(from the article "turbine") In velocity-compound staging a set of stationary nozzles is followed by two sets of moving blades with a stationary row of impulse blades between them to redirect the flow. Ideally ...
(from the article "mass spectrometry") ...electric and magnetic fields were arranged in such a way that all perfectly collimated ions of one mass were brought to a focus independent of their velocity, thus giving rise ...
(from the article "damping") ...liquid through which it moves. The damping force of the fluid in this case is directly proportional to a quantity slightly less than the square of the body's velocity and, ...
(from the article "Performing Arts") ...to modernize Brazilian music and taking note of the rock music revolution in the United States and Britain, these musicians encountered the opposition of the military rulers then in power ...
(from the article "Baekeland, Leo Hendrik") ...from the University of Ghent at the age of 21 and taught there until 1889, when he went to the U.S. and joined a photographic firm. He soon set up ...
gemeente (municipality), western Netherlands. Velsen lies along the North Sea Canal, which connects Amsterdam with the North Sea. The commune embraces IJmuiden (the foreport of Amsterdam), Santpoort, ...
Dutch children's author and illustrator (b. May 22, 1923, The Hague, Neth.-d. Jan. 25, 2005, The Hague), was best known for his series of Kikker ("Frog") books. In his "moral ...
Dutch physicist, corecipient with Gerardus 't Hooft of the 1999 Nobel Prize for Physics for their development of a method of mathematically predicting the properties of both the subatomic particles ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Italy") ...intensify pressure on Prodi, a plan his traditional allies criticized as divisive. Meanwhile, the two leading centre-left parties fused into the Democratic Party (PD) and elected popular Rome Mayor Walter ...
(from the article "respiration") In the hagfish Myxine glutinosa, the major oxygen supply is derived from water drawn in through the nostril that opens into the pharynx. A peculiar respiratory structure, the velum, just ...
(from the article "veliger") larva typical of certain mollusks such as marine snails and bivalves and a few freshwater bivalves. The veliger develops from the trochophore (q.v.) larva and has large, ciliated lobes (velum). ...
(from the article "South Asian arts") ...semicircular strips of white paper run from the upper lip to the eyes. He has black lips, white warts on nose and forehead, two long curved teeth, spiky silver claws, ...
(from the article "Gelderland") ...main portion north of this line is a formerly glaciated region with sandy soil; south is fertile clay alluvium. The northern portion is divided by the broad valley (Gelderse) of ...
in textiles, fabric having a short, dense pile, used in clothing and upholstery. The term derives from the Middle French velu, "shaggy." Velvet is made in the pile weave, of ... [2 Related Articles]
any of a group of wasps (order Hymenoptera) that are named for the covering of dense hairs and somewhat antlike appearance of the wingless females. Males are also covered with ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "asity") either of two species of short-tailed, 15-centimetre- (6-inch-) long birds of the family Philepittidae (order Passeriformes), inhabiting forests of Madagascar. The male of the velvet asity (Philepitta castanea) has yellow ...
(from the article "floor covering") ...nature, normally be one pile thread per dent. In order to make a design by a method other than printing yarn, more than one pile yarn per dent (five or ...
(from the article "velvet crab") any of certain species in the swimming crab (q.v.) group.swimming crabsswimming crab...the fifth (hindmost) pair of legs are fla
one of eight perennial grasses constituting the genus Holcus (family Poaceae), native to Europe and Africa. It has tufted flower clusters that may be white, green, pink, or purple.
(from the article "kalanchoe") The most common species, valued for their unusual foliage, include the panda plant (K. tomentosa); penwiper plant (K. marmorata); air plant, or maternity plant (K. pinnata); velvet leaf, or felt ...
(from the article "Czech Republic") With the so-called Velvet Revolution of 1989, Czechoslovakia freed itself of communist control and set out to adapt its command economy to the free market. The government introduced a program ...
