town, 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 development, based on extensive ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
the willow order of flowering plants, belonging to the class called dicotyledon (characterized by two seed leaves). It consists of the Salicaceae family, having two genera, Salix (willow) and Populus ...
physician and cleric, the outstanding European surgeon of the 13th century. His influence was felt throughout western Europe for nearly a century after his death.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
(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 ...
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.
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 ...
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) and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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. ...
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 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 ...
district, administrative and historic county of Wiltshire, England, centred on the historic city of Salisbury and occupying the southern part of the county. With 388 square miles (1,005 sq km), ...
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, ...
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 ...
British statesman and Conservative politician whose recommendations on defense became the basis of the British military organization until after World War II.
Conservative political leader who was three-time prime minister (1885-86, 1886-92, 1895-1902) and four-time foreign secretary (1878, 1885-86, 1886-92, 1895-1900), who presided over a wide expansion of Great Britain's colonial empire.
English statesman who succeeded his father, William Cecil, Lord Burghley, as Queen Elizabeth I's chief minister in 1598 and skillfully directed the government during the first nine years of the ...
an illegitimate son of Henry II of England, and a prominent baron, soldier, and administrator under John and Henry III. He acquired his lands and title from Richard I, who ...
group of North American Indian tribes speaking languages of the Salish family and living in what is now British Columbia, northern Washington and Idaho, and western Montana, in the upper ...
a thick, colourless, opalescent fluid that is constantly present in the mouth of humans and other vertebrates. It is composed of water, mucus, proteins, mineral salts, and amylase. As saliva ...
innovative French dancer and choreographer who performed expressive, dramatic dances during a period when displays of technical virtuosity were more popular. The first woman to choreograph the ballets in which ...
city, seat (1907) of Sequoyah county, eastern Oklahoma, U.S., just north of the Arkansas River and the Robert S. Kerr Reservoir, near the Arkansas state line. Settled in the 1880s, ...
Roman historian and one of the great Latin literary stylists, noted for his narrative writings dealing with political personalities, corruption, and party rivalry.
fish genus that includes the popular food and sport fishes known as Atlantic salmon, brown trout, cutthroat trout, and rainbow trout (qq.v.). See also salmon.
originally, the large fish now usually called the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), though more recently the name has been applied to similar fishes of the same family (Salmonidae), especially the ...
river rising in the Sawtooth and Salmon River mountains, south Custer county, central Idaho, U.S. It flows generally northeast past the city of Salmon, where it is joined by the ...
American historian who extended the offerings in history during her long tenure at Vassar College. She also was instrumental in building a library there of high scholarly merit.
group of rod-shaped, gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic bacteria in the family Enterobacteriaceae. Their principal habitat is the intestinal tract of humans and other animals. Some species exist in animals without causing ...
any of several bacterial infections caused by certain species of Salmonella, important as the cause of a type of food poisoning in humans and of several diseases ...
any member of the order Salmoniformes, a diverse and complex group of fishes. The order consists of about 1,000 species in the freshwaters and in the oceans of the world. ...
according to the Jewish historian Josephus, the daughter of Herodias and stepdaughter of Herod Antipas, tetrarch (ruler appointed by Rome) of Galilee, a region in Palestine. In Biblical literature she ...
in architecture, a twisted column (q.v.), so called because in the Old St. Peter's Church in Rome there was such a pillar, which according to legend had been imported from ...
official exhibition of art sponsored by the French government. It originated in 1667 when Louis XIV sponsored an exhibit of the works of the members of the Academie Royale de ...
annual exhibition of the Societe des Artistes Independants, held in Paris since 1884. In the course of revolutionary developments in painting in late 19th-century France, both artists and the public ...
(French: Salon of the Refused), art exhibition held in 1863 in Paris by command of Napoleon III for those artists whose works had been refused by the jury of the ...
town, Bouches-du-Rhone departement, Provence-Alpes-Cote-d'Azur region, southeastern France, northwest of Marseille. Founded in pre-Roman times as the oppidum (fortified town) of Le Salounet on a hill in the Val de Cuech, ...
largest reserve in Congo (Kinshasa), Africa, covering 13,900 square miles (36,000 square km) and located midway between Kinshasa, the national capital, and Kisangani, 720 miles (1,160 km) to the northeast. ...
floor covering handmade by the Salor Turkmen of Turkmenistan. Most consistent in design are the main carpets, with a quartered gul (motif) showing a small animal figure ...
any small, pelagic, gelatinous invertebrate of the orders Salpida and Doliolida (class Thaliacea, subphylum Tunicata). Found in warm seas, salps are common in the Southern Hemisphere. They have transparent barrel-shaped ...
three parallel ridges traversing the breadth of southern Finland from Hango (Hanko), at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland in the west, to Joensuu, on Lake Pyhaselka, near the ...
hybrid musical form based on Afro-Cuban music but incorporating elements from other Latin American styles. It developed largely in New York City beginning in the 1940s and '50s, though it ...
(Tragopogon porrifolius), biennial herb of the family Asteraceae, native to the Mediterranean region. The thick white taproot is cooked as a vegetable and has a flavour similar to that of ...
mineral substance of great importance. The mineral form halite, or rock salt, is sometimes called common salt to distinguish it from a class of chemical compounds called salts.
