(from the article "Saatchi, Charles") ...Jewish family and was still a preschooler when his family emigrated from Iraq to London. By age 18 he had begun to work as a copywriter in the advertising business. ...
Iraq-born British advertising executive who is perhaps best known as a collector of contemporary art. His brother Maurice (b. June 21, 1946, Baghdad), was a full partner in his ...
(from the article "The British Election of 2005") Lord Saatchi, the joint chairman of the Conservative Party, acknowledged after the election that the party had concentrated too much on specific populist issues such as tighter immigration controls and ...
Spanish diplomat and man of letters, best known for his anti-Machiavellian emblem book, the Idea de un principe politico cristiano (1640; The Royal Politician), which urged a return to traditional ...
Argentine jurist who in 1936 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for his part in ending the Chaco War (1932-35), fought between Bolivia and Paraguay over the northern part ...
Spanish poet, dramatist, and politician, whose fame rests principally on his play Don Alvaro, o la fuerza del sino ("Don Alvaro, or the Power of Fate"), which marked the triumph ...
(from the article "Valparaiso") Valparaiso was founded in 1536 by a conquistador, Juan de Saavedra, who named it for his birthplace in Spain. Colonial buildings have survived a succession of pirate raids, severe storms, ...
(from the article "Somalia") ...subclans, combine at a higher level to form clan families. The clan families inhabiting the interfluvial area of southern Somalia are the Rahanwayn and the Digil, which together are known ...
(from the article "Arabia") ...interior valley cleaving through the jawl, with its lower course reaching the sea under the name Wadi Al-Masilah. In the interior the sand desert of Ramlat As-Sab'atayn ...
island of the Netherlands Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. It lies 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Sint Eustatius, with which it forms the northwestern termination of the inner volcanic ... [6 Related Articles]
kingdom in pre-Islamic southwestern Arabia, frequently mentioned in the Bible (notably in the story of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba) and variously cited by ancient Assyrian, Greek, and ... [10 Related Articles]
city, Barcelona provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Catalonia, northeastern Spain. The city, just north of Barcelona, originated as an Iberian ...
city, Fukui ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, in the northern end of the Takefu basin. The city first formed around the Buddhist Josho temple and became a post town after 1720. ...
(from the article "Sabaean") member of a people of South Arabia in pre-Islamic times, founders of the kingdom of Saba' (q.v.), the biblical Sheba.major reference
(from the article "South Arabic language") Minaean, Sabaean, Qatabanian, and Hadramawtian are the four known South Arabic dialects of ancient times. The earliest South Arabic inscriptions, dating from the 8th century BCE, are in the Minaean ...
state of East Malaysia, forming the northern part of the great island of Borneo, and bordered by Sarawak (southwest) and Kalimantan, or Indonesian Borneo (south). Sabah has an 800-900-mile- (1,290-1,450-km-) ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Kuwait") ...of the Arabian Peninsula, migrated to the area that is now Kuwait. The foundation of the autonomous sheikhdom of Kuwait dates from 1756, when the settlers decided to appoint a ...
(from the article "Kuwait") Area: 17,818 sq km (6,880 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 3,294,000 | Capital: Kuwait | Head of state and government: Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah, assisted ...
Kuwaiti royal as a member of the ruling Sabah family, held a variety of government posts, including minister of the interior (1961-77), minister of defense (1965-77), and prime minister (1978-2003). ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Kuwait") Area: 17,818 sq km (6,880 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 3,294,000 | Capital: Kuwait | Head of state and government: Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah, assisted ...
(from the article "Arabic literature") The Kuwaiti poet Su'ad al-Sabah expresses her frustration with the continued echoes of the earlier tradition:I'm bored by ghazal of the dead&elipsis; Sitting down for dinner each ...
(from the article "Turkish literature") Sabahattin Ali was probably the most powerful and effective of the 20th-century short-story writers in Turkey who addressed social themes. He was born into a military family in northern Greece, ...
(from the article "Ottoman Empire") ...where they helped prepare the ground for revolution by developing a comprehensive critique of the Hamidian system. The most noteworthy among these were Murad Bey, Ahmed Riza, and Prince Sabaheddin. ...
(from the article "palm") ...Queensland, Australia, the cassowary ingests fruits and disperses seeds of several rainforest palms (Calamus and Linospadix). The black bear (Ursus americanus) disperses Sabal, Rhapidophyllum hystrix, and Serenoa repens in Florida, ...
