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- a cluster-cup or fruiting body of certain rust fungi (phylum Basidiomycota, kingdom Fungi). Yellow to orange in colour, aecia develop after fertilization and bear one-celled spores (aeciospores, or aecidiospores). Aecia are usually found on lower leaf surfaces of plants.
- Aedde
- (from the article "United Kingdom") ...advance of the West Saxons by capturing the Isle of Wight and the mainland opposite and giving them to his godson, Aethelwalh of Sussex. Yet Wulfhere's reign ended in disaster; the Kentish monk Aedde, in his Life ...
- aedeagus
- (from the article "apterygote") ...and surrounding area differ. In diplurans external genitalia are absent or vestigial. Thysanurans and archaeognathans have external genitalia similar to those of the pterygotes. However, the aedeagus in males is used to deposit sperm drops and not as a copulative ...
- Aedes
- (from the article "mosquito") The genus Aedes carries yellow fever, dengue, and encephalitis. Like Culex, it holds its body parallel to the surface with the proboscis bent down. The wings are uniformly coloured. Aedes may be distinguished from Culex by its silver thorax with ...
- Aedes aegypti
- (from the article "dengue") The carrier incriminated throughout most endemic areas is the yellow-fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. The Asian tiger mosquito, A. albopictus, is another prominent carrier of the virus. A mosquito becomes infected only if it bites an infected individual (humans and perhaps ...
- Aedes canadensis
- (from the article "dormancy") ...the mosquito Aedes vexans, for example, remain in diapause until the damp soil on which the eggs are laid is flooded to form a pool suitable for the larvae. The eggs of another mosquito, Aedes canadensis, are laid in the ...
- Aedes vexans
- (from the article "dormancy") ...its normal activities. In other species, favourable environmental conditions alone do not break the diapause; some other stimulus, such as cold or food, is necessary. The eggs of the mosquito Aedes vexans, for example, remain in diapause until the damp ...
- Aedesius
- (from the article "Frumentius, Saint") A student of philosophy from Tyre, Frumentius and a colleague, Aedesius, were captured by Ethiopians in about 340. They became civil servants at the court of the Aksumite king Ezana, whom Frumentius converted. On the death of the monarch, Frumentius ...
- Aedesius
- Greek philosopher whose ideas had their roots in Neoplatonism, a school of philosophy that grew out of the Idealism of Plato. [3 Related Articles]
- aedicula
- (from the article "Rome") ...the papacy's troubled centuries. St. Peter's was built over the traditional burial place of the Apostle from whom all popes claim succession. The spot was marked by a three-niched monument (aedicula) of AD 166-170. Excavations in 1940-49 revealed well-preserved catacombs, ...
- aedile
- (from Latin aedes, "temple"), magistrate of ancient Rome who originally had charge of the temple and cult of Ceres. At first the aediles were two officials of the plebeians, created at the same time as the tribunes (494 BC), whose ... [2 Related Articles]
- Aedon
- in Greek mythology, a daughter of Pandareus of Ephesus. According to Homer (Book XIX of the Odyssey), she was the wife of Zethus, who with his brother Amphion was the joint king of Thebes. She had only ...
- Aedui
- Celtic tribe of central Gaul (occupying most of what was later the French region of Burgundy), chiefly responsible for the diplomatic situation exploited by Julius Caesar when he began his conquests in that region in 58 BC. ... [4 Related Articles]
- Aeetes
- (from the article "Argonaut") When the Argonauts finally reached Colchis, they found that the king, Aeetes, would not give up the fleece until Jason yoked the king's fire-snorting bulls to a plow and plowed the field of Ares. That accomplished, the field was to ...
- AEG AG
- former German electronics and electrical-equipment company. As one of Germany's leading industrial companies through much of the 19th and 20th centuries, AEG manufactured products for industrial and domestic use. [5 Related Articles]
- Aega
- (from the article "Clovis II") Merovingian Frankish king of Neustria and Burgundy from 639, the son of Dagobert I. He was dominated successively by Aega and by Erchinoald, Neustrian mayors of the palace. In about 648 he married Balthild, who played a dominant role in ...
- Aegean civilizations
- the Stone and Bronze Age civilizations that arose and flourished in the area of the Aegean Sea in the periods, respectively, about 7000-3000 BC and about 3000-1000 BC. [16 Related Articles]
- Aegean Islands
- (from the article "Greece, history of") The islands of the Aegean remained largely in imperial hands. In late antiquity they had been relatively heavily populated, the larger ones among them-especially Lemnos and Thasos in the north-being well-known sources of agricultural produce. Arab piracy and raiding from ...
