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gum sculpting london

2007-11-22T03:49:00.000-08:00

The terms ‘gum contouring’ and ‘gum sculpting’ are used to refer to a surgical procedure where a person's gum line is repositioned so a greater percentage of that person's teeth is revealed. Too much gum or uneven gum levels can detract from an otherwise great looking smile. This can be painlessly corrected by simple gum sculpting.

There can be many variations when it comes to the exact manner in which gum sculpting is performed. In all cases the specifics of the procedure need to be discussed with the prospective patient by the dentist who will perform the procedure after the dentist has examined the patient. However, although gum sculpting is technically a surgical process, a person may find that it is much less troublesome than they might have anticipated. You only need to consult your dentist for specific details.

best cosmetic bonding services

2007-11-14T03:27:00.001-08:00

While any general dentist can legally announce that he or she is a cosmetic dentist, and many dentists do cosmetic bonding, it is recommend that any patient who wants cosmetic bonding only, go to a dentist with extensive post-graduate training in cosmetic dentistry.

A cosmetic bonding is usually a one-visit procedure. The tooth is prepared by lightly roughening the area to be repaired, which usually doesn't require anesthetic. Then the surface of the tooth is etched with a gel, and a treatment of bonding primers and resins is applied to the tooth. Finally the composite is applied.

At The Welbeck Clinic the cosmetic dentists provide the best cosmetic bonding services for its clients so that a healthy, good-looking, natural smile is something that all can enjoy.

Office space London

2007-10-22T02:42:00.000-07:00

Office space London isn’t always easy to find, sometimes you require a small executive suite or an entire floor of serviced office space located in prime areas of London or a high quality serviced office accommodation, meeting and training rooms and communal areas (wi fi equipped). Office space London from office-planet provides you with superb office space in which to do business. We can offer you an office space in London to meet your needs and reflect your brand.

Give us some brief information about your requirements and we will contact you as soon as possible with space to match your needs. Office Planet provides quality offices in London and throughout the UK for businesses requiring a serviced office space, a virtual office or conventional office space.

find me a cheaper garage door?!!

2007-10-22T02:03:00.000-07:00

“Are all garage doors the same?" Yes and no! Garage doors today are complex machines. The latest designs have, by law, to include advanced safety devices and guards. Modern garage doors will also have protection against potential finger traps. Also, each canopy-type mechanism has a safety device to prevent the door from falling in the event of a cable snapping. These features are common to all new garage doors, from all manufacturers.

Thousands of people throughout the UK use Nationwide's Garage Doors because of their superb quality, technical design features and reliability. Whether you have a single garage, a large double-garage or even more, Nationwide Automatic Garage Doors and Vertico Garage Doors are tailor made to fit your property- so whatever the size there will always be a door for you.

These garage doors are available in a variety of colors and individual design to suit every taste. So go ahead and pamper yourself by installing the convenient trademarked garage door from nationwide.

single parent holidays

2007-10-12T03:11:00.000-07:00

Holidaying as a single parent can be a complete nightmare, and more stress than it's worth. Why should single parents have to miss out on a fun holiday?

That's why Single Parent Fun have teamed up with Small Families to offer deals on single parent holidays designed to cater for everything the single parent family needs. You might even get to spend some time away from the kids as well as away with the kids!

Single parent holidays from single parent fun are the ideal solution to your single parent holidaying needs, and the deals they offer make them a lot more affordable.

Londinium

2007-10-03T08:03:00.000-07:00

London is today one of the world's leading business, financial, cultural centres. The business and finance parts of this hub of the world wouldn't be made possible without the offices that dominate the skyline of the city.

Office Planet is one of London's biggest suppliers of serviced offices London to some of the big guns of London business.

The friendly, knowledgeable staff at Office Planet have found serviced offices to let London for companies as large as Serco, Clearwater and The Fine Art Auction Group.

Serviced Offices Brighton

2007-09-12T06:21:00.000-07:00

Brighton, a city famed for it's beaches, nightlife and remains of a pier, but did you know that a lesser known attraction is serviced offices brighton? Serviced offices Brighton are becoming so popular in fact, that it's almost impossible to come across vacant serviced offices Brighton. Thankfully, Office Planet has plenty of serviced offices Brighton to let, so your trip to Brighton needn't be ruined by missing out on the towns latest big attraction.

Serviced offices are the answer to a number of business concerns.

