The Oriental blood fluke, which occurs primarily in China, Japan, Taiwan, the East Indies, and the Philippine Islands, differs from S. mansoni and S. haematobium in that it may attack ...
(from the article "rug and carpet") Oriental carpets are those made in western and Central Asia, North Africa, and the Caucasus region of Europe. Rug design, in western Asia at least, had gone beyond felt and ...
(from the article "cockroach") The Oriental cockroach (Blatta orientalis) is considered one of the filthiest of household pests. It is oval, shiny black or dark brown, 25 to 30 mm (1 to 1.2 inches) ...
(from the article "annelid") Reversal of anterior-posterior polarity has been obtained in an earthworm (Perionyx excavatus). A piece removed from the anterior end regenerates a head at both cut ends if the cuts are ...
(from the article "fruit fly") Other widespread pests of this family include the Mexican fruit fly (Anastrepha ludens), which attacks citrus crops; the Oriental fruit fly (Dacus dorsalis), which infests many kinds of subtropical fruits; ...
(from the article "olethreutid moth") ...feed on foliage, fruits, or nuts. Some examples include Cydia pomonella, the codling moth (previously Carpocapsa, or Laspeyresia, pomonella) and Cydia molesta, the Oriental fruit moth (previously Laspeyresia, or Grapholitha, ...
(from the article "flying squirrel") ...Eurasia, and all others are found in the temperate and tropical forests of India and Asia. Although these rodents do not fly, glides of up to 450 metres (almost 1,500 ...
(from the article "squirrel") Variation in body size is considerable. Largest are the four species of Oriental giant squirrels (genus Ratufa) native to the tropical forests of Southeast Asia. Weighing 1.5 ...
(from the article "owl") ...as the barn owl and short-eared owl, hunt by sustained flight, dropping into the grass to catch rodents. Many woodland owls secure prey by dropping from perches at the edges ...
(from the article "Breasted, James Henry") Through financial aid from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Breasted organized the Oriental Institute (1919) at the University of Chicago. This institution became an internationally renowned centre for the study of ...
the approximately 1,500,000 Diaspora Jews who lived for several centuries in North Africa and the Middle East and whose ancestors did not reside in either Germany or Spain. They are ... [1 Related Articles]
varnish resin derived from a tree indigenous to China, species Rhus vernicifera, commonly known as the varnish tree (q.v.). The manufacturing process was introduced into Japan and remained secret for ...
(from the article "pottery") Of the wares more directly due to European intervention perhaps the best known is Chinese export porcelain, still sometimes known as Oriental Lowestoft. The name is due to an error ...
(from the article "plane tree") ...reaching a height of more than 50 m (160 feet). Its pendent, smooth, ball-shaped seed clusters usually dangle singly and often persist after leaf fall. Native from southeastern Europe to ...
(from the article "poppy") About 50 other species of Papaver are grown for their attractive delicate flowers or interestingly cut foliage. The Oriental poppy (P. orientale), native to the Middle East, has 15.2-centimetre scarlet, ...
(from the article "plague") ...that rat fleas carried the plague bacillus. The following year Paul-Louis Simond, a French researcher sent by the Pasteur Institute to India, announced the results of experiments demonstrating that Oriental ...
(from the article "ringworm") Varieties of ringworm characterized by specific skin lesions include: Oriental ringworm, Tokelau ringworm, or tinea imbricata (Latin: "overlapping like tiles"), so called because it occurs chiefly in tropical climates and ...
(from the article "water shrew") In addition to the North American and elegant water shrews, there are several species of Oriental water shrews (genus Chimarrogale) and three species of Old World water shrews (genus Neomys). ...
(from the article "Andes Mountains") ...but rather a succession of parallel and transverse mountain ranges, or cordilleras, and of intervening plateaus and depressions. Distinct eastern and western ranges-respectively named the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera ...
