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 Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle ... political cartoon Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (from the article "launch vehicle") ...U.S. Scout launch vehicle first used in the 1960s. India did not have a prior ... Polar Urals (from the article "Ural Mountains") The Urals divide into five sections. The northernmost Polar Urals extend some 240 miles from ... polar wandering the migration over the surface of the Earth of the magnetic poles of the Earth ... [3 Related Articles] polar-front jet stream (from the article "jet stream") ...the winter their positions are nearer the equator and their speeds higher than during the ... polarimetry in analytic chemistry, measurement of the angle of rotation of the plane of polarized light ... Polaris Earth's present northern polestar, or North Star, at the end of the "handle" of the ... [6 Related Articles] Polaris A-1 (from the article "Polaris missile") After four years of research and development, the U.S. Navy in 1960 began to deploy ... Polaris A-2 (from the article "Polaris missile") ...long and 4.5 feet (1.4 m) in diameter and was powered by two solid-fueled stages. ... Polaris A-3 (from the article "Polaris missile") ...Three models were developed: the A-1, with a range of 1,400 miles (2,200 km) and ... Polaris A-3TK (from the article "Polaris missile") Between 1971 and 1978 the Polaris was replaced by the Poseidon missile in the U.S. ... Polaris missile first U.S. submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) and the mainstay of the British nuclear deterrent force ... [3 Related Articles] polarity (from the article "regeneration") Each living thing exhibits polarity, one example of which is the differentiation of an organism ... polarity (from the article "chemical bonding") There are three main properties of chemical bonds that must be considered-namely, their strength, length, ... polarity (from the article "geomagnetic field") ...a magnet aligned with the planet's rotation axis. The figure shows such a field for ... polarity reversal (from the article "Earth") An important characteristic of Earth's magnetic field is polarity reversal. In this process the direction ... polarization property of certain electromagnetic radiations in which the direction and magnitude of the vibrating electric ... [14 Related Articles] polarization (from the article "collective behaviour") ...became infrequent or ceased. A fad calls attention to recreational needs; the circumstances surrounding a ... polarization analyzer (from the article "microscope") ...polarized light passes through the object under examination, it may be unaffected or, if the ... polarization retarder (from the article "microscope") ...can be rotated to obtain maximum contrast in the image, and so the direction of ... polarization, plane of (from the article "radiation") ...vector, a quantity representing the magnitude and direction of the electric field) as the wave ... polarizer (from the article "Polaroid Corporation") The company originated in 1932 as the Land-Wheelwright Laboratories, which Land founded with George Wheelwright ... polarizing filter (from the article "optics") Polarizing filters have the property of transmitting light that vibrates in one direction while absorbing ... polarizing microscope (from the article "microscope") Polarizing microscopes are conventional microscopes with additional features that permit observation under polarized light. The ... polarography in analytic chemistry, an electrochemical method of analyzing solutions of reducible or oxidizable substances. It ... [2 Related Articles] polaroid (from the article "light") Natural light is polarized in passage through a number of materials, the most common being ... Polaroid Corporation American manufacturer of cameras, film, and optical equipment founded by Edwin Herbert Land (1909-91), who ... [1 Related Articles] Polaroid Land camera (from the article "Land, Edwin Herbert") Land began work on an instantaneous developing film after the war. In 1947 he demonstrated ... Polaroid SX-70 (from the article "Polaroid Corporation") ...the 1950s the cameras were refined to produce black-and-white prints in 15 seconds; in the ... polaron electron moving through the constituent atoms of a solid material, causing the neighbouring positive charges ... polaron state (from the article "radiation") In a polaron state an electron belongs to the association of molecules, but its motion ... polder tract of lowland reclaimed from a body of water, often the sea, by the construction ... [2 Related Articles] Poldervaart, Arie U.S. geologist and petrologist, noted for his work concerning crustal evolution and the petrology of ... Poldi Pezzoli, Museo (Italian: Poldi Pezzoli Museum), in Milan, museum in the former private house of G.G. Poldi-Pezzoli, ... Polding, John Bede first Roman Catholic bishop in Australia (from 1835), where eight years later he became the ... pole (from the article "electric motor") Large DC motors usually have four or more poles to reduce the thickness of the ... Pole of Inaccessibility point on the Antarctic continent that is farthest, in all directions, from the surrounding seas, ... pole vault sport in athletics (track and field) in which an athlete jumps over an obstacle with ... [7 Related Articles] Pole, Reginald English prelate who broke with King Henry VIII over Henry's antipapal policies and later became ... [2 Related Articles] Pole, Richard de la last Yorkist claimant to the English throne. pole-and-line fishing (from the article "commercial fishing") Line fishing at sea is very popular, not only in traditional fisheries with small boats ... polecat any of several weasellike carnivores of the family Mustelidae (which includes the weasel, mink, otter, ... polemarchos (from the article "archon") Next came the polemarch, commander in war and judge in litigation involving foreigners. Third, the ... Polemarchus (from the article "Lysias") ...and Polemarchus. After