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- museum in Dresden, Ger., displaying fine art and national treasures. It is one of several institutions associated with the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
- Albertosaurus
- large carnivorous dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous Period (99 million to 65 million years ago) found as fossils in North America and eastern Asia. Albertosaurs are an early subgroup of tyrannosaurs, which appear to have evolved from them. [1 Related Articles]
- Alberts, Bruce
- If the new president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Bruce Alberts, had his way, scientific literacy would soon become one of the nation's leading concerns. A strong advocate of improving science education in primary and secondary schools, Alberts ...
- Albertson, Jack
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- Albertus Magnus, Saint
- Dominican bishop and philosopher best known as a teacher of St. Thomas Aquinas and as a proponent of Aristotelianism at the University of Paris. He established the study of nature as a legitimate science within the Christian tradition. By papal ... [13 Related Articles]
- Albertville Olympics
- (from the article "Olympic Games") The 1992 Games are noted for not only a change in the modern Olympics but a change in the world as well. It was the last time that the Summer and Winter Games would be held in the same year; ...
- Albery family
- British family of theatre managers and playwrights whose members helped build the London theatre into a prime tourist attraction.
- Albery, James
- (from the article "Albery family") James Albery (b. 1838-d. 1889) was a dramatist whose work included Dr. Davy, produced at the Lyceum (1866), and Two Roses, produced at the Vaudeville (1870). Albery's wife was actress Mary Moore (b. 1861-d. 1931), who after his death became ...
- Albery, Sir Bronson James
- (from the article "Albery family") After the death of Charles (1919) and Lady Wyndham, Bronson Albery (in full Sir Bronson James Albery, b. March 6, 1881, Greenhithe, Kent, Eng.-d. July 21, 1971, London), the second son of Mary Moore and James Albery, assumed joint control ...
- Albery, Sir Donald Arthur Rolleston
- (from the article "Albery family") In 1962 Bronson passed on his theatre holdings to his son, Donald (in full Sir Donald Arthur Rolleston Albery, b. June 19, 1914, London, Eng.-d. Sept. 14, 1988, Monte Carlo, Monaco), whose producing debut was with Graham Greene's The Living ...
- Albesti
- (from the article "Arges") ...steps. An arboretum, a forestry experimental station, and a roe deer reserve are found in Mihaiesti; and ancient limestone quarries, designated a natural monument, are located near Albesti. The road between Pitesti and Campulung was a former Roman-Dacian route. Most ...
- Albi
- city, capital of Tarn departement, Midi-Pyrenees region, in the Languedoc, southern France. It lies along the Tarn River where the latter leaves the Massif Central for the Garonne Plain, northeast of Toulouse. Albi, or Albiga, was the ...
- Albian Stage
- uppermost of six main divisions of the Lower Cretaceous Series, representing rocks deposited worldwide during the Albian Age, which occurred between 112 million and 99.6 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period. Albian rocks overlie rocks of the Aptian Stage ... [1 Related Articles]
- Albida acacia
- (from the article "Africa") The Albida acacia tree of the "farmed parkland" areas of West Africa is of special economic importance. Unlike almost all other dry woodland trees, whose leaf shedding normally occurs at the onset of the dry season, the Albida appears to ...
- Albigenses
- the heretics-especially the Catharist heretics-of 12th-13th-century southern France. (See Cathari.) The name, apparently given to them at the end of the 12th century, is hardly exact, for the movement centred at Toulouse and in nearby districts rather than at Albi ... [9 Related Articles]
- Albigensian crusade
- (from the article "Albigenses") ...until Innocent III ascended the papal throne. At first he tried pacific conversion but at last (1209) ordered the Cistercians to preach the crusade against the Albigenses. This implacable war, the Albigensian Crusade, which threw the whole of the nobility ...
- Albiker, Karl
- (from the article "Western sculpture") ...their untroubled, stolid surfaces. In Germany, Georg Kolbe's "Standing Man and Woman" of 1931 seems a prelude to the Nazi health cult, and the serene but vacuous figures of Arno Breker, Karl Albiker, and Ernesto de Fiori were simply variations ...
