state institution of higher learning at Salamanca, Spain. It was founded in 1218 under Alfonso IX, but its real beginnings date from 1254, when, under Alfonso X, grandson of the founder, three chairs in canon law and one each in ... [4 Related Articles]
any member of a group of about 410 species of amphibians that have tails and that constitute the order Caudata. The order comprises 10 families, among which are newts and salamanders proper (family Salamandridae) as well as hellbenders, mud puppies, ... [13 Related Articles]
(from the article "Caudata") ...spiracle; Paleocene to present; Europe; North Africa; Middle East; Afghanistan to Japan, China, and northern Vietnam; eastern and western North America; 15 genera (including Triturus and Salamandra in Europe, Notophthalamus and Taricha in North America, and Cynops in Japan) and ...
(from the article "Caudata") ...years ago) to present; southeastern United States from South Carolina to Tamaulipas, Mex.; 2 genera (including Siren) and 4 species.Fertilization internal; angular bone fused with prearticular bone in lower jaw; 2 pairs of limbs; external gills in a few ...
(from the article "Chari River") ...Ouham (q.v.), which brings to it the greatest volume of water. Near Sarh the Chari is joined on its right bank by the Bahr Aouk, the Bahr Keita, and the Bahr Salamat, parallel streams that mingle in an immense floodplain. ...
(from the article "sausage") ...European cities became known for the local sausage, with such types as the frankfurter (Frankfurt am Main), bologna (Bologna, Italy), and romano (Rome) being named for their places of origin. Salami (named for the salting process, salare, Italian: "to salt") ...
principal city of ancient Cyprus, located on the east coast of the island, north of modern Famagusta. According to the Homeric epics, Salamis was founded after the Trojan War by the archer Teucer, who came from the island of Salamis, ... [3 Related Articles]
island and town, nomos (department) of Attiki, Greece. The island lies in the Saronic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, west of the city of Piraeus. The town (the present combined municipality of Salamis-Naustathmos) is a port on the west coast ... [2 Related Articles]
(480 BC), battle in the Greco-Persian Wars in which a Greek fleet defeated much larger Persian naval forces in the straits at Salamis, between the island of Salamis and the Athenian port-city of Piraeus. By 480 the Persian king Xerxes ... [9 Related Articles]
French military officer who sought to prevent Algeria from gaining independence from France. In 1961-62 he led an organization of right-wing extremists, the Organisation de l'Armee Secrete (OAS; Secret Army Organization), in a campaign of terror against the government of ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Bahraich") ...River and on a rail line between Lucknow and Nepalganj, Nepal. Bahraich is a centre of trade (agricultural products and timber) with Nepal; there is also some sugar processing. The tomb of Sayyid Salar Mas'ud, an Afghan warrior-saint who died ...
(from the article "Ice Hockey") ...decreasing revenue, the lowest television ratings in five years, and a huge labour problem during 2003-04. The season ended with the NHL Players Association refusing to accept the idea of a salary cap or any system that would guarantee a ...
(from the article "Latin American art") ...work. Each of these artists presented a sharp, clear-eyed view of their homeland, with backgrounds abstractly simplified to direct the viewer's attention only to their human subjects. In 1829 the Salas patriarch, Antonio, took time away from his usual subject ...
(from the article "Latin American art") ...patriarch, Antonio, took time away from his usual subject matter (saints) to paint the bust of the liberator Simon Bolivar in sharp, linear detail against a neutral background. His son Rafael depicted the general Mariano Castillo standing in his gilt-braided ...
(from the article "Latin American art") ...against a neutral background. His son Rafael depicted the general Mariano Castillo standing in his gilt-braided black military uniform against a golden background. Rafael's older half-brother, Ramon Salas, created a series of crisply linear watercolours depicting the common people of ...
(from the article "Andes Mountains") The inhabitants of the Ecuadorian Andes are mainly Quechua speakers and mestizos; in the south there are small groups of Canaris and, in the north, Salasacas. Agriculture (corn [maize], potatoes, broad beans) is the main occupation; some Indian peoples engage ...
(from the article "Italy") ...insurgents to the mercy of the returning Austrians. Accusations of royal treachery, formulated by Lombard democrats at that moment, long survived in Italian political debates. By the terms of the Salasco armistice (Aug. 9, 1848), the Piedmontese army abandoned Lombardy. ...
the daily ritual prayer enjoined upon all Muslims as one of the five Pillars of Islam (arkan al-Islam). There is disagreement among Islamic scholars as to whether some passages about prayer in the Muslim sacred scripture, the Qur'an, are actually ... [5 Related Articles]
kotamadya (municipality), Central Java (Jawa Tengah) propinsi (province), Java, Indonesia. The city lies 35 miles (56 km) north-northeast of Yogyakarta, at the foot of Mount Merbabu. At an elevation of 1,916 feet (584 metres), it is a well laid out ...
city, Bashkortostan, western Russia, on the Belaya (White) River. It was founded in 1948 as a major oil centre of the Volga-Urals oil field, and the city has a large refinery and petrochemical industry. Technical glass and machinery for the ...
(from the article "inquisition") In some cases the institutional inquisitions themselves exerted considerable control over the prosecution of offenses that other courts treated with less consistency. In 1610 the Spanish inquisitor Alonso Salazar de Frias was sent by his superiors to review the evidence ...
(from the article "Cervantes, Miguel de") ...Ana de Villafranca (or Ana Franca de Rojas), the fruit of which was a daughter. Isabel de Saavedra, Cervantes's only child, was later brought up in her father's household. Late in 1584 he married Catalina de Salazar y Palacios, 18 ...
