private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Olivet, Mich., U.S., located about 30 miles (50 km) southwest of Lansing. A liberal arts college affiliated with the Congregational Christian Church and the United Church of Christ, it offers bachelor's degree programs ...
(from the article "Des Periers, Bonaventure") In 1533 or 1534 Des Periers visited Lyon, then the most enlightened town of France and a refuge for many liberal scholars. He assisted Pierre-Robert Olivetan and Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples in the preparation of the vernacular version of the Old ...
(from the article "Olivetti & C. SpA") Founded by Camillo Olivetti (1868-1943), an electrical engineer, the company began making typewriters in 1908. In 1925 Olivetti dispatched his son Adriano Olivetti to study modern manufacturing techniques and plant management in the United States. Upon his return, the company ...
(from the article "Olivetti & C. SpA") Founded by Camillo Olivetti (1868-1943), an electrical engineer, the company began making typewriters in 1908. In 1925 Olivetti dispatched his son Adriano Olivetti to study modern manufacturing techniques and plant management in the United States. Upon his return, the company ...
(from the article "Twelfth Night") ...a shipwreck off the coast of Illyria; each believes the other dead. Viola disguises herself as a boy named Cesario and enters the service of Duke Orsino, who thinks he is in love with the lady Olivia. Orsino sends Viola-Cesario ...
(from the article "bicycle") Michaux's role as the pioneer manufacturer of pedal bicycles is inextricably linked with the Olivier brothers, Rene and Aime. In 1865 these two rich young men pedaled velocipedes more than 800 km (500 miles) from Paris to Marseille, and their ...
a towering figure of the British stage and screen, acclaimed in his lifetime as the greatest English-speaking actor of the 20th century. He was the first member of his profession to be elevated to a life peerage. [16 Related Articles]
(from the article "bicycle") Michaux's role as the pioneer manufacturer of pedal bicycles is inextricably linked with the Olivier brothers, Rene and Aime. In 1865 these two rich young men pedaled velocipedes more than 800 km (500 miles) from Paris to Marseille, and their ...
(from the article "Jamaica") ...fire struck Kingston and Port Royal, destroying or seriously damaging almost all of their buildings and killing about 800 people. Kingston's layout and architecture were subsequently altered, and Sir Sydney Olivier (later Lord Olivier) rebuilt its public offices on the ...
(from the article "ear, human") From the superior olivary complex, a region in the medulla oblongata, there arises also a fibre tract called the olivocochlear bundle. It constitutes an efferent system, or feedback loop, by which nerve impulses, thought to be inhibitory, reach the hair ...
cabecera (county seat) of Vicente Lopez partido (county), Gran (Greater) Buenos Aires, eastern Argentina, directly north of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires provincia (province), on the Rio de ...
(from the article "Menem, Carlos") ...a flamboyant image and enjoyed great national popularity despite sharp criticism for pardoning convicted human rights violators connected with the period of military rule (1976-83). The Olivos Pact (1994), an agreement between Menem and the opposing Congressional party, allowed him ...
island in Lake Baikal, administered as part of Irkutsk oblast (province), east-central Russia. It is separated from the lake's western shore by the straits of Olkhon and the Maloye More (Little Sea). Its area is 280 square miles (730 square ...
(from the article "theatre music") ...often more the outcome of theatrical or other conditions in their respective countries than of theatrical or musical distinctions in the work itself. In the erstwhile Soviet Union, the musicologist Andrey Olkhovsky once noted thatthe numerous attempts which have been ...
(from the article "Roussillon") ...are repatriates from Algeria. There are numerous families of Catalan Gypsies. Catalan is widely spoken, and French is spoken with a heavy Catalan accent. The regional cuisine relies on olive oil. Ollada, or ouillade, is a beef stew cooked in ...
(from the article "tlachtli") the ball court, or field, used for the ritual ball game (ollama) played throughout pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Possibly originating among the Olmecs (La Venta culture, c. 800-c. 400 BC) or even earlier, the game spread to subsequent cultures, among them those ...
(from the article "fili") Filid were divided into seven grades. One of the lower and less learned grades was bard. The highest grade was the ollamh, achieved after at least 12 years of study, during which the poet mastered more than 300 difficult metres ...
(from the article "pool") The pool method was invented in 1864 by Joseph Oller (1839-1922), a French impresario and part-time bookmaker. He also solved the problem of the time-consuming work of dividing the prize money among the winners in proportion to the size of ...
(from the article "skateboarding") ...and the grind. A kickturn is accomplished when the rider pushes down on the kicktail, lifting the front wheels off the ground and spinning on the rear wheels. The hands-free aerial known as the ollie is one of the most ...
French statesman, writer, and orator who, as minister of justice under Napoleon III, authored an abortive plan for achieving a governmental compromise between Napoleonic autocracy and parliamentary democracy. [2 Related Articles]
blind salamander belonging to the family Proteidae (order Caudata). It lives in the subterranean streams in karst areas of the Adriatic coast from northeastern Italy southward into Montenegro. As an aquatic cave dweller, the olm has lost its skin pigmentation, ... [2 Related Articles]
city, eastern Uzbekistan. It is situated 35 miles (55 km) southeast of the city of Tashkent on the northern slopes of the Qurama Mountains and on the left bank of the Ohangaron River. Olmaliq was founded in 1951 from several ...
the first elaborate pre-Columbian culture of Mesoamerica, and one that is thought to have set many of the fundamental patterns evinced by later Indian cultures of Mexico and Central America. [12 Related Articles]
(from the article "John II") ...defeating the Muslims in the Battle of Higueruela (1431). John II sequestered his son, the future Henry IV, at Segovia, giving rise to fresh rivalries. He and Luna vanquished the dissidents at the Battle of Olmedo in 1445.Luna
poet and statesman whose odes commemorating South America's achievement of independence from Spain captured the revolutionary spirit of his time and inspired a generation of Romantic poets and patriots. They have remained monuments to the heroic figures of the liberation ... [1 Related Articles]
Italian motion picture director whose formative work examines life in the business world and whose later films explore religious and social themes. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "primate") ...have clarified the human story, older ones, which had served only to cloud it, have been repudiated. Piltdown man was shown unequivocally to be a fake in 1953; and Galley Hill man in England, the Olmo remains in Italy, and ...
