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La Mettrie, Julien Offroy De

La Mettrie obtained a medical degree at Reims, studied medicine in Leiden under Hermann Boerhaave (some of whose

posted by TiredKnife @ 8:42 PM

Clarence River

River in eastern South Island, New Zealand. Rising on the eastern slopes of the Spenser Mountains, it flows south, then northeast between the Inland and Seaward Kaikoura ranges. Cutting eastward by a gorge 7 mi (11 km) long through the Seaward Kaikoura Range, the river flows south and east, entering the Pacific Ocean 20 mi north of the town of Kaikoura. The main stream, fed by Lake

posted by TiredKnife @ 7:06 PM

Hill, A.v.

In full �Archibald Vivian Hill� British physiologist and biophysicist who received (with Otto Meyerhof) the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning the production of heat in muscles. His research helped establish the origin of muscular force in the breakdown of carbohydrates with formation of lactic acid in the

posted by TiredKnife @ 5:16 AM

Trier

Regierungsbezirk (administrative district), western Rhineland-Palatinate Land (state), southwestern Germany. Trier is bordered by Luxembourg and Belgium to the west, North Rhine - Westphalia Land to the north, the Regierungsbezirk of Koblenz to the east, and Saarland Land to the south. The district forms a southern portion of the larger historical region of the Rhineland

posted by TiredKnife @ 4:47 AM

Hippie

Also spelled �hippy� member, during the 1960s and 1970s, of a countercultural movement that rejected the mores of mainstream American life. The movement originated on U.S. college campuses, although it spread to other countries, including Canada and Britain. The name derived from �hip,� a term applied to the Beats of the 1950s, such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, who were generally considered to be the

posted by TiredKnife @ 10:08 PM

Vietnam, Relief

Vietnam's principal physiographic features are the Annamese Cordillera (French: Cha�ne Annamitique; Vietnamese: Nui Truong Son), extending from north to south in central Vietnam and dominating the interior, and two extensive alluvial deltas formed by the Red (Hong) River in the north and the Mekong (Cuu Long) River in the south. Between these two deltas is a long, relatively

posted by TiredKnife @ 1:25 PM

Earth, Magnetohydrodynamic waves - magnetic pulsations

A major source of variations in the Earth's magnetic field is magnetohydrodynamic waves. These waves originate in the outer magnetic field and propagate along field lines to the Earth's surface. On reaching the surface they cause minute oscillations in the magnetic field (hence their older name, micropulsations). These waves typically have amplitudes ranging

posted by TiredKnife @ 2:02 PM

Earth, Magnetohydrodynamic waves - magnetic pulsations

A major source of variations in the Earth's magnetic field is magnetohydrodynamic waves. These waves originate in the outer magnetic field and propagate along field lines to the Earth's surface. On reaching the surface they cause minute oscillations in the magnetic field (hence their older name, micropulsations). These waves typically have amplitudes ranging

posted by TiredKnife @ 6:18 PM

Visconti-venosta, Emilio, Marchese

A youthful participant in the revolutionary movement against Austrian rule that began in 1848, Visconti-Venosta was forced in 1859 to flee to Piedmont; he served the government

posted by TiredKnife @ 5:35 AM

Thomas, Isiah

Thomas developed exceptional basketball skills at an early age and became

posted by TiredKnife @ 4:27 AM

Clapper

Clappers

posted by TiredKnife @ 5:31 AM

Pacific Mountain System, Agriculture and fishing

Agriculture is important in some of the valleys within the ranges. From southern British Columbia to northern California, dairying and egg production are leading activities. Some of California's most important vineyards are in the Coast Ranges near San Francisco, notably the Napa and Sonoma valleys to the north. The Salinas Valley south of San Francisco and the

posted by TiredKnife @ 1:49 AM

Mughal Glass

Bottles, hookah bowls, dishes, and spittoons

posted by TiredKnife @ 4:52 PM

Race, Human rights versus property rights

Chattel slavery was not established without its critics. From the beginning, many Englishmen condemned the presence of slavery in English territories. They argued that theirs was a society of free men and of democratic institutions and that it was committed to the preservation of human rights, justice, and equality. For several hundred years, trends in English

posted by TiredKnife @ 5:36 PM

Acheampong, Ignatius Kutu

Ghanaian army officer, who, after leading a military revolt that overthrew the government of Kofi Busia, became Ghana's chief of state in 1972. In July 1978 he was forced to resign, and the following June he and his successor, Lieut. Gen. F.W.K. Akuffo, were executed after a coup led by young officers, whose Armed Forces Revolutionary Council returned

posted by TiredKnife @ 5:17 PM

Olgas

Aboriginal �Kata Tjuta�, also called �Olga Rocks � tors (isolated weathered rocks) in southwestern Northern Territory, Australia, comprising a circular grouping of some 36 red conglomerate domes rising from the desert plains north of the Musgrave Ranges. They occupy an area of 11 square miles (28 square km) within Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (established in 1958 as the former Ayers Rock-Mount Olga National Park) and culminate

posted by TiredKnife @ 9:28 PM

Antacid

Numerous nonprescription liquid antacids reduce the gastric acidity of indigestion

posted by TiredKnife @ 4:15 PM

Dumka

Also called �Naga Dumka� town, east-central Bihar state, northeastern India, east of the Mor River. It is a road junction and major agricultural-trade centre. A weekly cattle mart is held. There is a college affiliated with Bhagalpur University. Dumka was constituted a municipality in 1903. Pop. (1981) 31,068.