2007-03-21T10:16:00.000-07:00

If you're planning to move your business, consider all the advantages of a serviced office. From saving time and money to providing much-needed flexibility, serviced offices are the answer to a number of business concerns. At Office planet.net we provide the very best levels of advice and knowledge to both the serviced office and office space markets.
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If you would like some advice or assistance with any of your property needs then please do not hesitate to contact our team .We make the process simpler for you, enabling you to focus on your business.

2007-01-12T01:33:00.000-08:00

It seems wherever you look in London these days, there is someone trying to sell you commercial property space, or an office to let London. As a new enterprise business man myself, I’ve been trying to find a viable London located commercial property to rent that’s well placed, and won’t break the bank. I simply just had to tell someone, that they are out there, commercial property London is available to rent from Pearl and Coutts! The variety of property to let in London that they have is astounding, we are very pleased with the service we received when committing to renting London property we got from Pearl and Coutts.

Lenormand, Henri-rené

2005-04-05T01:24:00.000-07:00

The son of a composer, Lenormand was educated at the University of Paris and spent much of his adult life writing for the Parisian stage. He was the author of a number of somewhat gloomy plays that explore

Cheever, John

2005-04-02T02:20:00.000-08:00

American short-story writer and novelist whose work described, often through fantasy and ironic comedy, the life, manners, and morals of middle-class, suburban America. Cheever has been called “the Chekhov of the suburbs” for his ability to capture the drama and sadness of the lives of his characters by revealing the undercurrents

India, Aurangzeb

2005-04-01T03:39:00.000-08:00

The empire under Aurangzeb (ruled 1658–1707) experienced further growth but also manifested signs of weakness. For more than a decade, Aurangzeb appeared to be in full control. The Mughals suffered a bit in Assam and Cooch Behar, but they invaded gainfully the Arakanese in southern Myanmar (Burma), captured Chittagong, and added territories in Bikaner, Bundelkhand, Palamau, Assam,

Lattre De Tassigny, Jean De

2005-03-29T02:56:00.000-08:00

After service in World War I and Morocco (1921–26), de Lattre held a staff commission early

Protein, Results of X-ray diffraction studies

2005-03-27T11:18:00.000-08:00

Most knowledge concerning secondary and tertiary structure of globular proteins has been obtained by the examination of their crystals using X-ray diffraction. In this technique X rays are allowed to strike the crystal; the X rays are diffracted by the crystal and impinge on a photographic plate, forming a pattern of spots. The measured intensity of the diffraction

Liggett Group Inc.

2005-03-26T04:19:00.000-08:00

In 1849 J.E. Liggett and Brother was established in St. Louis, Mo., by John Edmund Liggett (1826–97) as an outgrowth of a family concern dating to 1822. George S. Myers entered the business in 1873, and in 1878 the company was incorporated as Liggett & Myers Company. By 1885 it was the

Rogers, Samuel

2005-03-23T18:06:00.000-08:00

Rogers attained eminence with the publication of his discursive poem The Pleasures of Memory (1792). On his father's death (1793) he inherited a banking firm, and for the next half century he maintained an influential position as a leading figure

Switzerland, The postwar period

2005-03-22T04:13:00.000-08:00

Switzerland's wartime relations with Germany compromised its postwar standing. In a 1946 agreement, the Western Allies, especially the United States, compelled Switzerland to compensate the looted Western central banks. Because Switzerland would have received no special recognition of its neutrality, the Federal Council decided not to join the United

Hylozoism

2005-03-19T20:48:00.000-08:00

(from Greek hyle, “matter”; zoe, “life”), in philosophy, any system that views all matter as alive, either in itself or by participation in the operation of a world soul or some similar principle. Hylozoism is logically distinct both from early forms of animism, which personify nature, and from panpsychism, which attributes some form of consciousness or sensation to all

Argentia

2005-03-18T07:52:00.000-08:00

Formerly a herring- and salmon-fishing port known as Little Placentia, it was renamed Argentia (derived from argentum, Latin for “silver”) when silver was discovered in the vicinity. Most

Arena Chapel

2005-03-17T18:24:00.000-08:00

Also called Scrovegni Chapel (consecrated March 25, 1305) small chapel built in the first years of the 14th century in Padua, Italy, by Enrico Scrovegni and containing frescoes by the Florentine painter Giotto (see photograph). A “Last Judgment” covers the entire west wall. The rest of the chapel is covered with frescoes in three tiers representing scenes from the lives of Saints Joachim and Anna,

