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- group of young Russian writers formed in 1921 under the unsettled conditions of the early Soviet regime. Though they had no specific program, they were united in their belief that ... [5 Related Articles]
- Serapis
- Greco-Egyptian deity of the sun first encountered at Memphis, where his cult was celebrated in association with that of the sacred Egyptian bull Apis (who was called Osorapis when deceased). ... [7 Related Articles]
- Serb
- (from the article "Croatia") ...1990s, the new government under Prime Minister Ivo Sanader pursued a moderate agenda. One of the government's first actions was to initiate dialogue with political representatives of the country's Serb ...
- Serb Autonomous Region
- (from the article "Bosnia and Herzegovina") In 1991 several self-styled "Serb Autonomous Regions" were declared in areas of Bosnia with large Serb populations. Evidence emerged that the Yugoslav People's Army was being used to send secret ...
- Serb Republic
- (from the article "Bosnia and Herzegovina") An agreement negotiated in Dayton, Ohio, U.S., in November 1995 established Bosnia and Herzegovina as a state composed of two largely autonomous entities, the Republika Srpska (Bosnian Serb Republic) and ...
- Serbia
- country in the west-central Balkans. For most of the 20th century, it was a part of Yugoslavia. [16 Related Articles]
- Serbia
- (from the article "Dates of 2004") ...in 2014; there it will conduct investigations about the comet's chemistry and geology from orbit and by means of a small lander sent to its surface.June13
- Serbia and Montenegro
- Efforts by Serbia and Montenegro to begin the process of integration into Europe, address issues of the country's future status-including that of the restive province of Kosovo-face up to corruption ... [20 Related Articles]
- Serbia, flag of
- national flag containing three equal red, blue, and white horizontal stripes and, near the hoist, the Serbian coat of arms. Its width-to-length ratio is 2 to 3.
- Serbia, history of
- (from the article "Serbia") History
AustriaAustriaForeign policy, 1878-1908Explicitly excluded from the agreement with Russia were Balkan conflicts. When King Alexander of Serbia was
- Serbian Democratic Party
- (from the article "Bosnia and Herzegovina") ...were held in each of the country's six constituent republics. In Bosnia and Herzegovina the national parties-the Bosniac Party of Democratic Action (Stranka Demokratske Akcije; SDA), the Serbian Democratic Party ...
- Serbian literature
- the literature of the Serbs, a Balkan people speaking the Serbian language (still referred to by linguists as Serbo-Croatian). [7 Related Articles]
- Serbian Orthodox Church
- autocephalous, or ecclesiastically independent, member of the Eastern Orthodox communion, located primarily in Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. [7 Related Articles]
- Serbian Radical Party
- (from the article "Serbia and Montenegro") Public support for Serbian right-wing nationalists remained strong. According to several polls, the Serbian Radical Party of indicted war criminal Vojislav Seselj, which held the largest bloc of seats in ...
- Serbian Unity Party
- (from the article "fascism") ...attempted to weaken nationalist support for the SRS by allying himself with the notorious paramilitary leader Zeljko Raznjatovic (popularly known by his nom de guerre, Arkan) and his new Serbian ...
- Serbo-Bulgarian War
- (Nov. 14, 1885-March 3, 1886), military conflict between Serbia and Bulgaria, which demonstrated the instability of the Balkan peace settlement imposed by the Congress of Berlin (Treaty of Berlin, July ...
- Serbo-Croatian language
- South Slavic language that is the native language of most speakers in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia. It historically served as an important secondary language in Slovenia and ... [11 Related Articles]
- Serbo-Turkish War
- (1876-78), military conflict in which Serbia and Montenegro fought the Ottoman Turks in support of an uprising in Bosnia and Herzegovina and, in the process, intensified the Balkan crisis that ... [5 Related Articles]
- Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, Kingdom of
- Balkan state formed on December 1, 1918. Ruled by the Serbian Karadjordjevic dynasty, the new kingdom included the previously independent kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro and the South Slav territories ... [9 Related Articles]
- Serebriakoff, Victor
- British administrator (b. Oct. 17, 1912, London, Eng.-d. Jan. 1, 2000, Blackheath, near London), was the leader under whom (from 1954) Mensa, an organization founded in 1946 for people with ...
