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Estate Agent Covent Garden

2006-10-25T23:15:00.000-07:00

Robert Irving Burns specialise in London Commercial and Residential property services. They are an estate agent covent garden amongst other London areas such as Soho and Oxford Circus.

Biblical Literature, Roman occupation and Jewish revolts

2005-03-19T01:14:00.000-08:00

In AD 66–70 there was a Jewish revolt while Nero was emperor of Rome (54–68). When he died and was succeeded by Vespasian, his former army commander (69–79), the siege and final destruction of Jerusalem occurred (AD 70). Before this event, Jewish Christians had fled, perhaps to Pella, and Yohanan ben Zakkai, a leading Jewish rabbi, with a group of rabbinical scholars, fled to Yavneh, where they established

Field Trial

2005-03-16T03:53:00.000-08:00

Any of the competitions among individual sporting dogs, under conditions that approximate or simulate those found in the hunting field. Competing dogs need not necessarily be of the same breed. In the United States many of the field trials in the bird-dog (pointing dog) category are staged under the sanction of the American Kennel Club, the official governing body

Xenophon

2005-03-15T20:18:00.000-08:00

Biographical studies are L.V. Jacks, Xenophon, Soldier of Fortune (1930); E. Delebecque, Essai sur la vie de Xénophon (1957); and H.R. Breitenbach, “Xenophon von Athen,” in Pauly-Wissowa Realencyclopädie, vol. 19, col. 1569–2051 (1967), each with full bibliography. For a picture of Xenophon, see G.M. Richter, The Portraits of the Greeks, vol. 2 (1965).

France, History Of, Collective security

2005-03-12T18:12:00.000-08:00

Poincaré, in his final term of office (1926–29), retained as foreign minister Aristide Briand, who had been named to that post by the Cartel in 1925 and who was to remain there for seven years almost without interruption. Briand sensed a change in the public mood after the Ruhr episode and proclaimed himself “the apostle of peace”; he formulated a policy that he called apaisement. His

Baldachin

2005-03-08T04:50:00.000-08:00

Early

Colonialism, Western, World War II (193945)

2005-03-06T08:29:00.000-08:00

Although the Axis Powers failed in their global strategy, they crippled European colonial rule in Asia.

Colonialism, Western, World War II (193945)

2005-03-05T02:30:00.000-08:00

Formerly (1969–73) National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws American organization, founded in 1969 to centralize state abortion-rights efforts and continuing its mission thereafter to protect and promote reproductive freedom. The organization consists of three related entities: NARAL Inc., a nonprofit organization that focuses on defending abortion rights and on making abortions less necessary; NARAL-PAC, a registered

Leaf-nosed Snake

2005-03-03T13:06:00.000-08:00

Any of four species of small burrowing snakes of the family Colubridae that have the nose shield enlarged and flattened, with free edges. Several subspecies of each also exist. The two members of the genus Phyllorhynchus are found in creosote-bush deserts of the southwestern United States and Mexico, where they hunt at night for lizards and insects. The two species

Bioceramics

2005-02-28T07:59:00.000-08:00

Ceramic products or components employed in medical and dental applications, mainly as implants and replacements. This article briefly describes the principal ceramic materials and surveys the uses to which they are put in medical and dental applications. For an explanation of important issues in biomedical uses of all materials (including ceramics), see the

China, The transition to socialism, 195357

2005-02-26T10:24:00.000-08:00

The period 1953–57, corresponding to the First Five-Year Plan, began China's rapid industrialization. This period is still regarded as having been enormously successful. A strong central governmental apparatus proved able to channel scarce resources into the rapid development of heavy industry. Despite some serious policy issues and problems, the Communist leadership

Hsi K'ang

2005-02-24T13:02:00.000-08:00

Of influential parentage, Hsi received a traditional education,

Dmitry, False

2005-02-22T17:07:00.000-08:00

After Fyodor I (reigned 1584–98), the last tsar of the Rurik dynasty, died and his brother-in-law Boris Godunov succeeded him, the first False Dmitry appeared and