studying rhetoric in Italy, Lysias returned to Athens in 412. It was ... Polematas (from the article "Daphnephoria") ...Apollo Ismenius. The Daphnephoros also dedicated a bronze tripod in the temple of Apollo. According ... polemic (from the article "nonfictional prose") Journalism often takes on a polemical cast in countries in which libel laws are not ... Polemo (from the article "ancient Rome") ...frontier with Mesopotamia. Farther north, however, no such natural line existed. North of the Black ... Polemoniaceae the phlox, or Jacob's ladder, family of plants; there are about 18 genera and some ... [1 Related Articles] Polemonium caeruleum (from the article "Jacob's ladder") Polemonium caeruleum is native to European woodlands and mountains and widely grown as a garden ... polenta a porridge or mush usually made of ground corn (maize) cooked in salted water. Cheese ... Polenta Family Italian noble family, named for its castle of Polenta (located in the Romagna, southwest of ... Polenta, Guido da (from the article "Polenta Family") ...of Polenta (located in the Romagna, southwest of Cesena), which dominated the city-state of Ravenna ... Polenta, Guido Novello da (from the article "Dante") ...completed just before his death in 1321, but the exact dates are uncertain. In addition, ... Poleski National Park (from the article "Lubelskie") ...though the province possesses lovely scenery and outstanding cultural sites. The Roztocze National Park consists ... polestar the brightest star that appears nearest to either celestial pole at any particular time. Owing ... [5 Related Articles] polevoy (from the article "poludnitsa") The poludnitsa is related to the polevoy, the male field spirit, who is seldom seen ... Polevskoy city, Sverdlovsk oblast (province), western Russia, located near the Chusovaya River in the mid-Urals. Founded ... Poley, Battle of (from the article "Spain") ...in Bobastro and in the Malaga mountains, was the leader of muwallad ... Polgar, Judit the youngest of three chess-playing sisters (see Zsuzsa Polgar). She became an international master at ... [2 Related Articles] Polgar, Sofia (from the article "chess") Soviet domination of women's chess ended with the defeat of Chiburdanidze by Xie Jun, of ... Polgar, Zsuzsa Hungarian international grandmaster who won the women's world chess championship in 1996 from Xie Jun ... [2 Related Articles] Poliakoff, Serge painter and lithographer, one of the most widely recognized of the abstract colourists who flourished ... Polian vesicle (from the article "echinoderm") ...and give rise to branches that end in the tube feet, which are in contact ... police body of officers representing the civil authority of government. Police typically are responsible for maintaining ... [25 Related Articles] police dog (from the article "police") Dogs were first trained for police work at the turn of the 20th century in ... Police Gazette, The daily publication of the London Metropolitan Police that carries details of stolen property and of ... police jury (from the article "Louisiana") ...parish near the city of New Orleans to more than 1,300 square miles (3,370 square ... police power in U.S. constitutional law, the permissible scope of federal or state legislation so far as ... Police Prefecture (from the article "Paris") Across the boulevard du Palais is the Police Prefecture, another 19th-century structure. On the far ... police technology (from the article "police") Police technology refers to the wide range of scientific and technological methods, techniques, and equipment ... Police Zone southern two-thirds of South West Africa (now Namibia) in which the German and later South ... [2 Related Articles] Police, the British-American new-wave band that blended reggae, jazz, funk, punk, and world music influences into hook-laden ... [1 Related Articles] Policia Nacional Civil (from the article "El Salvador") ...agreement officially ended the civil war and mandated a major reduction of the country's armed ... policy (from the article "bioethics") The importance of the social and legal issues addressed in bioethics is reflected in the ... policy form of lottery in which pellets usually numbered 1 to 78 are deposited in a ... Policy Forum (from the article "Labour Party") Another product of structural reform is the National Policy Forum, a body that effectively decreases ... policy ineffectiveness proposition (from the article "Lucas, Robert E., Jr.") ...argued, however, that workers cannot be fooled again and again; higher inflation will ultimately fail ... Polidouri, Maria Greek poet known for her impassioned, eloquent farewell to life. poligar (from the article "India") ...Their dependence on migrants and mercenaries for both military and fiscal expertise was considerable, and ... Polignac family French noble house important in European history. Polignac, Auguste-Jules-Armand-Marie, prince de (from the article "Charles X") ...1829, when liberals joined with the extreme right to defeat it. Losing patience and ignoring ... Polignac, Melchior de (from the article "Saint-Pierre, Charles-Irenee Castel, abbe de") ...as almoner to the Duchess d'Orleans, who presented him with the abbacy of Tiron, a ... poling (from the article "capacitor dielectric and piezoelectric ceramics") ...These materials are processed in a similar manner to capacitor dielectrics except that they are ... polio acute viral infectious disease of the nervous system that usually begins with general symptoms such ... [29 Related Articles] polio vaccine preparation of poliomyelitis virus given to prevent infection with the disease. The virus is grown ... [6 Related Articles] Poliochni (from the article "Anatolia") ...was defended by a ditch, a plastered rampart, and an enclosure wall. Villages such as ... Polioptilidae (from the article "passeriform") ...found in Eurasia and North Africa; inhabit brushlands, forests, forest edges, rocky slopes, deserts, grassy ... poliovirus (from the article "virus") ...John Enders, Thomas Weller, and