| | - Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
- former retail sporting goods concern originally based in New York City, famed for its wide range of expensive and often exotic sporting equipment and attire from tennis shoes to elephant guns. For half a century and more the store's apparel, ...
- Abercrombie, James
- British general in the French and Indian Wars, commander of the British forces in the failed attack on the French at Ticonderoga. [1 Related Articles]
- Abercrombie, Lascelles
- poet and critic who was associated with Georgian poetry.
- Abercrombie, Sir Patrick
- British architect and town planner who redesigned London after it was devastated by enemy bombardment in World War II. [1 Related Articles]
- Abercromby, Sir Ralph
- soldier whose command restored discipline and prestige to the British army after the disastrous campaigns in the Low Countries between 1793 and 1799. He prepared the way for the successful campaign against Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt. [1 Related Articles]
- Aberdare
- town ("community"), Rhondda Cynon Taff county borough, historic county of Glamorgan (Morgannwg), Wales, on the River Cynon. The community dates from the Middle Ages. Its Saint John's Church was built about 1189. Aberdare's main growth in the 19th century was ... [1 Related Articles]
- Aberdare National Park
- (from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...of leather goods, soap, wood and furniture, processed food, soft drinks, cord, rope, twine, clay and concrete products, agricultural implements, and fabrics. Nyeri serves as the gateway to Aberdare National Park. The town is linked by road and rail with ...
- Aberdare Range
- mountain range, forming a section of the eastern rim of the Great Rift Valley in west-central Kenya, northeast of Naivasha and Gilgil and just south of the Equator. The range has an average elevation of 11,000 feet (3,350 metres) and ... [2 Related Articles]
- Aberdeen
- city and historic royal burgh (town) astride the Rivers Dee and Don on Scotland's North Sea coast. Aberdeen is a busy seaport, a centre of Scotland's fishing industry, and the commercial capital of northeastern Scotland. It also is the principal ...
- Aberdeen
- city, seat (1880) of Brown county, northeastern South Dakota, U.S. It lies in the James River valley about 160 miles (260 km) northeast of Pierre. Established in 1881 as a junction of several railroads, it was named for Aberdeen in ...
- Aberdeen
- city, Grays Harbor county, western Washington, U.S., on the Pacific estuaries of the Chehalis, Wishkah, and Hoquiam rivers (which together form Grays Harbor). With Hoquiam and Cosmopolis, Aberdeen forms a tri-city area. Captain Robert Gray navigated the inlet in the ...
- Aberdeen
- city, Harford county, northeastern Maryland, U.S., near Chesapeake Bay, 26 miles (42 km) northeast of Baltimore. Settled about 1800, it was named for the city in Scotland. Aberdeen is the principal trading centre for the nearby 113-square-mile (293-square-km) Aberdeen Proving ...
- Aberdeen Proving Ground
- (from the article "Aberdeen") ...Bay, 26 miles (42 km) northeast of Baltimore. Settled about 1800, it was named for the city in Scotland. Aberdeen is the principal trading centre for the nearby 113-square-mile (293-square-km) Aberdeen Proving Ground (established 1917), a U.S. Army test site ...
- Aberdeen, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of, Viscount Gordon Of Aberdeen, Viscount Of Formartine, Lord Haddo, Methlick, Tarves, And Kellie
- British foreign secretary and prime minister (1852-55) whose government involved Great Britain in the Crimean War against Russia (1853-56). [2 Related Articles]
- Aberdeen, University of
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") The University of Aberdeen was formed in 1860 by the union of two medieval colleges: King's College, founded as a Roman Catholic institution in 1495, and the Protestant Marischal College, founded in 1593. Other educational institutions include the Robert Gordon ...
- Aberdeenshire
- council area and historic county of eastern Scotland. It projects shoulderlike eastward into the North Sea and encompasses coastal lowlands in the north and east and part of the Grampian Mountains in the west. The council area and the historic ...
- Aberfan
- (from the article "Merthyr Tydfil") ...of the collection of the National Museum of Wales. The county borough includes several mining communities that developed during the 18th and 19th centuries along with the town of Merthyr Tydfil. Aberfan, in the south, was the site of a ...
