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 vair ... Valeri, Valerio vair (from the article "heraldry") ...white field with black spots), ermines (a black field with white spots), erminois (gold field ... Vair, Guillaume du a highly influential French thinker and writer of the troubled period at the end of ... [1 Related Articles] vairagin in Hinduism, a religious ascetic who worships principally one or another form of the god ... [1 Related Articles] Vairocana ("Great Illuminator"), the supreme Buddha, as regarded by many Mahayana Buddhists of East Asia and ... [8 Related Articles] Vaisala, Yrjo Finnish meteorologist and astronomer noted for developing meteorological measuring methods and instruments. Vaisali city of ancient India, north of Patna, northwestern Bihar state, on the Gandak River. In ... [2 Related Articles] Vaisheshika ("Particular"), one of the six orthodox systems (darshans) of Indian philosophy, significant for its naturalism, ... [5 Related Articles] Vaishnavism worship of the god Vishnu and of his incarnations, principally as Rama and as Krishna. ... [25 Related Articles] Vaishya third highest in ritual status of the four varnas, or social classes, of Hindu India, ... [9 Related Articles] Vaisnava-Sahajiya member of an esoteric Hindu cult centred in Bengal that sought religious experience through the ... [3 Related Articles] Vaisnavi (from the article "Saptamatrka") ...a group of seven mother-goddesses, each of whom is the sakti, or female counterpart, of ... Vaitarani (from the article "death") The soul, in its substantial envelope, is meanwhile proceeding on its journey, holding onto a ... Vaitown city, western Liberia, West Africa. Located in the Bomi Hills former iron-mining district, it is ... Vajda, Janos (from the article "Hungarian literature") ...whose ironic novel in verse, A delibabok hose (1873; "The Hero of the Mirages"), is ... vaji (from the article "arched harp") Arched harps were prominent in ancient Central Asia, and 1st-century frescoes (Gandhara culture, in modern ... Vajirananavarorasa prince-patriarch of Buddhism in Siam, who institutionalized Thai Buddhism, spread the faith in the countryside, ... Vajiravudh also Phramongkutklao, or Rama Vi king of Siam from 1910 to 1925, noted for his ... [5 Related Articles] Vajpayee, Atal Bihari leader of the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and twice prime minister of India (1996; ... [5 Related Articles] vajra five-pronged ritual object extensively employed in Tibetan Buddhist ceremonies. It is the symbol of the ... [2 Related Articles] vajra-dhatu (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...to be separate realms. Thus, one of the most important iconographic images was the ryokai ... Vajrabodhi (from the article "Buddhism") ...in 716, and he translated the Mahavairocana-sutra and a closely related ritual ... Vajrahasta III (from the article "Ganga Dynasty") ...and Calukyas in the period when the Western Gangas had been forced to abandon this ... Vajrapani in Mahayana Buddhist mythology, one of the celestial bodhisattvas ("Buddhas-to-be"), the manifestation of the self-born ... [1 Related Articles] vajrasattva yoga (from the article "Buddhism") According to Vajrayana traditions, the culmination of this process, called vajrasattva yoga, gives the initiate ... Vajrayana important development within Buddhism in India and neighbouring countries, notably Tibet. Vajrayana, in the history ... [24 Related Articles] Vajrayogini in Vajrayana (Tantric Buddhism), female embodiment of the cognitive function leading to Buddhahood. Vajrayana emphasizes ... Vakataka Dynasty Indian ruling house originating in the central Deccan in the mid-3rd century AD, the empire ... 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[3 Related Articles] vaki supernatural power believed by the Baltic Finns to reside in those natural sites, objects, and ... Vakili, Shuhrah (from the article "Literature") ...by women writers continued to gain momentum both in Iran and among expatriate Iranians. Parinush ... vakk (from the article "vorsud") The tonni-vakk of the Estonians (also a Finno-Ugric people) was a similar object of worship. ... Vakyakara (from the article "Indian philosophy") ...he had been preceded by no less an authority than the Bhagavadgita. In his general ... Val-d'Oise (from the article "Ile-de-France") region of France encompassing the north-central departements of Val-d'Oise, ... Val-d'Or city, Abitibi-Temiscamingue region, western Quebec province, Canada. Val-d'Or lies near Lakes Blouin, de Montigny, and ... Val-de-Grace, Church of (from the article "Mansart, Francois") ...the setbacks he began to encounter, the first of which was a royal commission he ... Val-de-Marne (from the article "Ile-de-France") ...of France encompassing the north-central departements of Val-d'Oise, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis, Ville-de-Paris, Hauts-de-Seine, ... Val-Saint-Lambert factory (from the article "glassware") In Belgium the Val-Saint-Lambert factory was an important producer of heavily cut crystal throughout the ... Valabhi city of ancient India that was the capital of the Maitraka dynasty in the 5th-8th ... [1 Related Articles] Valabhi era (from the article "chronology") ...king Isvarasena and first used in Gujarat and Maharashtra and later (until the 13th century) ... Valachi, Joseph American gangster, member of Lucky Luciano's mob family, who turned informer in 1962. Valadier, Giuseppe (from the article "Western architecture") The greatest achievement in urban planning of the period was the design of the Piazza ... Valadon, Suzanne French painter noted for her robust figures and bold use of colour. She was the ... 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Vale of White Horse district, administrative county of Oxfordshire, historic county of Berkshire, England, lying southwest of Oxford. It ... Vale of York (from the article "North Yorkshire") ...the Rivers Swale, Ure, Nidd, and Wharfe. In the east is a region of limestones ... Vale Royal borough, administrative and historic county of Cheshire, England. It is named for a great Cistercian ... Valech Report (from the article "Chile") ...yet another human rights violation, the disappearance of 119 people in Operation Colombo. At the ... Valence town, capital of Drome departement, Rhone-Alpes region, southeastern France. Valence lies on the left bank ... valence in chemistry, the property of an element that determines the number of other atoms with ... [11 Related Articles] valence band (from the article "colour") ...diagram (see figure). This can happen, for example, when there are an average of exactly ... valence bond theory (from the article "coordination compound") Several theories currently are used to interpret bonding in coordination compounds. In the valence bond ... valence electron any of the fundamental negatively charged particles in the outermost region of atoms that enters ... [16 Related Articles] Valence House Museum (from the article "Barking and Dagenham") ...was married in 1762. Still guarding the churchyard entrance is the 15th-century Curfew Tower. H-shaped ... valence shell (from the article "chemical bonding") ...The outermost shell contains the electrons that are involved in bond formation, for they are ... valence-shell-electron-pair repulsion theory (from the article "chemical bonding") There is a sharp distinction between ionic and covalent bonds when the geometric arrangements of ... Valencia comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of eastern Spain. 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Valentine, Joseph (from the article "1948: Other Winners") ...Story: Richard Schweizer and David Wechsler for The SearchCinematography, Black-and-White: William Daniels for The Naked ... Valentine, Saint name of two legendary martyrs whose lives seem to be historically based. One was a ... Valentinian (from the article "Christianity") ...god of the Book of Genesis) and the realm of the spirit created by a ... Valentinian I Roman emperor from 364 to 375 who skillfully and successfully defended the frontiers of the ... [3 Related Articles] Valentinian II Roman emperor from 375 to 392. [4 Related Articles] Valentinian III Roman emperor from 425 to 455. At no time in his long reign were the ... [4 Related Articles] Valentino Fashion Group (from the article "Fashions") In September the Roman fashion house Valentino announced that its founders, 75-year-old designer in chief ... Valentino, Rudolph Italian-born American motion-picture actor, who was idolized as the "Great Lover" of the 1920s. 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