city, northwestern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. The city lies along the Kosi River, at a road and rail junction. A trade centre for grain and other agricultural products, its ...
Scottish poet and literary antiquary who maintained national poetic traditions by writing Scots poetry and by preserving the work of earlier Scottish poets at a time when most Scottish writers ...
British naval officer who, during World War II, oversaw the evacuation of British forces from Dunkirk in 1940 and then commanded the naval forces used in the Normandy Invasion (1944).
third king of the 19th dynasty of Egypt, whose reign (1279-13 BC) was the second longest in Egyptian history. In addition to his wars with the Hittites and Libyans, he ...
king of Egypt (reigned 1187-56 BC), who defended his country against foreign invasion in three great wars, thus ensuring tranquillity during much of his reign. In his final years, however, ...
king of Egypt (reigned 1156-50 BC) who strove through extensive building activity to maintain Egypt's prosperity in an era of deteriorating internal and external conditions.
king of Egypt (reigned 1104-1075? BC), last king of the 20th dynasty, whose reign was marked by civil wars involving the high priest of Amon and the viceroy of Nubia. ...
town ("parish"), Huntingdonshire district, administrative county of Cambridgeshire, historic county of Huntingdonshire, England. The town serves an intensively cultivated hinterland on the southwest border of the Fens, a reclaimed region ...
archbishop of Canterbury (1961-74), theologian, educator, and advocate of Christian unity. His meeting with Pope Paul VI (March 1966) was the first encounter between the leaders of the Roman Catholic ...
American physicist who received one-half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1989 for his development of a technique to induce atoms to shift from one specific energy level to ...
town, Thanet district, administrative and historic county of county of Kent, England. It lies on the east coast and is the reputed landing place of the invading Anglo-Saxon warriors Hengist ...
one of the longest rivers in Papua New Guinea, rising in the southeast on the Kratke Range and flowing northwest through the great Central Depression, where it receives numerous streams ...
Italian geographer who compiled an important collection of travel writings, Delle navigationi et viaggi (1550-59; "Some Voyages and Travels"), containing his version of Marco Polo's journey and the Descrittione de ...
Swiss novelist whose realistic, poetic, and somewhat allegorical stories of man against nature made him one of the most prominent French-Swiss writers of the 20th century.
geographic region, Nordland fylke (county), northern Norway, surrounding the Rana channel and the Nordrana Fjord. It is centred on the industrial town of Mo (Mo i Rana) ...
one of India's Citpavan Brahmans of Maharashtra who was a judge of the High Court of Bombay, a noted historian, and an active participant in social and economic reform movements.
lyric poet deeply influenced by Malagasy ballad and song forms, in particular the hain-teny, a poetic dialogue usually on the subject of love. Ranaivo also held a number of important ...
capital of Cachapoal provincia and of O'Higgins region, northern central Chile. It lies in the Andean foothills along the Cachapoal River, south of Santiago. Founded as Villa Santa Cruz de ...
river, rising in the Landes du Mene, a chain of hills in Cotes-d'Armor departement, western France. It flows for 60 miles (97 km) past Dinan to form an estuary on ...
French abbot who revived the Cistercian abbey of La Trappe, influenced the establishment of several important monasteries, and founded the reformed Cistercians, called Trappists, a community practicing extreme austerity of ...
a farm, usually large, devoted to the breeding and raising of cattle, sheep, or horses on rangeland. Ranch farming, or ranching, originated in the imposition of European livestock-farming techniques onto ...
type of residential building, characteristically built on one level, having a low roof and a rectangular open plan, with relatively little conventional demarcation of living areas.
city, capital of Jharkhand state, northeastern India, lying along the Subarnarekha River. With major rail and road connections, it is the centre of the region's agricultural, cotton, and tea trade. ...
city, San Bernardino county, southern California, U.S. Part of the "Inland Empire" region (comprising San Bernardino and Riverside counties), it is located on an alluvial plain near the eastern end ...
condition produced by aerial oxidation of unsaturated fat present in foods and other products, marked by unpleasant odour or flavour. When a fatty substance is exposed to air, its unsaturated ...
monetary unit of South Africa. Each rand is divided into 100 cents. The South African Reserve Bank has the exclusive authority to issue coins and banknotes in the country. Coins ...
former English-language newspaper published in Johannesburg. It crusaded against South Africa's racial segregation but, because of financial losses, ceased publication in 1985.
