American coloratura soprano of great breadth of range and expressive ability, who is probably best known for her performance in the title role of Vincenzo Bellini's Norma.
Australian cricketer, one of the game's most prolific scorers. He was the first to make a quadruple century since Archie MacLaren first broke 400 in 1895 and the only player ...
(from the article "Bulwer, Henry Lytton") After studying at Harrow and at Trinity and Downing colleges, Cambridge, Bulwer joined the British Army and then, in 1829, entered the diplomatic service. In 1838 he negotiated the Ponsonby ...
(from the article "Melbourne, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount, Lord Melbourne, Baron of Kilmore, Baron Melbourne of Melbourne") ...and an aunt of Byron's future wife Anne Isabella ("Annabella") Milbanke. It was widely believed that the 1st Viscount Melbourne was not Lamb's real father. In June 1805 Lamb married ...
(from the article "Victoria") ...after the manner of her uncles." The queen abhorred Gladstone's lack of Disraelian vision of Britain's role in the world. Over the abandonment of Kandahar in Afghanistan, in 1881, for ...
American poet, essayist, literary critic, teacher, and translator who has been described as a love poet, a metaphysician, and a formalist. Although she periodically published individual poems, her collections were ...
oldest existing bridge across the Seine River via the Ile de la Cite in Paris, built, with interruptions in the work, from 1578 to 1607. It was designed by Baptiste ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Saint-Gobain-Pont-a-Mousson, Compagnie de") In 1970 Saint-Gobain merged with Pont-a-Mousson, a company founded in 1856 to produce pig iron and iron castings. By the time of the merger, Pont-a-Mousson had become a leader in ...
group of young painters who espoused the style known as Synthetism and united under Paul Gauguin's informal tutelage at Pont-Aven, Brittany, France, in the summer of 1888. The artists included ... [2 Related Articles]
one of the classic cow's-milk cheeses of Normandy, France, named for the eastern Normandy village in which it is produced. The traditional form of Pont-l'Eveque is a small, approximately four-inch ...
largest city and capital of the regiao autonoma (autonomous region) of the Azores archipelago of Portugal in the North Atlantic Ocean. The city, on the southern coast of Sao Miguel ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Pico Island") island of the Portuguese Azores archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean. Separated from Faial Island by the Faial Channel, it has an area of 163 square miles (433 square km) ...
town, east-central Parana estado (state), southeastern Brazil. Ponta Grossa is located on a plateau at an elevation of 2,930 feet (893 m). It serves as a commercial centre, exporting mate ...
(from the article "Pontano, Giovanni") Pontano became a major literary figure in Naples after 1471 when he assumed leadership of the city's humanist academy. Called the Accademia Pontaniana, it became one of the major Italian ...
Italian prose writer, poet, and royal official whose works reflect the diversity of interests and knowledge of the Renaissance. His supple and easy Latin style is considered, with that of ... [1 Related Articles]
locality, Neath Port Talbot county borough, historic county of Glamorgan (Morgannwg), Wales, situated in the Tawe valley 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Swansea. Pontardawe originated as a mining community ...
(from the article "Pontchartrain, Lake") The lake is crossed by several bridges, notably the Pontchartrain Causeway. The causeway consists of two parallel road bridges, completed in 1956 and 1969, respectively, each of which runs for ...
lake, southeastern Louisiana, U.S. The lake is 40 miles (64 km) long and 25 miles (40 km) wide at its widest point, with an area of 630 square miles (1,631 ... [1 Related Articles]
(Italian: "Old Bridge"), first segmental arch bridge built in the West, which crosses over the Arno River at Florence and is an outstanding engineering achievement of the European Middle Ages. ... [2 Related Articles]
Italian-born British physicist (b. Aug. 22, 1913, Marina di Pisa, Italy--d. Sept. 25, 1993, Dubna, Russia), was a distinguished scientist who defected to the Soviet Union to study the peaceful ...
Italian filmmaker (b. Nov. 19, 1919, Pisa, Italy-d. Oct. 12, 2006, Rome, Italy), gained international acclaim for La battaglia di Algeri (1966; The Battle of Algiers), a stark black-and-white feature ...
