(from the article "Ikhwan") A congress convened by Ibn Sa'ud in October 1928 deposed Ibn Humayd, ad-Dawish, and Ibn Hithlayn, the leaders of the revolt. A massacre of Najd merchants by Ibn Humayd in 1929, however, forced Ibn Sa'ud to confront the rebellious Ikhwan ...
University of Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins made a career out of trying to present science in terms that could be understood by the general public. Through television appearances, opinion articles in newspapers, five books, and a CD-ROM, Dawkins had taken ...
(from the article "Literature") In nonfiction The God Delusion (2006) by Richard Dawkins continued to be high-profile and controversial, and it remained on the best-seller lists. A rash of books came out in response to Dawkins's atheistic stance. Among the most notable of these ...
(from the article "Babur") When Babur made his first raid into India in 1519, the Punjab was part of the dominions of Sultan Ibrahim Lodi of Delhi, but the governor, Dawlat Khan Lodi, resented Ibrahim's attempts to diminish his authority. By 1524 Babur had ...
(from the article "Persian literature") ...American authors as Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In contrast to the late-20th-century tendency by writers to apply modern narrative techniques to their novels stands the social realism of Mahmoud Dawlatabadi. His great novel Kalidar, published in 10 parts (1978-84), depicts the ...
town ("parish"), Teignbridge district, administrative and historic county of Devon, England, on the English Channel. It became fashionable in the 19th century and is featured in the novels of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. Located back from the seacoast above ...
(from the article "sunlight") ...During this long passage the dominant blue wavelengths of light are scattered and blocked, leaving the longer, unobstructed red wavelengths to reach the Earth and lend their tints to the sky at dawn and dusk.
(from the article "Physical Sciences") NASA launched its Dawn mission to explore asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres on September 27. It carried a visual and infrared spectrometer and a gamma-ray and neutron detector to map and assay the two bodies. Dawn was to make ...
(from the article "snake") ...Pelvic vestiges present. Tracheal lung present. 1 species (Ramphotyphlops braminus) parthenogenetic.15 species in 4 genera from Central America to northern South America. Size small, 15-40 cm. Pelvic vestiges absent. Tracheal lung present. Possible...blind ...
extinct group of horses that flourished in North America and Europe during the early part of the Eocene Epoch (55.8-33.9 million years ago). Even though these animals are more commonly known as Eohippus, a name given by the American paleontologist ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Ahmed Hasim") ...but, after his study of the poetry of Charles Baudelaire and the Symbolist poetry of Arthur Rimbaud, Stephane Mallarme, and others, his poetic style changed. In 1909 he joined the Fecr-i ati ("Dawn of the Future") literary circle but gradually ...
genus of conifers represented by a single living species, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, from central China. Fossil representatives, such as M. occidentalis, dated to about 90 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous Period, are known throughout the middle ... [1 Related Articles]
city, western Yukon Territory, Canada. It lies at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, near the Alaska, U.S., boundary, 165 miles (265 km) south of the Arctic Circle. The community, named for George M. Dawson, the geologist-explorer, developed ... [2 Related Articles]
city, northeastern British Columbia, Canada. The city lies along Dawson Creek near the Alberta border. It has the Mile "Zero" post marking the beginning of the Alaska Highway and is a terminus of the British Columbia Railway from Vancouver (741 ...
river in eastern Queensland, Australia. It rises in the Carnarvon Range and flows southeast, northeast, and north for about 400 miles (640 km) through a 50-mile-wide valley to join the Fitzroy River near Duaringa. The Dawson Valley Irrigation Project (inaugurated ...
(from the article "Boxing") The heir apparent to the light heavyweight throne appeared to be Chad Dawson (U.S.), who won the WBC light heavyweight title on February 3 with a 12-round decision over Tomasz Adamek (Poland) in Kissimmee, Fla. Dawson made two subsequent defenses, ...
(from the article "Piltdown man") In a series of discoveries in 1910-12, Charles Dawson, an English lawyer and amateur geologist, found what appeared to be the fossilized fragments of a cranium, a jawbone, and other specimens in a gravel formation at Barkham Manor on Piltdown ...
(from the article "Performing Arts") ...March 24 the Mariinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg added Forsythe's Approximate Sonata to its growing collection of his works and at the same performance gave the premiere of Reverence by David Dawson, a British-born choreographer who was establishing a serious ...
English journalist, editor of The Times from 1912 to 1919 and from 1923 until his retirement in 1941. He changed his surname from Robinson to Dawson following an inheritance in 1917.
American physicist (b. Sept. 30, 1930, Champaign, Ill.-d. Nov. 17, 2001, Los Angeles, Calif.), was one of the world's foremost authorities on plasma physics. Dawson was known for his development of the so-called particle-in-cell computer model, a technique for simulating ...
(from the article "London in 1940") ...for English-speaking peoples around the globe. The following article "London" was originally printed in the 1941 Britannica Book of the Year (events of 1940). It was written by Lawrence Hawkins Dawson, editor of the guidebook Introductions to London (H.O. Quinn, ...
British comedian (b. Feb. 2, 1934, Collyhurst, near Manchester, England--d. June 10, 1993, Manchester), was a stand-up comic and television personality whose dour, misanthropic humour was reminiscent of W.C. Fields but reflected his own northern England working-class origins. His sardonic ...
