uncontrolled fire occurring in vegetation more than 6 feet (1.8 m) in height. These fires often reach the proportions of a major conflagration and are sometimes begun by combustion and heat from surface and ground fires. A big forest fire ...
district, administrative and historic county of Suffolk, England. It takes its name from the vegetation of the area, which is a mixture of heathlands and forest plantations characteristic of the larger region known as the Breckland. Mainly rural, the district ...
residential section of the borough of Queens, New York City, southeastern New York, U.S., on Long Island. Originally part of a district called Whitepot, which was settled about 1652, it was named Forest Hills in about 1910 for its location ...
district, administrative county of Gloucestershire, south-central England, in the western part of the county. Most of the district belongs to the historic county of Gloucestershire, but the villages of Staunton and Redmarley D'Abitot and the surrounding area belong to the ...
(Procris, or Ino), any of a genus of moths of the family Zygaenidae that are closely related to the burnet moths and are widespread in the Northern Hemisphere. The adult moth has shining green forewings (span about three centimetres), translucent, ...
British historical novelist and journalist, best known as the creator of the British naval officer Horatio Hornblower, whose rise from midshipman to admiral and peer during the Napoleonic Wars is told in a series of 12 novels, beginning with The ...
peninsula in southeastern Tasmania, Australia, measuring 12 by 9 miles (19 by 14 km) and bounded by the Tasman Sea (east) and by Norfolk Bay (west). To the north the promontory is connected to the mainland by a short isthmus, ...
the management of forested land, together with associated waters and wasteland, primarily for harvesting timber. To a large degree, modern forestry has evolved in parallel with the movement to conserve natural resources. As a consequence, professional foresters have increasingly become ...
former region of France lying on the eastern side of the Massif Central and included within the modern departement of Loire. The name is derived from that of its capital, Feurs (Forum Segusiavorum in Roman times), a town midway between ...
small burgh (town), council area and historic county of Angus, eastern Scotland, situated at the eastern end of Forfar Loch (lake) in the scenic valley of Strathmore. It was in existence by 1057, when an early Scottish Parliament met in ...
open furnace for heating metal ore and metal for working and forming. From earliest times, smiths heated iron in forges and formed it by hammering on an anvil. A bellows operated by an assistant or by a foot treadle provided ...
in art, a work of literature, painting, sculpture, or objet d'art that purports to be the work of someone other than its true maker. The range of forgeries extends from misrepresentation of a genuine work of art ...
in law, making of a false writing with an intent to defraud. Writing, to be forgery, must either have legal significance or be commonly relied upon in business transactions. It need not be handwriting; the law of forgery covers printing, ...
any of about 50 species of the plant genus Myosotis (family Boraginaceae), native to temperate Eurasia and North America and to mountains of the Old World tropics. Some are favoured as garden plants for their clusters of blue flowers. (For ...
in metallurgy, process of shaping metal and increasing its strength by hammering or pressing. In most forging an upper die is forced against a heated workpiece positioned on a stationary lower die. If the upper die or hammer is dropped, ...
monetary unit of Hungary. The Hungarian National Bank (Magyar Nezmeti Bank), which has the sole authority to issue currency, issues coins in denominations ranging from 1 to 100 forints and banknotes of 200 to 20,000 forints. The obverse of banknotes ...
resort town and seaport on the western coast of the volcanic island of Ischia, Campania region, southern Italy. It is the centre of a productive wine-making region. The wine is called Epomeo for Mount Epomeo, the extinct volcano that is ...
implement consisting of two or more prongs supported by a handle, used for cooking, serving, and eating food. Forks and spoons together are known as flatware (q.v.).
one of the first great musicologists and the first biographer of Johann Sebastian Bach. After brief legal studies, he became organist at the university church at Gottingen, where, from 1778 until his death, he was musical director of the university. ...
any of seven species of birds of the Asian, chiefly Himalayan, genus Enicurus. Forktails usually are placed among the Old World flycatchers Muscicapidae (order Passeriformes). Forktails pick insects from stones along mountain streams and have loud whistling ...