(from the article "Spanish literature") Sastre's plays are examples of the social realism practiced by the Grupo Realista (Realist Group) during the 1950s and '60s. Epitomizing this group's realist style is Lauro Olmo's La camisa (1962; The Shirt), which ...
(from the article "electronic eavesdropping") ...forbidding the interception of messages were enacted as early as 1862. The tapping of telephone lines began in the 1890s and was approved for use by police officials in the Supreme Court case of Olmstead v. United States (1928). Federal ...
(from the article "Puerto Rico") ...the controlling power, a condition that proved distasteful to many Puerto Ricans; as a consequence, the law was subsequently amended to give Puerto Ricans a wider role in the government. The Olmsted Act, approved by the U.S. Congress in July ...
American landscape architect who designed a succession of outstanding public parks, beginning with Central Park in New York City. [10 Related Articles]
(Nov. 29, 1850), agreement signed at Olmutz (Olomouc, Moravia, in modern Czech Republic) between Prussia and Austria that regulated those two powers' relations. The development leading up to the punctation was triggered when the elector of Hesse in the autumn ... [5 Related Articles]
U.S. secretary of state (1895-97) who asserted, under the Monroe Doctrine, the right of the United States to intervene in any international disputes within the Western Hemisphere.
(from the article "art and architecture, Oceanic") ...predominantly on the triangular design described above. Sculpted figures are rare in the area. The most conspicuous works are shields, which show many variants of the triangular design. Among the Olo tribe, for example, the triangles are formed from a ...
(from the article "Maasai") Ceremonial events are directed by a ritual expert (oloiboni) who, although he has no political power, is religious head of his people.
(from the article "Convolvulaceae") ...(Ipomoea batatas) is an economic plant of the family, but the ornamental vines are used in horticulture; several species of bindweeds are agricultural pests. The seeds of two species, Turbina corymbosa and Ipomoea violacea, are sources of hallucinogenic drugs of ...
(from the article "El Salvador") ...to the Pacific. Flooded volcanic craters constitute the country's largest bodies of water: Lakes Coatepeque (15 square miles [39 square km]), Ilopango (40 square miles [100 square km]), and Olomega (20 square miles [52 square km]).
city, northeastern Czech Republic. The city lies along the Morava River at its confluence with the Bystrice River, at the northern edge of the fertile Hana farming region. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Olomouc") Olomouc possibly originated as a Roman fort (Mons Iulii) and by the 9th century was an important stronghold. A bishopric, established there in 1063, was raised to an archbishopric in 1777. At the Peace of Olomouc (1478), Moravia was ceded ...
(from the article "Karelian language") ...branch of the Uralic language family, spoken in Karelia republic of northwestern Russia and by emigrants in neighbouring Finland. There are two dialects of Karelian-Karelian proper and Olonets. Ludic, a minor group of dialects spoken to the southeast of Karelia, ...
city, southwestern Luzon, Philippines. The city is situated in a lowland area near the mouth of Subic Bay. Olongapo was heavily damaged in World War II (1939-45). It became a municipality in 1959 and a chartered city in 1966. The ...
(from the article "African religions") ...vibration of his spoken word, though the principal cult is directed to the Nommo, primordial beings and first ancestors, rather than to Amma. In Nigeria the Yoruba hold that the Almighty Creator, Olorun, oversees a pantheon of secondary divinities, the ...
(from the article "Lahaina") ...to be the largest in the islands. The Whalers Village Museum, located within a shopping complex, contains displays on the city's whaling history as well as more than 70 species of whales. The Olowalu petroglyphs, 5 miles (8 km) east, ...
(from the article "Fashions") ...BCBG Max Azria and Tory by TRB, a mid-priced resort-inspired sportswear line designed by New York socialite Tory Burch. At OG2, a women's fashion boutique on London's Portobello Road, Nigerian owner Duro Olowu reported selling 1,000 of his $900 knee-length ...
(from the article "Mbari Mbayo Club") ...lost-wax brass figures for the Ogboni cult, but in a contemporary style. Jinadu Oladepo created brass figures and bracelets and pendants that were worn by the Oshogbo artists as a kind of insignia. Senabu Oloyede and Kikelomo Oladepo both worked ...
(from the article "fungus") ...in insects of the order Diptera; spores develop within a sporangium; example genus is Crypticola.Pathogenic on marine plants, including laver (nori); thallus infects cells of host; example genus is...
(from the article "children's literature") ...delight. The tradition is relayed to the 20th century by Halfdan Rasmussen, whose collected Bjornerim ("Verse for Children") won the 1964 Danish Children's Book Prize, and Ib Spang Olsen, with his nonsense picture book The Boy in the Moon (1962). ...
