MarriedCart: April 2004

Friday, April 30, 2004

Abbas, Ferhat

Son of a Muslim official in the Algerian civil service, Abbas received an entirely French education at Philippeville (now Skikda) and Constantine and at the University

Thursday, April 29, 2004

Fabre, Jean Henri

Fabre did important research on the insect orders

Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Wapiti

Also called �American Elk� (species Cervus canadensis), North American deer, family Cervidae (order Artiodactyla), considered by some authorities to be of the same species as the red deer (C. elaphus) of Eurasia. Once common over most of North America, the elk now is confined to the Rocky Mountains and southern Canada. The second largest living deer, it is exceeded

Tuesday, April 27, 2004

Andes Mountains

The Andes consist of a vast series of extremely high plateaus surmounted by even higher peaks that form an unbroken rampart over a distance of some 5,500 miles (8,900 kilometres) - from the southern tip of South America to the continent's northernmost coast on the Caribbean. They separate a narrow

Monday, April 26, 2004

Terman, Lewis M(adison)

Terman joined the faculty of Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. (1910), where he became professor of education in 1916, the year he published The Measurement of Intelligence, a guide for his Stanford revision and

Sunday, April 25, 2004

Alicante

Port city, capital of Alicante provincia, in Valencia comunidad aut�noma (�autonomous community�), southeastern Spain. It is located on Alicante Bay of the Mediterranean Sea. Founded as Akra Leuke (�White Summit�) by Phocaean Greeks (from the west coast of Asia Minor) in 325 BC, the city was captured in 201 BC by the Romans, who called it Lucentum. Under Moorish domination, which lasted from

Saturday, April 24, 2004

Domain

In Anglo-American law, the absolute and complete ownership of land, or the land itself which is so owned. Domain is the fullest and most superior right of property in land. Domain as a legal concept is derived from the dominium of the Roman law, which included the right of property as well as the right of possession or use of the property. The English common-law adoption

Friday, April 23, 2004

Mountain, Volcanic structures along subduction zones

Linear or arcuate belts of volcanoes are commonly associated with subduction zones. Volcanoes typically lie 150 to 200 kilometres landward of deep-sea trenches, such as those that border much of the Pacific Basin. The volcanoes overlie a zone of intense earthquake activity that begins at a shallow depth near such a trench and that dips beneath the volcanoes. They often

Thursday, April 22, 2004

Iacchus

Also spelled �Iakchos, � minor deity associated with the Eleusinian Mysteries, the best known of the ancient Greek mystery religions. On the day preceding the commencement of the mysteries, Iacchus' name was invoked with the names of the earth goddess Demeter and her daughter Kore (Persephone) during the procession from Athens to Eleusis, a city in Attica. Probably originally a personification

Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Fuller, R(ichard) Buckminster

U.S. engineer and architect who developed the geodesic dome, the only large dome that can be set directly on the ground as a complete structure, and the only practical kind of building that has no limiting dimensions (i.e., beyond which the structural strength must be insufficient). Among the most noteworthy geodesic domes is the United

Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Kerll, Johann Caspar Von

In 1645 Kerll was sent by Ferdinand III to study in Rome with the prominent composers Giacomo Carissimi and Girolamo Frescobaldi; earlier he had studied in Vienna. His study in Italy had great influence on his composition, much of which is Italianate in

Monday, April 19, 2004

Gundagai

Town, southeastern New South Wales, Australia, on the Murrumbidgee River. The site, originally a sheep run called Willia Ploma, was surveyed in 1838, and the town, a former riverport, derived its present name from an Aboriginal term for �going upstream.� A disastrous flood in 1852 drowned 89 townspeople. The discovery of gold in 1861 at nearby Spring Flat stimulated both its growth and bushranger

Saturday, April 17, 2004

Chandler, Seth Carlo

Chandler initially worked for the U.S. Coast Survey (1864 - 70). He then worked as an actuary until he joined the Harvard University Observatory in 1881. From 1896 to 1909 he edited

Friday, April 16, 2004

Aldridge, Ira Frederick

Herbert Marshall and Mildred Stock, Ira Aldridge: The Negro Tragedian (1958).

