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anchor device, usually of metal, attached to a ship or boat by a cable or chain and lowered to the seabed to hold the vessel in a particular place by means of a fluke or pointed projection that digs into the sea bottom. Anchorage city (municipality), south-central Alaska, U.S. Lying at the base of the Chugach Mountains, it is a port at the head of Cook Inlet (a bay of the Pacific Ocean). anchovy any of numerous schooling saltwater fishes of the family Engraulidae (order Clupeiformes) related to the herring and distinguished by a large mouth, almost always extending behind the eye, and by a pointed snout. Most of the more than 100 species live in shallow tropical or warm temperate seas, where they ... anchovy pear (Grias cauliflora), evergreen tree of the family Lecythidaceae, native to the West Indies. The tree is cultivated for its edible fruit. The plant grows to about 15 metres (50 feet) tall and bears spear-shaped, glossy leaves about 90 cm (35 inches) long that are produced in tufts at the ends ... Anchura genus of extinct marine gastropods (snails) found as fossils only in marine deposits of Cretaceous age (between 145.5 million and 65.5 million years old). It is thus a useful guide or index fossil because it is easily recognizable. The shell whorls are globular and ornamented with raised crenulations; the spire ... ancien regime (French: "old order") Political and social system of France prior to the French Revolution. Under the regime, everyone was a subject of the king of France as well as a member of an estate and province. All rights and status flowed from the social institutions, divided into three orders: clergy, ... Ancient Grains: Year in Review 2006 In June 2005 scientists in Israel announced that they had grown the oldest-ever plant, using the 2,000-year-old seed of a long-extinct Judean palm tree, in the hope of studying its reputed medicinal properties. The project reflected growing interest in plant species outside mainstream agriculture that were gaining recognition for their ... ancient Greek civilization the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific achievements that formed a legacy with unparalleled influence on Western civilization. ancient Italic people any of the peoples diverse in origin, language, traditions, stage of development, and territorial extension who inhabited pre-Roman Italy, a region heavily influenced by neighbouring Greece, with its well-defined national characteristics, expansive vigour, and aesthetic and intellectual maturity. Italy attained a unified ethnolinguistic, political, and cultural physiognomy only after the ... ancient lights in English property law, the right of a building or house owner to the light received from and through his windows. Windows used for light by an owner for 20 years or more could not be obstructed by the erection of an edifice or by any other act by an ... ancient Rome the state centred on the city of Rome. This article discusses the period from the founding of the city and the regal period, which began in 753 BC, through the events leading to the founding of the republic in 509 BC, the establishment of the empire in 27 BC, and ... Ancients and Moderns subject of a celebrated literary dispute that raged in France and England in the 17th century. The "Ancients" maintained that Classical literature of Greece and Rome offered the only models for literary excellence; the "Moderns" challenged the supremacy of the Classical writers. The rise of modern science tempted some French ... Ancillon, Charles lawyer, educator, and historian who was the leader of the French Protestant refugees in Germany. Ancillon, Johann Peter Friedrich Prussian statesman, foreign minister, historian, and political philosopher who worked with the Austrian statesman Metternich to preserve the reactionary European political settlement of 1815. Anckarsvard, Carl Henrik, Greve a leader of the 1809 coup d'etat that deposed the absolutist Swedish king Gustav IV, and a champion of liberal political, economic, and social causes in the first half of the 19th century. Ancon city, central Panama, just northeast of Balboa city. It is a residential centre. As Balboa and Panama City have grown, Ancon has become virtually a suburb of the latter. It was noted for the Gorgas Hospital for tropical diseases, named after Col. William Crawford Gorgas, (U.S. Army surgeon who eradicated ... Ancona capital of Ancona provincia and of Marche regione, in central Italy, on the Adriatic Sea on the farthest branch of the promontory that descends from the Conero massif. Founded by Syracusan colonists in about 390 BC, it was taken by Rome in the 2nd century BC and became a flourishing ... Ancrene Wisse anonymous work written in the early 13th century for the guidance of women recluses outside the regular orders. It may have been intended specifically for a group of women sequestered near Limebrook in Herefordshire. Ancud town and commune, southern Chile. It lies on the northern coast of Chiloe Island, across the Strait of Chacao from the mainland. Founded in 1769 as San Carlos de Ancud, it was one of the last strongholds of royalist forces during Chile's struggle for independence from Spain in the first ... Ancus Marcius traditionally the fourth king of Rome, from 642 to 617 BC. The details of his reign, provided by Roman historians such as Livy (64 or 59 BC-AD 17), must be regarded as largely legendary-e.g., the settlement of the Aventine Hill outside Rome, the first extension of Rome beyond the Tiber ... And Fjord fjord, in the Norwegian Sea, indenting northwestern Norway, located between the islands of And (west) and Senja (east). The fjord, which is divided between Nordland and Troms fylker (counties), penetrates into the offshore island of Hinn in the south, where it is called Gulles Fjord. Its total length is about ... And Quiet Flows the Don first part of the novel Tikhy Don by Mikhail Sholokhov. The Russian novel was published between 1928 and 1940; the English translation of the first part appeared in 1934. The Don Flows Home to the Sea, part two of the original novel, was published in English translation in 1940. And Then There Were None American thriller film, released in 1945, that was an adaptation of a classic suspense story by Agatha Christie. Anda, Geza Hungarian pianist and conductor. Andalusia comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) and historical region of Spain, encompassing the provincias (provinces) of Huelva, Cadiz, Sevilla, Malaga, Cordoba, Jaen, Granada, and Almeria. The southernmost region of Spain, Andalusia is bounded by the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Castile-La Mancha to the north and Murcia to the east, the Mediterranean ... Andalusia city, seat (1841) of Covington county, southern Alabama, U.S., near the Conecuh