(from the article "Corrigan-Maguire, Mairead") Northern Irish social worker who, with Betty Williams, founded the Community of Peace People, also known as the Peace People Organization, a grassroots movement of both Roman Catholic and Protestant ...
(from the article "war") ...of the Napoleonic Wars it was articulated, for example, by Tolstoy in the concluding chapter of War and Peace (1865-69). In the second half of the 20th century it gained ...
river in northern British Columbia and Alberta, Canada, forming the southwestern branch of the Mackenzie River system. From headstreams (the Finlay and the Parsnip rivers) in the Canadian Rockies of ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "war, law of") ...by the display of a white flag, which merely means that one side wishes to enter into communication with the other. The parties may then enter into an armistice, and, ...
(from the article "Japan") ...taking Japan to the San Francisco peace conference. There, with the American negotiator John Foster Dulles and representatives of 47 nations, he hammered out the final details of the Treaty ...
(from the article "Bosnia and Herzegovina") ...country's integration into Europe, but economists and labour union officials believed that the tax would undermine living standards. On November 29 Bosnia and Herzegovina was invited to join NATO's Partnership ...
(from the article "international relations") ...in 1956. Soviet H-bombs and missiles, he said, had rendered the imperialists' nuclear threat ineffective, the U.S.S.R. an equal, the Socialist camp invincible, war no longer inevitable, and thus "peaceful ...
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that was part of the United States' strategic nuclear arsenal at the end of the 20th century. [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Multinational and Regional Organizations") Demands for more peacekeeping operations dominated the African Union's (AU's) summit in late January 2007. With troops in Cote d'Ivoire, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Darfur ...
(from the article "United Nations") ...of UN troops in Yugoslavia during the violent and protracted disintegration of that country renewed discussion about the role of UN troops in refugee resettlement. In 1992 the UN created ...
(from the article "criminology") ...theories tend to view criminal law as an instrument by which the powerful and affluent coerce the poor into patterns of behaviour that preserve the status quo. One such view, ...
(species Prunus persica), fruit tree of the rose family (Rosaceae), grown throughout the warmer temperate regions of both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "pottery") Another variation, no doubt at first accidental, is the glaze known in the West as "peach bloom," a pinkish red mottled with russet spots and tinged with green. The Chinese ...
(from the article "Escoffier, Auguste") ...profession. The name of Escoffier became of worldwide repute when in 1890 he was given the direction of the kitchens of the newly opened Savoy Hotel, and he created the ...
(from the article "palm chestnut") edible nut of the peach palm (Bactris gasipaes, or in some classifications Guilielma gasipaes), family Arecaceae (Palmae), that is grown extensively from Central America as far south as Ecuador. The ...
(from the article "clearwing moth") The peach tree borer (Synanthedon exitiosa) of North America attacks shrubs and fruit trees, especially peach. The female lays eggs near the base of the peach tree. The larvae overwinter ...
(from the article "gelechiid moth") The peach twig borer (Anarsia lineatella) attacks fruit trees. Less destructive gelechiid pests include the tomato pinworm (Keiferia lycopersicella) and the strawberry crown miner (Aristotelia fragariae). Several Gnorimoschema species produce ...
(from the article "lovebird") ...photograph), of Tanzania is green with a blackish brown head and a yellow band across the breast and hindneck; a common mutation in captivity is blue and whitish. The largest ...
(from the article "bellflower") ...of star-shaped violet, blue, or white flowers. Canterbury bell (C.medium), a southern European biennial, has large pink, blue, or white spikes of cup-shaped flowers. Peach-leaved bellflower (C. persicifolia), found ...
(from the article "Bacon, Francis, Viscount Saint Alban (or Albans), Baron of Verulam") ...Coke, the champion of the common law and of the independence of the judges. It was Bacon who examined Coke when the King ordered the judges to be consulted individually ...
English author best known for his The Compleat Gentleman (1622), important in the tradition of courtesy books. Numerous in the late Renaissance, courtesy books dealt with the education, ideals, and ... [1 Related Articles]
American art glass made in the latter part of the 19th century by factories such as the Mount Washington Glass Works of New Bedford, Mass., and the New England Glass ... [1 Related Articles]
any of several resplendent birds of the pheasant family, Phasianidae (order Galliformes). Strictly, the male is a peacock, and the female is a peahen; both are peafowl. Two species of ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Yazidi") The chief divine figure of the Yazidi is Malak Ta'us ("Peacock Angel"), who is worshiped in the form of a peacock. He rules the universe with six other angels, but ...
