(from the article "textual criticism") ...(1903) and Juvenal (1905) and in many reviews and articles. It flourished chiefly between 1875 and 1900, but the dangers of excessive methodological rigidity had already been foreseen. In 1841 ...
Hindu sect widely dispersed throughout India in the Gupta and medieval periods; its members worshiped Surya, the sun, as the supreme deity. Surya as the sun was worshiped by Indians ...
(from the article "match") In 1831 Charles Sauria of France incorporated white, or yellow, phosphorus in his formula, an innovation quickly and widely copied. In 1835 Janos Irinyi of Hungary replaced potassium chlorate with ...
(from the article "chondrostean") ...basal elements in number; jaw support almost vertical; teeth small. One family, Ptycholepididae; marine; presumably plankton feeders; Europe.Lower Triassic to Upper Jurassic. Elongate, slender; snout elongated; single dorsal fin ...
city, northeastern Angola. Located at an elevation of 3,557 feet (1,084 metres) above sea level, it is a garrison town and local market centre. Saurimo was formerly named after Henrique ...
any member of one of the two major lineages of dinosaurs, including birds and all dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to Triceratops. In 1888 paleontologist ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "seed and fruit") ...catfish Arius maculatus. Certain Amazon River fishes react positively to the audible "explosions" of the ripe fruits of Eperua rubiginosa. Fossil evidence indicates that saurochory is very ancient. The giant ...
any member of the dinosaur subgroup Sauropoda, marked by large size, a long neck and tail, a four-legged stance, and a herbivorous diet. These reptiles were the largest of all ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "dinosaur") Included in this group are the well-known sauropods, or "brontosaur" types, and their probable ancestral group, the prosauropods. All were plant eaters, though their relationship to theropods, along with the ...
any of the aquatic reptiles found as fossils from the Mesozoic Era (251 million to 66 million years ago). Sauropterygians include the nothosaurs, the pistosaurs, and the plesiosaurs, all of ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Piperales") ...used to be in its own family, Lactoridaceae) contains 480 species in 5-8 genera distributed in the tropics of both hemispheres, and several genera occur in the temperate zone. Hydnoraceae ...
any of four species of long, slim marine fishes of the family Scomberesocidae (order Atheriniformes). Sauries are small-up to about 35 cm (14 inches) long-and are characterized by beaklike but ...
meat product made of finely chopped and seasoned meat, which may be fresh, smoked, or pickled and which is then usually stuffed into a casing. Sausages of fish or poultry ...
(Kigelia africana), tropical tree, the only species of its genus (family Bignoniaceae). It grows 6 to 12 metres (20 to 40 feet) tall and bears sausagelike fruits, 30 to 60 ...
city, Marin county, western California, U.S. It lies along San Francisco Bay just north of San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge. It was founded in 1838 by William Richardson, ...
Swiss linguist whose ideas on structure in language laid the foundation for much of the approach to and progress of the linguistic sciences in the 20th century. [9 Related Articles]
Swiss chemist and plant physiologist whose quantitative experiments on the influence of water, air, and nutrients on plants laid the foundation for plant biochemistry. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "saussuritization") process by which calcium-bearing plagioclase feldspar is altered to a characteristic assemblage of minerals called saussurite; the typical assemblage formed includes zoisite, chlorite, amphibole, and carbonates. Residual fluids present during ...
process by which calcium-bearing plagioclase feldspar is altered to a characteristic assemblage of minerals called saussurite; the typical assemblage formed includes zoisite, chlorite, amphibole, and carbonates. Residual fluids present during ...
(from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") ...before King Tushratta. The Mitanni empire was known to the Egyptians under the name of Naharina, and Thutmose III fought frequently against it after 1460 BC. By 1420 the domain ...
(from the article "Bordeaux wine") The natural sweet wines, fruity with enduring rich flavour, of this district are usually considered among the world's finest. To achieve their quality the grapes are left until overripe on ...
