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 scenic riding ... Schenker, Heinrich scenic riding (from the article "circus") Continuing traditions from the days of Astley, scenic riding remained extremely popular in the 19th ... scent gland (from the article "artiodactyl") External glands occur in various places on artiodactyls. Preorbital glands, immediately in front of the ... scent hound (from the article "dog") These also are hunting dogs but much more various than the Sporting dogs. There are ... scent mark (from the article "hymenopteran") Ants use scent marks, which they place on their pathways. They are thus able to ... scent sensilla (from the article "lepidopteran") ...is usually initiated by the female, which gives off specific odorous substances (pheromones) that attract ... scented garden (from the article "gardening") Scent is one of the qualities that many people appreciate highly in gardens. Scented gardens, ... scented sun orchid (from the article "sun orchid") ...Some self-pollinating species never open their flowers. The lemon orchid (T. antennifera), the twisted sun ... sceptre ornamented rod or staff borne by rulers on ceremonial occasions as an emblem of authority ... [1 Related Articles] Sceve, Maurice French poet who was considered great in his own day, then long neglected. Reinstated by ... [1 Related Articles] SCFTIR1 (from the article "Life Sciences") ...independently, one headed by Mark Estelle from Indiana University and the other headed by Ottoline ... Schaap, Richard Jay American journalist, biographer, and talk-show host (b. Sept. 27, 1934, Brooklyn, N.Y.-d. New York, N.Y., ... schabi (from the article "Central Asian arts") The first Mongolian actors were called schabi, or disciples, of the lama Noyan Hutuqtu. These ... Schach, Rabbi Eliezer Menachem Lithuanian-born Israeli Orthodox Jewish scholar and political leader (b. 1896?, Wabolnick [now Vabalninkas], Lithuania, Russian ... Schacht, Hjalmar German banker and financial expert who achieved international renown by halting the ruinous inflation that ... [4 Related Articles] Schachter, Stanley (from the article "motivation") In 1962 the American psychologists Stanley Schachter and Jerome Singer performed an experiment that suggested ... Schachter-Singer model (from the article "motivation") In 1962 the American psychologists Stanley Schachter and Jerome Singer performed an experiment that suggested ... Schack Gallery (from the article "Bavarian State Picture Galleries") The Schack Gallery collection of 19th-century, late Romantic German painting was acquired by the state ... Schadaeus, Oseas (from the article "Western architecture") ...Rerum Germanicarum Epitome (1505; "Epitome of Things German") the humanist Jakob Wimpheling extolled Strasbourg cathedral ... Schadde, Jozef (from the article "Western architecture") In Belgium the work of Cuypers finds its counterpart in that of Jozef Schadde, architect ... Schadow, Gottfried German sculptor, regarded as the founder of the modern Berlin school of sculptors. [1 Related Articles] Schadow, Wilhelm von (from the article "Nazarene") ...Overbeck, Franz Pforr, Ludwig Vogel, and Johann Konrad Hottinger, moved in 1810 to Rome, where ... Schaechter-Gottesman, Beyle (from the article "Literature") Bronx poet and ballad singer Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman received a National Heritage fellowship from the National ... Schaefer, Kurt (from the article "geography") ...1953 by a paper in the prestigious Annals of the Association of American Geographers that ... Schaefer, Vincent Joseph American research chemist and meteorologist, who in 1946 carried out the first systematic series of ... [2 Related Articles] Schaefer-Langmuir experiments (from the article "weather modification") The Schaefer-Langmuir experiments in the laboratory and the atmosphere demonstrated that so-called supercooled clouds-namely those ... Schaeffer, Claude-Frederic-Armand French archaeologist whose excavation of the ancient city of Ugarit at Ras Shamra, Syria, disclosed ... Schaeffer, Jonathan (from the article "checkers") ...players to draw at will in games contested with unrestricted opening play. In 2007 the ... Schaeffer, Pierre French composer, acoustician, and electronics engineer who in 1948, with his staff at Radio-diffusion et ... [3 Related Articles] Schaepman, Hermanus Johannes Aloysius Maria Dutch statesman, Roman Catholic priest, and author who founded Catholic political clubs (forerunners of the ... Schaerbeek municipality, Brussels-Capital Region, central Belgium. A village until 1795, it is now an industrial suburb ... Schafberg (from the article "Sankt Wolfgang") town, central Austria. It lies on the east shore of Wolfgang (Aber) Lake in the ... Schafer, Karl Austrian figure skater who was the best performer in his sport during the 1930s and ... [1 Related Articles] Schaff, Philip Swiss-born American ecumenical leader and theologian whose works, especially the Creeds of Christendom (1877), helped ... [2 Related Articles] Schaffhausen most northerly canton of Switzerland. It lies north of the Rhine River and west of ... Schaffhausen (from the article "Swiss literature") ...dialect of Schwyz. Almost every canton has its Mundartdichter, or local poet. There are vigorous ... Schaffhausen capital of Schaffhausen canton, northern Switzerland, on the right bank of the Rhine, west of ... 