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- organization that seeks to promote free trade and economic cooperation throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Established in 1989 in response to the growing interdependence of Asia-Pacific economies and the advent of regional economic blocs (such as the European Union and the North American Free Trade Area) in other parts of the ... [12 Related Articles]
- Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate
- (from the article "The Environment") In October Canada became a member of the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, whose other members were Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and the United States. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in September had called for all countries to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions by one-half by 2050, ...
- Asiab
- (from the article "Iran, ancient") ...significant shifts in tool manufacture, settlement patterns, and subsistence methods, including the fumbling beginnings of domestication of both plants and animals, at such western Iranian sites as Asiab, Guran, Ganj Dareh (Ganj Darreh), and Ali Kosh. Similar developments in the Zagros Mountains, on the Iraqi side of the modern border, ...
- Asian American
- (from the article "Education") ...to 4.3 million, setting a trend that continued into 2004. During those two decades, the enrollment of blacks grew by 56% to 1.7 million, Hispanic enrollment tripled to 1.5 million, and Asian American attendance tripled to 1 million. The rate of increase of minority women in college was greater than ...
- Asian Brown Cloud
- (from the article "climate") ...in the lower troposphere. The prevailing northeasterly winds of the winter monsoon transport the bulk of this polluted air southward, where it contributes to what has become known as the "Asian Brown Cloud" over the Indian Ocean.
- Asian Cup
- (from the article "Football") On July 29 at the Gelora Bung Karno stadium in Jakarta, there was a surprise winner of the Asian Cup when Iraq beat Saudi Arabia 1-0 in the final. Despite restrictive training facilities in their strife-torn country, the Iraqi players were disciplined and well organized. The winning goal came with ...
- Asian Development Bank
- organization that provides loans and equity investments for development projects in its member countries. The bank also provides technical assistance for projects and programs, and it promotes the investment of capital for development. It was established in August 1966 under the auspices of the United Nations organization now known as ... [6 Related Articles]
- Asian elephant
- (from the article "proboscidean") Within the elephant family, Asian elephants (genus Elephas) and mammoths (genus Mammathus) are more closely related to one another than African elephants (genus Loxodonta) are to either. Molecular studies have recently corroborated the morphological studies that have long suggested this. The ...
- Asian flu
- (from the article "influenza") ...Spanish flu, which was first widely reported in Spain but seems to have originated in the United States. Subsequent outbreaks of influenza have been much less severe. Influenza A subtype H2N2, or Asian flu, for instance, apparently began in East Asia early in 1957, and by midyear it had circled ...
- Asian Football Confederation
- (from the article "football (soccer)") The Asian game is organized by the Asian Football Confederation, comprising 45 members in 2003 and stretching geographically from Lebanon in the Middle East to Guam in the western Pacific Ocean. The Asian Cup for national teams has been held quadrennially since 1956; Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Japan have dominated, ...
- Asian Games
- regional games sponsored by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) for men and women athletes from Asian countries affiliated with the IAAF. The International Olympic Committee also grants its patronage. [1 Related Articles]
- Asian golden cat
- (from the article "golden cat") either of two cats of the family Felidae: the African golden cat (Felis aurata), or the Asian golden cat (F. temmincki), also known as Temminck's cat.
- Asian gymnure
- (from the article "gymnure") Asian gymnures (genus Hylomys) inhabit tropical lowland rainforest and montane forest, and the five species are either strictly nocturnal or active day and night. They live on the forest floor, sometimes traveling along a network of pathways. Their long snout is used to probe leaf litter and humus, debris being ...
- Asian gypsy moth
- (from the article "gypsy moth") A larger strain, the Asian gypsy moth, has a wingspan of about 90 mm. It poses an even greater threat than its European relative because the female can fly, enabling it to spread quickly, and the larvae, which range in colour from light to dark brown, will eat the leaves ...
- Asian long-horned beetle
- (from the article "long-horned beetle") ...cingulata) deposits eggs in twigs and then girdles, or cuts, a groove around the twig. Eventually the twig dies and breaks off, and the larvae develop inside the dead twig. The Asian long-horned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis), native to China and Korea, is a major pest of many ...
- Asian Mile Challenge
- (from the article "Equestrian Sports") The Asian Mile Challenge, which involved one race in Hong Kong and one in Japan, was introduced in 2005. Races in Australia and Dubai (U.A.E.) were scheduled to be added in 2006. The more ambitious Global Sprint Challenge was composed of two races each in Australia, the U.K., and Japan ...
- Asian palm swift
- (from the article "swift") ...and is glued with its sticky saliva to the wall of a cave or the inside of a chimney, rock crack, or hollow tree. A few species attach the nest to a palm frond, an extreme example being the tropical Asian palm swift (Cypsiurus parvus), which glues its eggs to ...
