(from the article "fault") ...hanging wall moves up and over the footwall. Thrust faults are reverse faults that dip less than 45°. Thrust faults with a very low angle of dip and a very ...
(from the article "ice hockey") The game is divided into three periods of 20 minutes playing time each, with a 15-minute intermission between periods. Hockey games may end in a tie unless the rules stipulate ...
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(from the article "fold") ...on which minor folds are superimposed. A symmetrical fold (Figure 2) is one in which the axial plane is vertical. An asymmetrical fold (Figure 2) is one in which the ...
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(from the article "dormancy") Insects may overwinter as egg, larva, nymph, pupa, or adult; because they can stand very low temperatures, few of these forms die if the winter temperatures are within their normal ...
(from the article "Mantegna, Andrea") During the following year (1449), Mantegna worked on the fresco decoration of the Ovetari Chapel in the Eremitani Church in Padua. The figures of Saints Peter, Paul, and Christopher in ...
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(from the article "Paraguay") ...(the Concertacion) behind Lugo to wrest power from the Colorados. The presidential race fractured in September, however, when Paraguay's Supreme Court freed from prison former general Lino Oviedo after he ...
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expulsion of undeveloped eggs rather than live young. The eggs may have been fertilized before release, as in birds and some reptiles, or are to be fertilized externally, as in ... [4 Related Articles]
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(from the article "molding") ...cavetto but has a deeper concavity partially receding beyond the face of the general surface that it ornaments. (3) A flute is a small groove of a semicircular, segmental, or ...
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(from the article "viviparity") ...nourishment from the mother, usually through a placenta or similar structure. This is the case in most mammals, many reptiles, and a few lower organisms. A more primitive condition, known ...
national park in the southeastern Finnmark Plateau region, northern Norway, bordering the Lemmen River National Park of Finland. One of the largest of Norway's national parks, it covers an area ...
national park in the eastern part of the Divi valley, Troms county, northern Norway. With an area of 286 square miles (741 square km), it was established in 1971. The ...
city, western Ukraine. Ovruch was first mentioned in documents in AD 977, when it was known as Vruchyi. The city was incorporated in 1795. Ovruch later became a centre of ...
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(from the article "Oda Nobunaga") ...In 1549 Nobunaga succeeded to his father's estate and soon overpowered his relatives and the principal family of the province. By 1560 he had proved his brilliant strategic gifts by ...
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(from the article "Tioga") Owego, the county seat, was the site of a Cayuga Indian village until 1779, when it was destroyed by an American military expedition to the region led by Generals John ...
waterfall on the Victoria Nile at Jinja, Ugan., below the river's outlet from Lake Victoria. The falls are the site of the Nalubaale Dam (formerly the Owen Falls Dam), 2,726 ...
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(from the article "geochronology") ...various tributary streams to the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa. This "subcarboniferous" strata, identified by the American geologist David Dale Owen in 1839, was ...
clergyman and poet who revived the bardic tradition in 18th-century Welsh literature. He breathed new life into two moribund bardic meters, cywydd and the awdl, using them as vehicles for ... [1 Related Articles]
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(from the article "annelid") ...anterior end with or without divided lobed membrane; anterior segments long; dwelling tube mucoid, coated with sand or shell fragments; size, 0.2 to 10 cm; genera include Owenia.Sedentary; head ...
(from the article "annelid") ...anterior setae short and thick; posterior end with ventral shield bearing radiating setae and anal branchiae; size, 3 cm; genera include Sternaspis.Sedentary; anterior end with or without divided lobed ...
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(from the article "Mono") ...the Uto-Aztecan family and were related to the Northern Paiute. The Western Mono, who resided in the pine belt of the Sierra Nevada mountains, had a culture similar to that ...
(from the article "Art and Art Exhibitions") ...also organized the show, was "Bill Owens: Leisure"; it was also exhibited March 3-April 30 at the Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco and featured previously unseen images from Owens's ...
American singer-songwriter-guitarist (b. Aug. 12, 1929, Sherman, Texas-d. March 25, 2006, Bakersfield, Calif.), helped popularize the "Bakersfield sound," which reinvigorated the hard-edged honky-tonk tradition in country and western music in ...
(from the article "Chuck Blore and "Color Radio"") One of the best of his deejays was Gary Owens, who found success on KEWB in Oakland, California, before moving to its sister station KFWB in Los Angeles in the ...
(from the article "1937: Other Winners") ...Universal Studio Music Department, Charles Previn, head of department, for 100 Men and a GirlSong: "Sweet Leilani" from Waikiki Wedding; music and lyrics by Harry OwensHonorary Award: Edgar Bergen, the ...
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(from the article "Memphremagog, Lake") ...at the northern end of the lake where it drains by way of the Magog and St.-Francois rivers into the St. Lawrence. The lake is surrounded by hills and mountains, ...
arboreal guenon found in tropical forests east of the Congo basin. The owl-faced monkey is greenish gray with black underparts and forelimbs; the lower back and base of the tail ...