Hormone, Neurohypophysis and the polypeptide hormones of the hypothalamus

2005-02-21T13:22:00.000-08:00

Another neurosecretory system, which involves the hypothalamic region of the brain and the neurohypophysis of the pituitary gland, originates in groups of neurosecretory cells in the hypothalamus called, in mammals, the nucleus supraopticus and the nucleus paraventricularis and, in lower vertebrates, the nucleus preopticus. Neurohormones from these regions

Melanoma

2005-02-18T03:01:00.000-08:00

A spreading and frequently recurring cancer of specialized skin cells (melanocytes) that produce the protective skin-darkening pigment melanin. In the United States melanoma represents less than 5 percent of all cases of skin cancer, yet it is responsible for nearly three-quarters of all skin cancer deaths and is increasing in frequency. Unlike other skin growths,

Han-tan

2005-02-16T02:46:00.000-08:00

The area was already settled

Fabert, Abraham De

2005-02-14T11:51:00.000-08:00

Fabert's grandfather had been ennobled by Charles III, and his father had served Henry IV. At the age of 14 he entered the French Guard and from 1618 was almost constantly in service. His genius at engineering enabled him to play a key role in the sieges by which

Boyer, Paul D.

2005-02-13T21:58:00.000-08:00

In full Paul Delos Boyer American biochemist who, with John E. Walker, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1997 for their explanation of the enzymatic process involved in the production of the energy-storage molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which fuels the metabolic processes of the cells of all living things. (Danish chemist Jens C. Skou also shared the award for

Jacksonville

2005-02-10T10:22:00.000-08:00

City, seat (1822) of Duval county, northeastern Florida, U.S., the centre of Florida's “First Coast” region. It lies along the St. Johns River near its mouth on the Atlantic Ocean, about 25 miles (40 km) south of the Georgia border. Jacksonville consolidated (1968) with most of Duval county and thereby became one of the nation's largest cities in area (841 square miles [2,178 square km]). The city is the focus of

Typography

2005-02-09T17:44:00.000-08:00

The design, or selection, of letter forms to be organized into words and sentences to be disposed in blocks of type as printing upon a page. Typography and the typographer who practices it may also be concerned with other, related matters—the selection of paper, the choice of ink, the method of printing, the design of the binding if the product at hand is a book—but the word

Henry Vii

2005-02-06T19:18:00.000-08:00

Also called (1457–85) Henry Tudor, Earl Of Richmond king of England (1485–1509), who succeeded in ending the Wars of the Roses between the houses of Lancaster and York and founded the Tudor dynasty.

Carlos María Isidro De Borbón, Conde De Molina

2005-02-05T07:48:00.000-08:00

Don Carlos was imprisoned in Napoleonic France from 1808 to 1814. During the period of liberal rule (1820–23) he was involved in a number of conspiracies against the regime, and in the decade that followed

Chondrichthian, Food habits

2005-02-02T08:25:00.000-08:00

All sharks are carnivorous and, with a few exceptions, have broad feeding preferences, governed largely by the size and availability of the prey. The recorded food of the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvieri), for example, includes a wide variety of fishes (including other sharks, skates, and stingrays), sea turtles, birds, sea lions, crustaceans, squid, and even carrion such as

Hughes, John

2005-01-31T10:55:00.000-08:00

First Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, who became one of the foremost American Roman Catholic prelates of his time. Hughes immigrated in 1816 to the United States, studied at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Md., and was ordained priest in 1826. After serving several parishes in Philadelphia, where he founded the Catholic

Rausing, Gad Anders

2005-01-29T18:28:00.000-08:00

Swedish industrialist (b. May 19, 1922, Bromma, near Stockholm, Swed.—d. Jan. 28, 2000, Lausanne, Switz.), was the son of the developer of a sealed, laminated paperboard beverage box that did not require refrigeration and thus revolutionized the milk and juice industries. Rausing (with his younger brother, Hans) built the family business, Tetra Pak (later Tetra Laval Group), from a small Scandinavian

Force, Line Of

2005-01-27T20:50:00.000-08:00

In physics, path followed by an electric charge free to move in an electric field or a mass free to move in a gravitational field, or generally any appropriate test particle in a given force field. More abstractly, lines of force are lines in any such force field the tangent of which at any point gives the field direction at that point and the density of which gives the

