noted democratic politician who was elected to the Japanese House of Representatives a total of 25 times and is considered the "father of parliamentary politics" in that country.
city, on Zamboanga peninsula, northwestern Mindanao, Philippines. The city lies on Panguil Bay, an extension of Iligan Bay of the Bohol (Mindanao) Sea. It was the site of Spanish fortifications dating from 1574, with one extant fort surviving from 1707. ...
city, seat (1870) of Dale county, southeastern Alabama, U.S., about 20 miles (30 km) northwest of Dothan. The city was first settled about 1822 and named Merricks for its first settler. The name was later changed to Woodshop and finally, ...
heavily forested group of highlands in the south-central United States, extending southwestward from St. Louis, Mo., to the Arkansas River. The mountains occupy an area of about 50,000 square miles (130,000 square km), of which 33,000 square miles (85,500 square ...
forest areas mainly in central and northwestern Arkansas, U.S., but also including a segment along the Mississippi River in the eastern part of the state. The forest consists of several separate units embracing parts of the Ouachita and Boston mountains ...
conodont, or small fossil that is toothlike in form and structure, that has a prominent, centrally located denticle flanked on either side by smaller, less pointed denticles. In some forms the row of denticles may be straight, whereas in others ...
lake in south-central Missouri, U.S., about 42 miles (68 km) southwest of Jefferson City, one of the largest man-made lakes in the United States. It is impounded by Bagnell Dam, built (1929-31) across the Osage River to provide hydroelectric power ...
American novelist, short-story writer, and intellectual whose works seek to define the challenge of remaining Jewish in contemporary American life. By delving into the oldest religious sources of Judaism, Ozick explored much new territory.
in tableware, molded basket-weave pattern produced in Germany in the 1730s on Meissen porcelain tableware. It was probably one of the numerous inventions of the celebrated modeler Johann Joachim Kandler. There are four basic types of ozier molding: the ordinair-ozier ...
attempt undertaken in 1960 to detect radio signals generated by hypothetical intelligent beings living near stars other than the Sun. Some 150 hours of intermittent observation during a four-month period detected no recognizable signals. Frank D. Drake, director of the ...
(from Greek ozokeros, "odoriferous wax"), naturally occurring, light yellow to dark brown mineral wax composed principally of solid paraffinic hydrocarbons (compounds chiefly of hydrogen and carbon atoms linked in chains). Ozokerite usually occurs as thin stringers and veins filling rock ...
African king, the greatest warrior-king of Benin (in modern Nigeria). Ozolua was able to extend the boundaries of Benin from the Niger River in the east virtually to Lagos in the west. Tradition calls him the first ruler in West ...
(O3), triatomic allotrope of oxygen (a form of oxygen in which the molecule contains three atoms instead of two as in the common form) that accounts for the distinctive odour of the air after a thunderstorm or around electrical equipment. ...
any of a class of chemical compounds formed by reactions of ozone (q.v.) with other compounds. Organic ozonides, often made from olefins (q.v.), are unstable, most of them decomposing rapidly into oxygen compounds, such as aldehydes, ketones, and peroxides, or ...
region in the upper atmosphere between about 10 and 50 km (6 and 30 miles) in altitude, in which there are appreciable concentrations of ozone and in which the temperature distribution is largely determined by the radiative properties of ozone.
motion-picture director who originated the shomin-geki ("common-people's drama"), a genre dealing with lower-middle-class Japanese family life. Owing to the centrality of domestic relationships in his films, their detailed character portrayals, and their pictorial beauty, Ozu was considered the most typically ...