(from the article "palm") The earliest fossils of palms are leaves of Sabal magothiensis and stems of Palmoxylon cliffwoodensis from the Late Cretaceous, about 80 million years ago. By the middle of the Maastrichtian, ...
(from the article "Ardabil") town, northwestern Iran, 38 miles (61 km) from the Caspian Sea. It stands on an open plain 4,500 feet (1,400 metres) above sea level, just east of Mount Sabalan (15,784 ...
(from the article "Andes Mountains") ...of the Sumapaz Upland the range divides into two, enclosing a large plain 125 miles wide and 200 miles long, often interrupted by small transverse chains that form several upland ...
Turkish businessman and philanthropist (b. April 7, 1933, Akcakaya, Kayseri, Turkey-d. April 10, 2004, Istanbul, Turkey), was regarded as the wealthiest man in Turkey. Known affectionately as "Sakip Aga" (a ...
kotamadya (city) and free port, Aceh semiautonomous province, Indonesia. It is situated on the northeastern coast of We Island, off the northern tip of Sumatra. Sabang lies at the northern ...
(from the article "Serer") ...including tree crops. Cattle, sheep, and goats are tended, and trade, conducted in regular markets, is well-developed. Like the Wolof, the Serer are noted for playing the
(from the article "Indian philosophy") ...of benefits for oneself. According to Jaimini, Vedic injunctions do not merely prescribe actions but also recommend these actions as means to the attainment of desirable goals. For both Jaimini ...
city, east-central Minas Gerais estado (state), southern Brazil. It is located on the Velhas River, east of Belo Horizonte, the state capital, at an elevation of 2,313 ...
(from the article "Gujarat") ...outskirts of Ahmadabad (Ahmedabad), the former capital, largest city in the state, and one of the greatest cotton-textile centres in India. It was there that Mahatma Gandhi built his Sabarmati ...
Christian Palestinian monk, champion of orthodoxy in the 5th-century controversies over the nature of Christ. He founded the monastery known as the Great Laura of Mar Saba, a renowned community ...
(from the article "Baseball") ...to Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins. Milwaukee's Ryan Braun was narrowly voted NL Rookie of the Year over Colorado shortstop Troy Tulowitzki. Beckett topped AL pitchers with 20 victories; however, C.C. ...
(from the article "Baudelaire, Charles") Between 1852 and 1854 Baudelaire addressed a number of poems to Apollonie Sabatier, celebrating her, despite her reputation as a high-class courtesan, as his madonna and muse, and in 1854 ...
French Protestant theologian and educator who helped popularize biblical interpretation by applying methods of historical criticism. He also promoted the development of liberal Protestant theology and the Roman Catholic Modernist ...
French organic chemist and corecipient, with Victor Grignard, of the 1912 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for researches in catalytic organic synthesis, in particular for discovering the use of nickel as ... [1 Related Articles]
Argentine novelist, journalist, and essayist whose novels are notable for their concern with philosophical and psychological issues and whose political and social studies were highly influential in Argentina in the ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "religious symbolism and iconography") ...Particular parts of the body and symbolical objects may also be sculpturally represented. They may be the male and female sexual organs (e.g., the linga-yoni in Hinduism); the hand of ...
(from the article "witchcraft") ...accomplish magical deeds, and to desecrate the crucifix and the consecrated bread and wine of the Eucharist (Holy Communion). It was also believed that they rode through the air at ...
doctrine of those Christians who believe that Sunday (the Christian Sabbath) should be observed in accordance with the Fourth Commandment, which forbids work on the Sabbath because it is a ...
(from shavat, "cease," or "desist"), day of holiness and rest observed by Jews from sunset on Friday to nightfall of the following day. The time division follows the biblical story ... [9 Related Articles]
(from the article "Middle Eastern religion") ...cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease" (Genesis 8:22). But since the seasonal pattern is not dependable, the need for order evoked a system of ...
(from the article "teaching") Leaves of absence are also more frequent than in other occupations. The sabbatical leave is a widespread practice among universities and is even available in some school systems. Formerly a ...
(from the article "millennialism") To delay the End and reap the benefits of nonapocalyptic millennialism, theologians placed great weight on the idea of a "sabbatical" millennium. Combining Genesis 1 (six days of travail, then ...