American publishers and printers of maps, atlases, globes, and tourist guidebooks; its headquarters are in Skokie, Ill. Founded in 1856 by William H. Rand and Andrew McNally and incorporated in ...
Russian-born American writer who, in commercially successful novels, presented her philosophy of objectivism, essentially reversing the traditional Judeo-Christian ethic.
British track-and-field athlete, who won a gold medal in the long jump at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo to become the first British woman to win an Olympic gold medal ...
U.S. congressman who served for nearly 30 years and who, as speaker of the House of Representatives (1876-81), codified the rules of the House and strengthened the role of speaker.
residential town in Gauteng province, South Africa, bordering Johannesburg to the south. It consists of numerous suburbs that were officially proclaimed a town in 1962. The town has no heavy ...
city, Arhus amtskommune (county commune), eastern Jutland, Denmark. It lies at the mouth of the Guden River along Randers Fjord, northwest of Arhus. First mentioned in 1086, it was chartered ...
town, Gauteng province, South Africa. It lies west of Johannesburg and is centred on the gold mine first developed by Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Company in 1889. Originally a part ...
town (township), Norfolk county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S., 15 miles (24 km) south of Boston. Settled in 1710 as Cochato (named for the Cochato Indians), it was part of Braintree until ...
trade unionist and civil-rights leader who was a dedicated and persistent leader in the struggle for justice and parity for the black American community.
Virginia lawyer who played an important role in drafting and ratifying the U.S. Constitution and served as attorney general and later secretary of state in George Washington's cabinet.
in probability theory, a process for determining the probable location of a point subject to random motions, given the probabilities (the same at each step) of moving some distance in ...
industrial and metropolitan conurbation occupying an area of peat and clay lowlands, west-central Netherlands. The Randstad ("Ring City") consists of major Dutch industrial cities extending in a crescent (open to ...
former resort by the River Thames in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London. Land east of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, was bought in 1690 by Richard Jones, 3rd Viscount ...
(Japanese: "Dutch learning"), concerted effort by Japanese scholars during the late Tokugawa period (late 18th-19th century) to learn the Dutch language so as to be able to learn Western technology; ...
town, southeastern Bangladesh, situated in the Chittagong Hills region near the Karnaphuli River. Connected by road and river steamer with the city of Chittagong, the town is a rice-milling and ...
in radioactivity, the distance that a particle travels from its source through matter. The range depends upon the type of particle, its original energy of motion (kinetic energy), the medium ...
any of several instruments used to measure the distance from the instrument to a selected point or object. One basic type is the optical range finder modeled after a ranging ...
any extensive area of land that is occupied by native herbaceous or shrubby vegetation which is grazed by domestic or wild herbivores. The vegetation of ranges may include tallgrass prairies, ...
any of a series of nine unmanned probes launched from 1961 to 1965 by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Project Ranger represented NASA's earliest attempt at ...
in U.S. military usage, a soldier specially trained to act in small groups that make rapid surprise raids on enemy territory. Ranger has also been the designation for the Texas ...
river in east-central South Island, New Zealand. It is formed by the confluence of the Clyde and Havelock rivers, which rise in the Southern Alps. The river's name is of ...
river in southwestern North Island, New Zealand. Rising on the east slopes of the Kaimanawa Mountains, it flows south and southwest for 150 miles (240 km) to enter South Taranaki ...
city, northwestern Bangladesh, on the Ghaghat River. It is an industrial centre noted for the manufacture of dhurries (cotton carpets), bidis (cigarettes), and cigars. Constituted a municipality in 1869, it ...
family of wide-ranging frogs of the order Anura, containing more than 400 species. Representatives occur on every continent except Antarctica. Members of the group are referred to as the true ...
original name Otto Rosenfeld Austrian psychologist who extended psychoanalytic theory to the study of legend, myth, art, and creativity and who suggested that the basis of anxiety neurosis is a ...
leading German historian of the 19th century, whose scholarly method and way of teaching (he was the first to establish a historical seminar) had a great influence on Western historiography. ...
