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 Azay-le-Rideau ...  Azay-le-Rideau town and chateau, Indre-et-Loire departement, Centre region, central France. ... Azazel in Jewish legends, a demon or evil spirit to whom, in the ancient rite of ... [1 Related Articles] Azbakiyyah, al- (from the article "Cairo") ...renovation of Paris, Isma'il ordered the construction of a European-style city to the west of ... Azbe, Anton (from the article "Kandinsky, Wassily") ...according to acquaintances, a mixture of diplomat, scientist, and Mongol prince. But for the moment ... Azcarraga Milmo, Emilio , Mexican billionaire who created the Spanish-speaking world's largest media empire by building up his ... Azcona del Hoyo, Jose Simon Honduran politician (b. Jan. 26, 1927, La Ceiba, Honduras-d. Oct. 24, 2005, Tegucigalpa, Honduras), served ... Azcona, Rafael Spanish novelist and screenwriter penned some 100 screenplays, notably for La Grande Bouffe (1973) and ... Azef, Yevno (from the article "Russia") ...known) did much to demoralize both the revolutionaries and the police and to undermine the ... Azeglio, Massimo Taparelli, Marquess d' aristocrat, painter, author, and statesman who was a leader of the movement that advocated an ... [3 Related Articles] azekura-zukuri (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...after the death of Emperor Shomu in 756. The joined-log structure, built of cypress timbers ... azeotrope in chemistry, a mixture of liquids that has a constant boiling point because the vapour ... [1 Related Articles] azepine (from the article "heterocyclic compound") ...six-membered ring heterocycles, although these compounds are usually stable and some of them have found ... Azerbaijan country of eastern Transcaucasia. Occupying an area that fringes the southern flanks of the Caucasus ... [28 Related Articles] Azerbaijan geographic region that comprises the extreme northwestern portion of Iran. It is bounded on the ... [9 Related Articles] Azerbaijan Popular Front (from the article "Azerbaijan") ...the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow in August 1991, Azerbaijan declared itself independent, and ... Azerbaijan, flag of horizontally striped light blue, red, and green national flag with a central crescent and star. ... Azerbaijan, history of (from the article "Azerbaijan") In ancient and early medieval times, eastern Transcaucasia was populated by Iranian speakers, nomadic Turkic ... Azerbaijani any member of a Turkic people living chiefly in the Republic of Azerbaijan and in ... [3 Related Articles] Azerbaijani language (from the article "Turkic languages") A later period includes Middle and Late Ottoman, Azerbaijani, Late Chagatai, and others. Ottoman is ... azetidine (from the article "heterocyclic compound") Azetidine, oxetane, and thietane-four-membered rings containing, respectively, one nitrogen, oxygen, or sulfur atom-are prepared by ... Azevedo, Aluizio novelist who set the pattern for the naturalistic novel in Brazil and whose work anticipated ... [1 Related Articles] Azhar University, al- chief centre of Islamic and Arabic learning in the world, centred on the mosque of ... [6 Related Articles] Azhari Husin (from the article "Indonesia") ...rather than the massive car bombs of the preceding three attacks. In early November authorities ... Azhari, Isma'il al- statesman and Sudanese prime minister in 1954-56, who was instrumental in achieving his country's independence. [2 Related Articles] Azhi Dahaka (from the article "Iranian religion") ...and so on, comes to an end when falsehood enters Yama's speech. The royal Glory ... azide any of a class of chemical compounds containing three nitrogen atoms as a group, represented ... [1 Related Articles] Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli (from the article "Italy") ...Middle Eastern oil. The dynamic policies of Enrico Mattei, president of ENI (Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi, ... Azienda Nazionale Autonoma delle Strade Statali (from the article "Italy") ...the National Electrical Energy Fund (Ente Nazionale per l'Energia Elettrica; ENEL), and the State Insurance ... Azikiwe, Nnamdi first president of independent Nigeria (1963-66). [3 Related Articles] Azilian industry tool tradition of Late Paleolithic and Early Mesolithic Europe, especially in France and Spain. The ... [2 Related Articles] azimuth (from the article "altitude and azimuth") in astronomy, gunnery, navigation, and other fields, two coordinates describing the position of an object ... azimuth instrument (from the article "navigation") The simplest, and probably earliest, azimuth instrument consists of two sights on opposite sides of ... azimuthal drift (from the article "geomagnetic field") Azimuthal drift is produced by two effects: a decrease in the strength of the main ... Azimuthal Equidistant (from the article "map") A type of projection often used to show distances and directions from a particular city ... azimuthal projection (from the article "map") Azimuthal, or zenithal, projections picture a portion of the Earth as a flattened disk, tangent ... aziridine (from the article "heterocyclic compound") The three-membered ring heterocycles containing single atoms of nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur-aziridine, oxirane (or ethylene ... Aziz, al- caliph under whom the Fatimid empire attained its greatest extent. Aziz, Shaukat (from the article "Pakistan") ...of Pakistani-administered Jammu and Kashmir as well as 2,400,000 Afghan refugees) | Capital: Islamabad | ... azlon synthetic textile fibre composed of protein material derived from natural sources. It is produced, like ... azmari (from the article "stringed instrument") ...piano also belongs to this genre. Other examples include the harpers of Celtic Ireland and ... Azmi, Kaifi Indian poet and lyricist (b. about 1920, Mijwan, United Provinces [now Uttar Pradesh], India-d. May ... Aznar, Jose Maria lawyer and politician who served as prime minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. [5 Related Articles] azo compound any organic chemical compound in which the azo group (&singlehorzbond;N&doublehorzbond;N&singlehorzbond;) is part of the molecular ... [1 Related Articles] azo dye any of a large class of synthetic organic dyes that contain nitrogen as the azo ... [5 Related Articles] azo group (from the article "dye") ...in these reactions was unclear until 1866, when Kekule proposed correctly that the products have ... azo pigment (from the article "pigment") ...are presently synthesized from aromatic hydrocarbons. These are compounds containing structures of carbon atoms with ... azobenzene (from the article "azo compound") Most aromatic azo compounds are prepared by the reaction of a diazonium salt with an ... azodicarbonamide (from the article "plastic") ...should decompose at about the molding temperature of the plastic, decompose over a narrow temperature ... Azogues city, south-central Ecuador. It lies in a high Andean valley northeast of Cuenca. Its economy ... azoic diazo (from the article "dye") The discovery of the azo dyes led to the development of other dyeing techniques. Azo ... Azollaceae (from the article "fern") ...