Italian architect and engineer who pioneered in theatrical perspective techniques. He worked in Pesaro, where he designed the Teatro del Sole, and possibly in Ravenna and Modena. [2 Related Articles]
(Sanskrit: "sound"), in Indian philosophy, verbal testimony as a means of obtaining knowledge. In the orthodox philosophical systems (darsana), sabda is equated with the authority of the Vedas (most ancient ...
(from the article "Bhartrhari") ...of the Vakyapadiya ("Words in a Sentence"), regarded as one of the most significant works on the philosophy of language, earning for him a place for all time in the ...
Christian heresy that was a more developed and less naive form of Modalistic Monarchianism (see Monarchianism); it was propounded by Sabellius (fl. c. 217-c. 220), who was possibly a presbyter ... [4 Related Articles]
group of minor Italic dialects spoken in central and southern Italy, closely related to the Oscan language (q.v.). Those dialects spoken by the Paeligni, Marrucini, and Vestini are considered North ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Calixtus I, Saint") ...Hippolytus, who attempted to supplant him and who accused him of favouring modalist, or Patripassian, doctrines, both before and after his election. (Calixtus, however, condemned and excommunicated Sabellius [fl. c. ...
(from the article "Afghanistan") Afghanistan has few lakes of any considerable size. The two most important are the Saberi (a salt flat that occasionally is inundated) in the southwest and the saline Lake Istadeh-ye ...
town, southwestern Libya, in a Saharan oasis. It was an active caravan centre from the 11th century. The modern town of stark white buildings and wide streets is surrounded by ... [1 Related Articles]
("assembly"), important unit of self-government in Hindu society. It is basically an association of persons who have common interests, such as members of the same endogamous groups, but may also ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "South Asian arts") ...of a house, to the accompaniment of two drummers, an instrumentalist, and a singing chorus with leader. After songs in praise of Lord Buddha and others (including the patron of ...
(from the article "Japan") ...in all manner of artistic representation. Closely related are the twin ideals of cultivated simplicity and poverty (wabi) and of the celebration of that which is old and faded (sabi). ...
river of southeastern Africa, flowing through Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The river rises as the Sabi about 50 miles (80 km) south of Harare (formerly Salisbury) and flows southeast from the ... [2 Related Articles]
Canadian feminist leader who rallied more than 30 women's lobbying groups that pressured Canada into establishing the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, which resulted in the founding in ...
only family in the order Sabiales, with 3 genera and about 100 species of evergreen trees or lianas native to tropical America and Southeast Asia to Malesia. It belongs among ...
(from the article "Islam") ...in the 3rd century), Zoroastrian (members of a monotheistic, but later dualistic, religion founded by Zoroaster, a 7th-century-BC Iranian prophet), Indian (Hindu and Buddhist, primarily), and Sabian (star worshippers of ...
(from the article "Sabine, Wallace Clement") ...the product of the reverberation time multiplied by the total absorptivity of the room is proportional to the volume of the room is known as Sabine's law, and a unit ...
(from the article "In Sight: A World Without Polio") ...fully immunized against polio in order to stop the chain of person-to-person transmission. The GPEI's strategy was straightforward: vaccinate every child under age five with three or four doses of ...
Polish American physician and microbiologist best known for developing the oral polio vaccine. He was also known for his research in the fields of human viral diseases, toxoplasmosis, and cancer. [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Josephus, Flavius") In AD 64 Josephus was sent on an embassy to Rome to secure the release of a number of Jewish priests of his acquaintance who were held prisoners in the ...
member of an ancient Italic tribe located in the mountainous country east of the Tiber River. They were known for their religious practices and beliefs, and several Roman institutions were ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Red River Campaign") ...of a river fleet commanded by Admiral David Dixon Porter, took Fort DeRussy and the town of Alexandria, La. However, Confederate troops under General Richard Taylor confronted the Union forces ...
river in the southwestern United States, rising in northeastern Texas and flowing southeast and south, broadening near its mouth to form Sabine Lake, and continuing from Port Arthur through Sabine ...
(from the article "gull") ...a grayish brown mantle. Ross's gull (Rhodostethia rosea) is an attractive pinkish white bird that breeds in northern Siberia and wanders widely over the Arctic Ocean. Abounding in the Arctic, ...
(from the article "Sabine, Wallace Clement") ...Sabine was asked to find a remedy. His discovery that the product of the reverberation time multiplied by the total absorptivity of the room is proportional to the volume of ...
