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Antalya city and Mediterranean port, southwestern Turkey, on the Gulf of Antalya. Attalia was founded as a seaport in the 2nd century BC by Attalus II, a king of Pergamum. It was bequeathed to the Romans by his successor, Attalus III. St. Paul and St. Barnabas embarked from the seaport on ... antanaclasis a word used in two or more of its possible meanings, as in the final two lines of Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening":The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep. Antananarivo town and national capital of Madagascar, central Madagascar island. It was founded in the 17th century and was the capital of the Hova chiefs. Antananarivo stands on a high hill. Avenues and flights of steps lead up to a rocky ridge (4,694 feet [1,431 metres]) on which stands the Royal ... Antandroy a Malagasy people living in southernmost Madagascar. Numbering about 500,000 in the late 20th century, the Antandroy ("People of the Thorn Bush") speak one of the Malagasy languages, a group of closely related Western Austronesian languages; Antandroy chiefs claim Indian origins. The Antandroy maintained their independence from interior or western ... Antar, Romance of tales of chivalry centred on the Arab desert poet and warrior 'Antarah ibn Shaddad, one of the poets of the celebrated pre-Islamic collection Al-Mu'allaqat. Antarctic Circle parallel, or line of latitude around the Earth, at 6630' S. Because the Earth's axis is inclined about 23.5 from the vertical, this parallel marks the northern limit of the area within which, for one day or more each year, at the summer and winter solstices, the Sun does not ... Antarctic Circumpolar Current surface oceanic current encircling Antarctica and flowing from west to east. Affected by adjacent landmasses, submarine topography, and prevailing winds, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is irregular in width and course. Its motion is further complicated by continuous exchange with other water masses at all depths. The volume of transport south ... Antarctic Convergence transition region of the Southern Hemisphere, a major boundary zone of the world's oceans that separates the waters surrounding Antarctica into Antarctic and sub-antarctic regions. (It is sometimes referred to as a polar front, but use of this term can cause it to be confused with the meteorological polar front, ... Antarctic Dinosaurs: Year in Review 2012 Two stories involving Antarctic dinosaurs captured the imagination of paleontologists and the public in 2011. Early in the year, William Hammer and colleagues revealed the discovery of two nearly 200-million-year-old dinosaur skeletons and the partial remains of a massive sauropod (a large herbivorous dinosaur) on the slopes of Mt. Kirkpatrick ... Antarctic Intermediate Water ocean water mass found in all the southern oceans at depths of about 1,650 to 4,000 ft (500 to 1,200 m), characterized by temperatures of 37 to 45 F (3 to 7 C) and salinities of 33.8 to about 34.5 parts per thousand. This water mass forms at the Antarctic ... Antarctic meteorite any of a large group of meteorites that have been collected in Antarctica, first by Japanese expeditions and subsequently by U.S. and European teams since the discovery of meteorite concentrations there in 1969. Although meteorites fall more or less uniformly over Earth's surface, many that fall in Antarctica are frozen ... Antarctic Peninsula peninsula claimed by Britain, Chile, and Argentina. It forms an 800-mile (1,300-kilometre) northward extension of Antarctica toward the southern tip of South America. The peninsula is ice-covered and mountainous, the highest point being Mount Jackson at 13,750 feet (4,190 metres). Marguerite Bay indents the west coast, and Bransfield Strait separates ... Antarctic Treaty (Dec. 1, 1959), agreement signed by 12 nations, in which the Antarctic continent was made a demilitarized zone to be preserved for scientific research. The treaty resulted from a conference in Washington, D.C., attended by representatives of Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the ... Antarctica: Year in Review 1994 Some 4,000 scientists and other personnel from two dozen nations continued to do research aimed at understanding the Antarctic and its involvement in global environmental change. They and some 6,500 tourists and adventurers were the only human visitors to the region, which comprises 9% of the Earth's land area and ... Antarctica: Year in Review 1995 Antarctica, as defined by the 42-nation Antarctic Treaty that entered into effect in 1961, comprises all lands and waters south of latitude 60 S. The land area is about 14.2 million sq km (5.3 million sq mi), principally the Antarctic continent itself and adjoining islands. There is no capital or ... Antarctica: Year in Review 1996 Antarctica, as defined by the 42-nation Antarctic Treaty that entered into effect in 1961, comprises all lands and waters south of latitude 60 S. The land area is about 14.2 million sq km (5.3 million sq mi), principally the Antarctic continent itself and adjoining islands. There is no capital or ... Antarctica: Year in Review 1997 Antarctica, as defined by the 42-nation Antarctic Treaty that entered into effect in 1961, comprises all lands and waters south of latitude 60 S. The land area is about 14.2 million sq km (5.3 million sq mi), principally the