U.S. paleontologist widely known for his concepts of evolutionary history of vertebrate animals. The explicit use of comparative anatomy and embryology in studies of fossil vertebrates underlies his major contributions ...
extinct genus of early reptiles, found as fossils in Permian deposits (245 to 286 million years old) of North America. Romeria is included among the cotylosaurs, a group considered to ...
family of Spanish guitarists prominent in the 20th-century revival of the classical guitar. They appeared individually as soloists, together in a quartet, and in other combinations.
Spanish matador who reputedly invented the bullfighter's muleta, a red cape used in conjunction with the sword. With it the matador leads the bull through the most spectacular passes of ...
Mexican novelist and short-story writer whose vivid depiction of the people and customs of his native state of Michoacan brought him critical acclaim as an outstanding modern costumbrista, or novelist ...
English legal reformer whose chief efforts were devoted to lessening the severity of English criminal law. His attacks on the laws authorizing capital punishment for a host of minor felonies ...
German field marshal who became the most popular general at home and gained the open respect of his enemies with his spectacular victories as commander of the Afrika Korps in ...
city, seat (1753) of Hampshire county, in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia, U.S., on the South Branch Potomac River, 28 miles (45 km) south of Cumberland, Maryland. It developed ...
extensive tract of flat land with an area of about 25,000 acres (about 10,000 hectares) bordering the English Channel in Shepway district in the administrative and historic county of Kent, ...
fashionable portrait painter of late 18th-century English society. In his portraits Romney avoided any suggestion of the character or sensibilities of the sitter. His great success with his society patrons ...
city, Sumy oblast (province), northern Ukraine. The city lies along the Sula River. It was founded as a fortress in the 11th century, and, after a period under Polish rule, ...
town ("parish"), Test Valley district, administrative and historic county of Hampshire, England, 9 miles (14 km) northwest of Southampton on the River Test. It is dominated by a massive Norman ...
Philippine general, diplomat, and journalist known for his activities on behalf of the Allies during World War II and his later work with the United Nations.
known to history as the last of the Western Roman emperors (475-476). In fact, he was a usurper and puppet not recognized as a legitimate ruler by the Eastern emperor.
village, Navarre provincia and comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of northern Spain. It lies 3,220 feet (981 m) above sea level in the Pyrenees, northeast of Pamplona, near the French frontier, ...
town, Malaga province, Andalusia comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community"), southern Spain. It lies in the Ronda Mountains west of Malaga city. The town is situated on two hills ...
mountain range in Oppland and Hedmark fylker (counties), south-central Norway. For the most part dry, the range has several small glaciers around its highest peaks, which average 7,000 feet (2,100 ...
park in south-central Norway established as a nature preserve in December 1962 by royal decree; by a law of 1970 the area became a national park. The park covers an ...
one of several formes fixes ("fixed forms") in French lyric poetry and song of the 14th and 15th centuries. The full form of a rondeau consists of four stanzas. The ...
in music, instrumental form characterized by the initial statement and periodic restatement of a particular melody (or section), the various appearances of which are separated by contrasting material. Although any ...
state, west-central Brazil, bordering Bolivia to the south and west. Formerly a part of Amazonas state, it was established in 1943 as Guapore territory, which was renamed in 1956 after ...
Chinese businessman and politician. He was founder (in 1979) and president of China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC), China's largest investment company, and later (1993-98) was vice president of ...
lake, central Saskatchewan, Canada; it drains northeastward through the Rapid River into the Churchill River. Island-studded, it is 36 miles (58 km) long, has an area of 546 square miles ...
any of the masterless samurai warrior aristocrats of the late Muromachi (1138-1573) and Tokugawa (1603-1867) periods who were often vagrant and disruptive and sometimes actively rebellious.
large body of floating ice, lying at the head of Weddell Sea, which is itself an indentation in the Atlantic coastline of Antarctica. More than 500 feet (150 m) thick ...
Norwegian-born American explorer and writer who visited Antarctica nine times, discovering and charting vast areas of the 4,000,000-square-mile (10,400,000-square-kilometre) continent.
town, lan (county) of Blekinge, southern Sweden. It lies along the Ronneby River near its Baltic mouth. Because of its location, it was the most important place in Blekinge from ...
American singer, with a pure, expressive soprano voice and eclectic artistic tastes, whose performances called attention to a number of new songwriters and helped establish country rock music.
German physicist who was a recipient of the first Nobel Prize for Physics, in 1901, for his discovery of X-rays, which heralded the age of modern physics and revolutionized diagnostic ...
in Western architecture, element of a Christian church of the Middle Ages or early Renaissance that separated the choir or chancel (the area around the altar) from the nave (the ...
city, Gauteng province, South Africa. It lies immediately west of Johannesburg in the Witwatersrand. The first discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in 1884, which soon thereafter proved unprofitable, occurred ...
covering of the top of a building, serving to protect against rain, snow, sunlight, wind, and extremes of temperature. Roofs have been constructed in a wide variety of forms-flat, pitched, ...
downward extension of the surrounding rock that protrudes into the upper surface of an igneous intrusive body. The intrusions that most commonly contain roof pendants are relatively shallow stocks or ...