Gauss

2005-03-17T15:56:00.000-08:00

Unit of magnetic induction in the centimetre-gram-second system of physical units. One gauss corresponds to the magnetic flux density that will induce an electromotive force of one abvolt (10-8 volt) in each linear centimetre of a wire moving laterally at one centimetre per second at right angles to a magnetic flux. One gauss corresponds to 10-4 tesla (T), the International

Lipset, Seymour Martin

2005-03-15T09:08:00.000-08:00

After receiving his B.S. from City College of New York (1943), Lipset was a lecturer at the University of Toronto (1946–48) and then an assistant professor at the University of California,

North Lincolnshire

2005-03-14T18:06:00.000-08:00

Unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Lincolnshire, England, comprising a low plain on the south shore of the River Humber estuary that extends inland to the northernmost Lincolnshire Wolds and the reclaimed wetlands of the Isle of Axholme along the River Trent. The unitary authority covers a largely rural and agricultural area. Its fertile lands

Atmospheric Sciences, Elements of cloud formation

2005-03-14T17:36:00.000-08:00

The formation of cloud droplets and cloud ice crystals occurs associated with suspended aerosols of natural and anthropogenic origin, which are ubiquitous in the Earth's atmosphere. In the absence of such aerosols, relative humidities much greater than 100 percent with respect to a flat surface are required for water vapour to condense spontaneously into liquid

Welles, Gideon

2005-03-12T04:53:00.000-08:00

Born into a wealthy family, Welles was educated at private schools. He studied law but in 1826 became cofounder and editor of the Hartford Times. The next year, he became the youngest member of the Connecticut legislature and served there until 1835. An ardent

France, History Of, Urban prosperity

2005-03-12T00:19:00.000-08:00

Town life continued to flourish. A few places, favoured by political and ecclesiastical as well as by economic circumstances, grew far larger than the rest. Paris could probably count more than 100,000 inhabitants by the late 13th century, possibly many more than that; some great provincial centres—e.g., Toulouse, Bordeaux, Arras, Rouen—may have surpassed 25,000, but most of the older cities

Great Fish River

2005-03-10T18:35:00.000-08:00

Afrikaans Groot-Vis river in the Cape Midlands, Eastern province, southern South Africa. The Great Fish River has a length of 430 miles (692 km) and a drainage area of 11,900 square miles (30,800 square km). Its main northern tributary, the Great Brak River, rises in 7,000-foot- (2,100-metre-) high mountains 30 miles (48 km) south of the Orange River and northeast of Middelburg. The Tarka River, coming from the northeast, and the Baviaans

Lean, Sir David

2005-03-10T04:03:00.000-08:00

Lean was the son of strict Quaker parents and did not see his first film until age 17. He began his film career in 1928 as a teaboy for Gaumont-British studios, where he soon was promoted to clapboard boy, and finally to editor,

Chandler, Norman

2005-03-08T16:18:00.000-08:00

Chandler was the son of Harry Chandler, who owned the Los Angeles Times. After attending Stanford University, Norman joined the Times in 1922 as secretary

Minamoto Yoshiie

2005-03-07T23:47:00.000-08:00

The son of Minamoto Yoriyoshi, Yoshiie aided his father in the battles known as the Earlier Nine Years' War (1051–62), which ultimately resulted in

Paul

2005-03-07T08:31:00.000-08:00

The third son of King Constantine I of Greece, Paul left Greece with his father following Constantine's deposition in 1917. He refused the crown after the death of his brother, King Alexander (October 1920), but returned home in December 1920 upon Constantine's restoration

Shih Tzu

2005-03-05T17:05:00.000-08:00

Tibetan dog breed developed from the Pekingese and the Lhasa apso. Listed in the toy group by the American Kennel Club, the Shih tzu, called in Chinese Shih-tzu kou (“lion dog”), is a long-haired, characteristically active and alert little dog standing about 10 inches (26 cm) and weighing 18 pounds (8 kg) or less. It is longer than it is tall, sturdily built and short-legged, with a short muzzle,

Community Ecology, Climatic effects

2005-03-04T23:40:00.000-08:00

The maximum development of greenhouse conditions occurred in the Cretaceous and was probably associated with an increase of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (see geochronology: Cretaceous environment: Paleoclimate). There were no polar ice caps during this time, and land within both the Arctic and Antarctic circles was able to support

Boucher, François

2005-03-03T22:13:00.000-08:00

Trained by his father, a lace designer, Boucher won the Prix de Rome in 1723. He was influenced by the works of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Peter Paul Rubens, and his teacher François Le Moine (Le Moyne). Boucher's first major commission

Rhynchophthirinan

2005-03-03T00:34:00.000-08:00

The elephant louse (H. elephantis) is found on African and Indian elephants, and H.