(from the article "Andes Mountains") A third cordillera has been identified in the eastern jungle of Ecuador and has been named the Cordillera Oriental. The range appears to be an ancient alluvial formation that has ...
(from the article "Andes Mountains") North of the Pasco Knot, three different ranges run along the plateau: the Cordilleras Occidental, Central, and Oriental. In the Cordillera Occidental, at latitude 10° S, the deep, narrow Huaylas ...
(from the article "Congo, Democratic Republic of the") ...radio and TV stations in and around Kinshasa in what was believed to have been an attempted coup. Government forces quickly restored order. On May 14 two warring factions in ...
(from the article "Moon") ...consequences of impacts are observed in every lunar scene. At the largest scale are the ancient basins, which extend hundreds of kilometres across. A beautiful example is Orientale Basin, or ...
(from the article "David, Felicien-Cesar") composer whose music opened the door for the Oriental exoticism that was to become a fixture in French Romantic music.
(from the article "New Thought") ...18th-19th-century German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel, especially those concerning the external world, mental phenomena, and the nervous organism as the meeting ground of the body and the mind; to Orientalism, involving ...
(from the article "Western architecture") From about 650 on, the Greeks began to visit Egypt regularly, and their observation of the monumental stone buildings there was the genesis of the ultimate development of monumental architecture ...
(from Latin oriens, orientum, "the rising sun"), in architecture, the position of a building in relation to an east-west axis. In Mesopotamia and Egypt, as well as in pre-Columbian Central ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "fibre, man-made") The spinning processes described above produce some orientation of the long polymers that form spun filaments. Orientation is completed by stretching, or drawing, the filament, a process that pulls the ...
(from the article "migration") Migrants often return to breed in the exact locality where they were hatched or born. This journey homeward, particularly that of birds, may cover thousands of miles.human sensory reception
(from the article "mechanics") ...that, rather than needing 3N coordinates (where N may be, for example, 1024 atoms), only 6 are needed: 3 to specify the position of the centre of mass and 3 ...
(from the article "photoreception") ...best to a bright central stripe with a dark surround. Other combinations of input from the LGN cells produce different variations of line and edge configuration. Cells with the same ...
(from the article "chromatography") ...called dispersion forces, (2) the induction effect, by which polar molecules (those having an asymmetrical distribution of electrons) bring about a charge asymmetry in other molecules, (3) an orientation effect, ...
(from the article "liquid") ...of the atomic nuclei within the molecules. This generally small effect is observed at radio frequencies but not at optical, and so it is missing from the refractive index. The ...
region of eastern Ecuador, comprising the eastern slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes and the lowland areas of rainforest in the Amazon basin. It is bounded on the north by San ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Madrid") ...ones he was given-derived from the squares he created. They did little to appease the ecclesiastical authorities, whose alienation contributed to his downfall. One of the squares, the Plaza de ...
outdoor competitive sport that is similar to cross-country running, but with emphasis on map-reading and direction-finding skills. Through woods and over hills or rough plains, contestants plot courses between isolated ...
(from the article "attention") ...consequences for notions of attention. One such area of influence originated in the work of Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, who reported what is now usually referred to as the ...
(from the article "Suger") ...to test his theory of the cementing power of the symbolic theory of Saint-Denis. In 1124 Holy Roman Emperor Henry V invaded lands ruled by King Louis VI. Louis rode ...
the most important theologian and biblical scholar of the early Greek church. His greatest work is the Hexapla, which is a synopsis of six versions of the Old Testament. [38 Related Articles]
(from the article "animal") ...the skeleton are rigid segments attached together by flexible joints. Muscles span the joints and attach at each end to different elements. The more stable attachment site of a muscle ...
(from the article "heredity") DNA replication starts at a site on the DNA called the origin of replication. In higher organisms, replication begins at multiple origins of replication and moves along the DNA in ...
(from the article "property") Throughout the West, property may be acquired by various "original modes" of acquisition. For instance, "occupancy" is a means of original acquisition when the thing possessed belonged to no one ...
