one of the chief German mystics and leaders of the Friends of God (Gottesfreunde), a circle of devout ascetic Rhinelanders who opposed contemporary evils and aimed for a close association ...
in musical composition, means of creating tension through prolongation of a consonant note while the underlying harmony changes, normally on a strong beat.
bridge with overhead cables supporting its roadway. One of the oldest of engineering forms, suspension bridges were constructed by primitive peoples using vines for cables and mounting the roadway directly ...
Iroquoian-speaking American Indians who lived in palisaded towns along the Susquehanna River in what are now New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Little is known of Susquehanna political organization, but they ...
county, northeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., consisting of a mountainous region of the Allegheny Plateau bounded by New York state to the north. In addition to Stillwater and Quaker lakes, the principal ...
one of the longest rivers of the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. It rises in Otsego Lake, central New York state, and winds through the Appalachian Mountains in New ...
county, extreme northern New Jersey, U.S., bordered by Pennsylvania to the northwest (the Delaware River constituting the boundary), New York state to the northeast, and Lakes Hopatcong and Musconetcong to ...
historic county of southeastern England, covering a coastal area along the English Channel south of London. For administrative purposes, Sussex is divided into the administrative counties of East Sussex and ...
county, southern Delaware, U.S., bounded by the Mispillion River to the north, Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and Maryland to the south and west. Principal waterways ...
(from Old English Suð Seaxe, South Saxons), one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England. It ultimately coincided in area with the modern counties of East Sussex and West Sussex, although ...
(March 24, 1916), torpedoing of a French cross-channel passenger steamer, the Sussex, by a German submarine, leaving 80 casualties, including two Americans wounded. The attack prompted a U.S. threat to ...
English lord lieutenant of Ireland who suppressed a rebellion of the Roman Catholics in the far north of England in 1569. He was the first governor of Ireland to attempt, ...
white to straw-yellow borate mineral, basic manganese borate [MnBO2(OH)]. Magnesium replaces manganese in the crystal structure to form the similar mineral szaibelyite. Sussexite occurs as hydrothermal fibrous veinlets in the ...
people living in the southern coastal regions of Guinea and the northwestern parts of Sierra Leone. They speak a dialect of Susu-Yalunka, a language belonging to the Mande branch of ...
member of an ancient Semitic group of tribes that roamed the Syrian desert. By the first half of the 2nd millennium BC they appeared in the region of Mari as ...
request presented in July 1936 in the Volksraad (People's Council) of the Dutch East Indies by a moderate Indonesian nationalist, Sutardjo; it urged the Dutch government to discuss self-government for ...
historic county, northern Scotland. It faces the North Sea on the east and the Atlantic Ocean on the north and northwest, where Cape Wrath, with its magnificent cliffs, is mainland ...
series of three cataracts on the Arthur River, 14 mi (23 km) southeast of Milford Sound in the southwest portion of South Island, New Zealand. The falls rank among the ...
American pharmacologist and physiologist who was awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for isolating cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cyclic AMP) and demonstrating its involvement in numerous metabolic processes ...
American criminologist, best known for his development of the differential association theory of crime. In recognition of his influence, the most important annual award of the American Society of Criminology ...
Ghanaian playwright, poet, teacher, and children's author, who founded the Drama Studio in Accra (now the Writers' Workshop in the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon).
longest of the rivers that give Punjab (meaning "Five Rivers") its name, rising in Lan-ka Ts'o (lake) in southwestern Tibet, at an elevation of more than 15,000 ft (4,600 m). ...
75th emperor of Japan; his attempt to usurp his brother's throne resulted in the bloody Hogen War, which allowed the powerful warrior Taira clan to gain control of the government.
in Hinduism, a brief, aphoristic composition; in Buddhism, a more extended exposition, the basic form of the scriptures of both the Theravada (Way of Elders) and Mahayana (Greater Vehicle) traditions. ...
extensive body of texts constituting the basic doctrinal section of the Buddhist canon-properly speaking, the canon of the so-called Hinayana (Lesser Vehicle) doctrinal schools, including the Theravada (Way of the ...
(Pali: "Collection of Discourses"), one of the earliest books of the Pali canon (where it appears in the late Khuddaka Nikaya ["Short Collection"] of the Sutta Pitaka). It is one ...
former Indian custom of a widow burning herself, either on the funeral pyre of her dead husband or soon after his death. Sometimes, the wife was immolated before the husband's ...
Austrian novelist who was one of the first notable woman pacifists. She is credited with influencing Alfred Nobel in the establishment of the Nobel Prize for Peace, of which she ...
outer borough of London. It lies on the southern perimeter at the edge of the Green Belt and is bordered by Surrey (south and west) and the boroughs of Croydon ...
estate near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, that is the site of an early grave or cenotaph of an Anglo-Saxon king. The burial, one of the richest Germanic burials found in Europe, ...
celebrated American bank robber and prison escapee who earned his nickname "the Actor" because of his talent for disguises, posing as a guard, messenger, policeman, diplomat, or window cleaner to ...