Leucothea

2005-03-01T06:51:00.000-08:00

(Greek: White Goddess [of the Foam]), in Greek mythology, a sea goddess first mentioned in Homer's Odyssey, in which she rescued the Greek hero Odysseus from drowning. She was customarily identified with Ino, daughter of the Phoenician Cadmus; because she cared for the infant god Dionysus, the goddess Hera drove Ino (or her husband, Athamas) mad so that she and her son, Melicertes,

Ford, Francis Xavier

2005-02-28T02:09:00.000-08:00

Ford was ordained in 1917 and went to China the next year in the first group of Maryknoll missionaries sent to that country. He founded the Maryknoll Seminary for Chinese Boys in Yang-chiang in 1921 and in 1922 established the first overseas convent

Fain, Sammy

2005-02-27T18:55:00.000-08:00

Fain was a self-taught pianist who played by ear. He began working as a staff

Heikal, Muhammad Hassanein

2005-02-27T00:01:00.000-08:00

Educated at Cairo University, Heikal became a reporter for the Egyptian Gazette

Mascara

2005-02-25T19:29:00.000-08:00

Also called (after 1981) Mouaskar, town, northwestern Algeria, situated about 40 miles (60 km) south of the Mediterranean coast. Spread across two hills separated by the Wadi Toudman, it lies on the southern slope of the Beni Chougran Range of the Atlas Mountains. Mascara (meaning “mother of soldiers”) was founded as a Turkish military garrison in 1701. In about 1790 the town was abandoned by the Spanish Muslims who had

Madison Square Garden

2005-02-25T04:39:00.000-08:00

Indoor sports arena in New York City. The original Madison Square Garden (1874) was a converted railroad station at Madison Square; in 1891 a sports arena was built on the site, designed by Stanford White and dedicated chiefly to boxing. In 1925 a new Madison Square Garden was built at Eighth Avenue and 50th Street, with an arena suitable for basketball, hockey, and other sports; it was the

Tea Act

2005-02-23T18:51:00.000-08:00

(1773), in British American colonial history, legislative maneuver by the British ministry of Lord North to make English tea marketable in America. A previous crisis had been averted in 1770 when all the Townshend Acts (q.v.) duties had been lifted except that on tea, which had been mainly supplied to the Colonies since then by Dutch smugglers. In an effort to help the financially

Dublin, Climate

2005-02-23T13:21:00.000-08:00

With its coastal site on the western seaboard of the Irish Sea, Dublin enjoys a mild climate. The average temperature is lowest in January–February, 42° F (6° C), and highest in July–August, 59° F (15° C). Sunshine averages four hours a day. The mean annual rainfall is 30–40 inches (760–1,000 millimetres), although the rate is higher in the mountains. The period of maximum rainfall occurs in winter, and there

Arnoldson, Klas Pontus

2005-02-21T05:13:00.000-08:00

Arnoldson became a railway clerk and rose to stationmaster (1871–81) but then left the railway to devote himself entirely to politics. In 1881 he was elected to the Riksdag, the Swedish

Raymond Vii

2005-02-20T20:27:00.000-08:00

After helping to recover lands of which his

Italy, Economic and political crisis

2005-02-20T01:50:00.000-08:00

Italy was faced with serious postwar economic problems. Wartime governments had printed money to pay for arms, and inflation became deep-rooted: by the end of 1920 the lira was worth only one-sixth of its 1913 value. Savings became worthless, and landowners found themselves receiving insignificant rents. Meanwhile the major arms and shipbuilding firms went bankrupt after

Masaka

2005-02-18T03:18:00.000-08:00

Town, southern Uganda, situated about 80 miles (130 km) southwest of Kampala (the national capital), at an elevation of 4,300 feet (1,310 m). Roads connect it with Mbirizi, Lyantonde, and Mbarara. It is a market town and important commercial centre for the surrounding rich coffee-growing area. Its industries produce processed meat and fish, beverages, footwear, furniture, bakery products, glass,

Triassic Period, Marine deposits

2005-02-16T23:47:00.000-08:00

Major linear depositional troughs developed around Panthalassa, the ancestor of the Pacific Ocean, during the Early and Middle Triassic. Great quantities of marine sediments collected in these troughs, as indicated by deposits—now mainly sandstones, shales, and graywackes—located in the western Pacific basinal belt (New Zealand and Japan) and the eastern basinal

