(from the article "Bamberg") ...book printed in the German language was published in Bamberg. The city passed to Bavaria in 1802 after the secularization of the see. An archbishopric was established in 1817. Bamberg's imperial cathedral (1004-1237) contains many notable statues, the tombs of ...
economist and publicist, a leading authority on currency problems in Germany. Originally a radical, he became a moderate liberal in Bismarck's Germany.
group of painters working in Rome in the mid-17th century who were known for their relatively small, often anecdotal paintings of everyday life. The word derives from the nickname "Il Bamboccio" ("Large Baby"), applied to the physically malformed Dutch painter ...
any of the tall, treelike grasses comprising the subfamily Bambusoideae of the family Poaceae. More than 75 genera and 1,000 species of bamboos have been proposed in botanical literature, but many names are synonymous and thus not considered legitimate. [19 Related Articles]
set of Chinese court records written on bamboo slips, from the state of Wei, one of the many small states into which China was divided during the Dong (Eastern) Zhou dynasty (770-256 BCE). The state records were hidden in a ...
(from the article "houseplant") ...Best known of the feather palms is the paradise palm (Howea, or Kentia), which combines grace with sturdiness; its thick, leathery leaves can stand much abuse. The parlour palms and bamboo palms of the genus Chamaedorea have dainty fronds on ...
any of four Asiatic species of burrowing, slow-moving, nocturnal rodents. Bamboo rats have a robust, cylindrical body, small ears and eyes, and short, stout legs. The three species of Rhizomys are 23 to 50 cm (9.1 to ...
(from the article "annelid") ...biramous; setae all simple; size, 1 to 20 or more cm; examples of genera: Capitella, Notomastus, Arenicola, Maldane, Axiothella.Sedentary; setae of anterior segments directed ...
(from the article "Native American dance") ...mingle indigenous and African features. The Colombian fandango derives more from Spanish diversions. The national dance, the bambuco, originated in the Andean zone. Male and female partners, waving kerchiefs, enact a courtship mime of ...
coastal village, Berwick-upon-Tweed borough, administrative and historic county of Northumberland, England. The site is dominated by Bamburgh Castle, which stands on a cliff 150 feet (45 metres) above the North Sea. The fortress was founded in the 6th century by ...
(from the article "Bamburgh") coastal village, Berwick-upon-Tweed borough, administrative and historic county of Northumberland, England. The site is dominated by Bamburgh Castle, which stands on a cliff 150 feet (45 metres) above the North Sea. The fortress was founded in the 6th century by ...
(from the article "bamboo") ...Chinese cuisines. The raw leaves are a useful fodder for livestock. The pulped fibres of several bamboo species, especially Dendrocalamus strictus and Bambusa arundinacea, are used to make fine-quality paper. The jointed stems of ...
a group of Pygmies of the Ituri Forest of eastern Congo (Kinshasa). They are the shortest group of Pygmies in Africa, averaging under 4 feet 6 inches (137 cm) in height, and are perhaps the most famous. In addition to ... [3 Related Articles]
town, northwestern Cameroon. It is situated in the volcanic Bamenda highlands. Although communications are difficult because of heavy rainfall and rugged relief, the town serves as a trade and export centre for local agricultural products such as hides, coffee, and ...
English radical reformer who was the author of several widely popular poems (principally in the Lancashire dialect) showing sympathy with the condition of the working class. He became a working weaver and earned great respect in northern radical circles as ...
any of about 90 West African peoples in the Bamileke region of Cameroon. They speak a language of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family. They do not refer to themselves as Bamileke but instead use the names of the ... [3 Related Articles]
town located in central Afghanistan. It lies about 80 miles (130 km) northwest of Kabul, the country's capital, in the Bamiyan valley, at an elevation of 8,495 feet (2,590 metres). [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "South Asian arts") ...life in Warangal; and Palanati Vira Caritra, a popular ballad on a fratricidal war. Many erotic catus, or stray epigrams, are also attributed to him. Bammera Potana, a great Saiva devotee in life and poetry, unschooled yet a scholar, is ...
(from the article "Bampton, John") English clergyman who gave his name to one of Protestant Christendom's most distinguished lectureships, the Bampton lectures at Oxford University.
a West African people speaking a language that is often used as a lingua franca and belongs to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family. Their kingdom, with its capital at Foumban (q.v.) in the high western grasslands of Cameroon, ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Bamum") a West African people speaking a language that is often used as a lingua franca and belongs to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family. Their kingdom, with its capital at Foumban (q.v.) in the high western grasslands of Cameroon, ...
former Hungarian title denoting a governor of a military district (banat) and later designating a local representative of the Hungarian king in outlying possessions, e.g., Bosnia and Croatia. Originally a Persian word, ban was introduced into Europe by the Avars. ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "The Protestant Heritage") ...means of church discipline than could their magisterial counterparts. Social control was more feasible in these smaller and well-defined groups than in the established churches, and "the ban," a form of excommunication, was used to enforce discipline by expelling members ...