(Corvus frugilegus), the most abundant Eurasian bird of the crow family Corvidae (q.v.). It resembles the carrion crow in size (45 cm [18 inches]) and in black coloration, but the ...
(count of) Prussian army officer who, with Chancellor Otto von Bismarck and General Helmuth von Moltke, brought the German Empire into being and made Germany the leading power on the ...
American motion-picture, stage, and musical star noted for his energy, charisma, and versatility. A popular child star best known for his portrayal of the wholesome, wisecracking title character in the ...
American astronaut. Roosa participated in the Apollo 14 mission (Jan. 31-Feb. 9, 1971), in which the uplands region of the Moon, 15 miles (24 km) north of the Fra Mauro ...
gemeente (commune), Noord-Brabant provincie, southwestern Netherlands, near the Belgian border. Roosendaal (meaning "valley of roses") developed after the inhabitants of surrounding hamlets, including Nispen, were granted permission to build a ...
island of Antarctica, in the northeastern part of the Ross Ice Shelf, Ross Dependency (New Zealand), south of the Bay of Whales, off the coast of Edward VII Land. The ...
island in the East River, between the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, New York City. Administratively part of Manhattan, it is 1.5 miles (about 2.5 km) long and 18 mile ...
private, coeducational institution of higher learning located in downtown Chicago, Illinois, U.S. The university, originally named Thomas Jefferson College but soon after renamed in honour of Franklin D. and Eleanor ...
American first lady (1901-09), the second wife of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States. She was noted for institutionalizing the duties of the first lady and refurbishing the ...
American first lady (1933-45), the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States, and a United Nations diplomat and humanitarian. She was, in her time, one of ...
32nd president of the United States (1933-45). The only president elected to the office four times, Roosevelt led the United States through two of the greatest crises of the 20th ...
26th president of the United States (1901-09) and writer, naturalist, and soldier. He expanded the powers of the presidency and of the federal government in support of the public interest ...
in botany, that part of a plant normally underground. Its primary functions are anchorage of the plant, absorption of water and dissolved minerals and conduction of these to the stem, ...
architect, one of the greatest practitioners in the Chicago school of commercial American architecture. His works are among the most distinguished early attempts at a mature aesthetic expression of the ...
(Nov. 30, 1908), accord between the United States and Japan that averted a drift toward possible war by mutually acknowledging certain international policies and spheres of influence in the Pacific. ...
city, administrative headquarters of Ropar district, Punjab state, northwestern India. The city lies on the Sutlej River near the head of the great Sirhind Canal. The terminus of a branch ...
assemblage of fibres, filaments, or wires compacted by twisting or braiding (plaiting) into a long, flexible line. Wire rope is often referred to as cable (q.v.). The basic requirement for ...
river in Northern Territory, Australia, formed by the confluence of Waterhouse River and Beswick Creek east of Mataranka and flowing east for 250 miles (400 km) to Limmen Bight on ...
American pollster, the first to develop the scientific poll for political forecasting. Three times he predicted the reelection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1936, 1940, 1944).
classic blue cheese made from ewe's milk, often considered one of the greatest cheeses of France. The designation Roquefort is protected by French law.
estado ("state"), northern Brazil. It is bordered on the north by Venezuela and Guyana, east by Guyana, and west by Venezuela. Formerly a part of Amazonas state, it was created ...
giant flat-topped mountain in the Pakaraima Mountains, at the point where the boundaries of Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana meet. About 9 miles (14 km) long and 9,094 feet (2,772 m) ...
any of five particular species of baleen whales-specifically the blue whale, fin whale, sei whale, Bryde's whale, and minke whale. The term is often extended to include the humpback whale ...
projective method of psychological testing in which a person is asked to describe what he sees in 10 inkblots, of which some are black or gray and others have patches ...
first faience (tin-glazed earthenware) produced in Sweden, at the Rorstrand factory established in 1725 by a Dane, Johann Wolff, near Stockholm. Cristoph Konrad Hunger, an arcanist from Meissen and Vienna, ...
in full Richard McKay Rorty, American pragmatist philosopher and public intellectual noted for his wide-ranging critique of the modern conception of philosophy as a quasi-scientific enterprise aimed at reaching certainty ...
Italian Baroque painter and etcher of the Neapolitan school remembered for his wildly romantic or "sublime" landscapes, marine paintings, and battle pictures. He was also an accomplished poet, satirist, actor, ...
rose order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, a division of the subclass Rosidae. Its members include some of the best-known ornamental and edible-fruit plants in the temperate parts of the world. ...
river port and the third largest city in Argentina. It lies in southeastern Santa Fe provincia, on the western bank of the Parana River, about 180 miles ...
