(from the article "Judaism") Another reaction to the dashing of messianic hopes is represented by the beautiful story of the Kabbalist Joseph della Reyna and his five disciples, who travel through the world to ...
(from the article "mosaic") ...made them particularly attractive to artists of the earliest decades of this century such as Marc Chagall and Giovanni Serverini. The texture of mosaic was also an attraction. An American ...
hero of several medieval European cycles of versified animal tales that satirize contemporary human society. Though Reynard is sly, amoral, cowardly, and self-seeking, he is still a sympathetic hero, whose ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "motion-picture technology") ...made up as strips for the popular parlour toy the zoetrope "wheel of life," a rotating drum that induced an illusion of movement from drawn or painted pictures (see Figure ...
French politician and statesman who, as premier in June 1940, unsuccessfully attempted to save France from German occupation in World War II. [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "Yamasaki, Minoru") ...State University in Detroit, completed in 1958, is a widely admired example of how he used interior and exterior design to convey feelings of serenity and delight. Another outstanding structure, ...
in fluid mechanics, a criterion of whether fluid (liquid or gas) flow is absolutely steady (streamlined, or laminar) or on the average steady with small unsteady fluctuations (turbulent). Whenever the ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Baker v. Carr") Citing the Baker case as a precedent, the court held in Reynolds v. Sims (1964) that both houses of bicameral legislatures had to be apportioned according to population. It remanded ...
(from the article "Waite, Morrison Remick") ...U.S. 485 (1878), he struck down, as a "direct burden" on interstate commerce, a Louisiana Reconstruction statute requiring full racial integration of passengers by common carriers. In Reynolds v. United ...
(from the article "Great Train Robbery") ...anonymous insider who provided sensitive train-schedule and cargo information and another person who provided a country hideaway, Leatherslade Farm in Buckinghamshire. The ring leader was Bruce Reynolds, a known burglar ...
(from the article "telephone and telephone system") In 1913 J.N. Reynolds, an engineer with Western Electric (at that time the manufacturing division of AT&T), patented a new type of telephone switch that became known as the crossbar ...
(from the article "Joey Reynolds") A pioneer of the brash, no-holds-barred style that came to dominate morning shows on rock radio in the 1990s, Joey Reynolds began working as a deejay at small stations in ...
(from the article "calligraphy") ...area of graphic design, and both professional and amateur calligraphers were attracted to classes and demonstrations by Arnold Bank, a design professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Lloyd Reynolds, ...
American actress whose career was highlighted by her portrayal of both Bing Crosby's and Fred Astaire's love interest in the 1942 film classic Holiday Inn; other notable roles included the ...
American musician with Bob Shane and Dave Guard, was a founding member in 1957 of the Kingston Trio, the group that helped spark the folk music revival of the 1960s. ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "1977: Other Winners") ...Brickman for Annie HallAdapted Screenplay: Alvin Sargent for JuliaCinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond for Close Encounters of the Third KindArt Direction: John Barry, Leslie Dilley, Norman Reynolds for Star WarsOriginal Score: John ...
British archaeologist (b. June 11, 1939, Shifnal, Shropshire, Eng.-d. Sept. 26, 2001, Kemer, Turkey), was one of the world's experts on the Iron Age and a pioneer in the field ...
(from the article "R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings") American manufacturer of tobacco products. The origins of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company date to the post-Civil War era, when Richard Joshua Reynolds (1850-1918) began trading in tobacco, first in ...
(from the article "Englische Komodianten") ...with their elaborate costumes, properties, and full repertories of new plays, were immediately successful with German audiences. The English clowns were especially popular, and one of them, Robert Reynolds (fl. ...
portrait painter and aesthetician who dominated English artistic life in the middle and late 18th century. Through his art and teaching, he attempted to lead British painting away from the ... [9 Related Articles]
city, north-central Tamaulipas estado ("state"), northeastern Mexico. It lies just across the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo del Norte) from McAllen and Hidalgo, Texas, to which it is linked by toll ...
(from the article "Islamic arts") ...a move toward simplicity is discernible during the last decades of the 19th century. The members of the polytechnic college Dar ol-Fonun (founded 1851), led by its erudite principal Reza ...