- Aegean Sea
- an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, located between the Greek peninsula on the west and Asia Minor on the east. About 380 miles (612 km) long and 186 miles (299 km) wide, it has a total area of some 83,000 ... [3 Related Articles]
- Aegeus
- (from the article "Aethra") in Greek mythology, daughter of King Pittheus of Troezen and mother of Theseus. Thinking to help fulfill the prophecy of the Oracle at Delphi regarding how the childlessness of King Aegeus of Athens would end, Pittheus (whose prospects for a ...
- Aegilops
- genus of grasses (order Poales) that has become an agricultural contaminant. Members of the genus grow with wheat, mature at the same time, and, unless care is taken, are harvested along with it. One Aegilops species was an ancestor of ...
- Aegilops speltoides
- (from the article "Poaceae") ...(2n = 21). An example of a domesticated diploid wheat is einkorn wheat (Triticum monococcum), one of the earliest domesticated wheat species. Hybridization of a diploid wheat with Aegilops speltoides (a closely allied species of grass), followed by doubling of ...
- Aegilops tauschii
- (from the article "Poaceae") ...macaroni wheat (T. durum), a major commercial wheat species. The development of bread wheat (T. aestivum), a hexaploid wheat, involved the hybridization of a tetraploid wheat with A. tauschii, a closely allied diploid species of grass, followed by chromosome doubling ...
- Aegina
- (from the article "Aeacus") in Greek mythology, son of Zeus and Aegina, the daughter of the river god Asopus; Aeacus was the father of Telamon and Peleus. His mother was carried off by Zeus to the island of Oenone, afterward called by her name. ...
- Aegina
- island, one of the largest in the Saronic group of Greece, about 16 miles (26 km) south-southwest of Piraeus. With an area of about 32 square miles (83 square km), it is an eparkhia (eparchy) of the ... [2 Related Articles]
- aegirine
- a pyroxene mineral, sodium and iron silicate (NaFe+3Si2O6), that is commonly found in alkaline igneous rocks, particularly in syenites and syenite pegmatites. It also occurs in crystalline schists. Aegirine forms a continuous chemical series with aegirine-augite, in which calcium replaces ... [2 Related Articles]
- aegirine-augite
- (from the article "aegirine") ...that is commonly found in alkaline igneous rocks, particularly in syenites and syenite pegmatites. It also occurs in crystalline schists. Aegirine forms a continuous chemical series with aegirine-augite, in which calcium replaces sodium, and magnesium and aluminum replace iron. In ...
- aegis
- in ancient Greece, leather cloak or breastplate generally associated with Zeus, the king of the gods, and thus thought to possess supernatural power. Zeus's daughter Athena adopted the aegis for ordinary dress. Athena placed on her aegis a symbolic representation ... [1 Related Articles]
- Aegisthus
- (from the article "Agamemnon") After the capture of Troy, Cassandra, Priam's daughter, fell to Agamemnon's lot in the distribution of the prizes of war. On his return he landed in Argolis, where Aegisthus, who in the interval had seduced Agamemnon's wife, treacherously carried out ...
- Aegithalidae
- songbird family that includes the long-tailed tits (or titmice) of the Old World and the bushtits of North America. Both groups are sometimes considered subfamilies of the family Paridae (order Passeriformes). The eight species are small, arboreal insect eaters with ... [1 Related Articles]
- Aegospotami, Battle of
- (405 BC), naval victory of Sparta over Athens, final battle of the Peloponnesian War. The fleets of the two Greek rival powers faced each other in the Hellespont for four days without battle, until on the fifth day the Spartans ... [3 Related Articles]
- Aegypiinae
- (from the article "vulture") The cinereous vulture, sometimes called the black vulture (Aegypius monachus), is one of the largest flying birds. It is about 1 metre (3.3 feet) long and 12.5 kg (27.5 pounds) in weight, with a wingspan of about 2.7 metres (8.9 ...
- Aegyptopithecus
- (from the article "ape") ...only from fragmentary remains. The earliest-known hominoids are from Egypt and date from about 36.6 million years ago. Fossil genera include Catopithecus and Aegyptopithecus, possible successive ancestors of both the Old World monkeys and the apes. Later ...
