(from the article "ghost crab") O. ceratophthalmus, found on beaches of the Indian and Pacific oceans, uses its claws to catch flies from the undersides of leaves. The male of O. saratan, of the Red ...
(from the article "Japan") ...region of Mikawa province (in present Aichi prefecture) who had built up their base as daimyo by advancing into the plains of Mikawa. But when they were attacked and defeated ...
Japanese warrior, member of the Fujiwara family, who overthrew the Ashikaga shogunate and ended a long period of feudal wars by unifying half of Japan's provinces under his rule. As ... [10 Related Articles]
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in ancient times a celebrated Buddhist centre of learning (vihara) in India, identified with modern Bihar town in the Patna district of Bihar state. It was founded in the 7th ... [1 Related Articles]
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city, southwestern Kanagawa ken (prefecture), east-central Honshu, Japan. It is located on the coast of Sagami Bay, between the Sakawa and Haya rivers, about 28 miles (45 ...
(from the article "isotope") ...tend to decrease as mass increases. A third feature of interest is that stable isotopes with even numbers of protons and neutrons occur more often than do isotopes with odd ...
(from the article "learning theory") ...may learn to distinguish any "odd" member of any set from those that are similar. Animals as low in the evolutionary scale as the pigeon can master the principle of ...
(from the article "saga") ...wrote a brilliant saga of St. Olaf, rejecting some of the grosser hagiographical elements in his sources; this work forms the central part of his Heimskringla.) About 1190 a Benedictine ...
(from the article "gambling") ...one wins (dies), the win is paid out to one's relatives, and if one loses (survives the specified time), the wager (premium) is kept by the insurance company, which acts ...
(from the article "Iceland") On September 27 former prime minister David Oddsson resigned his post as foreign minister to become the head of the central bank. He also stepped aside as chairman of the ...
ceremonious poem on an occasion of public or private dignity in which personal emotion and general meditation are united. The Greek word ode, which has been accepted in most modern ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Purcell, Henry") The instrumental movements are the most striking part of the earliest of Purcell's Welcome Songs for Charles II-a series of ceremonial odes that began to appear in ...
British toy designer and manufacturer pioneered Matchbox toys-scale-model die-cast metal replicas small enough to fit inside a British cardboard matchbox. The phenomenally popular miniatures, which featured realistic detail and movable ...
(from the article "Everest, Mount") Members of the expedition were Brigadier General Bruce (leader), Bentley Beetham, Captain Bruce, J. de V. Hazard, Major R.W.G. Hingston, Andrew Irvine, Mallory, Norton, N.E. Odell, E.O. Shebbeare (transport), Somervell, ...
(from the article "Namibia") ...and secretaries, as well as semiskilled workers, began to be trained and employed on a significant scale only in the mid-1970s. Land reallocations increased contract labour. A body called the ...
town and mining centre of the Free State goldfields, north-central Free State province, South Africa, at 4,411 ft (1,344 m) above sea level. Although it obtained municipal status in 1912, ...
city, northern Funen island, Denmark, on the Odense River. The site was sacred in pagan times as the vi, or sanctuary, of Odin (one of the principal ...
wooded upland region in Germany, about 50 mi (80 km) long and 25 mi wide, situated mainly in Hesse Land (state) with small portions extending into the states of Bavaria ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Bernhardt, Sarah") In 1866 Bernhardt signed a contract with the Odeon theatre and, during six years of intensive work with a congenial company there, gradually established her reputation. Her first resounding success ...
river of east-central Europe. It is one of the most significant rivers in the catchment basin of the Baltic Sea, second only to the Vistula in discharge and length. For ... [8 Related Articles]
German waterway northeast of Berlin, linking the Havel and Oder rivers. It is 52 mi (83 km) long, 108 ft (33 m) wide, and 6 12 ft deep, and is ... [1 Related Articles]
Polish-German border devised by the Allied powers at the end of World War II; it transferred a large section of German territory to Poland and was a matter of contention ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Oder River") ...largest river, by means of a water route utilizing the Warta and Notec rivers, together with the Bydgoszcz Canal, and is tied in with the waterway system of western Europe ...