English astronomer and geodesist noted for his experiments in determining the shape of the Earth and for his studies of the Earth's magnetic field. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Sabine River") ...Texas and the Louisiana Coastal Plain. The Sabine has successively served as a boundary between the territories of France, Spain, the United States, and Mexico, and between Texas and Louisiana. ...
extinct volcano (11,500 feet [3,505 m]) in the Virunga Mountains of east-central Africa. It lies northeast of Lake Kivu and south-southeast of Rutshuru, Congo (Kinshasa). Its summit marks the junction ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Chishtiyah") ...provinces of Rajputana, the Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh. From the 14th century, these monasteries were provincial institutions where various branches of the order took root, notably the Sabiriyah branch in ...
(Arabic), saline flat or salt-crusted depression, commonly found along the coasts of North Africa and Saudi Arabia. Sabkhahs are generally bordered by sand dunes and have soft, poorly cemented but ... [3 Related Articles]
(Martes zibellina), graceful carnivore of the weasel family, Mustelidae, found in the forests of northern Asia and highly valued for its fine fur. The common name is sometimes also applied ... [2 Related Articles]
(Hippotragus niger), handsome antelope, family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla), that lives in herds in forests of southern Africa. Like the related roan antelope (H. equinus), the sable antelope is a graceful ... [1 Related Articles]
gently curving sandbar in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, 110 mi (180 km) southeast of Cape Canso. It is treeless, about 20 mi long and ...
(from the article "La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI, Duke de") Yet in 1655 his literary endeavours were still before him. Thanks to the lasting and intellectually stimulating friendships with Mme de Sable, one of the most remarkable women of her ...
(from the article "Pays de la Loire") The coastal areas of the region boast a number of popular tourist resorts such as Les Sables d'Olonne in Vendee, which is said to have one of ...
(from the article "La Fontaine, Jean de") ...superintendent of finance. From 1664 to 1672 he served as gentleman-in-waiting to the dowager duchess of Orleans in Luxembourg. For 20 years, from 1673, he was a member of the ...
French singer and songwriter (b. March 25, 1906, Nogent-sur-Marne, near Paris, France--d. Feb. 24, 1994, Cannes-la-Bocca, France), was an elegant crooner whose matinee-idol looks (enhanced by his trademark thinly clipped ...
(from the article "Nagodba") ...empire, was merged with Slavonia and placed under Hungarian jurisdiction. Although many Croats who sought full autonomy for the South Slavs of the empire objected to that arrangement, a Croatian ...
heavy work shoe worn by European peasants, especially in France and the Low Countries. There are two kinds of sabots: one is shaped and hollowed from a single piece of ...
(from the article "artillery") ...of tungsten led to their abandonment after 1942. In 1944 Britain perfected "discarding-sabot" projectiles, in which a tungsten core was supported in a conventional gun by a light metal sabot ...
deliberate destruction of property or slowing down of work with the intention of damaging a business or economic system or weakening a government or nation in a time of national ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "sabot") Variations of the sabot-wooden-soled shoes topped with a variety of materials such as leather and suede-became popular in the second half of the 20th century. The sabotine was a makeshift ...
(from the article "maqam") ...is without acquisitiveness; (4) the maqam of faqr (poverty), in which he asserts his independence of worldly possessions and his need of God alone; (5) the maqam of sabr (patience), ...
(from the article "Palestine") ...Despite these guarantees, however, after Israeli troops had occupied West Beirut, the Phalangists, Israel's rightist Lebanese allies, were allowed by Israeli forces into the Beirut refugee camps of Sabra and ...
western-most of the three cities of ancient Tripolis, located near the modern town of Sabratah, west of Tripoli, in Libya. Founded by the Carthaginians as a trading post, it was ... [1 Related Articles]
heavy military sword with a long cutting edge and, often, a curved blade. Most commonly a cavalry weapon, the sabre was derived from a Hungarian cavalry sword introduced from the ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "saw") ...home handymen. With the proper blade it can cut almost any material-wood, metals, plastics, fibreglass, cement block, slate, and brick. On wood it can rip, crosscut, and make angle cuts. ...
any of the extinct catlike carnivores belonging either to the extinct family Nimravidae or the subfamily Machairodontinae of the cat family (Felidae). Named for the pair of elongated, bladelike canine ... [1 Related Articles]
