Sabal (from the article "palm") ...Queensland, Australia, the cassowary ingests fruits and disperses seeds of several rainforest palms (Calamus and ...
Sabal magothiensis (from the article "palm") The earliest fossils of palms are leaves of Sabal magothiensis and stems of Palmoxylon cliffwoodensis ...
Sabalan, Mount (from the article "Ardabil") town, northwestern Iran, 38 miles (61 km) from the Caspian Sea. It stands on an ...
sabana (from the article "Andes Mountains") ...of the Sumapaz Upland the range divides into two, enclosing a large plain 125 miles ...
Sabanci, Sakip Turkish businessman and philanthropist (b. April 7, 1933, Akcakaya, Kayseri, Turkey-d. April 10, 2004, Istanbul, ...
Sabang kotamadya (city) and free port, Aceh semiautonomous province, Indonesia. It is situated on the northeastern ... sabar (from the article "Serer") ...including tree crops. Cattle, sheep, and goats are tended, and trade, conducted in regular markets, ...
Sabara (from the article "Indian philosophy") ...of benefits for oneself. According to Jaimini, Vedic injunctions do not merely prescribe actions but ...
Sabara city, east-central Minas Gerais estado (state), southern Brazil. It is located on ...
Sabarmati ashram (from the article "Gujarat") ...outskirts of Ahmadabad (Ahmedabad), the former capital, largest city in the state, and one of ...
Sabas, Saint Christian Palestinian monk, champion of orthodoxy in the 5th-century controversies over the nature of Christ. ...
Sabathia, CC (from the article "Baseball") ...to Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins. Milwaukee's Ryan Braun was narrowly voted NL Rookie of the ...
Sabatier, Apollonie (from the article "Baudelaire, Charles") Between 1852 and 1854 Baudelaire addressed a number of poems to Apollonie Sabatier, celebrating her, ...
Sabatier, Auguste French Protestant theologian and educator who helped popularize biblical interpretation by applying methods of historical ...
Sabatier, Paul French organic chemist and corecipient, with Victor Grignard, of the 1912 Nobel Prize for Chemistry ... [1 Related Articles]
Sabatier, Paul French historian and educator who is chiefly remembered for his biography of St. Francis of ...
Sabato, Ernesto Argentine novelist, journalist, and essayist whose novels are notable for their concern with philosophical and ... [1 Related Articles]
Sabazius (from the article "religious symbolism and iconography") ...Particular parts of the body and symbolical objects may also be sculpturally represented. They may ...
sabbat (from the article "witchcraft") ...accomplish magical deeds, and to desecrate the crucifix and the consecrated bread and wine of ...
Sabbatarianism doctrine of those Christians who believe that Sunday (the Christian Sabbath) should be observed in ...
Sabbath (from shavat , "cease," or "desist"), day of holiness and rest observed by Jews from sunset ... [9 Related Articles]
sabbatical cycle (from the article "Middle Eastern religion") ...cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease" (Genesis 8:22). But ...
sabbatical leave (from the article "teaching") Leaves of absence are also more frequent than in other occupations. The sabbatical leave is ...
sabbatical millennium (from the article "millennialism") To delay the End and reap the benefits of nonapocalyptic millennialism, theologians placed great weight ...
Sabbatini, Nicola Italian architect and engineer who pioneered in theatrical perspective techniques. He worked in Pesaro, where ... [2 Related Articles]
sabda (Sanskrit: "sound"), in Indian philosophy, verbal testimony as a means of obtaining knowledge. In the ...
sabdadvaita (from the article "Bhartrhari") ...of the Vakyapadiya ("Words in a Sentence"), regarded as one of the most significant works ...
Sabellianism Christian heresy that was a more developed and less naive form of Modalistic Monarchianism (see ... [4 Related Articles]
Sabellic dialects group of minor Italic dialects spoken in central and southern Italy, closely related to the ... [1 Related Articles]
Sabellida (from the article "annelid") ...adheres; size, 1 to 40 cm; examples of genera: Amphicteis ,
Sabellius (from the article "Calixtus I, Saint") ...Hippolytus, who attempted to supplant him and who accused him of favouring modalist, or Patripassian, ...
Saberht first Christian king of the East Saxons, or Essex (from sometime before 604).