American band of the 1960s whose primal guitar sound and urban-noir lyrics, influenced by avant-garde art and modern literature, inspired the punk and alternative rock movements of the 1970s and ... [2 Related Articles]
any of approximately 120 species of insects in the true bug order, Heteroptera, that are covered with fine, velvetlike hairs. The bodies of these small, plump insects are usually less ... [1 Related Articles]
any of about 70 wormlike species of ancient, terrestrial invertebrates with short, thick legs and a dry, velveteen body. Onychophorans range in size from 14 to 150 mm (about 0.6 ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Philodendron") Many forms of philodendron are available in cultivation, foremost among them being the common heart-leaf philodendron (Philodendron scandens oxycardium). The velvet-leaf philodendron (P. scandens micans) has small bronzy-green velvety leaves ...
in textiles, fabric with a short, dense pile surface and a smooth back, usually made of cotton and resembling velvet. It is made by the filling-pile method, in which the ... [3 Related Articles]
any of various plants with soft, velvety leaves, particularly Abutilon theophrasti (sometimes A. avicennae), commonly known as Indian mallow, an annual, hairy plant of the hibiscus, or mallow, family (Malvaceae). ...
any insect of the family Ochteridae (order Heteroptera), which numbers about 25 species. These insects resemble tiny toads, are about 4 or 5 mm (almost 0.2 inch) long, and live ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "India") ...ended in a disastrous defeat for Firuz by the united forces of Vijayanagar and Firuz's former allies, the Velama faction of the Reddi ruling group in Andhra. The Vemas of ...
(from the article "ocean") ...the North Atlantic are the Gibbs at 52° N, the Atlantis at 30° N, and the Vema at 11° N. These and others can be followed across both flanks of ...
(from the article "India") ...many branches of the family, the most important of which were the Eastern Calukyas, ruling at Pishtapura (modern Pithapuram in the Godavari River delta) in the early 7th century; the ...
in air-breathing vertebrates, including humans, either of two major trunks, the anterior and posterior venae cavae, that deliver oxygen-depleted blood to the right side of the heart. The anterior vena ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "fluid mechanics") ...the wall of a vessel filled with liquid under pressure. Observation of jets shows that after emerging they narrow slightly before settling down to a more or less uniform cross ...
(from the article "renal system") ...arrangement, drain into interlobular venules. In turn these combine to form the tributaries of the arcuate, interlobar, and lobar veins. Blood from the renal pyramids passes into vessels, called venae ...
(from the article "Jamaica") In 1655 a British expedition under Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables captured Jamaica and began expelling the Spanish, a task that was accomplished within five years. However, many ...
(from the article "Everest, Mount") ...route up the left side of the East Face to the South Col. Led by American Robert Anderson, it included just four climbers who had no Sherpa support and used ...
(from the article "France") But the king also found another means of filling his exchequer that had nothing to do with traditional methods: he began to sell offices on a large scale. Venality, or ...
county, northwestern Pennsylvania, U.S., consisting of a hilly region on the Allegheny Plateau that is located midway between the cities of Erie and Pittsburgh and is bisected by the Allegheny ...
(from the article "insect") ...paired outgrowths from the thorax, stiffened by ribs, or veins, in which run tracheae. These tracheae follow a consistent pattern throughout the Pterygota, and their specific modifications (known as venation) ...
a Bantu-speaking people inhabiting the region of the Republic of South Africa known from 1979 to 1994 as the Republic of Venda. The area is now part of Limpopo province, ... [3 Related Articles]
former republic (though never internationally recognized as such) and Bantustan in southern Africa. It consisted of an enclave within the Transvaal, Republic of South Africa, just south of Zimbabwe. Its ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Pays de la Loire") region of France encompassing the western departements of Mayenne, Sarthe, Maine-et-Loire, Vendee, and Loire-Atlantique. Pays de la Loire is bounded by the
(from the article "Sailing") ...Ellen MacArthur (seeBiographies) established a new single-handed nonstop record of 71 days 14 hr 18 min 33 sec in a trimaran. Twenty entries in Open 60 ...
(1793-96), counterrevolutionary insurrections in the west of France during the French Revolution. The first and most important occurred in 1793 in the area known as the Vendee, which included large ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "La Rioja") Various popular festivals held throughout the region celebrate viticulture. The Vendimia Riojana is held during the third week of September in the city of Logrono to celebrate the grape harvest; ...
coin-actuated machine through which various goods may be retailed. Vending machines should not be confused with coin-operated amusement games or music machines. The first known commercial use of vending machines ... [2 Related Articles]
historic town and capital of an arrondissement in the departement of Loir-et-Cher, Centre region, north-central France. It lies southwest of Paris and 20 miles (30 km) northwest of Blois. Vendome ...
(from the article "Philip III") Philip continued his father's highly successful administration by keeping in office his able and experienced household clerks. Mathieu de Vendome, abbot of Saint-Denis, whom Louis IX had left as regent ...
