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- (from the article "North West Leicestershire") ...It is essentially an upland area of undulating meadows, but some cultivation of crops occurs in the southwest and along the River Soar valley in the north. The two principal towns, Coalville and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, are in the upland area bordering Charnwood Forest, a former royal hunting ground to the east. ...
- Ashcan School
- (from the article "Ashcan School") group of American realist painters based in New York City in the early 20th century. The group's most prominent figures were known as "The Eight." See Eight, The.association with The EightEight, TheA few years after their only joint exhibition
- Ashcroft, Dame Peggy
- English stage actress who appeared in both classic and modern plays. [2 Related Articles]
- Ashcroft, John
- U.S. politician and lawyer, who served as attorney general of the United States (2001-05). He was known for his conservative policies and his support of the USA Patriot Act. [1 Related Articles]
- Ashdod
- city of southern Palestine, on the coastal plain of ancient Philistia; since 1948 it has been a city in southwestern Israel and is one of its three international ports and chief industrial centres. In antiquity Ashdod was a member of the Philistine pentapolis (five cities). Although the Bible assigns it ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ashdown, Paddy
- (from the article "Bosnia and Herzegovina") ...Tihic (Muslim) and, from November 6, Nebojsa Radmanovic (Serb; chairman), Zeljko Komsic (Croat), and Haris Silajdzic (Muslim). Final authority resides in the Office of the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, Baron Ashdown (U.K.), and, from January 31, Christian Schwarz-Schilling (Germany) | Head of government: Prime Minister Adnan Terzic | BRITANNICA ...
- Ashe, Arthur
- American tennis player, the first black winner of a major men's singles championship. [2 Related Articles]
- Asheboro
- city, seat (1796) of Randolph county, central North Carolina, U.S. It lies in the forested Uwharrie Mountains about 25 miles (40 km) south of Greensboro. Asheboro (originally Asheborough) was founded in 1796 on land that was once the home of Keyauwee Indians; a prehistoric Native American burial ground nearby was ...
- Ashendene Press
- (from the article "typography") The third great English private press, the Ashendene, was conducted by C.H. St. John Hornby, a partner in the English booksellers W.H. Smith and Son. Hornby in 1900 met Emery Walker and Sydney Cockerell (Morris' secretary at the Kelmscott Press), who encouraged and instructed him and helped in devising two ...
- Asher
- one of the 12 tribes of Israel that in biblical times constituted the people of Israel who later became the Jewish people. The tribe was named after the younger of two sons born to Jacob (also called Israel) and Zilpah, the maidservant of Jacob's first wife, Leah. After the Israelites ... [1 Related Articles]
- Asher ben Jehiel
- major codifier of the Talmud, the rabbinical compendium of law, lore, and commentary. His work was a source for the great codes of his son Jacob ben Asher (1269-1340) and of Joseph Karo (1488-1575). [3 Related Articles]
- Asher, Peter
- (from the article "Ronstadt, Linda") ...introducing material by songwriters such as Neil Young and Jackson Browne and collaborating with top country-oriented rock musicians (including future members of the Eagles). Produced by Briton Peter Asher, Ronstadt's album Heart Like a Wheel (1974) sold more than a million copies. It also established the formula ...
- Asherah
- ancient West Semitic goddess, consort of the supreme god. Her principal epithet was probably "She Who Walks on the Sea." She was occasionally called Elath (Elat), "the Goddess," and may have also been called Qudshu, "Holiness." According to texts from Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra, Syria), Asherah's consort was El, and ... [4 Related Articles]
- Ashes
- symbol of victory in the usually biennial cricket Test (international) match series between select national teams of England and Australia, first staged in 1877. Its name stems from an epitaph published in 1882 after the Australian team had won its first victory over England in England, at the Oval, London. ... [3 Related Articles]
- Asheville
- city, seat of Buncombe county, west-central North Carolina, U.S. Asheville lies in the Blue Ridge Mountains, at the junction of the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers. It has a mild climate and is built on an uneven plateau at an elevation of about 2,200 feet (670 metres). Asheville is the ...
- Ashfield
- district, administrative and historic county of Nottinghamshire, England. The name is ancient and appeared in the names of the two major towns within the district even before its formation. The two towns are the coal-mining centres of Kirkby-in-Ashfield and Sutton-in-Ashfield, forming, as does the whole district, part of the heavily ...
- Ashford
- (from the article "Ashford") town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Kent, England. It was established in 1974 from the former urban district of Ashford, rural districts of East and West Ashford, and the metropolitan borough and rural district of Tenterden. The old town of Ashford was granted a market in the ...
- Ashford
- town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Kent, England. It was established in 1974 from the former urban district of Ashford, rural districts of East and West Ashford, and the metropolitan borough and rural district of Tenterden. The old town of Ashford was granted a market in the ...