Saberi (from the article "Afghanistan") Afghanistan has few lakes of any considerable size. The two most important are the Saberi ...
Sabha town, southwestern Libya, in a Saharan oasis. It was an active caravan centre from the ... [1 Related Articles]
sabha ("assembly"), important unit of self-government in Hindu society. It is basically an association of persons ... [2 Related Articles]
sabhapati (from the article "South Asian arts") ...of a house, to the accompaniment of two drummers, an instrumentalist, and a singing chorus ...
sabi (from the article "Japan") ...in all manner of artistic representation. Closely related are the twin ideals of cultivated simplicity ...
Sabi River river of southeastern Africa, flowing through Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The river rises as the Sabi ... [2 Related Articles]
Sabia, Laura Villela Canadian feminist leader who rallied more than 30 women's lobbying groups that pressured Canada into ...
Sabiaceae only family in the order Sabiales, with 3 genera and about 100 species of evergreen ...
Sabians (from the article "Islam") ...in the 3rd century), Zoroastrian (members of a monotheistic, but later dualistic, religion founded by ...
sabin (from the article "Sabine, Wallace Clement") ...the product of the reverberation time multiplied by the total absorptivity of the room is ...
Sabin vaccine (from the article "In Sight: A World Without Polio") ...fully immunized against polio in order to stop the chain of person-to-person transmission. The GPEI's ...
Sabin, Albert Bruce Polish American physician and microbiologist best known for developing the oral polio vaccine. He was ... [3 Related Articles]
Sabin, Florence Rena American anatomist and investigator of the lymphatic system who was considered to be one of ...
Sabina, Poppaea (from the article "Josephus, Flavius") In AD 64 Josephus was sent on an embassy to Rome to secure the release ...
Sabine member of an ancient Italic tribe located in the mountainous country east of the Tiber ... [2 Related Articles]
Sabine Crossroads (from the article "Red River Campaign") ...of a river fleet commanded by Admiral David Dixon Porter, took Fort DeRussy and the ...
Sabine River river in the southwestern United States, rising in northeastern Texas and flowing southeast and south, ...
Sabine's gull (from the article "gull") ...a grayish brown mantle. Ross's gull (Rhodostethia rosea ) is an attractive pinkish white bird that ...
Sabine's law (from the article "Sabine, Wallace Clement") ...Sabine was asked to find a remedy. His discovery that the product of the reverberation ...
Sabine, Sir Edward English astronomer and geodesist noted for his experiments in determining the shape of the Earth ... [1 Related Articles]
Sabine, Wallace Clement U.S. physicist who founded the science of architectural acoustics. [2 Related Articles]
Sabine-Neches Waterway (from the article "Sabine River") ...Texas and the Louisiana Coastal Plain. The Sabine has successively served as a boundary between ...
Sabinian Italian pope from 604 to 606.
Sabinio extinct volcano (11,500 feet [3,505 m]) in the Virunga Mountains of east-central Africa. It lies ... [2 Related Articles]
Sabiriyah (from the article "Chishtiyah") ...provinces of Rajputana, the Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh. From the 14th century, these monasteries were ...
sabkhah (Arabic), saline flat or salt-crusted depression, commonly found along the coasts of North Africa and ... [3 Related Articles]
sable (Martes zibellina ), graceful carnivore of the weasel family, Mustelidae, found in the forests of northern ... [2 Related Articles]
sable antelope (Hippotragus niger ), handsome antelope, family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla), that lives in herds in forests of ... [1 Related Articles]
Sable Island gently curving sandbar in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, 110 ...
Sable, Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de (from the article "La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI, Duke de") Yet in 1655 his literary endeavours were still before him. Thanks to the lasting and ...
Sables d'Olonne, Les (from the article "Pays de la Loire") The coastal areas of the region boast a number of popular tourist ...
Sabliere, Madame de La (from the article "La Fontaine, Jean de") ...superintendent of finance. From 1664 to 1672 he served as gentleman-in-waiting to the dowager duchess ...
Sablon, Jean French singer and songwriter (b. March 25, 1906, Nogent-sur-Marne, near Paris, France--d. Feb. 24, 1994, ...
