A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 Apia ... apostolic church Apia town, port, and capital (since 1959) of Samoa. It is located on the northern coast ... [6 Related Articles] Apiaceae the parsley family, in the order Apiales, comprising between 300 and 400 genera of plants ... [1 Related Articles] Apiales carrot order of flowering plants, containing some 5,500 species. The main families in the order ... Apianus, Petrus (from the article "map") ...textbooks of geography, astronomy, history, and natural sciences, all illustrated with maps and figures, first ... Apiarius (from the article "Zosimus, Saint") Even though he confirmed Innocent's judgment, Zosimus disturbed the African episcopate in a new controversy ... Apiata, Willy (from the article "New Zealand") ...85-m offshore patrol vessels and four 55-m inshore patrol craft. The first Victoria Cross for ... apical meristem (from the article "root") Roots grow in length only from their ends. The very tip of the root is ... apical zone (from the article "fungus") The hypha may be roughly divided into three regions: (1) the apical zone about 5-10 ... Apichatpong Weerasethakul (from the article "Thailand") ...Fah talai jone (2000; Tears of the Black Tiger), the story of ... Apicius (from the article "cookbook") Another famous gourmet of the ancient world was Apicius, a wealthy Roman merchant of the ... apico alveolar articulation (from the article "articulation") ...lip shape, and height of the larynx used to produce a vowel. The primary articulation ... apicomplexan any protozoan of the (typically) spore-producing phylum Apicomplexa, which is called by some authorities Sporozoa. ... [4 Related Articles] Apidae (from the article "bee") ...noted for their elaborate nest structures; Anthophoridae (including carpenter bees and cuckoo bees), a large ... Apidium (from the article "primate") ...has come the first evidence of the emerging Catarrhini. A number of different genera have ... apilum (from the article "prophecy") In Mari, the two key words for prophet are muhhum (an ecstatic, a frenzied one) ... Apinagia (from the article "Podostemaceae") The principal genera are Apinagia (50 species, tropical South America), Ledermanniella (43 species, tropical Africa ... Apis in ancient Egyptian religion, sacred bull deity worshipped at Memphis. The cult of Apis originated ... [7 Related Articles] Apithy, Sourou-Migan (from the article "Benin") ...on August 1, 1960. During the period of decolonization, the nationalist movement in Dahomey became ... Apizaco city, central Tlaxcala estado (state), east-central Mexico. It lies at 7,900 ft ... Aplacophora (from the article "mollusk") ...the sexes are separate; development includes spiral cleavage and a primitively lecithotrophic trochus larva; about ... Aplahoue plateau (from the article "Benin") The Benin plateaus, four in number, are to be found in the environs of Abomey, ... aplanospore (from the article "algae") ...red algae produce monospores (walled, nonflagellate, spherical cells) that are carried by water currents and ... aplastic anemia disease in which the bone marrow fails to produce an adequate number of blood cells. ... [1 Related Articles] aplastic crisis (from the article "blood disease") ...the constantly increased rate of their destruction. Parvovirus is known to cause this transient cessation ... aplite any intrusive igneous rock of simple composition, such as granite composed only of alkali feldspar, ... Aplousobranchia (from the article "tunicate") ...EnterogonaGonads unpaired, either within or behind intestinal loop; body may be divided into thorax and ... Aplysia (from the article "mollusk") ...provide camouflage, or to inhibit the predator's sense of smell. For example, the ink in ... Aplysia californica (from the article "nervous system") Elementary forms of learning and memory have been studied at a cellular level by analysis ... apnea (from the article "respiration, human") ...of ventilation. During sleep and anesthesia, lowering carbon dioxide levels three to four millimetres of ... apneusis (from the article "respiration, human") ...is characterized by prolonged inspiratory activity that may last for several minutes. This type of ... Apo Mayta (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") ...as the seventh emperor, ensuring a peaceful succession to the throne. Yahuar Huacac was never ... Apo, Mount active volcano, south central Mindanao, 