(from the article "France") ...of the domains of the fisc (royal treasury), war (booty, tribute), the exercise of power (monetary and judicial rights), and the imposition of a growing number of
(from the article "cell") ...metaphase the condensed chromosomes align in a plane across the equator of the mitotic spindle. Anaphase follows as the separated chromatids move abruptly toward opposite spindle poles. Finally, in telophase ...
(from the article "fungus") ...included in subclass Lecanoromycetidae; example genera include Coccocarpia, Collema, Nephroma, Pannaria, and Peltigera.Forms lichens; found on rocks close to the sea; thallus sometimes composed of granules; may have poorly ...
(from the article "stereotyped response") In telotaxis, known only for responses to light, attainment of orientation is direct and without trial movements. When between lights from two sources, the animal orients to one light, rather ...
(from the article "Ural Mountains") ...and heavily marked by permafrost. Farther south come the Northern Urals, which stretch for more than 340 miles to the Usa River in the south; most mountains top 3,300 feet, ...
(from the article "apterygote") ...have abdominal structures that represent modified remnants of ancestral walking limbs. Many hexapods have cerci (sensory appendages) on the 11th abdominal segment, which aid in identification of the telson. The ...
series of communications satellites whose successful launching, beginning in 1962, inaugurated a new age in electronic communications. The first experimental communications satellite was made in 1960 by John Robinson Pierce ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Australia") ...what Costello hoped would be his last budget was the creation of a Future Fund to be seeded with $A16 billion in addition to proceeds from the sale of Australia's ...
(from the article "India") ...this time in provincial elections in the state of Maharashtra. The BJP's allies became wary when the party renewed pro-Hindu religious campaigning. The 2004 elections also saw the defeat of ...
largest member of the Dravidian language family. Primarily spoken in southeastern India, it is the official language of the state of Andhra Pradesh. In the early 21st century Telugu had ... [2 Related Articles]
body of writings in Telugu, a Dravidian language spoken in an area north of Madras, India, and running inland to Bellary. The literature, beginning in the 10th or 11th century, ... [1 Related Articles]
port, northwestern Peninsular (West) Malaysia. It lies on a deltaic peninsula formed by the confluence of the Perak and Bidor rivers. Formerly called Telong Melintang, the port was renamed in ...
small, devotional image carved from wood or stone, probably used in private rather than communal ancestor worship in primitive societies. Telum figures are known on the northwestern coast of New ...
city and port, southeastern Ghana. It lies along the Gulf of Guinea (an embayment of the Atlantic Ocean), 18 miles (29 km) east of Accra. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Dependent States") French Polynesia had another tumultuous year in 2007 after the pro-independence government of Pres. Oscar Temaru was deposed in December 2006. Pres. Gaston Tong Sang, whose coalition advocated autonomy, announced ...
(from the article "Singapore") Singapore found itself in the international headlines more than usual in 2006. When Temasek Holdings, the state investment agency, in January purchased a controlling stake in Shin Corp., a Thai ...
(from the article "Niger River") The Niger rises in Guinea at 9°05' N and 10°47' W on the eastern side of the Fouta Djallon (Guinea) highlands, only 150 miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean. Issuing ...
segment of the Coast Ranges (see Pacific mountain system), south-central California, U.S. It extends southeastward for about 50 miles (80 km) from northwestern Kern county to the San Emigdio Mountains ...
(RODWELL MARASHA), Zimbabwean musician who found international popularity in the early 1980s as a member of the Bhundu Boys "jit-jive" dance band (b. Sept. 30, 1958--d. July 30, 1995).
Bantu-speaking people who inhabit the upper reaches of the Mzimvubu River in Eastern province, South Africa. The Tembu speak a dialect of Xhosa, a Bantu language of the Nguni group ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Czech Republic") ...late 1990s of an oil pipeline that transports oil from the port of Trieste, Italy, allowed the Czech Republic to be less reliant on Russian oil sources. Nuclear power plants ...
in the traditional Malay states, an official who was responsible for maintaining law and order and for commanding the police and army. This important nonhereditary position became delineated during the ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Greek religion") ...earliest times deities were worshipped in awesome places such as groves, caves, or mountaintops. Mycenaean deities shared the king's palace. Fundamental was the precinct (temenos) allotted to ...
town, central Peninsular (West) Malaysia, on the Pahang River. The town's residents are primarily engaged in rubber tapping and paddy (rice) farming. Local villagers ferry downriver to trade their produce ...