national park and bird sanctuary established in 1973 by Norway's Environment Ministry for Svalbard. The Forlandet National Park has the greatest number of bird sanctuaries in the Svalbard archipelago: six in number, located throughout the southern and southeastern regions of ...
the external shape, appearance, or configuration of an object, in contradistinction to the matter of which it is composed; in metaphysics, the active, determining principle of a thing as distinguished from matter, the potential principle.
a method of biblical criticism that seeks to classify units of scripture into literary patterns (such as love poems, parables, sayings, elegies, legends) and that attempts to trace each type to its period of oral transmission. The purpose is to ...
the abstract study of propositions, statements, or assertively used sentences and of deductive arguments. The discipline abstracts from the content of these elements the structures or logical forms that they embody. The logician customarily uses a symbolic notation to express ...
in logic and mathematics, abstract, theoretical organization of terms and implicit relationships that is used as a tool for the analysis of the concept of deduction. Models-structures that interpret the symbols of a formal system-are often used in conjunction with ...
an organic compound, the simplest of the aldehydes, used in large amounts in a variety of chemical manufacturing processes. It is produced principally by the vapour-phase oxidation of methanol and is commonly sold as formalin, a 37 percent aqueous solution. ...
in mathematics, school of thought introduced by the 20th-century German mathematician David Hilbert, which holds that all mathematics can be reduced to rules for manipulating formulas without any reference to the meanings of the formulas. Formalists contend that it is ...
20th-century Russian school of literary criticism. It began in two groups: Opoyaz, an acronym for Russian words meaning Society for the Study of Poetic Language, founded in 1916 at St. Petersburg (later Leningrad) and led by Victor Shklovsky; and the ...
sculptor, recognized as perhaps the most important sculptor in 16th-century Spain. His early work demonstrated a mastery of Renaissance principles, and one of his last pieces is one of the earliest Mannerist works in Spain.
town, Latina province, Lazio (Latium) region, south central Italy, on the Golfo (gulf) di Gaeta between the mouth of the Garigliano and the Gaeta peninsula, northwest of Naples. A town of the ancient Volsci people, it was later taken by ...
(HCO2H), the simplest of the carboxylic acids, used in processing textiles and leather. It is made by the action of sulfuric acid upon sodium formate, which is produced from carbon monoxide and sodium hydroxide.
trademark for hard, smooth, surface material used to make various laminated plastic products, especially tabletops and other furniture and wallboards and other constructions.
provincia (province), northern Argentina, lying within the Gran Chaco, a vast alluvial plain having poor drainage. It is covered with forests, grasslands, and marshes. Formosa is bordered by Paraguay (north and east). The Pilcomayo, Bermejo, and Paraguay ...
city, capital of Formosa provincia (province), northeastern Argentina, on the western bank of the Rio Paraguay, southwest of Asuncion, Paraguay. It was founded in 1879 during the military conquest of the central Gran Chaco following the defeat ...
Jewish idealist philosopher who was rabbi at Offenbach from 1842. Die Religion des Geistes (1841; "The Religion of the Spirit") is considered the most complete exposition of his philosophy and a thorough systematization of Judaism. He believed there were only ...
in chemistry, the sum of the atomic weights of all atoms appearing in a given chemical formula. It is generally applied to a substance that does not consist of individual molecules, such as the ionic compound sodium chloride. Such a ...
class of Icelandic sagas dealing with the ancient myths and hero legends of Germania, with the adventures of Vikings, or with other exotic adventures in foreign lands. These stories take place on the European continent before the settlement of Iceland. ...
the foremost literary polemicist of the 18th century in Spain. His brilliant wit was often admirably used against fads, affectations, and muddleheadedness but also often cruelly and spitefully against personalities.
small royal burgh (town) in the council area and historic county of Moray, northeastern Scotland, 12 miles (19 km) west-southwest of Elgin. The town's first royal charter was probably granted in 1150 by King David I and, in any case, ...
city and seat (1874) of St. Francis county, east-central Arkansas, U.S., on the west slope of Crowley's Ridge between the L'Anguille and St. Francis rivers, 45 miles (72 km) west of Memphis, Tennessee. Originally a railroad camp, it was founded ...