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Schally, Andrew V. Polish-born American endocrinologist and corecipient, with Roger Guillemin and Rosalyn Yalow, of the 1977 Nobel ... Schamberg, Morton (from the article "Dada") ...both wealthy patrons of the arts. At these locations, Dada-like activities, arising independently but paralleling ... Schami, Rafik (from the article "Literature") Syrian-born writer Rafik Schami, who moved to Germany in 1971, published a major German-language novel, ... Schaper, Johann (from the article "pottery") ...mostly used the Schwarzlot technique-decoration in a black, linear style that was nearly always based ... Schapera, Isaac South African social anthropologist known for his detailed ethnographic and typological work on the indigenous ... [1 Related Articles] Schapiro, Boris British contract bridge player (b. Aug. 22 [Aug. 9, old style], 1909, Riga, Latvia, Russian ... Schapiro, Meyer U.S. art historian, teacher, and critic (b. Sept. 23, 1904, Siauliai, Lithuania--d. March 3, 1996, ... 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[1 Related Articles] Schattenburg (from the article "Feldkirch") ...Switzerland. First mentioned as Veldkirichae (Veldkirichum) in 830, the settlement belonged to the counts of ... Schattschneider, Elmer Eric U.S. political scientist and educator known for the study and advocacy of the political party ... Schatz, Albert American microbiologist (b. Feb. 2, 1920, Norwich, Conn.- d. Jan. 17, 2005, Philadelphia, Pa.), along ... [1 Related Articles] Schauble, Wolfgang (from the article "Germany") Minister for the Interior Wolfgang Schauble of the CDU seemed to offer the answer to ... Schaubuhne (from the article "directing") ...European conventions, including elaborating the traditions of historical research established by the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen's ... Schaudinn, Fritz German zoologist who, with the dermatologist Erich Hoffmann, in 1905 discovered the causal organism of ... Schauffelein, Hans Leonhard German painter and designer of woodcuts whose work bears the strong influence of Albrecht Durer. ... Schaufuss, Peter (from the article "Performing Arts") Two big new works shown in Denmark could hardly have been more different from each ... Schaumburg-Lippe one of the smallest of member states of the German Reich prior to the end ... [1 Related Articles] Schauspiel any spectacle or public performance. In late 18th-century German literature the word took on the ... Schauspielhaus (from the article "Western architecture") ...was named state architect in 1815 by Frederick William III, transformed Berlin with a series ... Schauspielhaus (from the article "Switzerland") ...William Tell (Tellspiele), and led to the construction of large municipal theatres throughout the country. ... Schawlow, Arthur L. American physicist and corecipient, with Nicolaas Bloembergen of the United States and Kai Manne Borje ... [5 Related Articles] Schebesta, Paul (from the article "Ituri Forest") ...of Africa; 1873). Stanley was the first to cross the forest from west to east, ... Schechner, Richard (from the article "environmental theatre") a branch of the New Theatre movement of the 1960s that aimed to heighten audience ... Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States (from the article "Hughes, Charles Evans") ...there was a flurry of judicial activity regarding the constitutionality of several New Deal proposals; ... Schechter, Solomon outstanding authority on the Talmud, and a researcher who discovered important ancient documents. He was ... [5 Related Articles] schedular tax (from the article "income tax") ...imposed on the total income of an individual or family unit, whereas in others income ... Schedule I drug (from the article "therapeutics") ...their manufacture, prescribing, and dispensing. Controlled substances are divided into five classes, or schedules, based ... Schedule II drug (from the article "therapeutics") ...on their potential for abuse or physical and psychological dependence. Schedule I encompasses heroin and ... Schedule III drug (from the article "therapeutics") ...no accepted medical use in the United States. Schedule II drugs, including narcotics such as ... Schedule IV drug (from the article "therapeutics") ...abuse and dependence. Schedule III includes those drugs such as certain stimulants, depressants, barbiturates, and ... Schedule V drug (from the article "therapeutics") ...codeine that cause moderate dependence. Schedule IV contains drugs that have limited potential for abuse ... scheduled caste (from the article "Hinduism") ...determined: local Brahman groups occupy the highest place, and differences in ritual purity are the ... Scheduled Tribe (from the article "Bihar") Many villages of the Scheduled Tribes have a dancing floor, a sacred grove ( scheduling (from the article "telecommunications network") ...to transmit and at the same time preventing destructive interference from collisions (simultaneous transmissions). This ... scheduling program (from the article "computer program") ...may