- Abergavenny
- town ("community"), historic and present county of Monmouthshire (Sir Fynwy), Wales, at the confluence of the Rivers Gavenny and Usk. The strategic nature of this site, guarding a main valley corridor between the Black Mountains and the Brecon Beacons into ...
- Abergele
- (from the article "Conwy") ...the county borough's population is concentrated along its coastal strip, where tourism is the main industry. Colwyn Bay is one of the most popular seaside resorts and the largest town. The town of Abergele, located east of Colwyn Bay, was ...
- Aberhart, William
- the first Social Credit Party premier of Alberta, during and after the Great Depression. [2 Related Articles]
- Abernathy, Ralph David
- black American pastor and civil-rights leader who was Martin Luther King's chief aide and closest associate during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s. [1 Related Articles]
- Abernon, Sir John D'
- (from the article "metalwork") ...in some cases, brass sheets were imported and engraved by English artists. The manufacture of unornamented brass plates centred chiefly at Cologne. The oldest English brass in existence is that of Sir John D'Abernon (died 1277) at Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey. ...
- aberration
- in optical systems, such as lenses and curved mirrors, the deviation of light rays through lenses, causing images of objects to be blurred. In an ideal system, every point on the object will focus to a point of zero size ... [4 Related Articles]
- aberration, constant of
- in astronomy, the maximum amount of the apparent yearly aberrational displacement of a star or other celestial body, resulting from the Earth's orbital motion around the Sun. The value of the constant, about 20.49" of arc, depends on the ratio ... [1 Related Articles]
- Abert, Lake
- (from the article "lake") ...of various tectonic phenomena has resulted in the formation of a few lake basins, but faulting, in its great variety of forms, has been responsible for the formation of many important lake basins. Abert Lake, in Oregon, lies in the ...
- Abertillery
- town, Blaenau Gwent county borough, historic county of Monmouthshire (Sir Fynwy), Wales, in the valley of the River Ebbw. Coal mining was its main economic interest from about 1850 until the last mines closed in the 1980s. Nantyglo, to the ...
- Aberystwyth
- coastal town, Ceredigion county (historic county of Cardiganshire), Wales, where the River Rheidol flows into Cardigan Bay. Traces of extensive Iron Age earthworks have been found on the hill Pen Dinas, which overlooks the old port and town. The medieval ... [2 Related Articles]
- Aberystwyth Grit Formation
- (from the article "Silurian Period") ...deepwater shales of the basin. Submarine avalanches (turbidity flows) brought the 1,200 to 1,500 metres (approximately 3,900 to 4,900 feet) of interbedded shales and fine sandstones constituting the Aberystwyth Grit Formation to a deepwater basinal setting in west-central Wales. Less ...
- abetalipoproteinemia
- (from the article "metabolic disease") A deficiency of microsomal transfer protein causes abetalipoproteinemia, an autosomal recessive condition characterized by the virtual absence of VLDL and LDL. Triglycerides accumulate in the gastrointestinal tract and liver, and there are low blood levels of cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and ...
- abettor
- in law, a person who becomes equally guilty in the crime of another by knowingly and voluntarily aiding the criminal during the act itself. An abettor is one kind of accomplice (q.v.), the other being an accessory, who aids the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Abgar legend
- in early Christian times, a popular myth that Jesus had an exchange of letters with King Abgar V Ukkama of Osroene, whose capital was Edessa, a Mesopotamian city on the northern fringe of the Syrian plateau. According to the legend, ...
- Abgar VII
- (from the article "Osroene") ...during wars between Rome and Parthia from the 1st century BC to the 2nd century AD, and it formed alliances at different times with one or the other. Finally, the Roman emperor Trajan deposed Abgar VII, king of Osroene, after ...
- Abgesang
- (from the article "minnesinger") ...the tripartite structure taken over from the Provencal canso: two identical sections, called individually Stollen and collectively Aufgesang, and a third section, or Abgesang (the terms derive from the later meistersingers); the formal ratio between Aufgesang and Abgesang is variable. ...
- Abha
- city, southwestern Saudi Arabia. It is situated on a plain at the western edge of Mount al-Hijaz and is surrounded by hills. The valley of the Wadi Abha near the city is filled with gardens, fields, and streams. The city ... [1 Related Articles]
- abhava
- (from the article "Vaisheshika") To these six was later added abhava, nonexistence or absence. Though negative in content, the impression it makes is positive; one has a perception of an absence where one misses something. Four such absences are recognized: previous absence, as of ...