(from the article "Maratha Wars") ...of the confederacy. The British were defeated at Wadgaon (see Wadgaon, Convention of ) in January 1779, but they continued to fight the Maratha until conclusion of the Treaty of Salbai (May 1782); the sole British gain was the island ...
(from the article "Coro") ...include gun slits for defense against pirate attacks. Drastically remodeled in 1928, the cathedral was returned to near-original condition after it was designated a national monument in 1957. The Convent of the Salcedas, built by 1620, was later used as ...
city, northern Dominican Republic. It lies in the fertile Cibao Valley between the mountain chains of the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera Septentrional. Salcedo serves as a commercial centre for the agricultural hinterland, which yields principally cacao, coffee, and corn ...
(from the article "Salchow, Ulrich") Salchow originated the salchow jump, the easiest jump to perform. The skater takes off from the rear inside edge of one skate, makes one full turn in the air, and lands on the rear outside edge of the other skate.
Swedish figure skater who established a record by winning 10 world championships for men (1901-05, 1907-11-he did not compete in 1906). At the 1908 Games in London, he won the first Olympic gold medal awarded for men's figure skating. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "South Hams") ...Ports have grown up on the sheltered river mouths. Dartmouth, a historic port on the River Dart, is a yachting centre with marine and light engineering. On the branching Kingsbridge estuary are Salcombe, a holiday and residential town noted for ...
deep, essentially landlocked harbour of the Atlantic Ocean, situated on the southwest coast of South Africa. Named after the early 16th-century Portuguese navigator Antonio de Saldanha, the bay is both larger and safer than Table Bay, which is located 65 ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Cape Town") The first European to anchor at Table Bay and climb Table Mountain was the Portuguese navigator Antonio de Saldanha. He encountered a few hundred indigenous inhabitants, a Khoe people whose economy was based on herding, hunting, and gathering. After Saldanha's ...
coastal city, southeastern Victoria, Australia. It lies along the Thomson River near the latter's junction with the Macalister. Sale is the major regional centre for East Gippsland, an irrigated area of intensive farming and livestock raising. Founded in 1845, the ...
(from the article "commercial transaction") The sale is the most common commercial transaction. All the rights that the seller has in a specific object are transferred to the buyer in return for the latter's paying the purchase price to the seller. The objects that may ...
old walled city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, at the mouth of the Wadi Bou Regreg. The wadi separates Sale from Rabat, Morocco's capital city, of which Sale has become a bedroom community. Sale was founded in the 10th ...
site of paleoanthropological excavation near Rabat, Morocco, known for the 1971 discovery of a cranium belonging to the human genus (Homo). Tentatively dated to 400,000 years ago, the site contained a few animal fossils, but there were no associated stone ...
(from the article "carriage of goods") ...consignee. The seller has this right by virtue of directly applicable legislation even if he has not reserved the ownership of the goods in his transaction with the buyer. Indicatively, the British Sale of Goods Act of 1893, which codified ...
The ever-controversial world of figure-skating judging became even more so during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. When Canadian pairs skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier skated a technically and emotionally compelling and nearly flawless long-program ... [1 Related Articles]
The ever-controversial world of figure-skating judging became even more so during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. When Canadian pairs skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier skated a technically and emotionally compelling and nearly flawless long-program ...
The ever-controversial world of figure-skating judging became even more so during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. When Canadian pairs skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier skated a technically and emotionally compelling and nearly flawless long-program ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Guadeloupe") ...miles (120 km) to the south. The main territory of Guadeloupe consists of the twin islands of Basse-Terre to the west and Grande-Terre to the east, the two being separated by a narrow channel, the Salee River; other islands in ...
(from the article "Albania") ...to five ethnic Uyghurs released from U.S. custody in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on May 8, declining demands from China to turn over the men. On July 23 the government froze the bank accounts of Abdul Latif Saleh, a businessman whom ...
(from the article "Religion") ...Wadud said that men had distorted the teachings of the Qur'an that put men and women on equal footing. Her action was denounced by Grand Mufti 'Abd al-Aziz al-Sheikh in Saudi Arabia and by Soad Saleh, the head of the ...
city and administrative centre of Yamalo-Nenets autonomous okrug (district), Tyumen oblast (province), Russia, in northwestern Siberia. It lies on the Poluy River at its entrance to the Ob River. [1 Related Articles]
town, north-central Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India. It is on the Tirumanimuttar River near Attur Gap between the Kalrayan and Pachamalai hills. Situated at the junction of the Bangalore, Tiruchchirappalli, and Cuddalore roads, 200 miles (332 km) southwest of Madras, ...
city, Essex county, northeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies on Salem Bay Harbor (an inlet of Massachusetts Bay), 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Boston. Salem was incorporated as a town in 1626 by Roger Conant, who emigrated from Cape Ann, ... [2 Related Articles]
city, seat (1823) of Marion county, south-central Illinois, U.S. It lies about 70 miles (115 km) east of St. Louis, Missouri. It was first settled about 1811, soon after the devastating earthquake along the New Madrid Fault, and quickly became ...
county, southwestern New Jersey, U.S. It comprises a coastal lowland bounded by Delaware to the west (the Delaware River constituting the border), Oldmans Creek to the north, the Maurice River to the southeast, and Stow Creek to the southwest. The ...
city, seat (1851) of Dent county, southeast-central Missouri, U.S., situated in the Ozark Mountains between the Current and Meramec rivers. Established in 1845 on the site of an inn and trading post, it was named for Salem, N.C. The town ...
city, seat (1694) of Salem county, southwestern New Jersey, U.S. It lies along the Salem River near the latter's confluence with the Delaware River, 34 miles (55 km) southwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1675 by John Fenwick, ...