- albinism
- (from the Latin albus, meaning "white"), the absence of pigment in the eyes, skin, hair, scales, or feathers. Albino animals rarely survive in the wild because they lack the pigments that normally provide protective coloration and screen against the sun's ... [8 Related Articles]
- Albino
- colour type of horse, characterized by pink skin and a pure white coat. Unlike some other colour types, which develop as the horse matures, the Albino is born white and remains white throughout life. Albinos conform to riding horse type. ...
- Albinoni, Tomaso Giovanni
- Italian composer remembered chiefly for his instrumental music. [1 Related Articles]
- Albinovanus Pedo
- Roman poet who wrote a Theseid, referred to by his friend the poet Ovid (Epistles from Pontus); epigrams that are commended by the Latin poet Martial; and an epic poem on the military exploits of the Roman ...
- Albinus
- Greek philosopher, a pupil of Gaius and a teacher of Galen, and a forerunner of Neoplatonism.
- Albinus, Bernard Siegfried
- German anatomist who was the first to show the connection of the vascular systems of the mother and the fetus.
- Albinus, Decimus Clodius Septimius
- Roman general, a candidate for the imperial title in the years 193-197. He represented the aristocracy of the Latin-speaking West, in contrast to Pescennius Niger, candidate of the Greek-speaking East, and to Lucius Septimius Severus, candidate of the army and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Albion
- the earliest-known name for the island of Britain. It was used by ancient Greek geographers from the 4th century BC and even earlier, who distinguished "Albion" from Ierne (Ireland) and from smaller members of the British Isles. The Greeks and ...
- Albion College
- private, coeducational institution of higher learning located in Albion, Mich., U.S., 20 miles (30 km) west of Jackson. Albion College, affiliated with the United Methodist Church, is a liberal arts college offering bachelor's degrees in the humanities, business, social sciences, ...
- Albireo
- (from the article "astronomical map") ...Aldebaran ("the Follower"), Algenib ("the Side"), Alhague ("the Serpent Bearer"), and Algol ("the Demon"). A conspicuous exception is Albireo in Cygnus, possibly a corruption of the words ab ireo in the first Latin edition of the Almagest in 1515. Most ...
- Albishir
- (from the article "Yauri") ...north, conquered Yauri in the mid-16th century; and Yauri, although essentially independent after Kanta's death (c. 1561), paid tribute to Kebbi until the mid-18th century. About 1810 King Albishir (Mohammadu dan Ayi), the Hausa ruler of Yauri, pledged allegiance to ...
- albite
- common feldspar mineral, a sodium aluminosilicate (NaAlSi3O8) that occurs most widely in pegmatites and felsic igneous rocks such as granites. It may also be found in low-grade metamorphic rocks and as authigenic albite in certain sedimentary varieties. Albite usually forms ... [3 Related Articles]
- albite twin
- (from the article "feldspar") ...and irregularly shaped grains of feldspars are commonly twinned. Some individual grains are twinned in two or more ways. Two common kinds of twinning-those designated Carlsbad twinning and albite twinning-are shown in the figure. Carlsbad twinning occurs in both monoclinic ...
- albite-epidote-hornfels facies
- (from the article "metamorphic rock") Rocks of the albite-epidote-hornfels facies are characteristically found as the outer zones of contact aureoles where the thermal episode fades out and the rocks pass into their regional grade of metamorphism. The mineral assemblages are quite similar to those found ...
- Albium Intemelium
- (from the article "Ventimiglia") ...regione, northwestern Italy. It is situated at the mouth of the Roia River near the French border, just northeast of Nice, France. To the east of the modern town is the ruined Roman town Albium Intemelium, or Albintimilium, with the ...
- Albizia
- large genus of trees, of the pea family (Fabaceae), native to warm regions of the Old World. The alternate, compound leaves are bipinnate (i.e., the leaflets of the feather-formed leaves, in turn, bear leaflets). The small flowers are borne in ...
- Albizzi family
- (from the article "Alberti Family") Under the leadership of Benedetto (d. 1388), the Alberti sought to check the steadily growing ascendancy of the rival Albizzi family. A Guelf leader, Benedetto encouraged and participated in a popular insurrection against the oligarchic Florentine government (July 1378). Although ...
