Kuei River

Wade-Giles romanization �Kuei Chiang�, Pinyin �Gui Jiang�, conventional �Kwei Kiang� northern tributary of the Hsi River, southern China. The Kuei River rises in the Mao-erh Mountains to the north of Kuei-lin in the northern part of the Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region and flows southward to join the Hsi River at Wu-chou on the border of Kwangsi Chuang and Kwangtung province. The level of the river varies from season to season, and its course has many dangerous

San Antonio, Cape

Spanish �Cabo San Antonio, � cape, Pinar del R�o province, western Cuba. Forming the westernmost extremity of the island, its point juts out between the Golfo (gulf ) de Guanahacabibes on the north and Ensenada (bay) de Corrientes on the south. Approximately 150 mi (240 km) to the west, across the Yucat�n Channel, lies Cabo Catoche, on Mexico's Yucat�n Peninsula. A lighthouse is situated on Cabo San Antonio.

Gagern, Friedrich (ludwig Balduin Karl Moritz), Freiherr Von (baron Of)

Hans Christoph von Gagern's eldest son, a German soldier and administrator, and military commander of several Dutch provinces, who served as chief of staff during the wars against the Belgian rebels opposing Dutch rule. Returning to Germany, he led the fight against the republican revolutionaries in Baden in

Ochs, Peter

Born in France of a family that claimed roots in the Basel aristocracy, Ochs in 1769 settled in Basel, where, after becoming doctor of laws (1776), he entered into political affairs. Won to the ideas of the Enlightenment, he became an opponent of the �decayed

Amur River

Chinese (Pinyin) �Heilong Jiang �or �(Wade-Giles) �Hei-lung Chiang, �Mongol �Kharamuren � river of East Asia. It is the longest river of the Russian Far East, and it ranks behind only the Yangtze and Huang Ho (Yellow River) among China's longest rivers. Its headwaters rise in Russia (Siberia), Mongolia, and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China in the mountains northwest and southeast of the point where their borders meet. The main river flows generally

Hooker, Joseph

A West Point graduate and veteran of the Mexican War (1846 - 48), Hooker left his California home at the outbreak of the Civil War to serve as brigadier general

Guadet, Marguerite-�lie

At the time of the outbreak of the revolution (1789), Guadet was a leading lawyer in Bordeaux. In 1790 he became administrator of the Gironde d�partement, and in 1791 he was made president of the d�partement's criminal tribunal. Later that

Godard, Jean-luc

Godard spent his formative years on the Swiss side of Lake Geneva, where his father directed a clinic. His higher education consisted of study for a degree in ethnology at the University of Paris, interminable student caf� conversations,

Sibelius, Jean

Sibelius studied at the Finnish Normal School, the first Finnish-speaking school in Russian-held Finland, where he came into contact with Finnish literature and in particular with the Kalevala, the mythological epic of Finland, which remained for him a constant

Upasampada

A candidate for ordination must be at least 20 years old, have the permission of his parents, be exempt from military service, be free from debt and from contagious

Anbar

Also called �Massice�, or �Fairuz Sapur� ancient Mesopotamian town located on the left bank of the Euphrates River, downstream from modern Ar-Ramadi in central Iraq. Originally called Massice and Fairuz Sapur, it was destroyed by the Roman emperor Julian in AD 363. The town was rebuilt and became known from at least the 6th century as Anbar (�Stores�). Jews from the academy of Pumbedita took refuge there from Sasanian persecution

Factorial

Factorials are commonly encountered in the evaluation of permutations and combinations and in the coefficients of terms of binomial

Metabolic Disease, Tissue lipid disorders

Complex molecules composed of long-chain fatty acids linked with various sugars, phosphate, and sulfate groups form essential components of cell membranes and are vital to the normal functioning of the nervous system. These molecules are degraded and resynthesized in the normal course of tissue turnover. Defects in the enzymes that regulate this process cause

Spodosol

One of the 12 soil orders in the U.S. Soil Taxonomy. Spodosols are ashy gray, acidic soils with a strongly leached surface layer. Their suitability for cultivation is limited to acid-tolerant crops and orchards, provided that sufficient lime and fertilizer are applied. Covering about 3.5 percent of the nonpolar continental land area on Earth, they are mainly found bordering

Indian Philosophy, Metaphysics and epistemology

Both the Bhatta (the name for Kumarila's school) and the Prabhakara schools, in their metaphysics, were realists; both undertook to refute Buddhist idealism and nihilism. The Bhatta ontology recognized five types of entities: substance (dravya), quality (guna), action (karma), universals (samanya), and negation (abhava). Of these, substance was held to be of ten kinds: the nine substances recognized

Balata

Also called �Gutta Balata, � hard rubberlike material made by drying the milky juice produced principally by the bully tree (species Manilkara bidentata) of Guyana and the West Indies. The tree is tapped by cutting zigzag gashes in the bark and collecting the latex in cups, to be coagulated in trays. Like gutta-percha, balata is inelastic, tough, leathery, and water-resistant, and it softens when

