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 Hall, Theodore Alvin ... Hamadani, al- Hall, Theodore Alvin American-born physicist and alleged spy who was, at age 18, the youngest member of the ... Hall, Tracy (from the article "high-pressure phenomena") The belt apparatus, invented in 1954 by the scientist Tracy Hall of the General Electric ... Hall-Heroult process (from the article "metallurgy") In the Hall-Heroult smelting process, a nearly pure aluminum oxide compound called alumina is dissolved ... Hall-Jones, Sir William politician and respected administrator who served for a short time as prime minister of New ... Halla, Mount (from the article "Korea, South") ...reach an elevation of 5,604 feet (1,708 metres) at Mount Sorak, and the Sobaek Mountains ... Halladay, Daniel (from the article "windmill") The annular-sailed wind pump was brought out in the United States by Daniel Hallady in ... Hallaj, al- controversial writer and teacher of Islamic mysticism (Sufism). Because he represented in his person and ... [7 Related Articles] Hallam family family of Anglo-American actors and theatrical managers associated with the beginning of professional theatre in ... [2 Related Articles] Hallam, Arthur Henry English essayist and poet who died before his considerable talent developed; he is remembered principally ... [1 Related Articles] Hallam, Lewis, the Younger son of Lewis Hallam and part of a family that pioneered professional theatre in the ... Halland lan (county) of southern Sweden, coextensive with the traditional landskap (province) of Halland. It is ... [1 Related Articles] Hallandale Beach city, Broward county, southeastern Florida, U.S. It lies along the Atlantic Ocean, about 15 miles ... Hallaniyah, Al- (from the article "Khuriya Muriya") ...28 square miles (73 square km), are composed largely of granite and represent the peaks ... Hallaren, Mary Agnes U.S. military officer who held commands in the early Women's Army Corps and who ... [1 Related Articles] Halle city, Saxony-Anhalt Land (state), east-central Germany. It is situated on a sandy ... [2 Related Articles] Halle Culture (from the article "Halle") ...At the end of the Bronze Age (c. 1000 BC), Brikettage, clay ... Halle Orchestra (from the article "Barbirolli, Sir John") His subsequent appointments included conductorships with the Halle Orchestra, Manchester (1943-68), where he gained international ... Halle, Morris (from the article "Part of the set of features proposed by Chomsky and Halle (1968)") As a result of studying the phonemic contrasts within a number of languages, Roman Jakobson, ... Halle, Sir Charles German-born British pianist and conductor, founder of the famed Halle Orchestra. Halle-Wittenberg, Martin Luther University of state-controlled coeducational institution of higher learning at Halle, Ger. The university was formed in 1817 ... [8 Related Articles] Halleck, Fitz-Greene American poet, a leading member of the Knickerbocker group, known for both his satirical and ... Halleck, Henry W Union officer during the American Civil War who, despite his administrative skill as general in ... [3 Related Articles] halleflinta (Swedish: "rock flint"), white, gray, yellow, greenish, or pink fine-grained rock that consists of quartz ... Hallein town, north-central Austria, on the Salzach River just south of Salzburg city. Founded in the ... Hallel (Hebrew: "Praise"), Jewish liturgical designation for Psalms 113-118 ("Egyptian Hallel") as read in synagogues on ... hallelujah Hebrew liturgical expression meaning "praise ye Yah" ("praise the Lord"). It appears in the Hebrew ... [2 Related Articles] Hallelujah Psalm (from the article "biblical literature") ...held that Asaph and the sons of Korah indicate collections belonging to guilds of temple ... Haller's organ (from the article "tick") Adults range in size up to 30 mm (slightly more than 1 inch), but most ... Haller, Albrecht von Swiss biologist, the father of experimental physiology, who made prolific contributions to physiology, anatomy, botany, ... [2 Related Articles] Haller, Bertold Swiss religious Reformer who was primarily responsible for bringing the Reformation to Bern. Haller, Ernest (from the article "1939: Other Winners") ...for Gone with the WindOriginal Story: Lewis R. Foster for Mr. Smith Goes to WashingtonCinematography, ... Hallerman-Streiff-Francois