Dead Sea Scrolls

2005-02-16T01:43:00.000-08:00

Ancient, mostly Hebrew, manuscripts (of leather, papyrus, and copper) first found in 1947 on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is among the more important finds in the history of modern archaeology. Study of the scrolls has enabled scholars to push back the date of a stabilized Hebrew Bible to no later than AD 70, to help reconstruct the history

Metatron

2005-02-15T23:27:00.000-08:00

Greatest of angels in Jewish myths and legends, variously identified as the Prince (or Angel) of the Presence, as Michael the archangel, or as Enoch after his ascent into heaven. He is likewise described as a celestial scribe recording the sins and merits of men, as a guardian of heavenly secrets, as God's mediator with men, as the “lesser Yahweh,” as the archetype of man, and

Cloisonnism

2005-02-14T16:40:00.000-08:00

Painting method used in the style known as Synthetism (q.v.).

Amulet

2005-02-12T22:14:00.000-08:00

Natural amulets

Jacoba Of Bavaria

2005-02-12T00:15:00.000-08:00

Jacoba, the only daughter and heiress of William, count of Zeeland, Holland,

Culver City

2005-02-10T13:04:00.000-08:00

City, Los Angeles county, California, U.S. Part of Rancho La Ballona, it was laid out in 1914 by Harry H. Culver and promoted as a site for motion-picture production, becoming the home of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Hal Roach studios. Television shows were produced at what were the Desilu and before that the RKO studios. Petroleum, aircraft, and electronic industries are the other

Constant, Benjamin

2005-02-10T03:36:00.000-08:00

The son of a Swiss officer in the Dutch service, whose family was of French origin, he studied at Erlangen, Ger., briefly at the University of Oxford, and at Edinburgh. In 1787 he formed, in Paris, his first liaison, with Madame de

Selim, Mosque Of

2005-02-09T11:33:00.000-08:00

Turkish Selimiye Cami, in Edirne, Tur., mosque, considered to be the masterwork of the great Ottoman architect Sinan, completed in 1575. The sanctuary is a large square space, covered by a dome supported by columns placed close to the walls, an innovation at the time. Four tall, slender minarets contrast with the mass of domes and half-domes.

Pa

2005-02-07T06:31:00.000-08:00

Pinyin Ba ancient tribe and later an ancient Chinese feudal state that came into being in the 11th century BC, under the Western Chou. It was situated in the Chia-ling valley of what is now central Szechwan. Pa established relations with the mid-Yangtze kingdom of Ch'u in the 5th century BC. Shortly before 316 BC, the state was conquered by the Ch'in and incorporated into the Ch'in empire. In the middle

Porsangen

2005-02-07T06:11:00.000-08:00

Fjord, indenting the coast of Finmark fylke (county), extreme northern Norway on the Arctic Ocean. An inlet of the Barents Sea, the fjord is approximately 80 mi (130 km) long and lies well north of the Arctic Circle. Adjacent to the mouth of the fjord is a largely uninhabited area, Sværholtklubben, which serves as home to thousands of seabirds. Many islands are found in Porsangen;

Ankle

2005-02-06T13:14:00.000-08:00

In humans, hinge-type, freely moving synovial joint between the foot and leg. The ankle contains seven tarsal bones that articulate (connect) with each other, with the metatarsal bones of the foot, and with the bones of the lower leg. The articulation of one of the tarsal bones, the ankle bone (talus, or astragalus), with the fibula and tibia of the lower leg forms the actual

Insurance, Life insurance

2005-02-04T23:16:00.000-08:00

Life insurance may be defined as a plan under which large groups of individuals can equalize the burden of loss from death by distributing funds to the beneficiaries of those who die. From the individual standpoint life insurance is a means by which an estate may be created immediately for one's heirs and dependents. It has achieved its greatest acceptance in Canada,

Mineral, Halides

2005-02-04T08:28:00.000-08:00

Members of this class are distinguished by the large-sized anions of the halogens chlorine, bromine, iodine, and fluorine. The ions carry a charge of negative one and easily become distorted in the presence of strongly charged bodies. When associated with rather large, weakly polarizing cations of low charge, such as those of the alkali metals, both anions and cations

Ugarit

2005-02-03T02:54:00.000-08:00

Ancient city lying in a large artificial mound called Ras Shamra (Ra's Shamrah), 6 miles (10 km) north of Al-Ladhiqiyah (Latakia) on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria. Its ruins, about half a mile from the shore, were first uncovered by the plow of a peasant at Al-Bayda Bay. Excavations were begun in 1929 by a French archaeological mission under the direction of Claude F.A.