(from the article "Ibn al-Ash'ath") In 699 al-Hajjaj dispatched a crack force of Kufans and Basrans, known as the Peacock Army, to put down a rebellion in Kabulistan (in present Afghanistan). After an initial invasion ...
(from the article "flounder") ...together contain more than 240 species, the better-known flounders include the summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus), an American Atlantic food fish growing to about 90 cm (35 inches); the peacock flounder ...
(from the article "houseplant") ...have become remarkably good houseplants. Among them are several prayer plants (Maranta species), which fold their attractive leaves at night; and the exquisite Calathea makoyana, or peacock plant, with translucent ...
(from the article "poppy") ...poppy (P. nudicaule), from Arctic North America, is a short-lived perennial with fragrant white, orange, reddish, or bicoloured 7.6-centimetre flowers that are 30 centimetres tall. The peacock poppy (P. pavoninum), ...
(from the article "Duke and Peacock Records") A decade before the ascendance of Motown, Houston's Duke and Peacock record labels flourished as an African-American-owned company. Don Robey, a nightclub owner with reputed underworld connections, founded Peacock Records ...
(from the article "Ireland") ...Theatre, founded in 1904 and rebuilt in the mid-1960s, stages classic Irish plays, as well as new works in both Irish and English. The Gate Theatre produces Irish and international ...
famous golden throne stolen from India by the Persians in 1739. Thereafter lost, it (and its reproductions) remained the symbol of the Persian, or Iranian, monarchy. [1 Related Articles]
(Sabella), any of a genus of segmented marine worms of the class Polychaeta (phylum Annelida). This type of fanworm lives in a tube about 30 to 40 centimetres (12 to ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "algebra") In fact, matrix theory was naturally connected after 1830 with a central trend in British mathematics developed by George Peacock and Augustus De Morgan, among others. In trying to overcome ...
English author who satirized the intellectual tendencies of his day in novels in which conversation predominates over character or plot. His best verse is interspersed in his novels. [1 Related Articles]
The winner of the 2001 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion was the Rev. Arthur Peacocke, a biochemist, theologian, and Anglican priest who had spent most of his career encouraging ...
(from the article "Oswiu") ...Battle of the Winwaed near Leeds in modern West Yorkshire. Oswiu then reunited Northumbria and became overlord of southern England. He annexed northern Mercia but gave southern Mercia to Penda's ...
(from the article "chromatography") ...The detector continuously monitors the amount of solute in the emerging mobile-phase stream-the eluate-and transduces the signal, most often to a voltage, which is registered as a peak on a ...
(from the article "radiation measurement") ...are sorted into the channels matching their amplitude, a pulse-height spectrum is accumulated that, after a given measurement time, might resemble the example given in Figure 3. In this spectrum, ...
(from the article "interest group") ...of Labour) in Israel and the Andean-Amazon Working Group, which includes environmental and indigenous organizations in several South American countries. These types of organizations are called peak associations, as they ...
hill area in the county of Derbyshire, England, forming the southern end of the Pennines, the upland "spine" of England. The northern half is dominated by high gritstone moorlands, rising ...
(from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...half is dominated by high gritstone moorlands, rising to Kinder Scout 2,088 ft (636 m). The limestone central plateau is cut through by scenic dales, notably those of the Rivers ...
fertile region of northeast central Queensland, Australia, comprising rolling scrub- and grass-covered country studded with peaks of volcanic rock. Bounded by the Rivers Belyando (west) and Nogoa (east) and drained ...
(from the article "radiation measurement") ...important to minimize the total time needed to record enough pulses for good statistical accuracy in the measurement. Detection efficiency is further subdivided into two types: total efficiency and peak ...
(from the article "chromatography") There are two features of the concentration profile important in determining the efficiency of a column and its subsequent ability to separate or resolve solute zones. Peak maximum, the first, ...
(from the article "mass transit") ...mass transportation. The heavier the use of public transit, the larger will be the benefits produced. Yet even if only a small portion (5-10 percent) of the travel market uses ...
(from the article "human development") During the adolescent spurt in height, for a year or more, the velocity of growth approximately doubles; a boy is likely to be growing again at the rate he last ...
(from the article "chromatography") The second feature important to efficiency and resolution is the width of the peak. Peaks in which the maxima are widely disengaged still may be so broad that the solutes ...
