(from the article "Zurich") ...in Zurich, the introduction of absolute confidentiality in banking, and the temporary closure of the London Gold Exchange in 1968. The Zurich banks reacted at once and founded the Zurich Gold Pool, a gold trading organization set up by Switzerland's ...
faience (tin-glazed earthenware), faience fine (lead-glazed earthenware), and porcelain made at a factory near Zurich founded in 1763 by Salomon Gessner and others. The faience was at first painted in a style similar to that of the porcelain, but after ... [1 Related Articles]
privately owned zoological park partially funded by the city and canton of Zurich. Opened in 1929, the 10-hectare (25-acre) zoo exhibits nearly 2,100 specimens of more than 330 species. It has a good ungulate collection and a breeding group of ...
Swiss lake extending southeast from the city of Zurich. It lies at an altitude of 1,332 feet (406 m) and has an area of about 34 square miles (88 square km); its extreme length is 18 miles (29 km), maximum ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Massena, Andre, duc de Rivoli, prince d'Essling") ...a week after his arrival, his troops mutinied and forced his recall. Nevertheless, in March 1799 he was made commander of the French army in Switzerland. He defeated a large Russian army in the Second Battle of Zurich on September ...
(from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") In the mid-19th century the University of Zurich (1833), maintained by the canton, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (1855) were founded. The University of Zurich was the first university in Europe to accept female students. Zurich also boasts ...
(from the article "Western sculpture") While the influence of Giambologna persisted in some quarters, Hans Krumper and Hans Reichle produced bronze figures less indebted to the Classical tradition but with stronger individuality. Jorg Zurn, whose finest wood carvings are to be seen at Uberlingen, and ...
(from the article "African music") ...have spread around the northeastern and northwestern fringes of Africa wherever Islam has taken root. Despite local variations, they are basically related to the Arab zurna, having a disk (or pirouette) below the reed that supports the ...
(from the article "Zurvanism") Zurvan, god of time and fate, remotely influences human destinies, appearing under two aspects: Limitless Time (i.e., eternal lord; Zurvan Akarana) and Time of Long Dominion (i.e., lord of the existing world; Zurvan Daregho-Chvadhata). His worship is bound up with ...
modified form of Zoroastrianism that appeared in Persia during the Sasanian period (3rd-7th century AD). It was opposed to orthodox Zoroastrianism, which by that time had become dualistic in doctrine. According to Zurvanism, time alone-limitless, eternal, and uncreated-is the source ... [5 Related Articles]
any of a series of computers designed and built in Germany during the 1930s and '40s by the German engineer Konrad Zuse. He had been thinking about designing a better calculating machine, but he was advised by a calculator manufacturer ...
German engineer who in 1941 constructed the first fully operational program-controlled electromechanical binary calculating machine, or digital computer, called the Z3 (b. June 22, 1910--d. Dec. 18, 1995). [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "Maximilian I") ...to plunder. On March 14, 1647, the elector signed a cease-fire with his enemies, but six months later he rashly broke the agreement. The French therefore attacked again, and on May 17, 1648, at the Battle of Zusmarshausen, they destroyed ...
gemeente (municipality), east-central Netherlands, at the confluence of the IJssel and Berkel rivers. Founded in the 11th century as Zuidveen (meaning "southern peat bog"), it became the seat of a line of independent counts until it passed to the counts ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Arabia") ...In the north are the Sulubah, known to the ancient Arabians as qayn, a low-status group regarded as being of non-Arab descent. In Oman the Zutt, a nomadic Roma (Gypsy) folk, seem to be descendants of Indian ...
(from the article "Addo Elephant National Park") The northern part of the park consists of deep ravines and rounded hills in the Winterhoek Mountains and was originally established in 1985 as Zuurberg National Park. It is located 7 miles (12 km) north of the original Addo Elephant ...
Mediterranean port, northwestern Libya. First mentioned in a Catalan sailing manual (1375) as Punta dar Zoyara, it later served as the western outpost of Italian-controlled Libya (1912-43), being the terminus of the now-defunct railway from Tripoli 65 mi (105 km) ...
(from the article "Ukraine") ...his son by accusing the speaker, Serhy Leshchenko, of acting "like a hired killer." In a similar fashion the president and several ministers defended the credentials of Justice Minister Roman Zvarych, whom the Internet newspaper Ukrainska Pravda accused of padding ...
city, Moscow oblast (province), western Russia, located on the Moskva River, 33 miles (53 km) west of Moscow. Archaeological excavations (1943-45 and 1954-57) have revealed the existence of settlement there from the 12th and 13th centuries. The ...
small political organization that briefly formed a dictatorial regime in Bulgaria (1934-35); the name Zveno refers to a link in a chain. Founded in 1930, the Zveno Group was led by Col. Kimon Georgiev and was composed primarily of radical ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Space stations, from 1971") Development difficulties delayed the launch of the next ISS element, Zvezda, a crew habitat and control centre similar to the Mir base block, until mid-2000. Two weeks after it was carried up on a Proton rocket, Zvezda rendezvoused and docked ...
town, south-central Zimbabwe. Its name is derived from shavani, a Sindebele word meaning "finger millet," or "trading together." Surrounded by low hills, it is on direct rail links to Harare (formerly Salisbury) and Bulawayo in Zimbabwe and to Maputo in ...
