Saloninus (from the article "Postumus, Marcus Cassianius Latinius") Postumus and another general, Silvanus, stayed behind in Colonia (Cologne) with Gallienus' son Saloninus after ...
saloon (from the article "music hall and variety") ...licensed, expanded by employing musicians and installing scenery. These eventually moved from their tavern premises ...
Salopian ware (from the article "Caughley ware") The bulk of Caughley's so-called Salopian ware was blue-and-white, mostly blue-printed or powder-blue; in shade, ...
Salor (from the article "Turkmenistan") ...and independent or subject to neighbouring Persia or to the khanates of Khiva and Bukhara. ...
Salor rug floor covering handmade by the Salor Turkmen of Turkmenistan. Most consistent in design are the ... [1 Related Articles]
Saloum River (from the article "Senegal") ...19th century, with the construction of rail lines. Navigation of the Senegal was facilitated by ...
Salovey, Peter (from the article "intelligence, human") Other intelligences were proposed in the late 20th century. In 1990 the psychologists John Mayer ...
salp any small, pelagic, gelatinous invertebrate of the order Salpida (subphylum Tunicata, phylum Chordata). Found in ... [1 Related Articles]
Salpausselka ridges three parallel ridges traversing the breadth of southern Finland from Hango (Hanko), at the mouth ... [1 Related Articles]
Salpeter, Edwin E. (from the article "Milky Way Galaxy") In 1955 the first detailed attempt to interpret the shape of the general van Rhijn ...
Salpetriere (from the article "Charcot, Jean-Martin") ...and three years later was appointed physician of the Central Hospital bureau. He then became ...
salpicon (from the article "Guatemala") ...and entrees such as chiles rellenos (stuffed peppers), rellenitos de platano (mashed ...
Salpida (from the article "tunicate") ...between a solitary, asexually and sexually reproducing gonozooid and colonial, asexually reproducing oozooids; gill with ...
salpingitis (from the article "endometritis") ...may be asymptomatic or may cause nonspecific signs such as abnormal vaginal bleeding, general discomfort, ...
salpinx (from the article "wind instrument") ...a eucalyptus branch, often hollowed out by termites. From the New Kingdom of Egypt in ...
salsa hybrid musical form based on Afro-Cuban music but incorporating elements from other Latin American styles. ... [1 Related Articles]
salsa cruda (from the article "sauce") ...purees of that vegetable with herbs, spices, other vegetables, and sometimes ham or bacon. Bolognese ...
Salsette Island (from the article "Mumbai") ...km), stretching from Colaba Point on the southern tip of Bombay Island to the areas ...
salsify biennial herb of the family Asteraceae, native to the Mediterranean region. The thick white taproot ...
salt in chemistry, substance produced by the reaction of an acid with a base. A salt ... [10 Related Articles]
salt mineral substance of great importance. The mineral form halite, or rock salt, is sometimes called ... [72 Related Articles]
salt anticline (from the article "diapir") ...stress), or a combination of both. Diapirs may take the shape of domes, waves, mushrooms, ...
salt bridge (from the article "electricity") ...electricity. In this case, a copper wire is placed in a solution of copper sulfate ...
salt cedar (from the article "tamarisk") Tamarisks are valued for their ability to withstand drought, soil salinity, and salt-water spray. The ...
salt dome largely subsurface geologic structure that consists of a vertical cylinder of salt (including halite and ... [4 Related Articles]
salt glaze in ceramics, a glaze having the texture of orange peel, formed on stoneware by throwing ... [3 Related Articles]
salt karst solution phenomena occurring in rock salt by the action of groundwater. Although rock salt is ... [1 Related Articles]
Salt Lake City state capital and seat (1849) of Salt Lake county, north-central Utah, U.S., on the Jordan ... [3 Related Articles]
Salt Lake City Olympics (from the article "Olympic Games") Scandal and fears of terrorism marked the 2002 Games long before the Olympic torch arrived ...