Antarctic continent itself and adjoining islands. Ice averaging 2,160 m (7,085 ... Antarctica: Year in Review 1998 Ice averaging 2,160 m (7,087 ft) in thickness covers 98% of the continent of Antarctica, which has an area of 14 million sq km (5.4 million sq mi). There is no indigenous human population. Human activity consists mainly of scientific research at approximately 40 year-round stations and additional summer-only camps; ... Antarctica: Year in Review 1999 Ice averaging 2,160 m (7,085 ft) in thickness covers about 98% of the continent of Antarctica, which has an area of 14 million sq km (5.4 million sq mi). There is no indigenous human population, and there is no land-based industry. Human activity consists mainly of scientific research. The 43-nation ... Antarctica: Year in Review 2000 In 1999 Venezuela acceded to the Antarctic Treaty, bringing to 44 the number of nations that agreed to use the region south of 60 S latitude for peaceful purposes only. Twenty-seven of these nations performed scientific research in the Antarctic in 1999 and thus had voting status at that year's ... Antarctica: Year in Review 2001 The ocean around Antarctica experienced its fifth year of widespread poaching of Patagonian toothfish in 2000. The international Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources said that illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishers took 6,546 metric tons of the fish, while others said that this amount was a large ... Antarctica: Year in Review 2002 Conferences in Australia and the U.K. in 2001 commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty. The treaty, which entered into force on June 23, 1961, with 12 member nations, in late 2001 had 45 signatories, including Estonia, which joined in 2001. Of the 45 nations, 27 pursued programs of ... Antarctica: Year in Review 2003 Antarctica's Larsen B ice shelf collapsed in February 2002. The shelf, 3,265 sq km (1,260 sq mi-about the size of Rhode Island) in size, had existed as long as 12,000 years ago. The collapse was caused by water from surface melting that ran down into crevasses, refroze, and wedged the ... Antarctica: Year in Review 2004 In 2003 representatives of the Antarctic Treaty nations finally reached consensus on creating a permanent secretariat in Argentina. The measure was to take legal effect after all the parties ratified it. Because of the immediate need, the representatives agreed to get the secretariat working, using voluntary contributions after the selection ... Antarctica: Year in Review 2005 The Antarctic Treaty system, after 43 years without an executive secretary, appointed its first, Jan Huber of The Netherlands, who in September 2004 took up his position in Buenos Aires, Arg. The growth in consultative (voting) nations from 12 to 27 had made a secretariat essential to handle business and ... Antarctica: Year in Review 2006 More than 300 representatives from over 50 governments and international organizations met in Stockholm in June 2005 for the 28th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM). The 28 consultative parties (voting members) approved Annex VI to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty. For almost 14 years the consultative ... Antarctica: Year in Review 2007 Representatives from some 50 governments and international organizations met in Edinburgh during June 12-23, 2006, for the 29th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM). The delegates considered decisions on protected areas, monuments, and species (seals and petrels); new site guidelines for visitors to Antarctica; and new practical guidelines for ballast-water exchange ... Antarctica: Year in Review 2008 On March 1, 2007, the International Polar Year (IPY) began with an official ceremony in Paris, coordinated with events in the United States (New York City and Anchorage, Alaska), Australia, Chile, India, and Japan. The IPY brought together polar experts from more than 60 countries to study the North and ... Antarctica: Year in Review 2009 At the 31st Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) held in June 2008, representatives from more than 50 governments and international organizations focused on the environmental stewardship of Antarctica. The delegates designated southwestern Anvers Island and the adjacent Palmer Basin off the western coast of the Antarctica Peninsula as an Antarctic ... Antarctica: Year in Review 2010 At the 32nd Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM), held in Baltimore, Md., on April 6-17, 2009, more than 400 diplomats, Antarctic program managers, logistics experts, and polar scientists from 47 countries-including the 28 consultative parties with a scientific presence in the Antarctic-gathered to discuss issues ranging from protecting the environment ... Antarctica: Year in Review 2011 At the 33rd Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM), held in Punta del Este, Uruguay, on May 3-14, 2010, approximately 350 diplomats, Antarctic program managers, logistics experts, and polar scientists from 48 countries-including the 28 consultative parties with a scientific presence in Antarctica-gathered to discuss issues ranging from protecting the environment ... Antarctica: Year in Review 2012 On Oct. 31, 2011, Malaysia acceded to the Antarctic Treaty, as a nonconsultative party; it planned to become a consultative party in the future. Since 1997, when New Zealand