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- (from the article "Australian External Territories") The commonwealth Attorney-General's Department provides administrative services for Norfolk Island, the Cocos Islands, Christmas Island, the Coral Sea Islands, and the Ashmore and Cartier group. The Department of Primary Industries and Energy is concerned with fishing rights in the external territories. These exclusive rights extend some 200 nautical miles (370...
- attraction
- (from the article "theatre") ...reason or logical content, and created abstract theatre. Later the Dadaists took over many of their ideas in a different cause. What unified Futurist performances, however, was the concept of attractions. An attraction was whatever element in a particular act held the audience's attention. Variety bills were constructed to produce ...
- attractor
- (from the article "chaos theory") In classical mechanics the behaviour of a dynamical system can be described geometrically as motion on an "attractor." The mathematics of classical mechanics effectively recognized three types of attractor: single points (characterizing steady states), closed loops (periodic cycles), and tori (combinations of several cycles). In the 1960s a new class ...
- attribute
- (from the article "metaphysics") ...the tree would be if it were deprived of all its qualities and stood in no relations. The notion of a substance in this type of metaphysics is that of a thing that exists by itself, apart from any attributes it may happen to possess; the difficulty with this notion ...
- attribution theory
- (from the article "emotion") Another approach to explaining the causes of emotions is that of attribution theory. The central idea of this theory, according to the American psychologist Bernard Weiner, is that the perceptions of the causes of events can be characterized in three principal ways which affect many emotional experiences. The perceived causes ...
- attrition resistance
- (from the article "abrasive") ...example, when silicon carbide is used on steel, or alumina on glass, some reaction takes place that has yet to be clearly defined but that results in rapid dulling and inefficient abrasive action. Attrition resistance is the name given to this third, very significant property.
- Attrition, War of
- (from the article "Egypt") ...support, only partially manipulated by the government, for him to remain in office. Regardless, the Nasser era was, in fact, over. Egypt rearmed rapidly and a low-level conflict, later known as the War of Attrition, soon began along the canal with the Israeli army (particularly its air force). In both ...
- Attu
- (from the article "Aleutian Islands") ...the Bering Sea (north) from the main portion of the Pacific Ocean (south) and extend in an arc southwest, then northwest, for about 1,100 miles (1,800 km) from the tip of the Alaska Peninsula to Attu Island, Alaska, U.S. The archipelago consists of 14 large islands, some 55 smaller islands, ...
- Attucks, Crispus
- American hero and martyr of the Boston Massacre. [1 Related Articles]
- Attwood, Thomas
- English economist and leader in the electoral reform movement.
- Atubaria
- (from the article "pterobranch") ...There are three genera of pterobranchs. Two of them, Rhabdopleura and Cephalodiscus, live in secreted tubes, organized into a colonial structure called a coenecium. The third genus, Atubaria, lives on hydroids. All three genera are rare. About 21 species have been described.
- Atucha
- town in Buenos Aires provincia (province), eastern Argentina, northwest of Buenos Aires city, on a main railway line. It is the site of a nuclear power plant, Atucha I, a pressurized reactor that has supplied power to the national grid, Argentine Interconnection System (Sistema Argentino de ...
- Atucha I
- (from the article "Atucha") ...in Buenos Aires provincia (province), eastern Argentina, northwest of Buenos Aires city, on a main railway line. It is the site of a nuclear power plant, Atucha I, a pressurized reactor that has supplied power to the national grid, Argentine Interconnection System (Sistema Argentino de Interconexion; ...
- Atum
- in ancient Egyptian religion, one of the manifestations of the sun and creator god, perhaps originally a local deity of Heliopolis. [4 Related Articles]
- atumpan
- (from the article "African music") ...glued, or laced onto the body. Tubular drums come in many sizes and shapes, such as cylindrical, conical, barrel-shaped, goblet-shaped, footed, and hourglass-shaped. The atumpan talking drums of the Asante are barrel-shaped with a narrow, cylindrical, open foot at the base. East African hourglass drums are single-skinned. ...
- Atures Rapids
- (from the article "Orinoco River") ...(Region de los Raudales), where the Orinoco forces its way through a series of narrow passages among enormous granite boulders. The waters fall in a succession of rapids, ending with the Atures Rapids. In this region, the main tributaries are the Vichada and Tomo rivers from the Colombian Llanos, and ...
- Aturpat
- (from the article "Zoroastrianism") ...still on the throne, seems to have recovered the title of chief of the Staxr temple that his predecessor and adversary had surrendered to Karter. Under Shapur II, the high priest Aturpat, at a council summoned to fix the text of the Avesta, proved the truth of his doctrine by ...
- Atwater Kent Museum
- (from the article "Philadelphia") ...and Post-Impressionist works, and of art from south and east Asia. Others include the Rodin Museum, featuring the largest collection of sculptures by Auguste Rodin outside of Paris. The Atwater Kent Museum is the city's history museum, housing the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's collection of more than 10,000 objects and ...
