(from the article "Olympic Games") Scandal and fears of terrorism marked the 2002 Games long before the Olympic torch arrived in Salt Lake City. In November 1998 the first allegation of bribery and misuse of ...
(from the article "Utah, University of") ...is the university's Health Sciences Center. The University of Utah houses the state's Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Natural History, and Red Butte Garden (arboretum). The campus has a ...
area of low, flat, poorly drained ground that is subject to daily or occasional flooding by salt water or brackish water and that is covered with a thick mat of ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "water snake") The salt marsh snake (N. clarkii) lives in the brackish water habitats of the southeastern United States, and adults typically grow to 0.3-0.7 metre (1-2 feet) long. ...
(from the article "Morozov, Boris Ivanovich") ...In order to reduce government expenditures, Morozov dismissed a number of officials and lowered the pay of many others, including the military. He also instituted state monopolies on tobacco and ...
tiny particle in the atmosphere that is composed of a salt, either solid or in an aqueous solution; it promotes the condensation of water and thus is one form of ...
(from the article "salt dome") ...the broadest sense, the term includes both the core of salt and the strata that surround and are "domed" by the core. Similar geologic structures in which salt is the ...
series of hills and low mountains between the valleys of the Indus and Jhelum rivers, located in the northern part of the Punjab region of Pakistan. It derives its name ... [2 Related Articles]
tributary of the Gila River, east-central Arizona, U.S. The Salt River is formed at the confluence of the Black and White rivers on a plateau in eastern Gila county. It ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Arizona") ...available. To do this, central Arizona agricultural interests developed plans for large water-storage and flood-control systems that included expensive dams and extensive canal systems. The Salt River Project, completed in ...
(from the article "Phoenix") ...Arizona, U.S. It lies along the Salt River in the south-central part of the state, about 120 miles (190 km) north of the Mexico border and midway between El Paso, ...
(from the article "Djelfa") ...from the Prophet Muhammad. The area is notable for its abundance of Neolithic rock carvings dating from 7000 to 5000 BC. North of Djelfa town there is an imposing physical ...
(from the article "salt") Salt contributes greatly to our knowledge of the ancient highways of commerce. One of the oldest roads in Italy is the Via Salaria (Salt Route) over which Roman salt from ...
(from the article "food preservation") ...8 to 10 percent during the first week and is increased 1 percent a week thereafter until the solution reaches 16 percent. Under properly controlled conditions the salted, fermented cucumber, ...
(from the article "swamp") Salt swamps are formed by seawater flooding and draining, which exposes flat areas of intertidal land. Regularly flooded, protected areas develop mangrove swamps in tropical and subtropical regions. Mangroves will ...
(from the article "salt dome") ...the term includes both the core of salt and the strata that surround and are "domed" by the core. Similar geologic structures in which salt is the main component are ...
(from the article "boundary ecosystem") A salt wedge estuary has minimal mixing and the salt water forms a wedge, thickest at the seaward end, tapering to a very thin layer at the landward limit (Figure ...
(from the article "Drake, Edwin Laurentine") ...stock in the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company, which gathered oil from ground-level seepages at Titusville, Pa., for medicinal uses. In Titusville on business, Drake studied the techniques of drilling salt ...
town, west-central Jordan. It is on the old main highway (often called the As-Salt Road) leading from Amman to Jerusalem. The town is situated in the Al-Balqa' highland, about 2,600-2,750 ...
(from the article "Saltaire") ...near Bradford in Airedale, in what is now Bradford metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England. It was created in 1853 by the industrialist Sir ...
(from the article "1969: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: William Goldman for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KidAdapted Screenplay: Waldo Salt for Midnight CowboyCinematography: Conrad Hall for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KidArt Direction: Herman Blumenthal, John ...
(from the article "harvest mouse") ...sea level to above the timberline in the northern Andes Mountains. They live in prairies, grassy fields with shrubs or trees, meadows, temperate and tropical forests, and cultivated fields. One, ...
provincia (province), northwestern Argentina. It is bounded to the southwest by Chile, to the north by Bolivia, and to the northeast by Paraguay. The provincial capital is ...
city, capital of Salta provincia (province), northwestern Argentina. It lies in the irrigated Andean valley of Lerma, on a headstream of the Salado River. It was founded ...
early planned industrial settlement near Bradford in Airedale, in what is now Bradford metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England. It was created in 1853 ...
medieval and Renaissance court dance and a folk dance of present-day Rome. In the 14th century the saltarello followed the estampie as an afterdance; a few examples survive in manuscript. ... [2 Related Articles]
town ("parish"), Caradon district, administrative and historic county of Cornwall, England. It lies near the English Channel coast, on the west shore of the Tamar estuary, on the opposite side ...