- Seredi, Jusztinian
- (from the article "Canon Law, Code of") ...4,000 from papal legislation; 11,200 from the norms of Roman congregations (the administrative bodies of the Roman Curia); and 800 from liturgical books. Between 1923 and 1939 Cardinal Gasparri and ...
- Seregni, Liber
- Uruguayan general and politician (b. Dec. 13, 1916, Montevideo, Uruguay-d. July 31, 2004, Montevideo), was a cofounder and the first president of Frente Amplio (FA), a leftist political party formed ...
- sereh
- (from the article "sugarcane") The sugarcane plant is subject to many diseases. Sereh, a blackening and degeneration of the fanlike tops, is caused by an East Indian virus. Mosaic, mottling or spotting of foliage ...
- Seremban
- town, West (Peninsular) Malaysia, on the Linggi River. It lies approximately 25 miles (40 km) inland from Port Dickson on the Strait of Malacca. The town originated as a tin-mining ...
- serenade
- originally, a nocturnal song of courtship, and later, beginning in the late 18th century, a short suite of instrumental pieces, similar to the divertimento, cassation, and notturno. An example of ... [2 Related Articles]
- serenata
- form of 18th-century vocal music combining many features of cantata, oratorio, and opera. Use of the term extends back at least to the 16th century. In its most general sense, ...
- Serendib
- name for the island of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). The name, Arabic in origin, was recorded in use at least as early as AD 361 and for a time gained considerable ...
- SERENDIP IV, Project
- (from the article "extraterrestrial intelligence") Other radio SETI experiments, such as Project SERENDIP IV (begun in 1997 by the University of California at Berkeley) and Australia's Southern SERENDIP (begun in 1998 by the University of ...
- Serengeti National Park
- national park and wildlife refuge on the Serengeti Plain in north-central Tanzania. It is partly adjacent to the Kenya border and is northwest of the adjoining Ngorongoro Conservation Area. It ... [1 Related Articles]
- Serengeti Plain
- (from the article "Tanzania") ...has been created by poor drainage and by the practice of burning for agriculture and animal grazing. Similarly, grassland appears where there is a lack of good drainage. For example, ...
- Sereni, Vittorio
- Italian poet, author, editor, and translator who was known for his lyric verse and for his translations into Italian of works by Pierre Corneille, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Valery, Rene Char, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Serenitatis Basin
- (from the article "Taurus-Littrow Valley") ...fountains" (eruptive gouts of lava) on the Moon. Sample analyses conducted on Earth interpreted the highland rocks as parts of the material excavated by the enormous impact that created the ...
- Sereno, Paul
- With the relish of a paleontologist unearthing a grungy but valuable fossil, Americans in 1993 blew the dust off the mystique of dinosaurs and made them into pop culture icons. ...
- Serenoa
- (from the article "palm") ...modern families of flowering plants. By the beginning of the Eocene Epoch, nearly 60 million years ago, palms were widespread and abundant. A diversity of genera, including Phoenix, Sabal, Serenoa, ...
- Serenoa repens
- (from the article "palm") ...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, U.S. Fruits of Euterpe ...
- Serer
- group of more than one million people of western Senegal and The Gambia who speak a language also called Serer, an Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo language family. [3 Related Articles]
- Serer language
- (from the article "Serer") group of more than one million people of western Senegal and The Gambia who speak a language also called Serer, an Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo language family.
- Serf, St.
- (from the article "Clackmannanshire") ...may have been the ancestors of the Picts who lived there afterward. Later the historic county was part of the district of Mannan, disputed land in central Scotland. Near the ...