(from the article "Paris") Farther west, toward the Place de la Concorde, the rue de Castiglione leads from the rue de Rivoli to the Place Vendome, an elegant octagonal place, little ...
island at the north end of Jutland, Denmark, known as Vendsyssel in the east and Thy in the west. The Limfjorden separates it from the mainland, to which it was ...
extremely thin sheet of rich-coloured wood (such as mahogany, ebony, or rosewood) or precious materials (such as ivory or tortoiseshell) cut in decorative patterns and applied to the surface area ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "orthopedics") Orthopedics began in the 18th century with the pioneering efforts of Jean Andre Venel, who established an institute in Switzerland for the treatment of crippled children's skeletal deformities. A vastly ...
any of a series of unmanned Soviet planetary probes that were sent to Venus. Venera 2 (launched 1965) flew to within 24,000 km (15,000 miles) of Venus in February 1966, ... [3 Related Articles]
title or respectful form of address, used from very early times in Europe, especially for certain clergy or for laymen of marked spiritual merit. St. Augustine in some epistles cited ...
(from the article "worship") ...Vehicle) Buddhism. To worship any being or object other than God alone is thus understood to be an engagement in idolatry, though other beings, persons, or objects may be shown ...
(from the article "church year") The celebration of days in honour of the saints or "heroes of the faith" is an extension of the devotion paid to Christ, since they are commemorated for the virtues ...
genus of pelecypods (clams) abundant during the Eocene Epoch (the Eocene Epoch began 57.8 million years ago and ended 36.6 million years ago). The shell, composed of two halves (valves), ...
(from the article "bivalve") ...and exhalant siphons; mostly marine but also estuarine and freshwater; some epibyssate, some bore soft rocks and wood; generally infaunal. About 4,000 species.Shell typically equivalve and of outer crossed-lamellar ...
(from the article "Venice") ... Situated at the northwestern end of the Adriatic Sea, Venice lies on an archipelago in the crescent-shaped Laguna Veneta (Venice Lagoon), which stretches some 32 miles (51 km) from ...
group of dialects of Italian spoken in northeastern Italy. It includes the dialects spoken in Venice (Venetian), Verona (Veronese), Treviso (Trevisan), and Padua (Paduan). [1 Related Articles]
ancient Celtic people who lived in what is now the Morbihan district of modern Brittany. By the time of Julius Caesar they controlled all Atlantic trade to Britain. They submitted ... [1 Related Articles]
ancient people of northeastern Italy, who arrived about 1000 BC and occupied country stretching south to the Po and west to the neighbourhood of Verona. They left more than 400 ... [3 Related Articles]
territory of northeastern Italy and western Slovenia between the Alps and the Po River and opening on the Adriatic Sea. Italians often use the name Veneto for the region around ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Suriname") Area: 163,820 sq km (63,251 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 510,000 | Capital: Paramaribo | Head of state and government: President Ronald Venetiaan, assisted by Prime Minister Ram Sardjoe ...
variety of glasswares made in Venice from the 13th century, at the latest, to the present. Although a glassblowers' guild existed in Venice from 1224, the earliest extant specimens that ... [9 Related Articles]
Venetian lace made with a needle from the 16th to the 19th century. Early examples were deep, acute-angled points, each worked separately and linked together by a narrow band, or ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Bedmar, Alonso de la Cueva, marques de") Nominated by Philip III of Spain as ambassador to the Venetian Republic (1607), he was made marques de Bedmar in 1614. He used his diplomatic privileges to promote the plans ...
Renaissance art and artists, especially painters, of the city of Venice. Like rivals Florence and Rome, Venice enjoyed periods of importance and influence in the continuum of western European art, ... [13 Related Articles]
(from the article "Italy") ...by the Venetians of Eastern trade. Second, the Ottoman Turks, having taken Constantinople in 1453, continued their advance in Greece, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. In the course of the ...
a language spoken in northeastern Italy before the Christian era. Known to modern scholars from some 200 short inscriptions dating from the 5th through the 1st century BC, it is ... [3 Related Articles]
regione, northern and northeastern Italy, comprising the provincie of Venezia, Padova, Rovigo, Verona, Vicenza, Treviso, and Belluno. It is bounded by Trentino-Alto Adige (north), Emilia-Romagna (south), Lombardia (Lombardy; west), Austria ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Rome") ...plan of a classical basilica. The present church, third on the site, dates from the 9th century and was restored in the 15th by the Venetian pope Paul II, who ...
(from the article "string theory") ...generally ignored relativistic effects. Instead, by the late 1960s the focus was on a different force-the strong force, which binds together the protons and neutrons within atomic nuclei. Gabriele Veneziano, ...