Zimbabwean politician (b. Oct. 2, 1935, near Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia [now Masvingo, Zimb.]-d. Aug. 22, 2004, Harare, Zimb.), was one of the founding fathers of independent Zimbabwe. In 1960, after helping to found the pro-independence National Democratic Party, Zvobgo ...
(from the article "bell chime") The Russian zvony ("chimes") are sets of stationary bells rung by pulling ropes attached to clappers. They date from the 9th century but are rarely heard today. The zvon plays repetitious rhythmic patterns that form a part of the liturgy ...
African king (reigned c. 1815-48) who led his Jere people on a monumental migration of more than 1,000 miles, lasting more than 20 years. A leader of incomparable stature, he brought his initially small tribe (later called the Ngoni) from ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "graphic design") At the same time, a number of Dutch designers, including Piet Zwart, drew upon the Modernist vocabulary of form and colour to develop unique personal approaches to graphic design, applying their vision to the needs of clients. While working at ...
(from the article "quark") ...the concept of quarks as a physical basis for the scheme, having adopted the fanciful term from a passage in James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake. (The American physicist George Zweig developed a similar theory independently that same ...
Austrian writer who achieved distinction in several genres-poetry, essays, short stories, and dramas-most notably in his interpretations of imaginary and historical characters. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "children's literature") According to the historian Eva von Zweigbergk, didacticism ("diligence, obedience, and moderation") obtained up to the 1920s, though she also views the period 1890-1915 as Sweden's Golden Age. It included not only Nils but the emergence of a school of ...
town, Eastern Cape province, South Africa. It was the provisional capital (1981-94) of the republic of Ciskei. The town is located directly south of King William's Town. It was established in 1946 as a residential area for employees of the ...
city, Saxony Land (state), Germany. It lies on the Zwickauer Mulde River, at the entrance to the western Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge), south of Leipzig. Slavic in origin, it was mentioned in 1118 as a trading centre. It ...
(from the article "Muntzer, Thomas") ...a view taught by Nikolaus Storch, a leader of a reform group known as the "Zwickau prophets." Storch also convinced Muntzer that the end of the world was imminent. Driven away from Zwickau in 1521, Muntzer sought on trips to ...
Swiss astronomer and physicist, who made valuable contributions to the theory and understanding of supernovas (stars that for a short time are far brighter than normal).
(from the article "Sobhuza I") A contemporary of the great Zulu kings Shaka and Zwide, Sobhuza was forced by them to flee north with his Ngwane and Dhlamini people from their original home on the Pongola River in South Africa. The migration of the Ngwane ...
(from the article "children's literature") The Norwegian critic Jo Tenfjord believes that the 30 years from 1890 to 1920 represented a golden age. With this period are associated Dikken Zwilgmeyer, author of the "Inger Johanne" series about a small-town little girl; Barbra Ring, creator of ...
historical landmark complex in Dresden, Ger., that contains a group of galleries and pavilions housing a variety of objects and artwork. It is considered one of the best examples of Baroque architecture. [3 Related Articles]
the most important reformer in the Swiss Protestant Reformation and the only major reformer of the 16th century whose movement did not evolve into a church. Like Martin Luther, he accepted the supreme authority of the Scriptures, but he applied ... [21 Related Articles]
(from the article "Hubmaier, Balthasar") ...and Ingolstadt, and he was appointed cathedral preacher at Regensburg in 1516. In 1521 he arrived in Switzerland, where he soon became a leader of the fledgling Anabaptists. Persecuted even by the Zwinglians for his beliefs, he was arrested in ...
(German: "gold between glasses"), drinking glasses decorated with engraving in gold leaf laminated between two pieces of glass. The term is usually applied to beakers, goblets, and tumblers produced in Bohemia during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, but ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "liquid") ...in physiology. Many molecules that occur in biological systems bear electric charges; a large molecule that has a positive electric charge at one end and a negative charge at the other is called a zwitterion. Very large molecules, such as ...
gemeente (municipality), north-central Netherlands, on the Zwarte Water (river). Chartered in 1230, it was a member of the Hanseatic League in the Middle Ages and a stronghold until its ramparts were destroyed in 1674 during the Anglo-Dutch Wars. It is ... [1 Related Articles]
Soviet shot-putter and javelin thrower who set eight consecutive world records in the shot put between 1952 and 1956 and won three Olympic medals. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "lepidopteran") ...Central and South America; larvae similar to those of Limacodidae, but with normal prolegs and traces of additional ones; setae very toxic and nettling. More than 1,000 species, mainly in subtropical and tropical Asia and ...
(from the article "lepidopteran") ...hairy and brightly coloured, some living gregariously in silk nests; adults medium-size, stout-bodied, short-winged, and exceptionally hairy.Approximately 2,500 species worldwide; wings broad to very broad with short fringes; some primitive adult, pupal, and larval features; pupae quite...
(from the article "snake") ...surfaces that lie above and below; and finally the zygosphenes and zygantra, found almost exclusively in snakes, the zygosphene being a projecting shelf on the upper part of the vertebra and the zygantrum being a pocket into which the zygosphene ...
Polish-born mathematician who exerted a major influence on 20th-century mathematics, particularly in harmonic analysis, a field utilized in science and technology for the formulation of descriptions of periodic phenomena such as waves, vibrations, and regularly repeating structures.
