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- the foremost mathematician and astronomer of 15th-century Europe, a sought-after astrologer, and one of the first printers. [7 Related Articles]
- region
- in the social sciences, a cohesive area that is homogeneous in selected defining criteria and is distinguished from neighbouring areas or regions by those criteria. It is an intellectual construct created by the selection of features relevant to a particular problem and the disregard of other features considered to be ... [1 Related Articles]
- region
- (from the article "France") The units of local government are the regions, the departements, the communes, and the overseas territories.role of prefectprefect...acts of these local authorities. After France's departements were grouped into ...
- Region of the Rapids
- (from the article "Orinoco River") Downstream from San Fernando de Atabapo, the river flows northward and forms part of the border between Venezuela and Colombia. It passes through a transitional zone, the Region of the Rapids (Region de los Raudales), where the Orinoco forces its way through a series of narrow passages among enormous granite ...
- Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands
- (from the article "Solomon Islands") In 2007 there was continuing tension between Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare and the Australian-led Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI), which had been invited to the Solomons in 2003 to restore order and to rebuild government institutions. Sogavare was keen to negotiate a withdrawal date for RAMSI, but ...
- regional climatology
- (from the article "climatology") From its origins in 6th-century-BC Greek science, climatology has developed along two main lines: regional climatology and physical climatology. The first is the study of discrete and characteristic weather phenomena of a particular continental or subcontinental region. The second involves a statistical analysis of the various weather elements, principally temperature, ...
- regional development program
- any government program designed to encourage the industrial and economic development of regions that are stagnant or in which a large portion of the population is experiencing prolonged unemployment. The measures taken may include loans, grants, and tax incentives to private industries relocating in such areas; assistance in developing power, ... [2 Related Articles]
- regional dialect
- (from the article "dialect") Geographic dialects include local ones (e.g., the Yankee English of Cape Cod or of Boston, the Russian of Moscow or of Smolensk) or regional ones, such as Delaware Valley English, Australian English, or Tuscan Italian. Such entities are of unequal rank; South Carolina English, for instance, is included in Southern ...
- regional geography
- (from the article "geography") Systematic geography focused on individual phenomena. But regional geography, or the study of the "total combination of phenomena" in places, was "the ultimate purpose of geography"-a task later redefined as "the highest form of the geographer's art." According to a leading British geographer, Sidney William Wooldridge, in
- Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
- (from the article "The Environment") In December 2005 the governors of New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Delaware, Connecticut, Maine, and Vermont signed the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which set mandatory targets for cutting carbon-dioxide emissions from power stations. Power companies could comply either by installing cleaner technologies or by buying carbon-dioxide allowances from other ...
- regional integration
- (from the article "war") Because wars within states have been eliminated through the establishment of suitable political structures, such as central governments that hold a monopoly of coercive power, many theories concentrate upon the establishment of parallel structures within the international context. Regional integration (cooperation in economic, social, and political affairs, as, for example, ...
- regional metamorphism
- (from the article "amphibole") Many different amphiboles may be contained in regional metamorphic rocks. Commonly several amphiboles may coexist with one another in the same sample, depending on the bulk chemistry of the rock and on the pressure and temperature of metamorphism. The amphiboles typically occur with plagioclase feldspar, quartz, and biotite, as well ...
- Regional Museum of Ica
- (from the article "Ica") A university was established in the city in 1961, and the Regional Museum of Ica has a collection of textiles and pottery of the Nazca culture (c. 200 BCE-CE 600). Ica is connected by road to the port of Pisco 40 miles (64 km) northwest and to Paracas, a national ...
- regional nerve block anesthesia
- (from the article "Halsted, William Stewart") By self-experimentation he developed (1885) conduction, or block, anesthesia (the production of insensibility of a part by interrupting the conduction of a sensory nerve leading to that region of the body), brought about by injecting cocaine into nerve trunks. He fell into a drug addiction that required two years to ...
- Regional Representatives, Council of
- (from the article "Indonesia") ...backlog of unpassed legislation. Among the new parliament's members, 72% were serving for the first time. The April 5 poll also elected members to a newly established 128-seat Regional Representatives Council (DPD), which would have powers to review legislation relating to the regions and would also, with the 550 parliamentarians, ...
- regional shopping centre
- (from the article "shopping centre") The regional shopping centre provides a full range of shopping services comparable to those found in a small central business district. It is built around at least one full-size department store and often several; specialty shops and boutiques are numerous, and there are usually several restaurants and perhaps a motion-picture ...
- Regional Transportation Authority
- (from the article "Chicago") The move to the automobile left public transit in crisis. In 1973 the Illinois General Assembly created the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) and gave it the power to levy a sales tax to support the CTA as well as a failing commuter rail system (which was unified and named Metra). ...