20 miles (32 km) west of Davao City; it is ... [2 Related Articles] apocalyptic environmentalism (from the article "environmentalism") The vision of the environmental movement of the 1960s and early '70s was generally pessimistic, ... apocalyptic literature literary genre that foretells supernaturally inspired cataclysmic events that will transpire at the end of ... [5 Related Articles] apocalyptic movement (from the article "New Religious Movement") Some NRMs are characterized by an apocalyptic or millenarian dimension-the belief that the end of ... apocalypticism eschatological (end-time) views and movements that focus on cryptic revelations about a sudden, dramatic, and ... [15 Related Articles] apocarpous gynoecium (from the article "seed and fruit") ...the suture. In many members of the rose and buttercup families each flower contains a ... apocentre (from the article "apse") ...or centre of attraction. The line of apsides, connecting the two points, is the major ... apocrine gland (from the article "skin") ...dermis. Their secretory cells surround a central space, or lumen, into which the secretion is ... Apocrita one of two suborders of the insect order Hymenoptera, the other being Symphyta. Included in ... apocrypha (from Greek apokryptein, "to hide away"), in biblical literature, works outside an ... [9 Related Articles] Apocynaceae the dogbane family of flowering plants of the gentian order (Gentianales), including more than 150 ... [2 Related Articles] Apocynum androsoemifolium (from the article "Indian hemp") ...greenish white flowers. Indians used the fibres from the stem to make bags, mats, nets, ... Apodanthes (from the article "Rafflesiaceae") The family Rafflesiaceae includes the following genera, mostly in the Old World subtropics: Pilostyles (22 ... apodeme (from the article "muscle") Tendons and apodemes have elastic properties. Tendons in the legs of mammals serve as springs, ... Apodi (from the article "apodiform") ...the nostrils; single (left) carotid artery (except in swifts of the genus Cypseloides, which have ... apodictic law (from the article "Hebraic law") ...in the same manner. Two types of law are noted in the Hebrew law codes: ... apodidraskinda (from the article "hide-and-seek") ...by seekers surreptitiously as they find him (the name of the game coming from the ... apodiform any member of one of two groups of birds, the swifts and the hummingbirds, that ... [1 Related Articles] ApoE4 (from the article "human disease") ...1. The gene on chromosome 19 codes for apolipoprotein E, a protein involved in cholesterol ... apogamy (from the article "fern") ...eggs rapidly, utilizing food in the spores. Many inhabitants of dry rocky slopes and cliffs, ... Apogastropoda (from the article "mollusk") ...ProsobranchiaMostly marine limpets or operculate snails; 3 ganglia at visceral loop; orders include Archaeogastropoda (long ... apogee (from the article "apse") ...it is the apocentre, or apoapsis. Specific terms can be used for individual bodies: if ... Apogee, Inc. (from the article "motion-picture technology") ...really are. Models may be filmed at speeds greater than 24 frames per second (i.e., ... apokletos (from the article "Aetolian League") ...various cities to transact other business; and a council (boule or synedrion), to supervise administration, ... apolipoprotein (from the article "lipid") The nine classes of apoproteins listed in the table are synthesized in the mucosal cells ... Apollinaire, Guillaume poet who in his short life took part in all the avant-garde movements that flourished ... [9 Related Articles] Apollinaris (from the article "patristic literature") ...apart from a single fragment it is now lost. Other early Apologists who are mere ... Apollinaris Sidonius (from the article "Western architecture") ...wall work. Most of the major church buildings are known only from descriptions by early ... Apollinaris The Younger bishop of Laodicea who developed the heretical position concerning the nature of Christ called Apollinarianism. ... [3 Related Articles] Apollo in Greek religion, a deity of manifold function and meaning, after Zeus perhaps the most ... [33 Related Articles] Apollo Applications Program (from the article "space station") ...directly to its goal. Nevertheless, even as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plunged ... Apollo Beach (from the article "Canaveral, Cape") ...