(from the article "Hadid, Zaha") In 1983 Hadid gained international recognition with her competition-winning entry for The Peak, a leisure and recreational centre in Hong Kong. This design, a "horizontal skyscraper" that moved at a ...
(from the article "Arab Legion") police force raised in 1923 by British Lieut. Col. Frederick Gerard Peake (who had served with T.E. Lawrence's Arab forces in World War I), in what was then the British ...
English novelist, poet, painter, playwright, and illustrator, best known for the bizarre Titus Groan trilogy of novels and for his illustrations of his novels and of children's stories.
(from the article "Peale, Charles Willson") ...opened a portrait gallery of Revolutionary heroes in 1782 and in 1786 founded an institution intended for the study of natural law and display of natural history and technological objects. ...
American painter best remembered for his portraits of the leading figures of the American Revolution and as the founder of the first major museum in the United States. [1 Related Articles]
U.S. religious leader (b. May 31, 1898, Bowersville, Ohio--d. Dec. 24, 1993, Pawling, N.Y.), was an influential and inspirational clergyman who, after World War II, tried to instill a spiritual ...
American painter who, with her sister Anna, was known for her portraiture and still lifes. She was one of the first women in the United States to achieve professional recognition ...
(from the article "logic, history of") Godel's first incompleteness theorem, from 1931, stands as a major turning point of 20th-century logic. It states that no finitely axiomatizable theory sufficient to derive the Peano postulates is both ...
Italian mathematician and a founder of symbolic logic whose interests centred on the foundations of mathematics and on the development of a formal logical language. [8 Related Articles]
the pod, or legume, of Arachis hypogaea (family Fabaceae), which has the peculiar habit of ripening underground. (Despite its several common names, it is not a true nut.) It is ... [9 Related Articles]
(from the article "peanut") The peanut is grown mainly for its edible oil, except in the U.S., where it is produced for grinding into peanut butter (half the harvested crop); for roasted, salted nuts; ...
(from the article "Common fatty acids in foods") The peanut, a native of South America, is high in vitamin B complex, proteins, and minerals. The peanut is eaten raw or roasted or is processed into peanut butter. An ...
any member of the invertebrate phylum Sipuncula, a group of unsegmented marine worms. The head bears a retractable "introvert" with the mouth at its end. The mouth is usually surrounded ...
any of several species of the genus Pyrus, especially Pyrus communis, of the rose family (Rosaceae), which is one of the most important fruit trees of the world and is ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "arts, East Asian") ...the 8th-century Chinese emperor Hsuan-tsung (also called Ming-huang) established schools in the palace city of Ch'ang-an (Sian) for music, dancing, and acting. The latter school was called the Pear Garden ...
(from the article "blackthorn") ...spiny shrub, of the rose family (Rosaceae), native to Europe but cultivated in other regions. The name is also applied to Crataegus calpodendron (or C. tomentosa), commonly called pear haw, ...
(from the article "sawfly") ...and are commonly found on flowers. Many are poor fliers. The leaves of pear, cherry, and plum trees are eaten by the destructive North American species Caliroa cerasi, commonly called ...
(from the article "Gully, John") In 1805, having failed as a butcher, Gully was in prison for his debts when he was visited by his pugilist friend Henry Pearce, "the Game Chicken." As the result ...
British book editor and children's writer (b. Jan. 23, 1920, Great Shelford, near Cambridge, Eng.-d. Dec. 21, 2006, London, Eng.), was best known for her Carnegie Medal-winning novel Tom's Midnight ... [1 Related Articles]
a branch of the Mon-Khmer family of languages, which is itself a part of the Austroasiatic stock. The Pearic languages include Chong, Samre (Eastern Pear), Samrai (Western Pear), Chung (Sa-och), ...
concretion formed by a mollusk consisting of the same material (called nacre, or mother-of-pearl) as the mollusk's shell. It is a highly valued gemstone. [11 Related Articles]
(from the article "barley") ...produce a porous loaf of bread; barley flour is used to make an unleavened type, or flatbread, and to make porridge, especially in North Africa and parts of Asia, where ...
(from the article "cultured pearl") ...almost exclusively blister pearls (hemispherical pearls formed between the mussel and its shell), which require addition of a half sphere of mother-of-pearl to create the assembled gem, called a pearl ...
naval base and headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Honolulu county, southern Oahu Island, Hawaii, U.S. In U.S. history the name recalls the Japanese surprise air attack on Dec. 7, ... [5 Related Articles]
(Dec. 7, 1941), surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into ... [15 Related Articles]
archipelago, in the Gulf of Panama, about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Panama City, Panama, consisting of 183 islands, of which 39 are sizable. The most important islands include ...
