Byzantine general, the leading military figure in the age of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (527-565). As one of the last important figures in the Roman military tradition, he led imperial armies against the Sasanian empire (Persia), the Vandal kingdom ...
professional ice hockey centre who was noted for scoring winning goals in Stanley Cup playoff games. He played his entire career (1953-71) with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL).
country located on the northeast coast of Central America. With an area of 8,867 square miles (22,965 square km), it is the smallest nation, after El Salvador, on the mainland of the Americas, and it is also the least populous ...
coral reef that is second in size to the Great Barrier Reef of Australia and the largest of its kind in the Northern and Western hemispheres. Extending for more than 180 miles (290 km) along the Caribbean coast of Belize, ...
former capital and chief seaport of Belize (formerly British Honduras). The city occupies both banks of the Haulover Creek, a delta mouth of the Belize River on the Caribbean coast. Its name was probably derived from an ancient Maya Indian ...
river rising in northeastern Guatemala as the Rio Mopan and flows about 180 mi (290 km) northeast past Benque Viejo, San Ignacio (El Cayo), and Roaring Creek (site of Belmopan, capital of Belize [formerly British Honduras]) into the Caribbean Sea ...
county, east-central New Hampshire, U.S. It comprises a hilly upland region with numerous lakes. The Pemigewasset River constitutes a portion of the northwestern border before flowing through the western part of the county; Lake Winnipesaukee, the state's largest lake, is ...
hollow vessel usually of metal, but sometimes of horn, wood, glass, or clay, struck near the rim by an interior clapper or exterior hammer or mallet to produce a ringing sound. Bells may be categorized as idiophones, instruments sounding by ...
port and site of a large aluminum-production facility, northern Tasmania, Australia, on the east bank of the River Tamar estuary in George Town municipality. Electric power is supplied from the Trevallyn station on the South Esk River, supplemented by an ...
(from medieval Latin cymbala: "bells"), set of stationary bells tuned in a musical series, traditionally in diatonic sequence (seven-note scale) plus a few accidentals (sharps and flats). The bells generally number from 2 to 20 and, in the voorslags (automatic ...
island in southeastern Newfoundland, Canada; it lies in Conception Bay 3 mi (5 km) off the Avalon Peninsula. Bell Island is 6 mi long and 3 mi wide, and has an area of 11 sq mi (28 sq km). Named ...
the longtime research and development arm of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T). It now serves the same function in Lucent Technologies Inc., which was spun off from AT&T in 1996. Headquarters for the laboratories are in Murray Hill, ...
sandstone reef in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland, 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Arbroath, Angus. It is 2,000 feet (600 metres) long and is exposed for a few feet at low tide but submerged at high ...
a former American telephone system, governed by American Telephone & Telegraph Company (now AT&T Corporation; q.v.) and including Western Electric Company (q.v.), the system's manufacturer; Bell Laboratories (q.v.), the research and development facility; and other departments and 22 operating companies. ...
an act passed by the U.S. Congress specifying the economic conditions governing the emergence of the Republic of the Philippines from U.S. rule; the act included controversial provisions that tied the Philippine economy to that of the United States.
Scottish-born American audiologist best known as the inventor of the telephone (1876). For two generations his family had been recognized as leading authorities in elocution and speech correction, with Alexander Melville Bell's Standard Elocutionist passing through nearly 200 editions in ...
in Roman Catholicism, a ceremony formerly used in pronouncing the "major excommunication" or "anathema" (see excommunication). Its origins are not clear, but it dates back certainly to the late 9th century. The bell represented the public character of the act, ...
American sociologist and journalist who used sociological theory to reconcile what he believed were the inherent contradictions of capitalist societies.
English publisher who was one of the first to organize a book-publishing company on a joint-stock basis. Beginning in 1777 he issued the 109 volumes of The Poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill series. He influenced later ...
Scottish physician and traveler whose vivid account of his journeys did much to awaken Westerners to the way of life of the peoples of Russia and the East, particularly China.
Scottish anatomist whose New Idea of Anatomy of the Brain (1811) has been called the "Magna Carta of neurology." A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Bell went to London (1804), where he held surgical and teaching posts. In 1829 ...
New Zealand lawyer and statesman who had a leading role in the Cabinets of Prime Minister William Ferguson Massey (1912-25). He himself also served for a short time as prime minister of New Zealand (1925).
Australasian songbird belonging to the family Cracticidae (order Passeriformes), named for its loud, metallic voice and magpie-like black-and-white plumage. Most authorities consider the bell-magpies to represent a single widespread species, Gymnorhina tibicen; some recognize three species, the white-backed (G. hypoleuca), ...
North Pacific Coast Indians whose villages were located in what is now the central British Columbia coast, along the upper Dean and Burke channels and the lower parts of the Bella Coola River valley. They spoke a Salishan language related ...
tall bushy herb, the deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), of the family Solanaceae (order Solanales), and the crude drug consisting of its dried leaves or roots. The plant, which grows to about 1.5 m (4-5 feet) tall, is a native of ...
American sociologist who addressed the problem of change in modern religious practice and who offered innovative procedures for reconciling traditional religious societies with social change.
English actress whose stage career and personal life were, in their irregularity, not entirely atypical of her era. Her best performances were in such tragic roles as Desdemona in Othello and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.
town, east-central Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state, southern India. Of medieval origin, the town is dominated by a 16th-century fort on a granitic rock, 2 miles (3 km) in circumference, which rises abruptly from the surrounding plain to a height of ...
French poet, leader with Pierre de Ronsard of the literary group known as La Pleiade. Du Bellay is the author of the Pleiade's manifesto, La Defense et illustration de la langue francaise (1549; The Defence and Illustration of the French ...
