Wu-han
Pinyin �Wuhan� fifth largest city of the People's Republic of China, in Hupeh Province, located at the confluence of the Han and Yangtze rivers. It is a conurbation of three adjacent cities - Han-k'ou (Hankow), Han-yang, and Wu-ch'ang; the last is the capital of Hupeh Province. Han-k'ou lies on the north bank of the Yangtze at the mouth of the Han. Immediately across the Han from it is the older city
Ba'al Shem Tov
Dov Baer, Shivh� ha-Besht (1814), is the earliest collection of legends (in Hebrew) about the Ba'al Shem Tov. Dan Ben-Amos and Jerome R. Mintz (eds. and trans.), In Praise of Baal Shem Tov (1970), offers an English translation of Dov Baer's legends, based upon the 1814 edition. Meyer Levin, The Golden Mountain (1932); and Martin Buber, Die Legende des Baalschem (1932; The Legend of the Baal-Shem, 1955), retell with literary flair the legends of the Ba'al Shem Tov. Salomo Birnbaum, Leben und Worte des Baalschem (1920; The Life and Sayings of the Baal Shem, 1933), contains excerpts from the writings and teachings of the Ba'al Shem Tov.
Parakeet
Also spelled �Parrakeet� any of numerous seed-eating parrots of small size, slender build, and long, tapering tail. In this sense the name is given to some 115 species in 30 genera of the subfamily Psittacinae (family Psittacidae) and has influenced another parrot name, lorikeet (see parrot). To indicate size only, the name is sometimes extended to little parrots with short, blunt tails, as the hanging
Arabian Desert, Plant life
There is a great variety of desert flora. Plants are primarily xerophytic (structurally adapted to a limited water supply) or halophytic (salt-tolerant). After spring rains, long-buried seeds germinate and bloom in a few hours. The normally barren gravel plains turn green. Even chert plains produce late-winter and early-spring grazing for camels and sheep. The plains
Cincinnati
City, seat of Hamilton county, southwestern Ohio, U.S. It lies along the Ohio River (bridged) opposite Covington and Newport, Kentucky, 15 miles (24 km) east of the Indiana border. Cincinnati is Ohio's third largest city, after Cleveland and Columbus. Picturesquely situated between the Little Miami and Great Miami rivers at their influx into the Ohio, it is encircled by hills rising
Biblical Literature, Spanish versions
Nothing is known from earlier than the 13th century when James I of Aragon in 1233 proscribed the possession of the Bible in �romance� (the Spanish
Squash
With most of the world's top squash players participating at the Commonwealth Games, held on July 25 - August 4 in Manchester, Eng., the singles events became something of an unofficial world championships. The men's final saw another duel between the number one and number two players, Peter Nicol of England and Jonathon Power of Canada. Nicol had taken the title four years
Brasidas
Spartan officer generally considered the only commander of genius produced by Sparta during the Archidamian War (431 - 421), the first decade of the Peloponnesian War (431 - 404) between Athens and Sparta. Through his eloquence and charm, qualities unusual in a Spartan, he earned the admiration of many of Athens' allies, thus paving the way for the revolts
Harding
County, northeastern New Mexico, U.S., bordered on the west by the Canadian River and its steep canyon. The county lies in the Great Plains, with the eastern area merging to the High Plains. Mesas, cliffs, and high hills rise from the landscape; Ute Creek flows southward through Harding county, receiving waters from Tequesquite Creek. The Kiowa National Grassland covers
Kweichow, Education
Kweichow has one of the highest rates of illiteracy in China, especially among its many minority peoples. Nonetheless, there are a number of institutions of higher learning in the province, including Kweichow University, Kuei-yang Medical College, Kweichow Agricultural Institute (founded in 1939), the Kuei-yang Nationalities Institute (for training members of ethnic
Ikot Abasi
Also called �Opobo, �formerly �Egwanga, � port town, Akwa Ibom state, southern Nigeria. The town lies near the mouth of the Imo (Opobo) River. Situated at a break in the mangrove swamps and rain forest of the eastern Niger River delta, it served in the 19th century as a collecting point for slaves. In 1870 Jubo Jubogha, a former Igbo (Ibo) slave and ruler of the Anna Pepple house of Bonny (28 miles [45 km] west-southwest), came to Ikot Abasi
Dennett, Mary Coffin Ware
Mary Ware graduated from Miss Capen's School for Girls in Northampton, Massachusetts, and entered the school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. From 1894 to 1897 she taught design and decoration at the
Mckinley, John
After practicing law briefly in Kentucky, where he grew up, McKinley settled in Huntsville, Alabama, then a centre of planting and political interests, in 1818. In 1820 he was elected to the Alabama state legislature and two years later, despite the support
Metallurgy
Art and science of extracting metals from their ores and modifying the metals for use. Metallurgy customarily refers to commercial as opposed to laboratory methods. It also concerns the chemical, physical, and atomic properties and structures of metals and the principles whereby metals are combined to form alloys.
