(from the article "tortilla") Wheat-flour tortillas rolled around a filling of beans and meat or cheese form burritos. Sopes, chalupas, quesadillas, and panuchos are all formed of tortilla dough molded into various shapes to hold a savoury filling.
(species Cleome isomeris), shrub or small tree of the Cleome genus (of the family Cleomaceae, which is closely related to the mustard family, Brassicaceae), native to southwestern North America, with showy spikes of yellow flowers and gray-green foliage. Burro-fat, up to 3 metres (10 feet) tall, has three-parted, ill-smelling leaves ...
(from the article "Burroughs, William Seward") ...was a commercial success, he died before receiving much money from it. A year before his death he received the John Scott Medal of the Franklin Institute as an award for his invention. In 1905 the Burroughs Adding Machine Company was organized in Michigan as successor to the American Arithmometer ...
American writer of experimental novels that evoke, in deliberately erratic prose, a nightmarish, sometimes wildly humorous world. His sexual explicitness (he was an avowed and outspoken homosexual) and the frankness with which he dealt with his experiences as a drug addict won him a following among writers of the Beat ... [3 Related Articles]
any of some 750 species of insects (order Heteroptera) that burrow underground around clumps of grass, in sandy places, or beneath ground litter. These insects may be up to 7 mm (0.3 inch) long. Their oval bodies are brown or black, and there are spines on the tibia (part of ... [1 Related Articles]
locomotion of a type found in both terrestrial and aquatic animal groups. Some fossorial animals dig short permanent burrows in which they live; others tunnel extensively and nearly continuously. In relatively soft substrates, such as soil, burrowers tend to be limbless (lizards, snakes) or equipped with powerful forelimbs (moles, badgers, ... [18 Related Articles]
any of 19 species of venomous, secretive snakes, also known as mole vipers and stiletto snakes, of tropical Africa and the Middle East. They belong to the family Atractaspididae, a group distinct from vipers and elapids. Atractaspidids are characterized by a strong venom containing a powerful set of enzymes and ...
(from the article "barnacle") Burrowing barnacles (order Acrothoracica, about 30 species) are small, unisexual forms that lack shells and have fewer than six pairs of cirri. They burrow into hard limy material, such as clam shells and coral. Trypetesa is found only inside snail shells occupied by hermit crabs.
(from the article "plant disease") ...symptoms are a slow decline, yellowing and dying of leaves, and dieback of twigs and branches in many groves 15 years or older. Infested nursery stock has widely distributed the nematode. The burrowing nematode (Radopholus similis) is a serious endoparasite in tropical and subtropical areas, where it attacks citrus (causing ...
(species Speotyto cunicularia), small owl of the family Strigidae (order Strigiformes) that inhabits prairie lands of the Western Hemisphere from southwestern Canada to Tierra del Fuego. Burrowing owls live in holes abandoned by other animals. They eat mainly insects and small rodents. Slender, rather long-legged owls only about 20 cm ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Anura") ...processes of vertebrae; amplexus inguinal; larvae with paired spiracles and simple mouthparts or with direct development.Oligocene (36.6-23.7 million years ago) to present; 8 presacral vertebrae; ribs absent; coccyx free, with 2 articulating surfaces; tongue free and...
(from the article "Performing Arts") ...on the modern dance scene was Merce Cunningham's Ocean, which opened the 2006 Dance Umbrella. Dance Umbrella also featured Speaking Dance, the final part of a trilogy by choreographer Jonathan Burrows. With only himself and longtime colleague composer Matteo Fargion, Burrows made a series of minimalist works that won a ...
British archaeologist whose excavations (1895-96) in western Greece, at Pilos (ancient Pylos, on the Coryphasium promontory) and the nearby island of Sfaktiria (Sphacteria), were important in verifying Thucydides' historical accuracy.