- Abhayagiri
- important ancient Theravada Buddhist monastic centre (vihara) built by King Vattagamani Abhaya (29-17 BC) on the northern side of Anuradhapura, the capital of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) at that time. Its importance lay, in part, in the fact that religious and ... [2 Related Articles]
- Abhayagiriviharavasi
- (from the article "Buddhism") ...Asoka (3rd century BCE), the Theravada school was established in Sri Lanka, where it subsequently divided into three subgroups, known after their respective monastic centres. The cosmopolitan Abhayagiriviharavasi maintained open relations with Mahayana and later Vajrayana monks and welcomed new ...
- Abhdisho bar Berikha
- Syrian Christian theologian and poet who was the last important representative of the Nestorian tradition, a theological school emphasizing a rational, critical interpretation of early Christian doctrine. The sect, centred in ancient Antioch, countered the speculative mysticism then prevalent in ...
- abhibhvayatana
- in Buddhist philosophy, one of the preparatory stages of meditation, in which the senses are completely restrained. In Buddhist canons, abhibhvayatana is divided into eight substages during which man comes to realize that physical forms in the external world are ...
- Abhidhamma
- (from the article "Buddhism") ...Vinaya), to the discourses of the Buddha (Pali: Sutta), and subsequently to the interest in scholasticism (Pali: Abhidhamma)."Abhidhamma Pitaka""Abhidharmakosha"
- Abhidhamma Pitaka
- the third-and historically the latest-of the three "baskets," or collections of texts, that together compose the Pali canon of Theravada Buddhism, the form predominant in Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka (Ceylon). The other two collections are Sutta ("Discourse"; Sanskrit [3 Related Articles]
- Abhidhammattha-sangaha
- a highly popular primer, or digest, of the Abhidhamma corpus (the scholastic section of the canon) of the Theravada tradition. The Abhidhammattha-sangaha was composed in India or in Myanmar (Burma), the chief centre for Abhidhamma studies. Written in Pali by ...
- Abhidhammavatara
- the earliest effort at systematizing, in the form of a manual, the doctrines dealt with in the Abhidhamma (scholastic) section of the Theravada Buddhist canon. The Abhidhammavatara was written in Pali, apparently in the 5th century, by the poet and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Abhidharmakosha
- encyclopaedic compendium of Abhidharma (scholasticism). [3 Related Articles]
- abhijna
- in Buddhist philosophy, miraculous power obtained especially through meditation and wisdom. Usually five kinds of abhijna are enumerated: the ability (1) to travel any distance or take on any form at will, (2) to see everything, (3) ...
- abhimukhi
- (from the article "bhumi") ...(4) arcismati ("brilliant," the rays of his virtue consuming evil passions and ignorance), (5) sudurjaya ("hard to conquer"), (6) abhimukhi ("turning toward" both transmigration and nirvana), (7) durangama ("far-going"), (8) acala ("immovable"),...
- Abhinavagupta
- philosopher, ascetic and aesthetician, and outstanding representative of the "recognition" (pratyabhijna) school of Kashmiri Saivite monism. This school conceived of the god Siva (the manifestation of ultimate reality), the individual soul, and the universe as essentially one; pratyabhijna refers to ... [2 Related Articles]
- Abhira
- (from the article "India") ...between the Yamuna and the Beas rivers. The Trigartas have been associated with the Chamba region of the upper Ravi River, but they also may have inhabited the area of Jalandhara in the plains. The Abhiras lived in scattered settlements ...
- Abhisamayalambkaraloka
- important contribution to exegetical literature on the Prajnaparamita- ("Perfection of Wisdom") sutras of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and one of the texts most often studied in Tibetan monasteries.
- abhiseka
- ("sprinkling"), in esoteric Buddhism, a purificatory or initiatory rite in which a candidate is sprinkled with water or other liquid, signifying a change in status. [3 Related Articles]
- Abia
- state, east-central Nigeria. Abia was administratively created in 1991 from the eastern half of former Imo state. It is bordered by the states of Enugu to the north, Cross River and Akwa Ibom to the east, Rivers to the south, ...
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