- serfdom
- condition in medieval Europe in which a tenant farmer was bound to a hereditary plot of land and to the will of his landlord. The vast majority of serfs in ... [44 Related Articles]
- serge
- (from Latin serica, "silk"), fabric much-used for military uniforms, made in an even-sided twill weave and usually clear-finished-that is, the fibre ends on the surface of the cloth are sheared ...
- sergeant
- (from the article "military unit") ...units commanded by officers of progressively lower rank. The prototypical units are those of the army. The smallest unit in an army is the squad, which contains 7 to 14 ...
- sergeant at arms
- an officer of a legislative body, court of law, or other organization who preserves order and executes commands. In feudal England a sergeant at arms was an armed officer of ...
- Sergeant, John
- English Roman Catholic priest, notable for his criticisms of several of the leading thinkers of his time, including John Locke.
- sergeant-major
- (from the article "damselfish") ...(Hypsypops rubicundus), a bright orange California fish about 30 cm long; the beau gregory (Eupomacentrus leucostictus), a blue-and-yellow Atlantic species; and the sergeant major (Abudefduf saxatilis), a black-banded, bluish and ...
- sergeanty
- in European feudal society, a form of land tenure granted in return for the performance of a specific service to the lord, whether the king or another. Sergeants included artisans, ...
- Sergel, Johan Tobias
- (from the article "Western sculpture") The Swede Johan Tobias Sergel, court sculptor to the Swedish king Gustav III, and the Dane Bertel Thorvaldsen, who lived most of his life in Rome, were among the best ...
- Sergeyev, Konstantin Mikhailovich
- Russian ballet dancer and director long associated with the Kirov (now Mariinsky) Ballet as a premier danseur (1930-61) and as both artistic director and chief choreographer (1951-55; 1960-70). [1 Related Articles]
- Sergeyev, Nicholas
- Russian dancer and company manager of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, who re-created for several western European companies the many classical ballets that had been preserved in the Russian ...
- Sergipe
- smallest estado (state) of Brazil, located on the southern coast of that country's northeastern bulge into the Atlantic Ocean. It is bounded on the east by the Atlantic, on the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Sergius
- theologian and patriarch of Moscow and the Russian Orthodox church who, by his leadership in rallying the church membership in a united effort with the Soviet government to repel the ... [3 Related Articles]
- Sergius and Bacchus, Saints
- among the earliest authenticated and most celebrated Christian martyrs, originally commemorated in the Eastern and Western churches.
- Sergius and Bacchus, Saints
- among the earliest authenticated and most celebrated Christian martyrs, originally commemorated in the Eastern and Western churches.
- Sergius I
- Greek Orthodox theologian and patriarch of Constantinople (610-638), one of the most forceful and independent churchmen to hold that office, who not only supported the emperor Heraclius (610-641) in the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Sergius I, Saint
- pope from 687 to 701, one of the most important 7th-century pontiffs. [5 Related Articles]
- Sergius II
- pope from 844 to 847. [1 Related Articles]
- Sergius II
- patriarch of Constantinople (1001-19) who claimed the title of "ecumenical patriarch" against the objections of the papacy. He also supported for a time the continuing schismatical movement begun in 867 ...
- Sergius III
- pope from 904 to 911, during a scandalous period of pontifical history. [2 Related Articles]
- Sergius IV
- pope from 1009 to 1012. He became bishop of Albano, Papal States, about 1004. Elected to succeed Pope John XVIII, he was consecrated on July 31, 1009; he changed his ... [1 Related Articles]
- Sergius of Radonezh, Saint
- Russian Orthodox monk whose spiritual doctrine and social programs made him one of Russia's most respected spiritual leaders. His monastery of the Trinity became the Russian centre and symbol of ... [2 Related Articles]
- Sergius of Resaina
- (from the article "Aristotelianism") ...that there is only one nature in Jesus Christ) led to the foundation of Syriac centres of studies in the Persian and Byzantine empires, especially at Edessa (now Urfa, Tur.) ...