French motion picture director (b. Feb. 23, 1924, Montrouge, near Paris, France-d. July 22, 2000, Paris), specialized in exploring the intimate lives of the contemporary French bourgeoisie, notably in such ...
ancient school of Buddhism that emerged in India about the 2nd century BC as an offshoot of the Sarvastivada ("All-Is-Real Doctrine"). The school is so called because of its reliance ... [1 Related Articles]
Spanish amateur geologist and archaeologist who excavated Altamira Cave (named a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1985), near Santillana, in northern Spain, ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "pottery") The wares of Niderviller, in Lorraine, were much influenced by those of Strasbourg. The later figures were probably modelled by the sculptor Charles Gabriel Sauvage, called Lemire (1741-1827), and some ...
(from the article "Erasmus, Desiderius") Erasmus' home base was now in Brabant, where he had influential friends at the Habsburg court of the Netherlands in Brussels, notably the grand chancellor, Jean Sauvage. Through Sauvage he ...
(from the article "internal medicine") ...by the imbalance of "humours," which was then the prevailing theory of disease causation. Sydenham's work created a framework for the classification of diseases, which was built upon by Francois ...
Canadian journalist and politician (b. April 26, 1922, Prud'homme, Sask.--d. Jan. 26, 1993, Montreal, Que.), was a respected print, radio, and television journalist before launching a political career in 1972 ...
Belgian-born American metallurgist whose microscopic and photomicroscopic studies of metal structures make him one of the founders of physical metallurgy.
(from the article "acoustics") ...lectures. In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, detailed studies of the relationship between frequency and pitch and of waves in stretched strings were carried out by the French ...
river in the western Balkans. Its basin, 36,960 square miles (95,720 square km) in area, covers much of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and northern Serbia. It rises in the Triglav group ... [3 Related Articles]
monk, founder, and first archbishop of the independent Serbian Orthodox church. His policy of recognizing the jurisdiction of the patriarch of Constantinople (now Istanbul) ensured the adherence of Serbian Christianity ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Pieman River") ...Murchison rivers. The 61-mile- (98-kilometre-) long main stream is fed by the Huskisson and Stanley rivers and then flows generally west to its estuary, which also receives the Donaldson, Whyte, ...
(from the article "Western architecture") ...stone portico; this determined the widespread utilization of the Gothic style. The first significant church to which the commissioners contributed, St. Luke's (1820-24), Chelsea, London, by James Savage, was splendidly ...
British-born Canadian politician and physician (b. May 28, 1932, Newport, Wales-d. May 13, 2003, N.S.), ended 17 years of Progressive Conservative rule when he was elected the Liberal premier of ...
(from the article "probability theory") ...The concept of utility goes back at least to Daniel Bernoulli (Jakob Bernoulli's nephew) and was developed in the 20th century by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, Frank P. ...
statesman who, as New Zealand's first Labour prime minister (1935-40), won public support for his administration's economic recovery and social-welfare programs. [1 Related Articles]
English poet and satirist and subject of one of the best short biographies in English, Samuel Johnson's An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage (1744). [1 Related Articles]
westernmost and largest island of Samoa, in the South Pacific Ocean. It is separated from Upolu to the east by the Apolima Strait. Savai'i is about 50 miles (80 km) ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "intelligence") Prior to the Islamic revolution of 1978-79 in Iran, SAVAK (Organization of National Security and Information), the Iranian secret police and intelligence service, protected the regime of the shah by ...
("TELLY"), U.S. actor (b. Jan. 21, 1924, Garden City, N.Y.--d. Jan. 22, 1994, Universal City, Calif.), specialized in portraying film villains before gaining international stardom as Lieut. Theo Kojak, television's ...
vegetation type that grows under hot, seasonally dry climatic conditions and is characterized by an open tree canopy (i.e., scattered trees) above a continuous tall grass understory. The largest areas ... [14 Related Articles]
(from the article "eastern Africa") As its name implies, the Savanna Stateless region also lacked states, but it was set off from the Eastern Rift region by the absence of circumcision and clitoridectomy. (This region, ...