(from the article "owlet") commonly, any young owl; the term is also used as the general name for several diminutive African and Southeast Asian species of Glaucidium (see pygmy owl) and two little owls ...
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the legal relation between a person (individual, group, corporation, or government) and an object. The object may be corporeal, such as furniture, or completely the creature of law, such as ... [9 Related Articles]
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(from the article "Bono") ...industry: both Obunumankoma (fl. c. 1450-75) and 'Ali Kwame (fl. c. 1550-60) are thought to have introduced new mining techniques from the western Sudan to the Akan fields, and Owusu ...
river formed by the junction of several forks in the southwestern corner of Idaho, U.S. It flows northwest across the Oregon boundary and north through Malheur county and empties into ...
(Bos taurus, or B. taurus primigenius), a domesticated form of the large horned mammals that once moved in herds across North America and Europe (whence they have disappeared) and Asia ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "X-ray source") ...as arising from an accretion disk of hot gases that surrounds a central black hole having a mass of about 1,000,000,000 Suns. The X-ray energy of these galaxies is highly ...
(from the article "bee") ...some parasitic species; Halictidae (mining, or burrowing, bees), the best-known of which is Dialictus zephyrus, one of many so-called sweat bees, which are attracted to perspiration; Oxaeidae, large, fast-flying bees ...
(from the article "poison") ...hydrolyzed (chemically degraded by the introduction of water molecules between adjacent subunits), are extremely toxic to animals. Toxicity resides in the aglycone component or a part of it. Oxalates are ...
a colourless, crystalline, toxic organic compound belonging to the family of carboxylic acids. Oxalic acid is widely used as an acid rinse in laundries, where it is effective in removing ... [4 Related Articles]
the wood sorrel order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, containing 6 families, 58 genera, and 1,810 species. Members of Oxalidales include annuals, perennial herbs, lianas, shrubs, and trees of both temperate ...
genus of small herbaceous plants, in the family Oxalidaceae, comprising about 850 species, native primarily to southern Africa and tropical and South America. A few South American species have edible ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Oxalis") ...O. cernua, known as Bermuda buttercups, with showy yellow flowers, native to southern Africa and naturalized in Florida and the Bermudas. Another yellow-flowered kind is the weedy, creeping oxalis (O. ...
(from the article "wood sorrel") any plant of the genus Oxalis, numbering several hundred species, within the family Oxalidaceae. The name is chiefly used for O. montana, a stemless trifoliate (i.e., with three leaflets) herb ...
(from the article "Oxalidales") ...ribbed fruits. A number of Oxalis species are grown as ornamentals (their foliage resembles shamrocks), and O. corniculata, with yellow flowers, is often found in greenhouses. Oxalis tuberosa (oca) is ...
(from the article "metabolism") ...(apart from carbon dioxide and water) one of only three possible substances: the two-carbon compound acetate, in the form of a compound called acetyl coenzyme A (Figure 1); the four-carbon ...
(from the article "metabolism") Isocitrate is oxidized-i.e., hydrogen is removed-to form oxalosuccinate; the two hydrogen atoms are usually transferred to NAD+, thus forming reduced NAD+ [40]; in some microorganisms, and during the biosynthesis of ...
(from the article "sedative-hypnotic drug") ...at high doses. They also require a much smaller dosage than do barbiturates to achieve their effects. The benzodiazepines include chlordiazepoxide (Librium), diazepam (Valium), alprazolam (Xanax), oxazepam (Serax), and triazolam ...
(from the article "drug") The oxazolidinones are a novel class of synthetic agents that inhibit protein synthesis by microbes. Linezolid is highly active in vivo against infections caused by many common gram-positive pathogens, including ...
(from the article "oxbird") any of certain small sandpipers, especially the dunlin (q.v.). In Africa the buffalo weaver (q.v.) and the oxpecker are called oxbirds.for more content related to this topic
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chancellor of Sweden (1612-54), successively under King Gustav II Adolf and Queen Christina. He was noted for his administrative reforms and for his diplomacy and military command during the Thirty ... [7 Related Articles]
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(from the article "Swedish literature") ...the controversy was carried on by Carl Gustaf af Leopold, who imposed pseudo-Classical standards on the Swedish Academy (founded 1786) and applied them in his own rhetorical odes and tragedies. ...
(from the article "Sweden") ...that a new joint king would be elected when both were dead. Charles refused to accept this compromise, and war broke out between the two countries. In 1457 the noble ...
(from the article "heterocyclic compound") ...ring heterocycles, although these compounds are usually stable and some of them have found practical application. Of the seven-membered ring compounds, one-heteroatom heterocycles-azepines, oxepines, and thiepines-and their derivatives are the ...
