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Anguier, Michel: French sculptor who produced decorations for tombs, churches, palaces, and public monuments.
Anguilla: island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, a British overseas territory. It is the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles and lies about 12 miles (19 km) north of the island of Saint Martin and 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Saint Kitts. The Valley is the ... [8 Related Articles]
Anguilla Act: (from the article "Saint Kitts and Nevis") ...In May 1967 the Anguillans ejected the Saint Kitts police and established their own council. In July of the same year, they proclaimed their independence. After unsuccessful negotiations, the Anguilla Act of July 1971 placed Anguilla directly under British control. On Feb. 10, 1976, Anguilla was granted a constitution and ...
Anguilla United Front: (from the article "Dependent States") The Anguilla United Front (AUF), led by Osbourne Fleming, retained its hold on power with a four-seat majority in Anguilla's February general elections. The AUF campaigned on its development record, specifically the $25 million expansion of the island's airport. The Anguilla National Strategic Alliance (two seats) remained the official opposition ...
Angula, Nahas: (from the article "Namibia") Area: 824,116 sq km (318,193 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 2,074,000 | Capital: Windhoek | Chief of state and head of government: President Hifikepunye Pohamba, assisted by Prime Minister Nahas Angula | BRITANNICA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2007NamibiaNamibiaArea: ...
angular acceleration: (from the article "angular velocity") The angular acceleration is the time rate of change of the angular velocity and is usually designated by alpha and expressed in radians per second per second. For the case in which the angular velocity is uniform (nonvarying), theta = omegat and alpha = 0. If alpha is uniform but ...
angular aperture: (from the article "aperture") Closely related to the aperture stop is its image, called the entrance pupil of the optical system. The angle that the diameter of the entrance pupil subtends at an object point is called the angular aperture, which can be taken as a measure of the light-gathering power of the instrument. ...
angular arrangement: (from the article "chemical bonding") ...bonded compound, the atoms adopt specific locations relative to one another, as in the tetrahedral arrangement of hydrogen atoms around the central carbon atom in methane, CH₄, or the angular arrangement of atoms in H₂O.
angular displacement: (from the article "angular velocity") time rate at which an object rotates, or revolves, about an axis, or at which the angular displacement between two bodies changes. In the Figure, this displacement is represented by the angle theta between a line on one body and a line on the other.
angular frequency: (from the article "electricity") ...respect to time and has values from +V₀ to −V₀. The voltage varies with time at a rate given by the numerical value of omega; omega, which is called the angular frequency, is expressed in radians per second. Figure 22 shows an example with V₀ = 170 volts and omega ...
angular harp: musical instrument in which the neck forms a clear angle with the resonator, or belly; it is one of the principal varieties of the harp. The earliest-known depictions of angular harps are from Mesopotamia about 2000 BC. In Egypt, especially, and in Mesopotamia, this harp was played vertically, held with ... [1 Related Articles]
angular magnification: (from the article "magnification") ...axis. A negative value of linear magnification denotes an inverted image. Longitudinal magnification denotes the factor by which an image increases in size, as measured along the optical axis. Angular magnification is equal to the ratio of the tangents of the angles subtended by an object and its image when ...
angular momentum: property characterizing the rotary inertia of an object or system of objects in motion about an axis that may or may not pass through the object or system. The Earth has orbital angular momentum by reason of its annual revolution about the Sun and spin angular momentum because of its ... [21 Related Articles]
angular momentum quantum number: (from the article "spectroscopy") There are a set of angular momentum quantum numbers associated with the energy states of the atom. In terms of classical physics, angular momentum is a property of a body that is in orbit or is rotating about its own axis. It depends on the angular velocity and distribution of ...
angular momentum, conservation of: (from the article "physical science, principles of") The total angular momentum (also called moment of momentum) of an isolated system about a fixed point is conserved as well. The angular momentum of a particle of mass m moving with velocity v at the instant when it is at a distance r ...
angular movement: (from the article "joint") Swing, or angular movement, brings about a change in the angle between the long axis of the moving bone and some reference line in the fixed bone. Flexion (bending) and extension (straightening) of the elbow are examples of swing. A swing (to the right or left) of one bone away ...
angular pregnancy: (from the article "pregnancy") When the fertilized egg implants in the narrow space or angle of the uterine cavity near the connection of the uterus with the fallopian tube, it is called an angular pregnancy; many angular pregnancies terminate in abortions; others go to term but are complicated because the placenta does not separate ...