- regionalism
- (from the article "Pakistan") A second conflict has taken place between regional groups. The regions that originally made up Pakistan had to be fitted into a design not of their own choosing. The different cultural and historical circumstances, as well as natural and human endowments of those regions, have tested the unity of Pakistan ...
- regionalism
- (from the article "Brazilian literature") A second phase of Modernismo produced a genre known as the regionalist novel of the Northeast, which emerged during the 1930s when a group of novelists in Brazil's Northeast dramatized that region's decline and underdevelopment after the heyday of sugar production. The sociologist Gilberto de Mello Freyre spearheaded this regionalist ...
- Regionalism
- (from the article "Social Realism") ...naturalistic or quasi-expressionist manner. In a broader sense, the term is sometimes taken to include the more general renderings of American life usually categorized as American Scene painting and Regionalism, which may or may not manifest socially critical comment.contribution ofBentonBenton, ...
- Regionalist League
- (from the article "Spain") ...known as the Renaixenca, Catalan nationalists moved from a demand for protection of Catalan industry against "Castilian" free trade to a demand for political autonomy. The Regionalist League (Catalan: Lliga Regionalista), founded in 1901 and dominated by the Catalan industrialist Francesc Cambo i Batlle and the theoretician of Catalan nationalism ...
- regiones
- (from the article "police") ...was prosecuted is not even clear. One of the earliest forms of organized policing was created by the emperor Augustus. In 7 BC Augustus divided the city of Rome into 14 regiones (wards), each consisting of vici (precincts) overseen by vicomagistri, ...
- Regions, Party of
- (from the article "Ukraine") In Ukraine the year 2007 was dominated by early parliamentary elections, which were held on September 30. They followed a prolonged dispute between Pres. Viktor Yushchenko and Party of Regions (PR) leader and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, with the former accusing the latter of having violated the constitution by persuading ...
- Regis College
- (from the article "Bentley College") Bentley College was founded in 1917 as a school of finance and accounting by Harry C. Bentley. It enjoys cross-registration agreements with nearby Brandeis University and Regis College, allowing students to register at the other two institutions for courses that are unavailable at Bentley. The college enjoys an active study-abroad ...
- Regis, Pierre-Sylvain
- (from the article "Cartesianism") ...(1621-95), the French writer of animal fables, for expending their emotions over such inconsiderable creatures rather than concerning themselves with human misery. In Paris, the lectures of Pierre-Sylvain Regis (1632-1707) on Cartesian physics-which he accompanied with spectacular demonstrations of physical phenomena such as optical illusions-created such a...
- regisseur
- (French: "manager"), theatrical director or stage manager, especially in France, Russia, Germany, and Italy, whose duties encompass the artistic interpretation and integration of a play, the guided rehearsal of the actors, and the overall responsibility for the technical and economic aspects of the production. The position is similar to that ...
- register
- (from the article "diplomatics") ...documents, too. The popes were among the first to adopt the old Roman practice of keeping registers; although nearly all the earlier ones have been lost, an almost uninterrupted series of papal registers is extant from the pontificate of Innocent III onward. An important group of registers are the rolls ...
- register
- (from the article "integrated circuit") Microprocessors contain some circuits, known as registers, that store information. Registers are predetermined memory locations. Each processor has many different types of registers. Permanent registers are used to store the preprogrammed instructions required for various operations (such as addition and multiplication). Temporary registers store numbers that are to be operated ...
- Register House
- (from the article "Edinburgh") ...residential space gave way to shops and hotels. Princes Street became the main shopping street and the principal thoroughfare of the city, and few original buildings remain behind the shop fronts. Register House (1774-92), at the east end of Princes Street facing the North Bridge, is the finest of the ...
- register-tone language
- (from the article "Tai languages") The Thai tones are as follows: level (using no diacritic), low (using a grave accent), falling (using a circumflex), high (using an acute accent), and rising (using a wedge, or hacek); for example, maa (with no diacritic) 'to come,' maak...
types of tone language
- registered mail
- (from the article "postal system") The range of services available to the public has also grown steadily since the first supplementary postal service, registered mail, was introduced in 1855. The major milestones in this progress were postal money order service (1864); international money orders (1867); special delivery (1885); parcel post, with its accessory collect on ...
- registrar
- (from the article "museum, operation of") ...relevant to museum collections (normally designated curators or keepers), information scientists involved in the documentation of collections and related scientific information (sometimes known as registrars), and conservators concerned with the scientific examination and treatment of collections to prevent deterioration. Another group is involved more actively with the public functioning of...
- registration
- (from the article "keyboard instrument") Two-manual harpsichords of this kind permit players to exploit the difference in the tone colours produced by the two rows, or "registers," of unison jacks. This difference depends on the distance along the string at which it is plucked. The closer the plucking point is to the end of a ...
- registration
- (from the article "printmaking") The registering system depends on the method of printing used. On a press the registering presents no problem: the wood block is locked into position and the uniformly cut paper is automatically fed into the proper position by the press. For hand rubbing, several registering methods can be used. One ...