- Ashford, Evelyn
- renowned American sprinter and five-time Olympian.
- Ashgabat
- city and capital of Turkmenistan. It lies in an oasis at the northern foot of the Kopet-Dag (Turkmen: Kopetdag) Range and on the edge of the Karakum (Turkmen: Garagum) Desert, about 19 miles (30 km) from the Iranian frontier. It was founded in 1881 as a Russian military fort and ... [8 Related Articles]
- Ashhotep
- (from the article "jewelry") Among the treasures discovered in the tomb of Queen Ashhotep (18th dynasty) is a typical Egyptian bracelet. It is rigid and can be opened by means of a hinge. The front part is decorated with a vulture, whose outspread wings cover the front half of the bracelet. The whole figure ...
- Ashi
- preeminent Babylonian amora, or interpreter of the Mishna, the legal compilation that was the basis of the Talmud, the authoritative rabbinical compendium.
- Ashida Hitoshi
- (from the article "Prime ministers of Japan") ...which implemented most of the early SCAP reforms only to be replaced by an equally transitory cabinet headed by the Socialist Katayama Tetsu (1947-48). A similar fate confronted Ashida Hitoshi, who became prime minister for five months in 1948. Yoshida's return to power in the fall of 1948 resulted in ...
- ashide
- (from the article "lacquerwork") ...features of this time are improved methods of inlay of precious metals and shell and, especially, an attractive form of design in which beautifully written poems are interwoven with the pattern (ashide). The process called Kamakura-bori, carved wood thickly lacquered with red or black, also dates from this period and ...
- ashide-e
- (Japanese: "reed-script picture"), decorative, cursive style of Japanese calligraphy, the characters of which resemble natural objects, that is used to decorate scrolls, stationery, and lacquerware. The typical ashide-e is a decorative representation of a poem, in which stylized characters serve as both text and illustration. There are also ashide-e that ...
- Ashigga' Party
- (from the article "Azhari, Isma'il al-") ...the congress later opposed British administration of the Sudan and instead supported the Sudan's union with Egypt. In 1943, following a split within the congress, al-Azhari organized the Ashigga' ("Brothers") party; his opposition to the British proposal for self-government in the Sudan brought about his arrest in December 1948.role in ...
- Ashikaga
- city, Tochigi ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It is located on the Watarase River. Ashikaga Takauji, who established the Ashikaga shogunate in the 14th century, was born there. Ashikaga was a post town on the Nikko Highway during the Tokugawa era (1603-1867). It was a dyeing and weaving centre for several ...
- Ashikaga Gakko
- (from the article "Ashikaga") Ashikaga was the site of a former classical school, the Ashikaga Gakko, founded in the 9th century; according to one tradition, its founder was the poet Ono Takamura. The school was restored in 1432 by a nobleman, Uesugi Norizane, who engaged a Buddhist monk to head the school and imported ...
- Ashikaga Tadayoshi
- military and administrative genius who engineered many of the triumphs of his older brother, Ashikaga Takauji, the founder of the Ashikaga shogunate (hereditary military dictatorship) that dominated Japan from 1338 to 1573. [1 Related Articles]
- Ashikaga Takauji
- warrior and statesman who founded the Ashikaga shogunate (hereditary military dictatorship) that dominated Japan from 1338 to 1573. [9 Related Articles]
- Ashikaga Yoshiaki
- shogun (hereditary military dictator) of Japan who was the 15th and last of his family to hold the title. Yoshiaki had been a priest, but in 1568, with the aid of his protector, the general Oda Nobunaga, he deposed his cousin Yoshihide and took over the shogunate. Subsequently, rivalry developed ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa
- shogun (hereditary military dictator) who helped promote one of Japan's greatest cultural eras. His attempts to select an heir, however, brought on a dispute that caused the great Onin War (1467-77). This conflict not only laid waste the area around the capital at Kyoto and destroyed many of its great ... [6 Related Articles]
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu
- shogun (hereditary military dictator) of Japan, who achieved political stability for the Ashikaga shogunate, which had been established in 1338 by his grandfather, Ashikaga Takauji. The period of this shogunate's rule (until 1573) subsequently became known as the Muromachi period after the district of Kyoto in which Yoshimitsu lived. [7 Related Articles]
- Ashiya
- city, Hyogo ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It is surrounded by the Rokko Mountains and faces Osaka Bay. Located on railway lines and highways between Kobe (west) and Osaka (east), it has been known for its beauty since the Heian period (794-1185), when court nobles and men of ...