angular resolution: (from the article "astronomy") The angular resolving power (or resolution) of a telescope is the smallest angle between close objects that can be seen clearly to be separate. Resolution is limited by the wave nature of light. For a telescope having an objective lens or mirror with diameter D and operating at wavelength lambda, ...
angular velocity: time rate at which an object rotates, or revolves, about an axis, or at which the angular displacement between two bodies changes. In the , this displacement is represented by the angle theta between a line on one body and a line on the other. [1 Related Articles]
angular-winged katydid: (from the article "katydid") ...licks its feet to clean the adhesive pads found there. The round-headed katydid (Amblycorypha) has oval wings that are wider than those of the bush katydid. The angular-winged katydid (Microcentrum) has a flattened, humped back; its wings resemble large leaves. In flight, Microcentrum holds its wings in a gliderlike position.
Angus: (from the article "Thistle, The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the") As with many orders of chivalry, its origins lie much further back in time. Tradition has it that at the end of the 8th century Achaius, King of Scots, founded a chivalric order and introduced the veneration of St. Andrew into Scotland, but few scholars accept this. More probable is ...
ANGUS: (from the article "ocean") Another notable instrument system is ANGUS, a deep-towed camera sled that can take thousands of high-resolution photographs of the seafloor during a single day. It has been successfully used in the detection of hydrothermal vents at spreading centres (see below Oceanic ridges). Overlapping photographic images make it possible to construct photomosaic ...
Angus: council area and historic county in eastern Scotland, bounded on the east by the North Sea and on the south by the Firth of Tay. The council area lies entirely within the historic county of Angus, which also includes the city of Dundee and a small area south of Coupar ...
Angus: breed of black, polled beef cattle, for many years known as Aberdeen Angus, originating in northeastern Scotland. Its ancestry is obscure, though the breed appears closely related to the curly-coated Galloway, sometimes called the oldest breed in Britain. The breed was improved and the present type of the cattle fixed ... [2 Related Articles]
Angus, Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of: powerful Scottish lord during the reigns of King James V and Mary, Queen of Scots. He was the grandson of the 5th earl, Archibald Douglas (c. 1449-c. 1514).
Angus, Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of, Earl Of Morton: Scottish rebel during the reign of James VI and a strong advocate of Presbyterian government. He was son of the 7th earl, who was nephew of the 6th, and he succeeded to the earldom at the age of two. The earldom of Morton came to him in 1586.
Angus, William Douglas, 10th Earl of: Scottish rebel and conspirator, a convert to Roman Catholicism during the reign of James VI.
angwantibo: (from the article "potto") Two related but much smaller primates called angwantibos (Arctocebus calabarensis and A. aureus) live only in the rainforests of west-central Africa. They measure 24 cm (9.5 inches) long and are yellowish in colour, with a long, thin snout. Like the potto, they are tailless, but the third finger as well ...
Anhalt: former German state, which was a duchy from 1863 to 1918 and a Land (state) until 1945, when it was merged in Saxony-Anhalt. Saxony-Anhalt was a Land of the German Democratic Republic from 1949 to 1952, when it was broken up into Bezirke (districts), the former territories of Anhalt being ... [1 Related Articles]
Anhalt, Edna: (from the article "1950: Other Winners") Screenplay: Joseph L. Mankiewicz for All about EveMotion Picture Story: Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt for Panic in the StreetsStory and Screenplay: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman, Jr., for Sunset BoulevardCinematography, Black-and-White: Robert Krasker for The...
Anhalt, Edward: American screenwriter and motion picture producer (b. March 28, 1914, New York, N.Y.-d. Sept. 3, 2000, Los Angeles, Calif.), won Academy Awards for best screenplay for Panic in the Streets (1950; co-written with his wife, Edna Anhalt) and Becket (1964); he was especially skilled at adapting stage plays and works ... [2 Related Articles]
anharmonic motion: (from the article "spectroscopy") ...average internuclear separation. If the oscillation is harmonic, this average value will not change as the vibrational state of the molecule changes; however, for real molecules the oscillations are anharmonic. The potential for the oscillation of a molecule is the electronic energy plotted as a function of internuclear separation (Figure ...
Anhava, Tuomas: Finnish poet and translator working within the modernist tradition of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot.
anhedral crystal: (from the article "igneous rock") The degree to which mineral grains show external crystal faces can be described as euhedral or panidiomorphic (fully crystal-faced), subhedral or hypidiomorphic (partly faced), or anhedral or allotriomorphic (no external crystal faces). Quite apart from the presence or absence of crystal faces, the shape, or habit, of individual mineral grains ...
anhemitonic scale: (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...scale is often seven, but each scale tends to have what could be called a five-tone (pentatonic) core (see notations III, VIII, and IX). The one scale in which no half steps appear (the so-called anhemitonic pentatonic) is common all over the world, although casual listeners often mistake it as ...
