(from the article "Rococo style") Excellent examples of French Rococo are the Salon de M. le Prince (completed 1722) in the Petit Chateau at Chantilly, decorated by Jean Aubert, and the salons (begun 1732) of the Hotel de Soubise, Paris, by Germain Boffrand. The Rococo ...
annual exhibition of the Societe des Artistes Independants, held in Paris since 1884. In the course of revolutionary developments in painting in late 19th-century France, both artists and the public became increasingly unhappy with the rigid and exclusive policies of ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Abstraction-Creation") ...and Barbara Hepworth, most of whom lived in Paris for a time. The group's last journal appeared in 1936. Abstraction-Creation's advocacy of abstraction was taken up after World War II by the Salon des Realites Nouvelles ("Salon of New Realities").
(French: Salon of the Refused), art exhibition held in 1863 in Paris by command of Napoleon III for those artists whose works had been refused by the jury of the official Salon. Among the exhibitors were Paul Cezanne, Camille Pissarro, ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Niaux") Like most caves, Niaux is divided into a number of distinct areas, among them the Salon Noir, which contains panels showing bison and horses drawn in outline. The cave is also important for its surviving drawings engraved into the clay ...
town, Bouches-du-Rhone departement, Provence-Alpes-Cote-d'Azur region, southeastern France, northwest of Marseille. Founded in pre-Roman times as the oppidum (fortified town) of Le Salounet on a hill in the Val de Cuech, Salon achieved importance in the Middle Ages as a centre ...
The year 2007 would prove to be something of a watershed for Finnish composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. He announced that after the 2008-09 season he would step down as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, a position he ... [1 Related Articles]
largest reserve in Congo (Kinshasa), Africa, covering more than 14,000 square miles (36,000 square km) and located midway between Kinshasa, the national capital, and Kisangani, 720 miles (1,160 km) to the northeast. The administrative headquarters at Monkoto (Equateur province), on ...
(from the article "Paris Peace Conference") Although hostilities had been brought formally to an end by a series of armistices between the Allies and their adversaries-that of Salonika (Thessalonika) with Bulgaria on Sept. 29, 1918, that of Mudros with Turkey on October 30, that of Villa ...
(from the article "Postumus, Marcus Cassianius Latinius") Postumus and another general, Silvanus, stayed behind in Colonia (Cologne) with Gallienus' son Saloninus after the emperor had left the Rhine River for the Danube about 258. When Silvanus demanded that all booty be handed back to the treasury and ...
(from the article "music hall and variety") ...licensed, expanded by employing musicians and installing scenery. These eventually moved from their tavern premises into large plush and gilt palaces where elaborate scenic effects were possible. "Saloon" became the name for any place of popular entertainment; "variety" was an ...
(from the article "Caughley ware") The bulk of Caughley's so-called Salopian ware was blue-and-white, mostly blue-printed or powder-blue; in shade, an initial soft blue was succeeded c. 1780 by a stronger violet blue. Blue painting was without distinction, nor was it made in any quantity, ...
(from the article "Turkmenistan") ...and independent or subject to neighbouring Persia or to the khanates of Khiva and Bukhara. During the 16th and 17th centuries the Chaudor tribe led a powerful tribal union in the north, while the Salor tribe was dominant in the ...
floor covering handmade by the Salor Turkmen of Turkmenistan. Most consistent in design are the main carpets, with a quartered gul (motif) showing a small animal figure in the inner part of each quadrant. The faces of ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Senegal") ...19th century, with the construction of rail lines. Navigation of the Senegal was facilitated by the completion of the Diama and Manantali dams in the late 20th century. Activity on the Saloum River centres on peanut shipping from Kaolack, and ...