syndrome (from the article "progeria") ...rare Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome, which has its onset in early childhood, and Werner's syndrome, which is ... Halles, The (from the article "Paris") Several streets northwest of the Hotel de Ville is the quarter of the Halles, which ... Hallett, Cape (from the article "Ross Sea") ...than 3,000 feet deep. The coastal region is dotted with modern volcanos and older dissected ... Hallett, Stephen (from the article "Capitol, United States") Because Thornton had no knowledge of building technology, the construction was initially supervised by the ... Halley Research Station (from the article "Antarctica") ...station's geodesic dome would be dismantled and removed from Antarctica in accordance with environmental regulations. ... Halley's Comet the first comet whose return was predicted and, almost three centuries later, the first to ... [9 Related Articles] Halley, Edmond English astronomer and mathematician who was the first to calculate the orbit of a comet ... [16 Related Articles] Hallgrimskirkja (from the article "Petursson, Hallgrimur") ...desperate people was attested to by their immediate widespread popularity. First printed in 1666 and ... Hallgrimsson, Jonas one of the most popular of Iceland's Romantic poets. Halliburton Company (from the article "The Gulf States' Construction Boom") ...decade earlier) had established or expanded preexisting offices, acquired new business licenses, and/or entered into ... Halliburton, Richard American travel and adventure writer who spent most of his adult life exploring the world. Halliday, M.A.K. British linguist, teacher, and proponent of neo-Firthian theory who viewed language basically as a social ... Hallidie Building (from the article "building construction") ...a non-load-bearing "skin" attached to the exterior structural components of the building. The earliest all-glass ... Hallidie, Andrew (from the article "streetcar") The cable car, the invention of Andrew Hallidie, was introduced in San Francisco on Sacramento ... halling vigorous Norwegian folk dance for couples. The name derives from Hallingdal, a valley in southern ... Halliwell, Geraldine Estelle (from the article "Spice Girls") ...group's millions of fans worldwide eagerly gleaned every fact about their idols from Web sites, ... Halliwell, K. L. (from the article "Orton, Joe") Orton was originally an unsuccessful actor. He turned to writing in the late 1950s under ... hallmark symbol or series of symbols stamped on an article of gold or silver to denote ... [2 Related Articles] Hallmark Cards, Inc. (from the article "Hall, Joyce C") American businessman, cofounder and chief executive (1910-66) of Hallmark Cards, Inc., the largest greeting-card manufacturer ... Hallopora genus of extinct bryozoans (moss animals) found as fossils in Ordovician to Silurian marine rocks ... Halloween holiday, October 31, now observed largely as a secular celebration. As the eve of All ... [5 Related Articles] Hallowell, A Irving U.S. cultural anthropologist known for his work on the North American Indians, especially the Ojibwa. halloysite clay mineral that occurs in two forms: one is similar in composition to kaolinite, and ... [1 Related Articles] Hallstatt site in the Upper Austrian Salzkammergut region where objects characteristic of the late Bronze Age ... [4 Related Articles] Hallstatt culture (from the article "Hallstatt") site in the Upper Austrian Salzkammergut region where objects characteristic of the late Bronze Age ... Hallstein Doctrine (from the article "Germany") Previously, West Germany had refused to recognize even the existence of the East German government. ... Hallucigenia (from the article "Burgess Shale") ...belong to established phyla and reveal important information about phylogenetic development, there are many other ... hallucination the experience of perceiving objects or events that do not have an external source, such ... [13 Related Articles] hallucinogen substance that produces psychological effects that are normally associated only with dreams, schizophrenia, or religious ... [8 Related Articles] Halm Pasa, Said (from the article "World War I") ...Young Turks, saw alliance with Germany as the best way of serving Turkey's interests, in ... Halma (Greek: "jump"), checkers-type board game, invented about 1880, in which