- Atwater, Florence
- (from the article "children's literature") At least three other writers produced work of high and entirely original quality. Two of them-Florence and Richard Atwater-worked as a pair. Their isolated effort, Mr. Popper's Penguins (1938), will last as a masterpiece of deadpan humour that few children or adults can resist. The third writer is Laura Ingalls ...
- Atwater, Lee
- (from the article "Rove, Karl") ...and in 1971 he went to Washington, D.C., to become executive director of the College Republicans. Two years later he successfully ran for the post of chairman in a campaign managed by strategist Lee Atwater, an early mentor. During the 1970s Rove was involved with various Republican organizations and candidates, ...
- Atwater, Richard
- (from the article "children's literature") At least three other writers produced work of high and entirely original quality. Two of them-Florence and Richard Atwater-worked as a pair. Their isolated effort, Mr. Popper's Penguins (1938), will last as a masterpiece of deadpan humour that few children or adults can resist. The third writer is Laura Ingalls ...
- Atwater, Wilbur Olin
- American scientist who developed agricultural chemistry.
- Atwater-Rosa calorimeter
- (from the article "Atwater, Wilbur Olin") He then turned his attention to calorimetry and, with E.B. Rosa, professor of physics at Wesleyan, constructed the Atwater-Rosa calorimeter (1892-97), which proved the law of conservation of energy in human beings and made it possible to calculate the caloric values of different foods. The caloric tables that Atwater devised ...
- Atwood, Margaret
- Canadian poet, novelist, and critic, noted for her Canadian nationalism and her feminism. [2 Related Articles]
- Atwood, Mary Anne
- (from the article "alchemy") ...occasion come into the possession of man but always again been lost. Nor is its association with chemistry considered accidental. In the words of the famous 19th-century English spiritual alchemist Mary Anne Atwood,Alchemy is an universal art of vital chemistry which by fermenting the human spirit purifies and finally dissolves ...
- Atyrau
- city, western Kazakhstan. It is a port on the Ural (Zhayyq) River near its mouth on the Caspian Sea. Founded as a fishing settlement in the mid-17th century by the fishing entrepreneur Mikhail Guryev, it soon became a fort on the Ural fortified line manned by the Ural Cossacks. Fishing ...
- Atzcapotzalco
- city, northwestern Federal District, central Mexico. Situated approximately 7,350 feet (2,240 m) above sea level in the Valley of Mexico, the city was founded in the 12th century and given the Aztec name meaning "anthill" because of its large population. It became famous for its slave market and the skill ... [1 Related Articles]
- Atzerodt, George
- (from the article "Surratt, Mary") Mary Surratt was arrested with Lewis Payne (who had wounded William Seward, the secretary of state), George Atzerodt (who had failed to murder Vice President Andrew Johnson), David Herold (who had accompanied Atzerodt), and two other alleged conspirators. She stood trial on May 12, 1865, before a nine-man military commission. ...
- Au Co
- (from the article "Vietnam") ...Dragon Lord of the Sea. Their son, Lac Long Quan ("Dragon Lord of Lac"), was, according to legend, the first truly Vietnamese king. To make peace with the Chinese, Lac Long Quan married Au Co, a Chinese immortal, who bore him 100 eggs, from which sprang 100 sons. Later, the ...
- Au Duong
- (from the article "Vietnam") ...Tattooed Men"), is said to have included not only the Red River delta but also much of southern China. The last of the Hung kings was overthrown in 258 or 257 BC by a neighbouring warlord, Thuc Phan, who invaded and conquered Van Lang, united it with his kingdom, and ...
- Au Lac
- (from the article "Vietnam") ...China. The last of the Hung kings was overthrown in 258 or 257 BC by a neighbouring warlord, Thuc Phan, who invaded and conquered Van Lang, united it with his kingdom, and called the new state Au Lac, which he then ruled under the name An Duong. Au Lac existed ...
- Aub, Max
- (from the article "Spanish literature") The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) drove into political exile some promising novelists whose narrative art matured abroad. Max Aub analyzed the civil conflict in the artistically and thematically impressive cycle of novels El laberinto magico (1943-68; "The Magic Labyrinth"). Ramon Jose Sender, whose pre-Civil War novels had been realistic...
- Aubagne
- town, Bouches-du-Rhone departement, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region, southeastern France. Aubagne lies about 10 miles (16 km) east of Marseille. It was the site of the Gallo-Roman Pagus Lucreti and derived its name from its health springs (Ad Bainea). Aubagne sits amidst an agricultural region that ... [1 Related Articles]
- Aube
- (from the article "Champagne-Ardenne") region of France encompassing the northern departements of Haute-Marne, Aube, Marne, and Ardennes and roughly coextensive with the historical province of Champagne. Champagne-Ardenne is bounded by the regions of Lorraine to the east, Franche-Comte to the...
- Aube River
- river, north central France, navigable tributary of the Seine, which it joins above Romilly. The Aube and its tributary, the Aujon, rise on the Langres Plateau, flowing northwest for 154 mi (248 km) in trenchlike valleys across the dry oolitic limestone country. In front of the Cote des Bars escarpment, ...
