Sale, Jamie, and Pelletier, David ... Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of, Earl Of Salisbury, Viscount Cranborne, Baron Cecil Of Essendon
The ever-controversial world of figure-skating judging became even more so during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. When Canadian pairs skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier ...
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(from the article "Guadeloupe") ...miles (120 km) to the south. The main territory of Guadeloupe consists of the twin islands of Basse-Terre to the west and Grande-Terre to the east, the two being separated ...
(from the article "Albania") ...to five ethnic Uyghurs released from U.S. custody in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on May 8, declining demands from China to turn over the men. On July 23 the government froze ...
(from the article "Religion") ...Wadud said that men had distorted the teachings of the Qur'an that put men and women on equal footing. Her action was denounced by Grand Mufti 'Abd al-Aziz al-Sheikh in ...
city and administrative centre of Yamalo-Nenets autonomous okrug (district), Tyumen oblast (province), Russia, in northwestern Siberia. It lies on the Poluy River at its entrance to the Ob River. [1 Related Articles]
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city, Essex county, northeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies on Salem Bay Harbor (an inlet of Massachusetts Bay), 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Boston. Salem was incorporated as a town ... [2 Related Articles]
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county, southwestern New Jersey, U.S. It comprises a coastal lowland bounded by Delaware to the west (the Delaware River constituting the border), Oldmans Creek to the north, the Maurice River ...
city, seat (1851) of Dent county, southeast-central Missouri, U.S., situated in the Ozark Mountains between the Current and Meramec rivers. Established in 1845 on the site of an inn and ...
city, seat (1694) of Salem county, southwestern New Jersey, U.S. It lies along the Salem River near the latter's confluence with the Delaware River, 34 miles (55 km) southwest of ...
(from the article "R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings") ...introduced the popular Prince Albert pipe tobacco. In 1913 it introduced a new cigarette, a blend of American and Turkish tobaccos, called Camel. Winston filter tips went on sale in ...
capital of Oregon, U.S., and the seat (1849) of Marion county. It lies along the Willamette River, 43 miles (69 km) southwest of Portland. Methodist missionaries, led by Jason Lee, ... [1 Related Articles]
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town (township), Rockingham county, southeastern New Hampshire, U.S., just west of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The town includes the communities of Salem, Salem Depot, and North Salem. Originally a part of Haverhill, ...
(from the article "Salem") ...with the Delaware River, 34 miles (55 km) southwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1675 by John Fenwick, an English Quaker. The Friends (Quakers) Burial Ground in Salem ...
(May-October 1692), in American history, a series of investigations and persecutions that caused 19 convicted "witches" to be hanged and many other suspects to be imprisoned in the town of ... [5 Related Articles]
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(from the article "Iraq") ...troops from Iraq; major reconstruction projects were halted; and the flow of passengers and goods to and from Syria and Jordan was disrupted. Among the prominent casualties of car-bomb attacks ...
(from the article "Orchis") ...contain a nutritive starch. In southern Europe they are collected and dried to produce a flour that is mixed with sugar, flavourings, and liquid (such as water or milk) to ...
(from the article "short story") ...ordinary Florentine life. Two other well-known narrative writers of the 14th century, Giovanni Fiorentino and Giovanni Sercambi, freely acknowledged their imitation of Boccaccio. In the 15th century Masuccio Salernitano's collection ...
city, Campania regione, southern Italy. It lies west of the mouth of the Irno River on the Gulf of Salerno, southeast of Naples. The Roman colony of Salernum was founded ... [4 Related Articles]
institution of higher learning in Salerno, Italy. Much of the historic interest of the university derives from an antecedent medical school in Salerno that was the earliest and one of ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "marketing") Efficiency control involves micro-level analysis of the various elements of the marketing mix, including sales force, advertising, sales promotion, and distribution. For example, to understand its sales-force efficiency, a company ...
(from the article "marketing") ...is to say, specific goals, such as sales and profitability, that are established on a monthly or quarterly basis. Organizations use five tools to monitor plan performance. The first is ...
(from the article "marketing") While advertising presents a reason to buy a product, sales promotion offers a short-term incentive to purchase. Sales promotions often attract brand switchers (those who are not loyal to a ...