- Sergiyev Posad
- city, Moscow oblast (province), western Russia, northeast of Moscow city. The city developed around the fortified walls of the Trinity-St. Sergius monastery, which was founded there in 1337-40 by St. ...
- Seri
- a tribe of Mesoamerican Indians who live on Tiburon Island in the Gulf of California and on the adjacent mainland in Sonora. Their language seems to be related to the ... [4 Related Articles]
- Seri language
- (from the article "Mesoamerican Indian languages") ...and extended by others. Hokan included Shasta, Achumawi, Atsugewi, Chimariko, Karok, Yanan, Pomoan, Washoe, Esselen, Yuman, Salinan, and Chumashan. By 1891/92 it had been suggested that Yuman, Seri (3), and ...
- Seria
- town, Brunei, on the South China Sea, southwest of the national capital, Bandar Seri Begawan. It is the centre of an important petroleum-producing area that includes offshore wells. A tanker ...
- serial
- a novel or other work appearing (as in a magazine) in parts at intervals. Novels written in the 19th century were commonly published as serials. Many works by Charles Dickens, ... [5 Related Articles]
- serial bus
- (from the article "input/output device") ...For example, integrated drive electronics (IDE) and enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE) are common interfaces, or buses, for magnetic disk drives. A bus (also known as a port) can be ...
- serial endosymbiosis theory
- (from the article "protist") ...is the phenomenon of endosymbiosis, which in a broad sense might be considered an ecological factor in the very early evolution of organisms destined to comprise the eukaryotic kingdoms. The ...
- serial homology
- (from the article "evolution") Homology can be recognized not only between different organisms but also between repetitive structures of the same organism. This has been called serial homology. There is serial homology, for example, ...
- serial monogamy
- (from the article "monogamy") ...prevails in the Roman Catholic and Hindu prescriptions for marriage-or it may imply that persons are required to be monogamous but may change spouses repeatedly, a practice sometimes called serial ...
- serial murder
- the unlawful homicide of at least two people, carried out in a series over a period of time. Although this definition was established in the United States, it has been ...
- serial polygamy
- (from the article "social behaviour in animals") ...associated with polygamy. The mating of several animals of one sex with a single individual of the other sex tends to be associated in birds and mammals with great differences ...
- serial processing
- (from the article "computer science") Early file systems were always sequential, meaning that the successive records had to be processed in the order in which they were stored, starting from the beginning and proceeding down ...
- serial processing of information
- (from the article "intelligence, human") All of the cognitive theories described so far rely on what psychologists call the "serial processing of information," meaning that in these examples, cognitive processes are executed in series, one ...
- serial-access memory
- (from the article "information processing") ...types: random- and serial-, or sequential-, access. In random-access media (such as primary memory), the time required for accessing a given piece of data is independent of its location, while ...
- serialism
- in music, technique that has been used in some musical compositions roughly since World War I. Strictly speaking, a serial pattern in music is merely one that repeats over and ... [16 Related Articles]
- seriate fabric
- (from the article "igneous rock") Rocks that are unevenly grained, or inequigranular, are generally characterized either by a seriate fabric, in which the variation in grain size is gradual and essentially continuous, or by a ...
- seriation
- (from the article "human behaviour") ...relationships can exist within categories. This is illustrated by the ability to arrange similar objects according to some quantified dimension, such as weight or size. This ability is called seriation. ...
- Seric steel
- (from the article "technology, history of") ...and thus to produce a coat of steel. Such case-hardened iron could be further heated, hammered, and tempered to make knife and sword blades of high quality. The very best ...
- sericea lespedeza
- (from the article "lespedeza") ...with alfalfa). Two of the most widely used annual species are the common lespedeza (L. striata) and the Korean lespedeza (L. stipulacea), both native to Asia. A perennial species, the ...
- sericin
- (from the article "silk") ...insect emerge from the spinneret, a single exit tube in the head, hardening upon exposure to air and forming twin filaments composed of fibroin, a protein material. A second pair ...