Baracoa

2005-01-25T19:12:00.000-08:00

In December 1492 Christopher Columbus stopped at what is now

Los Alamos

2005-01-24T06:19:00.000-08:00

In 1942 Los Alamos was chosen by the U.S. government (because of its comparative isolation

Basalt

2005-01-21T06:22:00.000-08:00

Some basalts are quite glassy (tachylytes), and many are very fine-grained and compact; it is more usual, however, for them to exhibit porphyritic structure, with larger crystals (phenocrysts) of olivine, augite, or feldspar in a finely crystalline

Gonçalves Dias, Antônio

2005-01-19T11:05:00.000-08:00

Though Gonçalves Dias lived much of the time abroad following his education at the University of Coimbra in

Baptistery

2005-01-17T21:42:00.000-08:00

Hall or chapel situated close to, or connected with, a church, in which the sacrament of baptism is administered. The form of the baptistery originally evolved from small, circular Roman buildings that were designated for religious purposes (e.g., the Temple of Venus, Baalbek, Lebanon, AD 273, and the Mausoleum of Diocletian, Spalato [Split, Croatia], AD 300); but because baptism originally

Scandinavian Literature, Developments in Finno-Swedish literature

2005-01-15T04:56:00.000-08:00

The second flourishing of Finno-Swedish literature occurred in the 1920s, with the development of modernism in lyric poetry. This trend was initiated by Edith Södergran, whose visionary, dreamlike poems proved influential throughout much of Scandinavia. After her came such poets as Gunnar Björling, noted for his impressionistic pictures of nature; Rabbe

Pere Ubu

2005-01-14T09:58:00.000-08:00

American avant-garde art rock band generally considered to be a major force and influence in postpunk music. The original members were David Thomas (b. June 14, 1953), Peter Laughner (b. c. 1953—d. June 22, 1977), Tom Herman (b. April 19, 1949), Allen Ravenstine (b. May 9, 1950), Scott Krauss (b. Nov. 19, 1950), and Tim Wright. Later members included Tony Maimone (b. Sept. 27, 1952, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.), Jim Jones (b. March 12, 1950), Chris Cutler (b. Jan. 4, 1947), Mayo

Rabies

2005-01-12T04:34:00.000-08:00

Also called hydrophobia , or lyssa acute, usually fatal, viral infectious disease of the central nervous system. The disease is usually spread among domestic dogs and wild carnivorous animals; all warm-blooded animals are susceptible to rabies infection. The virus, a rhabdovirus, is often present in the salivary glands of rabid animals and is excreted in the saliva; thus, the bite of the infected animal

Abrahams, Peter

2005-01-09T13:55:00.000-08:00

Abrahams left South Africa at the age of 20, settling first in Britain and then in Jamaica; nevertheless, most of his novels and short stories are based on his early life

Itajaí

2005-01-08T04:46:00.000-08:00

City, eastern Santa Catarina estado (“state”), southern Brazil. It lies at the mouth of the Itajaí River, at 20 feet (6 m) above sea level. Founded in the mid-19th century by German and Italian colonists, Itajaí is now the commercial centre and Atlantic port for an agricultural region drained by the Itajaí River and its tributaries. Wrapping paper and cotton textiles are the principal

Lettow-vorbeck, Paul Von

2005-01-05T02:18:00.000-08:00

A member of the South West Colonial

France, History Of, The church

2005-01-04T23:16:00.000-08:00

The organized church, despite losses from war and plague, continued to be better endowed economically than morally. The popes of Avignon were less distant and—save perhaps to their French relatives, merchants, and artists—less admirable than the reformer popes of the past; as the prestige of their schismatic successors plummeted, the higher clergy were confirmed

Devil

2005-01-01T19:52:00.000-08:00

In the monotheistic Western religions, the devil is viewed as a fallen angel who in pride has tried to usurp the position of

Naguib, Muhammad

2004-12-30T06:49:00.000-08:00

A professional soldier, Naguib distinguished himself during the Egyptian defeat at the hands of Israel (1948) and won the respect of the Free Officers, a nationalist military group led by Gamal Abdel Nasser. In 1952 the Free

