(from the article "Romanian literature") ...also dealt with the war, while other writers examined different areas of society: Ionel Teodoreanu described the disappearance of patriarchal life, Victor Popa wrote about rural subjects, G.M. Zamfirescu depicted the Bucharest suburbs, and D.D. Patrascanu wittily described political life. ...
a genus of 55 species of cycads (family Zamiaceae), small, stocky, fern-like plants native to tropical and subtropical America. They have a turniplike, mostly underground stem that in some species reaches 3 metres (10 feet) or more in height. A ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "cycadophyte") ...One sperm loses its flagellature, and fusion of egg and sperm nuclei takes place. Subsequently, the zygote forms a single large embryo, other eggs meanwhile aborting. In the Florida cycad, Zamia integrifolia, the reproductive cycle occurs over a period of ...
(from the article "cycadophyte") ...pinnae also have midribs, but these lack side veins altogether. Pinnae of all other cycads have dichotomously branching, more or less parallel veins. The size of the cycad leaf is variable; Zamia pygmaea, the smallest cycad, has leaves about 20-30 ...
(from the article "cycadophyte") ...multiovulate megasporophylls arranged in an indeterminate strobilus; pinnae with a single midrib but lacking lateral, branch veins; 24 species defined.Singly pinnate compound leaves, bearing leaflets with parallel, dichotomously branching veins (Chigua, if included, would be an exception); simple cones;...Dioon
in India, a holder or occupier (dar) of land (zamin). The root words were Persian, and the resulting name was widely used wherever Persian influence was spread by the Mughals or other Indian Muslim dynasties. The meanings attached to it ... [5 Related Articles]
town, southeastern Ecuador. Amid the forested jungles east of the main Andean ranges, the town lies at the southeastern foot of the Andean Cordillera de Zamora, just south of the Zamora River. The Roman Catholic Church has established a vicar ...
city, capital of Zamora provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Castile-Leon, northwestern Spain. It lies along the northern bank of the Duero (Portuguese: Douro) River, northwest of Madrid. The city occupies ...
provincia (province) in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Castile-Leon, northwestern Spain. It was formed in 1833 from part of the historic province of Leon and is bounded by the provinces of Leon to ...
city, northwestern Michoacan estado (state), west-central Mexico. It lies at an elevation of 5,141 feet (1,567 m) above sea level in the Zamora valley, formed by the Duero River. It was founded in 1540 as an outpost ...
(from the article "Gama, Vasco da") ...across the Indian Ocean, the Ghats Mountains of India were sighted, and Calicut was reached on May 20. There da Gama erected a padrao to prove he had reached India. The welcome of the Zamorin, the Hindu ruler, of Calicut ...
city, Lubelskie wojewodztwo (province), eastern Poland. One of the few large communities in the Lublin Uplands, it was founded on the estates of Polish chancellor Jan Zamoyski (1542-1605) that lay on the trade route between the Black ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Moscow") ...of Moscow after the fire of 1812-abound within the Garden Ring and the Boulevard Ring (the latter forming a rough horseshoe north of the Moscow River around the Kremlin and Kitay-gorod) and in Zamoskvoreche, a largely residential district south of ...
(from the article "Zamoyski Family") The next major member of the family, Andrzej Zamoyski (1716-92), was one of the authors of a plan for general reform of the nation offered to the Sejm (Diet) in May 1764. It called for improvements in the parliamentary system, ...
(from the article "Zamoyski Family") His son Stanislaw Kostka Zamoyski (1775-1856) received the title of count. During the insurrection of 1830-31 against Russian rule Stanislaw's son, the second Andrzej Zamoyski (1800-74), was sent to Austria to gain support for the revolt. The uprising failed, and ...
Polish advisor to King Sigismund II Augustus and Stephen Bathory and later an opponent of Sigismund III Vasa. He was a major force in the royal politics of Poland throughout his life. [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Zamoyski Family") Andrzej's brother Wladyslaw Zamoyski (1803-68) served as an aide-de-camp to Grand Duke Constantine, viceroy of Poland, and then took part in the 1830-31 insurrection. He later emigrated to England, where he represented the interests of the Polish prince Adam Jerzy ...
(from the article "bagpipe") ...is distinguished by a tenor drone held in the chanter stock beside the chanter. Often bellows-blown and without bass drone, it is characteristically played with the hurdy-gurdy. The Italian zampogna is unique, with two chanters-one for each hand-arranged for playing ...
(from the article "aulos") ...instruments include the Sardinian launeddas, a triple pipe sounded by single reeds, as well as hosts of double clarinets-such as the arghul, mizmar, and zamr-that are played in the Mediterranean littoral and the Middle East. The performer's cheeks often look ...
(from the article "Tiglath-pileser III") Tiglath-pileser was thus prepared to break the stranglehold of the surrounding tribes. He first moved eastward against Zamua (modern Sulaymaniyah), then north against the Medes. Both were brought back under control of the adjacent provincial governors. The tribal lands of ...
(from the article "South American nomad") ...tribes had far-reaching consequences in the area. It is convenient to separate the Chaco tribes of historic times into foot Indians and horsemen. Among the foot Indians were such groupings as the Zamuco, of the northeast, and the Wichi, of ...
Russian novelist, playwright, and satirist, one of the most brilliant and cultured minds of the postrevolutionary period and the creator of a uniquely modern genre-the anti-Utopian novel. His influence as an experimental stylist and as an exponent of the cosmopolitan-humanist ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Turkey") ...negotiations. His task was eased when on June 9 the court of appeal in Ankara ordered the release, pending a retrial, of four Kurdish nationalist members of the parliament, including writer Leyla Zana, winner of the 1995 Council of Europe's ...