Sabor (from the article "Nagodba") ...empire, was merged with Slavonia and placed under Hungarian jurisdiction. Although many Croats who sought ...
sabot heavy work shoe worn by European peasants, especially in France and the Low Countries. There ...
sabot (from the article "artillery") ...of tungsten led to their abandonment after 1942. In 1944 Britain perfected "discarding-sabot" projectiles, in ...
sabotage deliberate destruction of property or slowing down of work with the intention of damaging a ... [1 Related Articles]
sabotine (from the article "sabot") Variations of the sabot-wooden-soled shoes topped with a variety of materials such as leather and ...
sabr (from the article "maqam") ...is without acquisitiveness; (4) the maqam of faqr (poverty), in which he asserts his independence ...
Sabra (from the article "Palestine") ...Despite these guarantees, however, after Israeli troops had occupied West Beirut, the Phalangists, Israel's rightist ...
Sabratha western-most of the three cities of ancient Tripolis, located near the modern town of Sabratah, ... [1 Related Articles]
sabre heavy military sword with a long cutting edge and, often, a curved blade. Most commonly ... [2 Related Articles]
sabre saw (from the article "saw") ...home handymen. With the proper blade it can cut almost any material-wood, metals, plastics, fibreglass, ...
sabre-toothed cat any of the extinct catlike carnivores belonging either to the extinct family Nimravidae or the ... [1 Related Articles]
Sabur (from the article "Aftasid dynasty") ...Cordoba. The Lower Frontier (modern central Portugal) had enjoyed a measure of autonomy after the ...
Sabzevari, 'Abd al-A'la al-Musawi al- Iranian-born cleric who, from 1992 to 1993, was the grand ayatollah in the Islamic holy ... [1 Related Articles]
Sabzevari, Hajji Hadi Iranian teacher and philosopher who advanced the hikmah (wisdom) school of Islamic philosophy. His doctrines-composed ...
sac spider any member of a relatively common, widespread family of spiders (order Araneida) that range in ... [1 Related Articles]
Saca Gonzalez, Elias Antonio On June 1, 2004, Elias Antonio Saca Gonzalez, best known as the popular sportscaster Tony ... [5 Related Articles]
sacabuche (from the article "wind instrument") ...length of the tube, thereby making the partials of different harmonic series available separately and ...
Sacagawea Shoshone Indian woman who, as interpreter, traveled thousands of wilderness miles with the Lewis and ... [1 Related Articles]
Sacapultec language (from the article "Mesoamerican Indian languages") ...Kaufman considered it a separate language and christened it Teco. Kaufman identified two more new ...
Sacasa, Juan Bautista Nicaraguan statesman who served as his country's president in 1932-36. [4 Related Articles]
sacbrood (from the article "beekeeping") Sacbrood is caused by a virus and is superficially similar to the foulbrood diseases. It ...
saccade (from the article "eye, human") ...more than a fraction of a second; the movements are of three types: (1) irregular ...
saccades-fixation eye movement (from the article "photoreception") The saccade-and-fixate strategy is the way humans take in information from the world most of ...
saccadic suppression (from the article "photoreception") ...saccades, vision is seriously impaired for two reasons. First, during large saccades, the image is ...
saccharimetry (from the article "Biot, Jean-Baptiste") French physicist who helped formulate the Biot-Savart law, which concerns magnetic fields, and laid the ...
saccharin organic compound employed as a non-nutritive sweetening agent. It occurs as insoluble saccharin or in ... [5 Related Articles]
Saccharomyces genus of yeasts belonging to the family Saccharomycetaceae (phylum Ascomycota, kingdom Fungi). An outstanding characteristic ... [1 Related Articles]
Saccharomyces carlsbergensis (from the article "beer") ...fungus"). In brewing it is traditional to refer to ale yeasts used predominantly in top ...
Saccharomyces cerevisiae (from the article "Ascomycota") ...and the chestnut blight (Endothia parasitica ). Venturia inequalis, the cause of apple scab. Perhaps the ...
Saccharomycetales (from the article "fungus") ...Saccharomycetes Saprobic or pathogenic; yeasts reproduce by budding or fission; contains one order. Order Saccharomycetales (ascomycete yeasts) Saprobic ...