French dramatist, novelist, and actress best known for her brief, satiric plays that speak to contemporary middle-class anxieties. [2 Related Articles]
Russian trader, diplomat, and administrator who was a founder of the Russian-American Company, which played a major part in the history of Alaska and of the North Pacific. He wished ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Weightlifting") ...although China, with 12 medals, had more gold (7). Poland finished in third place with 6 medals, including 3 gold. Sixteen other countries also won medals. Two-time Olympic superheavyweight champion ...
American translator and poet affiliated with the Objectivist school of poetry, who wrote poetry based on actual documents and events that was moral in purpose.
Austrian-born writer whose works, the best known of which was Memoiren eines Antisemiten (1979; Memoirs of an Anti-Semite, 1981), chronicled the history of Europe from the time of the world ...
(from the article "Austronesian languages") ...to a common ancestor through recurrent similarities in the forms of words. Van der Tuuk's central achievement in comparative linguistics was the establishment of what later came to be known ...
system for classifying blood groups according to the presence or absence of the Rh antigen, often called the Rh factor, on the cell membranes of the red blood cells (erythrocytes). ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "therapeutics") Most individuals are Rh-positive, which means they have the D antigen of the complex Rh system; approximately 15 percent of the population lack this antigen and are described as Rh-negative. ...
(from the article "immune system") ...disease of the newborn, a disorder in which maternal antibodies destroy the child's red blood cells during late pregnancy and shortly after birth. The most severe form of erythroblastosis fetalis ...
(from the article "schreibersite") ...containing nickel-iron metal. In iron meteorites, it often is found in the form of plates and as shells around nodules of troilite (an iron sulfide mineral). Rodlike schreibersite is called ...
(from the article "photoreception") ...which in land insects is curved and acts as a lens. Beneath the cornea is a transparent crystalline cone through which rays converge to an image at the tip of ...
(from the article "photoreception") ...membrane regions of the photoreceptors are not fused into a single rhabdom. Instead, they stay separated as eight individual rodlets (effectively seven, since two lie one above the other), known ...
(from the article "moss animal") Cryptostomes evolved rapidly during the Ordovician. They were similar to the trepostomes but evolved freely erect, leaflike, branching or lacy colonies in the ptilodictyoids, or branching in rhabdomesoids, and were ...
(from the article "muscle tumour") A rhabdomyoma is a rare, usually benign tumour of striated (striped) muscles. It most commonly occurs in the heart. Some forms of this tumour do spread; metastases (secondary tumours at ...
(from the article "muscle tumour") A rhabdomyosarcoma is a malignant tumour that arises in the skeletal muscles. Most tumours of this type are located in the leg or arm muscles. A rhabdomyosarcoma may recur even ...
(from the article "protozoan") ...substrate; 3 subclasses, Heterotrichia, Choreotrichia (including the loricate tintinnid ciliates and the oligotrichs), and Stichotrichia.Cytostome apical to subapical, with a shallow cytostomal cavity; oral kinetids may be tangential...
(from the article "pterobranch") ...tentacles used to filter food, usually small planktonic plants and animals, from the surrounding water; and a trunk containing a U-shaped gut. There are three genera of pterobranchs. Two of ...
any of a group of viruses constituting the family Rhabdoviridae, responsible for rabies and vesicular stomatitis of cattle and horses. The virus particle is enveloped in a fatty membrane; is ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Anura") ...Raninae (worldwide except for southern South America, southern and central Australia, New Zealand, and eastern Polynesia) and Petropedetinae (Africa).No fossil record; 8 presacral vertebrae; vertebral column procoelous with Presacral ...
(from the article "Vietnam") Many Montagnard peoples-such as the Rade (Rhade), Jarai, Chru, and Roglai-speak Austronesian languages, linking them to the Cham, Malay, and Indonesian peoples; others-including the Bru, Pacoh, Katu, Cua,...
(from the article "Triassic Period") ...the Keuper Marl in Germany and the New Red Sandstone in Britain have been regarded as either uppermost Triassic or lowermost Jurassic. These rocks contain the distinctive bivalve species Rhaetavicula ...
segment of the Central Alps extending along the Italian-Swiss and Austrian-Swiss borders but lying mainly in Graubunden canton, eastern Switzerland. The mountains are bounded by the Lepontine Alps and Splugen ... [2 Related Articles]
group of Romance dialects spoken in Switzerland and northern Italy. The most important Rhaetian dialects are Sursilvan and Sutsilvan, which together make up the Romansh language (q.v.). Other Rhaetian dialects ... [3 Related Articles]
uppermost of three divisions in the Upper Triassic Series, representing those rocks deposited worldwide during Rhaetian time (203.6 million to 199.6 million years ago) in the Triassic Period. The stage ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "fruit fly") The apple maggot, the larva of Rhagoletis pomonella, burrows into apples, causing the fruit to become spongy and discoloured. This species and the closely related cherry fruit fly (R. cingulata) ...