(from the article "Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo") De Basil renamed his company the Royal Covent Garden Ballet Russe and finally the Original Ballet Russe (1939); the company toured internationally before dissolving in 1948.role of de Basil
(from the article "basketball") Before World War II the most widely heralded professional team was the Original Celtics, which started out in 1915 as a group of youngsters from New York City, kept adding ...
(from the article "Dixieland") ...had converted almost entirely to ragtime. Nick La Rocca, one of the many musicians who apprenticed with Laine, incorporated the sound, and much of the repertoire, of Laine's band when ...
(from the article "printmaking") What is the difference between a reproduction and an original print? In the very early days of printmaking this was not a serious problem because the print was not looked ...
in Christian doctrine, the condition or state of sin into which each human being is born; also, the origin (i.e., the cause, or source) of this state. Traditionally, the origin ... [19 Related Articles]
(from the article "marketing") ...User customers make use of the goods they purchase in their own businesses. An automobile manufacturer, for example, might purchase a metal-stamping press to produce parts for its vehicles. Original-equipment ...
The first organized international competition involving winter sports was introduced just five years after the birth of the modern Olympics in 1896. This competition, the Nordic Games, included only athletes ...
city, Alicante provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Valencia, southeastern Spain. Orihuela lies in the fertile Vega (flat lowland) del Segura, ...
city, Simcoe county, southeastern Ontario, Canada, 60 miles (100 km) north of Toronto, between Lakes Couchiching and Simcoe. The name, probably derived from the Spanish orilla ("border," "shore," or "bank"), ...
(from the article "Orinoco River") ...of South America's four major river systems. Bordered by the Andes Mountains to the west and the north, the Guiana Highlands to the east, and the Amazon watershed to the ...
(from the article "sheldgoose") ...of Chloephaga-the kelp goose (C. hybrida), the Magellan goose (C.picta), and the Andean goose (C.melanoptera)-and the Orinoco goose (Neochen jubatus). African sheldgeese include the spur-winged goose (Plectropterus gambensis) ...
major river of South America that flows in a giant arc for some 1,700 miles (2,740 km) from its source in the Guiana Highlands to its mouth on the Atlantic ... [14 Related Articles]
any of 24 species of birds of the Old World genus Oriolus, family Oriolidae, or, in the New World, any of the 30 species of Icterus, family Icteridae. Both are ...
(from the article "Baltimore") The city's representatives in professional sports are the Orioles (baseball) and the Ravens (American football). The celebrated Oriole Park at Camden Yards (1992), just west of the Inner Harbor, was ...
American vocal group of the late 1940s and early 1950s. The members were Sonny Til (byname of Earlington Carl Tilghman; b. Aug. 18, 1925, Baltimore, Md., U.S., -d. Dec. ...
(from the article "passeriform") ...nasal twittering. 2 genera, about 16 species; in open lands, forest clearings, Australia east to Fiji Islands, north to Philippines, Indochina, India.Medium-sized birds, 18 ...
in Greek mythology, a giant and very handsome hunter who was identified as early as Homer (Iliad, Book XVIII) with the constellation known by his name. [2 Related Articles]
in astronomy, major constellation lying at about 5 hours 30 minutes right ascension (the coordinate on the celestial sphere analogous to longitude on the Earth) and zero declination (at the ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Physical Sciences") NASA selected Lockheed Martin to design and build Orion-NASA's next-generation Crew Exploration Vehicle. The selection capped a yearlong competition between Lockheed Martin and a partnership formed by Northrop Grumman and ...
(catalog numbers NGC 1976 and M 42), bright diffuse nebula, faintly visible to the unaided eye in the sword of the hunter's figure in the constellation Orion. The nebula lies ... [9 Related Articles]
(from the article "Principal nighttime meteor showers") ...Dust particles shed during the comet's slow disintegration over the millennia are distributed along its orbit. The passage of Earth through this debris stream every year is responsible for the ...