Thursday, April 15, 2004

Berg, Alban

Apart from a few short musical trips abroad and annual summer sojourns in the Austrian Alps, Berg's life was spent in the city of his birth. At first, the romantically inclined youth

Wednesday, April 14, 2004

Piccard, Jacques (-ernest-jean)

He was born in Brussels while his Swiss-born father was professor at the University of Brussels. After graduating from the �cole

Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Saint Anthony

Town, north of the entrance to Hare Bay, on the northern peninsula of Newfoundland, Canada, 306 miles (492 km) northeast of Corner Brook. An old fishing settlement with dry docks, ship-repair yards, and cold-storage plants, it is the home of the International Grenfell Association (a charity organization established in 1912 by Sir Wilfred Grenfell, the medical missionary) and is known

Monday, April 12, 2004

Utrecht School

Principally a group of three Dutch painters - Dirck van Baburen (c. 1590 - 1624), Gerrit van Honthorst (1590 - 1656; see photograph), and Hendrik Terbrugghen (1588 - 1629) - who went to Rome and fell fully under the pervasive influence of Caravaggio's art before returning to Utrecht. Although none of them ever actually met Caravaggio (d. 1610), each had access to his paintings, knew his former patrons, and was influenced

Sunday, April 11, 2004

Waffle

Crisp raised cake baked in a waffle iron, a hinged metal griddle with a honeycombed or fancifully engraved surface that allows a thin layer of batter to cook evenly and crisply. Baking powder is the typical leavening in American waffles, and yeast waffles are eaten in Belgium and France. In the United States and Canada waffles are a popular breakfast food, topped with

Saturday, April 10, 2004

Vienna State Opera

German �Staatsoper � theatre in Vienna, Austria, that is one of the world's leading opera houses, known especially for performances of works by Richard Wagner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Richard Strauss. The original theatre, located on the Ringstrasse, was built in 1869 to house the expanded operations of the Vienna Court Opera (Hofoper), by which name it was originally known. Particularly

Friday, April 09, 2004

Moscherosch, Johann Michael

Moscherosch was educated at Strassburg (now Strasbourg)

Wednesday, April 07, 2004

Alcorn State University

Public, coeducational institution of higher learning near Lorman, Mississippi, U.S. It is a land-grant university consisting of schools of Arts and Sciences, Business, Education and Psychology, Nursing, and Agriculture and Applied Sciences. The university's School of Nursing is located in Natchez. In addition to undergraduate studies, Alcorn State offers several

Tuesday, April 06, 2004

Balbus, Lucius Cornelius

Gnaeus Pompey conferred Roman citizenship on Balbus and his family for his services against the rebel Quintus Sertorius in Spain. Becoming friendly with all political parties in Rome, Balbus had the determining

Monday, April 05, 2004

Ancus Marcius

Traditionally the fourth king of Rome, from 642 to 617 BC. The details of his reign, provided by Roman historians such as Livy (64 or 59 BC - AD 17), must be regarded as largely legendary - e.g., the settlement of the Aventine Hill outside Rome, the first extension of Rome beyond the Tiber River to the Janiculum Hill, and the founding of the port of Ostia at the mouth of the Tiber.

Sunday, April 04, 2004

Flanders

The origins of Flanders lay in the pagus Flandrensis, an area composed

Saturday, April 03, 2004

Arctic, Animals of the land and fresh water

The typical and best-known Arctic land mammals and birds are those highly successful forms, most of them circumpolar in distribution, that survived the Pleistocene glaciations probably both south and north of the ice sheets: south along the ice perimeter and north in ice-free refuges such as northern Alaska, the Bering Strait (then dry land) and northeastern Siberia,

Friday, April 02, 2004

Crocus

Genus of about 75 low-growing, cormose species of plants of the iris family (Iridaceae), native to the Alps, southern Europe, and the Mediterranean area and widely grown for their cuplike blooms in early spring or fall. The spring-flowering sorts have a floral tube so long that the ovary is belowground, sheltered from climatic changes. The flowers close at night and

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