(from the article "accounting") By far the greatest number of reports, however, are cost or sales reports, mostly on a departmental basis. Departmental sales reports usually compare actual sales with the volumes planned for ...
levy imposed upon the sale of goods and services. Sales taxes are commonly classified according to the level of business activity at which they are imposed-at the manufacturing or import ... [3 Related Articles]
Welsh lexicographer and translator who is noted particularly for his Welsh-English dictionary and for translating the New Testament into Welsh. [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "lesya") The jiva, or soul, is classified according to the good or bad emotions that hold sway. Thus the salesi ("having lesya") are all those who are swayed by any of ...
member of either of two Roman Catholic religious congregations, one of men and one of women, devoted to the Christian education of youth, especially the less privileged. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Salesian") The Salesian Sisters (formally, the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians; F.M.A.) are one of the largest Roman Catholic religious congregations of women, founded in 1872 at Mornese, Italy, by ...
(from the article "Salesian") The founder of the Salesians of Don Bosco (formally, the Society of St. Francis de Sales; S.D.B.) was St. John Bosco (Don Bosco), a young priest who focused his concern ...
(from the article "agency") ...limited are the powers of the real estate agent, who may show the land and state the asking price to the potential buyer without ordinarily being empowered to make further ...
(from the article "Salford") city and metropolitan borough in the west-central part of the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, historic county of Lancashire, England. It lies immediately west of the city of Manchester.association with ...
city and metropolitan borough in the west-central part of the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, historic county of Lancashire, England. It lies immediately west of the city of Manchester.
(from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") The only premodern building in Salford is Ordsall Hall (1350), the ancient seat of the Radcliffe family. The University of Salford, founded as the Royal Technical Institute in 1896 (university ...
(1148-1270), Iranian dynasty that ruled in Fars in southwestern Iran as vassals of the Seljuq, Khwarezm-Shah, and Il-Khanid dynasties. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "bridge") ...thin. Such technical insight revealed Maillart's deep understanding of how to work with reinforced concrete-an understanding that culminated in a series of masterpieces beginning with the 1930 Salginatobel Bridge, which, ...
(from the article "Salgotarjan") ...and 18th centuries. The nearby hills of Varhegy ("Castle Hill"), Karancs, and Boszorkanyko ("Witches' Crag") offer panoramic views. The ruined 13th-century Salgo Castle is on a basalt cone (2,050 ft ...
city of county status and seat of Nograd megye (county), north-central Hungary. It lies in the Tarjan River valley near the border with Slovakia and is surrounded by hills. Industrial ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Damascus") ...is well-known to be an ancient city, it remains unclear exactly when the oasis was first settled. Excavations in 1950 demonstrated that an urban centre existed in the 4th millennium ...
(from the article "Frank") ...a Germanic tribe living on the east bank of the lower Rhine River. Linguistically, they belonged to the Rhine-Weser group of Germanic-speakers. At this time they were divided into three ...
royal and imperial line that came to power with the election of a Salian Frank, Conrad of Swabia, as German king, after the Saxon dynasty of German kings and Holy ... [6 Related Articles]
the code of the Salian Franks who conquered Gaul in the 5th century and the most important, although not the oldest, of all Teutonic laws (leges barbarorum). The code was ... [3 Related Articles]
the rule by which, in certain sovereign dynasties, persons descended from a previous sovereign only through a woman were excluded from succession to the throne. Gradually formulated in France, the ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "igneous rock") ...45 percent. The subsilicic rocks, enriched as they are in iron (Fe) and magnesium (Mg), are termed femic (from ferrous iron and magnesium), whereas the silicic rocks are referred to ...
(from the article "Malpighiales") Salicaceae, Violaceae, Achariaceae, Malesherbiaceae, Turneraceae, Passifloraceae, and Lacistemataceae form a related group. Glands on the leaves are common; there are often three carpels; ovules are borne on the walls of ...