(Salvinia); sori from the submerged lobe or leaf, enclosed in a globose indusium, each containing ... azonal soil (from the article "Andes Mountains") The azonal soils-alluvials (soils incompletely evolved and stratified without definite profile) and lithosols (shallow soils ... azoospermia (from the article "infertility") ...usually considered low. Low sperm count is generally referred to as oligospermia. In some cases, ... Azores archipelago composed of nine major islands, in the North Atlantic Ocean; they lie roughly 1,000 ... [2 Related Articles] Azores high large, persistent, atmospheric high-pressure centre that develops over the subtropical region of the North Atlantic ... [2 Related Articles] Azorin novelist, essayist, and the foremost Spanish literary critic of his day. He was one of ... [2 Related Articles] Azotobacter (from the article "bacteria") ...Treponema pallidum, which is the causative agent of syphilis, averaging only 0.15 mum in diameter ... Azov town, Rostov oblast (province), southwestern Russia. It lies on the left bank of the Don ... [4 Related Articles] Azov Upland hilly region, southeastern Ukraine. Part of the Ukrainian Crystalline Shield, the Azov Upland is an ... Azov, Sea of inland sea situated off the southern shores of Ukraine and Russia. It forms a northern ... [2 Related Articles] Azraqis (from the article "Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra, al-") ...al-Zubayr, who appointed him governor of the eastern province of Khorasan. Before he could assume ... Azrou (from the article "Ifrane") ...craters are equipped with alpine ski runs. It is also the home of Al-Akhawayn University ... AZT drug used to delay development of AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) in patients infected with HIV ... [1 Related Articles] Aztec Nahuatl-speaking people who in the 15th and early 16th centuries ruled a large empire in ... [35 Related Articles] Aztec calendar dating system based on the Mayan calendar and used in the Valley of Mexico before ... [5 Related Articles] Aztec Empire (from the article "Anthropology and Archaeology") Human skeletons found at an archaeological site called Tecuaque, near Mexico City, provided grisly confirmation ... Aztec religion (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") Perhaps the most highly elaborated aspect of Aztec culture was the religious system. The Aztec ... Aztec Ruins National Monument archaeological site in northwestern New Mexico, U.S., on the Animas River, just north of the ... Aztec Stadium (from the article "stadium") ...to accommodate in excess of 100,000 people include Melbourne Cricket Ground, in Melbourne (100,000); Tsentraly ... Azteca (from the article "Rosales") ...in density and mechanical properties and is used in making boxes, plywood, and particleboard stock. ... Azteco-Tanoan languages a major grouping (phylum or superstock) of American Indian languages that includes the large Uto-Aztecan ... [2 Related Articles] Azua city, southwestern Dominican Republic. Founded in 1504 on the Caribbean coast, the original town was ... [1 Related Articles] Azuchi (from the article "arts, East Asian") In any case, Nobunaga's rise is the referent event for the start of the period. ... Azuchi-Momoyama period (1574-1600), in Japanese history, age of political unification under the daimyo Oda Nobunaga and his ... [5 Related Articles] Azuela, Mariano Mexican writer whose 20 novels chronicle almost every aspect of the Mexican Revolution. [1 Related Articles] Azuero Peninsula physical region in southwestern Panama, protruding south into the Pacific Ocean between the Gulf of ... [1 Related Articles] Azul, Mount (from the article "Ecuador") ...consist of 19 rugged islands and scores of islets and rocks situated about 600 miles ... azulejo (from Arabic az-zulayj, "little stone"), Spanish and later principally Portuguese tiles produced from the 14th ... [2 Related Articles] Azulejo Museum (from the article "Lisbon") The city has many other museums, including those dedicated to modern, antique, sacred, decorative, and ... azulene (from the article "chemical compound") ...spectra normally coalesce to produce a continuous absorption spectrum, with some of the strongest individual ... azurite basic copper carbonate [Cu3(OH)2(CO3)2]. It is ordinarily found with malachite in the oxidized zone of ... Azusa Street revival (from the article "Pentecostalism") Wider national and international expansion, however, resulted from the Azusa Street revival that began in ... azygous system (from the article "human cardiovascular system") ...from the back and from the walls of the chest and abdomen drains into veins ... azygous vein (from the article "vena cava") ...been collected from the head and neck and the arms; they also drain blood from ... Azzaro, Loris (from the article "Fashions") Another standout was French vintage evening wear produced in Paris by the late Tunisian-born designer ... Azzi-Hayasa (from the article "Mursilis II") ...western kingdom of Arzawa, one of the main threats to the Hittite realm. Chronic trouble ... Azzolino, Decio (from the article "Christina") ...Vasa, who had abdicated the throne of Poland; but her failure seemed to please her ... Azzone Dei Porci a leader of the Bolognese school of jurists and one of the few to write ...

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