Povazsk� Bystrica

Economic activities include the manufacture of heavy munitions. One of the town's notable structures is a Gothic church with tombstones dating

Arusha

Formerly �Northern Region� administrative region, northern Tanzania, East Africa. Established in 1963, it has an area of about 33,250 square miles (86,100 square km), including 950 square miles (2,460 square km) of water area. It is bordered on the north by Kenya. The Serengeti Plain lies in the northwest, and the Masai Steppe, broken only by isolated gneiss hills, lies in the south. In the central area of the region are the Crater

Mitre Shell

Any of several marine snails constituting the family Mitridae (subclass Prosobranchia of the class Gastropoda), in which the thick shell typically is bullet shaped, vaguely resembling a bishop's headdress, or mitre. Mitres are most common in the Indo-Pacific region, where one of the largest species occurs: the 10-centimetre (4-inch) episcopal mitre (Mitra mitra), which has

Chandernagore

Also called �Chandannagar� city, southeastern West Bengal state, northeastern India, just west of the Hooghly River and part of the Calcutta urban agglomeration. It is connected by road and rail with Calcutta and Burdwan. Settled in 1673 by the French and expanded commercially, it was captured by the English in 1757 and again in 1794 but was restored to France in 1815. Following the 1949 plebiscite, it merged with India.

Manann�n Mac Lir

(Celtic: �Manann�n, Son of the Sea�), Irish sea god from whom the name of the Isle of Man allegedly derived. Manann�n traditionally ruled an island paradise, protected sailors, and provided abundant crops. He gave immortality to the gods through his swine, which returned to life when killed; those who ate of the swine never died. He wore impenetrable armour and, carrying an

Javorn�ky

Mountains in central Czechoslovakia, on the western fringe of the Carpathian Mountains and forming part of the boundary between Moravia and Slovakia. The ridge of the Javorn�ky peaks - the highest, at 3,514 feet (1,071 m), is Velk� Javorn�k, overlooking the village of Velk� Karlovice - divides the Becva-Oder river systems to the north and west from the V�h River to the east. Climate

Brunet, Jacques-charles

The son of a bookseller, Brunet acquired a taste for bibliography at an early age and published a supplement to the Dictionnaire bibliographique de livres rares (1810; �Dictionary of Rare Books�), brought out a few years earlier. The first edition of Brunet's Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres

Forde, Francis Michael

Active in state politics as a young man, Forde was a member of the Australian House of Representatives (1922 - 46) and deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party (1932 - 46). In the cabinet he served as minister for the army (1941 - 46), minister for defense (1946), and deputy prime minister

Newfoundland And Labrador, Transportation

Until the end of the 19th century, virtually all communication among the coastal settlements was by sea; St. John's remains one of the country's major Atlantic harbours. A narrow-gauge railway was built during the 1880s from St. John's to Channel-Port-aux-Basques along a route that touched the major bays. Subsequently, branch lines were developed to serve population centres

Biblical Literature, Canaanite culture and religion

The Israelite tribes during the period of the guidance and leadership of Moses and Joshua mainly had to contend with nomadic tribes; in their contacts with such groups, they absorbed some of the attitudes and motifs of the nomadic way of life, such as independence, a love of freedom to move about, and fear of or disdain for the way of life of settled, agricultural, and urban

Bahr Al-ahmar, Al-

Muhafazah (governorate) of Egypt, comprising much of the Eastern Desert (also called Arabian Desert) east of the Nile River Valley to the Red Sea; its name means �red sea.� It extends from approximately 29� N latitude southward to the frontier of The Sudan. On the west it is bounded from north to south by the governorates of the Nile River Valley of Upper Egypt. Its total area is 78,643 square

Computer Virus

A virus consists of a set of instructions that attaches itself to other computer programs, usually in the computer's operating system,

Wang Hui

Wade-Giles romanization �Wang Hui � probably the paramount member of the group of Chinese painters known as the Four Wangs (including Wang Shimin, 1592 - 1680, Wang Jian, 1598 - 1677, and Wang Yuanqi, 1642 - 1715), who represented the so-called �orthodox school� of painting in the Ming and early Qing periods. The orthodox school was based upon the dicta laid down by Dong Qichang (1555 - 1636). It was �orthodox� in the Confucian

Siberut Island

Indonesian �Pulau Siberut�, also spelled �Siberoet� largest island in the Mentawai group of islands, Sumatera Barat provinsi (province), Indonesia. Siberut lies off the western coast of Sumatra, about 90 miles (145 km) west-southwest of and across the Mentawai Strait from Padang city. The island is 25 miles (40 km) wide and 70 miles (110 km) long. Its terrain is generally low, rising to about 1,260 feet (384 m) in the western portion. Rainfall is heavy, and the