Haldane, John Scott

2004-12-29T10:21:00.000-08:00

Haldane developed several procedures for studying the physiology of breathing and the physiology of the blood and for the analysis of gases consumed or produced by the body. Among his most widely used devices were

Lathrop, Mother Alphonsa

2004-12-26T20:10:00.000-08:00

The daughter of the author Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rose was an infant when her family moved to Liverpool, where her father

Croesus

2004-12-25T16:31:00.000-08:00

A member of the Mermnad dynasty, Croesus succeeded to the throne of his father, Alyattes, after a struggle with his half brother. Croesus is said to have acted as viceroy and commander in

Croesus

2004-12-23T11:05:00.000-08:00

In full European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats , formerly (1953–79) Christian Democrat Group transnational parliamentary group representing the interests of allied conservative parties in the European Parliament of the European Union (EU). The EPP was formed in 1953 as the Christian Democrat Group, which acted as a transnational political party in the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). It is now composed of some 50 parties from EU

Arctolepis

2004-12-21T08:07:00.000-08:00

Extinct genus of Early Devonian fishlike animals (408 to 387 million years ago), considered to be an early and primitive member of a group known as the arthrodires, or jointed-neck fishes. Arctolepis had a bony head and trunk shield but was unarmoured behind the trunk region; the body tapered to a pointed tail; a tail fin was developed only on the lower margin of the

Nuclear Family

2004-12-19T20:18:00.000-08:00

Also called elementary family in sociology and anthropology, a group of persons united by ties of marriage and parenthood or adoption and consisting of a man, a woman, and their socially recognized children. This unit was once widely held to be the most basic and universal form of social organization. Anthropological research, however, has illuminated so much variability of this form that it is

Sabi River

2004-12-17T03:53:00.000-08:00

Also called Save River, river of southeastern Africa, flowing through Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The river rises as the Sabi about 50 miles (80 km) south of Harare (formerly Salisbury) and flows southeast from the Zimbabwean highveld to its confluence with the Odzi. It then turns south, drops over the Chivirira (“Place of Boiling”) Falls, and is joined by the Lundi at the Mozambique border. The river continues

Biblical Literature, The role of the judges

2004-12-15T19:20:00.000-08:00

Under these conditions, the successors to Joshua—the judges—arose. The Hebrew term shofet, which is translated into English as “judge,” is closer in meaning to “ruler,” a kind of military leader or deliverer from potential or actual defeat. In a passage from the so-called Ras Shamra tablets (discovered in 1929), the concept of the judge as a ruler is well illustrated:Our king is Triumphant

Performing Arts, Nordic Countries.

2004-12-15T18:35:00.000-08:00

Finland's Aki Kaurismaki looked, with characteristic wry humour, at the deprived of modern society through the eyes of a man suffering amnesia after a ferocious mugging in Mies vailla menneisyyttä (The Man Without a Past). From Sweden, Lukas Moodysson's Lilja 4-ever was a harrowing portrayal of a young girl, as much abused by the “benefactor” who takes her away to Sweden

Boii

2004-12-13T06:17:00.000-08:00

A Celtic tribe, one section of which settled in Cisalpine Gaul around Bononia (Bologna, Italy) and another in what was later Bohemia, to which it gave its name. The Cisalpine group, after struggling against the Romans throughout the 3rd century BC, was subdued and made a Latin colony in 191 BC. The second group, which joined with another Celtic tribe, the Helvetii, to invade Gaul, was

Reproductive System, Human, The vagina

2004-12-12T20:36:00.000-08:00

The vagina (the word means “a sheath”) is the canal that extends from the cervix (outer end) of the uterus within the lesser pelvis down to the vestibule between the labia minora. The orifice of the vagina is guarded by the hymen. The vagina lies behind the bladder and urethra and in front of the rectum and anal canal. Its walls are collapsed; the anterior wall is some 7.5 centimetres

Wessel, Johan Herman

2004-12-11T22:39:00.000-08:00

From 1761 when he entered the University of Copenhagen until his death at 43, Wessel lived the bohemian life of a debt-ridden, perpetual student. He was one of the founders (1772) and the outstanding talent of the