Salt Lake Theater (from the article "Utah, University of") ...is the university's Health Sciences Center. The University of Utah houses the state's Museum of ...
salt marsh area of low, flat, poorly drained ground that is subject to daily or occasional flooding ... [2 Related Articles]
salt marsh snake (from the article "water snake") The salt marsh snake (N. clarkii ) lives in the brackish water habitats ...
salt monopoly (from the article "Morozov, Boris Ivanovich") ...In order to reduce government expenditures, Morozov dismissed a number of officials and lowered the ...
salt nucleus tiny particle in the atmosphere that is composed of a salt, either solid or in ...
salt pillow (from the article "salt dome") ...the broadest sense, the term includes both the core of salt and the strata that ...
Salt Range series of hills and low mountains between the valleys of the Indus and Jhelum rivers, ... [2 Related Articles]
Salt River tributary of the Gila River, east-central Arizona, U.S. The Salt River is formed at the ... [2 Related Articles]
Salt River Project (from the article "Arizona") ...available. To do this, central Arizona agricultural interests developed plans for large water-storage and flood-control ...
Salt River Valley (from the article "Phoenix") ...Arizona, U.S. It lies along the Salt River in the south-central part of the state, ...
Salt Rock (from the article "Djelfa") ...from the Prophet Muhammad. The area is notable for its abundance of Neolithic rock carvings ...
Salt Route (from the article "salt") Salt contributes greatly to our knowledge of the ancient highways of commerce. One of the ...
salt stock (from the article "food preservation") ...8 to 10 percent during the first week and is increased 1 percent a week ...
salt swamp (from the article "swamp") Salt swamps are formed by seawater flooding and draining, which exposes flat areas of intertidal ...
salt wall (from the article "salt dome") ...the term includes both the core of salt and the strata that surround and are ...
salt wedge estuary (from the article "boundary ecosystem") A salt wedge estuary has minimal mixing and the salt water forms a wedge, thickest ...
salt well (from the article "Drake, Edwin Laurentine") ...stock in the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company, which gathered oil from ground-level seepages at Titusville, ...
Salt, As- town, west-central Jordan. It is on the old main highway (often called the As-Salt Road) ...
Salt, Sir Titus (from the article "Saltaire") ...near Bradford in Airedale, in what is now Bradford metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of West ...
Salt, Waldo (from the article "1969: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: William Goldman for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Adapted Screenplay: Waldo Salt for ...
salt-marsh harvest mouse (from the article "harvest mouse") ...sea level to above the timberline in the northern Andes Mountains. They live in prairies, ...
Salta provincia (province), northwestern Argentina. It is bounded to the southwest by Chile, ... Salta city, capital of Salta provincia (province), northwestern Argentina. It lies in the ...
Saltaire early planned industrial settlement near Bradford in Airedale, in what is now Bradford metropolitan borough, ...
saltarello medieval and Renaissance court dance and a folk dance of present-day Rome. In the 14th ... [2 Related Articles]
Saltash town ("parish"), Caradon district, administrative and historic county of Cornwall, England. It lies near the ...
saltation (from the article "locomotion") The locomotor pattern of saltation (hopping) is confined mainly to kangaroos, anurans (tailless amphibians), rabbits, ...
saltation (from the article "sand dune") Most of the sand carried by the wind moves as a mass of jumping (saltating) ...
saltatory conduction (from the article "nervous system") ...of ion channels, which, upon stimulation, propagate the nerve impulse to the next node. In ...
saltbox in architecture, type of residential building popular in colonial New England, having two stories in ...
saltbush (from the article "desert") ...migration corridors for salt-tolerant plants, and in some cases the drifting of buoyant seeds in ...
saltcellar receptacle for table salt, usually made of metal or glass. Salt was taken from it ...
Salten, Felix Austrian novelist and journalist, author of the children's classic and adult allegory Bambi, a sensitively ...
Salter, James (from the article "Literature") It was a good year for short-story offerings. James Salter, one of the few reigning ...
