(from the article "gymnosperm") ...bearing woody ovuliferous scales derived from flattened dwarf branches; seeds borne on the upper surface; 6 living families, with 62 genera and 515 species.Triassic to the present; trees or shrubs; leaves needlelike; microstrobili with microsporophylls bearing abaxial microsporangia; seeds ...
(from the article "United States") ...in California in 1996 and Washington in 1998. Support for antitax and state spending-cap measures waned during 2006, continuing a recent trend. Voters in Maine, Nebraska, and Oregon rejected the Taxpayer Bill of Rights measures that would limit spending increases ...
(from the article "Tai languages") ...as well: older names include Pai-i (Dai); Chuang-chia (Zhuang); Chung-chia, Dioi, Jui, and Yai (Buyei); and Tho, which is still sometimes used for the language or languages now known in Vietnam as Tay. Ahom, an extinct language once spoken in ...
town, southern Vietnam, situated on a tributary of the Vam Co Tay River, 65 miles (105 km) northwest of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) and 25 miles (40 km) from the border with Kampuchea. Tay Ninh is the seat ...
collective name for Nguyen Hue Nguyen Nhac (b. c. 1752-d. Dec. 16, 1793), and Nguyen Lu (b. c. 1752-d. 1792); the name was derived from their home village, Tay Son, Vietnam. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Southeast Asia, history of") ...Europeans were neither ubiquitous nor in a position to rule, even in Java. The most serious circumstances were undoubtedly those of Vietnam, where from 1771 to 1802 there raged a struggle-the Tay Son rebellion-over the very nature of the state. ...
longest river in Scotland, flowing about 120 miles (193 km) from its source on the north slopes of Ben Lui to the North Sea below Dundee. The river drains 2,400 square miles (6,216 square km), the largest drainage area in ...
hereditary metabolic disorder that causes progressive mental and neurologic deterioration and results in death in early childhood. The disease is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait and occurs most commonly among people of eastern European (Ashkenazic) Jewish origin. [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Mauritania") Area: 1,030,700 sq km (398,000 sq mi) | Population (2005 est.): 3,069,000 | Capital: Nouakchott | Chief of state: President Col. Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya and, from August 3, Chairman of the Military Council for Justice and Democracy Ely Ould ...
(from the article "Tayacian industry") primitive flake-tool tradition of France and Israel, believed to be essentially a smaller edition of the Clactonian industry (q.v.).Clactonian industryClactonian industry...latter site the Clactonian industry underlies a well-
(from the article "Genghis Khan") With Yesugei dead, the remainder of the clan, led by the rival Taychiut family, abandoned his widow, Hoelun, and her children, considering them too weak to exercise leadership and seizing the opportunity to usurp power. For a time the small ...
(from the article "Pleiades") in Greek mythology, the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione: Maia, Electra, Taygete, Celaeno, Alcyone, Sterope, and Merope. They all had children by gods (except Merope, who married Sisyphus).
(from the article "Pleiades") ...of which six or seven can be seen by the unaided eye and have figured prominently in the myths and literature of many cultures. In Greek mythology the Seven Sisters (Alcyone, Maia, Electra, Merope, Taygete, Celaeno, and Sterope, names now ...
(from the article "Native American music") ...(and part of Paraguay), home to the Mbya. Only the Mapuche have been extensively studied by music researchers.The most studied genre among this people is known as tayil and is performed only by women.
(from the article "Weight Lifting") ...one bronze). Eight other countries captured one medal each. Tang Gonghong from China won the women's superheavyweight category with a 305-kg (672.4-lb) overall total, a new world record. Turkey's Nurcan Taylan and Liu Chunhong of China each set three world ...
(from the article "Media and Publishing") In November 2003 Taylor & Francis had acquired the Dekker Group of the U.S. for $138.6 million, as well as Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers for euro16.75 million (euro1 = about $1.24); Taylor & Francis continued to pursue its expansionary path, merging with ...
BARON, British jurist who was an eloquent critic of flaws in the British criminal justice system, even while he served as lord chief justice of the Court of Appeal, 1992-96 (b. May 1, 1930--d. April 28, 1997).
(from the article "mathematics") ...expression composed of variables and constants. He defined the "derived function," or derivative f'(x) of f(x), to be the coefficient of I in the Taylor expansion of f(x + I). Assuming the general possibility of such expansions, he attempted a rather complete ...
(from the article "Taylor, David Watson") ...the Experimental Model Basin in 1899, Taylor undertook experiments to discover what characteristics of a ship's hull govern its water resistance. By a method internationally known since 1910 as the Taylor Standard Series Method, he determined the actual effect of ...