Frederick Robbins, who in 1949 developed the technique of culturing ... Poliquin, Daniel (from the article "Literature") ...faire une maison avec ses morts, and popular favourite Marie Laberge moving from her usual ... polis ancient Greek city-state. The small state in Greece originated probably from the natural divisions of ... [12 Related Articles] Polisario Front politico-military organization striving to end Moroccan control of the former Spanish territory of Western Sahara, ... [12 Related Articles] Polish Academy of Sciences (from the article "Warsaw") Education in Warsaw benefits from the presence of the headquarters of the Polish Academy of ... Polish Corridor strip of land, 20 to 70 miles (32 to 112 km) wide, that gave the ... [2 Related Articles] Polish Democratic Society (from the article "Poland") ...two figures: the moderate conservatives followed Prince Czartoryski, and the leftists were led at first ... Polish Falcons (from the article "physical culture") Other burgeoning movements included the Sokol ("Falcon"), founded in 1862 to foster a Czech national ... Polish Families, League of (from the article "Poland") ...Poland continued a difficult transition under a particularly difficult government. The Law and Justice party ... Polish Home Army (from the article "international relations") ...Red Army to the borders of nine states that had been independent before 1939, making ... Polish Laboratory Theatre (from the article "directing") ...from very different traditions, so that when Suzuki Tadashi's Waseda company from Tokyo arrived in ... Polish language West Slavic language belonging to the Lekhitic subgroup and closely related to Czech, Slovak, and ... [3 Related Articles] Polish literature body of writings in Polish, one of the Slavic languages. The Polish national literature holds ... [10 Related Articles] Polish National Catholic Church (from the article "Poland") The Polish National Catholic Church, a schismatic offshoot of Roman Catholicism, never won popular support, ... Polish National Catholic Church of America Old Catholic church that arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among Polish ... [1 Related Articles] Polish National Committee (from the article "Poland") ...The Inter-Allied conference (June 1918) endorsed Polish independence, thus crowning the efforts of Dmowski, who ... Polish Peasant Party (from the article "Gomulka, Wladyslaw") Gomulka was ruthless in eliminating all opposition to the Communist rule. He personally led the ... Polish Rebellion (from the article "Poland") ...All this did not prevent Russia and Prussia from further diminishing Poland's territory with the ... Polish School (from the article "motion picture, history of the") ...restrictions between 1945 and 1953, with a "thaw" during the late 1950s under Soviet premier ... Polish Social Democratic Party (from the article "Poland") ...revolution and Poland's independence. At a conference held in Paris in 1892, the Polish Socialist ... Polish Socialist Party (from the article "Pilsudski, Jozef") Pilsudski returned in 1892, determined to organize an insurrection and to work for the reestablishment ... Polish State Railways (from the article "Poland") ...freight and passengers. In the last decade of the 20th century, there was a 41 ... Polish Succession, War of the (1733-38), general European conflict waged ostensibly to determine the successor of the king of Poland, ... [9 Related Articles] Polish Thermopylae (from the article "Podlaskie") ...was created; its population consisted of Poles, Belarusians, and Jews. In September 1939 the Polish ... Polish United Workers' Party (from the article "Poland") Beginning in 1948, Poland was governed by the Polish United Workers' Party (PUWP; Polska Zjednoczona ... Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (from the article "Ukraine") ...Ruthenians, as had happened earlier in Galicia. In 1569, by the Union of Lublin, the ... Polish-Turkish War (from the article "Poland") Although Poland remained neutral in the Thirty Years' War (1618-48), Sigismund stealthily supported the Habsburgs, ... polishing (from the article "flatware") After the pieces have been electroplated, their surfaces are dull and require polishing. Hand polishing ... polishing stick (from the article "abrasive") ...to make them more suitable for use as lapping abrasive or perhaps as sandblasting grain. ... Polissya zone (from the article "Ukraine") The Polissya zone lies in the northwest and north. More than one-third of its area-about ... Polistes (from the article "social behaviour in animals") ...nest after the first food has been eaten, a process called progressive provisioning. From this ... Politburo in Russian and Soviet history, the supreme policy-making body of the Communist Party of the ... [6 Related Articles] politeia (from the article "constitution") ...theoretical, normative, and descriptive writings of Aristotle. In his Politics, Nicomachean Ethics, Constitution of Athens, ... Polites, Geoffrey Paul Australian automotive executive rose through the ranks at Ford Motor Co. during a nearly 40-year ... Politian Italian poet and humanist, the friend and protege of Lorenzo de' Medici, and one of ... [6 Related Articles] political action committee in U.S. politics, an organization whose purpose is to raise and distribute campaign funds to ... political anthropology (from the article "anthropology") While the intellectual and methodological roots of political anthropology can be traced to Montesquieu and ... political arithmetic (from the article "probability and statistics") During the 19th century, statistics grew up as the empirical science of the state and ... Political Bureau (from the article "China") Parallel to the State Council system is the central leadership of the CCP. The distribution ... political cartoon (from the article "Kirby, Rollin") American political cartoonist who gave modern cartooning decisive impetus in the direction of graphic simplicity ...

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