players attempt to move a ... Halmahera largest island of the Moluccas (Maluku), Indonesia; administratively it is part of Maluku Utara (Northern ... [1 Related Articles] Halmahera Tengah (from the article "Moluccas") ...which is subdivided as follows: (1) Maluku Utara kabupaten (regency), comprising Ternate, Morotai, Bacan, Sula, ... Halmay, Zoltan Hungarian swimmer who won seven Olympic medals and was the first world record holder in ... [1 Related Articles] Halmstad town and port, capital of the lan (county) of Halland, southwestern Sweden, ... halo in art, radiant circle or disk surrounding the head of a holy person, a representation ... [2 Related Articles] halo (from the article "comet") The large atomic hydrogen halo detected up to 107 kilometres from the nucleus is simply ... Halo first-person shooter (played from the point of view of the shooter) electronic game released in ... halo any of a wide range of atmospheric optical phenomena that result when the Sun or ... [1 Related Articles] halo complex (from the article "coordination compound") Probably the most widespread class of complexes involving anionic ligands is that of the complexes ... halo Population II (from the article "Stellar populations") As time progressed, it was possible for astronomers to subdivide the different populations in the ... Haloa (from the article "Demeter") Among the agrarian festivals held in honour of Demeter were the following: (1) Haloa, apparently ... Halobacterium (from the article "archaea") ...in a number of extreme environments, including very hot or saline ones. Archaea may be ... halobutyl (from the article "industrial polymers, major") Bromine or chlorine can be added to the small isoprene fraction of IIR to make ... halocarbon any chemical compound of the element carbon and one or more of the halogens (bromine, ... [3 Related Articles] halocline vertical zone in the oceanic water column in which salinity changes rapidly with depth, located ... [1 Related Articles] Halocyprida (from the article "crustacean") ...to present; antennal notch in shell; 5 pairs of postoral appendages; maxilla with a large ... haloform (from the article "carbene") ...(H+) is removed from the chloroform molecule in a normal acid-base reaction. The resulting potassium ... haloform reaction (from the article "aldehyde") This reaction is called the haloform reaction, because X3C− ions react with water or another ... halogen element any of the five nonmetallic elements that constitute Group 17 (Group VIIa) of the periodic ... [6 Related Articles] halogen oxide (from the article "nitrogen group element") ...in bonding is for them to become partially occupied in accommodating lone-pair electrons from another ... halogenation (from the article "aldehyde") An alpha-hydrogen of an aldehyde can be replaced by a chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), or ... Halogeton the genus and common name for a poisonous annual weed, belonging to the amaranth family ... [1 Related Articles] halon chemical compound formerly used in firefighting. A halon may be any of a group of ... [2 Related Articles] Halonen, Tarja On March 1, 2000, Tarja Halonen was inaugurated as president of Finland, the first woman ... [5 Related Articles] haloperidol (from the article "drug") ...meperidine through inexpensive chemical substitutions. Experiments gave rise to a compound that caused chlorpromazine-like sedation ... halophile (from the article "bacteria") Water is a fundamental requirement for life. Some bacteria prefer salty environments and are thus ... halophyte (from the article "Sahara") Saharan vegetation is generally sparse, with scattered concentrations of grasses, shrubs, and trees in the ... Haloragaceae (from the article "Saxifragales") Haloragaceae, or the water milfoil family, comprises 8 genera and 145 species of land, marsh, ... Halosydna (from the article "annelid") ...