chief city of Washington, U.S., on a neck of land between Elliott Bay (Puget Sound) and Lake Washington (a 24-mile [39-kilometre] stretch of freshwater), seat (1853) of King county and the largest metropolis of the Pacific Northwest. A port of ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "baseball") ...only Seattle failed outright and was moved to Milwaukee, where it became the Brewers (moved to the National League in a 1998 reorganization). A franchise was again granted to Seattle (the Mariners) and to Toronto (the Blue Jays), bringing the ...
American professional gridiron football team based in Seattle. The Seahawks are the only National Football League (NFL) team to have played in both the American Football Conference (AFC) and National Football Conference (NFC) championship games. [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Basketball") In the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), another new power arose. The Seattle Storm plucked a human tornado named Betty Lennox from the dispersal draft of players from the defunct Cleveland Rockers, and she led her new team to its ...
(from the article "National Basketball Association (NBA) Championship") ...members of its All-America collegiate team for the preceding 20 years; later the AP selected him the outstanding professional basketball player of the 1960s. He was coach and general manager of the Seattle SuperSonics (1973-77). His autobiography, Second Wind:The ...
private, coeducational institution of higher education in Seattle, Washington, U.S. It is affiliated with the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic church. It offers about 50 undergraduate degree programs and about 20 graduate degree programs; professional degrees are also available. ...
(from the article "Kaikoura Range") ...northeastern coast for 60 miles (100 km). The name, meaning "to eat crayfish," has its origin in Maori myth. The Inland Kaikouras rise to 9,465 feet (2,885 m) at Tapuaenuku, and the Seaward Kaikouras reach 8,562 feet (2,609 m) at ...
water that makes up the oceans and seas, covering more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Seawater is a complex mixture of 96.5 percent water, 2.5 percent salts, and smaller amounts of other substances, including dissolved inorganic and organic ... [30 Related Articles]
any red, green, or brown marine algae that grow on seashores. They are anchored to the sea bottom or to some solid structure by rootlike holdfasts that perform the sole function of attachment and do not extract nutrients as do ... [8 Related Articles]
general (ret.), U.S. Air Force (b. Jan. 27, 1918, Pine Bluff, Ark.-d. May 20, 2005, Pine Bluff), served in the air force for 22 years-rising to the rank of brigadier general and serving as commandant of cadets (1961-63) at the ...
(from the article "rocket and missile system") ...to defeat acquisition and tracking radars and confuse missile seeker systems. For close-in defense, combatant ships were fitted with high-performance, short-range missiles such as the British Seawolf and automatic gun systems such as the U.S. 20-millimetre Phalanx. Advances in missile-defense ...
American company that manages commercial theme parks featuring marine life. The company is a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. There are three parks, located in San Diego, California; Orlando, Florida; and San Antonio, Texas.
(from the article "insurance") ...commotion warranty states that the insurer will pay no losses resulting from strikes, walkouts, riots, or other labour disturbances. The three implied warranties relate to the following conditions: seaworthiness, deviation, and legality. Under the first, the shipper and the common ...
(from the article "Cenwalh") ...and all the West Saxon lands north of the Thames from Cenwalh. In the west Cenwalh did have military successes, however, notably when he drove the Britons to the River Parret in 658. His wife Seaxburg (or Seaxburh) apparently reigned ...
(from the article "Atlas Mountains") ...manganese; the output of manganese mining at Imini and Tiounine is transported to Marrakech by overhead cable cars. Anthracite coal is also mined at Oujda. In Algeria iron ore is extracted from the Seba Chioukh Mountains, from Mount Zaccar Rherbi, ...
small oil-producing gland present in the skin of mammals. Sebaceous glands are usually attached to hair follicles and release a fatty substance, sebum, into the follicular duct and thence to the surface of the skin. The glands are distributed over ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "nevus") ...of normal skin components that retain their usual functions. Some nevi, however, are precancerous and lose their normal organization when they become malignant. Premalignant nevi include the sebaceous nevus, a congenital formation containing hair follicles and sebaceous glands, and the ...
(from the article "fungus") ...of tooth fungi; example genera include Russula, Aleurodiscus, Bondarzewia, Hericium, Peniophora, and Stereum. Symbiotic with plants, some form mycorrhizal associations; forms hyphal networks...
(from the article "Atlantic salmon") The ouananiche (Salmo salar ouananiche) of rivers and the sebago, or lake, salmon (S. salar sebago) are smaller, landlocked forms of Atlantic salmon, also prized for sport. The Atlantic salmon has also been successfully introduced into the Great Lakes of ...
(from the article "Precambrian time") Important occurrences are the Barberton belt in South Africa; the Sebakwian, Belingwean, and Bulawayan-Shamvaian belts of Zimbabwe; the Yellowknife belts in the Slave province of Canada; the Abitibi, Wawa,...