(from the article "pickerelweed") any of several genera of aquatic plants comprising the family Pontederiaceae, especially those of the genus Pontederia. Most species are perennials, native primarily to tropical America. They have creeping rootstocks, ...
historic market town, Wakefield metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, northern England. It lies east of the Pennine foothills, 4 miles (6 km) south of ... [1 Related Articles]
provincia (province) in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Galicia, northwestern Spain. It is mountainous, with an Atlantic coastline deeply indented by the picturesque ...
city, capital of Pontevedra provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Galicia, northwestern Spain. Situated on the Lerez River at its entry ...
Italian motion-picture producer was responsible for producing (or co-producing) more than 150 films, including the Oscar-winning La strada (1954), directed by Federico Fellini; director King Vidor's War and Peace ... [1 Related Articles]
Ottawa Indian chief who became a great intertribal leader when he organized a combined resistance-known as Pontiac's War (1763-64)-to British power in the Great Lakes area. [1 Related Articles]
city, seat (1820) of Oakland county, southeastern Michigan, U.S., lying on the Clinton River 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Detroit. Named for Chief Pontiac of the Ottawa tribe, it ...
city, seat (1837) of Livingston county, central Illinois, U.S. It lies on the Vermilion River, about 90 miles (145 km) southwest of Chicago. It was laid out in 1837 and ...
(from the article "Legionnaire disease") Pontiac fever, an influenza-like illness characterized by fever, headache, and muscle pain, represents a milder form of Legionella infection.
(from the article "biological weapon") ...army fighting Swedish forces barricaded in Reval (now Tallinn, Est.) also hurled plague-infested corpses over the city's walls. In 1763 British troops besieged at Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh) during Pontiac's ...
pope from 230 to 235 who summoned the Roman synod that confirmed the condemnation of Origen, one of the chief theologians of the early Greek Church. At the beginning of ... [1 Related Articles]
kotamadya (municipality) and capital, West Kalimantan propinsi (province), Borneo, Indonesia. It lies just inland from the western coast on the Kapuas River. Founded in 1772, the city was formerly the ...
(from the article "Anatolia") ...certain languages survived longer in the more isolated regions. Greek dominated, although a wide range of dialect forms seems to have developed, some of which still survive outside modern Turkey: ...
mountains rising out of the northern side of the Anatolia peninsula, northern Turkey, in an area once occupied by the ancient country of Pontus. The range reaches a height of ... [2 Related Articles]
member of a council of priests in ancient Rome. The college, or collegium, of the pontifices was the most important Roman priesthood, being especially charged with the administration of the ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Augustus") The death in 12 BC of Lepidus enabled Augustus finally to succeed him as the official head of the Roman religion, the chief priest (pontifex maximus). In ...
(from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...the Dominicans of the Ecole Biblique et Archeologique (The School of the Bible and Archeology) in Jerusalem (to whom one must credit the Jerusalem Bible), and the Jesuits of the ...
former police force of Vatican City. The Pontifical, or Papal, Gendarmerie was created in the 19th century under the formal supervision of the pope. The gendarmes were responsible for maintaining ...
(from the article "Salamanca") The former Jesuit seminary (1617-1755) is now the Pontifical University, most of whose students are priests or seminarians; the Jesuits still officiate in its Church of La Clerecia. Also notable ...
reclaimed area in Latina provincia, Lazio (Latium) regione, south-central Italy, extending between the Alban Hills, the Lepini Mountains, and the Tyrrhenian Sea, and traversed by the Appian Way. Two tribes, ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "nervous system, human") The pons (metencephalon) consists of two parts: the tegmentum, a phylogenetically older part that contains the reticular formation, and the pontine nuclei, a larger part composed of masses of neurons ...
(from the article "nervous system, human") ...of the pons and medulla oblongata-the same cells that project ascending processes to intralaminar thalamic nuclei and are important in the maintenance of alertness and the conscious state. The pontine ...
town, capital (since 1964) of Val-d'Oise departement, Paris region, northern France, on the right bank of the Oise River, northwest of Paris. In 1966 it became an episcopal see, and ...
