tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112073062007-04-14T23:18:44.354-07:00StickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.comBlogger395125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1132358103201397822005-11-18T18:55:00.000-08:002005-11-18T15:55:03.236-08:00(Hylobates syndactylus)  arboreal ape of the gibbon family (Hylobatidae), found in the forests of Sumatra and Malaya. The siamang resembles other gibbons but is more robust. The siamang is also distinguished by the webbing between its second and third toes and by a dilatable hairless air sac in its throat. The air sac is used in producing a resonant,StickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1129492202919262792005-10-16T15:50:00.000-07:002005-10-16T12:50:02.936-07:00Sailer, a 20-year-old plumber, was the youngestStickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1123548002837159142005-08-08T20:40:00.000-07:002005-08-08T17:40:02.850-07:00Ueda was adopted into the family of an oil and paper merchant and brought up with great kindness. A childhood attack of smallpox left him with some paralysis in his hands, and it may have caused his blindness late in life. Ueda became interested inStickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1122503403517302432005-07-27T18:30:00.000-07:002005-07-27T15:30:03.526-07:00In 1912 Ogden founded an intellectual weekly, The Cambridge Magazine, to which Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, and other noted literaryStickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1122136504625962222005-07-23T00:35:00.000-07:002005-07-23T09:35:04.643-07:00Initially ignored by radio, disco received its first significant exposure in deejay-based underground clubs that catered to black, gay, andStickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1120830917622079002005-07-08T09:55:00.000-07:002005-07-08T06:55:17.626-07:00Most solid catalysts are metals or the oxides, sulfides, and halides of metallic elements and of the semimetallic elements boron, aluminum, and silicon. Gaseous and liquidStickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1120674008506846252005-07-06T14:20:00.000-07:002005-07-06T11:20:08.516-07:00Village, northwestern Botswana. It lies at the southern edge of the Okavango Swamp, northeast of Lake Ngami. The traditional capital of the Tswana people, Maun is the centre of the safari and game industry for the Okavango River delta and the Moremi Game Reserve. Pop. (1991) 26,768.StickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1120162202589446132005-06-30T16:10:00.000-07:002005-06-30T13:10:02.593-07:00The son of a well-to-do landowner, Ai Qing was encouraged to learn Western languages. He studied painting in ParisStickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1119494103986881552005-06-22T22:35:00.000-07:002005-06-22T19:35:03.993-07:00Farther out, at 4 Re and beyond, is the next major source of magnetic field, the ring current. At this distance almost all atmospheric particles are fully ionized and, hence, subject to the effects of electric and magnetic fields. Furthermore, the density of the particles is so low that the time between collisions may be many days or months. Here, energetic charged particlesStickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1118922303017624452005-06-16T07:45:00.000-07:002005-06-16T04:45:03.023-07:00In phonetics, a fricative consonant sound, in which the tip, or blade, of the tongue is brought near the roof of the mouth and air is pushed past the tongue to make a hissing sound. In English s, z, sh, and zh (the sound of the s in “pleasure”) are sibilants. Sometimes the affricates ch and j are also considered as sibilants. See also fricative.StickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1117830615275262112005-06-03T16:30:00.000-07:002005-06-03T13:30:15.280-07:00Also spelled  Qazvin   city, Markazi (Tehran) ostan (province), north-central Iran, in a wide, fertile plain at the southern foot of the Elburz Mountains. Originally called Shad Shahpur, it was founded by the Sasanian king Shapur I about AD 250. It flourished in early Muslim times (7th century), serving as a base for Islamization, and was surrounded by strong fortifications by Harun al-Rashid. Genghis Khan laid waste theStickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1117638904155744572005-06-01T11:15:00.000-07:002005-06-01T08:15:04.160-07:00Type of magnetism in solids such as manganese oxide (MnO) in which adjacent ions that behave as tiny magnets (in this case manganese ions, Mn2+) spontaneously align themselves at relatively low temperatures into opposite, or antiparallel, arrangements throughout the material so that it exhibits almost no gross external magnetism. In antiferromagnetic materials,StickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1116397202674373502005-05-18T02:20:00.000-07:002005-05-17T23:20:02.690-07:00The “Six Principles” introduce Xie's Gu Huapin Lu (“Classified Record of Painters of Former Times”), which rates 27 painters in three classes of descending merit, each with three subdivisions. The “Six Principles” have inevitablyStickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1116243905725107172005-05-16T07:45:00.000-07:002005-05-16T04:45:05.730-07:00Formerly  Fort George River,   river in Nord-du-Québec