(from the article "bolivar fuerte") ...It replaced the bolivar, which had been adopted as Venezuela's monetary unit in 1879. Prior to 1879, independent Venezuela used three separate currencies: the escudo, the peso, and the venezolano.
country located at the northern end of South America. It occupies a roughly triangular area that is larger than the combined areas of France and Germany. Venezuela is bounded by ... [68 Related Articles]
(from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") state-supported tropical garden occupying a 65-hectare (160-acre) site in Caracas, Venez. The garden has excellent collections of palms, cacti, aroids, bromeliads, pandanuses, and other groups of tropical plants of considerable ...
horizontally striped yellow-blue-red national flag with an arc of eight white stars in the centre. When displayed by the government, the flag incorporates the national coat of arms in its ...
inlet of the Caribbean Sea in Venezuela and Colombia, extending 75 miles (120 km) north-south and reaching a maximum east-west width of 150 miles (240 km). It is bounded by ...
(from the article "Venezuela") The following discussion focuses on Venezuelan history from the time of European settlement. For a treatment of the country in its regional context, see Latin America, history of.anticlericalism
(from the article "Caribbean Sea") ...metres), extends from Honduras and Nicaragua to Hispaniola, bearing the island of Jamaica and separating the Cayman Basin from the Colombian Basin. The Colombian Basin is partly separated from the ...
(from the article "boxwood") ...small trees of the genus Buxus; about 30 species of shrubby evergreen plants are in the family Buxaceae. Boxwood also refers to many other woods with a similar density and ...
(from the article "mountain") ...kilometres wide. Volcanoes occur in the westernmost chain, but all three have undergone crustal shortening. For example, the easternmost of the three, which continues into Venezuela as the "Venezuelan Andes," ...
(from the article "Orinoco River") ...platforms between rivers and are some 100 to 200 feet above the valley floors. Away from the mountains they are increasingly fragmented, as in the dissected tableland of the central ...
(from the article "Roman law") As early as the 6th and 5th centuries BC, Roman law was experiencing a transition from a system of private vengeance to one in which the state insisted that the ...
(from the article "sin") ...God; it is a sin in a grave matter that is committed in full knowledge and with the full consent of the sinner's will, and until it is repented it ...
(from the article "Major volcanoes of the world") ...Aleutian Islands represent a southwestern extension of the mountain peaks, which stretch the length of the Alaska Peninsula and include many volcanoes, notably Katmai (6,715 feet [2,047 metres]), Veniaminof (8,225 ...
city, major seaport, and capital of both the provincia (province) of Venezia and the regione (region) of Veneto, northern Italy. An island city, it ... [83 Related Articles]
resort city, Sarasota county, west-central Florida, U.S. It lies along the Gulf of Mexico, about 20 miles (30 km) south of Sarasota. Originally a fishing village settled in the 1870s, ...
(from the article "Art and Art Exhibitions") In 2007 the art world was engrossed with the once-a-decade convergence of three major international exhibitions: the Venice Biennale, Documenta, and the Munster Sculpture Projects. The 52nd Venice Biennale, titled ...
(from the article "International Film Awards 2007") ...China's industrialization and its controversial Three Gorges Dam project was the theme of Zhang Ke Jia's Sanxia haoren ("Still Life"); the film won the Golden Lion prize at the Venice ...
tin-glazed earthenware made at Venice that reached its stylistic zenith in the 16th century. The workshops of Maestro Ludovico (fl. 1540-45), Domenigo da Venezia (fl. 1550-60), and Jacomo da Pesaro ...
in Rome, museum occupying part of the papal apartment of the first great Renaissance palace of Rome. Dating from the middle of the 15th century, the Palazzo Venezia was built ...
(from the article "turpentine") Various other oleoresins (solutions of resins dispersed in essential oils) are known as turpentines. Venice turpentine, for example, is a pale green, viscous liquid that is collected from the larch ...
northern section of the Adriatic Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean Sea), extending eastward for 60 miles (95 km) from the Po River delta, Italy, to the coast of Istria, ...
(from the article "Alexander III") ...in the 13th century. Frederick found himself increasingly isolated in Italy and at odds with powerful elements in Germany. His decisive defeat by the Lombards at Legnano (1176) paved the ...
Italian glassmaker and designer and manufacturer of glassware, whose works are outstanding for their combination of traditional technique and modern form. His glass factory in Murano contributed to a revival ...