(from the article "intelligence, human") Other intelligences were proposed in the late 20th century. In 1990 the psychologists John Mayer and Peter Salovey defined the term emotional intelligence asthe ability to perceive emotions, to access and generate emotions so as to assist thought, to understand ...
any small, pelagic, gelatinous invertebrate of the order Salpida (subphylum Tunicata, phylum Chordata). Found in warm seas, salps are especially common in the Southern Hemisphere. They have transparent barrel-shaped bodies that are girdled by muscle bands and open at each ... [1 Related Articles]
three parallel ridges traversing the breadth of southern Finland from Hango (Hanko), at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland in the west, to Joensuu, on Lake Pyhaselka, near the Russian border in the east. The significance and origin of ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Milky Way Galaxy") In 1955 the first detailed attempt to interpret the shape of the general van Rhijn luminosity function was made by the Austrian-born American astronomer Edwin E. Salpeter, who pointed out that the change in slope of this function near MV ...
(from the article "Charcot, Jean-Martin") ...and three years later was appointed physician of the Central Hospital bureau. He then became a professor at the University of Paris (1860-93), where he began a lifelong association with the Salpetriere Hospital, Paris (1862); there, in 1882, he opened ...
(from the article "Guatemala") ...and entrees such as chiles rellenos (stuffed peppers), rellenitos de platano (mashed plantain with black beans), salpicon (chopped beef salad with cilantro and onions), arroz con pollo (rice with chicken), and Mayan chicken fricassee ...
(from the article "tunicate") ...between a solitary, asexually and sexually reproducing gonozooid and colonial, asexually reproducing oozooids; gill with several to many stigmata.Complex alternation of generations between solitary, asexually reproducing oozooids and aggregated, sexually reproducing gonozooids. Pharynx leads to atrium by a...classification of ...
(from the article "endometritis") ...may be asymptomatic or may cause nonspecific signs such as abnormal vaginal bleeding, general discomfort, fever, and lower abdominal or pelvic pain. When endometritis occurs in conjunction with salpingitis (inflammation of the fallopian tubes) or cervicitis (inflammation of the uterine ...
(from the article "wind instrument") ...a eucalyptus branch, often hollowed out by termites. From the New Kingdom of Egypt in the tomb of Tutankhamen (14th century BC) was found the earliest specimen of a silver trumpet. Later the salpinx, also a straight trumpet, was known ...
hybrid musical form based on Afro-Cuban music but incorporating elements from other Latin American styles. It developed largely in New York City beginning in the 1940s and '50s, though it was not labeled salsa until the 1960s; it peaked in ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "sauce") ...purees of that vegetable with herbs, spices, other vegetables, and sometimes ham or bacon. Bolognese sauce is the classic Italian meat sauce for pasta, a tomato sauce with minced beef. Mexican salsa cruda is an uncooked mixture of chopped tomatoes, ...
(from the article "Mumbai") ...km), stretching from Colaba Point on the southern tip of Bombay Island to the areas known as Mahim and Sion on its northern coast. In 1950 Mumbai expanded northward, embracing the large island of Salsette, which was joined to Bombay ...
biennial herb of the family Asteraceae, native to the Mediterranean region. The thick white taproot is cooked as a vegetable and has a flavour similar to that of oysters.
in chemistry, substance produced by the reaction of an acid with a base. A salt consists of the positive ion of a base and the negative ion of an acid. The reaction between an acid and a base is called ... [10 Related Articles]
mineral substance of great importance. The mineral form halite, or rock salt, is sometimes called common salt to distinguish it from a class of chemical compounds called salts. [72 Related Articles]
(from the article "diapir") ...stress), or a combination of both. Diapirs may take the shape of domes, waves, mushrooms, teardrops, or dikes. Because salt flows quite readily, diapirs are often associated with salt domes or salt anticlines; in some cases the diapiric process is ...
(from the article "electricity") ...electricity. In this case, a copper wire is placed in a solution of copper sulfate and a zinc wire in a solution of zinc sulfate; the two solutions are connected electrically by a potassium chloride salt bridge. (A salt bridge ...