Yiddish-language poet whose works chronicle his childhood in Siberia, his life in the Vilna (Vilnius) ghetto during World War II, and his escape to join the Jewish partisans.
capital (since 1882), chief port, and commercial centre of Fiji in the South Pacific Ocean. The city lies on the southeast coast of Viti Levu, Fiji's principal island. Founded in ...
(Imperial Count) Russian military commander notable for his achievements in the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-91 and in the French Revolutionary Wars. In 1789 he was created a Russian count and ...
city, Nagano Prefecture (ken), Honshu, Japan, on the eastern shore of Suwa-ko (Lake Suwa). In the Tokugawa era (1603-1867) it was known as Kami-suwa, a castle town on the Koshu-kaido ...
city, Podlaskie wojewodztwo (province), extreme northeastern Poland. First chronicled as a village having a hermitage of the Camaldolese monks (1682-90), Suwalki received its town rights in 1715. ...
river, rising in the Okefenokee Swamp, southeastern Georgia, U.S., and meandering generally south-southwestward across northern Florida to enter the Gulf of Mexico at Suwannee Sound after a course of 250 ...
town, southern Syria. It is situated at the eastern margin of the Hawran region in the foothills of Ad-Duruz Mountains. Believed to have been founded by the Nabataeans in the ...
city and provincial capital, Kyonggi do (province), northwestern South Korea. Since the late 14th century, it has been a satellite town of Seoul, 26 miles (42 km) to the north, ...
medieval principality that occupied the area between the Oka River and the Upper Volga in northeastern Russia. During the 12th to 14th centuries, Suzdal was under the rule of a ...
silk, satin, and other textiles decorated using soft, coloured silk threads and produced at or near the city of Suzhou, in Jiangsu province, China. The Suzhou school is one of ...
city, Mie ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on Ise Bay. Suzuka is well known in Japan for the traditional manufacture of stencil paper, used in the dyeing of kimonos. Rapid industrialization ...
Japanese Christian who was one of the primary organizers of the labour movement in Japan. An early convert to Christianity, Suzuki, like many of his co-religionists, soon became active in ...
Japanese artist of the Ukiyo-e movement (paintings and wood-block prints of the "floating world"), who established the art of nishiki-e, or polychrome prints. He created a fashion ...
arsenate mineral, calcium fluoride arsenate [Ca5(AsO4)3F], in the apatite group of phosphates. Typical specimens are transparent, colourless prisms and masses, as at Pajsberg, Swed., and Franklin, N.J., U.S. The svabite ...
in Norse mythology, an unusually swift and intelligent horse belonging to a giant who offered to build a great wall around Asgard (the kingdom of the gods) to keep invaders ...
archipelago, part of Norway, located in the Arctic Ocean well north of the Arctic Circle. The islands lie between longitude 10° and 35° E and latitude 74° and 81° N, ...
unwritten language spoken in the high valleys south of Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus. Svan and the Georgian, Mingrelian (Megrelian), and Laz (Chan) languages constitute the Kartvelian, or South Caucasian, ...
town, southeastern Cambodia. Svay Rieng is located on the Vai Kou River; it is linked to Phnom Penh, the national capital, to Vietnam, and to neighbouring areas by a national ...
region, central Sweden, encompassing the landskaper (provinces) of Uppland, Sodermanland, Vastmanland, Narke, Varmland, and Dalarna (qq.v.). Svealand is the smallest of Sweden's three regions and lies between the regions of ...
Swedish chemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1926 for his studies in the chemistry of colloids and for his invention of the ultracentrifuge, an invaluable aid in ...
city, Fyns amtskommune (county commune), southern Funen Island, Denmark, on Svendborg Sound. Chartered in 1253, it was often plundered in the Middle Ages because of its easily accessible coastal location, ...
(Swedish: "Swedish Film Industry"), oldest and one of the most important Swedish motion-picture studios, as well as a major film distributor and exhibitor. Formed in 1919 by the merger of ...
(Swedish: "Swedish Daily Paper"), morning daily newspaper published in Stockholm, one of the most influential papers in Sweden and one that is editorially aligned with the Conservative Party.
Soviet Communist Party leader and government official. His organizational skills and mastery of personnel made him a key figure in the Bolshevik Party in 1917-18.
oblast (province), west-central Russia. The oblast occupies an area along the eastern slopes of the Ural Mountains, stretching from the crestline, which reaches 5,148 feet (1,569 m) in Mount Konzhakovsky ...
city, Luhansk oblast (province), Ukraine, in the Donets Basin. Sverdlovsk, named for the Bolshevik leader Yakov M. Sverdlov, is a coal-mining centre especially important for the production of anthracite. It ...
Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer known for his studies of the physics, chemistry, and biology of the oceans. He explained the equatorial countercurrents and helped develop the method of predicting surf ...
Norwegian statesman, prime minister (1884-89) of Norway in the first ministry of the Venstre (Left, or Liberal) Party. His appointment to that post followed his victory in obtaining ministerial representation ...
king of Norway (1177-1202) and one of the best-known figures in medieval Norwegian history. By expanding the power of the monarchy and limiting the privileges of the church, he provoked ...
(Sanskrit: "White-robed," or "White-clad"), one of the two principal sects of Jainism, a religion of India. The monks and nuns of the Svetambara sect wear simple white garments. This is ...