Anheuser, Eberhard: (from the article "Busch, Adolphus") German-born American cofounder, with Eberhard Anheuser, of the firm later to be known as Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., one of the largest breweries in the world.founding of Anheuser-BuschAnheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.The company had its origins in a small brewery opened in St. ...
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.: American company that is one of the largest producers of beer in the world. It is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. [3 Related Articles]
Anhwei: sheng (province) of China. It is one of the country's smallest provinces, covering an area of 54,000 square miles (139,900 square kilometres) and stretching for 400 miles (640 kilometres) from north to south. Landlocked, it is bounded by the provinces of Kiangsu to the northeast, Chekiang to ...
Anhwei School: (from the article "arts, East Asian") Another Individualist artist to join the Buddhist ranks was Hung-jen, exemplar of a style that arose in the Hsin-an or Huichou district of southeastern Anhwei province and drew on the famed landscape of the nearby Huang Mountains. The group of artists now known as the "Anhwei School" (including Ting Yun-p'eng, ...
anhydride: any chemical compound obtained, either in practice or in principle, by the elimination of water from another compound. Examples of inorganic anhydrides are sulfur trioxide, SO₃, which is derived from sulfuric acid, and calcium oxide, CaO, derived from calcium hydroxide. Sulfur trioxide and other oxides formed by the removal of ... [2 Related Articles]
anhydrite: an important rock-forming mineral, anhydrous calcium sulfate (CaSO₄). It differs chemically from gypsum (to which it alters in humid conditions) by having no water of crystallization. Anhydrite occurs most often with salt deposits in association with gypsum, as in the cap rock of the Texas-Louisiana salt domes. Anhydrite is one ... [6 Related Articles]
anhydrous ammonia: (from the article "agricultural technology") The use of liquid and ammonia fertilizers is growing, particularly of anhydrous ammonia, which is handled as a liquid under pressure but changes to gas when released to atmospheric pressure. Anhydrous ammonia, however, is highly corrosive, inflammable, and rather dangerous if not handled properly; thus, application equipment is quite specialized. ...
Ani: ancient city site in extreme eastern Turkey. Ani lies east of Kars and along the Arpacay (Akhuryan) River, which forms the border with Armenia to the east. [3 Related Articles]
ani: any of three species of big-billed, glossy black birds of the genus Crotophaga of the cuckoo family (Cuculidae), of tropical America. These insect eaters forage on the ground in close and noisy flocks, often in fields with cattle. The bill is high-arched, bladelike, and hook-tipped; the tail is long and ... [2 Related Articles]
Ani papyrus: (from the article "death") ...not only thought, intelligence, memory, and wisdom, but also bravery, sadness, and love. It was the heart in its sense of ib that was weighed in the famous judgment scene depicted in the Ani papyrus and elsewhere. After the deceased had enumerated the many sins he had not committed (the ...
Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve: large wilderness area in southwestern Alaska, U.S., on the southern shore of the Alaska Peninsula, about 450 miles (720 km) south of Anchorage. Proclaimed a national monument in 1978, the area underwent boundary changes in 1980 when the national preserve was established. The monument covers an area of 214 square ...
Aniakchak River: (from the article "Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve") ...about 6 miles (10 km), includes lava fields, cinder cones, and, at its bottom, Surprise Lake. A 1,500-foot (450-metre) rift in the crater wall allows the lake's water to drain, the flow forming the Aniakchak River. Access to the area is by float plane; raft trips also are made on ...
anicca: in Buddhism, the doctrine of impermanence, one of the basic characteristics of all existence. Anicca, anatta (the absence of a self), and dukkha ("suffering") together make up the ti-lakkhana, or three characteristics of all phenomenal existence. That the human body is subject to change is empirically observable in the universal ... [1 Related Articles]
Anicetus, Saint: pope from approximately 155 to approximately 166. [1 Related Articles]
aniconism: in religion, opposition to the use of icons or visual images to depict living creatures or religious figures. Such opposition is particularly relevant to the Jewish, Islamic, and Byzantine artistic traditions. [4 Related Articles]
Anie Peak: (from the article "Spain") ...The highest peaks, formed from a core of ancient crystalline rocks, are found in the central Pyrenees-notably Aneto Peak at 11,168 feet (3,404 metres)-but those of the west, including Anie Peak at 8,213 feet (2,503 metres), are not much lower. The mountains fall steeply on the northern side but descend ...