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 Sevele, Feleti ... sexual abuse Sevele, Feleti (from the article "Tonga") Area: 750 sq km (290 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 101,000 | Capital: Nuku'alofa ... Seven Against Thebes in Greek mythology, the seven champions who were killed fighting against Thebes after the fall ... [1 Related Articles] Seven Churches of Clonmacnoise (from the article "Clonmacnoise") ...Conor (Connor), St. Ciaran, Kelly, Ri, and Dowling (Doolin). Clonmacnoise became a bishopric, and in ... seven corporal works of mercy (from the article "Roman Catholicism") ...activities have involved organized assistance, supported by the contributions of the entire community and rendered ... Seven Days' Battles (June 25-July 1, 1862), series of American Civil War battles in which a Confederate army ... 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Seven World Trade Center (from the article "Architecture") ...structure be built of solid concrete. Childs proposed to cover the concrete with a skin ... Seven Years' War (1756-63), the last major conflict before the French Revolution to involve all the great powers ... [26 Related Articles] Seven, Group of Toronto-centred group of Canadian painters devoted to landscape painting (especially of northern Ontario subjects) and ... [1 Related Articles] Seven, Group of (from the article "China") ...Minister Bo Xilai also encouraged Chinese investment in foreign countries. The government considered making its ... seven-a-side rugby (from the article "rugby") Another popular form of rugby, a variation of rugby union, is rugby sevens. It is ... seven-card stud (from the article "poker") Each player is dealt two hole cards and a faceup card, and there is a ... Seven-Up Company (from the article "Altria Group") ...to South African Breweries PLC (SAB) (see also MillerCoors). In 1978 Philip Morris acquired the international ... Seveners (from the article "Seveners") in Islam, minority subsect within the Isma'ilite (q.v.) sect of Shi'ites.Isma'ilite Sevenoaks district occupying the westernmost portion of the administrative and historic county of Kent, England, southeast ... Seventeen Article Constitution 604), code of moral precepts for the ruling class, issued by the regent Shotoku Taishi, ... [4 Related Articles] Seventeenth Amendment (from the article "muckraker") ...Graham Phillips' series "The Treason of the Senate" (Cosmopolitan, 1906), which inspired President Roosevelt's speech ... seventeenth parallel the provisional military demarcation line established in Vietnam by the Geneva Accords (1954). The line ... [3 Related Articles] Seventh Day Baptist (from the article "Ephrata Community") In 1786 the community first allowed private ownership of property, and by 1814 the remaining ... Seventy, First Quorum of (from the article "Mormon") The "General Authorities" of the church are the First Presidency (the church president and two ... Severan dynasty (from the article "Palestine") ...to enter Jerusalem one day a year, on a day of mourning called Tisha be-Ava. ... severance tax (from the article "property tax") ...be influenced materially by property taxation. To prevent uneconomical and premature exhaustion of natural resources, ... Severance, Caroline Maria Seymour American reformer and clubwoman who was especially active in woman suffrage and other women's issues ... severe blizzard (from the article "blizzard") ...falling or blowing snow. The U.S. Weather Service defines a blizzard as a storm with ... severe combined immunodeficiency (from the article "human disease") ...the immune response in a variety of ways: B lymphocytes may be unable to produce ... severe local storm (from the article "weather forecasting") A particular effort is made to warn of hail, lightning, and wind gusts associated with ... severe preeclampsia (from the article "pregnancy") Severe preeclampsia is defined by any of the following symptoms occurring after the 20th week ... Severe style (from the article "Western sculpture") ...from Archaic to Classical; in the figurative arts a distinctive style developed, in some respects ... severe thunderstorm (from the article "thunderstorm") ...of the storms themselves, and such characteristics depend largely on the meteorological environment in which ... Severian Of Gabala bishop of Gabala (now Latakia, Syria), theologian and orator, principal opponent of the eminent 4th-century ... Severing, Carl German politician who was a leading member of the Social Democratic Party during the Weimar ... Severini, Gino Italian painter who synthesized the styles of Futurism and Cubism. [1 Related Articles] Severinus pope who was forced to wait one and a half years for consecration because he ... Severn (from the article "Darling River") The main source of the Darling is usually considered to be the Severn, which becomes ... Severn Bridge (from the article "bridge") The 972-metre- (3,240-foot-) span Severn Bridge (1966), linking southern England and Wales over the River ... Severn Canal (from the article "canals and inland waterways") ...the Mersey to the Trent, opened up the Midlands, and provided water transport