Saccharomycetes (from the article "fungus") ...budding or fission; contains common yeasts that are relevant to industry (e.g., baking and brewing) ...
Saccharomycotina (from the article "fungus") ...juice; asexual reproduction by fission; asci fuse to form groups of four or eight ascospores; ...
Saccharum robustom (from the article "sugarcane") ...juice, from which sugar is processed. Most present-day commercial canes are the offsprings or hybrids ...
Saccheri, Girolamo (from the article "logic, history of") ...postulates, and definitions in a Euclidean fashion occurs in the otherwise quite traditional Logica Demonstrativa ...
Sacchetti, Franco Italian poet and storyteller whose work is typical of late 14th-century Florentine literature. [2 Related Articles]
Sacchi, Andrea Italian painter, the chief Italian representative of the Classical style in the 17th-century painting of ... [1 Related Articles]
Saccifolium bandeirae (from the article "Gentianales") The bizarre-looking Saccifolium bandeirae , known from a single mountain peak in the Guiana region of ...
Sacco, Nicola (from the article "Millay, Edna St. Vincent") ...her political and social ideals made her a symbol of the youth of her time. ...
Sacco-Vanzetti case controversial murder trial in Massachusetts, U.S., extending over seven years, 1920-27, and resulting in the ... [3 Related Articles]
Saccoglossus (from the article "acorn worm") ...The "acorn" consists of a muscular proboscis and a collar that may be used to ...
Sacconi, Giuseppe (from the article "Western architecture") ...This revival was appropriate in a country that was home to the Renaissance. It thus ...
Saccopastore skulls two Neanderthal fossils found in 1929 and 1935 in a river deposit on the bank ...
Saccopharyngidae (from the article "gulper") ...(or Lyomeri). Gulpers range to depths of 2,700 m (9,000 feet) or more. The members ...
Saccostomus campestris (from the article "African pouched rat") ...pouched rats (genus Saccostomus ) are small and thickset, weighing about 75 grams (2.6 ounces) and ...
Saccostomus mearnsi (from the article "African pouched rat") ...are small and thickset, weighing about 75 grams (2.6 ounces) and having bodies up to ...
saccule (from the article "nervous system, human") Each saccule and utricle has a single cluster, or macula, of hair cells located in ...
Sacculina (from the article "barnacle") Parasitic cirripedes of the order Rhizocephala (about 230 species), such as Sacculina, lack appendages, shell, ...
sacerdotal celibacy (from the article "celibacy") Celibacy is practiced in a variety of different contexts. One type of celibacy is sacerdotal, ...
sacerdotalism (from the article "Protestantism") ...bread and wine, however, do not change their substance, and, for Luther, there was no ...
sacerdotium (from the article "Middle Ages") After the dissolution of the Roman Empire, the idea arose of Europe as one large ...
Sacher, Paul Swiss conductor, businessman, and patron of the arts (b. April 28, 1906, Basel, Switz.-d. May ...
Sacher-Masoch, Chevalier Leopold von (from the article "masochism") psychosexual disorder in which erotic release is achieved through having pain inflicted on oneself. The ...
Sacheverell, Henry English preacher, an assertively narrow-minded supporter of the Anglican state whose impeachment by the Whigs ... [1 Related Articles]
Sachs Harbour (from the article "Banks Island") ...caribou, polar bears, and many birds. First sighted by Sir William Parry's expedition in 1820, ...
Sachs, (Ferdinand Gustav) Julius von German botanist whose experimental study of nutrition, tropism, and transpiration of water greatly advanced the ... [1 Related Articles]
Sachs, Curt eminent German musicologist, teacher, and authority on musical instruments. [5 Related Articles]
Sachs, Hans German burgher, meistersinger, and poet who was outstanding for his popularity, output, and aesthetic and ... [4 Related Articles]
Sachs, Jeffrey D. American economist, who advised countries throughout the world in economic reform and developed initiatives intended ... [1 Related Articles]
Sachs, Nelly German poet and dramatist who became a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of ... [1 Related Articles]
Sachse, H. (from the article "strain theory") Baeyer's ideas, although still considered essentially correct, have been significantly extended. Another German chemist, H. ...
Sachsenhausen one of the major Nazi German concentration camps, located at the edge of Oranienburg, 21 ...
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