Ligne, Charles-joseph, Prince De

2004-12-10T05:39:00.000-08:00

The son of Claude Lamoral, prince de Ligne, head of a family long established in Hainaut

Karatsu

2004-12-08T09:02:00.000-08:00

City, Saga ken (prefecture), Kyushu, Japan, facing Karatsu Bay. Its name is derived from the Japanese terms kara (referring to China) and tsu (“port”), reflecting the city's history as an ancient port trading with China and Korea. The Karatsu coal mines were opened in the early 20th century, and after World War II the western part of the city developed as an industrial district, centring

Culture System

2004-12-08T04:59:00.000-08:00

According to the system, a villager should provide land rent to the government by setting aside one-fifth

Chatsworth

2004-12-06T03:17:00.000-08:00

Estate near Rowsley, Derbyshire Dales district, administrative and historic county of Derbyshire, England, containing the principal seat of the English dukes of Devonshire. Chatsworth House itself stands near the left bank of the River Derwent. Construction of the original building began in 1553, but, after suffering occupation by both parties to the English Civil

Lenormand, Louis-sebastien

2004-12-05T22:21:00.000-08:00

Information about Lenormand's life is scanty, but it is believed that he made his first jump from the top of a tree; in December 1783 he mounted

Arts, South Asian, North India

2004-12-04T22:48:00.000-08:00

The most common vocal form in North Indian classical music at the present time is the khyal, a Muslim word meaning “imagination.” The khyal is contrasted with the dhruvapada (now known as dhrupad), which means “fixed words.” The two forms existed side by side in the Islamic period, and it is only in the last century or two that khyal has achieved ascendancy. There are two types of

Indian Ocean, Trenches

2004-12-02T04:05:00.000-08:00

The Indian Ocean has the fewest trenches of any of the world's oceans. The narrow (50 miles), volcanic, and seismically active Java Trench is the world's second longest, stretching more than 1,600 miles from southwest of Java and continuing northward as the Sunda Trench past Sumatra, with an extension along the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Nabulus

2004-12-02T02:14:00.000-08:00

Shechem, a Canaanite city, was important in ancient Palestine because of its position in an east–west pass between

Auric, Georges

2004-11-30T19:48:00.000-08:00

Auric studied under Vincent d'Indy and Albert Roussel in Paris, and in 1920 the critic Henri Collet included him in “Les Six,” the group of young French composers under the informal patronage

Alcan Aluminium Limited

2004-11-30T13:28:00.000-08:00

Canadian multinational company incorporated in 1928 (as Aluminium Limited) and now the largest Canadian industrial enterprise, operating in more than 100 countries. It has mining and refining operations for bauxite; smelting plants for aluminum; hydroelectric plants; fabricating plants for a wide variety of aluminum products; transportation operations; facilities

Bridle

2004-11-29T14:13:00.000-08:00

The reins, lines

Indian Museum

2004-11-27T17:38:00.000-08:00

In Calcutta, oldest museum in India and one of the most comprehensive in the Orient; its collections depict the cultural history of India from prehistoric to Muslim times. The present building, opened in 1875, comprises sections devoted to geology, zoology, industry, archaeology, art, and ethnology. The coin room contains the largest collection of Indian coins in the

Tiel

2004-11-27T14:43:00.000-08:00

Formerly Thiel, gemeente (commune), Gelderland provincie, central Netherlands, on the Waal River, west-southwest of Arnhem. Chartered in 1200, Tiel developed as a medieval port and market town and became a member of the Hanseatic League. The town now has a horticultural school, serves a fruit-growing (cherries, apples, and pears) region, and has some light industries. Pop. (1992 est.) 32,643.

Insurance, Reinsurance

2004-11-26T18:49:00.000-08:00

Two main types of treaties exist—pro rata and excess-of-loss

Quinine

2004-11-25T09:01:00.000-08:00

Drug obtained from cinchona bark that is used chiefly in the treatment of malaria, an infection caused by the protozoan parasite Plasmodium, which is transmitted to humans by the bite of various species of mosquitoes. During the 300 years between its introduction into Western medicine and World War I, quinine was the only effective remedy for malaria. As a specific

Biblical Literature, Additions to Daniel and Esther

2004-11-24T06:44:00.000-08:00

Two of the Old Testament Hagiographa (Ketuvim; see above The Hebrew canon)—Daniel and Esther—contain, in their Greek translations, numerous additions.