(from the article "Alexandria") ...of his Persian campaign; it was to be the capital of his new Egyptian dominion and a naval base that would control the Mediterranean. The choice of the site that ...
(from the article "Rosales") Members of Rhamnaceae, or the buckthorn family, are characterized by woodiness, stamens (male) alternating with sepals (opposite petals, when present), a disk of tissue developing under or around the ovary, ...
(from the article "cascara sagrada") (Spanish: "sacred bark"), the dried bark of the buckthorn Rhamnus purshiana (order Rosales) used in medicine as a laxative. The tree is cultivated in North America and Kenya. Cascara sagrada ...
flying reptile (pterosaurs) found as fossils from the Late Jurassic Period (159 million to 144 million years ago) in Europe that had a diamond-shaped rudder at its tip of its ...
(from the article "bird") The bill is covered with a sheet of keratin, the rhamphotheca, which in petrels and a few other birds is divided into plates. In birds that probe for food (kiwis, ...
(from the article "Armenia") Both Rome and Parthia strove to establish their own candidates on the Armenian throne until a lasting measure of equilibrium was secured by the treaty of Rhandeia, concluded in AD ...
(from the article "palm") ...of pollination. Some genera, such as the coconut and babassu palms, are pollinated by both insects and wind. Beetles are implicated in Astrocaryum mexicanum, Bactris, Cryosophila albida, Rhapidophyllum hystrix, and ...
a singer in ancient Greece. Ancient scholars suggested two etymologies. The first related the word with the staff (rhabdos) on which the singer leaned during his performance. ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "MTV") ...early 21st century, however, MTV increasingly sought to position itself as a destination for music on the Internet. Its Web site offered streaming video and audio content, and in 2007 ...
(from the article "eastern Africa, history of") ...which they knew it until the 10th century. South of Sarapion, Nikon, the Pyralaae Islands, and the island of Diorux (about whose precise location only speculation seems possible), the chief ...
(from the article "South Africa") The first step in this process included attacks in 1811-12 by the British army on the Xhosa groups, the Gqunukhwebe and Ndlambe. An attack by the Rharhabe-Xhosa on Graham's Town ...
(from the article "cassock") In the Eastern church the cassock's equivalent is called a rhason.religious dressreligious dressEastern Orthodox religious dressThe monastic habit of the ...
mountain group of the Rhaetian Alps, straddling eastern Switzerland (Graubunden canton), western Austria (Vorarlberg), and southern Liechtenstein. It divides the valleys of Montafon (northeast) and Pratigau (southwest). The group's highest ...
(from the article "therapeutics") Most individuals are Rh-positive, which means they have the D antigen of the complex Rh system; approximately 15 percent of the population lack this antigen and are described as Rh-negative. ...
in Greek religion, ancient goddess, probably pre-Hellenic in origin, who was worshipped sporadically throughout the Greek world. She was associated with fruitfulness and had affinities with Gaea (Earth) and the ... [2 Related Articles]
major regular moon of Saturn and the planet's second largest, after Titan. It was discovered in 1672 by the Italian-born French astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini and named for a Titan ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "ramie") ...group. Boehmeria nivea, native to China, is the species usually cultivated for fibre, although B. nivea variety tenacissima, native to Malaysia and frequently called rhea, is also a fibre source.
either of two species of large, flightless birds in the family Rheidae, order Rheiformes. They are native to South America and are related to the ostrich and emu. The common ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Romulus and Remus") the legendary founders of Rome. Traditionally, they were the sons of Rhea Silvia, daughter of Numitor, king of Alba Longa.
gemeente (municipality), east-central Netherlands. It lies between the IJssel River and the Veluwe hills, along the road from Arnhem to Zutphen. Rheden encompasses the villages of Velp, Rheden, De Steeg, ...
(from the article "Silurian Period") ...Malay Peninsula, and Australia projected into subtropical or tropical latitudes. The east-west ocean separating the southern European sector of Gondwana from northern Europe (Baltica) is called the Rheic Ocean and ...