(from the article "pain") Extracts of the bark of the willow tree contain the active ingredient salicin and have been used since antiquity to relieve pain. The modern non-narcotic analgesic salicylates, such as aspirin ...
a white, crystalline solid that is used chiefly in the preparation of aspirin and other pharmaceutical products. The free acid occurs naturally in small amounts in many plants, particularly the ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "amphibian") ...The living members of frogs and salamanders are placed in the orders Anura and Caudata, respectively. To accommodate the earlier and now extinct proto-frogs and proto-salamanders, the group names Salientia ...
coastal village, western Yemen, on the Tihamah (coastal plain). It is situated in a cove of a promontory forming the southern coast of Kamaran Bay of the Red Sea and ...
(from the article "Thamud") The Qur'an mentions the Thamud as examples of the transitoriness of worldly power. Traditionally, the Thamud were warned by the prophet Salih to worship Allah, but the Thamud stubbornly refused ...
in ancient Arabia, a Christian tribe that was prominent during the 5th century AD. Although the Salih originated in southern Arabia, they began moving northward about AD 400, finally settling ...
(from the article "Barghawatah") ...the Umayyad caliph in 740-742, seizing Tangier and defeating Umayyad armies from Spain in the Battle of the Nobles (740). Shortly afterward the rebellion was suppressed, but a new leader, ...
(from the article "Islamic arts") ...of lower officials and of the bourgeoisie, if not even of the humbler classes, that was responsible for the most interesting Fatimid buildings. The mosques of al-Aqmar (1125) and of ...
Yemeni military officer who led a coup against the government of North Yemen in 1962 and who became president in 1978; in 1990 he became president of a reunified Yemen. [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "Somalia") ...rite of the Sunnite sect of Islam. Various Muslim orders (tariqa) are important, especially the Qadiriyah, the Ahmadiyah, and the Salihiyah.role in Somalian history
(Latin: "Dancers"), in ancient Italy, a priesthood usually associated with the worship of Mars, the god of war. Chapters of the priesthood existed in Rome and in other central Italian ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Palau") In 1985 volatile internal politics resulted in the assassination of the first president, Haruo I. Remeliik. In August 1985 Lazarus E. Salii was elected to serve out the four-year term ...
(from the article "Ethiopian literature") ...expressions even appeared in royal chronicles. About 1600, nevertheless, a few substantial works in Ge'ez appeared, including Hawi, an enormous theological encyclopaedia translated by Salik of Debre Libanos; a History ...
(from the article "Indian philosophy") ...of India. The great philosophers Mimamsakas Kumarila (7th century), Prabhakara (7th-8th centuries), Mandana Misra (8th century), Salikanatha (9th century), and Parthasarathi Misra (10th century) belong to this age. The greatest ...
(from the article "fungus") ...saprobic, often found in polluted waters; thallus contains cellulin plugs, usually branched and inflated; example genus is Rhipidium.Marine, parasitic on prawns and lobsters; mycelia penetrate exoskeleton; example genus is ...
Italian Franciscan friar and historian whose Cronica is an important source for the history of Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, in the 13th century. [1 Related Articles]
school of Muslim theologians founded by the Muslim scholar and mystic Sahl at-Tustari (d. AD 896). The school was named after one of his disciples, Muhammad ibn Salim (d. AD ...
city, seat (1859) of Saline county, central Kansas, U.S. It lies on the Smoky Hill River. Founded in 1858 by an antislavery group headed by William A. Phillips, it was ...
(from the article "Silurian Period") ...is most effective under warm, arid climate conditions commonly found at latitudes of about 30° or less. Distributed through parts of Michigan, Ohio, and New York, strata from the Upper ...
second largest of the Eolie Islands (Lipari Islands), in the Tyrrhenian Sea (of the Mediterranean) off northeastern Sicily. It has an area of 10 square miles (26 square km).
(from the article "Decadentism") ...Benedetto Croce attacked the movement early in the 20th century. Its reputation was somewhat restored by Walter Binni after World War II, only to fall again under the attack of ...
city, seat (1872) of Monterey county, western California, U.S. It lies in the Salinas Valley just east of Monterey Bay. The site, at a crossroads on El Camino Real (the ...