(from the article "Austroasiatic languages") subbranch of the Aslian branch of the Mon-Khmer language family, itself a part of the Austroasiatic stock. The main languages, Semai and Temiar, are spoken in the Main Range of ...
American virologist who in 1975 shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with his former professor Renato Dulbecco and another of Dulbecco's students, David Baltimore, for his codiscovery of ... [2 Related Articles]
city, east-central Kazakhstan. It lies on the Samarkand Reservoir of the Nura River. The settlement, a satellite city of Qaraghandy (Karaganda), came into being when the reservoir was built in ...
city, Timiskaming district, eastern Ontario, Canada, at the northern end of Lake Timiskaming (an expansion of the Ottawa River), near the Quebec border. Originally known as Thornloe, the town developed ...
(from the article "Architecture") Losses in architecture included Allan Temko, author, scholar, and the longtime architecture critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, and Harry Seidler, who, though born in Vienna and educated in Great ...
(from the article "Sugawara Michizane") A major festival honouring Tenjin is held annually on July 25 at the Temman Shrine in Osaka. There are also numerous local shrines throughout Japan at which schoolchildren buy amulets ...
(from the article "Japan") ...disasters occurred in his time, however, and peasant protests rose to more than 50 per year during the 1780s. A great eruption of Mount Asama in 1783 was followed by ...
(from the article "epic") ...a written document that recounted the mythology and legendary history of Japan in a form biassed in favour of the clan concerned. These family documents were collected at the command ...
group of some 1.6 million people of central and northwestern Sierra Leone who speak a language (also called Temne) of the Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo family. The Temne are ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Temne") group of some 1.6 million people of central and northwestern Sierra Leone who speak a language (also called Temne) of the Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo family. The Temne are ...
(from the article "flatworm") In general, free-living flatworms (the turbellarians) can occur wherever there is moisture. Except for the temnocephalids, flatworms are cosmopolitan in distribution. They occur in both fresh water and salt water ...
(from the article "amphibian") ...to emerge, and a combined structure is used below. In this classification, Adelospondyli, Aistopoda, Microsauria, and Nectridea are listed as extinct orders within the superorder Lepospondyli, and Temnospondylia and Lissamphibia ...
town, south-central New South Wales, Australia. It lies in the Western Slopes district of the fertile Riverina. Founded in 1879 during a gold rush, the town derives its name from ...
city, Maricopa county, south-central Arizona, U.S. It lies along the Salt River and is a southern suburb of Phoenix. First settled (1872) by Charles Hayden, father of former Arizona senator ...
narrow valley between the southern Olympus and northern Ossa massifs of northeastern Thessaly, Greece. The valley is lined by cliffs that rise to 1,650 feet (500 m) on the south; ...
(from the article "Physical Sciences") On July 4, 2005, after a journey of more than 431 million km (268 million mi), NASA's Deep Impact space probe fired a 370-kg (816-lb) copper projectile, or impactor, into ...
(from the article "meteor shower") ...first serious study of meteor showers (see meteoritics). It was later established that very strong Leonid showers recur at 33-34-year intervals (the orbital period of its associated comet, Tempel-Tuttle), and ...
area of Berlin, Germany. It is the site of an airport that became well known during the Soviet blockade of West Berlin (1948-49; see Berlin blockade and airlift); the airport ...
(from the article "airport") ...DC-3, during the late 1930s that extensive takeoff and landing distances were needed. Even then, the prewar airfields at New York City (La Guardia), London (Croydon), Paris (Le Bourget), and ...
painting executed with pigment ground in a water-miscible medium. The word tempera originally came from the verb temper-that is, "to bring to a desired consistency"; dry pigments are made usable ... [6 Related Articles]
in psychology, an aspect of personality concerned with emotional dispositions and reactions and their speed and intensity; the term often is used to refer to the prevailing mood or mood ... [2 Related Articles]
movement dedicated to promoting moderation and, more often, complete abstinence in the use of intoxicating liquor. Although an abstinence pledge had been introduced by churches as early as 1800, the ... [11 Related Articles]
(from the article "South America") The temperate climates have a greater range of temperatures than the tropical climates and may include extreme climatic variations. These climates, characterized by lower winter temperatures, are south of the ...