Fable, Parable, And Allegory, Renaissance
Romance and romantic forms provide the main vehicle for the entrance of allegory into the literature of the Renaissance period. The old Arthurian legends carry a new sophistication and polish in the epics of the Italians Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso and in the work of Edmund Spenser. By interlacing several simultaneous stories in one larger narrative, the literary
Anomoean
(from Greek anomoios, �unlike�), any member of a religious group of the 4th century that represented an extreme form of Arianism (q.v.), a Christian heresy that held that the essential difference between God and Christ was that God had always existed, while Christ was created by God. A�tius, the founder of the Anomoeans, reasoned that the doctrine carried to its logical conclusion
Saldanha Bay
Afrikaans �Saldanhabaai, � deep, essentially landlocked harbour of the Atlantic Ocean, situated on the southwest coast of South Africa. Named after the early 16th-century Portuguese navigator Ant�nio de Saldanha, the bay is both larger and safer than Table Bay, which is located 65 miles (105 km) farther south-southeast. Saldanha Bay's former abundance of seals, fish, and guano deposits was long contested
Holberg, Ludvig, Friherre Holberg
Gerald S. Argetsinger, Ludvig Holberg's Comedies (1983); F.J. Billeskov Jansen, Ludvig Holberg (1974); and Sven Hakon Rossel (ed.), Ludvig Holberg - A European Writer: A Study in Influence and Reception (1994).
Rambouillet
Breed of sheep, developed from selections of a few hundred of the best Merino sheep of Spain in 1786 and 1799 by the French government at its national sheepfold at Rambouillet, Fr. First imported to the United States in 1840, the breed was successfully molded through selective breeding to meet the needs of a large class of U.S. sheep producers. Rambouillets prevail on the western ranges,
Aghlabid Dynasty
Also called �Banu al-Aghlab� Arab Muslim dynasty that ruled Ifriqiyah (Tunisia and eastern Algeria) from AD 800 to 909. The Aghlabids were nominally subject to the 'Abbasid caliphs of Baghdad but were in fact independent. Their capital city was Kairouan (al-Qayrawan), in Tunisia. The most interesting of the 11 Aghlabid emirs were the energetic and cultured Ibrahim ibn al-Aghlab (reigned 800 - 812), founder of al-Abbasiyya (2 miles
Novial
Artificial language constructed in 1928 by the Danish philologist Otto Jespersen, intended for use as an international auxiliary language, but little used today. Its grammar is similar in type to that of Esperanto or Ido. Novial has one definite article, no gender for nouns except those denoting persons, noun plurals in -s, forms for a possessive (genitive) and an objective
Mastoid Process
The smooth pyramidal or cone-shaped bone projection at the base of the skull on each side of the head just below and behind the ear in humans. The mastoid process is important to students of fossil humans because it occurs regularly and in the specific form described only in hominids (i.e., members of the genera Homo and Australopithecus). The development of the mastoid
Kazak
Also spelled �Kazakh, � an Asiatic Turkic-speaking people inhabiting mainly Kazakstan and the adjacent parts of the Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang in China. The Kazaks emerged in the 15th century from an amalgam of Turkic tribes who entered Transoxiana about the 8th century and of Mongols who entered the area in the 13th century. At the end of the 20th century there were roughly 7,600,000 in Kazakstan
Adams, John Couch
British mathematician and astronomer, one of two people who independently discovered the planet Neptune. On July 3, 1841, Adams had entered in his journal: �Formed a design in the beginning of this week of investigating, as soon as possible after taking my degree, the irregularities in the motion of Uranus . . . in order
Soga Chokuan