for exports ... Severn River river, northwestern Ontario, Canada. It rises in the Finger Lake region of western Ontario and ... Severn, Joseph (from the article "Keats, John") ...him assiduously through the year. Percy Bysshe Shelley, hearing of his condition, wrote offering him ... Severn, River Britain's longest river from source to tidal waters-about 180 miles (290 km) long, with the ... [3 Related Articles] Severnaya Zemlya archipelago, Krasnoyarsk kray (region), northern Russia. It lies in the Arctic Ocean between the Kara ... [2 Related Articles] Severny Island (from the article "Novaya Zemlya") Novaya Zemlya ("New Land") consists of two large islands, Severny (northern) and Yuzhny (southern), aligned ... Severnye Uvaly range of hills on the Russian Plain, western Russia. The hills form the watershed between ... Severocesky kraj (region), northwestern Czech Republic. It is the smallest of the country's regions. Severocesky is ... Severodvinsk city and seaport of Archangelsk oblast (province), northwestern Russia. It lies on the shore of ... Severomoravsky kraj (region), northeastern Czech Republic. It is bordered by Jihomoravsky kraj to the south, Vychodocesky ... Severus Roman emperor in 306 and 307. [4 Related Articles] Severus Alexander Roman emperor from AD 222 to 235, whose weak rule collapsed in the civil strife ... [6 Related Articles] Severus Of Antioch Greek monk-theologian and patriarch of Antioch who was a leader of the monophysites. Severus inspired ... [3 Related Articles] Severus, Gaius Julius (from the article "Bar Kokhba") ...the Romans' Egyptian Legion, XXII Deiotariana. The war became so serious that in the summer ... Severus, Septimius Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He founded a personal dynasty and converted the government ... [23 Related Articles] Sevier Lake body of water in Millard county, western Utah, U.S. The lake is about 25 miles ... Sevier orogeny (from the article "Mesozoic Era") ...direction, huge granitic batholiths formed in what is now the Sierra Nevada range along the ... Sevier River the longest river entirely within the state of Utah, U.S. The Sevier flows about 325 ... Sevier, John American frontiersman, soldier, and first governor of the state of Tennessee. [1 Related Articles] Sevigne, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de French writer whose correspondence is of both historical and literary significance. [2 Related Articles] Sevilla city, Cauca departamento, western Colombia, on an abutment of the Cordillera Central. ... Sevilla provincia (province) in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of ... Sevilla city, capital of the provincia (province) of Sevilla, in the Andalusia [13 Related Articles] Sevilla la Nueva (from the article "Jamaica") ...but for decades it was something of a backwater, valued chiefly as a supply base ... Sevilla, University of Spanish coeducational state institution of higher learning at Sevilla, with branches at Cadiz and Huelva. ... Seville Football Club (from the article "Football") A week earlier the final of the UEFA Cup at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scot., ... Seville orange (from the article "Rutaceae") The family contains economically important fruits. Citrus species include the lemon (Citrus limon), sour orange ... Seville, Treaty of (from the article "Harrington, William Stanhope, 1st earl of, Viscount Petersham of Petersham") ...elected a member of Parliament for Derby in 1715, became envoy to Turin (1718-20), and ... seviri Augustales (from the article "ancient Rome") ...Augusti (the life spirit of his family); it was coupled in Rome with the Lares ... Sevket Pasa, Mahmud Ottoman soldier and statesman who, in 1909, suppressed a religious uprising, forced the subsequent deposition ... [3 Related Articles] Sevres city, Hauts-de-Seine departement, Paris region, France. Sevres is a southwestern residential suburb of Paris, on ... Sevres porcelain French hard-paste, or true, porcelain as well as soft-paste porcelain (a porcellaneous material rather than ... [6 Related Articles] Sevres, Treaty of (Aug. 10, 1920), post-World War I pact between the victorious Allied powers and representatives of ... [12 Related Articles] sevruga caviar (from the article "caviar") ...of processing. Grades are named for the types of sturgeon from which the eggs are ... Sewa River river, the most important commercial stream in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Formed by the junction ... sewage system the collection pipes and mains, treatment works, and discharge lines for the wastewater of a ... [19 Related Articles] Sewall, May Eliza Wright American educator and reformer, best remembered for her work in connection with woman suffrage and ... Sewall, Samuel British-American colonial merchant and a judge in the Salem witchcraft trials, best remembered for his ... [1 Related Articles] sewamono (from the article "Kabuki") Kabuki subject matter creates distinctions between the historical play (jidaimono) and the ... Seward city, southern Alaska, U.S. Situated on the Kenai Peninsula, at the head of Resurrection Bay, ... Seward Peninsula peninsula in