- Aegyptus
- (from the article "Danaus") in Greek legend, son of Belus, king of Egypt, and twin brother of Aegyptus. Driven out of Egypt by his brother, he fled with his 50 daughters (the Danaids) to Argos, where he became king. Soon thereafter the 50 sons ...
- Aehrenthal, Alois, Graf (count) Lexa von
- foreign minister (1906-12) of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy, whose direction of the latter's annexation of Bosnia and Hercegovina (1908) provoked an international crisis. (See Bosnian crisis of 1908.) [5 Related Articles]
- Aelfheah, Saint
- archbishop of Canterbury who was venerated as a martyr after his murder by the Danes.
- Aelfric
- Anglo-Saxon prose writer, considered the greatest of his time. He wrote both to instruct the monks and to spread the learning of the 10th-century monastic revival. His Catholic Homilies, written in 990-992, provided orthodox sermons, based on the Church Fathers. ... [5 Related Articles]
- Aelia Capitolina
- city founded in AD 135 by the Romans on the ruins of Jerusalem, which their forces, under Titus, had destroyed in AD 70. The name was given, after the Second Jewish Revolt (132-135), in honour of the emperor Hadrian (whose ... [1 Related Articles]
- Aelian
- Roman author and teacher of rhetoric, who spoke and wrote so fluently in Greek-in which language his works were written-that he was nicknamed "Meliglottos" ("Honey-tongued"). [1 Related Articles]
- Aelian and Fufian law
- (from the article "ancient Rome") ...interests and in part because the plebeians benefited from Rome's great successes abroad under senatorial leadership. Yet senatorial fear of unbridled popular legislative power is perceptible in the Aelian and Fufian law of about 150. This law, imperfectly known from ...
- Aelianus
- Greek military writer residing in Rome whose manual of tactics influenced Byzantine, Muslim, and post-15th-century European methods of warfare.
- Aelle
- Anglo-Saxon ruler who is credited with the foundation of the kingdom of the South Saxons, or Sussex. Aelle is said to have landed near Selsey Bill (in modern West Sussex, Eng.) in 477. He immediately made war on the Britons, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Aelle
- first king of Deira in northern England, whose people threw off the Bernician overlordship upon the death of Ida, king of Bernicia. Aelle became king, apparently in 559, while Ida's descendants continued to reign in the northern kingdom. On Aelle's ...
- Aelred of Rievaulx, Saint
- writer, historian, and outstanding Cistercian abbot who influenced monasticism in medieval England, Scotland, and France. [1 Related Articles]
- Aelst, Pieter van
- (from the article "tapestry") ...painting. The decisive step, which was to bring about the subordination of weaving to painting for more than 400 years in the art of tapestry, was taken when Pope Leo X commissioned the famed weaver Pieter van Aelst (flourished late ...
- Aemilia, Via
- (from the article "Roman road system") ...the 2nd century BC, four other great roads radiated outward from Rome: the Via Aurelia, extending northwest to Genua (Genoa); the Via Flaminia, running north to the Adriatic, where it joined the Via Aemilia, crossed the Rubicon, and led northwest; ...
- Aemilian
- Roman emperor for three months in 253.
- Aeneas
- mythical hero of Troy and Rome, son of the goddess Aphrodite and Anchises. Aeneas was a member of the royal line at Troy and cousin of Hector. He played a prominent part in the war to defend his city against ... [13 Related Articles]
- Aeneas Tacticus
- (from the article "ancient Greek civilization") ...leaders. (In comparable fashion Isocrates offered advice on kingship to the semi-Hellenized rulers of Cyprus.) The surviving treatise on siege-craft by Aeneas of Stymphalus in Arcadia (known as Aeneas Tacticus) is valuable not only for the evidence it provides about ...
- Aenesidemus
- philosopher and dialectician of the Greek Academy who revived the Pyrrhonian principle of "suspended judgment" (epoche) as a practical solution to the vexing and "insoluble" problem of knowledge. In his Pyrrhonian Discourses Aenesidemus formulated 10 tropes in defense of Skepticism, ... [2 Related Articles]
- Aeolian harp
- (from Aeolus, the Greek god of the winds), a type of box zither on which sounds are produced by the movement of wind over its strings. It is made of a wooden sound box about 1 metre by 13 cm ...
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