city in Salisbury district, administrative and historic county of Wiltshire, England, at the confluence of the Rivers Avon and Wiley. It has functioned historically as the principal town of Wiltshire and is the seat of an Anglican bishop.
city, seat (1755) of Rowan county, west-central North Carolina, U.S. It is situated near High Rock Lake, roughly midway between Greensboro (northeast) and Charlotte (southwest). Originally home to many Native American peoples, including the Catawba, the area was settled by ...
district, administrative and historic county of Wiltshire, England, centred on the historic city of Salisbury and occupying the southern part of the county. With 388 square miles (1,005 sq km), it is a predominantly rural area in which cattle and ...
one of Great Britain's best-known open spaces, consisting of a plateaulike area covering about 300 square miles (775 square km), in the county of Wiltshire, England. The largely treeless tract, drained to the south by the River Avon and its ...
American author and journalist who as a foreign correspondent played a major role in interpreting the Soviet Union to English-speaking readers. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1955 for international news reporting.
British statesman and Conservative politician whose recommendations on defense became the basis of the British military organization until after World War II.
Conservative political leader who was three-time prime minister (1885-86, 1886-92, 1895-1902) and four-time foreign secretary (1878, 1885-86, 1886-92, 1895-1900), who presided over a wide expansion of Great Britain's colonial empire.
English statesman who succeeded his father, William Cecil, Lord Burghley, as Queen Elizabeth I's chief minister in 1598 and skillfully directed the government during the first nine years of the reign of King James I. Cecil gave continuity to the ...
an illegitimate son of Henry II of England, and a prominent baron, soldier, and administrator under John and Henry III. He acquired his lands and title from Richard I, who in 1196 gave him the hand of the heiress Ela, ...
group of North American Indian tribes speaking languages of the Salish family and living in what is now British Columbia, northern Washington and Idaho, and western Montana, in the upper basins of the Columbia and Fraser rivers and their tributaries. ...
a thick, colourless, opalescent fluid that is constantly present in the mouth of humans and other vertebrates. It is composed of water, mucus, proteins, mineral salts, and amylase. As saliva circulates in the mouth cavity it picks up food debris, ...
innovative French dancer and choreographer who performed expressive, dramatic dances during a period when displays of technical virtuosity were more popular. The first woman to choreograph the ballets in which she appeared, she anticipated the late 18th-century reforms of Jean-Georges ...
city, seat (1907) of Sequoyah county, eastern Oklahoma, U.S., just north of the Arkansas River and the Robert S. Kerr Reservoir, near the Arkansas state line. Settled in the 1880s, it was named for nearby Sallisaw Creek (from the French ...
Roman historian and one of the great Latin literary stylists, noted for his narrative writings dealing with political personalities, corruption, and party rivalry.
fish genus that includes the popular food and sport fishes known as Atlantic salmon, brown trout, cutthroat trout, and rainbow trout (qq.v.). See also salmon.
originally, the large fish now usually called the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), though more recently the name has been applied to similar fishes of the same family (Salmonidae), especially the Pacific salmon, which constitute the genus Oncorhynchus.
river rising in the Sawtooth and Salmon River mountains, south Custer county, central Idaho, U.S. It flows generally northeast past the city of Salmon, where it is joined by the Lemhi River, and then northwest to join the Snake River ...
American historian who extended the offerings in history during her long tenure at Vassar College. She also was instrumental in building a library there of high scholarly merit.
group of rod-shaped, gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic bacteria in the family Enterobacteriaceae. Their principal habitat is the intestinal tract of humans and other animals. Some species exist in animals without causing disease symptoms; others can result in any of a wide ...
any of several bacterial infections caused by certain species of Salmonella, important as the cause of a type of food poisoning in humans and of several diseases in domestic animals. The term salmonellosis has been used generally ...
any member of the order Salmoniformes, a diverse and complex group of fishes. The order consists of about 1,000 species in the freshwaters and in the oceans of the world. Included are the familiar trout, salmon, and pike, as well ...
according to the Jewish historian Josephus, the daughter of Herodias and stepdaughter of Herod Antipas, tetrarch (ruler appointed by Rome) of Galilee, a region in Palestine. In Biblical literature she is remembered as the immediate agent in the execution of ...
in architecture, a twisted column (q.v.), so called because in the Old St. Peter's Church in Rome there was such a pillar, which according to legend had been imported from the Temple of Solomon in ancient Jerusalem. When Gian Lorenzo ...
official exhibition of art sponsored by the French government. It originated in 1667 when Louis XIV sponsored an exhibit of the works of the members of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, and the salon derives its name ...
annual exhibition of the Societe des Artistes Independants, held in Paris since 1884. In the course of revolutionary developments in painting in late 19th-century France, both artists and the public became increasingly unhappy with the rigid and exclusive policies of ...
(French: Salon of the Refused), art exhibition held in 1863 in Paris by command of Napoleon III for those artists whose works had been refused by the jury of the official Salon. Among the exhibitors were Paul Cezanne, Camille Pissarro, ...
town, Bouches-du-Rhone departement, Provence-Alpes-Cote-d'Azur region, southeastern France, northwest of Marseille. Founded in pre-Roman times as the oppidum (fortified town) of Le Salounet on a hill in the Val de Cuech, Salon achieved importance in the Middle Ages as a centre ...
largest reserve in Congo (Kinshasa), Africa, covering 13,900 square miles (36,000 square km) and located midway between Kinshasa, the national capital, and Kisangani, 720 miles (1,160 km) to the northeast. The administrative headquarters at Monkoto (Equateur province), on the Luilaka ...
floor covering handmade by the Salor Turkmen of Turkmenistan. Most consistent in design are the main carpets, with a quartered gul (motif) showing a small animal figure in the inner part of each quadrant. The faces of ...
any small, pelagic, gelatinous invertebrate of the orders Salpida and Doliolida (class Thaliacea, subphylum Tunicata). Found in warm seas, salps are common in the Southern Hemisphere. They have transparent barrel-shaped bodies that are girdled by muscle bands and open at ...
three parallel ridges traversing the breadth of southern Finland from Hango (Hanko), at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland in the west, to Joensuu, on Lake Pyhaselka, near the Russian border in the east. The significance and origin of ...
hybrid musical form based on Afro-Cuban music but incorporating elements from other Latin American styles. It developed largely in New York City beginning in the 1940s and '50s, though it was not labeled salsa until the 1960s; it peaked in ...
(Tragopogon porrifolius), biennial herb of the family Asteraceae, native to the Mediterranean region. The thick white taproot is cooked as a vegetable and has a flavour similar to that of oysters.
in chemistry, substance produced by the reaction of an acid with a base. A salt consists of the positive ion of a base and the negative ion of an acid. The reaction between an acid and a base is called ...
mineral substance of great importance. The mineral form halite, or rock salt, is sometimes called common salt to distinguish it from a class of chemical compounds called salts.
largely subsurface geologic structure that consists of a vertical cylinder of salt (including halite and other evaporites) 1 km (0.6 mile) or more in diameter, embedded in horizontal or inclined strata. In the broadest sense, the term includes both the ...
in ceramics, a glaze having the texture of orange peel, formed on stoneware by throwing common salt into the kiln at the peak temperature. Sodium from the salt combines with silica in the clay to form a glassy coating of ...