- Auber, Daniel-Francois-Esprit
- composer who was prominent in the 19th-century cultivation of opera containing spoken as well as sung passages (comic opera). The great contemporary success of his works was due in part to the expertly tailored librettos of Eugene Scribe and in part to Auber's spirited musical settings, which were influenced by ... [1 Related Articles]
- Aubert, Jean
- (from the article "Rococo style") Excellent examples of French Rococo are the Salon de M. le Prince (completed 1722) in the Petit Chateau at Chantilly, decorated by Jean Aubert, and the salons (begun 1732) of the Hotel de Soubise, Paris, by Germain Boffrand. The Rococo style was also manifested in the decorative arts. Its asymmetrical ...
- Aubignac, Francois Hedelin, abbe d'
- associate of the statesman Cardinal de Richelieu, playwright, and critic who influenced French 17th-century writing and encouraged dramatic standards based on the classics. He wrote plays, fiction, translations of Homer and Ovid, and, most important, studies of dramatic technique and presentation. [1 Related Articles]
- Aubigne, Theodore-Agrippa d'
- major late 16th-century poet, renowned Huguenot captain, polemicist, and historian of his own times. After studies in Paris, Orleans, Geneva, and Lyon, he joined the Huguenot forces and served throughout the Wars of Religion on the battlefield and in the council chamber. He was ecuyer ("master of horse") to Henry ... [2 Related Articles]
- Aubrac, Lucie
- French Resistance heroine was hailed for her courageous actions in the underground network Liberation Sud in southern France during World War II. She was awarded the Legion of Honour for her wartime activities, notably the dramatic rescue in 1943 of her husband, Raymond Samuel, and other Resistance leaders from ...
- Aubrey Holes
- (from the article "Stonehenge") ...erected (one of which, the Slaughter Stone, still survives). Just inside the circular bank they also dug-and seemingly almost immediately refilled-a circle of 56 shallow holes, named the Aubrey Holes (for their discoverer, the 17th-century antiquarian John Aubrey). The Station stones also probably belong to this period, but the evidence ...
- Aubrey, John
- antiquarian and biographer, best known for his vivid, intimate, and sometimes acid sketches of his contemporaries. Educated at Oxford at Trinity College, he studied law in London at the Middle Temple. He early displayed his interest in antiquities by calling attention to the prehistoric stones at Avebury, Wiltshire. His literary ... [3 Related Articles]
- Auburn
- city, Lee county, eastern Alabama, U.S., adjacent to Opelika, about 60 miles (100 km) northeast of Montgomery. Founded in 1836 by John Harper and settlers from Georgia, its name was inspired by the "sweet Auburn" of Oliver Goldsmith's poem The Deserted Village. Auburn University, opened as East ...
- Auburn
- city, seat (1805) of Cayuga county, west-central New York, U.S. It lies at the north end of Owasco Lake, in the Finger Lakes region, 22 miles (35 km) southwest of Syracuse. Founded in 1793 by John Hardenbergh, an officer in the American Revolution, on the site of a Cayuga Indian ...
- Auburn
- city, seat (1854) of Androscoggin county, southwestern Maine, U.S., on the Androscoggin River opposite Lewiston and part of the Lewiston-Auburn metropolitan area. Settled in 1786, Auburn was separated from Minot in 1842 and is supposed to have been named for the Auburn of Oliver Goldsmith's poem The Deserted Village. The ... [1 Related Articles]
- Auburn
- city, King county, western Washington, U.S., in the White River valley, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Tacoma. It was laid out in 1887 by Levi W. Ballard, an early local settler, and named for W.A. Slaughter, an army officer killed in a conflict with area Indians 30 years earlier. ...
- Auburn Hills
- (from the article "Dates of 2004") ...driver Seiji Ara for #5 Audi Sport Japan Team Goh, wins the Le Mans 24-hour endurance race for the sixth time, equaling the record of Belgian driver Jacky Ickx.
- Auburn system
- penal method of the 19th century in which persons worked during the day and were kept in solitary confinement at night, with enforced silence at all times. The silent system evolved during the 1820s at Auburn Prison in Auburn, N.Y., as an alternative to and modification of the Pennsylvania system ... [1 Related Articles]
- Auburn University
- public, coeducational institution of higher education located in Auburn, Alabama, U.S. The university offers a broad range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs and is noted for its colleges of engineering and business. Degrees in nursing, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine are also available. A branch campus in Montgomery offers undergraduate ... [1 Related Articles]
- Aubusson
- town, Creuse departement, Limousin region, central France, on the Creuse River near the northern edge of the Plateau de Millevaches (highest part of the Monts du Limousin), northeast of Limoges. In the Middle Ages it was the seat of a viscounty from whose rulers ... [3 Related Articles]
- Aubusson carpet
- floor covering, usually of considerable size, handwoven at the villages of Aubusson and Felletin, in the departement of Creuse in central France. Workshops were established in 1743 to manufacture pile carpets primarily for the nobility, to whom the Savonnerie court production was not available. Aubusson carpets were, ... [3 Related Articles]
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