- registration
- (from the article "property law") In the example of the watch, the distinction between contract and conveyance became important as soon as the rights of a third person became involved. But from the point of view of the third party, any one of the three suggested rules about conveyance might be unsatisfactory, because it may ...
- Registrum Gregorii, Master of the
- (from the article "painting, Western") ...for the church year) of Gero (c. 960), were copied line for line from a manuscript of Charlemagne's Court school. The dominant figure in the late 10th century was an artist known as the Master of the Registrum Gregorii, who seems to have been based at Trier. Drawing inspiration from ...
- regium donum
- (Latin: "royal gift"), annual grant made from public funds to Presbyterian ministers in Ireland and to Nonconformist ministers (those not part of the Church of England) in Great Britain. It originated in Ireland in 1690, when the English king William III made a grant to Presbyterian ministers in Ulster as ...
- Regius, Henricus
- (from the article "Descartes, Rene") ...Leiden in 1630. In 1631 he visited Denmark with the physician and alchemist Etienne de Villebressieu, who invented siege engines, a portable bridge, and a two-wheeled stretcher. The physician Henri Regius (1598-1679), who taught Descartes's views at the University of Utrecht in 1639, involved Descartes in a fierce controversy with ...
- Regla
- city, west-central Cuba. Situated on the southeastern shore of La Habana Bay, Regla was a centre for smuggling activities in the 19th century. It is now an industrial suburb of Havana, with which it is linked by ferry as well as by land. Its foundries, petroleum refineries, shipyards, docks, and ...
- Reglement Organique
- 19th-century constitution, imposed under a Russian protectorate, that introduced elected political institutions in the principalities of Moldavia and Walachia (later the nucleus of Romania) but also created oligarchies there and vested political and economic power in the boyar class (i.e., the landed nobility). Russia occupied Moldavia and Walachia (which were ...
- Regnard, Jean-Francois
- French dramatist, one of the most successful of the successors of Moliere, whose wit and style he openly imitated. [1 Related Articles]
- Regnault de Saint Jean d'Angely, Michel-Louis-Etienne, Comte
- administrator under the French Directory and Napoleon I's Empire. He persuaded Napoleon, at the end of the Hundred Days (1815), to abdicate for the second time.
- Regnault, Henri-Victor
- French chemist and physicist noted for his work on the properties of gases. [1 Related Articles]
- Regnellidium
- (from the article "Marsileaceae") ...has cloverlike leaves with four leaflets and is widely distributed. Pilularia (pillwort), also nearly cosmopolitan, with six species, has threadlike (filiform) leaves without leaflets. Regnellidium, with one species, has leaves with two leaflets and is confined to southern portions of Brazil and Argentina.taxonomy
- Regnier, Henri de
- foremost French poet of the first decade of the 20th century. [2 Related Articles]
- Regnier, Mathurin
- French satiric poet whose works recall those of Horace, Juvenal, Ariosto, and Ronsard in free and original imitation, written in vigorous, colloquial French. Writing about typical characters of his time with verve and realism, in alexandrine couplets, he fully displayed his talents in Macette (1609), a work that has been ...
- regnum Burgundiae
- (from the article "Burgundy") ...of the Frankish king Clotar I in 561, however, the Frankish kingdom was partitioned among members of the Merovingian dynasty, and one of Clotar's sons, Guntram, secured the regnum Burgundiae, or kingdom of Burgundy. This kingdom eventually included not only all the former Burgundian lands but also ...
- Rego, Emanuel
- (from the article "Volleyball") ...beach volleyball champions also hailed from Brazil. The women were led by the tandem of Juliana Felisberta da Silva and Larissa Franca, while on the men's side, Ricardo Alex Costa Santos and Emanuel Rego and the duo of Fabio Luiz de Jesus Magalhaes and Marcio Henrique Barroso Araujo finished one-two ...
- Regolini-Galassi Tomb
- (from the article "ancient Italic people") ...the potter's wheel, and monumental funerary architecture accompanied the accumulation of luxury goods of gold and ivory and exotic trade items such as ostrich eggs, tridacna shells, and faience. The Regolini-Galassi Tomb at Caere (c. 650-625 BC), discovered in 1836 in an unplundered state, dramatically revealed the full splendour of ...
- regolith
- (from the article "Deimos") In spite of its tiny gravity, only about a thousandth that of Earth, Deimos has retained considerable amounts of fine regolith (unconsolidated rocky debris) on its surface. It thus appears smoother than Phobos because its craters lie partially buried under this loose material. The largest crater, located near the satellite's ...
- Regosol
- one of the 30 soil groups in the classification system of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Regosols are characterized by shallow, medium- to fine-textured, unconsolidated parent material that may be of alluvial origin and by the lack of a significant soil horizon (layer) formation because of dry or cold ... [1 Related Articles]
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