(from the article "temperate forest") Deciduous forests are found in regions of the Northern Hemisphere that have moist, warm summers and frosty winters-primarily eastern North America, eastern Asia, and western Europe. In contrast, evergreen forests-excepting ...
vegetation type with a more or less continuous canopy of broad-leaved trees. Such forests occur between approximately 25° and 50° latitude in both hemispheres (see). Toward the polar regions they ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "glacier") ...its mass for the entire year; a subpolar (or polythermal) glacier contains ice below the freezing temperature, except for surface melting in the summer and a basal layer of temperate ...
(from the article "Average net primary production of the Earth's major habitats") ...grassland-those resulting from climatic dryness-can be classified into two broad categories: tropical grasslands, which generally lie between the belts of tropical forest and desert; and temperate grasslands, which generally lie ...
(from the article "temperate forest") The milder environments that support temperate evergreen forests generally lie closer to the Equator than do areas with temperate deciduous forest. They have richer biotas than the sclerophyllous or deciduous ...
(from the article "virus") ...of progeny viruses can be rapid. This cycle of infection often results in the death of the cell and the release of many virus progeny. Certain viruses, particularly bacteriophages, are ...
(from the article "Australia") ...The Tropical Zone, which arcs east and west across the northern margin of the continent and extends halfway down the eastern seaboard, has a mainly dry monsoonal climate, with some ...
measure of hotness or coldness expressed in terms of any of several arbitrary scales and indicating the direction in which heat energy will spontaneously flow, i.e., from a hotter body ... [119 Related Articles]
(from the article "climate") Many interesting short-term temperature fluctuations also occur, usually in connection with local weather disturbances. The rapid passage of a mid-latitude cold front, for example, can drop temperatures by 10 °C ...
(from the article "building construction") Atmosphere-control systems in low-rise residential buildings use natural gas, fuel oil, or electric resistance coils as central heat sources; usually the heat generated is distributed to the occupied spaces by ...
(from the article "ocean") Another more promising technology, known as ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), makes use of the temperature differential between the warm surface waters of the oceans, heated by solar radiation, and ...
a reversal of the normal behaviour of temperature in the troposphere (the region of the atmosphere nearest the Earth's surface), in which a layer of cool air at the surface ... [4 Related Articles]
physiological stress induced by excessive heat or cold that can impair functioning and cause injury or death. Exposure to intense heat increases body temperature and pulse rate. If body temperature ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "reptile") ...(ESD) is the collective term for all factors (such as temperature, moisture, and others) that affect the ratio of males to females produced in a given clutch of eggs or ...
combination of temperature and humidity that is a measure of the degree of discomfort experienced by an individual in warm weather; it was originally called the discomfort index. The index ...
(from the article "relaxation phenomenon") To summarize and clarify this discussion, a temperature-jump relaxation experiment-an important technique in relaxation studies-will be described. In this technique the equilibrium of a system is disrupted by suddenly changing ...
(from the article "chromatography") ...The well-resolved, highly volatile solutes are removed from the column at the lower temperatures before the low-volatility solutes leave the origin at the column inlet. This technique is termed temperature-programmed ...
(from the article "hydrologic sciences") Plotting the temperature and salinity of a sample of seawater on a graph with linear axes (a T-S diagram) can be a powerful research tool. A mass of fully mixed ...
(from the article "frozen prepared food") When the meats are in frozen state-that is, at temperatures between -18° and -23° C (0° and -10° F)-they are tempered before cutting. Tempering involves warming the frozen meats to ...
in metallurgy, process of improving the characteristics of a metal, especially steel, by heating it to a high temperature, though below the melting point, then cooling it, usually in air. ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Typhoon") While resolving the Typhoon's design problems, Hawker obtained approval for an extensively redesigned version, the Tempest, that first flew in September 1942 and entered squadron service in the spring of ...
(from the article "Typhoon") The Typhoon was retired from service at war's end, but later versions of the Tempest-including the Tempest II, powered by a 2,400-horsepower, 18-cylinder, air-cooled Bristol Centaurus radial engine-served with the ...
(from the article "Moreton Island") ...It is about 25 miles (40 km) long by 5 miles (8 km) wide. The island's sand dunes, originally wind-formed but now fixed by vegetation, may be the world's loftiest, ...
drama in five acts by William Shakespeare, first written and performed about 1611 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from an edited transcript, by Ralph Crane (scrivener of ... [12 Related Articles]
(from the article "Moustiers faience") ...the late 18th century. Characteristic Clerissy faience, which is blue and white, falls into two periods: in the early period (1680-1710), decoration was inspired by the engravings of Antonio Tempesta ...
