(from the article "Paris") The river valley of Paris is almost entirely circled by high ground. Upon the heights of Passy, on the Right Bank between the western city limits and the Arc de ...
(from the article "salvation") ...though it is often expressive of more immediate concerns. But the menace of death is of another order, and it affects man more profoundly because of personal awareness of the ...
(from the article "confidence game") ...financiers, industrialists, and millionaire sportsmen, began travelling the world in search of victims. The game itself took on more complicated and convincing formats. A popular swindle, known as past posting, ...
(from the article "Germanic languages") ...full active voice plus passive found only in Gothic; three persons; full singular and plural forms and dual forms found only in Gothic; and one infinitive (present) and two participles ...
any of several starchy food preparations (pasta alimentaria) frequently associated with Italian cuisine and made from semolina, the granular product obtained from the endosperm of a type of wheat called ... [4 Related Articles]
heavy, very transparent flint glass that simulates the fire and brilliance of gemstones because it has relatively high indices of refraction and strong dispersion (separation of white light into its ...
(from the article "industrial glass") Tableware tumblers are made by blowing glass at the end of a blowing pipe into a split paste-mold. The paste-mold is made of cast iron and is lined with a ...
dry drawing medium executed with fragile, finger-size sticks. These drawing crayons, called pastels, are made of powdered pigments combined with a minimum of nongreasy binder, usually gum tragacanth or, from ... [3 Related Articles]
Russian poet whose novel Doctor Zhivago helped win him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 but aroused so much opposition in the Soviet Union that he declined the honour. ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich") Pasternak grew up in a cultured Jewish household. His father, Leonid, was an art professor and a portraitist of novelist Leo Tolstoy, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and composer Sergey Rachmaninoff, ...
(from the article "Grossglockner") ...Tauern (range of the Eastern Alps). It lies astride the border between Bundeslander (federal states) Tirol and Karnten. The most magnificent of the glaciers on the mountain is the Pasterze ...
(from the article "Pasteur, Louis") ...went on to the problem of lactic fermentation, showing yeast to be an organism capable of reproducing itself, even in artificial media, without free oxygen-a concept that became known as ...
(from the article "Pasteur, Louis") ...the life of a nine-year-old boy, Joseph Meister, who had been bitten by a rabid dog. The experiment was an outstanding success, opening the road to protection from a terrible ...
French chemist and microbiologist whose contributions were among the most varied and valuable in the history of science and industry. It was he who proved that microorganisms cause fermentation and ... [25 Related Articles]
genus of rod-shaped bacteria that causes several serious diseases in domestic animals and milder infections in humans. The genus was named after Louis Pasteur. Its species are microbiologically characterized as ...
(from the article "Pasteurella") Pasteurella multocida is pathogenic for many animals, causing fowl cholera, blood poisoning in ruminants, pneumonia in young cattle, and respiratory infection in cattle and humans. It is also the cause ...
any bacterial disease caused by Pasteurella species. The name is sometimes used interchangeably with the so-called shipping fever, a specific type of pasteurellosis (caused by Pasteurella multocida) that commonly attacks ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "bacteria") ...as brewer's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). One difference between fission and budding is that, in the latter, the mother cell often has different properties from the offspring. In some Pasteuria strains, ...
heat-treatment process that destroys pathogenic microorganisms in certain foods and beverages. It is named for the French scientist Louis Pasteur, who in the 1860s demonstrated that abnormal fermentation of wine ... [14 Related Articles]
(from the article "opera") ...first by castrati, men who had been castrated before puberty in order to preserve the high ranges of their boyish voices; and the appearance of the centone ...
(from the article "forgery") In the composite fraud, or pastiche, the forger combines copies of various parts of another artist's work to form a new composition and adds a few connecting elements of his ...
(from the article "absinthe") ...countries prohibiting true absinthe. Beverages developed as substitutes, similar in taste but lower in alcohol content and without wormwood, are known by such names as Pernod, anis (or anisette), pastis, ...
city, capital of Narino department, southwestern Colombia, situated 8,291 feet (2,527 m) above sea level at the base of Galeras Volcano (14,029 feet [4,276 m]). Founded in 1539, Pasto was ...
(from the article "Andes Mountains") North of the boundary with Colombia is a group of high, snowcapped volcanoes (Azufral, Cumbal, Chiles) known as the Huaca Knot. Farther to the north is the great massif of ...