be in control during execution, as when a time-sharing (q.v.) monitor suspends one program ... Scheele, Carl Wilhelm German Swedish chemist who independently discovered oxygen, chlorine, and manganese. [15 Related Articles] scheelite calcium tungstate mineral, CaWO4, that is an important ore of tungsten. It acquired commercial value ... [3 Related Articles] Scheemakers, Peter Belgian sculptor who was considered a founder of modern sculpture in England. Scheer, Reinhard admiral who commanded the German High Seas Fleet at the Battle of Jutland (1916). [3 Related Articles] Scheerre, Herman (from the article "painting, Western") A great change in English manuscript painting occurred about 1400 and is associated with an ... Scheffel, Joseph Victor von poet and novelist whose immensely popular humorous epic poem Der Trompeter von Sackingen (1854; "The ... [1 Related Articles] Schefferville (from the article "American Subarctic peoples") ...relocated from the forests and trading centres to established northern cities such as Fairbanks (Alaska), ... schefflera any of several tropical evergreen trees or shrubs, in the ginseng family (Araliaceae), that are ... [1 Related Articles] Scheibe, Johann Adolf (from the article "Gerstenberg, Heinrich Wilhelm von") ...ranges in its expression from the heroic to the macabre. During his Copenhagen years he ... Scheidegg (from the article "Schwyz") ...Zug, and the whole of Lakes Lauerz and Sihl. Its highest point is the Ortstock ... Scheidemann, Philipp German Social Democratic politician who, without party or government authorization, on Nov. 9, 1918, made ... [3 Related Articles] Scheider, Roy Richard American actor was identified most closely with his role as the small-town police chief in ... Scheidt, Samuel organist and composer who, with Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, influenced the Baroque organ style of northern ... [1 Related Articles] Scheie's syndrome uncommon hereditary metabolic disease characterized by clawing of the hands, corneal clouding, incompetence of the ... Schein, Johann Hermann German composer of sacred and secular music, one of the earliest (with Michael Praetorius and ... [1 Related Articles] Scheiner, Christoph (from the article "Galileo") After a brief controversy about floating bodies, Galileo again turned his attention to the heavens ... Scheitholt (from the article "zither") Older zithers, such as the Alpine Scheitholt, have narrow rectangular sound boxes ... Schelde River river, 270 miles (435 km) long, that rises in northern France and flows across Belgium ... [5 Related Articles] Schelde River Tunnel (from the article "tunnels and underground excavations") ...supported on water-filled nylon sacks and the water later replaced by grout injected into the ... Schelde-Rhine Canal (from the article "canals and inland waterways") ...from Amsterdam to Den Helder was constructed, and the IJsselmeer was linked with the Ems ... Scheldt Question (from the article "Lambermont, Auguste, Baron") Belgian statesman who in 1863 helped free Belgium's maritime commerce by negotiating a settlement of ... Scheler, Max German social and ethical philosopher. Although remembered for his phenomenological approach, he was strongly opposed ... [3 Related Articles] Schell, Maria Margarethe Anna Austrian actress (b. Jan. 15, 1926, Vienna, Austria-d. April 26, 2005, Preitenegg, Austria), was an ... Schell, Maximilian (from the article "1961: Best Actor") Other Nominees Schellenberg (from the article "Liechtenstein") ...of the princely house. The constitution of 1921 provides for a unicameral Landtag, or parliament, ... Schelling, Caroline (from the article "Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von") The time spent in Jena was important for Schelling also in a personal respect: there ... Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von German philosopher and educator, a major figure of German idealism, in the post-Kantian development in ... [18 Related Articles] Schelling, Thomas C. American economist, who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize for Economics with Robert J. Aumann. Schelling ... 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Schendel, Arthur van Dutch novelist and short-story writer, whose basically Romantic temperament, combined with a concentrated, restrained, almost ... Schenectady county, east-central New York state, U.S., comprising a hilly region bordered to the southeast by ... Schenectady city, seat (1809) of Schenectady county, east-central New York, U.S., on the Mohawk River and ... [1 Related Articles] Schengen Agreement international convention initially approved by Belgium, France, West Germany (later Germany), Luxembourg, and The Netherlands ... [2 Related Articles] Schengen Information System (from the article "police") The European Union (EU) established a computerized information system-the Schengen Information System (SIS)-which allows the ... Schenk, Ard Dutch speed skater who in 1972 won three gold medals in the Winter Olympic Games ... [1 Related Articles] Schenkel, Chris American sports broadcaster (b. Aug. 21, 1923, Bippus, Ind.-d. Sept. 11, 2005, Fort Wayne, Ind.), ... 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