Peru, Pre-Hispanic patterns

2005-02-02T11:55:00.000-08:00

Diverse groups of indigenous Indians occupied Peru during the pre-Hispanic period. When the first migrants arrived in the Andean area, probably more than 13,000 years ago, they were at a hunting and gathering stage of cultural development. Over a long period of time, however, varied and more sophisticated ways of life were developed. Along the coast, groups became specialized

Keyboard Instrument, The short octave

2005-02-01T08:46:00.000-08:00

Even after the present arrangement of five raised keys and seven natural keys per octave had become standard in the 15th century, two exceptions existed. The first of these—the “short octave”—concerned only the lowest octave at the bass end of the keyboard. In the short octave, not all keys actually sounded notes of the expected pitch; their respective strings were tuned

Beach Boys, The

2005-01-30T10:15:00.000-08:00

American rock group whose dulcet melodies and distinctive vocal mesh defined the 1960s youthful idyll of sun-drenched southern California. The original members were Brian Wilson (b. June 20, 1942, Inglewood, Calif., U.S.), Dennis Wilson (b. Dec. 4, 1944, Inglewood—d. Dec. 28, 1983, Marina del Rey, Calif.), Carl Wilson (b. Dec. 21, 1946, Los Angeles, Calif.—d. Feb. 6, 1998, Los Angeles), Michael Love (b. March 15, 1941, Los Angeles), and Alan Jardine (b. Sept.

Kunlun Mountains

2005-01-30T09:33:00.000-08:00

The northern rim of the Kunlun Mountains, skirting the Tarim Basin, served for centuries as the southerly branch of the Silk Road that, until the 16th century, connected China with Central and West Asia. Wool and salt were the main products brought down from the heights of the Kunluns to the oases on the edge of the Takla Makan Desert. Small regional Buddhist monasteries

La Hire, Laurent De

2005-01-28T22:52:00.000-08:00

He was the son of the painter Étienne de La Hire (c. 1583–1643) but was most influenced by the work of Georges Lallemont and Orazio Gentileschi. His picture of “Pope Nicolas V at the Tomb of Saint Francis” was done in 1630 for the Capuchins, for whom he executed several other

Los Islands

2005-01-28T03:11:00.000-08:00

French Îles De Los, small archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, off Conakry, the capital of Guinea, West Africa. They provide protection for the port of Conakry and include Tamara (Factory), Kassa, Roume (Crawford), Blanche (White), and De Corail (Coral) and several smaller islets. Tamara, the largest (8 miles [13 km] long and 1–2 miles [1.6–3 km] wide), has the highest point of elevation (499 feet [152 m]). Only Tamara and Kassa have

Ibaraki

2005-01-26T21:10:00.000-08:00

Prefecture (ken), central Honshu, Japan, facing the Pacific Ocean. It occupies 2,351 sq mi (6,090 sq km) of the northeastern Kanto Plain. Ibaraki is bordered (south) by the Tone-gawa (Tone River) and contains part of Suigo-Tsukuba Quasi-national Park. Main features of this section of the park include Kasumiga-ura (Lake Kasumi), the second largest Japanese lake after Lake Biwa; the canals and

Koriyama

2005-01-26T09:53:00.000-08:00

City, Fukushima Prefecture (ken), Honshu, Japan, located at the junction of the Tohoku Line and the Ban-etsu Line (railways), north-northeast of Tokyo. It developed as an industrial and communications centre, producing textiles, chemicals, and machinery. Power is generated with coal from the nearby Joban coalfield and by hydroelectric plants on the Nippashi-gawa (Nippashi

Delos

2005-01-24T19:51:00.000-08:00

Since 1873 the École

Yuma Desert

2005-01-24T00:28:00.000-08:00

The Yuma Desert is a region of low sandy plains and dunes. The area is nearly barren,

Chibchan Languages

2005-01-23T14:54:00.000-08:00

A group of South American Indian languages that were spoken before AD 1500 in the area now comprising Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, western Colombia, and Ecuador. A now extinct Chibchan language sometimes known as Muisca was the language of a powerful Indian empire with its centre near Bogotá. Important present-day Chibchan languages include Guaymí and Move in Panama,

Ptolemy Xii Auletes

2005-01-21T19:37:00.000-08:00

Following the sudden, violent deaths of the last two fully legitimate members of the Ptolemaic family in Egypt, the people of Alexandria in 80 invited Ptolemy

Fagales

2005-01-21T08:33:00.000-08:00

Beech order of dicotyledonous woody flowering plants, a division of the subclass Hamamelidae.