(from the article "tamarisk") Tamarisks are valued for their ability to withstand drought, soil salinity, and salt-water spray. The salt cedar, or French tamarisk (T. gallica), is planted on seacoasts for shelter; it is cultivated in the United States from South Carolina to California. ...
largely subsurface geologic structure that consists of a vertical cylinder of salt (including halite and other evaporites) 1 km (0.6 mile) or more in diameter, embedded in horizontal or inclined strata. In the broadest sense, the term includes both the ... [4 Related Articles]
in ceramics, a glaze having the texture of orange peel, formed on stoneware by throwing common salt into the kiln at the peak temperature. Sodium from the salt combines with silica in the clay to form a glassy coating of ... [3 Related Articles]
solution phenomena occurring in rock salt by the action of groundwater. Although rock salt is considerably more soluble in water than is the calcite that forms karst topography, rock salt is impervious, and solution can take place only on the ... [1 Related Articles]
state capital and seat (1849) of Salt Lake county, north-central Utah, U.S., on the Jordan River at the southeastern end of Great Salt Lake. The world capital of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), it influences the ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Olympic Games") Scandal and fears of terrorism marked the 2002 Games long before the Olympic torch arrived in Salt Lake City. In November 1998 the first allegation of bribery and misuse of funds by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC) emerged. Investigations ...
(from the article "Utah, University of") ...is the university's Health Sciences Center. The University of Utah houses the state's Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Natural History, and Red Butte Garden (arboretum). The campus has a replica of Salt Lake Theater, built in 1862, a significant ...
area of low, flat, poorly drained ground that is subject to daily or occasional flooding by salt water or brackish water and that is covered with a thick mat of grasses and such grasslike plants as sedges and rushes. Salt ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "water snake") The salt marsh snake (N. clarkii) lives in the brackish water habitats of the southeastern United States, and adults typically grow to 0.3-0.7 metre (1-2 feet) long. There are three morphologically distinct subspecies: the salt marsh snake ...
(from the article "Morozov, Boris Ivanovich") ...In order to reduce government expenditures, Morozov dismissed a number of officials and lowered the pay of many others, including the military. He also instituted state monopolies on tobacco and salt, which, in the case of the latter commodity, resulted ...
tiny particle in the atmosphere that is composed of a salt, either solid or in an aqueous solution; it promotes the condensation of water and thus is one form of condensation nucleus (q.v.).
(from the article "salt dome") ...the broadest sense, the term includes both the core of salt and the strata that surround and are "domed" by the core. Similar geologic structures in which salt is the main component are salt pillows and salt walls, which are ...
series of hills and low mountains between the valleys of the Indus and Jhelum rivers, located in the northern part of the Punjab region of Pakistan. It derives its name from extensive deposits of rock salt that form one of ... [2 Related Articles]
tributary of the Gila River, east-central Arizona, U.S. The Salt River is formed at the confluence of the Black and White rivers on a plateau in eastern Gila county. It flows 200 miles (320 km) in a westerly direction and ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Arizona") ...available. To do this, central Arizona agricultural interests developed plans for large water-storage and flood-control systems that included expensive dams and extensive canal systems. The Salt River Project, completed in 1911, delivered water to farmers in the Phoenix area (now ...
(from the article "Phoenix") ...Arizona, U.S. It lies along the Salt River in the south-central part of the state, about 120 miles (190 km) north of the Mexico border and midway between El Paso, Texas, and Los Angeles, Calif. The Salt River valley, popularly ...
(from the article "Djelfa") ...from the Prophet Muhammad. The area is notable for its abundance of Neolithic rock carvings dating from 7000 to 5000 BC. North of Djelfa town there is an imposing physical feature known as Salt Rock (Rocher de Sel) that resulted ...
(from the article "salt") Salt contributes greatly to our knowledge of the ancient highways of commerce. One of the oldest roads in Italy is the Via Salaria (Salt Route) over which Roman salt from Ostia was carried into other parts of Italy. Herodotus tells ...
(from the article "food preservation") ...8 to 10 percent during the first week and is increased 1 percent a week thereafter until the solution reaches 16 percent. Under properly controlled conditions the salted, fermented cucumber, called salt stock, may be held for several years.