(from the article "locomotion") The locomotor pattern of saltation (hopping) is confined mainly to kangaroos, anurans (tailless amphibians), rabbits, and some groups of rodents in the vertebrates and to a number of insect families ...
(from the article "sand dune") Most of the sand carried by the wind moves as a mass of jumping (saltating) grains; coarser particles move slowly along the surface as creep and are kept in motion ...
(from the article "nervous system") ...of ion channels, which, upon stimulation, propagate the nerve impulse to the next node. In this manner the action potential jumps quickly from node to node along the fibre in ...
in architecture, type of residential building popular in colonial New England, having two stories in front and a single story in the rear and a double-sloped roof that is longer ...
(from the article "desert") ...migration corridors for salt-tolerant plants, and in some cases the drifting of buoyant seeds in ocean currents can provide a transport mechanism between coasts. For example, it is thought that ...
receptacle for table salt, usually made of metal or glass. Salt was taken from it with small spoons. From the Middle Ages until at least the 16th century, salt was ...
Austrian novelist and journalist, author of the children's classic and adult allegory Bambi, a sensitively told subjective story of the life of a wild deer.
(from the article "Literature") It was a good year for short-story offerings. James Salter, one of the few reigning American masters of short fiction, published Last Night, a new collection of short stories, in ...
city, capital of Coahuila estado (state), northeastern Mexico. It is located between Monterrey (east) and Torreon (west). Lying in a wide valley at the northern edge of ... [1 Related Articles]
organizing tactic employed by labour unions. To start the process, a union targets a nonunionized company and encourages some of its members to seek employment there. Once these "salts" have ...
(from the article "soap and detergent") To separate the glycerin from the soap, the pasty boiling mass is treated with brine. Contents of the kettle salt out, or separate, into an upper layer that is a ...
(from the article "liquid") The concept of solvation is often used to explain properties of aqueous solutions; one well-known property is the salting-out effect, in which the solubility of a nonelectrolyte in water is ...
(from the article "heraldry") ...If their number exceeds 10 and they are irregularly placed, the field is described as billette. The pall, or shakefork, is the upper half of a saltire (St. Andrew's cross) ...
city, northwestern Uruguay. It is situated on the left bank of the Uruguay River across from Concordia, Arg. Now Uruguay's second largest city (after Montevideo), Salto is the terminus for ...
town, eastern Paraguay. It is situated on the right bank of the Parana River at the Brazil-Paraguay border. Salto del Guaira is the site of one of the earliest colonial ...
saline lake, in the lower Colorado Desert, southern California, U.S. The area that is now the lake was formerly a salt-covered sink or depression (a remnant of prehistoric Lake Cahuilla) ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Basin and Range Province") The northern half of the province is called the Great Basin (q.v.). The Sonoran Desert (q.v.) section extends into Sonora, Mexico, while the Salton Trough extends to the Gulf of ...
(from the article "Watertown") city, Middlesex county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S., on the Charles River, just west of Boston. One of the four earliest Massachusetts Bay settlements, it was founded by a group led by ...
any of three naturally occurring nitrates, distinguished as (1) ordinary saltpetre, or potassium nitrate, KNO3; (2) Chile saltpetre, cubic nitre, or sodium nitrate, NaNO3; and (3) lime saltpetre, wall saltpetre, ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "organized labour") ...policy, social equality, and institutionalized autonomy for responsible, centralized, and comprehensive collective bargaining. In 1938, the peak associations of business and labour concluded the Saltsjobaden Agreement, in which, while affirming ...
(from the article "Bodo") ...Church and the Bodo Cathedral (Lutheran), a modern edifice (consecrated 1956). About 20 miles (30 km) from the town, at the southern side of Salt Fjord, is the narrow marine ...