(from the article "Delaware") ...historic houses in the state are permanently open to the public, including the John Dickinson Plantation (1740), near Dover; the Parson Thorne Mansion (c. 1735), in Milford; several houses in ...
(German: "Organization of Former SS Members"), clandestine escape organization of the SS (q.v.) underground, founded probably in early 1947 in Germany. A large organizational network was set up to help ...
city, seat (1891) of Ector county and also partly in Midland county, western Texas, U.S. It lies on the southern High Plains, just southwest of Midland. The site was presumably ...
seaport, southwestern Ukraine. It stands on a shallow indentation of the Black Sea coast at a point approximately 19 miles (31 km) north of the Dniester River estuary and about ... [4 Related Articles]
shallow, cone-shaped impact crater in the High Plains just southwest of Odessa, Texas, U.S., produced by a meteorite. It is about 17 feet (5 metres) deep and 560 feet (170 ...
(from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...was established in 1805 at Kharkiv, and for 30 years Sloboda Ukraine was the major centre for Ukrainian scholarship and publishing activities. In 1834 a university was founded in Kiev ...
(from the article "Odessa") ...ceded to Russia in 1792. A new fortress was built in 1792-93, and in 1794 a naval base and commercial quay were added. In 1795 the new port was named ...
leading dramatist of the theatre of social protest in the United States during the 1930s. His important affiliation with the celebrated Group Theatre contributed to that company's considerable influence on ... [2 Related Articles]
(Latin: "concert hall," from Greek oideion, "school of music"), comparatively small theatre of ancient Greece and Rome, in which musicians and orators performed and competed. It has been suggested that ... [3 Related Articles]
Kenyan entomologist (b. Feb. 4, 1931, Alego, Nyanza province, Kenya Colony-d. May 26, 2003, Nairobi, Kenya), was one of Africa's foremost scientists; he was renowned for his research into nonchemical ...
town, northwestern Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), at the intersection of roads from Mali, Guinea, and the Ivoirian towns of Korhogo and Man. A traditional trading centre (yams, cassava, cattle, and ...
(from the article "Hart") ...km) northeast. The district is primarily agricultural and produces cereals, dairy products, and lettuce. It has little industry except for motor-vehicle and textile plants in the locality of Fleet. Odiham ...
one of the principal gods in Norse mythology. His exact nature and role, however, are difficult to determine because of the complex picture of him given by the wealth of ... [22 Related Articles]
(from the article "theatre") ...possible effect from the least possible means." The internationalism of the theatre is now such that groups modeled on Grotowski's have appeared throughout the world. Eugenio Barba, of Odin Theater ...
African nationalist politician who was a leader in the opposition against the single-party rule of Jomo Kenyatta and his successor Daniel arap Moi. [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Kibaki, Mwai") ...was one of the closest in Kenya's history and boasted a record-high voter turnout. After a delay in the release of the final election results, Kibaki was declared the winner, ...
half brother of William the Conqueror and bishop of Bayeux, Normandy. He probably commissioned the famed Bayeux tapestry, which pictures the Norman Conquest of England, for the dedication of his ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Palatine Chapel") Constructed on the site of an earlier, smaller house of worship dating from the 780s and 790s, the Palatine Chapel was consecrated in 805 to serve as the imperial church. ...
first barbarian king of Italy. The date on which he assumed power, 476, is traditionally considered the end of the Western Roman Empire. [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "carnivore") ...(mongooses), Viverridae (civets, genets, and related species), and Hyaenidae (hyenas). There are three aquatic families: Otariidae (sea lions and fur seals), Phocidae (true, or earless, seals), and Odobenidae (the walrus). ...
(from the article "speedometer") instrument that indicates the speed of a vehicle, usually combined with a device known as an odometer that records the distance traveled.
insect order comprising the dragonflies (suborder Anisoptera) and the damselflies (suborder Zygoptera). The adults are easily recognized by their two pairs of narrow, transparent wings, sloping thorax, and long, usually ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "bird") The other major group of toothed Cretaceous birds, the Odonotornithes, included one of the best-known groups of fossil birds, Hesperornis and its relatives. These birds were highly specialized foot-propelled divers ...