(from the article "savanna") ...of the dry season. In wet savannas the dry season typically lasts 3 to 5 months, in dry savannas 5 to 7 months, and in thornbush savannas it is even ...
town and port, southwestern Jamaica, on an open bay at the mouth of the Cabarita River, west-northwest of Kingston. Chief exports are sugar, for which it has bulk-loading facilities, coffee, ...
industrial seaport city, seat (1777) of Chatham county, southeastern Georgia, U.S., at the mouth of the Savannah River. Savannah was established in 1733 by James Edward Oglethorpe, the founder of ... [3 Related Articles]
either of two historic U.S. ships, each representing a landmark in navigation. In 1819 the first Savannah, named for its home port in Georgia (although built in New York) became ... [1 Related Articles]
river formed by the confluence of the Tugaloo and Seneca rivers at Hartwell Dam, Georgia, U.S. It constitutes the boundary between Georgia and South Carolina as it flows southeastward past ...
(from the article "Aiken") The U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site, once a leading producer of nuclear weapons materials and now operating in a much-diminished capacity as a weapons materials processor, occupies much ...
town in the central southern panhandle of Laos, on the left bank of the Mekong River. It had a teacher-training school (1911), a public high school (1946), a Buddhist secondary ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Kishangarh painting") ...art were perhaps being done in Kishangarh at the end of the 17th century, the brilliant series of paintings on the Radha-Krishna theme were due largely to the inspiration of ...
tribe of eastern India. They are distributed mainly in the states of Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, and Bihar, with total numbers of about 310,000, most of whom are in ...
French Canadian priest, poet, novelist, and folklorist whose works show a strong Quebec nationalism and a love of the Canadian landscape. [1 Related Articles]
militant Hindu and Indian nationalist and leading figure in the Hindu Mahasabha ("Great Society of Hindus"), a Hindu nationalist organization and political party. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "acoustics") ...produced a sound wave of known frequency, using a rotating cog wheel as a measuring device. Further developed in the 19th century by the French physicist Felix Savart, and now ...
(from the article "Biot, Jean-Baptiste") In 1820 he and the physicist Felix Savart discovered that the intensity of the magnetic field set up by a current flowing through a wire is inversely proportional to the ...
(from the article "bassoon") ...as most semitones outside the natural scale of C were obtained by cross-fingerings opening the holes nonconsecutively. Keys were added from about 1780 to approximately 1840, when the Paris models ...
(Middle French: "old shoe"), French sport of fighting by kicking, practiced until the first half of the 19th century. It occurred mainly among the lower orders of Parisian society. When ... [1 Related Articles]
any of several independent, voluntary organizations that seek to provide both disaster and long-term aid to disadvantaged children throughout the world. The original organization was founded in Great Britain in ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Zimbabwe") ...Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) did not attend, but Tsvangirai and Mutambara met in public for the first time since the split in the MDC. From the meeting emerged ...
(from the article "Rome") ...basilica of Sta. Sabina, little altered since the 5th century, is lined with 24 magnificent matching Corinthian columns rescued out of Christian charity from an abandoned pagan temple or palace. ...
(from the article "Australia") ...all towns. At the same time, a distinctive Australian literature began to develop. The first Australian novel, Quintus Servinton (1830-31), was written by a convict, Henry Savery; ...
(from the article "insectivore") Insectivores make up almost 10 percent of all mammal species, and most are the size of mice or small rats. The white-toothed pygmy shrew (Suncus etruscus), however, weighs less than ...
(from the article "Literature") One of the most remarkable works of the year was unfortunately destined to be remembered also for the dangers to which it exposed its young author. Roberto Saviano's Gomorra focused ...
German jurist and legal scholar who was one of the founders of the influential "historical school" of jurisprudence. He advocated that the meaning and content of existing bodies of law ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "pratyaksa") ...Some schools make a further distinction between indiscriminate perception (nirvikalpaka), in which the object is perceived without its distinguishing features, and discriminate perception (savikalpaka), in which the distinguishing features are ...
(from the article "bandicoot rat") The lesser bandicoot rat (B. bengalensis) and Savile's bandicoot rat (B. savilei) have dark brown or brownish gray body fur, weigh up to 350 grams, and measure up to 40 ...
(from the article "Margunios, Maximus") A notable accomplishment in the advancement of learning was Margunios' collaboration with the Anglican classical scholar Sir Henry Savile in the 1613 standard edition of the complete works of St. ...
(from the article "juniper") ...This species is an invader of glades, pastures, prairies, and other open grassy areas in parts of its range; thus, it is considered a troublesome weed by some botanists and ...