Saltillo city, capital of Coahuila estado (state), northeastern Mexico. It is located between ... [1 Related Articles]
salting organizing tactic employed by labour unions. To start the process, a union targets a nonunionized ...
salting out (from the article "soap and detergent") To separate the glycerin from the soap, the pasty boiling mass is treated with brine. ...
salting-out effect (from the article "liquid") The concept of solvation is often used to explain properties of aqueous solutions; one well-known ...
saltire (from the article "heraldry") ...If their number exceeds 10 and they are irregularly placed, the field is described as ...
Salto city, northwestern Uruguay. It is situated on the left bank of the Uruguay River across ...
Salto del Guaira town, eastern Paraguay. It is situated on the right bank of the Parana River at ...
Salton Sea saline lake, in the lower Colorado Desert, southern California, U.S. The area that is now ... [3 Related Articles]
Salton Trough (from the article "Basin and Range Province") The northern half of the province is called the Great Basin (q .v .). The Sonoran Desert ...
Saltonstall, Sir Richard (from the article "Watertown") city, Middlesex county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S., on the Charles River, just west of Boston. One ...
saltpetre any of three naturally occurring nitrates, distinguished as (1) ordinary saltpetre, or potassium nitrate, KNO3 ; ... [7 Related Articles]
Saltsjobaden Agreement (from the article "organized labour") ...policy, social equality, and institutionalized autonomy for responsible, centralized, and comprehensive collective bargaining. In 1938, ...
Saltstraumen (from the article "Bodo") ...Church and the Bodo Cathedral (Lutheran), a modern edifice (consecrated 1956). About 20 miles (30 ...
Saltuqid (from the article "Anatolia") ...central regions, the earliest settlements were those of the Mangujakids, who came to exercise control ...
Saltus, Edgar Evertson one of the few U.S. novelists who adopted the sophisticated cynicism, art-for-art's-sake credo, and other ...
saltwater fishing (from the article "fishing") The methods mentioned so far are all used in saltwater fishing also, fly fishing being ...
saltwater pearl (from the article "pearl") ...of both saltwater oysters and freshwater clams) are really fine pearls; pearls from other mollusks ...
Saltykov, Mikhail Yevgrafovich, Graf novelist of radical sympathies and one of greatest of all Russian satirists.
Saltz, Jerry (from the article "Art and Art Exhibitions") The influence of the market continued unabated in 2007, culminating in a much-discussed New York ...
Saluda (from the article "Saluda") In the late 17th and early 18th centuries the region was inhabited by Algonquian-speaking Saluda ...
Saluda county, west-central South Carolina, U.S. The Saluda River and Lake Murray provide the northern boundary, ...
Saluda River river rising in the Blue Ridge Mountains, west-central South Carolina, U.S., in North and South ...
saluki breed of hound whose ancestors may date to 7000 to 6000 BCE. Sacred to the ...
Salus in Roman religion, the goddess of safety and welfare, later identified with the Greek Hygieia ...
Salut, Iles du island group of French Guiana, northeastern South America, in the Atlantic Ocean about 8 mi ...
Salutati, Coluccio Humanist and Florentine chancellor. [6 Related Articles]
Salutation Hotel (from the article "Perth") ...and replaced an earlier church on the site. There in 1559 John Knox preached an ...
Saluva dynasty (from the article "Vijayanagar") ...lasted until about 1485, when-at a time of pressure from the Bahmani sultan and the ...
Saluzzo town and episcopal see, Piemonte (Piedmont) region, northwestern Italy, at the foot of the Alps, ...
Salvador city, major port and capital (since 1889) of Bahia estado (state), northeastern ... [2 Related Articles]
Salvador, Henri Gabriel French entertainer enjoyed a lengthy career as a singer and songwriter, with a musical range ...
Salvadora persica (from the article "Brassicales") ...flowers have the same number of sepals, petals, and stamens, and there are sometimes nectar ...