(from the article "Fastolf, Sir John") ...cowardice in the defeat of his forces at Patay in June 1429, he was later cleared of the charge. About 1440 he retired from military service. The papers left by ...
the largest surviving collection of 15th-century English correspondence. It is invaluable to historians and philologists and is preserved mainly in the British Museum. Part is derived from the circle of ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Roman Catholicism") ...not been defined in a clear way. The outward conflicts of the church with the modern world and the inner development of its theology converged in the doctrinal constitution
German author of one of the monumental papal histories, Geschichte der Papste seit dem Ausgang des Mittelalters, 16 vol. (1886-1933; History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle ...
(from the article "Carrizo Mountains") segment of the Colorado Plateau, in extreme northeastern Arizona, U.S. The highest point of this extinct volcanic range is Pastora Peak (9,412 ft [2,869 m]). The arid mountains are within ...
(from the article "Monteverdi, Claudio") ...short, static musical treatment, often allegorical and with scenery, of a subject from the play with which it was given, emphasizing the wishes of the gods; and, on the other ...
(from the article "Christianity") Pastoral care has always been of special importance in the Christian community. The biographies of the great charismatic ministers, beginning with the Fathers of the Eastern Church and the Western ...
(from the article "biblical literature") The Pastoral Letters: I and II Timothy and Tituscontribution byLukeLuke, SaintLuke's writings...fourth of the New Testament, and in them Luke ...
class of literature that presents the society of shepherds as free from the complexity and corruption of city life. Many of the idylls written in its name are far remote ... [16 Related Articles]
(from the article "nomadism") Pastoral nomads, who depend on domesticated livestock, migrate in an established territory to find pasturage for their animals. Most groups have focal sites that they occupy for considerable periods of ...
(from the article "primitive culture") Herding societies are in many respects the direct opposite of forest horticulturalists. They are usually the most nomadic of primitive societies, they occupy arid grasslands rather than rainforests, they have ...
(from the article "Niemoller, Martin") ...Munster. In 1931 he became a pastor in Dahlem, a fashionable suburb of Berlin. Two years later, as a protest against interference in church affairs by the Nazi Party, Niemoller ...
(French: "Shepherds"), the participants in two popular outbreaks of mystico-political enthusiasm in France in 1251 and 1320. The first Pastoureaux were peasants in northeastern France who were aroused in 1251 ... [2 Related Articles]
The election of Andres Pastrana Arango as Colombia's new president on June 21, 1998, inspired cautious hope for a peaceful resolution to more than three decades of leftist guerrilla warfare. ... [1 Related Articles]
Colombian politician who served as president of Colombia from 1970 to 1974, heading a progressive National Front coalition that failed in its attempt to bring an end to the violence ... [1 Related Articles]
stiff dough made from flour, salt, a relatively high proportion of fat, and a small proportion of liquid. It may also contain sugar or flavourings. Most pastry is leavened only ...
(1838-39), brief and minor conflict between Mexico and France, arising from the claim of a French pastry cook living in Tacubaya, near Mexico City, that some Mexican army officers had ...
(from the article "astronomical observatory") The largest modern-day optical telescopes are the 6-metre (236-inch) reflector on Mount Pastukhov, in the Caucasus Mountains in the Soviet Union, and the 5-metre (200-inch) Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain, ...
(from the article "feed") Pasture grasses and legumes, both native and cultivated, are the most important single source of feed for ruminants such as cattle, horses, sheep, and goats. During the growing season they ...
(from the article "Voysey, Charles Francis Annesley") ...their theories to the design of simple, well-built houses, such as Broadleys, near Windermere, Westmorland (1898); his own home, The Orchard, Chorley Wood, Hertfordshire (1899-1900); and The Pastures, North Luffenham, ...
(from the article "kosher") ...ritual bathing (mikvah), and the ritual ram's horn (shofar). When applied to food, kosher is the opposite of terefah ("forbidden"); when applied to other things, it is the opposite of ...