Ear Disease

2004-11-23T01:20:00.000-08:00

Impaired hearing is, with rare exception, the result of disease or abnormality of the outer, middle, or inner ear. Serious impairment of hearing at birth almost always results from a dysfunction of the auditory nerve and cannot be improved by medical or surgical treatment. In early and late childhood

China, Civil war (194549)

2004-11-21T08:36:00.000-08:00

In a little more than four years after Japan's surrender, the CCP and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) conquered mainland China, and, on Oct. 1, 1949, the People's Republic of China was established, with its capital at Peking. The factors that brought this about were many and complex and subject to widely varying interpretation, but the basic fact was a Communist military triumph

Kafzeh

2004-11-21T04:22:00.000-08:00

The remains,

Diesinking

2004-11-20T14:08:00.000-08:00

The die block is mounted on a table while a vertical-spindle milling machine with end cutters is used to shape the die. In most simple machines the movement of the cutter may be controlled by the manual operation of transverse, horizontal,

Astrodome

2004-11-19T21:22:00.000-08:00

Modern domed stadium built in Houston, Texas, in 1965. The largest previous covered sports arenas provided only limited performing space and seated no more than 20,000 persons. The Astrodome, however, built on the principle of the dome, completely protects a sports area suitable for baseball and American football, with seating for 66,000 spectators in six tiers. The plastic-paneled

Sinaitic Inscriptions

2004-11-18T02:34:00.000-08:00

Also called Proto-sinaitic Inscriptions, archeological remains that are among the earliest examples of alphabetic writing; they were inscribed on stones in the Sinai Peninsula, where they were first discovered in 1904–05 by the British archaeologist Sir William Flinders Petrie. Apparently influenced both by Egyptian hieroglyphic writing and by the Canaanitic writing system (1900–1800 BC; probably ancestral to the North

Ben Khedda, Benyoussef

2004-11-16T18:01:00.000-08:00

Algerian independence leader (b. Feb. 23, 1920, Berrouaghia, Alg.—d. Feb. 4, 2003, Algiers, Alg.), negotiated Algeria's independence from France in 1962, but he was forced from power shortly thereafter. In 1943, after he protested against French attempts to recruit Algerians in World War II, Ben Khedda was imprisoned for eight months. After the war he became general secretary of the pro-independence

Dagomba

2004-11-15T21:35:00.000-08:00

According to tradition, the Dagomba kingdom was founded by northern invaders in the 14th century.

Hyperparathyroidism

2004-11-15T10:36:00.000-08:00

Abnormal increase in the secretion of parathyroid hormone by one or more parathyroid glands (see parathyroid gland). The oversecretion is usually caused by a tumour or enlargement of parathyroid tissue and results in elevated blood and urine calcium, elevated urine phosphorus, and low-to-normal blood phosphorus. The excess calcium is withdrawn from the bones,

Afghanistan, Ya'qub Khan (1879)

2004-11-13T17:28:00.000-08:00

The Treaty of Gandamak (Gandomak; May 26, 1879) recognized Ya'qub Khan as emir, and he subsequently agreed to receive a permanent British embassy at Kabul. In addition, he agreed to conduct his foreign relations with other states in accordance “with the wishes and advice” of the British government. This British triumph, however, was short-lived. On September 3, 1879, the British envoy and

Nerchinsk, Treaty Of

2004-11-12T20:44:00.000-08:00

(1689), peace settlement between Russia and the Manchu Chinese empire that checked Russia's eastward expansion by removing its outposts from the Amur River basin. By the treaty's terms Russia lost easy access to the Sea of Okhotsk and Far Eastern markets but secured its claim to Transbaikalia (the area east of Lake Baikal) and gained the right of passage to Beijing for its

Dome

2004-11-11T13:52:00.000-08:00

In architecture, hemispherical structure evolved from the arch, usually forming a ceiling or roof. Domes first appeared as solid mounds and in techniques adaptable only to the smallest buildings, such as round huts and tombs in the ancient Middle East, India, and the Mediterranean. The Romans introduced the large-scale masonry hemisphere. The dome exerts thrusts

Digestive System, Vertebrate, Neurotensin

2004-11-10T18:43:00.000-08:00

Secreted by the N cells of the ileum in response to fat in the small intestine, neurotensin modulates motility, relaxes the lower esophageal sphincter, and blocks the stimulation of acid and pepsin secretion by the vagus nerve.