(from the article "Ignatius of Antioch, Saint") ...delegations left Smyrna, he wrote letters to their respective communities thanking them for their attentions and offering them guidelines for their lives as Christians. At his request the deacon Burrus of Ephesus was allowed to stay with him. Ignatius also wrote to Rome, urging his fellow Christians there not to ...
city, northwestern Turkey, along the northern foothills of Ulu Dag (the ancient Mysian Olympus). Probably founded by a Bithynian king in the 3rd century BC, it prospered during Byzantine times after the emperor Justinian I (reigned AD 527-565) built a palace there. The city first fell to the Seljuq Turks ... [5 Related Articles]
within the mammalian body, any small pouch or sac between tendons, muscles, or skin and bony prominences at points of friction or stress. The bursas are classified by type as adventitious, subcutaneous, or synovial. Adventitious, or accidental, bursas arise in soft tissues as a result of repeated subjections to unusual ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "bird") Like reptiles, birds possess a cloaca, a chamber that receives digestive and metabolic wastes and reproductive products. A dorsal outpocketing of the cloaca, the bursa of Fabricius, controls antibody-mediated immunity in young birds. The bursa regresses with age, and thus its presence or absence may be used to determine age.lymphocyte ...
(German: "Youth Association"), student organization at the German universities that started as an expression of the new nationalism prevalent in post-Napoleonic Europe. The first Burschenschaft was founded in 1815 at the University of Jena, and the movement spread all over Germany. The early groups were egalitarian and liberal and favoured ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Sapindales") ...(85 species) occurs mostly in wet lowland areas of tropical America but with a few species in Madagascar and Malaysia. Canarium (75 species) occurs in the forests of the Old World tropics. Bursera (50 species) is found in tropical America, with its centre of diversity in Mexico.elephant tree
family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales, composed of about 16 genera of resinous trees and shrubs. They are native primarily to tropical America, but a few species occur in Africa and Asia. Members of the family have leaves that alternate along the stem and are composed of many ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "hormone") A neurosecretion of the insect brain distinct from the thoracotropic hormone and called bursicon acts directly on the adult cuticle (skin) of arthropods to stimulate darkening and hardening processes. Bursicon is almost certainly a polypeptide, with a molecular weight of about 40,000. The brain of insects also produces a third ...
inflammation of a synovial bursa, the lubricating sac located around joints or between tendons and muscles or bones. Bursitis may be caused by infection or injury, by arthritis or gout, by calcium deposition along a tendon or joint, or by minor, usually repetitive irritation. Bursitis commonly affects the knee ("housemaid's ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "surge") ...belts, wind speed often increases by about 40 km/h (25 mile/h) throughout the region between the surface and the 4,500-metre (15,000-foot) level. A surge in the monsoon currents is called a burst, or surge, of the monsoon.
(from the article "Computers and Information Systems") ...claims brought by Gateway for $150 million over four years. Microsoft had cleared accounts with Sun Microsystems in 2004 and AOL in 2003. Microsoft settled another antitrust suit by agreeing to pay Burst.com $60 million. Burst had sued Microsoft in 2002 over alleged antitrust violations and patent infringement related to ...
(from the article "applied logic") In 1974 the British computer scientist Rod M. Burstall first remarked on the connection between machine states and the possible worlds used in the semantics of modal logic. The use of concepts and results from modal logic to investigate the properties and behaviour of computer programs (e.g., does this program ...
(from the article "X-ray source") ...are several types of X-ray binaries. In an X-ray pulsar, the gas is channeled to the poles of a neutron star and the radiation is given off as pulses in very regular periods. In objects known as bursters, a neutron star's magnetic field suspends the gas until the accumulated weight ...
(from the article "ammunition") ...the components necessary for one firing of the gun. These normally include a projectile, the propellant, and a primer that ignites the propellant. Other components such as cartridge case, fuze, and bursting charge are frequently included.shellModern high-explosive artillery shells consist ...
(from the article "papermaking") One of the oldest and most widely used strength tests for paper and paperboard is the bursting test, or Mullen test. It is defined as the hydrostatic pressure (caused by liquids at rest) necessary to cause rupture in a circular area of a given diameter. Other strength tests for which ...