(south) and includes 24 miles (39 km) of undeveloped barrier beaches between the Atlantic on ... Apollo Epicurius, Temple of (from the article "Ictinus") The Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae (in Arcadia, near Phigalia) was said to be ... Apollo group (from the article "asteroid") There are two classes of NEAs that deeply cross Earth's orbit on an almost continuous ... Apollo program Moon-landing project conducted by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the 1960s and ... [47 Related Articles] Apollo Telescope Mount (from the article "Skylab") ...limited by its consumable resources in the same way as the Soviet Union's first-generation Salyut ... Apollo Theater theatre established in 1913 at 253 West 125th Street in the Harlem district of New ... [2 Related Articles] Apollo, sanctuary of (from the article "Cyrene") ...by the modern village of Shahhat in al-Jabal al-Akhdar, eight miles southwest of Marsa Susah. ... Apollo, Temple of (from the article "Corinth") ...the south stoa began the road leading to the city's other port of Cenchreae, on ... Apollo, Temple of (from the article "Delphi") ...other from the west, and caused them to fly toward the centre. They met at ... Apollo, Temple of (from the article "Western architecture") ...contacts with Greece resulted in a Greek influence strong enough to control the sculptural forms ... Apollo, Temple of (from the article "painting, Western") ...walls; fragments of such paintings have actually been found at the temple of Poseidon at ... Apollo, Temple of (from the article "acroterion") ...with incised pattern, such as the honeysuckle, was placed on the ridge and at the ... Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (from the article "Bykovsky, Valery") He was chief of cosmonaut training for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, which was carried out ... Apollodorus Athenian painter thought to have been the first to gradate light and colour, that is, ... [1 Related Articles] Apollodorus of Artemita (from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") ...past and with astrology and astronomy, the fact that they are in Greek is indicative ... Apollodorus of Athens Greek scholar of wide interests who is best known for his Chronika (Chronicle) of Greek ... [3 Related Articles] Apollodorus of Carystus (from the article "Terence") ...and personal problems all may be traced to Menander, and his obsessive attention to detail ... Apollodorus of Damascus Damascus-born Greek engineer and architect who worked primarily for the Roman emperor Trajan (reigned 98-117). ... [4 Related Articles] Apollon Grigoryev Prize (from the article "Literature") ...the National Best-Seller Prize for his rather mediocre novel DPP. Boris Strugatsky, the venerable science ... Apollon, Louis (from the article "weight lifting") The origins of modern competition are to be found in the 18th- and 19th-century strong ... Apollonia (from the article "Albania") From the 8th to the 6th century BCE the Greeks founded a string of colonies ... Apollonia (from the article "North Africa") ...of Cyrene elaborated a fairly liberal oligarchy, with a citizen body of 10,000 and two ... Apollonian of, relating to, or resembling the god Apollo. Friedrich Nietzsche used the term in his ... Apollonian-Dionysian dichotomy (from the article "irrationalism") There were irrationalists before the 19th century. In ancient Greek culture-which is usually assessed as ... Apollonius Dyscolus Greek grammarian who was reputedly the founder of the systematic study of grammar. His life ... [2 Related Articles] Apollonius of Perga mathematician, known by his contemporaries as "the Great Geometer," whose treatise Conics ... [4 Related Articles] Apollonius of Rhodes Greek poet and grammarian who was the author of the Argonautica. [2 Related Articles] Apollonius Of Tralles Greek sculptor from the province of Caria, in Asia Minor, known for his execution in ... Apollonius Of Tyana a Neo-Pythagorean who became a mythical hero during the time of the Roman Empire. Empress ... [2 Related Articles] Apollonius of Tyre chief personage in a medieval Latin romance of unknown authorship, which may be assumed to ... [1 Related Articles] Apollonius The Athenian sculptor known only by his signatures on the marble "Belvedere Torso," now in the Vatican, ... apologetics in Christianity, the intellectual defense of the truth of the Christian religion, usually considered a ... [5 Related