(from the article "New Religious Movement") ...the country. One effect of this cultural and spiritual influence was the development of indigenous Protestant sects and denominations. One of these Christian new religions, the Zhen Yesu Jiaohui (True Jesus Church), evolved as a result of the Pentecostal charismatic revivals (1900-20) in the United States. A second independent church ...
(from the article "katydid") The true katydids make up the subfamily Pseudophyllinae. Those in the genus Pterophylla, are the true katydids of eastern North America. The sylvan katydids of Panama are also pseudophyllinids (see video). The 50-plus species are generally large and mimic a variety of botanical forms, including bark and leaves-both living and ...
(from the article "lancewood") tough, heavy, elastic, straight-grained wood obtained from several different trees of the custard-apple family (Annonaceae). True lancewood, Oxandra lanceolata, of the West Indies and Guianas, furnishes most of the lancewood of commerce in the form of spars about 13 feet (4 m) in length and 5 inches (13 cm) in ...
(from the article "lemur") The "true lemurs" (family Lemuridae) include five genera and about 18 species. The best known of these is the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta), commonly seen in zoos. It is unique both in its habitat (some dry and rocky areas of Madagascar) and for its striped tail (all other lemurs have ...
(from the article "migration") It is known, then, that birds are able to navigate by two types of orientation. One, simple and directional, is compass orientation; the second, complex and directed to a point, is true navigation, or goal orientation. Both types apparently are based on celestial bearings, which provide a navigational "grid."
(from the article "Erbakan, Necmettin") Early in 1996 Erbakan tried but failed to form a coalition government. A centre-right coalition of the True Path (Dogru Yol) and Motherland (Anavatan) parties then held power until internal disagreements brought it down in June. Erbakan was again asked to try to form a coalition, and this time, when ...
(from the article "Christian Reformed Church in North America") ...It was strengthened in 1882 when it was joined by other dissenters from the Reformed Church in America who believed that the parent church should reject Freemasonry. In 1890 it united with the True Reformed Dutch Church of New York and New Jersey, which had been formed in 1822 by ...
(from the article "rib") The number of pairs of ribs in mammals varies from 9 (whale) to 24 (sloth); of true ribs, from 3 to 10 pairs. In humans there are normally 12 pairs of ribs. The first seven pairs are attached directly to the sternum by costal cartilages and are called true ribs. ...
(from the article "blow fly") ...South American blow fly species, so called because of the screwlike appearance of the body, which is ringed with small spines. These larvae attack livestock and other animals, including humans. The true screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax; formerly, Callitroga americana) and the secondary screwworm (Callitroga macellaria) develop in decaying flesh in surface ...
(from the article "sea snake") any of 61 species of highly venomous marine snakes of the cobra family (Elapidae). There are two independently evolved groups: the true sea snakes (subfamily Hydrophiinae), which are related to Australian terrestrial elapids, and the sea kraits (subfamily Laticaudinae), which are related to the Asian cobras. Although their venom is ...
(from the article "Anura") ...maxillary teeth present; direct development; southeastern Brazil; 2 genera, 2 species; adult length about 2 cm (1 inch).Paleocene (65.5-55.8 million years ago) to present; 5 to 8 presacral vertebrae; pectoral girdle arciferal or partly or even completely firmisternal;...leaping
(from the article "western Africa, history of") ...formally colonized by a European power, has also been beset by political and economic problems. During President William V.S. Tubman's long tenure in office (1944-71), the ruling Afro-American True Whig Party concluded that its maintenance of power depended on an economic and political partnership with the indigenous African Liberians. Tubman's ...
(from the article "porpoise") ...The Dall porpoise is black with a large white patch on each side of the body. It is usually seen in groups of 2 to 20 along the northern rim of the Pacific Ocean, where they eat squid and fish. True's porpoise (P. dalli truei) is considered ...
British cricketer (b. Feb. 6, 1931, Stainton, Yorkshire, Eng.-d. July 1, 2006, Steeton, Keighley, West Yorkshire, Eng.), was one of the most effective fast bowlers of his era and was the first bowler to take 300 wickets in Test cricket, a feat that he accomplished in 1964 against Australia at ...