(from the article "Scorsese, Martin") ...response to the accusation that he couldn't make a "woman's picture," Scorsese directed Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, which follows a recently widowed woman (Ellen Burstyn in an Oscar-winning performance) and her son across the West in their loose, episodic journey of self-discovery.Oscar for best actress, 1974
British psychologist known for his development of factor analysis in psychological testing and for his studies of the effect of heredity on intelligence and behaviour.
(from the article "Khajuraho") ...afterward largely forgotten; its remoteness probably saved it from the desecration that the Muslim, or Mughal, conquerors generally inflicted on Hindu monuments. In 1838 a British army captain, T.S. Burt, came upon information that led him to the rediscovery of the complex of temples in the jungle in Khajuraho.
town, East Staffordshire borough, administrative county of Staffordshire, west-central England, mainly on the west bank of the River Trent and on the Grand Trunk (Trent and Mersey) Canal. Most of the town belongs to the historic county of Staffordshire, but the neighbourhoods on the east bank of the Trent lie ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "flap-footed lizard") Burton's snake-lizard (Lialis burtonis) is one of the larger flap-footed lizards, reaching about 29 cm (11 inches) in body length with an even longer tail. It is found throughout most of Australia and dwells on the ground in leaf litter and other surface debris.
British cyclist (b. May 12, 1937, Leeds, Eng.--d. May 5, 1996, Yorkshire, Eng.), dominated British women's cycling from the late 1950s to the early '80s. She won more than 100 titles, including several in which she competed against men. She became interested in cycling at the age of 15 after ...
British explorer (b. Dec. 13, 1942, Cape Town, S.Af.-d. July 15, 2002, Framfield, East Sussex, Eng.), was part of the first team to circumnavigate the globe from pole to pole along the Greenwich meridian. The Transglobe Expedition, led by Sir Ranulph Fiennes and funded by Charles, prince of Wales, began ...
(from the article "Bastwick, John") ...Anglicanos and another book, in English, The Litany, in which he charged the bishops with being the enemies of God and "the tail of the beast." Bastwick, William Prynne, and Henry Burton came under the lash of the Star Chamber court at the same time; they were all censured as ...
(from the article "theatre music") Some 50 years of development in musical theatre are reflected in the contrast between the foregoing remarks and the following comment in 1952 by Jack Burton, American theatre historian, on Oklahoma! (1943), an epoch-making musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein:This phenomenal production set a new pattern in which every ...
(from the article "Pelosi, Nancy") ...chair of both the California Democratic Party (1981-83) and the host committee for the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. Along the way, Pelosi befriended longtime U.S. Rep. Phil Burton. Burton died in 1983 and was succeeded by his wife, Sala, who, shortly before her death in 1987, urged ...
British stage and motion-picture actor noted for his portrayals of highly intelligent and articulate men who are world-weary, cynical, or self-destructive. [1 Related Articles]
English scholar, writer, and Anglican clergyman whose Anatomy of Melancholy is a masterpiece of style and a valuable index to the philosophical and psychological ideas of the time. [2 Related Articles]
English scholar-explorer and Orientalist who was the first European to discover Lake Tanganyika and to penetrate hitherto-forbidden Muslim cities. He published 43 volumes on his explorations and almost 30 volumes of translations, including an unexpurgated translation of The Arabian Nights. [9 Related Articles]
(from the article "Performing Arts") ...Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson), an adaptation of the first in C.S. Lewis's series of children's books, was Disney's answer to The Lord of the Rings.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton), the second screen version of Roald Dahl's fantasy, centred on the androgynous performance of Johnny Depp (see
(from the article "pottery") ...below China: Ch'ing dynasty). He produced some successful flambe and sang-de-boeuf glazes on a stoneware body at his small factory in Stoke-upon-Trent. He worked in association with William Burton of Pilkington pottery in Manchester, which made experimental decorative ware of all kinds.