(from the article "Anatolia") ...central regions, the earliest settlements were those of the Mangujakids, who came to exercise control over Divrigi (Tephrike), Erzincan (Keltzine), and Kemah (Camcha) until 1252; the Saltuqids, who ruled in ...
one of the few U.S. novelists who adopted the sophisticated cynicism, art-for-art's-sake credo, and other mannerisms of the European school of Decadents. In his time his novels were popular for ...
(from the article "fishing") The methods mentioned so far are all used in saltwater fishing also, fly fishing being perhaps the least used, although it has become increasingly popular in the second half of ...
(from the article "pearl") ...of both saltwater oysters and freshwater clams) are really fine pearls; pearls from other mollusks are reddish or whitish, porcellaneous, or lacking in pearly lustre. Jewelers commonly refer to saltwater ...
(from the article "Art and Art Exhibitions") The influence of the market continued unabated in 2007, culminating in a much-discussed New York magazine article by critic Jerry Saltz that posed the question on everyone's mind: "Has Money ...
(from the article "Saluda") In the late 17th and early 18th centuries the region was inhabited by Algonquian-speaking Saluda Indians; by the mid-18th century European settlers were well established there. Saluda county was formed ...
county, west-central South Carolina, U.S. The Saluda River and Lake Murray provide the northern boundary, and the western corner lies within Sumter National Forest. The county consists of a piedmont ...
river rising in the Blue Ridge Mountains, west-central South Carolina, U.S., in North and South forks, which join 10 miles (15 km) northwest of Greenville. The main stream flows southeastward ...
breed of hound whose ancestors may date to 7000 to 6000 BCE. Sacred to the Egyptians, who called it the "royal dog of Egypt," the saluki was used to hunt ...
in Roman religion, the goddess of safety and welfare, later identified with the Greek Hygieia (q.v.). Her temple on the Quirinal at Rome, dedicated in 302 BC, was the scene ...
island group of French Guiana, northeastern South America, in the Atlantic Ocean about 8 mi (13 km) northeast of Kourou, comprising three main islands: Royale, Saint-Joseph, and Diable, the site ...
(from the article "Perth") ...and replaced an earlier church on the site. There in 1559 John Knox preached an inflammatory sermon denouncing idolatry, as a result of which four monasteries in Perth were destroyed ...
(from the article "Vijayanagar") ...lasted until about 1485, when-at a time of pressure from the Bahmani sultan and the raja of Orissa-Narasimha of the Saluva family usurped power. By 1503 the Saluva dynasty had ...
town and episcopal see, Piemonte (Piedmont) region, northwestern Italy, at the foot of the Alps, southwest of Turin. The seat of the marquesses of Saluzzo from 1142 to 1548, it ...
city, major port and capital (since 1889) of Bahia estado (state), northeastern Brazil. The country's third largest city, it is situated at the southern tip of a ... [2 Related Articles]
French entertainer enjoyed a lengthy career as a singer and songwriter, with a musical range that included French chansons, jazz, novelty songs, and children's songs. In the 1930s Salvador played ...
(from the article "Brassicales") ...flowers have the same number of sepals, petals, and stamens, and there are sometimes nectar glands alternating with the stamens. The fruit is fleshy, containing either seeds or a stone. ...
(from the article "Brassicales") Bataceae, Salvadoraceae, and Koeberliniaceae have in common ultrastructural features, the same base chromosome number, and flowers that lack a nectary and have only two carpels. They, and many other Brassicales, ...
in maritime law, the rescue of a ship or its cargo on navigable waters from a peril that, except for the rescuer's assistance, would have led to the loss or ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "insurance") ...losses after a bond is discontinued. When a new bond is put into effect, it can be written to cover losses that have occurred but are undiscovered before the effective ...
in religion, the deliverance of mankind from such fundamentally negative or disabling conditions as suffering, evil, finitude, and death. In some religious beliefs it also entails the restoration or raising ... [46 Related Articles]
international Christian religious and charitable movement organized and operated on a military pattern. The Army is established in more than 80 countries, preaching the gospel in about 112 languages in ... [17 Related Articles]
(from the article "Corbusier, Le") Le Corbusier constructed two other important buildings during this period, the Salvation Army Hostel in Paris, with its attempt at a "breathing" glass wall conceived as an unopenable glass surface ...