Zárate

2005-01-20T06:22:00.000-08:00

City, northeastern Buenos Aires province, Argentina, on the Río Paraná de las Palmas, a channel of the lower Paraná delta emptying into the Río de la Plata northwest of Buenos Aires. Founded in 1825 as Rincón de Zárate, the settlement was given city status in 1909. From 1932 to 1946 it was known as General Uriburu. Although wheat, alfalfa, flax, and potatoes are cultivated and livestock are

Amorbach

2005-01-18T19:05:00.000-08:00

City, Bavaria Land (state), southwestern Germany, in the Odenwald (wooded upland), southwest of Würzburg. It originated around a Benedictine monastery in the 8th century and came under the jurisdiction of the electors of Mainz in 1272. Amorbach became the residence of the princes of Leiningen in 1803 and passed to Bavaria in 1816. The modern city is a health resort and has woodworking

V-1 Missile

2005-01-17T13:25:00.000-08:00

More than 8,000 V-1s were launched against London from June 13, 1944, to March 29, 1945, with about 2,400 hitting the target area. A smaller number were fired against Belgium. The rockets were launched from the Pas-de-Calais area on the northern coast of France and subsequently from other sites in German-occupied

Tokyo

2005-01-16T15:53:00.000-08:00

The site of Tokyo has been inhabited since ancient times; the small fishing village of Edo existed there for

Vistula Lagoon

2005-01-15T01:38:00.000-08:00

German Frisches Haff , Polish Zalew Wislany , Russian Vislinsky Zaliv shallow, marsh-fringed lagoon on the Baltic coast, bisected by the Polish-Russian border and considered part of the Gulf of Gdansk. Covering 330 square miles (855 square km), it is 56 miles (90 km) long, 6 to 15 miles (10 to 19 km) wide, and up to 17 feet (5 m) deep. The Nogat, the eastern distributary of the Vistula River delta, is the principal river entering the lagoon. The long, narrow Vistula Spit protects the

Salé

2005-01-14T04:31:00.000-08:00

Arabic Sla, old walled city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. It lies at the mouth of the Wadi Bou Regreg, opposite Rabat. Founded in the 10th century, it reached its zenith as a medieval merchant port and entrepôt. After 1627 Salé—with Rabat as its vassal—became the corsair republic of Bou Regreg and the base for the notorious Sallee Corsairs, the most dreaded of the Barbary pirates; because

Trickster Tale

2005-01-12T17:01:00.000-08:00

In oral traditions worldwide, an anecdote of deceit, magic, and violence perpetrated by an animal-human with special or magical powers. Usually grouped in cycles, these tales feature a trickster-hero who within a single society may be regarded as both creator god and innocent fool, evil destroyer and childlike prankster. In psychological terms, the trickster may

1850, Compromise Of

2005-01-08T22:17:00.000-08:00

Series of compromise measures passed by the U.S. Congress in an effort to settle several outstanding slavery issues and to avert the threat of dissolution of the Union. The crisis arose from the request of the territory of California (Dec. 3, 1849) to be admitted to the Union with a constitution prohibiting slavery. The problem was complicated by the unresolved question of

Allan, Sir Hugh

2005-01-05T20:28:00.000-08:00

Allan emigrated to Canada in 1826 and in 1831 began work for a shipbuilding company in Montreal. By 1839 he was a senior partner, and by 1853 he and his brother

Lin Shu

2005-01-03T00:09:00.000-08:00

Pinyin Lin Shu translator who first made available to Chinese readers more than 171 works of Western literature, even though he himself had no firsthand knowledge of any foreign language and had never traveled abroad. Working through oral interpreters, Lin Shu translated fiction from England, the United States, France, Russia, Switzerland,

Blueberry

2005-01-02T08:48:00.000-08:00

Blueberries grow only in highly acidic and well-drained but moist soils. About 36,000 acres (14,500 hectares) of the high-bush blueberry

Hillegom

2004-12-31T04:23:00.000-08:00

Gemeente (commune), Zuid-Holland provincie, western Netherlands, on the Ringvaart, a canal around the Haarlemmermeer polder. With Lisse it is one of the two great commercial centres of Holland's bulb-growing district and is the site of the Treslong Demonstration Garden (1949) and bulb exchange. The annual Bulb Parade held on a Saturday in late April passes through Hillegom.