(from the article "Kotor, Gulf of") ...gulf. At the strategic entrance to the gulf system is Hercegnovi, founded in 1382 and occupied at various times by Turks, Spaniards, Venetians, Russians, French, and Austrians. East of Hercegnovi ...
process of setting aside a portion of current income for future use, or the flow of resources accumulated in this way over a given period of time. Saving may take ... [11 Related Articles]
a savings and home-financing institution that makes loans for the purchase of private housing, home improvements, and new construction. Formerly cooperative institutions in which savers were shareholders in the association ... [1 Related Articles]
financial institution that gathers savings, paying interest or dividends to savers. It channels the savings of individuals who wish to consume less than their incomes to borrowers who wish to ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Metaphysical painting") ...Carra, who came under de Chirico's influence. In 1917 the two artists met in Ferrara, Italy, where, together with de Chirico's younger brother-a poet, musician, and painter known as Alberto ...
revolutionary who violently opposed both the imperial and the Soviet regimes in Russia. He wrote several pseudonymous novels based on his career as a terrorist.
U.S. protest leader who gave rise to the campus sit-in as the fiery speaker of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley, during the 1960s (b. Dec. ...
(from the article "Buddhism") ...became major figures. Notably, Supreme Wisdom (Prajnaparamita) is often personified as the Mother of All Buddhas, who is manifest especially in Maha Maya, the virgin mother of Shakyamuni. Tara, the ...
(from the article "Moscow") ...towers (19 with spires) were built at the end of the 15th century, when a host of Italian builders arrived in Moscow at the invitation of Ivan III (the Great). ...
(from the article "Estonia") ...its promises for a more ethical and caring government, although the public gave the party high marks for having implemented parental allowances for newborn children. The main political opposition, Edgar ...
(from the article "prayer") ...a whole series of hymns, such as the morning hymn addressed to Agni (the god of fire), who brings light, and to the two Asvin (twin gods of light). There ...
island in the eastern Solomon Islands, southwestern Pacific Ocean, just north of Guadalcanal. Rising to 1,673 feet (510 metres), the island is about 5 miles (8 km) long and 2 ...
(from the article "naval warfare") ...weapon; the advantages that should have accrued to the Americans at night from superior radar were largely squandered. Between August 1942 and July 1943, in the cruiser-destroyer battles of Savo ...
(from the article "Rhone-Alpes") region of France encompassing the southeastern departements of Loire, Rhone, Ain, Haute-Savoie, Savoie, Isere, Drome, and Ardeche. Rhone-Alpes is bounded by the
(from the article "Ice Skating") ...triple jumps and superb artistry that won a standing ovation from the crowd. Lysacek won the free skate with 150.44 points, which boosted his overall total to only 0.87 point ...
painter of the Brescian school whose style is marked by a quiet lyricism. Scholars believe, because of his preoccupation with clearly defined shapes in light, that Savoldo was influenced by ...
Cuban heavyweight boxer, who became the second fighter to win three Olympic gold medals in the same weight class and the first to capture six world amateur boxing titles. [3 Related Articles]
city and seaport, Liguria region, northwestern Italy, on the Riviera di Ponente, southwest of Genoa. First recorded as the Gallo-Roman town of Savo, an ally of Carthage against Rome in ...
tin-glazed earthenware made in the 17th and 18th centuries at Savona, Liguria, Italy, and at nearby Genoa and Albissola. It is painted in a highly individual and seemingly artless style. [1 Related Articles]
Italian Christian preacher, reformer, and martyr, renowned for his clash with tyrannical rulers and a corrupt clergy. After the overthrow of the Medici in 1494, Savonarola was the sole leader ... [12 Related Articles]
(from the article "turbine") Devices of this kind, which had not been used since the early Middle Ages, found a new application after the Finnish engineer S.J. Savonius invented a new type of rotor ...
French pile floor covering, usually large, whether made at the Savonnerie workshop or made in that manner and style. The Savonnerie factory (on the site of a former soap factory, ... [1 Related Articles]
any of a group of 6th-century-AD Jewish scholars who determined the final internal form of the Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli), a collection of authoritative interpretations and explanations of Jewish oral ... [2 Related Articles]
