(from the article "Anura") ...and South America, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, western Indo-Australian archipelago, Philippines, and Ryukyu Islands), Melanobatrachinae (east-central Africa, India), Phrynomerinae (Africa), and Otophryninae (South America).Miocene to present; 8 ...
(from the article "plastic surgery") ...as silicone are also used as a substitute for absent or deficient natural tissue. Tissue may be completely removed to alter the contours of a feature, as in rhinoplasty (reconstruction ...
(from the article "Sudan, The") ...Azande, African animists of the southwestern Sudan; the Fur, Muslim Africans in the far western part of the country; the Humr tribe of the Baqqarah Arabs, of the west-central Sudan; ...
ear disorder characterized by the growth of excess bone in the middle ear in the region of the oval window. It is at the oval window that the footplate of ... [6 Related Articles]
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(from the article "Sylvester II") Gerbert's fame aroused the jealousy of Otric, master of the cathedral school at Magdeburg in Saxony (presently in Germany), who denounced Gerbert to Emperor Otto II. In December 980 Otto ...
county, central New York state, U.S., comprising a rugged upland region bordered by the Unadilla River to the west and the Susquehanna River to the southwest. Originating in Otsego Lake ...
capital, Shiga ken (prefecture), southern Honshu, Japan, on the shore of Lake Biwa. A castle town established by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the 16th century, it is situated at the junction ... [1 Related Articles]
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Algonquian-speaking North American Indians whose original territory focused on the Ottawa River, the French River, and Georgian Bay, in present northern Michigan, U.S., and southeastern Ontario and southwestern Quebec, Can. ... [3 Related Articles]
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city, seat (1864) of Franklin county, eastern Kansas, U.S. It lies on the Marais des Cygnes River. Ottawa was founded in 1864 near the Ottawa Indian Baptist Mission, which had ...
capital of Canada, southeastern Ontario. The central part of the city is located on a limestone bluff at the confluence of the Ottawa (Outaouais), Gatineau, and Rideau rivers; the northern ... [7 Related Articles]
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(from the article "Egeland, Jan") ...resulted in the Oslo Accords (1993) and as a liaison in talks between the Guatemalan government and guerrillas that led to a peace agreement (1997). Egeland represented Norway in negotiating ...
river in east-central Canada, the chief tributary of the St. Lawrence River. It rises in the Laurentian Plateau of western Quebec and flows swiftly westward to Lake Timiskaming and then ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Ice Hockey") ...that entered the league in the 1993-94 season as the Disney-inspired Mighty Ducks, won the league championship with an impressive play-off performance that culminated in a victory over the Ottawa ...
(from the article "Canada") Northeast of the Frontenac Axis, the lowlands embrace the Ottawa valley and the St. Lawrence valley to a point some 70 miles (110 km) downstream from Quebec city. During the ...
(from the article "Literature") Novels that treated religious themes still won major literary prizes. The 2005 Libris Literatuur Prijs went to Willem Jan Otten for Specht en zoon, an investigation of creation, incarnation, and ...
any of 13 species of semiaquatic mammals, noted for their playful behaviour, that belong to the weasel family. The lithe and slender body has short legs, a strong neck, and ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "civet") ...the arboreal palm civets, such as Paradoxurus (also known as toddy cat because of its fondness for palm juice, or "toddy") and Nandinia, civets are mainly terrestrial. The otter civet ...
any of three species of amphibious and carnivorous tropical African insectivores that are not "true" shrews (family Soricidae). All are nocturnal and den in cavities and burrows in stream banks; ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "conservation") The otter trawl is the most widely used bottom-fishing gear. As it is dragged forward, a pair of flat plates called otter boards-one on each side of the trawl net ...
dog breed first described in the 14th century. Developed in England to hunt otters on both land and water, it resembles a rough-coated bloodhound and has a large head, pendulous ...
German tin-glazed earthenware made in Bavaria in the 18th and 19th centuries. The factory was first established at Ottingen in 1735 and two years later was moved to Schrattenhofen. The ...
(from the article "Austria") After Frederick's death the Habsburgs were for some time ruled out as possible candidates for the German throne; but, under the brothers Albert II and Otto, Habsburg Austria received its ...
first king of modern Greece (1832-62), who governed his country autocratically until he was forced to become a constitutional monarch in 1843. Attempting to increase Greek territory at the expense ... [7 Related Articles]
duke of Saxony (as Otto II, 936-961), German king (from 936), and Holy Roman emperor (962-973), who consolidated the German Reich by his suppression of rebellious vassals and his decisive ... [32 Related Articles]
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(from the article "Architecture") ...an office tower for the insurance company Lloyd's of London, a major terminal at Madrid Airport, and other buildings. He also became a noted advocate for the revival of cities. ...
German engineer who developed the four-stroke internal-combustion engine, which offered the first practical alternative to the steam engine as a power source. [5 Related Articles]
German theologian, philosopher, and historian of religion, who exerted worldwide influence through his investigation of man's experience of the holy. Das Heilige (1917; The Idea of the Holy, 1923) is ... [10 Related Articles]
(from the article "Western architecture") ...The German treatise on the five orders by Wendel Dietterlin, entitled Architectura (1598), is filled with such Mannerist ornament. An architectural example is the Otto-Heinrichsbau added to ...