(from the article "Pashupati") ...River, just east of Kathmandu. Regarded as the holiest place in Nepal, it is the site of an ancient Saivite (i.e., devoted to the Hindu god Siva) temple of Pasupatinatha ...
city, Jawa Timur (East Java) provinsi (province), Java, Indonesia, on Madura Strait. The Dutch first established a fort at Pasuruan in 1707. It was the capital of ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "'ayn") ...in Rumelia (the Balkan section of the empire) played an important part in Ottoman affairs, often defying the central authority. Of these Ali Pasa of Jannina (now in Greece), Pasvanoglu ...
(from the article "Bahawalpur") ...with groves of date palms, and thickly populated. The chief crops are wheat, gram, cotton, sugarcane, and dates. Sheep and cattle are raised for export of wool and hides. East ...
(from the article "Jashpur Pats") ...state, central India, extending over Jashpur Tahsil (northeastern Raigarh district) and forming part of the Chota Nagpur Plateau. The pats are a complex of small, flat-topped plateaus ...
semiarid scrub plateau that covers nearly all of the southern portion of mainland Argentina. With an area of about 260,000 square miles (673,000 square kilometres), it constitutes a vast area ... [8 Related Articles]
(from the article "Pleistocene Epoch") ...to form ice sheets on the shallow shelf areas of the Arctic Ocean. Glaciers and small ice caps formed in the Alps and in the other high mountains of Europe ...
(from the article "Andes Mountains") The Patagonian Andes rise north of the Strait of Magellan. Numerous transverse and longitudinal depressions and breaches cut this wild and rugged portion of the Andes, sometimes completely; many ranges ...
(from the article "conure") ..."dwarf parrot"; from Central America, it is 24 cm (about 10 inches) long and mostly green, with orange forehead, dull-blue crown, and blue in the wings. The large (to 50 ...
(from the article "Deserts of the world") South American Indians who formerly inhabited the Patagonian plains from the Strait of Magellan to the Negro River. They were divided into northern and southern branches. Each division had its ...
(from the article "Argentina") Most approaches to Patagonia from the sea were hampered by inhospitable coastal cliffs and by high tides. With the Pampas Indians acting as a buffer against Europeans to the north, ...
(from the article "mara") either of two South American rodents in the genus Dolichotis of the cavy family, the Patagonian mara (D. patagonum) or the Chacoan mara (
(from the article "puppetry") ...to burlesque heroic tragedy in 1758 and sentimental comedy in 1773. In a similar vein, the dramatist Charles Dibdin presented a satiric puppet revue in 1775, and a group of ...
(from the article "Agriculture and Food Supplies") ...state of marine ecosystems generally. Other reports during the year pinpointed stocks of Mediterranean bluefin tuna and orange roughy as particularly worrying. On the positive side, some types of Chilean ...
(from the article "weasel") Weasels belong to the family Mustelidae, and there are three weasel genera in addition to Mustela. The Patagonian weasel (Lyncodon patagonicus) is a larger ...
(from the article "Alexander the Great") On reaching Patala, located at the head of the Indus delta, he built a harbour and docks and explored both arms of the Indus, which probably then ran into the ...
town, northern Gujarat state, west-central India. It is situated on the Saraswati River in the lowlands between the Aravalli Range and the Gulf of Khambhat (Cambay) . Once capital of ...
Indian people of western Colombia, apparently extinct since the late 16th century. They spoke a language of the Chibchan family. The Patangoro were agricultural, raising corn (maize), sweet manioc (yuca), ... [1 Related Articles]
author or one of the authors of two great Hindu classics: the first, Yoga-sutras, a categorization of Yogic thought arranged in four volumes with the titles "Psychic Power," "Practice of ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Phelps, Almira Hart Lincoln") In 1841 Phelps became principal and her husband business manager of the Patapsco Female Institute in Ellicott's Mills, Maryland. In her 15 years at that school, Phelps created an institution ...
member of a medieval group of lay craftsmen, tradesmen, and peasants organized in Milan about 1058 to oppose clerical concubinage and marriage; the group later widened its attack to oppose ... [5 Related Articles]
Georgian oligarch made a fortune in labyrinthine business dealings during the post-Soviet period of privatization of state-owned industries in Russia; he was instrumental in the 2003 Rose Revolution, which brought ...
long-limbed and predominantly ground-dwelling primate found in the grass and scrub regions of West and Central Africa and southeast to the Serengeti plains. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Central African Republic") ...in The Hague opened an investigation on May 22 into alleged war crimes committed in 2003 in the aftermath of a military coup led by Francois Bozize against the government ...