- sericite
- (from the article "sericite") fine-grained variety of either of the silicate minerals muscovite and paragonite (qq.v.).micamicaPhysical properties...of the m
- sericulture
- (from the article "natural fibre") ...Reports of the spinning of cotton in India date back to 3000 BC. The manufacture of silk and silk products originated in the highly developed Chinese culture; the invention and ...
- seriema
- South American bird of grasslands, constituting the family Cariamidae (order Gruiformes). There are two species, both restricted to southern-central South America. The red-legged, or crested, seriema (Cariama cristata), with long ... [1 Related Articles]
- series circuit
- (from the article "electric circuit") ...circuit carries current that flows only in one direction. An alternating-current circuit carries current that pulsates back and forth many times each second, as in most household circuits. A series ...
- series limit
- (from the article "spectral line series") ...through which the beam of radiation enters the device). These images, in the form of lines, appear to have a regularity in spacing, coming closer together toward the shortest wavelength, ...
- series magnetic circuit
- (from the article "magnetic circuit") ...a portion of the device and part to another, the magnetic circuit is called parallel. If all the flux is confined to a single closed loop, as in a ring-shaped ...
- series motor
- (from the article "electric motor") Another form of commutator motor is the series motor in which the field coils, with relatively few turns, carry the same current as does the armature. With a high value ...
- series ohmmeter
- (from the article "ohmmeter") ...to be measured may be connected to the instrument in parallel or in series. If in parallel (parallel ohmmeter), the instrument will draw more current as resistance increases. If in ...
- serif
- (from the article "typography") ...typographers have long been attracted to the clean and uncluttered look of so-called sans serif type (the two little bases on which the vertical elements of the lowercase "n" rest ...
- Seriman, Zaccaria
- (from the article "Italian literature") ...and vigour, if not always accuracy, to his judgments. The Viaggi di Enrico Wanton (1749-64; "Travels of Enrico Wanton"), a philosophical novel by the Venetian Zaccaria Seriman, which tells of ...
- serine
- an amino acid obtainable by hydrolysis of most common proteins, sometimes constituting 5 to 10 percent by weight of the total product. First isolated in 1865 from sericin, a silk ... [1 Related Articles]
- Seringapatam
- town, south-central Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state, southern India. It is situated at the western end of Seringapatam Island in the Cauvery River, just north-northeast of Mysore town. Named for its ... [2 Related Articles]
- Serjania
- (from the article "Sapindales") ...and shrubs to lianas or herbaceous vines. The family is found throughout the wetter tropics and subtropics, extending north to Japan and south to New Zealand. The largest genera in ...
- serjeant
- (from the article "legal profession") ...specialized legal society, the Inns of Court, in London; there, through lectures and apprenticeship, men acquired admission to practice before the royal courts. More particularly, they could become serjeants-the most ...
- Serkin, Peter
- American pianist noted for his performances of classical and contemporary works.
- Serkin, Rudolf
- Austrian-born American pianist and teacher who concentrated on the music of J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, and Johannes Brahms.
- Serling, Rod
- American writer and producer of television dramas and screenplays.
- Serlio, Sebastiano
- Italian Mannerist architect, painter, and theorist, who introduced the principles of ancient Roman architecture into France. [8 Related Articles]
- Sermisy, Claudin de
- singer and composer who, with his contemporary Clement Janequin, was one of the leading composers of chansons (part-songs) in the early 16th century. He was a member of the chapel ...
- Sermon on the Mount
- a biblical collection of religious teachings and ethical sayings of Jesus of Nazareth, as found in Matthew, chapters 5-7. The sermon was addressed to disciples and a large crowd of ... [3 Related Articles]
- Sernander, Johan Rutger
- (from the article "Holocene Epoch") The first standard palynological stratigraphy was developed in Scandinavia by Axel Blytt, Johan Rutger Sernander, and E.J. Lennart von Post, in combination with a theory of Holocene climate changes. The ...
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