(from the article "neural crest") ...deep layers of the epidermis that contain pigment and are responsible for skin coloration. In the head region the neural crest cells contribute significantly to the formation of the facial ...
genus embracing some 150 species of orchids, family Orchidaceae, that are primarily native to mountainous areas of tropical America. Many orchids of other genera have been crossed with species of ...
fossil bone or tooth that consists of the phosphate mineral apatite (q.v.) coloured blue by vivianite. It resembles turquoise but may be distinguished chemically. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "dentistry") In Britain, dentistry was also coming of age. In 1856 English dentist Sir John Tomes led the formation of the first dental organization in England, the Odontological Society. It was ...
(from the article "gastropod") As in all molluscan groups except the bivalves, gastropods have a firm odontophore at the anterior end of the digestive tract. Generally, this organ supports a broad ribbon (radula) covered ...
any member of the protistan order Odontostomatida. These small, wedge-shaped, ciliated protozoans were called Ctenostomatida until the name was found also to designate a bryozoan order. Odontostomes are usually found ...
(from the article "bioluminescence") Among annelids, marine worms and earthworms both contain luminous forms. Odontosyllis, the fire worm of Bermuda, swarms in great numbers a few days after the full moon. Female worms, about ...
(from the article "arts, East Asian") ...a form of romantic music and is used here for the most lyrical section, in which the percussion is seldom heard. The monogatari (story) relates to the specific plot of ...
Franciscan friar and traveler, whose account of his journey to China enjoyed wide popularity and appears to have been plagiarized in the 14th-century English work The Voyage ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Buddhism") ...of Bon, two altars are constructed, one to make offerings to the spirits of dead ancestors and the other to make offerings to the souls of those dead who have ...
the property of certain substances, in very small concentrations, to stimulate chemical sense receptors that sample the air or water surrounding an animal. In insects and other invertebrates and in ... [14 Related Articles]
(from the article "Axel, Richard") ...which are clustered within a small area in the back of the nasal cavity. The two scientists then explained how the olfactory system works by showing that each receptor cell ...
(from the article "Balkans") ...a persistent phenomenon in Balkan history, unity was brought about mostly by external pressure. The Persian invasions of the 6th and 5th centuries BC brought the Thracian tribes together in ...
(from the article "stadium") ...for football (soccer) games. Other stadiums built to accommodate in excess of 100,000 people include Melbourne Cricket Ground, in Melbourne (100,000); Tsentraly (Lenin) Stadium, in Moscow (103,000); Odsal Stadium, in ...
(from the article "Oyo empire") According to traditions, Oyo derived from a great Yoruba ancestor and hero, Oduduwa, who came from the east to settle at Ile-Ife and whose son became the first alafin, or ...
American ecologist (b. Sept. 17, 1913, Lake Sunapee, N.H.-d. Aug. 10, 2002, Athens, Ga.), brought prestige to the little-known field of ecology, helping to transform it from a subdivision of ...
American ecologist (b. Sept. 1, 1924, Durham, N.C.-d. Sept. 11, 2002, Gainesville, Fla.), often collaborated with his better-known older brother, Eugene (q.v.), who died a month earlier. After earning his ...
American sociologist who was a specialist in the social problems of the southern United States and a pioneer of sociological education in the South. He worked to replace the Southern ...
(from the article "Biafra") Attempts by representatives of all regions to come to an agreement were unsuccessful. On May 30, 1967, the head of the Eastern Region, Lieutenant Colonel (later General) Odumegwu Ojukwu, with ...
(from the article "Tethys") ...scientists have theorized that the chasm was produced early in the moon's geologic history, when the water that composes its interior froze and expanded. A second notable feature is the ...
hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey and one of the most frequently portrayed figures in Western literature. According to Homer, Odysseus was king of Ithaca, son of Laertes and ... [20 Related Articles]
Japanese novelist whose works express the disillusionment and rebellion of his post-World War II generation. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. [4 Related Articles]
German humanist, preacher, and patristic scholar who, as a close friend of the Swiss Reformer Huldrych Zwingli, led the Reformation in Basel. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "lepidopteran") ...leaves or feed on seeds; many larvae construct portable cases with distinctive shapes; some are pests of fruit trees.More than 3,100 small species worldwide; adults tend to ...