(from the article "photoengraving") ...compounds were made by experimenters in Europe and the United States. The origin of the modern photoengraving process rests, however, on the report (1839) by a Scottish scientist and inventor, ...
floating bridge, used primarily but not invariably for military purposes. A pontoon bridge was constructed in 480 BC by Persian engineers to transport Xerxes' invading army across the Hellespont (Dardanelles). ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "dock") Floating pontoon docks, of which few have been built, rise and fall with the water level. One such dock floats up or down guided by walls of sheet-steel piling driven ...
(from the article "Norway, Church of") ...in the 18th century the church was influenced by Pietism. A work with a Pietistic emphasis, Truth Unto Godliness, an explanation of Martin Luther's Small Catechism published in 1737 by ...
Realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for "his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark." Pontoppidan's novels and short stories-informed with a ... [1 Related Articles]
Florentine painter who broke away from High Renaissance classicism to create a more personal, expressive style that is sometimes classified as early Mannerism. [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Mississippi") West of the Black Prairie another highland area, the Pontotoc Ridge, ranges south from the Tennessee border. This ridge, averaging 400 to 600 feet (120 to 180 metres) above sea ...
(from the article "Poseidon") in Greek religion, god of the sea and of water generally; he is to be distinguished from Pontus, the personification of the sea and the oldest Greek divinity of the ...
ancient district in northeastern Anatolia adjoining the Black Sea. In the 1st century BC it briefly contested Rome's hegemony in Anatolia. An independent Pontic kingdom with its capital at Amaseia ... [4 Related Articles]
town, Torfaen county borough, historic county of Monmouthshire (Sir Fynwy), Wales, in the valley of the Afon Lwyd. Lying on the eastern edge of the historic South Wales coalfield, it ... [1 Related Articles]
japanned (varnished) tinplate produced in Wales at the Allgood family factory in Pontypool and later in Usk, Monmouthshire. It is distinguished from other japanned tinware by its distinctive lustre and ... [1 Related Articles]
industrial town, Rhondda Cynon Taff county borough, historic county of Glamorgan (Morgannwg), Wales, at the confluence of the Rivers Rhondda and Taff. Pontypridd is a shopping centre for the Rhondda ...
(from the article "bridge") ...and the beautiful Pont de la Concorde (1791), also over the Seine. In Great Britain, William Edwards built what many people consider the most beautiful arch bridge in the British ...
any of several breeds of small horses standing less than 14.2 hands (147 cm, or 58 inches) high and noted for gentleness and endurance. Among ... [3 Related Articles]
in U.S. history, system of mail delivery by continuous horse and rider relays between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California (April 1860-October 1861). Although a financially disastrous, brief enterprise for ... [1 Related Articles]
volcanic island group in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the west coast of south-central Italy. The islands include Ponza (the largest), Palmarola, and Zannone in a western cluster and Ventotene and ...
(from the article "illusion") ...is decreased, the illusion becomes less compelling. In the Zollner illusion, the cross-hatching disturbs the perception of parallel lines. A figure seen touching converging lines, as in the Ponzo illusion, ...
breed of dog thought to have originated in Germany. It grew so popular in France, however, that it became the national dog of that country. The poodle was developed as ...
(from the article "Poaceae") ...(Triticum aestivum), barley (Hordeum vulgare), rye (Secale cereale), and oats (Avena sativa; see photograph)-and many lawn and forage grasses come from the Pooideae. This subfamily contains almost 3,300 species and ...
method of gambling in which all money bet on the result of a particular event by a number of people is awarded to one or more winners according to conditions ...
(from the article "insurance") In order to obtain broader and statistically sounder rates, insurers often pool loss and claims experience by setting up rating bureaus to calculate rates based on industrywide experience. They may ...
British billiards game in which each player uses a cue ball of a different colour and tries to pocket the ball of a particular opponent, thus taking a "life." Players ...
(from the article "riverine ecosystem") ...material, turbidity, and atmospheric gases, from the source to the mouth. There are two major zones: rapids, shallow water where currents are strong enough to keep the bottom clear and ...
(from the article "marsh frog") The pool frog (R. lessonae) is the other species of European aquatic frogs. They may interbreed with marsh frogs to produce a hybrid form called the European ...
(from the article "Ruysch, Rachel") ...at age 15, she studied with the still-life specialist Willem van Aelst. Those who bought her paintings were members of the wealthy bourgeoisie in the Netherlands. After marrying the portrait ...