(from the article "Rheidity threshold of fluidlike deformation") Rheology is the study of the flow deformation of materials. The concept of rheidity refers to the capacity of a material to flow, arbitrarily defined as the time required with ...
(from the article "tinamou") Many authors have noted anatomic and biological resemblances between tinamous and rheas. The structure of the bony palate, an important feature in the taxonomy of ratite birds, quite clearly links ...
city, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany. It lies on the Ems River, north of Munster. First mentioned in 838 and chartered in 1327, it suffered in ...
(from the article "Austria") ...Albert and Rudolf II, with Austria, Steiermark, and Carniola, which they were to rule jointly and undivided. As the Austrians were not used to being governed by two sovereigns at ...
(from the article "Ticino") ...much of it forested. The remainder consists of lakes, chiefly parts of Maggiore and Lugano, and glaciers. The Lepontine Alps rise in the north, reaching heights of 11,161 feet (3,402 ...
(from the article "linguistics") ...functional in the sense in which this term was interpreted in the pre-World War II period. The most valuable contribution made by the postwar Prague school is probably the distinction ...
(from the article "fish") ...preserved) of tusklike dermal bony elements. Some early groups freshwater; later groups with giant species (up to 10 m [roughly 33 ft]), marine.Found throughout the Devonian, but more common ...
(from the article "Germany") ...of Thuringian is of greatest significance in Thuringia, Saxony, and Saxony-Anhalt states. East Franconian is spoken in northern Bavaria, South Franconian in northern Baden-Wurttemberg. The Rhenish Franconian dialect extends northwest ...
(from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...is a landmark in the Rhine River valley, and the old village churches of Muffendorf (10th century), Vilich (11th century), and Schwarz Rheindorf (12th century). The former Electoral Palace (now ...
(from the article "Germany") ...cities and princes. On August 28, 1388, the princes of Swabia and Franconia routed the largely mercenary forces of the Swabian League at Doffingen, near Stuttgart. The stipendiaries of the ...
(from the article "Batak Protestant Christian Church") church in northern Sumatra, Indon., organized as an independent church in 1930 and constituting the largest Lutheran church in Asia. It developed from the work of missionaries of the Rhenish ...
(Re), chemical element, very rare metal of Group VIIb of the periodic table, one of the densest elements. Predicted by the Russian chemist Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev (1869) as chemically related ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "spectroscopy") Filamentary heating methods also are utilized for important geologic research. For instance, the age of rocks is determined by measuring the amounts of isotopes of rhenium and osmium. The isotope ...
(from the article "dating") The decay scheme in which rhenium-187 is transformed to osmium-187 shows promise as a means of studying mantle-crust evolution but has displayed only limited potential for isotopic dating. Technical difficulties ...
(from the article "Germany") ...papal terms before absolution could be granted. Louis warned the electors that their rights were endangered by the subjection of the elections to papal confirmation. Six electors responded in the ...
(from the article "surface coating") The rheological properties of coatings (that is, their ability to flow) are of prime importance in their preparation, storage, and application, and in fluids such as coatings the key factor ...
adjustable resistor used in applications that require the adjustment of current or the varying of resistance in an electric circuit. The rheostat can adjust generator characteristics, dim lights, and start ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "mechanoreception") ...as possible in contact with solid objects in the surroundings (thigmotaxis). Animals that live in running water usually maintain their position as they turn and swim head-on against the current ...
(from the article "Life Sciences") Two independent teams of researchers reported on two major genome-sequencing studies. The Rhesus Macaque Genome Sequencing and Analysis Consortium, under the leadership of Richard A. Gibbs of Baylor College of ...
sand-coloured primate native to forests but also found coexisting with humans in northern India, Nepal, eastern and southern China, and northern Southeast Asia. The rhesus monkey is the best-known species ... [8 Related Articles]
Austrian-born astronomer and mathematician who was among the first to adopt and spread the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus. [2 Related Articles]
the principles of training communicators-those seeking to persuade or inform; in the 20th century it has undergone a shift of emphasis from the speaker or writer to the auditor or ... [29 Related Articles]
(from the article "speech, figure of") Other common forms of figurative speech are hyperbole (deliberate exaggeration for the sake of effect), as in "I'm so mad I could chew nails"; the rhetorical question (asked for effect, ...
any of the principal poets of the school that flourished in 15th- and early 16th-century France (particularly in Burgundy), whose poetry, based on historical and moral themes, employed allegory, dreams, ... [1 Related Articles]