(from the article "Adobe Systems Incorporated") ...Apple announced plans to sell its Adobe stock, collaborate with Microsoft Corporation on development of an enhanced PostScript clone, and introduce a new font-rendering technology of its own, called TrueType. For more than a year the dispute, known as the font wars, roiled the computer and publishing worlds before Apple ...
(from the article "Automobile Racing") ...used its subsidiary Busch Series to seek new Hispanic fans north and south of the Mexican border. About 95,000 spectators crowded into Mexico City's Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez to see Martin Truex, Jr. (Chevrolet), beat Nextel Cup drivers Kevin Harvick and Carl Edwards in the Telcel Motorola 200. Truex went on ...
French film critic, director, and producer whose attacks on established filmmaking techniques paved the way for the movement known as the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave). [11 Related Articles]
edible, subterranean fungus prized as a food delicacy from Classical times. Truffles are in the genus Tuber, order Pezizales (phylum Ascomycota, kingdom Fungi). They are native mainly to temperate regions. The different species range in size from that of a pea to that of an orange. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Tasmanian") ...Aborigines were removed to Flinders Island. Their social organization and traditional way of life destroyed, subjected to alien disease and attempts to "civilize" them, they soon died. Truganini (d. 1876), a Tasmanian woman who aided the resettlement on Flinders Island, was the last full-blooded Aborigine in Tasmania. Another Tasmanian woman ...
(from the article "abrasive") Nearly all grinding wheels must be finished after they have been baked or fired. In a process called truing, the wheels are cut to final size, and the outside glazed layers resulting from the kiln are removed, making the sides of the wheel parallel and the size of the arbor ...
U.S. lead dancer with the companies of Lester Horton and Alvin Ailey who promoted and taught Horton's technique and choreography (b. 1923--d. Aug. 21, 1995).
city, northeastern Honduras, on Trujillo Bay, sheltered from the Caribbean Sea by Cape Honduras. Founded in 1524, the historic city was the first capital of the Spanish colonial province of Honduras, flourishing especially in the early 17th century. In 1531 it was made a bishop's see, but that office was ...
city, capital of Trujillo estado (state), northwestern Venezuela. The city lies on a northern outlier of the Cordillera de Merida, 2,640 feet (805 m) above sea level. Founded in 1556, Trujillo was the site of the 1813 proclamation by the liberator Simon Bolivar, which promised a "fight to the death" ...
estado (state), northwestern Venezuela. It is bounded on the west by Lake Maracaibo and by the states of Portuguesa on the east, Merida on the southwest, Barinas on the south, and Zulia on the north. Covered with mountains over most of its area of approximately 2,900 square miles (7,400 square ...
town, Caceres provincia (province), in the Extremadura comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), western Spain, on the Tozo River, a tributary of the Tagus River. It is sited on a hill 25 miles (40 km) east of the provincial capital Caceres. Trujillo was a town of ...
conical, stone-roofed building unique to the regione of Puglia (Apulia) in southeastern Italy and especially to the town of Alberobello, where they are used as dwellings. Upon a whitewashed cylindrical wall, circles of gray stone, held in place by lateral opposition and gravity and without mortar, were piled to a ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Curling") ...his last stone for a 7-6 win over Sebastian Stock of Germany in the championship game. The Swedes went 6-3 in the round-robin to earn a play-off berth and beat Olympic gold medallist Pal Trulsen of Norway 8-6 in the semifinal. Canada's Mark Dacey went unbeaten in the round-robin at ...
(from the article "Truman, Harry S.") ...national recognition for leading an investigation into fraud and waste in the U.S. military. While taking care not to jeopardize the massive effort being launched to prepare the nation for war, the Truman Committee (officially the Special Committee Investigating National Defense) exposed graft and deficiencies in production. The committee made ...
pronouncement by U.S. Pres. Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947, declaring immediate economic and military aid to the governments of Greece, threatened by Communist insurrection, and Turkey, under pressure from Soviet expansion in the Mediterranean area. As the United States and the Soviet Union struggled to reach a balance ... [9 Related Articles]
public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Kirksville, Mo., U.S. It is designated the state's public liberal arts and sciences institution. The university comprises 10 divisions and offers a range of undergraduate studies and master's degree programs. Students may pursue studies in areas such as agriculture, business and accountancy, education, ...