(from the article "Hellenistic religion") ...of a divine but fallen soul, which had to be redeemed by cultic activity and divine intervention. This view is illustrated in the concept of the paradoxical figure of the ...
the sage genus, containing more than 900 species of herbaceous and woody plants of the mint family (Lamiaceae), order Lamiales. Some members are important as sources of flavouring. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "evolution") ...and style (respectively, the male structure that produces the pollen and the female structure that bears the pollen-receptive surface, the stigma) in the upper lip, whereas S. ...
(from the article "evolution") ...and size of the genitalia. In plants, variations in flower structure may impede pollination. Two species of sage from California provide an example: The two-lipped flowers of
Italian glass manufacturer who helped reestablish Murano as a centre of Italian glassworking and was instrumental in stimulating European interest in brightly coloured, ornate pieces of Italian glass.
(from the article "Alnwick") ...rehabilitated in the 18th century under the direction of Robert Adam, and the surrounding park was landscaped by Capability Brown. Much of Adam's work in the Gothic style was replaced ...
(from the article "fern") ...which spreads quickly by its underground ropelike rhizome, rapidly invading abandoned fields and pastures in both temperate and tropical regions. One species of water spangles (Salvinia auriculata) became a major ...
(from the article "fern") ...in both temperate and tropical regions. One species of water spangles (Salvinia auriculata) became a major pest in India, blocking irrigation ditches and rice paddies. Another species (S. molesta) within ...
(from the article "fern") ...cells; 1 genus (Anemia) with about 100 species, mostly in the Neotropics.Plants heterosporous; stems usually relatively short, mostly appearing dichotomously branched, sometimes lacking roots;...water spangle
plant order containing two families of tiny ferns that float on water: Salviniaceae and Azollaceae, each consisting of one genus. Salvinia (water spangle, or floating moss) has about 10 species, ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Europe, history of") The principal Swedish diplomat at Westphalia, Johann Adler Salvius, complained to his government in 1646 thatpeople are beginning to see the power of Sweden as dangerous to the balance of ...
major stream of Southeast Asia and the longest in Myanmar (Burma). Rising in the T'ang-ku-la Mountains, a range of eastern Tibet, the river flows generally south for about 1,500 miles ... [4 Related Articles]
any of a series of Soviet space stations (of two designs), launched between 1971 and 1982, that served as living quarters and scientific laboratories or military reconnaissance platforms. The program ... [7 Related Articles]
Bundesland (federal state), west-central Austria. It is bordered by Bavaria (Germany) on the west and north and is bounded by the Bundeslander Oberosterreich on the north and east, Steiermark on ... [2 Related Articles]
city, capital of Salzburg Bundesland (federal state), north-central Austria. It is situated in a level basin on both sides of the Salzach River near the northern foothills of the Alps ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Salzburg") ...the 19th century, and in 1917 Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Richard Strauss, and Max Reinhardt founded the Festival Theatre Committee, which mounted a festival at Salzburg on an annual basis. The ...
(from the article "Salzburg") ...in the world. The trough formed by the upper Salzach and upper Enns rivers separates the Tauern mountain ranges to the south from the moderately high Kitzbuheler Alps and, farther ...
(from the article "puppetry") ...artistic quality for adult audiences. The marionettes of the Art Puppet Theatre in Munich, for instance, were striking exemplars of the German tradition in deeply cut wood carving. In Austria ...
city, Lower Saxony Land (state), north-central Germany. It lies in the foothills of the Harz Mountains, southwest of Braunschweig. The area covers the largest deposit of iron ...
sculptor, a prolific creator of figures for the Holy Week procession. He is considered by some authorities to be the greatest sculptor in 18th-century Spain and by others as merely ...
region, north-central Austria. The region consists mainly of the Traun River basin and is renowned for its lake and mountain scenery. Often called the Austrian "Lake District," it has more ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "police") ...of equipment carried by uniformed officers has grown considerably since the 1950s, when it basically consisted of a handgun in a holster, handcuffs, and a nightstick. The holster was attached ...
public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Huntsville, Texas, U.S. It is part of the Texas State University System. The university includes colleges of arts and sciences, business administration, criminal ...
(from the article "San Antonio") Military installations largely account for San Antonio's rapid growth after 1940. Fort Sam Houston (1879), inside the city, is the headquarters of the U.S. 5th Army and site of a ...