(from the article "Jamestown Colony") Sir Samuel Argall, a mariner who had taken West back to England, returned to the colony and became acquainted with Japazeus, the chief of the Patawomeck tribe. The Patawomeck were ...
(from the article "Joan of Arc, Saint") The French and English armies came face to face at Patay on June 18, 1429. Joan promised success to the French, saying that Charles would win a greater victory that ...
small, usually rectangular, sometimes oval box used mostly as a receptacle for beauty patches, especially in the 18th century. During the days of Louis XV, black patches of gummed taffeta ...
(from the article "coral reef") ...reef patches, some of them elongated into ribbon reefs. The third category of reefs consists of atolls, which are like circular barrier reefs but without their central landmass. Finally, there ...
controlled application of biological or chemical substances to the skin in order to detect if the subject has an allergic hypersensitivity to one of them. The test was originally developed ...
(from the article "Neher, Erwin") German physicist, winner with Bert Sakmann in 1991 of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their research into basic cell function and for the development of the patch-clamp ...
American model (b. Feb. 16, 1926, Preston, Md.-d. Jan. 22, 2002, La Quinta, Calif.), became a photographic icon during the 1950s and appeared on over 40 magazine covers. Her defining ...
the process of joining strips, squares, triangles, hexagons, or other shaped pieces of fabric (also called patches), by either hand or machine stitching, into square blocks or other units. It ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "eastern Africa, history of") ...masonry pillars. Chinese imports arrived in ever larger quantities, and there are signs that eating bowls were beginning to come into more common use. Mombasa became a very substantial town, ...
(French: "paste"), in French cuisine, a filled pastry, analogous to the English pie. The term pate is also used, with modifiers, to denote two other distinct preparations: pate en terrine, ...
(from the article "poultry") ...meat goose is the Toulouse. In Great Britain, geese of just under one year of age are popularly roasted as Christmas fare. A by-product of goose-meat production especially important in ...
(from the article "pate") ...pate en terrine, a meat, game, or fish mixture wrapped in suet or other animal fat or lining and cooked in a deep oval or oblong dish, without pastry, and ...
(from the article "pate") ...in French cuisine, a filled pastry, analogous to the English pie. The term pate is also used, with modifiers, to denote two other distinct preparations: pate en terrine, a meat, ...
(from the article "pastry") ...with butter, lard, or vegetable shortening so that the fat is broken into bits. A minimum of liquid is used, and the pastry is handled as little as possible. The ...
(from the article "opaline glass") ...not produced after 1840). In the mid-19th century, opaline was made in more vivid colours, in imitation of Bohemian glass. It was also produced in the form of crystal, semicrystal, ...
(French: "paste on paste"), method of porcelain decoration in which a relief design is created on an unfired, unglazed body by applying successive layers of white slip (liquid clay) with ... [3 Related Articles]
town, Kwara state, west-central Nigeria. It lies on the south bank of the Niger River opposite the town of Mureji and the mouth of the Kaduna River. Founded in the ...
Indian barrister and statesman, one of the leaders of the Indian National Congress during the struggle for Indian independence. During the first three years of Indian independence after 1947, he ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "knee") ...rounded ends, or condyles, of the femur and tibia that meet at the knee are massive. The rounded ends of the tibia move forward and backward on the corresponding ends ...
(from the article "gastropod") ...waters along rocky shores of western North America, Japan, Australia, and South Africa; keyhole limpets (Fissurellidae) in intertidal rocky areas.Conical-shelled limpets, without slits or holes, found in rocky ...
(from the article "fungus") ...a longitudinal slit that renders it apothecium-like; asci borne among pseudoparaphyses; example genera include Hysterium and Hysteropatella.Parasitic and saprobic; ...
(from the article "gastropod") ...areas.Conical-shelled limpets, without slits or holes, found in rocky shallow waters (Acmaeidae and Patellidae).Small to large spiral shells in shallow to deep ocean waters, often brightly coloured, ...
(from the article "gastropod") ...The following superfamilies, though not grouped into formal orders and suborders, are listed in order of increasing specialization.)Brackish water or marine limpets with (Siphonariidae) gill-like structures or with a ...
a government grant to an inventor of the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention, usually for a limited period. Patents are granted for new and ... [12 Related Articles]