opened its facilities at Scott Base to Malaysia, the Malaysians had supported about 62 research projects in Antarctica involving some 60 ... Antarctica: Year in Review 2013 At the 35th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM), held in Hobart, Tas., Australia, on June 11-20, 2012, approximately 250 diplomats, Antarctic program managers, logistics experts, and polar scientists from 50 countries-including the 28 consultative parties with a scientific presence in the Antarctic-gathered to discuss environmental and management issues. New participants ... Antarctica fifth in size among the world's continents. Its landmass is almost wholly covered by a vast ice sheet. Antares red, semiregular variable star, with apparent visual magnitude about 1.1, the brightest star in the zodiacal constellation Scorpius and one of the largest known stars, having several hundred times the diameter of the Sun and 10,000 times the Sun's luminosity. It has a fifth-magnitude blue companion. Antares lies about 600 ... antbird any of numerous insect-eating birds of the American tropics (order Passeriformes) known for habitually following columns of marching ants. There are roughly 210 species in some 45 genera. Like their near relatives, the Furnariidae, antbirds are highly diverse; all are of small to medium size (9.5-37 cm [4-14 inches]), with ... anteater any of four species of toothless, insect-eating mammals found in tropical savannas and forests from southern Mexico to Paraguay and northern Argentina. They are long-tailed animals with elongated skulls and tubular muzzles. The mouth opening of the muzzle is small, but the salivary glands are large and secrete sticky saliva ... Antelami, Benedetto Italian sculptor and architect considered to have been one of the greatest of his time. antelope any of numerous Old World grazing and browsing hoofed mammals belonging to the family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla). Antelopes account for over two-thirds of the approximately 135 species of hollow-horned ruminants (cud chewers) in the family Bovidae, which also includes cattle, sheep, and goats. One antelope, the Indian blackbuck, bears the ... antenna component of radio, television, and radar systems that directs incoming and outgoing radio waves. Antennas are usually metal and have a wide variety of configurations, from the mastlike devices employed for radio and television broadcasting to the large parabolic reflectors used to receive satellite signals and the radio waves generated ... Antenor Athenian sculptor of the late Archaic period who carved the first group of statues of the tyrannicides Harmodius and Aristogiton for the Athenian agora and a kore (a freestanding figure of a maiden) for the Acropolis (now in the Acropolis Museum in Athens). Antequera city, Malaga provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Andalusia, southern Spain, northwest of Malaga, at the foot of the Sierra del Torcal. Neolithic dolmens (Menga, Viera, and El Romeral) attest to prehistoric occupation of the site. The city, known to the Romans as Anticaria and to the ... Anterus, Saint pope for several weeks at the end of 235 and the beginning of 236. He was elected (possibly Nov. 21, 235) while St. Pontian, his predecessor, was condemned to the Sardinian mines. Anterus was soon prosecuted and sentenced to death. According to the Liber pontificalis, he was martyred for having ... Antheil, George American composer known for his ultramodern music in the 1920s. anthelmintic any drug that acts against helminthic infections, i.e., those caused by parasitic worms. The term vermifuge is often applied to remedies used to remove intestinal worms; only rarely do the agents directly kill the parasites. No anthelmintic is completely effective, completely without toxic effect upon the host, or equally active ... anthem (Greek antiphona: "against voice"; Old English antefn: "antiphon"), choral composition with English words, used in Anglican and other English-speaking church services. It developed in the mid-16th century in the Anglican Church as a musical form analogous to the Roman Catholic motet (q.v.), a choral composition with a sacred Latin text. anthemion design consisting of a number of radiating petals, developed by the ancient Greeks from the Egyptian and Asiatic form known as the honeysuckle or lotus palmette. The anthemion was used widely by the Greeks and Romans to embellish various parts of ancient buildings. The Greeks originally decorated only pottery with ... Anthemius Western Roman emperor who reigned from April 12, 467, to July 11, 472. Anthesteria one of the several Athenian festivals in honour of Dionysus, the wine god, held annually for three days in the month of Anthesterion (February-March) to celebrate the beginning of spring and the maturing of the wine stored at the previous vintage. On the first day (Pithoigia, or "Jar Opening") libations ... Anthimus I Greek Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople (reigned 535-536), the last notable Byzantine churchman explicitly to advocate Monophysitism (see Monophysite). Anthimus of Iberia metropolitan of Walachia (now part of Romania), linguist, typographer, and ecclesiastical writer who contributed greatly to the development of the Romanian language and literature by his translation and printing of biblical and liturgical texts and by his own writings in ethics and asceticism.