- Ashkenazi
- (from Hebrew Ashkenaz, "Germany"), plural Ashkenazim, any of the Jews who lived in the Rhineland valley and in neighbouring France before their migration eastward to Slavic lands (e.g., Poland, Lithuania, Russia) after the Crusades (11th-13th century). After the 17th-century persecutions in eastern Europe, large numbers of these Jews resettled ... [17 Related Articles]
- Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox
- (from the article "fundamentalism") The ultra-Orthodox are often referred to in Hebrew as Haredim, or "those who tremble" in the presence of God (because they are God-fearing). Unlike the Orthodox, the ultra-Orthodox continue to reject Zionism-at least in principle-as blasphemous. In practice, the rejection of Zionism has led to the emergence of a wide ...
- Ashkenazic script
- (from the article "calligraphy") ...script to emerge from the Dead Sea writing was the Early Sefardic (Spharadic), with examples dating between 600 and 1200 CE. The Classic Sefardic hand appears between 1100 and 1600 CE. The Ashkenazic style of Hebrew writing exhibits French and German Gothic overtones of the so-called black-letter styles (see below Latin-alphabet ...
- Ashkenazy, Vladimir
- Russian-born Icelandic pianist and conductor whose extensive piano repertoire included works by W.A. Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt, and Sergey Rachmaninoff. [1 Related Articles]
- Ashkharhabar
- (from the article "Armenian language") Several distinct varieties of the Armenian language can be distinguished: Old Armenian (Grabar), Middle Armenian (Mijin hayeren), and Modern Armenian, or Asxarhabar (Ashkharhabar). Modern Armenian embraces two written varieties-Western Armenian (Arewmtahayeren) and Eastern Armenian (Arewelahayeren)-and many dialects are spoken. About 50 dialects were...
- Ashland
- city, Boyd county, northeastern Kentucky, U.S. It lies along the Ohio River just below the mouth of the Big Sandy River. The city of Ashland forms a tristate industrial complex with Ironton, Ohio, and Huntington, West Virginia. [1 Related Articles]
- Ashland
- city, Jackson county, southwestern Oregon, U.S. It lies along Bear Creek, in the southern reaches of the Rogue River valley, at the base of the Siskiyou Mountains, just southeast of Medford. Settled in 1852 (during a gold rush) and laid out in 1860, it was named for both Ashland county, ...
- Ashland
- city, seat (1860) of Ashland county, extreme northern Wisconsin, U.S. It is a port on Chequamegon Bay of Lake Superior, about 60 miles (100 km) southeast of the city of Superior. Several different Native American tribes lived in the area, notably the Ojibwa. About 1659, French fur traders arrived, and ...
- ashlar masonry
- (from the article "architecture") The simplest and cheapest stonework is rubble; i.e., roughly broken stones of any shape bounded in mortar. The strongest and most suitable stonework for monumental architecture is ashlar masonry, which consists of regularly cut blocks (usually rectangular). Because of its weight and the precision with which it can be shaped, ...
- Ashley, Laura
- British designer known for her traditional, Victorian-style prints on natural fabrics, which she used to create household furnishings, linens, and women's clothing. By the time of her death there were more than 220 Laura Ashley shops worldwide.
- Ashley, Maurice
- first African American to earn an International Grandmaster chess title.
- Ashley, Merrill
- Ballerina Merrill Ashley's farewell performance on Nov. 25, 1997, not only marked her retirement from a 30-year career with the New York City Ballet (NYCB); it also represented a good-bye to one of the few remaining direct links to George Balanchine, the company's legendary founder. Ashley was the only NYCB ...
- Ashley, Ted
- American business executive (b. Aug. 3, 1922, New York, N.Y.-d. Aug. 24, 2002, New York City), revived Warner Brothers studios during his tenure as chairman and CEO (1969-80) with such films as A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Exorcist (1973), Blazing Saddles (1974), All the President's Men (1976), and Superman (1978). ...
- Ashley, William Henry
- U.S. congressman and fur trader who revolutionized the fur trade and hastened exploration of the American West when he introduced the rendezvous system as a substitute for traditional trading posts.
- Ashman, Howard
- (from the article "1991: Other Winners") ...Gassner for BugsyOriginal Score: Alan Menken for Beauty and the BeastOriginal Song: "Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast; music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard AshmanHonorary Award: Pete Comandini [YCM Laboratories], Richard T. Dayton [YCM Laboratories], Donald Hagans [YCM Laboratories], Satyajit Ray, Richard T. Ryan [YCM Laboratories], ...
- Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
- one of the four museums of the University of Oxford and the oldest public museum of art, archaeology, and natural history in Great Britain. It was established to house collections donated to the university in 1677 by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), an antiquarian who had inherited the bulk of the collections ... [4 Related Articles]
- Ashmore and Cartier Islands
- external territory of Australia, in the Indian Ocean. The islands lie 200 miles (320 km) northwest of Western Australia state and some 105 miles (170 km) southwest of the island of Roti, Indonesia. The Ashmore Islands, comprising Middle, East, and West islands, are coral islets within a reef. Cartier Island, ... [1 Related Articles]
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