Articles] Apologist any of the Christian writers, primarily in the 2nd century, who attempted to provide a ... [3 Related Articles] apology autobiographical form in which a defense is the framework for a discussion by the author ... Apology of the Augsburg Confession one of the confessions of Lutheranism, a defense and elaboration of the Augsburg Confession, written ... [4 Related Articles] Apometamera (from the article "animal") ...scavengers, filter feeders, and grazing species, with some parasitic species known; many derived forms are ... apomixis reproduction by special generative tissues without fertilization. It includes parthenogenesis in animals, in which the ... [6 Related Articles] aponeurosis a flat sheet or ribbon of tendonlike material that anchors a muscle or connects it ... [1 Related Articles] apophatic theology (from the article "Christianity") ...Mystical Theology and On the Divine Names, the main ... apophyge (from the article "molding") ...(5) A torus, a convex molding, approximates a semicircle or semiellipse. (6) A roll, or ... apophyllite potassium-calcium fluoride-silicate mineral that is related structurally to the zeolite family of aluminosilicates. Like the ... Apopis Hyksos king of ancient Egypt (reigned c. 1585-42 BCE), who initially controlled much of Egypt ... [2 Related Articles] Apopis ancient Egyptian demon of chaos, who had the form of a serpent and, as the ... [2 Related Articles] apoplast (from the article "angiosperm") ...by the elastic counterpressure of the wall. Spaces between and within cell walls are sufficiently ... apoprotein (from the article "lipid") The nine classes of apoproteins listed in the table are synthesized in the mucosal cells ... apoprotein E (from the article "metabolic disease") ...inherited from both parents). In this disorder, which manifests in adulthood, increased blood cholesterol and ... apoptosis in biology, a mechanism that allows cells to self-destruct when stimulated by the appropriate trigger. ... [10 Related Articles] Aporidea (from the article "flatworm") ...with 4 suckers; no uterine pores; 1 compact vitellarium behind ovary; mainly parasites of birds ... Aporti, Ferrante (from the article "preschool education") In Italy a Roman Catholic father, Ferrante Aporti, read a translated work by Wilderspin and, ... aposematic mechanism biological means by which a dangerous, or noxious, organism advertises its dangerous nature to potential ... [6 Related Articles] aposiopesis (Greek: "becoming silent"), a speaker's deliberate failure to complete a sentence. Aposiopesis usually indicates speechless ... apospory (from the article "plant") In most life histories, a 2n sporophyte typically alternates with a 1n gametophyte, but there ... apostasy the total rejection of Christianity by a baptized person who, having at one time professed ... [3 Related Articles] Apostle (from Greek apostolos, "person sent"), any of the 12 disciples chosen by Jesus Christ; the ... [8 Related Articles] apostle bird (from the article "Grallinidae") bird family (order Passeriformes) that includes the mudlark, apostle bird, and white-winged chough. The four ... Apostle Islands National Lakeshore scenic archipelago in extreme northern Wisconsin, U.S., at the southwestern end of Lake Superior. Established ... apostle spoon spoon for personal use at table, the handle of which is surmounted by a small ... Apostles (from the article "Bloomsbury group") ...male members of the group had been at Trinity or King's College, Cambridge, with Leslie ... Apostles and Martyrs, Church of the (from the article "Western architecture") ...spent the last years of his life. The precious relic was enclosed by a central ... Apostles' Creed a statement of faith used in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and many Protestant churches. It ... [11 Related Articles] Apostolic member of any of the various Christian sects that sought to reestablish the life and ... Apostolic Brethren (from the article "Apostolic") About 1260 a religious sect known as the Apostolic Brethren was founded at Parma, Italy, ... Apostolic Chancery (from the article "Alexander VI") ...1497, when Alexander's favourite son, Juan, was murdered. Gravely afflicted, Alexander announced a reform program ... apostolic church (from the article "sacrament") ...and by the imagery of this event combined with the imagery of his death and ...

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