one of the outstanding Belgian Symbolist poets, whose material was the everyday life and folklore of his native city. He was a sincere Roman Catholic, and his poems often reflect his religious sentiments.
Flemish novelist and poet, the author of a small but remarkable oeuvre, whose laconic style and ironic observation of middle-class urban life mark him as one of the outstanding Flemish novelists of the first half of the 20th century.
Austrian ballerina who introduced theatricalized folk dance (character dance) into ballet. She was celebrated for her spirited, spectacular dancing and for her technique, especially her point work.
highly saline lake, Volgograd oblast (province), Russia, near the Russian border with Kazakstan. The lake occupies an area of 59 square miles (152 square km) and is only 1-2 feet (0.3-0.6 m) deep. It is 60 feet (18 m) below ...
town, northeastern Andhra Pradesh state, southern India, at the junction of the Godavari and Krishna canal systems. The name of the town was changed to its present form in 1949. Mainly a manufacturing town, Eluru produces textiles and leather products ...
town and concelho (township), Portalegre distrito ("district"), east-central Portugal, on a hill overlooking a plain. The town originated as the Roman Alpesa and during its long history was a border fortress besieged by the Moors, Spanish, and French. Main fortifications ...
the first known council of the Christian church in Spain, held early in the 4th century at Elvira, near modern Granada. It is the first council of which the canons have survived, and they provide the earliest reliable information on ...
Danish yachtsman who dominated Olympic Finn class sailing between 1948 and 1960. He won four consecutive gold medals in that event and competed in the Olympics as late as the 1988 Games in Seoul, South Korea. He is considered the ...
city, Madison county, east-central Indiana, U.S., 35 miles (56 km) northeast of Indianapolis. Established in 1853 as Quincy, it was renamed for the son of one of its founders in 1869 because of the existence of another Quincy in Owen ...
city, St. Louis county, northeastern Minnesota, U.S. It lies on Shagawa Lake, at the east end of the Vermilion Iron Range, about 110 miles (175 km) north of Duluth. Ojibwa Indians were living in the area when fur trappers arrived ...
city, seat (1886) of White Pine county, east-central Nevada, U.S. It is adjacent to East Ely, near the Utah border. Established in 1868 as a gold-mining camp and probably named for John Ely, a mining promoter, the community expanded after ...
town, East Cambridgeshire district, administrative and historic county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies on an "island" of rock that rises above the alluvial Fens and, prior to their draining (1630-52), was a place of refuge. The Isle of Ely is ...
historic region of England, part of the administrative and historic county of Cambridgeshire. The Isle of Ely consists of a hill about 7 miles (11 km) long and 4 miles (6 km) wide that rises above the surrounding fens (low-lying ...
ancient Parthian vassal state located east of the lower Tigris River and usually considered part of the larger district of Susiana. It incorporated much of the area of the biblical region of Elam, approximately equivalent to the modern region of ...
English author and administrator, memorable for his championship and use of English prose for subjects then customarily treated in Latin. Both as a philosopher and as a lexicographer, he endeavoured to "augment our Englysshe tongue" as a medium for ideas.
city, seat (1823) of Lorain county, northern Ohio, U.S. It lies along the Black River, just west of Cleveland and south of the city of Lorain. The site was settled in 1817 by Heman Ely, who built a log house, ...
in Greek mythology, originally the paradise to which heroes on whom the gods conferred immortality were sent. It probably was retained from Minoan religion. In Homer's writings the Elysian Plain was a land of perfect happiness at the end of ...
a family of Dutch booksellers, publishers, and printers, 15 members of which were in business between 1587 and 1681. They were best known for their books or editions of the Greek New Testament and the classics.
Japanese illustrated text, or narrative picture scroll. The makimono, or horizontal hand-scroll, format was used, and most often the text and illustrations appear on the same scroll.
philosophical and theological theory that sees all of creation as an unwilled, necessary, and spontaneous outflow of contingent beings of descending perfection-from an infinite, undiminished, unchanged primary substance. Typically, light is used as an analogy: it communicates itself continually, remains ...