(from the article "Memmingen") ...wall paintings). The Renaissance city hall dates from 1568-89, and there are old patrician, guild, and burghers' houses. The Baroque Hermannsbau (1766) incorporates the municipal museum. Ottobeuren, just southeast, has ...
deeply upholstered seat of any shape, with or without a back, introduced into Europe in the late 18th century from Turkey, where, piled with cushions, it was the central piece ...
floor covering handwoven under the earlier Ottoman sultans of Turkey. Extremely fine, handsome carpets-of wool pile on a foundation of silk or wool, having floral patterning, often with schemes of ...
empire created by Turkish tribes in Anatolia. One of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th and 16th centuries, it spanned more than 600 years and came ... [229 Related Articles]
(from the article "Young Turks") ...the empire, particularly from discontented members of the 3rd Army Corps in Macedonia. Many young officers of the corps garrisoned at Salonika (now Thessalonika, Greece) organized to form the Ottoman ...
(from the article "Ottoman Empire") ...(December 1881) the Ottoman public debt was reduced from £191,000,000 to £106,000,000, certain revenues were assigned to debt service, and a European-controlled organization, the Ottoman Public Debt Administration (OPDA), was ...
(from the article "Turkish language") Modern Turkish is the descendant of Ottoman Turkish and its predecessor, so-called Old Anatolian Turkish, which was introduced into Anatolia by the Seljuq Turks in the late 11th century AD. ...
(from the article "Ottoman Empire") ...state; acceptance and practice of Islam and its underlying system of thought and action; and knowledge and practice of the complicated system of customs, behaviour, and language known as the ...
(from the article "Kassel") ...important rail junction and an industrial centre. Manufactures include transportation equipment. The city's historical landmarks include the Orangery Palace (1701-11) in Karlsaue Park and the Ottoneum (1604-07; largely rebuilt in ...
painting, sculpture, and other visual arts produced during the reigns of the German Ottonian emperors and their first successors from the Salic house (950-1050). As inheritors of the Carolingian tradition ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Christianity") Although Carolingian fortunes waned later in the 9th century, the Carolingians continued to assert their right to protect the church and papacy. In the 10th century, however, the Ottonian dynasty ...
(from the article "nagaswaram") ...nose while expelling air from the cheeks into the instrument, to create a continuous melody. Sometimes several players alternate on the melodic line, which is accompanied by a drone played ...
city, seat (1844) of Wapello county, southeastern Iowa, U.S., on the Des Moines River, about 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Oskaloosa. It was laid out in 1843 during a ...
true, or hard-paste, German porcelain produced in the Rhineland from 1763 onward. The factory was started by Etienne-Dominique Pelleve, a porcelain maker from Rouen, France, under the patronage of Prince ...
(from the article "Magnoliales") ...whitewood), a yellowwood from Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Cameroon, produces a sulfurous yellow dye; the wood also is used locally to make unpainted furniture and veneers. Cleistopholis patens (otu) yields ...
(from the article "Sword Beach") The silencing of the Merville battery fell to Lieutenant Colonel Terence Otway's 9th Battalion. The 9th, however, had a bad drop, and the attack began with only 150 men of ...
English dramatist and poet, one of the forerunners of sentimental drama through his convincing presentation of human emotions in an age of heroic but artificial tragedies. His masterpiece, Venice Preserved, ...
eastern segment of the Central Alps lying mainly in the southern Tirol (western Austria) and partly in northern Italy. The mountains are bounded by the Rhaetian Alps and Reschenscheideck Pass ... [2 Related Articles]
range forming the backbone of northeastern Honshu, Japan, and extending for 310 miles (500 km) south from Aomori ken (prefecture) to Fukushima ken. Geologically, dominant Tertiary sediments are occasionally interrupted ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Wenzhou") city and port, southeastern Zhejiang sheng (province), southeastern China. It is situated on the south bank of the Ou River, some 19 miles (30 km) from its ...
river in northern Laos, one of the 12 principal tributaries of the Mekong River; it is 236 miles (380 km) long. The Ou River rises on the Chinese frontier north ... [1 Related Articles]
a linear trough in the Earth's crust in which rocks of the Paleozoic Era (from 251,000,000 to 542,000,000 years ago) were deposited along the southern margin of North America, from ... [1 Related Articles]
a rugged range of large hills that continues the Ozark Plateau in the United States. The Ouachita Mountains extend approximately 225 miles (360 km) east to west from Little Rock, ... [4 Related Articles]
a mountain-building event that resulted in the folding and faulting of exposed strata in the Ouachita Geosyncline in the southern portion of the United States in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and the ... [2 Related Articles]
river rising in the Ouachita Mountains of west-central Arkansas, U.S., and flowing in a generally southeasterly direction to join the Red River in Louisiana after a course of 605 miles ...
historic and cultural region in eastern Chad, central Africa. The chief town of the region is Abeche. The region's area of savanna grasslands roughly corresponds to the formerly independent Ouaddai ... [1 Related Articles]
capital and largest town of Burkina Faso, West Africa. It was the capital of the historic Mossi kingdom of Wagadugu (founded in the 15th century) and the seat of the ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "Cote d'Ivoire") ...of barricades marking the buffer zone in the centre of the country. Pro-government militias in the western region made a symbolic gesture by handing over arms and ammunition in accordance ...