(see Researcher's Note) 33rd president of the United States (1945-53), who led his nation through the final stages of World War II and through the early years of the Cold War, vigorously opposing Soviet expansionism in Europe and sending U.S. forces to turn back a communist invasion of South Korea. ... [43 Related Articles]
American writer was the illustrious only daughter of U.S. Pres. Harry S. Truman and first lady Bess Truman and carved a literary niche for herself as her parents' biographer (Harry S. Truman [1973] and Bess W. Truman [1986]) and as the author of a number of best-selling mysteries. Her first ...
(from the article "Beiderbecke, Bix") ...in 1925 he worked in Chicago, where he first heard and played with the great black innovators Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, and Jimmy Noone. While in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1926, Beiderbecke joined Frank Trumbauer, with whom he maintained a close friendship for most of the rest of his life. ...
screenwriter and novelist who was probably the most talented member of the Hollywood Ten, one of a group who refused to testify before the 1947 U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities about alleged communist involvement. He was blacklisted and in 1950 spent 11 months in prison. [3 Related Articles]
American painter, architect, and author, whose paintings of major episodes in the American Revolution form a unique record of that conflict's events and participants. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Lebanon") ...its name was inspired by a nearby cedar forest that suggested the biblical cedars of Lebanon. In colonial times the town was on the most direct road between New York City and Boston. The home of Jonathan Trumbull (1740), American Revolutionary governor of Connecticut, is preserved in Lebanon, and the ...
U.S. senator from Illinois whose independent views during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras caused him to switch from the Democratic Party to the Republican to the Liberal Republican and back to the Democratic Party in his long political career.
(from the article "United Mine Workers of America") ...early 1980s. One president, W.A. ("Tony") Boyle (1963-72), was convicted of conspiracy in the 1969 murder of the insurgent union leader Joseph Yablonski and his wife and daughter. Richard Trumka restored a degree of order and democracy to the UMWA upon his election to the presidency in 1982.
(from the article "Selected waterfalls of the world") ...majestic peaks such as the Matterhorn and Grossglockner were shaped from the mountaintops; the valleys were widened and deepened into general U-shapes, and immense waterfalls, like the Staubbach and Trummelbach falls in the Lauterbrunnen Valley of the Bernese Alps, poured forth from hanging valleys hundreds of feet above the main ...
(from the article "lake") ...steps are being taken to restore lakes threatened by choking plant growth. Lake Hornborgasjon, Sweden, long prized as a national wildlife refuge, became the subject of an investigation in 1967. Lake Trummen, also in Sweden, was treated by dredging its upper sediments. In Switzerland, Lake Wiler (Wilersee) was treated by ...
(from the article "bridge") ...table, so that each player holds 13 cards; and the object of play is to win tricks, each trick consisting of one card played by each player. Another feature is that one suit may be designated the trump suit (i.e., any card in that suit may take any card of ...
American real-estate developer who amassed vast hotel, casino, and other real-estate properties, in the New York City area and around the world. [2 Related Articles]
American builder who, after beginning his career at the age of 15 constructing automobile garages, amassed a fortune building single-family homes and apartment buildings in Queens and Brooklyn, N.Y.; he later bought and sold lucrative high-rises and nurtured the early career of his son, real-estate mogul Donald Trump (b. 1905, ...
(from the article "Tel Hay") ...Kefar Gil'adi were determined to defend themselves, and Tel Hay was reinforced from Jerusalem by members of ha-Shomer, the Jewish workers' protective organization, under the command of Joseph Trumpeldor, Zionist pioneer and former hero of the tsarist army. On March 1, 1920, the settlement was attacked by a large band ...
Australian cricketer who, as an outstanding batsman, is best remembered for his ability to perform well under difficult conditions. He played in 48 Test (international) matches from 1899 to 1911 and toured England four times as a member of the Australian team. In England in 1902, during one of the ...