German-born novelist and scholar (b. May 18, 1944, Wertach im Allgau, Ger.-d. Dec. 14, 2001, Norwich, Eng.), entranced casual readers and critics alike with his haunting, richly imaginative, nonchronologically constructed stories. His work often explored themes of memory as they ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "redfish") ...fish. Perchlike in form, it has a large mouth, large eyes, and a number of spines on its head and cheeks. A common fish, it may grow to about 1 metre (39 inches) long. Related species include S. owstoni, a ...
king of Portugal from 1557, a fanatically religious ruler who lost his life in a crusade against the Muslims in Morocco. After his death, many of his subjects believed that he would return to deliver them from Spanish rule, a ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "Twelfth Night") Twins Sebastian and Viola are separated during 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 ...
bay of the Pacific Ocean, western Baja California peninsula, Mexico. The bay is approximately 80 miles (130 km) long from northwest to southeast and 60 miles (100 km) wide from east to west; it has several islands, the largest of ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Lovin' Spoonful, the") ...(1966), and Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind? (1966)-and the uncharacteristically boisterous Summer in the City (1966). Chief songwriter Sebastian (lead vocals, guitar, harmonica, and Autoharp) and Yanovsky (lead guitar) came ...
early Christian popularized by Renaissance painters and believed to have been martyred during the persecution of Christians by the Roman emperor Diocletian.
(from the article "Saint Kitts and Nevis") Area: 269 sq km (104 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 50,400 | Capital: Basseterre | Chief of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by Governor-General Sir Cuthbert Montraville Sebastian | Head of government: Prime Minister Denzil Douglas | BRITANNICA ...
(from the article "Mexican jumping bean") the seed of certain Mexican shrubs, especially those of the genus Sebastiania, of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae), that contain larvae of a small olethreutid moth (Laspeyresia salitans). The movements of the larvae feeding on the pulp within the seed, which ...
(from the article "Sebastian") ...ruler who lost his life in a crusade against the Muslims in Morocco. After his death, many of his subjects believed that he would return to deliver them from Spanish rule, a messianic faith known as Sebastianism (Sebastianismo).
(from the article "crocodile") ...the choanae are entirely enclosed by the pterygoids (that is, the paired bones on the lower part of the cranium). In modern species they are found at the posterior border of the palate. The Sebecosuchia, which existed from the Late ...
(from the article "fountain") The fountains of Muslim countries are of great importance, especially the public drinking fountains, called sebeels. They are an institution in the East. A common type is the simple spout and basin enclosed within a graceful niche. The more ambitious ...
in ancient Egyptian religion, crocodile god whose chief sanctuary in Fayyum province included a live sacred crocodile, Petsuchos (Greek: "He Who Belongs to Suchos"), in whom the god was believed to be incarnate.
(from the article "United States") ...a federal National Guard takeover in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Congress permitted its federalization in future disasters, which prompted objections from numerous governors. Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius implied that Iraq deployment had reduced the ability of the ...
town, Alba judet (county), west-central Romania. It lies in the valley of the Sebes River, on a major Romanian highway. The site had Neolithic and Daco-Roman settlements before Sebes was refounded in the 12th century by German settlers. Sebes was ...
(from the article "Ice Skating") ...Totmyanina and Maksim Marinin and the ice-dancing duo of Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov. Both of the Russian couples had won their respective disciplines at the European championships, where Julia Sebestyen received the loudest cheers as the first Hungarian woman ...
southern African king (reigned from c. 1820) who established a large and powerful nation in what is now western Zambia after an arduous migration from his original home in what is now central South Africa. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Stone Age") ...which occurs at a height of three metres above river level, developed Levalloisian (originally called Mousterian) has been reported. Overlying the low terrace, a local development known as the Sebilian is found. It contains very highly evolved flake implements of ...
(from the article "Bengkulu") The north-south-trending Bengkulu Mountains, which are surmounted by both active and extinct volcanoes, run parallel to the coast and traverse the length of the province. Mount Seblat rises to an elevation of 7,818 feet (2,383 metres), and Mount Kaba reaches ...
(from the article "numerals and numeral systems") The first definite external reference to the Hindu numerals is a note by Severus Sebokht, a bishop who lived in Mesopotamia about 650. Since he speaks of "nine signs," the zero seems to have been unknown to him. By the ...
(from the article "blepharitis") ...less commonly, an infection with herpesvirus that involves the eyelids. Severe cases can result in ulceration of the eyelid margin or the cornea. Noninfectious blepharitis is most commonly caused by seborrhea, a skin disorder arising from overactivity of the sebaceous ...
(from the article "keratosis") 3. Seborrheic keratosis is a benign skin tumour, ordinarily developing as a small yellow or brown, sharply marginated, slightly raised protuberance, covered by a thin greasy scale; these lesions result from an abnormal increase in the number of keratinocytes and ...
important river in northern Morocco, draining part of the Atlas Mountains and the Gharb coastal plain into the Atlantic Ocean. From its source as the Guigou River in the Middle Atlas (Moyen Atlas), it flows northward to Fes and then ... [1 Related Articles]
city, seat (1921) of Highlands county, south-central Florida, U.S. The city encircles Lake Jackson and is situated about 70 miles (110 km) southeast of Tampa. Founded and laid out on a circular plan in 1911 by George E. Sebring, an ...
in full Abu Mansur Sebuktigin founder of the Ghaznavid dynasty, which ruled much of the area of present-day Afghanistan for more than 150 years. [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "skin") The sebaceous glands are usually attached to hair follicles and pour their secretion, sebum, into the follicular canal. In a few areas of the body, disproportionately large sebaceous glands are associated with very small hair follicles; in other areas there ...