(from the article "San Andres Mountains") ...Grande for 150 miles (241 km), through Socorro, Sierra, and Dona Ana counties in southern New Mexico, U.S. Spanish missionaries named the mountains for Saint Andrew, the disciple of Jesus. ...
Spanish poet, scholar, dramatist, and essayist who was one of the outstanding writers of the Generation of 1927, an influential group of poets that included Jorge Guillen and Federico Garcia ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Bolivia") The death of Barrientos in early 1969 brought the vice president, Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, into office; he was forcibly replaced in midyear by General Alfredo Ovando Candia, who nationalized ...
(from the article "Mexico") ...killing of at least a dozen demonstrators in Mexico City on June 10, 1971-when the Supreme Court ruled that the crime of genocide was not applicable in cases originating before ...
(from the article "playa") Saline flats are specialized forms located adjacent to large bodies of water, as, for example, along coasts, lakeshores, and deltas. They flood during storms, either with surface runoff or with ...
(from the article "Chemistry of representative closed-basin, saline lake waters") Saline lakes (i.e., bodies of water that have salinities in excess of 3 grams per litre) are widespread and occur on all continents, including Antarctica. Saline lakes include the largest ...
(from the article "laxative") ...The bulk laxatives include the hydrophilic (water-attracting) colloids, which consist of indigestible fibrous matter such as dietary fibre, agar, psyllium (plantago) seed, and methylcellulose. Saline purgatives draw water into the ...
U.S. writer whose novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951) won critical acclaim and devoted admirers, especially among the post-World War II generation of college students. His entire corpus of ... [3 Related Articles]
American journalist and political figure (b. June 14, 1925, San Francisco, Calif.-d. Oct. 16, 2004, Cavaillon, France), served as press secretary (1961-64) to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. ...
(from the article "Earth Sciences") Although evidence existed that the northern Atlantic Ocean was becoming significantly less salty, scientists did not know how great the change in salinity would have to be in order to ...
(from the article "undersea exploration") Until the late 1950s, salinity was universally determined by titration. Since then, shipboard electrical conductivity systems have become widely used. Salinity-Temperature-Depth (STD) and the more recent Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) systems have ...
device used to measure the salinity of a solution. It is frequently a hydrometer that is specially calibrated to read out the percentage of salt in a solution.
(from the article "Sonderbund") ...The Sonderbund, led politically by Konstantin Siegwart-Muller of Luzern, took up arms in November 1847 and appealed for help from abroad, but neither its military organization, commanded by Johann Ulrich ...
city, seat (1755) of Rowan county, west-central North Carolina, U.S. It is situated near High Rock Lake, roughly midway between Greensboro (northeast) and Charlotte (southwest). Originally home to many Native ...
city, seat (1867) of Wicomico county, southeastern Maryland, U.S., at the head of the Wicomico River in the south-central part of the Delmarva Peninsula, south of the Delaware state line. ... [1 Related Articles]
district, administrative and historic county of Wiltshire, southern England, centred on the historic city of Salisbury and occupying the southern part of the county. It is a predominantly rural area ... [1 Related Articles]
city in Salisbury district, administrative and historic county of Wiltshire, England, at the confluence of the Rivers Avon and Wiley. It has functioned historically as the principal town of Wiltshire ...
(from the article "building construction") ...test the skill of masons and carpenters: the spire. The spire was more a symbol of local pride than a part of the theological quest for more light, but it ...
(from the article "geochronology") ...are chemical precipitates from the primordial ocean. It was this latter observation that finally rendered the Neptunist theory unsustainable. Hutton observed that basaltic rocks exposed in the Salisbury Craigs, just ...
one of Great Britain's best-known open spaces, consisting of a plateaulike area covering about 300 square miles (775 square km), in the county of Wiltshire, England. The largely treeless tract, ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Edward III") An attractive sidelight in the play, unhistorical and so engaging that it is a sentimental favourite among critics to have been written by Shakespeare, is the wooing by Edward III ...
American author and journalist who as a foreign correspondent played a major role in interpreting the Soviet Union to English-speaking readers. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1955 for international ... [1 Related Articles]
British statesman and Conservative politician whose recommendations on defense became the basis of the British military organization until after World War II. [1 Related Articles]
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