- Albo, Joseph
- Jewish philosopher and theologian of Spain who is noted for his classic work of Jewish dogmatics, Sefer ha-'iqqarim (1485; "Book of Principles"). [3 Related Articles]
- Alboin
- king of the Germanic Lombards whose exceptional military and political skills enabled him to conquer northern Italy. [1 Related Articles]
- Albom, Mitch
- (from the article "Media and Publishing") ...and bakeries. In addition, Starbucks, one of the strongest global brand names, turned to books to further burnish its image as a trusted source of entertainment when it decided to sell in its stores Mitch Albom's novel For One More ...
- Alboni, Marietta
- Italian operatic contralto known for her classic Italian bel canto.
- Alboran Basin
- (from the article "Mediterranean Sea") ...with a sill depth of about 1,200 feet (365 metres) divides the Mediterranean Sea into western and eastern parts. The western part in turn is subdivided into three principal submarine basins. The Alboran Basin is east of Gibraltar, between the ...
- Alboreto, Michele
- Italian race-car driver (b. Dec. 23, 1956, Milan, Italy-d. April 25, 2001, Klettwitz, Ger.), was one of Italy's most popular and successful Formula One (F1) drivers in the early 1980s. After being the European Formula Three champion in 1980, Alboreto ...
- Alborg
- city and port, northern Jutland, Denmark, on the south side of Limfjorden. Alborg has existed since about AD 1000 and is one of the oldest towns in Denmark. Chartered in 1342, it became a bishop's see in 1554. The town ...
- Alborg akvavit
- (from the article "aquavit") ...produce mellow flavour. Finnish aquavit has a cinnamon flavour. The Danish product, also called snaps, is colourless, with a pronounced caraway flavour. One of the best known Danish types is Alborg akvavit, named for a small town in Jutland, on ...
- Albornoz, Gil Alvarez Carrillo de
- Spanish cardinal and jurist who paved the way for the papacy's return to Italy from Avignon, France (where the popes lived from about 1309 to 1377). [3 Related Articles]
- Albrecht
- (PRINCE ALBERT LUITPOLD FERDINAND MICHAEL), DUKE OF BAVARIA, German head of the more than 800-year-old House of Wittelsbach and pretender to the Bavarian throne; he survived the Nazi concentration camps of World War II and went on to become an ...
- Albrechts Castle
- (from the article "Meissen") ...(kaolin) and potter's clay (potter's earth). Other ceramics are also manufactured, and wine is produced. The city is dominated by a group of 13th- and 14th-century Gothic cathedral buildings and by Albrechts Castle (1471-85). Pop. (2003 est.) 28,640.
- Albrechtsberger, Johann Georg
- Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist who was one of the most learned and skillful contrapuntists of his time. His fame attracted many pupils, including Ludwig van Beethoven. [2 Related Articles]
- Albret Family
- Gascon family celebrated in French history. The lords (sires) of Albret included warriors, cardinals, and kings of Navarre, reaching the height of their power in the 14th to 16th century. Their name derives from Labrit, a small village on the ...
- Albret, Arnaud-Amanieu d'
- (from the article "Albret Family") ...family fought in the First Crusade (1096-99), in the war against the Albigensian heretics in southern France (1209-29), and in the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453). In this conflict Arnaud-Amanieu d'Albret (d. 1401) fought for some time for the English but ...
- Albret, Cesar-Phebus d'
- (from the article "Albret Family") ...Jean's granddaughter, married Antoine de Bourbon and left her titles to her son, Henry III of Navarre, who became king of France as Henry IV. A member of the Miossans branch of the family, Cesar-Phebus d'Albret (1614-76), was made marshal ...
- Albret, Charlotte d'
- (from the article "Albret Family") ...I's grandson, Alain, was known as Alain le Grand (1440-1522). The surname refers not to his deeds but to the vast domains over which he ruled as one of the last feudal lords. A daughter, Charlotte (1480-1514), was married to ...
- Albret, Jeanne d'
- (from the article "Albret Family") ...A daughter, Charlotte (1480-1514), was married to Cesare Borgia. Alain's son, Jean (d. 1516), became king of Navarre through his marriage with Catherine de Foix in 1484. In 1550 the lands of Albret were made a duchy. Jeanne d'Albret (1528-72), ...
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