(from the article "Bird Flu-The Next Human Pandemic?") ...Laboratory tests suggest that two popular antiviral drugs, amantadine (Symmetrel) and rimantadine (Flumadine), do not work against H5N1. Hopes are pinned on two others, oseltamavir (Tamiflu) and zanamavir (Relenza). The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the ...
Italian prime minister from 1901 to 1903 and an associate of the early-20th-century liberal leader Giovanni Giolitti; Zanardelli was a champion of parliamentary rights and followed a conciliatory policy toward labour in a time of great unrest. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "North Africa") At the time of the Hafsid secession, the control of the Almohads over western Algeria also had weakened, and they were no longer able to restrain the nomadic Zanatah tribes living in the south from moving with their herds to ...
(from the article "Protestant Orthodoxy") The architects of Reformed orthodoxy were Theodore Beza, Calvin's successor at Geneva, and Hieronymus Zanchius (also known as Girolamo Zanchi), professor at Neustadt an der Haardt, Ger. Beza worked to preserve the theology contained in Calvin's Institutes of the Christian ...
the lowermost division of Pliocene rocks, representing all rocks deposited worldwide during the Zanclian Age (5.3 million to 3.6 million years ago) of the Neogene Period (the past 23 million years). The Zanclean Stage is named for Zancla, the pre-Roman ...
a people of central Africa who speak a language of the Adamawa-Ubangi branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Extending across the Nile-Congo drainage divide, they live partly in The Sudan, partly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo [Kinshasa]), ... [11 Related Articles]
(from the article "Sudan, The") ...the traditional societies of The Sudan exhibited two types of political organization: the hierarchical systems of the Azande and Fur and the segmentary systems of the Humr Baqqarah and Otoro. Zandeland, for example, was divided into a number of autonomous ...
(from the article "pike perch") The European pike perch, or zander (Stizostedion, or Lucioperca, lucioperca; see photograph), is found in lakes and rivers of eastern, central, and (where introduced) western Europe. It is greenish or grayish, usually with darker markings, and generally attains a length ...
(from the article "Guyana") ...(120-metre) ones on the western side. The area is between 80 and 100 miles wide and is widest in the southeast. It is covered with sands, from which it takes its name as the white-sands (zanderij) region. A small savanna ...
(from the article "Olympia") ...which pierced the embankment and, in Roman times, was covered with a stone vault. This entrance was used by the athletes and the umpires. Just outside the Krypte stood bronze statues of Zeus, called Zanes; they were erected with money ...
(from the article "Lancaster") city, seat (1800) of Fairfield county, south-central Ohio, U.S., on the Hocking River, about 30 miles (50 km) southeast of Columbus. It was founded (1800) by Ebenezer Zane on land granted to him in payment for blazing Zane's Trace, a ...
city, Muskingum county, east-central Ohio, U.S., at the juncture of the Muskingum and Licking rivers (there spanned by the Y Bridge [1902]), about 50 miles (80 km) east of Columbus. The town was founded (1797) by Ebenezer Zane on land ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "1995: Other Winners") ...Screenplay: Christopher McQuarrie for The Usual SuspectsAdapted Screenplay: Emma Thompson for Sense and SensibilityCinematography: John Toll for BraveheartArt Direction: Eugenio Zanetti for RestorationOriginal Dramatic Score: Luis Enrique Bacalov for The Postman (Il postino)Original Musical or Comedy Score: Music and Orchestral ...
(from the article "Armenia") ...farmlands, and alpine pastures; the Sevan Basin, the hollow containing Lake Sevan, on the shores of which are farmlands, villages, and towns; Vayk, essentially the basin of the Arpa River; and Zangezur (Siuniq) in the extreme southeast. This last region ...
Iraqi ruler who founded the Zangid dynasty and led the first important counterattacks against the crusader kingdoms in the Middle East. [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Salghurid Dynasty") ...ad-Din Sonqur (reigned 1148-61), who took advantage of a disturbed state in Fars to expel his reputed uncle Boz-Aba, the local atabeg. Muzaffar ad-Din's son Zangi (reigned 1161-c. 1175) was confirmed in his possession of Fars by the Seljuq ruler ...
Muslim Turkish dynasty that was founded by Zangi (q.v.) and which ruled northern Iraq (al-Jazirah) and Syria in the period 1127-1222. After Zangi's death in 1146, his sons divided the state between them, Syria falling to Nureddin (Nur ad-Din Mahmud; ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Kawatake Mokuami") ...jidaimono), emphasizing factual accuracy in his works. He also pioneered in the production of a new kind of domestic play known as zangirimono, which explicitly describes the modernization and Westernization of early Meiji society. When he ostensibly ...
(AD 869-883), a black-slave revolt against the 'Abbasid caliphal empire. A number of Basran landowners had brought several thousand East African blacks (Zanj) into southern Iraq to drain the salt marshes east of Basra. The landowners subjected the Zanj, who ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "eastern Africa, history of") ...to the south of modern Somalia. They sailed there with the northeast monsoon, returning home in the summer with the southwest. They dubbed the part of the coast to which they sailed Azania, or the Land of Zanj-by which they ...
geographic region of northwestern Iran. It lies west of Tehran and is bordered on the northwest by Azerbaijan and on the southwest by Kordestan. The region constitutes one of the uplands that frame central Iran and has an average elevation ...
city, northwestern Iran. It lies in an open valley about halfway along the Tehran-Tabriz railway line. It is the principal city of the Zanjan region. It was ravaged by Mongols in the 13th century. Once the seat of a lively ...
(from the article "Cuba") ...for manumission, notably the rate at which slaves were to be freed, or disagreed with his call for U.S. annexation of Cuba. Spain promised to reform the island's political and economic system at the Convention of Zanjon (1878), which ended ...