(March 3 [Feb. 19, Old Style], 1861), manifesto issued by the Russian emperor Alexander II that accompanied 17 legislative acts that freed the serfs of the Russian Empire. (The acts were collectively called Statutes Concerning Peasants Leaving Serf Dependence, or ...
any of the former convicts (and their supporters) in Australia in the late 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries who were struggling for full civil rights. Technically, the term applied only to pardoned convicts; it was generally ...
the treatment of a dead body so as to sterilize it or to protect it from decay. For practical as well as theological reasons a well-preserved body has long been a chief mortuary concern. The ancient Greeks, who demanded endurance ...
legal prohibition by a government or group of governments restricting the departure of vessels or movement of goods from some or all locations to one or more countries.
(1807), Pres. Thomas Jefferson's nonviolent resistance to British and French molestation of U.S. merchant ships carrying, or suspected of carrying, war materials and other cargoes to the European belligerents. At Jefferson's request the two houses of Congress considered and passed ...
German physiological chemist who conducted studies on the chemistry of carbohydrate metabolism and muscle contraction and was the first to discover and link together all the steps involved in the conversion of glycogen to lactic acid.
in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, four "times" set apart for special prayer and fasting and for the ordination of the clergy. The Ember Weeks are the complete weeks following (1) Holy Cross Day (September 14); (2) the Feast ...
songbird family in the classification preferred by some authorities, absorbing some groups otherwise placed in the Fringillidae (q.v.), order Passeriformes. The family Emberizidae includes some species of buntings, finches, grosbeaks, and sparrows and all juncos; it is sometimes considered to ...
crime generally defined as the fraudulent misappropriation of goods of another by a servant, an agent, or another person to whom possession of the goods has been entrusted. The offense has no single or precise definition. Typically, embezzlement occurs when ...
collection of symbolic pictures, usually accompanied by mottoes and expositions in verse and often also by a prose commentary. Derived from the medieval allegory and bestiary, the emblem book developed as a pictorial-literary genre in 16th-century Italy and became popular ...
central panel with figure representations-people, animals, and other objects-or occasionally another featured design motif in a Hellenistic or Roman mosaic. Emblemata were usually executed in opus vermiculatum, very fine work with tiny tesserae (stone, ceramic glass, or other hard cubes), ...
(1708-09), conflict in the Captaincy of Minas Gerais, Brazil, between the original settlers from Sao Paulo (Paulistas) and new settlers called emboabas, who were mostly European immigrants. In the late 17th century the Paulistas had opened gold mines in Minas ...
obstruction of the flow of blood by an embolus, a particle or aggregate of substance that is abnormally present in the bloodstream. The substance may be a blood clot that has broken loose from its point of formation (while it ...
art of producing raised patterns on the surface of metal, leather, textiles, paper, and other similar substances. Strictly speaking, the term is applicable only to raised impressions produced by means of engraved dies or plates. Crests, monograms, and addresses may ...
a powerful Genoese family, whose members played notable roles in the Crusades in the Holy Land in the 11th and 12th centuries. Guglielmo Embriaco and his brother Primo di Castello sailed for the Holy Land in 1099 and participated in ...
art of decorating material, primarily textile fabric, by means of a needle and thread (and sometimes fine wire). The basic techniques include crewel work, needlepoint, cross-stitch embroidery, and quilting, as well as quillwork and featherwork.
the early developmental stage of an animal while it is in the egg or within the uterus of the mother. In humans the term is applied to the unborn child until the end of the seventh week following conception; from ...
the study of the formation and development of an embryo and fetus. Before widespread use of the microscope and the advent of cellular biology in the 19th century, embryology was based on descriptive and comparative studies. From the time of ...
town, central Kenya, eastern Africa, located at an elevation of about 4,400 feet (1,350 m), about 24 miles (40 km) south of Mount Kenya National Park. Embu was founded by the British in 1906. Missionary activity increased in the 1930s, ...
city, Lower Saxony Land (state), northwestern Germany. It lies near the Ems River estuary and the North Sea coast of Ostfriesland (East Frisia). Founded about 800, it developed as a port for trade with the Baltic countries. ...
grass-green variety of beryl (q.v.) that is highly valued as a gemstone. The name comes indirectly from the Greek smaragdos, a name that seems to have been given to a number of stones having little in common except a green ...