(protrusible) proboscis cylindrical in shape, with border of soft papillae (nipplelike projections) and 4 chitinous ... halothane nonflammable, volatile, liquid drug introduced into medicine in the 1950s and used as a general ... [1 Related Articles] halotrichite a sulfate mineral containing aluminum and iron [FeAl2(SO4)4·22H2O]. If more than 50 percent of the ... Halpa-Runtiyas (from the article "Anatolia") ...of the leaders of the coalition against Assyria in 853-records that he has built a ... Halper, Albert (from the article "American literature") ...To Make My Bread (both 1932). Other notable proletarian novels included Jack Conroy's The Disinherited ... Halpern, Moyshe Leyb American poet whose unsentimental and psychologically complex free verse in Yiddish extols socialism, individual rights, ... [1 Related Articles] Halpha line (from the article "nebula") ...newly formed atom is in an excited energy level and cascades from that level to ... halqabandi system (from the article "education") A laudable experiment in the field of vernacular education was carried out by Lieutenant Governor ... halqah (from the article "education") ...Isfahan, Mashhad, Ghom, Damascus, Cairo, and the Alhambra (Granada), became centres of learning for students ... Hals, Frans great 17th-century portraitist of the Dutch bourgeoisie of Haarlem, where he spent practically all his ... [4 Related Articles] Halsey, William F., Jr. U.S. naval commander who led vigorous campaigns in the Pacific theatre during World War II. ... [2 Related Articles] Halsinge Runes greatly abbreviated runic alphabet, found mainly in inscriptions dating from the 10th to the 12th ... Halsingland landskap (province), east-central Sweden, in the southern part of Norrland region. It is bounded on ... Halske, Johann Georg (from the article "Siemens, Werner von") ...and invented improvements for it. A specialist on the electric telegraph, he laid an underground ... Halsted, William Stewart American pioneer of scientific surgery who established at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, the first surgical ... [3 Related Articles] Halston American designer of elegant fashions with a streamlined look. Halswelle, Wyndham (from the article "Olympic Games") ...between American athletes and British officials. The 400-metre final was nullified by officials who disqualified ... haltere (from the article "dipteran") Adult flies have only one pair of wings, on the mesothorax or second thoracic segment. ... Halteria grandinella (from the article "oligotrich") ...mouth) ciliature. For many species an anterior spiralling band of membranelles (cilia fused into a ... haltia a Balto-Finnic domestic spirit who oversees the household and protects it from harm. The word ... [1 Related Articles] Haltia, Mount highest mountain in Finland, at the extreme northwestern tip of Finnish Lapland on the Norwegian ... [1 Related Articles] halting problem (from the article "Turing machine") ...be read from the system once the machine has stopped. (However, in the case of ... Halton unitary authority, geographic county of Cheshire, England. The unitary authority comprises Widnes and surrounding suburban ... halus (from the article "Sundanese") ...and death ceremonies, conform closely to the Javanese pattern, though often mixed with elements of ... halvah any of several confections of Balkan and eastern Mediterranean origin, made with honey, flour, butter, ... [1 Related Articles] halyard (from the article "rigging") ...and sails, such as jibs, are manipulated for trimming to the wind and for making ... Halysites extinct genus of corals found as fossils in marine rocks from the Late Ordovician Period ... Ham (from the article "Noah") ...first, the passage attributes the beginnings of agriculture, and in particular the cultivation of the ... ham the rear leg of a hog prepared as food, either fresh or preserved through a ... Ham town, upper valley of the Somme River, Somme departement, Picardie region, France, ... Ham Nghi emperor of Annam (now Vietnam) in 1884-86 who rejected the role of a figurehead in ... [2 Related Articles] Hamad, Al- (from the article "Arabian Desert") ...plains are duricrusted (covered with a crust of soil formed by salts), having smooth, firm ... Hamada Shoji Japanese ceramist who revitalized pottery making in Mashiko, where ceramic arts had flourished in ancient ... [1 Related Articles] Hamadan city, west-central Iran, at the northeastern foot of Mount Alvand (11,716 feet [3,571 metres]), in ... [3 Related Articles] Hamadan rug any of several handwoven floor coverings of considerable variety, made in the district surrounding the ... Hamadani, al- mystic Persian theologian responsible for the propagation of the Kubrawiyah order of Sufis (Islamic mystics) ...

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