(from the article "Siger De Brabant") ...at Paris over Aristotelianism. Bonaventure, the minister general of the Order of Friars Minor, and Aquinas, head of the Dominicans, both attacked Siger's teachings. In 1270 the bishop of Paris, ...
small circular chapel erected in the courtyard of San Pietro in Montorio in Rome on the supposed site of the martyrdom of St. Peter. It was commissioned by Ferdinand and ... [3 Related Articles]
burial chapel in Rimini, Italy, for Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, the lord of the city, together with his mistress Isotta degli Atti and the Malatesta family. The "temple" was converted, beginning ... [2 Related Articles]
member of the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, a religious military order of knighthood established at the time of the Crusades that became a model ... [15 Related Articles]
(from the article "Laon") ...The Museum of Laon has a collection of Roman and medieval jewelry. It also contains paintings by the three brothers Le Nain, 17th-century painters who were born in Laon. A ...
(from the article "hallucination") ...One assumption states that life experiences influence the brain in such a way as to leave, in the brain, enduring physical changes that have variously been called neural traces, templates, ...
(from the article "reproduction") ...becomes a new double helix with a new complementary strand to replace the original one. Because adenine always falls in place opposite thymine and guanine opposite cytosine, the process is ...
(from the article "machine tool") ...generating. The form-cutting method uses a cutting tool that has the same form as the space between two adjacent teeth on a gear. This method is used for cutting gear ...
city, Bell county, central Texas, U.S. It lies along the Little River, just southeast of Belton Lake (impounded on the Leon River) and some 35 miles (55 km) south-southwest of ...
edifice constructed for religious worship. Most of Christianity calls its places of worship churches; many religions use temple, a word derived in English from the Latin word for time, because ... [68 Related Articles]
(from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") For many years, scholarly views were conditioned by the concept of the Sumerian temple city, which was used to convey the idea of an organism whose ruler, as representative of ...
(from the article "Jerusalem") ...is believed to have been continuously inhabited for almost 5,000 years, forms a walled quadrilateral about 3,000 feet (900 metres) long on each side. It is dominated by the raised ...
(from the article "Community of Christ") The church conducts Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa. Temple School, a ministerial and leadership seminary, is in Independence.
public, coeducational institution of higher learning based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is a state-related university and comprises seven campuses: three in Philadelphia, two in Montgomery county, and two abroad, ... [2 Related Articles]
archbishop of Canterbury and educational reformer who was sometimes considered to personify, by his rugged appearance and terse manner as a schoolmaster and bishop, the ideal of "manliness" fashionable during ...
in Paris, originally a fortified monastery of the Templars and later a royal prison. It was built in the 12th century northeast of the city in an area commanded by ...
internationally popular American child star of the 1930s, who was Hollywood's greatest box-office attraction at the age of seven in sentimental musicals. [3 Related Articles]
English statesman and diplomat who formulated the pro-Dutch foreign policy employed intermittently during the reign of King Charles II. In addition, his thought and prose style had a great influence ... [4 Related Articles]
in London, series of buildings associated with the legal profession. The Temple lies between Fleet Street and the Embankment in the City of London and is mainly divided into the ...
(from the article "Malayan Emergency") ...relocation of rural Chinese into tightly controlled "New Villages," a measure designed to deny the rebels a source of food and manpower. Under the leadership of British high commissioner Sir ...
(from the article "Religion") ...Muslim to win appointment to the Israeli cabinet, serving as minister without portfolio. Charles M. Taylor, whose writings explored the tension between secularization and spirituality, received the Templeton Prize for ...
(from the article "floor covering") ...the hand loom for the production of designs. The tapestry process of printing patterned carpets was evolved in Edinburgh in the 1830s, and in 1839 a chenille Axminster process, which ...
American-born British investor, mutual fund manager, and philanthropist was noted for his focus on global stock markets rather than shares in American companies and for his emphasis on shrewd contrarian ...
(from the article "motion picture") The tempo or pace that an audience senses in a film may be influenced in three ways: by the actual speed and rhythm of movement and cuts within the film, ...
(from the article "musical expression") ...notated only as a bass melody line and figures signifying chords, was expected to supply the accompaniment in the correct style. Clues to this correct style ranged from the title ...