(from the article "luogu") ...xiaoluo (small gong without a boss, beaten with a stick or a thin plate), ling (handbells), and ban (woodblock) are sometimes added. Whatever the ensemble's composition, the drummer is usually the leader.
eminent Chinese official of the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) who is reported to have begun the famous Han shu ("Book of Han"), considered the Confucian historiographic model on which all later dynastic histories were patterned. [2 Related Articles]
Chinese scholar-official of the Dong (Eastern), or Hou (Later), Han dynasty and one of China's most noteworthy historians. His Han shu (translated as The History of the Former Han Dynasty) became the model most ... [5 Related Articles]
Before a catastrophic earthquake devastated the Kobe area in Japan on Jan. 17, 1995, Shigeru Ban was recognized as a rising Japanese architect. He therefore felt he had to help the afflicted people and went to the city in February. ...
one of the greatest masters of Sanskrit prose, famed principally for his chronicle, Harsacarita ("Deeds of Harsa"), depicting the court and times of the Buddhist emperor Harsa (reigned c. 606-647) of northern India. [1 Related Articles]
coral and phosphate formation, part of Kiribati, in the west-central Pacific Ocean. It is located 250 miles (400 km) west of the nearest Gilbert Islands and has a circumference of about 6 miles (10 km). Banaba is the location of ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Uganda, Martyrs of") ...Kibuka, Anatole Kiriggwajjo, Achilles Kiwanuka, Mugagga, Mukasa Kiriwawanvu, Adolphus Mukasa Ludigo, Gyavira, and Kizito. The soldiers and officials Saints Bruno Serunkuma, James Buzabaliawo, and Luke Banabakintu were martyred with them.
(from the article "analysis") ...different areas of analysis all came together in a single generalization-rather, two generalizations, one more general than the other. These were the notions of a Hilbert space and a Banach space, named after the German mathematician David Hilbert and the ...
(from the article "axiom of choice") Nonetheless, the axiom of choice does have some counterintuitive consequences. The best-known of these is the Banach-Tarski paradox. This shows that for a solid sphere there exists (in the sense that the axioms assert the existence of sets) a decomposition ...
(from the article "Celtic religion") ...central institution of sacral kingship. A good example is the pervasive and persistent concept of the hierogamy (sacred marriage) of the king with the goddess of sovereignty: the sexual union, or banais righi ("wedding of kingship"), that constituted the core ...
port on the Atlantic coast in far southwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo, central Africa, at the mouth of the Congo River. One of the nation's older towns, it was known as a trading centre in the 19th century, mainly ... [1 Related Articles]
fruit of the genus Musa, of the family Musaceae, one of the most important food crops of the world. The banana is consumed extensively throughout the tropics, where it is grown, and is also valued in the temperate zone for ... [13 Related Articles]
Zimbabwean Methodist minister, theologian, and statesman (b. March 5, 1936, Esiphezini, Matabeleland, Southern Rhodesia-d. Nov. 10, 2003, Harare, Zimb.), held the largely ceremonial post of president of Zimbabwe from 1980, when the country gained independence, until Prime Minister Robert Mugabe ...
island, Tocantins estado (state), central Brazil. The island is formed by the Araguaia River, which for 200 miles (320 km) divides into major (western) and minor (eastern) branches, with Bananal Island lying between them. The major branch of the Araguaia ...
(Coereba flaveola), bird of the West Indies (except Cuba) and southern Mexico to Argentina. It is usually placed with honeycreepers in the family Emberizidae (order Passeriformes), but it may belong with woodwarblers (Parulidae). About 11 cm (4.5 inches) long, the ...
(from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...in the Deccan in the 1880s. The movement for national education spread throughout Bengal, as well as to Varanasi (Banaras), where Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861-1946) founded his private Banaras Hindu University in 1910.
(1773; 1775), two agreements regulating relations between the British government of Bengal and the ruler of the Muslim state of Oudh. The defense of Oudh had been guaranteed in 1765 on the condition that the state's ruler, Shuja'-ud-Dawlah, pay the ...
(from the article "Ray, Satyajit") ...house as a commercial illustrator, becoming a leading Indian typographer and book-jacket designer. Among the books he illustrated (1944) was the novel Pather Panchali by Bibhuti Bhushan Banarjee, the cinematic possibilities of which began to intrigue him. Ray had long ...
river in Rajasthan state, northwestern India. It rises near Kumbhalgarh and cuts its way tortuously through the Aravali Range. It then flows in a northeasterly course onto the plains and joins the Chambal River, just north of Sheopur, after a ... [1 Related Articles]
ethnically mixed historic region of eastern Europe; it is bounded by Transylvania and Walachia in the east, by the Tisza River in the west, by the Mures River in the north, and by the Danube River in the south. After ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Romania") Among the massifs themselves, the Banat and Poiana Ruscai mountains contain a rich variety of mineral resources and are the site of two of the country's three largest metallurgical complexes, at Resita and Hunedoara. The marble of Ruschita is well ...
(from the article "India") ...one direction being used for taller crops, such as peas, and the narrow perpendicular rows being used for oilseed plants such as those of the genus Sesamum (sesame). From Banawali and sites in the desiccated Sarasvati River ...
(from the article "Banbridge") ...vehicle components. Much of the land in the surrounding area is utilized for crops, including oats, potatoes, and barley, or as pasture for livestock (mostly pigs). Primary roads connect the town of Banbridge with the towns of Lisburn to the ...