River, about 85 miles (135 km) south of Montgomery. It originated in 1841 as New Site, when the county seat of Montezuma relocated to higher ground because of floods, at a point along the Three Notch Trail (used ... andalusite (Al2SiO5), aluminum silicate mineral that occurs in relatively small amounts in various metamorphic rocks, particularly in altered sediments. It is found in commercial quantities in the Inyo Mountains, Mono county, Calif., in the United States; in Kazakhstan; and in South Africa. Such deposits are mined as a raw material for ... Andaman and Nicobar Islands union territory, India, consisting of two groups of islands at the southeastern edge of the Bay of Bengal. The peaks of a submerged mountain range, the Andaman Islands and their neighbours to the south, the Nicobar Islands, form an arc stretching southward for some 620 miles (1,000 km) between Myanmar ... Andaman Islands island group, Andaman and Nicobar Islands union territory, India, lying in the Indian Ocean about 850 miles (1,370 km) east of the Indian subcontinent. The Andamans have an area of 2,474 square miles (6,408 square km). They are one of the two major groups of islands in the union territory, ... Andaman Sea marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean. It is bounded to the north by the Irrawaddy River delta of Myanmar (Burma); to the east by peninsular Myanmar, Thailand, and Malaysia; to the south by the Indonesian island of Sumatra and by the Strait of Malacca; and to the west by ... Andamanese aboriginal inhabitants of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal. Most Andamanese have been detribalized and absorbed into modern Indian life, but traditional culture survives among such groups as the Jarawa and Onge of the lesser islands. Late 20th-century estimates indicated approximately 50 speakers of Andamanese languages ... Andamanese language language spoken by the indigenous people of the Andaman Islands. The number of speakers of the language has been steadily decreasing. Andamanese dialects are usually classified into northern, central, and southern groups, with the southern dialects being the most archaic. The dialect of Little Andaman island is the southernmost of ... Andania mysteries ancient Greek mystery cult, held perhaps in honour of the earth goddess Demeter and her daughter Kore (Persephone) at the town of Andania in Messenia. The cult had died out during the period of Spartan domination in the late 5th century and early 4th century BC, but it was revived ... Andean Community South American organization founded to encourage industrial, agricultural, social, and trade cooperation. Formed in 1969 by the Cartagena Agreement, the group originally consisted of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Chile; Venezuela joined in 1973 but withdrew in 2006, and Chile withdrew in 1977. Peru suspended its membership in 1992 but ... Andean Geosyncline a linear trough in the Earth's crust in which rocks of the Mesozoic Era (251 million to 65.5 million years ago) and Cenozoic Era (65.5 million years ago to the present) were deposited in South America. An intense orogenic (mountain-building) event affected the older sediments in the geosyncline in the ... Andean peoples aboriginal inhabitants of the area of the Central Andes in South America. Anders, William A. U.S. astronaut who participated in the Apollo 8 flight (Dec. 21-27, 1968), during which the first manned voyage around the Moon was made. The astronauts, including Anders, Frank Borman, and James Lovell, remained in an orbit about 70 miles (112 km) above the surface of the Moon for about 20 ... Anders, Wladyslaw commanding officer of the Polish army in the Middle East and Italy during World War II who became a leading figure among the anticommunist Poles who refused to return to their homeland after the war. Andersen Nexo, Martin writer who was the first Danish novelist to champion social revolution. His works helped raise social consciousness in Denmark and throughout Europe. Andersen's disease extremely rare hereditary metabolic disorder produced by absence of the enzyme amylo-1:4,1:6-transglucosidase, which is an essential mediator of the synthesis of glycogen. An abnormal form of glycogen, amylopectin, is produced and accumulates in body tissues, particularly in the liver and heart. Affected children appear normal at birth but fail to ... Andersen, Hans Christian unique master of the literary fairy tale whose stories are famous throughout the world; he is also the author of plays, novels, poems, travel books, and several autobiographies. While many of these works are almost unknown outside Denmark, his fairy tales are among the most frequently translated works in all ... Andersen, Hjallis Norwegian speed skater who won the most decisive victory in the men's 10,000-metre event in Olympic history. He also set a world record in the 10,000-metre event that he would retain for the next eight years. Andersen, Tryggve novelist and short-story writer of the Neoromantic movement in Norway who depicted the conflict between the bureaucratic and peasant cultures and who helped revive Dano-Norwegian literature. Anderson county, northwestern South Carolina, U.S. It consists of a piedmont region in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains between the Saluda River to the northeast and the Savannah River border with Georgia to the southwest. Part of that border is Hartwell Lake, created by the Hartwell Dam on the ... Anderson city, seat (1826) of Anderson county, northwestern South Carolina, U.S., in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was founded in 1826 on what had been Cherokee Indian land. Named for a local Revolutionary War hero, General Robert Anderson, it has been called the Electric City because of early ... Anderson city, seat (1828) of Madison county, east-central Indiana, U.S. It lies along the White River, in a corn- (maize-) and wheat-producing region, 39 miles (63 km) northeast of Indianapolis. Founded in 1823 on the site of a Delaware Indian village, it was named Andersontown for a subchief, Koktowhanund, also known ... Anderson, Carl David American physicist who, with Victor Francis Hess of Austria, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936 for his discovery of the positron, or positive electron, the first known particle of antimatter. Anderson, Dame Judith Australian-born stage and motion-picture actress. Anderson, Elda Emma American physicist who played a pivotal role in developing the field of health physics. Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett English physician who advocated the admission of women to professional education, especially in medicine. Anderson, Gillian American actress best known for her role as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully on the television series The X-Files (1993-2002).