(from the article "Kjellen, Rudolf") ...systems that flourish and then decay. He coined the terms geopolitik ("geopolitics"), the problems and conditions within a state that arise from its geographic features; oecopolitik, the economic factors that ...
(from the article "warble fly") ...When fully developed, the cattle grub emerges and drops to the ground to pupate and transform into an adult fly. The breathing holes cut by the larvae in the cowhide ...
any of approximately 1,500 species of beetles (insect order Coleoptera) that are slender and soft bodied, and are usually pale with blue, yellow, orange, or red markings.
(from the article "Oedipus complex") Freud attributed the Oedipus complex to children of about the ages three to five. He said the stage usually ended when the child identified with the parent of the same ...
(from the article "Caudata") Locomotion is by means of limbs and by sinuous body movements. Elongated species of the genera Phaeognathus, Batrachoseps, Oedipina, and Lineatriton ...
in Greek mythology, the king of Thebes who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother. Homer related that Oedipus' wife and mother hanged herself when the truth of their ... [6 Related Articles]
in psychoanalytic theory, a desire for sexual involvement with the parent of the opposite sex and a concomitant sense of rivalry with the parent of the same sex; a crucial ... [6 Related Articles]
genus of filamentous green algae, commonly found in quiet waters, either attached to other plants or as a free-floating mass. Each cylindrical cell, with the exception of the basal cell ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "cephalopod") ...in. to 60+ ft).Eye covered by transparent membrane; neritic, inshore animals.Eye open to water, completely surrounded by free eyelid; open-ocean animals living from the surface down to at ...
in architecture, a small circular or oval window, usually resembling a wheel, with glazing bars (bars framing the panes of glass) as spokes radiating outward from an empty hub, or ...
in Greek legend, king of Calydon in Aetolia, husband of Althaea, and father of Meleager, Deianeira, and Gorge. (In some accounts Ares is the father of Meleager and Dionysus is ...
monk who was the author of the Felire, the first known Irish martyrology and calendar. He was associated with a movement that aimed at the reform of Irish monasticism. The ...
(from the article "Anius") ...in a chest and cast into the sea by her father; floating to the island of Delos, the birthplace of Apollo, she gave birth to Anius, who became a seer ...
(from the article "palm") ...The oil from the seeds of one species, Jessenia bataua, is physically and chemically much like olive oil, and the mesocarp pulp from the fruits of Jessenia and the closely ...
(from the article "Pelops") ...had abused the favour of heaven by feeding mere mortals with nectar and ambrosia, of which only gods partook. Later, according to Pindar, Pelops strove for the hand of Hippodamia, ...
in Greek mythology, a fountain nymph of Mount Ida, the daughter of the River Cebren, and the beloved of Paris, a son of King Priam of Troy. Oenone and Paris ...
(from the article "Earth sciences") ...varied, and mostly wrong. Thales suggested that the strong winds that blow southward over the delta in summertime hold back the flow of the river and cause the waters to ...
(from the article "evening primrose") any of various species of herbaceous plants of the genus Oenothera, of the family Onagraceae, noted for their showy flowers. The name is especially applied to O. biennis (see photograph), ...
(from the article "Vries, Hugo de") ...Heidelberg, and Wurzburg, de Vries became a professor at the University of Amsterdam in 1878, serving there until 1918. In 1886 de Vries noticed wild varieties of the evening primrose ...
(from the article "geochronology") ...collecting in the summer are richer in organic matter than those that settle during winter. This feature is beautifully seen in the seasonal progression of plant microfossils found in shales ...
unit of magnetic-field strength, in the centimetre-gram-second system of physical units. Named for the 19th-century Danish physicist Hans Christian Orsted, it is defined as the intensity of a magnetic field ... [3 Related Articles]
American discus thrower, who won four consecutive Olympic gold medals (1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968), setting an Olympic record each time. During his career he set new world records four ... [4 Related Articles]