(from the article "Antarctica") ...levels caused some former glaciers flowing from the polar region through the Transantarctic Mountains to recede and nearly vanish, producing such spectacular "dry valleys" as the Wright, Taylor, and Victoria valleys near McMurdo Sound. Doubt has been shed on the ...
(from the article "children's literature") ...the poetry the young really read or listened to at the opening of the 19th century was not Blake but Original Poems for Infant Minds (1804), by "Several Young Persons," including Ann and Jane Taylor. The Taylor sisters, though adequately ...
In 2007 Charles Taylor became the first Canadian to receive the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries About Spiritual Realities. Announcing the award, the Templeton foundation's president, John M. Templeton, Jr., said that Taylor "has staked an often ... [2 Related Articles]
Liberian politician and guerrilla leader, who served as Liberia's president from 1997 until he was forced into exile in 2003. He was widely held responsible for the country's devastating civil war during the 1990s. [14 Related Articles]
(from the article "Boston Globe, The") Founded in 1872, the Globe grew slowly at first, reaching a circulation of about 8,000 in 1877, when it was purchased by Charles H. Taylor. Under Taylor as publisher, the Globe began to publish ...
Canadian journalist, author of five books, and horseman whose career with the Toronto-based Globe and Mail took him to East Asia, where he was responsible for negotiating the reopening of the paper's Beijing bureau, and also to England, Africa, the ...
(from the article "Crane, Stephen") Unable to get to Cuba, Crane went to Greece to report the Greco-Turkish War for the New York Journal. He was accompanied by Cora Taylor, a former brothel-house proprietor. At the end of the war they settled in England in ...
American marine architect who built the first ship-model testing establishment in the United States at the Washington (D.C.) Navy Yard, and formulated basic principles of ship design.
(from the article "Canadian literature") ...Cowboy, 2001), Monique Mojica (Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots, 1991), Daniel David Moses (The Indian Medicine Shows, 1995), and Drew Hayden Taylor (Toronto at Dreamer's Rock, 1990;
(from the article "continental drift") ...fossil plants in both North American and European coal deposits could be explained if the two continents had formerly been connected, a relationship otherwise difficult to account for. In 1908 Frank B. Taylor of the United States invoked the notion ...
American basketball coach (b. Dec. 3, 1924, Zanesville, Ohio-d. Jan. 6, 2002, Hilliard, Ohio), was the longtime head basketball coach at Ohio State University; during his tenure at the university from 1958 to 1976, Ohio State won the National Collegiate ...
American inventor and engineer who is known as the father of scientific management. His system of industrial management has influenced the development of virtually every country enjoying the benefits of modern industry. [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Literature") Christian readers critical of the benign image of witchcraft in Rowling's books found a riveting alternative in the works of G.P. Taylor, a policeman turned vicar. His popular children's novel Shadowmancer (2002) was followed by its much-lauded sequel Wormwood. Taylor's ...
(from the article "solids, mechanics of") ...of the cut back together, filling in with material as necessary. The initial status of this work was simply regarded as an interesting way of generating elastic fields, but, in the early 1930s, Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Egon Orowan, and Michael ...
(from the article "Australia") ...nationalistic sentiments that proclaimed "population capacities" of 100 to 500 million in Australia's "vast empty spaces." In the interwar period the Australian geographer Griffith Taylor argued that there were stringent environmental limits that would restrict Australia's population to approximately 20 ...
(from the article "Literature") ...("The grated lemon rind bitters the oil it steeps in. / A wanted flavor. / Like the moment in love when one lover knows / the other could do anything they wanted, yet does not."); Henry Taylor offered Crooked Run ...
British swimmer who won five Olympic medals and was the first man to hold world records in the 400-metre, 880-yard, and 1,500-metre freestyle events. [1 Related Articles]
American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who defined the singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s. Bob Dylan brought confessional poetry to folk rock, but Taylor became the epitome of the troubadour whose life was the subject of his songs. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "children's literature") ...the young really read or listened to at the opening of the 19th century was not Blake but Original Poems for Infant Minds (1804), by "Several Young Persons," including Ann and Jane Taylor. The Taylor sisters, though adequately moral, struck ...
(from the article "Boxing") World and WBC middleweight champion Jermain Taylor (U.S.) retained the titles by boxing a bristling 12-round draw on June 17 with accomplished left-hander Ronald ("Winky") Wright (U.S.) in Memphis, Tenn. Even though the unbeaten Taylor was widely recognized as the ...
(from the article "2004: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman; story by Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, and Pierre Bismuth for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor for SidewaysCinematography: Robert Richardson for