- Asian river turtle
- (from the article "turtle") ...be more aquatic than the American box turtles, spending much of their time in forest ponds and streams. As with the softshell turtles, Asia has two of the largest species of pond turtles-the Asian river turtle, or batagur (Batagur baska), and the painted terrapin (
- Asian shore crab
- (from the article "Life Sciences") ...of New Hampshire demonstrated a case of rapid evolution by a native prey species, the blue mussel (Mytilus edulis). The two invasive predators, the green crab (Carcinus maenas) and the Asian shore crab (Hemigrapsus sanguineus), crush the shells of mussels before eating them. The green crab was introduced to the ...
- Asian small-clawed otter
- (from the article "otter") ...ability is further enhanced in most species by four webbed feet. Two species are marine, with the others living predominantly in fresh water. Otters range in size from 3 kg (6.6 pounds) in the Asian small-clawed otter (Amblonyx cinereus) to 26 kg in the giant otter (
- Asian tree mouse
- any of three species of small rodents found only in a few tropical forests of India and continental Southeast Asia.
- Asian vine snake
- (from the article "vine snake") ...venomous, rear-fanged snakes of the family Colubridae that have slender bodies, narrow heads, and pointed snouts. Vine snakes typically belong to the genera Ahaetulla (Asian vine snakes), Oxybelis (New World vine snakes), and Thelotornis (African vine snakes); however, some authorities also ...
- Asian white-backed vulture
- (from the article "vulture") ...below, it is about a metre long. The genus Gyps contains seven similar species, including some of the most common vultures. In South Asia three Gyps species, the Asian white-backed vulture (G. bengalensis), the long-billed vulture (G. indicus), and the slender-billed vulture (
- Asian Women United
- American organization dedicated to reflecting and shaping public perceptions of Asian culture, particularly of Asian women.
- Asiana
- (from the article "Greece, history of") ...were a part of the larger diocese of Moesia, which stretched up to the Danube River in the north; Rhodope belonged to the diocese of Thrace, while the Islands were classed as part of the diocese of Asiana, consisting, for the most part, of the westernmost provinces of Asia Minor. ...
- Asianic style
- (from the article "Cicero, Marcus Tullius") ...Unfortunately, not all his cases were as morally sound as the attack on the governor of Sicily, Gaius Verres, which was perhaps his most famous case. In his day Roman orators were divided between "Asians," with a rich, florid, grandiose style, of which Quintus Hortensius was the chief exponent, and ...
- Asiatic black bear
- member of the bear family (Ursidae) found in the Himalayas, Southeast Asia, and part of eastern Asia, including Japan. The Asiatic black bear is omnivorous, eating insects, fruit, nuts, beehives, small mammals, and birds, as well as carrion. It will occasionally attack domestic animals. It has a glossy black (sometimes ...
- Asiatic finfoot
- (from the article "finfoot") ...inches) long. It occurs from Senegal to the Congo basin and from Ethiopia to the Cape of Good Hope. It has bright red feet and a slate-gray neck with an ill-defined whitish stripe down the side. The masked, or Asiatic, finfoot (Heliopais personata) is found in Central and Southeast Asia. ...
- Asiatic horseshoe crab
- (from the article "Representative animals poisonous when eaten") ...million to 146 million years ago). Best known is the single American species Limulus polyphemus, specimens of which can reach a length of more than 60 cm (2 feet). The other three species, Tachypleus tridentatus, T. gigas, and Carcinoscorpinus rotundicauda, are found along Asia from Japan to India and closely ...
- Asiatic lion
- (from the article "Gir Forest National Park") The Gir Forests Reserve, created in 1913 to protect the largest of the surviving groups of Asiatic lion, was accorded sanctuary status in 1965. Several hundred Asiatic lions have been bred in the sanctuary since it was established; "lion shows" consisting of guided tours in protected vehicles are held regularly ...
- Asiatic low
- (from the article "Asia") ...Siberia. In West, Middle, and Central Asia, a hot, dry, dusty, continental tropical wind blows at this time. Over the basin of the Indus River, the heating creates a low-pressure area. Known as the South Asian (or Iranian) low, it appears in April and is fully developed from June to ...
- Asiatic Society of Bengal
- society founded on January 15, 1784, by Sir William Jones, a British lawyer and Orientalist, to encourage Oriental studies. At its founding, Jones delivered the first of a famous series of discourses. [1 Related Articles]
- asiento de negros
- between the early 16th and the mid-18th century, an agreement between the Spanish crown and a private person or another sovereign power by which the latter was granted a monopoly in supplying African slaves for the Spanish colonies in the Americas. The contractor (asentista) agreed to pay a certain amount ... [1 Related Articles]
- Asii
- (from the article "Central Asia, history of") ...Kansu (China) a people probably of Iranian stock, known to the Chinese as the Yueh-chih and called Tokharians in Greek sources. While a part of the Yueh-chih confederacy, known as the Asii, moved as far west as the Caucasus region, the remainder occupied the region between the Syr Darya and ...