American band that helped popularize grunge music in the early 1990s. The original members were Eddie Vedder (original name Edward Louis Severson III; b. December 23, 1964, Chicago, Illinois, U.S., ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Pennisetum") Pearl millet (P. glaucum), an annual species, which bears a cattaillike flower cluster, is cultivated in tropical areas for its edible grain. Napier grass, or elephant grass (P. purpureum), a ...
(from the article "Agra") ...a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1983. Agra is also the site of the 16th-century Red Fort (also named a World Heritage site in 1983), built by the emperor Akbar, ...
(from the article "onion") Pearl onions are not a specific variety but are small, round, white onions harvested when 25 mm (1 inch) or less in diameter. They are usually pickled and used as ...
(from the article "bivalve") ...foot creeping; typically byssate; marine, estuarine, rarely freshwater; endobyssate and epibyssate. About 250 species.Shell equivalve, variably shaped; anisomyarian but often monomyarian; shell structure of ...
(from the article "Canton") ...of P'an-yu, although the municipality (shih) of Kuang-chou embraces P'an-yu and several additional counties. The main part of the city is situated on the north bank of the Pearl River, ...
river in the southern United States, rising in east-central Mississippi and flowing southwestward, through Jackson, the capital of the state, then generally southward into Louisiana, past Bogalusa, and emptying into ...
(from the article "Columbia") Modern manufactures include parachutes, clothing, furniture, and electrical equipment. The John Ford House, a pioneer home south of the city, was the site of the Pearl River Convention (1816), at ...
extensive low-lying area formed by the junction of the Xi, Bei, Dong, and Pearl (Zhu) rivers in southern Guangdong province, China. It covers an area of 2,900 square miles (7,500 ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Architecture") In an attempt to make new towers memorable landmarks, they were often given strange shapes. Several were designed to twist, like a licorice stick. In China the 305-m (1,000-ft) Pearl ...
(from the article "Buck, Pearl") ...Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. From 1935 Buck lived in the United States. After World War II, in a move to aid illegitimate children of U.S. servicemen in Asian ...
(from the article "tapioca") In processing, heat ruptures the starch grains, converting them to small, irregular masses that are further baked into flake tapioca. A pellet form, known as pearl tapioca, is made by ...
American journalist (b. Oct. 10, 1963, Princeton, N.J.-d. late January? 2002, Pakistan), went to work for The Wall Street Journal in 1990 and by 2000 had become the paper's South ... [3 Related Articles]
(SARAH OPHELIA COLLEY CANNON), U.S. entertainer (b. Oct. 25, 1912, Centerville, Tenn.--d. March 4, 1996, Nashville, Tenn.), performed at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years and on ...
any of about 32 species of slim, eel-shaped marine fishes of the family Carapidae noted for living in the bodies of sea cucumbers, pearl oysters, starfishes, and other invertebrates. Pearlfishes ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "iron processing") ...1.2 percent), and cast irons with 2 to 4 percent carbon. At the carbon contents typical of steels, iron carbide (Fe3C), also known as cementite, is formed; this leads to ...
(from the article "Grenada") Bus service is available between the larger towns and villages. An international airport at Point Salines was inaugurated in 1984. Pearls Airport-providing service to nearby islands with connecting flights to ...
(from the article "everlasting") ...Achyrachaena (western United States), Antennaria (extratropical except Africa), Gnaphalium (cosmopolitan), and Xeranthemum (southern Europe). In North America the pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) is widely distributed, occurring in dry soils from ...
(from the article "Pyroxenes") ...of a piece of broken glass (this is commonly seen in quartz and many other nonmetallic minerals); resinous, having the lustre of a piece of resin (this is common in ...
British tenor, a singer of outstanding skill and subtlety who was closely associated with the works of Sir Benjamin Britten. He received a knighthood in 1977.
British artist, writer, and publisher who created the popular London A-Z maps, exhaustive guides to the city's 23,000 streets, after having walked over 4,800 km (3,000 mi) researching the maps; ...
leader of Irish nationalism and Irish poet and educator. He was the first president of the provisional government of the Irish Republic proclaimed in Dublin on Easter Monday, April 24, ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Ice Hockey") ...win the league's scoring title when he finished with 120 points in 79 games. The Pittsburgh Penguins' centre also won the Hart Trophy as the player judged to be the ...