posted by TiredKnife @ 6:48 PM

Hove

Town, unitary authority of Brighton and Hove, historic county of Sussex, England, on the English Channel, adjoining Brighton to the east and Portslade to the west. Hove, which grew with Brighton as a seaside resort and residential town in the 19th century, has excellent road and rail connections with London to the north. Pop. (1991) 67,602.

posted by TiredKnife @ 8:22 AM

Foreign Service

Also called �Diplomatic Service, � the field force of a foreign office, comprising diplomatic and consular personnel engaged in representing the home government's interests abroad and providing the necessary information on which foreign policy is based. There is a marked similarity in the foreign service organizations of most countries. Diplomatic and consular functions are generally performed

posted by TiredKnife @ 11:55 AM

China, General works

Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbank (eds.), The Cambridge History of China (1978 - ), will be the standard multivolume reference work for all aspects of Chinese history when it is completed. The following are comprehensive works: John K. Fairbank, China: A New History (1992), covering the span from paleolithic cultures to the events in Tiananmen Square in 1989, with an excellent bibliography; Wolfram Eberhard, A History of China, 4th ed. (1977, reissued 1987; originally published in German, 1948); John K. Fairbank and Edwin O. Reischauer, China: Tradition and Transformation, rev. ed. (1989); Otto Franke, Geschichte des chinesischen Reiches, 2nd ed., 5 vol. (1948 - 65); Jacques Gernet, A History of Chinese Civilization (1982; originally published in French, 1972), a detailed survey of China's intellectual, social, and economic history from the neolithic cultures up to the Cultural Revolution of 1966; Charles O. Hucker, China's Imperial Past: An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture (1975), to 1850; and John Meskill (ed.), An Introduction to Chinese Civilization (1973), which includes a survey of Chinese history and ten essays on such aspects of Chinese civilization as anthropology, economy, geography, and religion, among others.

posted by TiredKnife @ 4:31 AM

Christianity, Eschatological expectations and secularization

In the eyes of some theologians, the very process of secularization, which progressively rules out transcendent explanations of natural and historical conditions, has been a working out of a form of eschatological expectation. Of course, the substance is quite different in the cases where people work in expectation of the Kingdom of God and in the other cases where

posted by TiredKnife @ 6:25 AM

Du Toit, Jakob Daniel

Du Toit was educated in Pretoria, Rustenburg, and Daljosafat, studied at the theological seminary at Burgesdorp, and passed his final

posted by TiredKnife @ 4:16 PM

Pol Pot

Original name �Saloth Sar� Khmer political leader whose totalitarian regime (1975 - 79) imposed severe hardships on the Cambodian people. His radical communist government forced the mass evacuations of cities, killed or displaced millions of people, and left a legacy of brutality and

posted by TiredKnife @ 3:19 PM

Schach, Rabbi Eliezer Menachem

Lithuanian-born Israeli Orthodox Jewish scholar and political leader (b. 1896?, Wabolnick [now Vabalninkas], Lithuania, Russian Empire - d. Nov. 2, 2001, Tel Aviv, Israel), as the spiritual leader of Israel's non-Zionist ultra-Orthodox political parties - Agudat Yisrael, Shas, and Degel Hatorah - wielded great influence on Israeli government policies. In 1940 Schach emigrated from Lithuania

posted by TiredKnife @ 1:57 PM

Schach, Rabbi Eliezer Menachem

Lithuanian-born Israeli Orthodox Jewish scholar and political leader (b. 1896?, Wabolnick [now Vabalninkas], Lithuania, Russian Empire - d. Nov. 2, 2001, Tel Aviv, Israel), as the spiritual leader of Israel's non-Zionist ultra-Orthodox political parties - Agudat Yisrael, Shas, and Degel Hatorah - wielded great influence on Israeli government policies. In 1940 Schach emigrated from Lithuania

posted by TiredKnife @ 7:23 PM

Hooft, Pieter Corneliszoon

During three years spent in France and Italy, Hooft came completely under the spell of the new learning and art; the impact of that experience is shown by

posted by TiredKnife @ 10:02 PM

Akselrod, Pavel Borisovich

Akselrod participated in the Narodnik (populist) movement during the 1870s and formed the revolutionary

posted by TiredKnife @ 4:19 PM

Mashriq Al-adhkar

(Arabic: �place where the uttering of the name of God arises at dawn�), temple or house of worship in the Baha'i faith. The mashriq is characterized by a nine-sided construction, in keeping with the Baha'i belief in the mystical properties of the number nine. Free of ritual and clergy, the mashriq is open to adherents of all religions and offers a simple service consisting of readings

posted by TiredKnife @ 4:19 PM

Ibis

Any of about 20 species of medium-sized wading birds constituting the subfamily Threskiornithinae of the family Threskiornithidae (order Ciconiiformes), which also includes the spoonbills. Ibises occur in all warm regions except on South Pacific islands. They wade in shallow lagoons, lakes, bays, and marshes, using their slender, down-curved bills to feed on small

posted by TiredKnife @ 9:05 AM