Cheng Ch'eng-kung

2004-11-09T05:15:00.000-08:00

Cheng Ch'eng-kung was born in a small Japanese coastal town to a Japanese mother and a Chinese father, Cheng Chih-lung, a maritime adventurer who made a fortune through trade and piracy in the Taiwan Straits. Cheng

Wadgaon, Convention Of

2004-11-08T16:41:00.000-08:00

The compact was concluded after a British expedition, commanded by Colonel William Cockburn and controlled by Colonel

Ashqelon

2004-11-06T16:02:00.000-08:00

Traces of habitation at the ancient city site extend back to 2000 BC; the city's

Gippius, Zinaida Nikolayevna

2004-11-06T07:33:00.000-08:00

During the

Sackville

2004-11-04T14:19:00.000-08:00

Town, Westmorland county, southeastern New Brunswick, Canada. It lies near the Nova Scotia border, 27 miles (43 km) southeast of Moncton. Three French villages occupied the site about 1720, but these were destroyed with the capture of nearby Fort Beauséjour (Fort Cumberland) and the expulsion of the Acadians in 1755. Resettled in 1761 by New England immigrants, the community was named after

Diebitsch, Johann (karl Friedrich Anton), Graf

2004-11-03T14:49:00.000-08:00

Although he was of German parentage and was educated at the Berlin cadet school, Diebitsch joined the Russian Army in 1801, and, after fighting against Napoleon in the battles of Austerlitz, Eylau, Friedland,

Beinum, Eduard (alexander) Van

2004-11-02T05:48:00.000-08:00

At 17 van Beinum entered the Amsterdam Conservatory after a year of playing in the string section of the Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra. A series of minor appointments led to conductorships of the Haarlem Orchestra and Haarlem Roman Catholic

Intentionality

2004-11-01T00:13:00.000-08:00

The concept of intentionality enables the phenomenologist to deal with the immanent-transcendent problem—i.e., the relation between what is within consciousness and what extends beyond it—in a manner different from that employed

Nowshera

2004-10-31T18:42:00.000-08:00

Also spelled Naushahra town, North-West Frontier Province, northern Pakistan. Lying on a sandy plain surrounded by hills, on the banks of the Kabul River (there bridged), Nowshera is a commercial and industrial centre that is connected by rail and road with Dargai (Malakand Pass), Mardan, Peshawar, and Rawalpindi. The town's industries include cotton, wool, and paperboard mills and chemical and newsprint

Devo

2004-10-29T07:14:00.000-07:00

Formed

Jackson

2004-10-28T10:07:00.000-07:00

Town, seat (1921) of Teton county, northwestern Wyoming, U.S. The town lies at the southern end of the Teton Range, just north of the Snake River, and is the centre of an important recreation and tourist industry. Explored by the fur trapper John Colter in 1807, Jackson takes its name from another trapper, David Jackson, who worked in the area in the 1820s and who organized summer rendezvous

Performing Arts, North America.

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Despite the vicissitudes of living in an awakened world following the 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S., most plans in place for dance went forward in 2002. Though American Ballet Theatre (ABT) was forced for budgetary reasons to cancel plans for an all-Stravinsky program—featuring Firebird, a work created by James Kudelka for his National Ballet of Canada (NBC)—ABT managed to

Halston

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Halston studied at Indiana University and the Art Institute of Chicago and operated a millinery shop in Chicago before joining milliner Lilly Daché in New York City. In 1959 he became a milliner for Bergdorf Goodman; in 1966 he expanded his line into clothes