western Alaska, U.S. It is situated between Kotzebue Sound (north) and Norton Sound ... [3 Related Articles] Seward, Anna English poet and author of a sentimental and poetical novel, Louisa (1784); she was popular ... Seward, William H U.S. politician, an antislavery activist in the Whig and Republican parties before the American Civil ... [8 Related Articles] sewed coiling (from the article "basketry") Sewed coiling has a foundation of multiple elements-a bundle of fine fibres. Sewing is done ... sewed-braid coiling (from the article "basketry") ...and throughout the Mediterranean basin as far as western Europe; it also occurs in North ... Sewell Mining Town (from the article "El Teniente") ...El Teniente, transported by rail to Rancagua, and exported through the port of San Antonio, ... Sewell, Anna British author of the children's classic Black Beauty. Sewell, Henry British colonizer and politician who served as the first premier of New Zealand (1856) after ... [1 Related Articles] sewing (from the article "needle") basic implement used in sewing or embroidering and, in variant forms, for knitting and crocheting. ... sewing machine any of various machines for stitching material (such as cloth or leather), usually having a ... [5 Related Articles] sex the sum of features by which members of species can be divided into two groups-male ... [2 Related Articles] Sex and the City American comedy series filmed over six seasons (1998-2004) in New York City by Home Box ... sex chromosome either of a pair of chromosomes that determine whether an individual is male or female. ... [13 Related Articles] sex determination (from the article "animal breeding") There is a commercial demand for the ability to predetermine the sex of livestock. For ... sex differentiation (from the article "Education") ...the proportion of girls attending school would be the same as that of boys. A ... sex discrimination (from the article "Law, Crime, and Law Enforcement") ...cases that dealt with discrimination, the court extended constitutional protection to individuals in matters that ... Sex Discrimination Act (from the article "United Kingdom") ...after 1945 a different life cycle for women evolved that included the return to work ... sex education (from the article "Education") Thirteen studies of sex education in the U.S. reported that the federal government's Community-Based Abstinence ... sex hormone a chemical substance produced by a sex gland or other organ that has an effect ... [23 Related Articles] sex mosaic (from the article "sex") ...with a sharp line of demarcation. In other cases one-quarter of the body may be ... Sex Pistols, the rock group who created the British punk movement of the late 1970s and who, with ... [1 Related Articles] sex ratio (from the article "population") A second important structural aspect of populations is the relative numbers of males and females ... sex research (from the article "homosexuality") In the 20th-century United States, a field known as sex research was established among the ... sex reversal (from the article "reproductive system, animal") ...eggs. Some species lay eggs, but others retain the egg in the uterus until the ... sex role (from the article "human behaviour") One of the earliest and most basic categories of self to emerge during childhood is ... sex therapy form of behaviour modification or psychotherapy directed specifically at difficulties in sexual interaction. Many sex ... [1 Related Articles] sex trafficking (from the article "Social Protection") The problem of sex trafficking took centre stage with the release of a UN report ... sex-linked character (from the article "consanguinity") ...is observed and its mode of inheritance are described as dominant. Conversely, if the trait ... sexagesimal number system (from the article "mathematics") ...system of numerals followed an additive decimal (base-10) principle similar to that of the Egyptians. ... sexism (from the article "constitutional law") While applying the principle of equality in cases of sex discrimination and discrimination against children ... Sext (from the article "divine office") ...hours. Matins, the lengthiest, originally said at a night hour, is now appropriately said at ... Sextant (from the article "World War II") Sextant, the conference of Nov. 22-27, 1943, for which Churchill, Roosevelt, and Chiang Kai-shek met ... sextant instrument for determining the angle between the horizon and a celestial body such as the ... [1 Related Articles] sextarius (from the article "measurement system") The principal Roman capacity measures were the hemina, sextarius, ... sextet (from the article "chamber music") ...combinations for strings alone began to play important but relatively smaller roles in the field: ... sexton church custodian charged with keeping the church and parish buildings prepared for meetings, caring for ... Sexton, Anne American poet whose work is noted for its confessional intensity. [2 Related Articles] Sextus Empiricus ancient Greek philosopher-historian who produced the only extant comprehensive account of Greek Skepticism in his ... 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