(from the article "bryophyte") Leafy bryophytes grow up to 65 centimetres (2 feet) in height (the moss Dawsonia) or, if reclining, reach lengths of more than 1 metre (3.3 feet; the moss Fontinalis). They are generally less than 3 to 6 centimetres tall, and ...
a carbonate mineral, NaAlCO3 (OH)2, that is probably formed by the decomposition of aluminous silicates. Of low-temperature, hydrothermal origin, it occurs in Montreal, where it was first discovered; near Monte Amiata, Tuscany, Italy; and in Algiers. In the oil shale ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Zahiriyah") This approach to the Islamic tradition was apparently pioneered in Iraq in the 9th century by one Dawud ibn Khalaf, though nothing of his work has survived. From Iraq, it spread to Iran, North Africa, and Muslim Spain, where the ...
town, Landes departement, Aquitaine region, southwestern France. It lies on the left bank of the Adour River, 88 miles (142 km) southwest of Bordeaux and 50 miles (80 km) north of the Pyrenees frontier with Spain. The town is a ...
(from the article "Economic Affairs") ...programs once the political uncertainty surrounding the national elections in September was over. The inconclusive election result did cause stock market performance to waver a little. The German DAX 30 initially fell 1.1%, and the DJ Euro STOXX 50 index ...
(from the article "China") In the middle and lower Yangtze River valley during the 4th and 3rd millennia, the Daxi and Qujialing cultures shared a significant number of traits, including rice production, ring-footed vessels, goblets with sharply angled profiles, ceramic whorls, and black pottery ...
brief Chinese text generally attributed to the ancient sage Confucius (551-479 BC) and his disciple Zengzi. For centuries the text existed only as a chapter of the Liji ("Collection of Rituals"), one of the Wujing ("Five Classics") of Confucianism. When ... [4 Related Articles]
great mountain range in western Sichuan province, southwestern China. These enormously high and rugged mountains were formed around the eastern flank of the ancient stable block of the Plateau of Tibet; their formation occurred during successive foldings that took place ... [2 Related Articles]
time required for a celestial body to turn once on its axis; especially the period of the Earth's rotation. The sidereal day is the time required for the Earth to rotate once relative to the background of the stars-i.e., the ... [8 Related Articles]
(from the article "fighter aircraft") ...intercepting and defeating or routing invading fighters. A night fighter is one equipped with sophisticated radar and other instruments for navigating in unfamiliar or hostile territory at night. A day fighter is an airplane in which weight and space are ...
any plant of the genus Hemerocallis of the family Hemerocallidaceae, consisting of about 15 species of perennial herbs distributed from central Europe to eastern Asia. Members of the genus have long-stalked clusters of funnel- or bell-shaped flowers that range in ...
public holiday observed in South Africa on December 16. The holiday originally commemorated the victory of the Voortrekkers (southern Africans of Dutch, German, or Huguenot descent who made the Great Trek) over the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River ... [1 Related Articles]
holiday in Mexico, also observed to a lesser extent in other areas of Latin America and in the United States, honouring dead loved ones and making peace with the eventuality of death by treating it familiarly, without fear and dread. ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Spain") One important holiday is both religious and civic. October 12 is the Day of the Virgin of El Pilar and also the day on which the "discovery" of America is celebrated (a counterpart to the celebration of Columbus Day in ...
U.S. geophysicist known for his studies of the properties of rocks and minerals at very high and very low temperatures. He investigated hot springs and earthquakes, the absolute measurement of high temperatures, and physical and chemical problems regarding volcanoes.
American singer and motion-picture actress whose performances in movie musicals of the 1950s and sex comedies of the early '60s made her a leading Hollywood star. [2 Related Articles]
American actress portrayed decent and steadfast women in Hollywood films of the 1940s, but her most memorable role was that of Mary Lamont, the beloved nurse in seven Dr. Kildare movies. Though Day's early contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer often relegated her ...
U.S. baseball player (b. Oct. 30, 1916, Alexandria, Va.--d. March 13, 1995, Baltimore, Md.), was a phenomenal right-handed pitcher whose fastball and change-up pitches secured his place as a strikeout artist; he held the strikeout record in the Negro National ...
American dance teacher and artistic director (b. Jan. 25, 1910, Washington, D.C.-d. July 11, 2006, Washington, D.C.), cofounded (with Lisa Gardiner) in 1944 the Washington School of Ballet, which attracted students from throughout the country and turned out such illustrious ...
(from the article "Equestrian Sports") Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day announced his retirement at age 51. Day, who ranked fourth all time with 8,803 victories, earned $297,912,019 in purses during a career that began in 1973. He rode in the Kentucky Derby a record ...
(from the article "1935: Other Winners") ...Screenplay: Dudley Nichols for The InformerOriginal Story: Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur for The ScoundrelCinematography: Hal Mohr for A Midsummer Night's DreamArt Direction: Richard Day for The Dark AngelScoring: RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department, for ...
British broadcast journalist (b. Oct. 24, 1923, London, Eng.-d. Aug. 7, 2000, London), gained the label "grand inquisitor" for his technique in political interviews, in which he asked pointed questions and probed relentlessly for nonevasive answers, in contrast to the ...
On March 28, 2000, Albertan politician Stockwell Day announced that he would enter the race to head the newly formed Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance (CRCA). The group succeeded the Reform Party, founded by Preston Manning in 1987 and headed by ... [2 Related Articles]