'amr Ibn Al-'as

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A wealthy member of the Banu Sahm clan of the important tribe of Quraysh, 'Amr accepted Islam in 629–630. Sent to Oman, in southeastern Arabia, by the Prophet Muhammad, he successfully completed his first mission by converting its rulers to Islam. As the leader of one of the three military forces sent to Palestine by the caliph Abu Bakr, he took

1830, Revolutions Of

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The movement started in France, prompted by Charles X's publication on July 26 of four ordinances dissolving the Chamber of Deputies, suspending freedom of the press, modifying the electoral laws so that three-fourths of the electorate lost their

Chang Ping-lin

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Chang received a traditional education during which he was influenced by Ming dynasty (1368–1644) loyalist writers who had refused to serve the foreign Ch'ing dynasty (1644–1911/12) established by the Manchu tribes of Manchuria.

Biblical Literature, Textual criticism

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Textual criticism is concerned with the basic task of establishing, as far as possible, the original text of the documents on the basis of the available materials. For the Old Testament, until 1947, these materials consisted principally of: (1) Hebrew manuscripts dated from the 9th century AD onward, the Masoretic text, the traditional Jewish text with its vocalization and punctuation

Fibrous Dysplasia

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Also called Mccune-Albright syndrome rare congenital developmental disorder beginning in childhood, characterized by cyst formation and replacement of solid, calcified bone with fibrous tissue, often only on one side of the body, in the long bones and pelvis. Other signs include unilateral (one-sided) enlargement of the bones of the face and base of the skull, café au lait (pale brown) spots on the skin, and

Arabia, The Persian Gulf lowland

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A low-lying region follows the Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf from Kuwait around to the Al-Hajar mountains of Oman at the mouth of the gulf. The gravel plain of Ad-Dibdibah lies inland southwest of Kuwait. Adjacent to Ad-Dahna' is the low plateau of As-Summan; between it and the coast scattered hills rise a few hundred feet. Broad patches of sand occur here and there, and salt

WrongNut

Estate Agent Covent Garden

Biblical Literature, Roman occupation and Jewish revolts

Field Trial

Xenophon

France, History Of, Collective security

Baldachin

Colonialism, Western, World War II (193945)

Colonialism, Western, World War II (193945)

Leaf-nosed Snake

Bioceramics

China, The transition to socialism, 195357

Hsi K'ang

Dmitry, False

Hormone, Neurohypophysis and the polypeptide hormones of the hypothalamus

Melanoma

Han-tan

Fabert, Abraham De

Boyer, Paul D.

Jacksonville

Typography

Henry Vii

Carlos María Isidro De Borbón, Conde De Molina

Chondrichthian, Food habits

Hughes, John

Rausing, Gad Anders

Force, Line Of

Baracoa

Los Alamos

Basalt

Gonçalves Dias, Antônio

Baptistery

Scandinavian Literature, Developments in Finno-Swedish literature

Pere Ubu

Rabies

Abrahams, Peter

Itajaí

Lettow-vorbeck, Paul Von

France, History Of, The church

Devil

Naguib, Muhammad

Haldane, John Scott

Lathrop, Mother Alphonsa

Croesus

Croesus

Arctolepis

Nuclear Family

Sabi River

Biblical Literature, The role of the judges

Performing Arts, Nordic Countries.

Boii

Reproductive System, Human, The vagina

Wessel, Johan Herman

Ligne, Charles-joseph, Prince De

Karatsu

Culture System

Chatsworth

Lenormand, Louis-sebastien

Arts, South Asian, North India

Indian Ocean, Trenches

Nabulus

Auric, Georges

Alcan Aluminium Limited

Bridle

Indian Museum

Tiel

Insurance, Reinsurance

Quinine

Biblical Literature, Additions to Daniel and Esther

Ear Disease

China, Civil war (194549)

Kafzeh

Diesinking

Astrodome

Sinaitic Inscriptions

Ben Khedda, Benyoussef

Dagomba

Hyperparathyroidism

Afghanistan, Ya'qub Khan (1879)

Nerchinsk, Treaty Of

Colonialism, Western, World War II (193945)

Colonialism, Western, World War II (193945)

China, The transition to socialism, 195357

China, Civil war (194549)