- asik
- (from the article "Turkish literature") Much of the style of the Book of Dede Korkut predates the heroic tradition of the Oghuz Turkish poet-musician known as the asik, who emerged in the 16th century in Anatolia, Iran, and the southern Caucasus and eventually supplanted the ozan. ...
- Asik Pasa
- poet who was one of the most important figures in early Turkish literature.
- Asikpasazade
- one of the most important early Ottoman historians. The great-grandson of the famous mystic poet of Anatolia, Asik Pasa, Asikpasazade also had affiliations with a Muslim mystical order.
- Asilah
- city on the Atlantic coast of northwestern Morocco, south of Tangier. While some attribute its founding to the Phoenicians, others believe its origins date back to the Roman period; perhaps each account refers to a slightly different location on this busy coastal strip not far from Europe. Descendants of Mawlay ...
- Asimina
- (from the article "Magnoliales") ...of the species in the family, namely Guatteria (250 species), Uvaria (175 species), Xylopia (150 species), Polyalthia (100 species), and Annona (120 species). Asimina (8 species) is restricted to eastern North America and contains the only temperate-adapted species in the family, A. triloba (pawpaw), which extends as far north as ...
- Asimina angustifolia
- (from the article "pawpaw") ...pawpaw fruits. The other seven species of Asimina, which are shrubby North American plants, include A. speciosa and A. angustifolia.
- Asimina speciosa
- (from the article "pawpaw") ...persons may develop a skin reaction after handling pawpaw fruits. The other seven species of Asimina, which are shrubby North American plants, include A. speciosa and A. angustifolia.
- Asimov, Isaac
- American author and biochemist, a highly successful and prolific writer of science fiction and of science books for the layperson. He published about 500 volumes. [2 Related Articles]
- Asinaeus
- (from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") Parthian rule was not firm over all Mesopotamia; thus, for example, during the reign of Artabanus III (AD 12-38) the Jewish brigands Asinaeus and Anilaeus set up a free state north of Ctesiphon that lasted 15 years before it was overcome by the Parthians. With the end of cuneiform records ...
- Asinara Island
- island lying in the Mediterranean Sea off the northwest coast of Sardinia. It has an area of 20 square miles (52 square km) and rises to 1,335 feet (407 m). The island was home to one of Italy's top-security prisons until it was closed in 1997. Asinara is now a ...
- Asino
- city, Tomsk oblast (province), southeastern Russia. The city is located near the Chulym River, an important logging stream, and is the largest wood-processing centre in western Siberia. It has a railroad spur that connects with the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Pop. (2006 est.) 27,705.
- asipu
- (from the article "Mesopotamian religion") ...difficult to identify the witch in individual cases, or even to be sure that a given evil was the result of witchcraft rather than of other causes. In such cases, the expert in white magic, the asipu or masmasu, was able to help both in diagnosing the cause of the ...
- Asir
- ("Difficult Country"), region of southwestern Saudi Arabia immediately north of Yemen. Asir consists of about 40,000 square miles (100,000 square km) of Red Sea coastal plains, high mountains, and the upper valleys of the wadis (seasonal watercourses) Bishah and Tathlith. [5 Related Articles]
- Asirgarh
- Indian fortress situated between the Tapti and Narmada rivers a little to the north of the town of Burhanpur, in the former Central Provinces and the present state of Maharashtra. The principal importance of the fortress lay in its command of the only easily accessible route from northern India to ...
- Asitawandas
- (from the article "Karatepe") According to the text, the founder and ruler of the city was Asitawandas, king of the Danunians, a vassal of Awarikus of Adana. Asitawandas claimed descent from the "house of Mopsus"; Mopsus is known in Greek legend as an emigrant from Ionia and founder of nearby Cilician Mopsuestia (modern Misis). ...
- asity
- either of two species of short-tailed, 15-centimetre- (6-inch-) long birds of the family Philepittidae (order Passeriformes), inhabiting forests of Madagascar. The male of the velvet asity (Philepitta castanea) has yellow tips to its feathers when newly molted, but these wear off, leaving the bird all black; at the same time, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ask Jeeves
- (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") IAC/InterActiveCorp, the owner of travel Web site Expedia as well as television's Home Shopping Network, bought search engine company Ask Jeeves for $1.85 billion. While most search engine Web sites searched for key words or phrases, Ask Jeeves was designed to search for answers to specific questions.
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