(from the article "nuclear reactor") A common form of the water-cooled, plate-fuel reactor is the pool reactor, in which the reactor core is positioned at the bottom of a large, deep pool of water. This ...
town and unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Dorset, southwestern England, adjoining the major British resort of Bournemouth. The old town occupies a site on the north shore of ...
(from the article "badminton") ...1873. The roots of the sport can be traced to ancient Greece, China, and India, and it is closely related to the old children's game battledore and shuttlecock. Badminton is ...
(Sept. 24, 1932), agreement between Hindu leaders in India granting new rights to untouchables. The pact resulted from the communal award of Aug. 4, 1932, made by the British government ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "India") During the 1870s young leaders in Bombay also established a number of provincial political associations, such as the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha (Poona Public Society), founded by Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842-1901), ...
lake in west-central Bolivia, occupying a shallow depression in the Altiplano, or high plateau, at 12,090 feet (3,686 metres) above sea level. It is the country's second largest lake and ... [2 Related Articles]
any order of nuns descending from the Franciscan order founded at Assisi, Italy, in 1212 by St. Clare of Assisi (1194-1253), a noblewoman who took a vow of poverty and ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "Poor Clare") ...the order, restoring the primitive observance in 17 monasteries during her lifetime and reasserting the strict principle of poverty; her followers came to be called the Colettine Poor Clares, or ...
in British history, body of laws undertaking to provide relief for the poor, developed in 16th-century England and maintained, with various changes, until after World War II. The Elizabethan Poor ... [9 Related Articles]
(from the article "public health") The Poor Law Commission, created in 1834, explored problems of community health and suggested means for solving them. Its report, in 1838, argued that "the expenditures necessary to the adoption ...
(from the article "Mali") Antiglobalization activists organized a three-day "Poor People's Summit" in Gao on July 15, scheduled to coincide with the opening of the Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg. Delegates demanded ...
unschooled but experienced homespun philosopher, a character created by the American writer and statesman Benjamin Franklin and used as his pen name for the annual Poor Richard's almanac, edited by ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "theatre, Western") In terms of furthering the actor's technique, the Polish director Jerzy Grotowski, together with Stanislavsky and Brecht, were the key figures of the 20th century. Grotowski first became internationally known ...
(species Phalaenoptilus nuttallii), nocturnal bird of North America belonging to the nightjar family (Caprimulgidae). The poorwill, named for its call, is about 20 cm (8 inches) long and has mottled ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Dutch literature") ...society (dichtgenootschap) was an omen of a decline in Dutch literature lasting through the 18th century. Material well-being sapped the vitality of the nation. Even the talented poet Hubert Poot ...
art in which commonplace objects (such as comic strips, soup cans, road signs, and hamburgers) were used as subject matter and were often physically incorporated in the work. The Pop ... [13 Related Articles]
form of slow love song prevalent in nearly all genres of popular music. There are rock ballads, soul ballads, country ballads, and even heavy metal ballads.
(from the article "tent") ...tents, which are designed compactly for use in conditions of extreme cold and heavy snow, and back-packing tents, which use extremely lightweight synthetic fabrics and lightweight metal poles. "Pop" tents ...
(from the article "Warner, Pop") ...Warner won 319 games, the most in the NCAA until the 1980s. He also is remembered for having given his name to one of the country's major football organizations for ...
(from the article "Iggy and the Stooges") American band of the late 1960s and early 1970s that helped define punk music. Both with the Stooges and in his subsequent solo career, Iggy Pop had a far-reaching influence ...
(from the article "Loudonia") ...South Wales. L. aurea and L. roei are restricted to South Australia and Western Australia. L. aurea, which has inflated yellow fruits that explode when compressed, is called the pop-flower.
(from the article "Computers and Information Systems") ...for more than half of all consumer-fraud complaints. The FTC also brought suit against a number of software firms that were alleged to have infected computers with software that delivered ...
extinct volcano, central Myanmar (Burma), at the northern end of the Pegu Mountains. It rises to 4,981 feet (1,518 m), has a mile-wide crater, and is the highest point in ... [2 Related Articles]
Serbian poet who wrote in a succinct modernist style that owed more to French surrealism and Serbian folk traditions than to the Socialist Realism that dominated Eastern European literature after ... [1 Related Articles]