(from the article "Atlantic salmon") The ouananiche (Salmo salar ouananiche) of rivers and the sebago, or lake, salmon (S. salar sebago) are smaller, landlocked forms of Atlantic salmon, also prized for sport. The Atlantic salmon ...
(from the article "Mali") ...bilateral commission set up to improve cooperation between South Africa and Mali in economic and security matters had its inaugural session in Pretoria, S.Af., on August 10. Malian Foreign Minister ...
(from the article "Atlas Mountains") ...metres) above sea level at several points, reaching 8,058 feet at Mount Tidirhine. East of the gap formed by the Moulouya River the Algerian ranges begin, among which the rugged ...
town, south-central Morocco. It lies on the Saharan side of the High Atlas Mountains and is situated in the valley of the River Ouarzazate near its juncture with the River ...
city, north-central Morocco. It lies at the southwestern edge of the Rif Mountains. Ouazzane is situated on the northern slope of Mount Bouhelal, at an elevation of 1,066 feet (325 ...
(from the article "Mori Family") The Mori family first achieved prominence in the early 16th century when some vassals of the Ouchi family, then the dominant power in west Honshu and probably the most powerful ...
(from the article "Morocco") ...country. The Batha Museum, located in Fes and housed in a former 19th-century royal residence, specializes in historical Moroccan art and has an excellent collection of native ceramics. The Oudaia ...
municipality, East Flanders province, west-central Belgium. It lies along the Scheldt (Schelde) River south of Ghent. A prosperous tapestry-making centre in the Middle Ages, its industry declined in the 15th ...
(July 11, 1708), victory over the French won by the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy during the War of the Spanish Succession; it eventually led to the ... [1 Related Articles]
general, administrator, and marshal of France in the Napoleonic Wars whose career illustrates the opportunities to rise in the French army after the Revolution.
(from the article "Katagum") ...leader) returned to the territory he had conquered earlier (including the Hausa kingdom of Shira) and founded the town of Katagum in 1814. By 1824, when the Scottish explorers Hugh ...
town, Western Cape province, South Africa. It is located about midway between Cape Town (west) and Port Elizabeth (east) on the banks of Grobbelaars River. First settled in 1847, it ...
town, largest of the Souf Oases in northeastern Algeria. It lies 50 miles (80 km) west of the Tunisian border. Surrounded by the sand dunes of the Grand Erg (sand ...
(from the article "Chad") ...had become not so much a conflict between Chad's Muslim northern region and the black southern region as a struggle between northern political factions. Libyan troops were brought in at ...
(from the article "Burkina Faso") Colonel Zerbo's short-lived rule ended in November 1982, when noncommissioned army officers rebelled and installed Major Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo as president. The Ouedraogo government soon split into conservative and radical factions, ...
(from the article "Canadian literature") ...(1975). Continuing the theatrical tradition into the 1980s and 1990s, both Jean Marc Dalpe (Le Chien [1987; "The Dog"]) and Michel Ouellette (French Town ...
(from the article "Canadian literature") ...defeat in 1995 of a second referendum on sovereignty, took their toll. The relationship between personal and national identity is often explored through the irony of the postmodern novel, such ...
river rising in the Atacora massif in northwestern Benin. It is approximately 310 miles (500 km) in length and flows southward, where it is joined by its main affluent, the ... [1 Related Articles]
town, northeastern Algeria. It lies near the eastern border with Tunisia. The nearby Mount Ouenza (4,226 feet [1,288 m]) is the site of extensive iron-ore deposits, making the town one ...
(from the article "Medenine") town located in southern Tunisia. Medenine lies in the semiarid plain of Al-Jifarah (Jeffara). It was the capital of the Ouerghemma League of three Amazigh (Berber) groups and was the ...
a rocky island, Finistere departement, off the western tip of Bretagne, western France. The island, about 5 miles (8 km) long and 2 miles (3 km) wide, ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Ben Barka, Mehdi") ...Ben Barka disappeared. He was never found, and investigators concluded that gangsters were paid to kidnap and murder him. It was suggested several times that the plot was headed by ...
(from the article "applied logic") ...(i.e., &implies; O p ⊃ P p). Controversy exists about the relation of deontic to alethic modal logic, principally in the context of Immanuel Kant's thesis that "ought implies can" ...
English mathematician and Anglican minister who invented the earliest form of the slide rule, two identical linear or circular logarithmic scales held together and adjusted by hand. Improvements involving the ... [2 Related Articles]
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