Japanese painter who specialized in bird-and-flower pictures and founded the Soga family of artists. He is especially noted as a painter of fowl (as his son Chokuan II was noted as a painter of falcons). His brightly coloured, realistic bird-and-flower screen paintings are in the Hoki Temple on Mount Koya, the Daitoku Temple in Kyoto, and the Tokyo National
Turaco
Turacos are remarkable for their coloration. Some are predominantly gray, brown, and white, but the 10 species of the
Nicholas
The son of the emperor Alexander II's brother, the
Leahy, Frank
Leahy played at Notre Dame under Rockne in 1929, but a knee injury
Boiler
Also called �Steam Generator, � apparatus designed to convert a liquid to vapour. In a conventional steam power plant, a boiler consists of a furnace in which fuel is burned, surfaces to transmit heat from the combustion products to the water, and a space where steam can form and collect. A conventional boiler has a furnace that burns a fossil fuel or, in some installations, waste fuels. A nuclear reactor
Syrian Desert
Arabic �Badiyat Ash-sham, � arid wasteland of southwestern Asia, extending northward from the Arabian Peninsula over much of northern Saudi Arabia, eastern Jordan, southern Syria, and western Iraq. Receiving on the average less than 5 inches (125 mm) of rainfall annually and largely covered by lava flows, it formed a nearly impenetrable barrier between the populated areas of the Levant and Mesopotamia
Eakins, Thomas
All paintings in oils unless otherwise noted. �A Street Scene in Seville� (1870; Mrs. John R. Garrett, Sr. Collection); �Home Scene� (1871; Brooklyn Museum, New York); �Max Schmitt in a Single Scull� (1871; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City); �Katherine� (1872; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.); �The Pair-Oared Shell� (1872; Philadelphia Museum of Art); �The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake� (1873; Cleveland Museum of Art); �John Biglin in a Single Scull� (watercolour, 1873; Metropolitan Museum of Art); �Sailing� (1874; Philadelphia Museum of Art); �Pushing for Rail� (1874; Metropolitan Museum of Art); �The Gross Clinic� (1875; Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia); �Will Schuster and Blackman Going Shooting� (1876; Yale University Art Gallery); �Chess Players� (1876; Metropolitan Museum of Art); �William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River� (1877; Philadelphia Museum of Art); �The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand� (1879; Philadelphia Museum of Art); �The Crucifixion� (1880; Philadelphia Museum of Art); �The Pathetic Song� (1881; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.); �The Swimming Hole� (1883; Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Fort Worth, Texas); �Lady with a Setter Dog (Mrs. Eakins)� (1885; Metropolitan Museum of Art); �Walt Whitman� (1887; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia); �Letitia Wilson Jordan Bacon� (1888; Brooklyn Museum); �Miss Van Buren� (c. 1889; Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.); �The Agnew Clinic� (1889; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia); �Professor Henry A. Rowland� (1891; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass.); �The Concert Singer� (1892; Philadelphia Museum of Art); �Frank Hamilton Cushing� (1894 - 95; Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Okla.); �Taking the Count� (1898; Yale University Art Gallery); �Salutat� (1898; Addison Gallery of American Art); �Between Rounds� (1899; Philadelphia Museum of Art); �Benjamin Eakins� (1899; Philadelphia Museum of Art); �Mrs. William D. Frishmuth� (1900; Philadelphia Museum of Art); �The Thinker: Louis N. Kenton� (1900; Metropolitan Museum of Art); �Self-Portrait� (1902; National Academy of Design, New York); �Mrs. Edith Mahon� (1904; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass.); �Monsignor Diomede Falconio� (1905; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.).