region, north-central Quebec province, Canada. Rising from Nichicun Lake in the Otish Mountains of central Quebec, it descends 1,737 feet (529 m) in its westward journey to James Bay, which forms part of Hudson Bay. For most of the river's course of 555 miles (893 km), its valley is almost uninhabited.StickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1116063311493325062005-05-14T05:35:00.000-07:002005-05-14T02:35:11.496-07:00Albrecht was the son of Karl Ferdinand von Gräfe, a noted surgeon who was a pioneer in early German plastic surgery. The creator of one of Europe's leading eye clinics (1850), Albrecht was the first to recognize the importance to diagnosis of the German physiologistStickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1110890226005287352005-03-15T05:27:00.000-08:002005-03-15T04:37:06.006-08:00Mauritania's small political elite was divided over whether the country should be oriented more toward Senegal and French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa or toward Arab-Muslim Morocco - whose leaders sought to absorb Mauritania. The winning faction, under Sidi el-Moktar N'Diaye and his political successor, Ould Daddah, chose independence - which the country declaredStickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1110821594564261302005-03-14T03:32:00.000-08:002005-03-14T09:33:14.566-08:00Spanish �Islas Juan Fern�ndez, � small cluster of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, situated about 400 miles (650 km) west of and administratively part of Valpara�so regi�n, Chile. They consist of the 36-square-mile (93-square-kilometre) Isla M�s a Tierra (Nearer Land Island, also called Isla R�binson Crusoe); the 33-square-mile Isla M�s Afuera (Farther Out Island, also called Isla Alejandro Selkirk), 100 miles to the west;StickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1110575754133843312005-03-11T21:26:00.000-08:002005-03-11T13:15:54.133-08:00Vend�me was the son of Louis de Vend�me, Duke de Mercoeur, by his marriage to Cardinal Jules Mazarin's niece, Laure Mancini. Vend�me entered the French Army in 1672 and had risen to the rank of lieutenant general by the outbreak of the War of the Grand Alliance (1689 - 97) betweenStickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1110086897074070872005-03-04T13:51:00.000-08:002005-03-05T21:28:17.076-08:00After studying law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, Guzm�n joined the Mexican Revolution and served as a colonel in the revolutionary forces of Pancho Villa. From 1914 to 1934, he lived in exile in Madrid and New YorkStickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1110086904127431652005-03-03T15:03:00.000-08:002005-03-05T21:28:24.126-08:00In the late 14th century, Spanish Jewry was threatened with extinction at the hands of mobs of fanatical Christians. ThousandsStickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1110086909841474582005-03-02T07:26:00.000-08:002005-03-05T21:28:29.843-08:00According to the principle that libertarians call the nonaggression axiom, all acts of aggression against the rights of others - whether committed by individuals or by governments - are unjust. Indeed, libertarians believe that the primary purpose of government is to protect citizens from the illegitimate use of force. Accordingly, governments may not use forceStickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1110086913663476362005-03-01T23:00:00.000-08:002005-03-05T21:28:33.666-08:00Town, northeastern Manus Island, in the Admiralty Islands, Papua New Guinea. It lies on Seeadler Harbour. Captured by the Japanese in 1942, the settlement was retaken by Allied forces in 1944 and eventually became part of a large U.S. naval and air base. As a port, the town handles the local copra production. Pop. (1990 prelim.) 4,547.StickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1110086918460498002005-02-28T20:44:00.000-08:002005-03-05T21:28:38.460-08:00Daniel entered Oxford in 1581. After publishing a translation in 1585 for his first patron, Sir Edward Dymoke, he secured a post with the English ambassador at Paris; later he travelled in Italy, visiting the poet Battista Guarini in Padua. After 1592 he lived at LincolnStickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1110086922347625012005-02-27T02:17:00.000-08:002005-03-05T21:28:42.350-08:00The Parthian empire came into being in Khorasan during the reign of Seleucus I, 358 - 281 BC, following the absorption by the Parthians of Parni (Dahae) tribesmen. The caravans traversing their territory brought them wealth and ideas from abroad. The figural art of the Hellenistic world made an especially strong impression on them. The finest Parthian objects come from Old NisaStickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11207306.post-1110086924830820722005-02-26T02:55:00.000-08:002005-03-05T21:28:44.830-08:00This broad category of satellites has progressed from relatively simple photography to include many forms of observation of the Earth. Meteorological, or weather, satellites operate globally. From a polar orbit, photographs of the Earth's surface are taken by television scanning and transmitted to Earth receiver stations. In addition, meteorological satellitesStickyCardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14612873461948966534noreply@blogger.com0