Salvadoraceae (from the article "Brassicales") Bataceae, Salvadoraceae, and Koeberliniaceae have in common ultrastructural features, the same base chromosome number, and ...
salvage in maritime law, the rescue of a ship or its cargo on navigable waters from ... [3 Related Articles]
salvage clause (from the article "insurance") ...losses after a bond is discontinued. When a new bond is put into effect, it ...
salvation in religion, the deliverance of mankind from such fundamentally negative or disabling conditions as suffering, ... [46 Related Articles]
Salvation Army international Christian religious and charitable movement organized and operated on a military pattern. The Army ... [17 Related Articles]
Salvation Army Hostel (from the article "Corbusier, Le") Le Corbusier constructed two other important buildings during this period, the Salvation Army Hostel in ...
salvator salvandus (from the article "Hellenistic religion") ...of a divine but fallen soul, which had to be redeemed by cultic activity and ...
Salvatores, Gabriele (from the article "1991: Best Foreign-Language Film") Other Nominees
Salvi, Nicola Italian sculptor and architect whose late Roman Baroque masterpiece is the Trevi Fountain in Rome. [2 Related Articles]
Salvia the sage genus, containing more than 900 species of herbaceous and woody plants of the ... [1 Related Articles]
Salvia apiana (from the article "evolution") ...and style (respectively, the male structure that produces the pollen and the female structure that ...
Salvia mellifera (from the article "evolution") ...and size of the genitalia. In plants, variations in flower structure may impede pollination. Two ...
Salviati, Antonio Italian glass manufacturer who helped reestablish Murano as a centre of Italian glassworking and was ...
Salviati, Francesco painter and designer, one of the leading Mannerist fresco painters of the Florentine-Roman school. [2 Related Articles]
Salvin, Anthony (from the article "Alnwick") ...rehabilitated in the 18th century under the direction of Robert Adam, and the surrounding park ...
Salvinia auriculata (from the article "fern") ...which spreads quickly by its underground ropelike rhizome, rapidly invading abandoned fields and pastures in ...
Salvinia molesta (from the article "fern") ...in both temperate and tropical regions. One species of water spangles (Salvinia auriculata ) became a ...
Salviniaceae (from the article "fern") ...cells; 1 genus (Anemia ) with about 100 species, mostly in the Neotropics. Order Salviniales Family Salviniaceae (floating ...
Salviniales plant order containing two families of tiny ferns that float on water: Salviniaceae and Azollaceae, ... [1 Related Articles]
Salvius, Johann Adler (from the article "Europe, history of") The principal Swedish diplomat at Westphalia, Johann Adler Salvius, complained to his government in 1646 ...
Salween River major stream of Southeast Asia and the longest in Myanmar (Burma). Rising in the T'ang-ku-la ... [4 Related Articles]
Salyut any of a series of Soviet space stations (of two designs), launched between 1971 and ... [7 Related Articles]
Salzburg Bundesland (federal state), west-central Austria. It is bordered by Bavaria (Germany) on the west and ... [2 Related Articles] Salzburg city, capital of Salzburg Bundesland (federal state), north-central Austria. It is situated in a level ... [6 Related Articles]
Salzburg Festival (from the article "Salzburg") ...the 19th century, and in 1917 Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Richard Strauss, and Max Reinhardt founded ...
Salzburg Limestone Alps (from the article "Salzburg") ...in the world. The trough formed by the upper Salzach and upper Enns rivers separates ...
Salzburg Marionette Theatre (from the article "puppetry") ...artistic quality for adult audiences. The marionettes of the Art Puppet Theatre in Munich, for ...
Salzgitter city, Lower Saxony Land (state), north-central Germany. It lies in the foothills ...
Salzillo, Francisco sculptor, a prolific creator of figures for the Holy Week procession. He is considered by ...
Salzkammergut region, north-central Austria. The region consists mainly of the Traun River basin and is renowned ... [4 Related Articles]
Sam and Dave American vocal duo who were among the most popular performers of soul music in the ...
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