'ud

2004-12-29T08:22:00.000-08:00

Also spelled Oud, stringed musical instrument prominent in medieval and modern Islamic music. It was the parent of the European lute. The 'ud has a deep, pear-shaped body; a fretless fingerboard; and a relatively shorter neck and somewhat less acutely bent-back pegbox than the European lute. The tuning pegs are set in the sides of the pegbox. The gut strings, plucked with a plectrum, are fastened

Turin Papyrus

2004-12-26T16:44:00.000-08:00

Also called Turin Papyrus Of Kings, or Turin Canon, hieratic manuscript of the 19th dynasty of Egypt, listing the kings of Egypt from earliest times to the reign of Ramses II (1279–13 BC), under whom it was written. Although the papyrus, now in the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy, is in very fragmentary condition, it is still considered the most detailed and reliable of the existing Egyptian king lists. It lists not only names but also

Locust

2004-12-25T00:56:00.000-08:00

Species of short-horned grasshopper (orthopteran family Acrididae) that often increases greatly in number and migrates long distances in destructive swarms. In Europe the word locust connotes large size; smaller acridids are called grasshoppers. In North America the names locust and grasshopper are used for any acridid. A cicada (order Homoptera) also may be called

Anziku, Kingdom Of

2004-12-23T18:57:00.000-08:00

Also called Kingdom of Teke, or Kingdom of Tyo, historic African state on and north of the Congo River in the vicinity of Malebo Pool. The Teke people lived on the plateaus of the region from early times. It is not known when they organized as a kingdom, but by 1600 their state was a rival of the Kongo kingdom south of the river. Controlling the lower Congo River and extending northwest to the upper Kouilou-Niari basin, Anziku

Ikeya-seki, Comet

2004-12-21T16:15:00.000-08:00

One of a group of Sun-grazing comets having similar orbits and including the great comet known as 1882 II. Discovered Sept. 18, 1965, by two Japanese amateur astronomers, Ikeya Kaoru and Seki Tsutomu, Ikeya-Seki made its closest approach to the Sun (470,000 kilometres, or about 290,000 miles; less than the Sun's radius) on Oct. 21, 1965. The comet was then bright enough to be seen with the naked eye in daylight. Like

Libya, Agriculture, forestry, and fishing

2004-12-19T04:47:00.000-08:00

Agriculture is limited by the environment and by shortages of labour. Only about 1 percent of the total land area is cultivated, mostly on the Al-Jifarah and Barce plains, and about one-tenth of that is irrigated. An additional 8 percent of the land is in pasture. Agricultural development by land reclamation and irrigation is a government priority. The largest projects

Computers, Herman Hollerith's census tabulator

2004-12-16T13:03:00.000-08:00

The U.S. Constitution mandates that a census of the population be performed every 10 years. The first attempt at any mechanization of the census was in 1870, when statistical data were transcribed onto a rolling paper tape displayed through a small slotted window. As the size of America's population exploded in the 19th century, and the number of census questions expanded, the

Lockout

2004-12-15T16:00:00.000-08:00

In the United States, lockouts became a common

Uzbekistan

2004-12-12T21:06:00.000-08:00

Officially Republic of Uzbekistan , Uzbek Uzbekiston , or Uzbekistan Respublikasi country in Central Asia. It lies mainly between two major rivers, the Syr Darya (ancient Jaxartes River) on the northeast and the Amu Darya (ancient Oxus River) on the southwest, though they only partly form its boundaries. Uzbekistan is bordered by Kazakstan on the northwest and north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on the east and southeast, Afghanistan on the south, and

Sufetula

2004-12-09T09:08:00.000-08:00

At Sufetula, as elsewhere in the interior of Tunisia, Roman skill in the conservation

Potassium-argon Dating

2004-12-06T22:30:00.000-08:00

Method of determining the time of origin of rocks by measuring the ratio of radioactive argon to radioactive potassium in the rock. This dating method is based upon the decay of radioactive potassium-40 to radioactive argon-40 in minerals and rocks; potassium-40 also decays to calcium-40. Thus, the ratio of argon-40 and potassium-40 and radiogenic calcium-40 to potassium-40 in a mineral

Cromwell, Richard

2004-12-05T21:55:00.000-08:00

He served in the Parliamentary army and, during his father's protectorate, was a member of the Parliaments of 1654 and 1656. In 1655 he was

Epistemology, Pre-Socratics

2004-12-02T04:19:00.000-08:00

The central focus of ancient Greek philosophy was its attempt to solve the problem of motion. Many pre-Socratic philosophers thought that no logically coherent account of motion and change could be given. This problem was a concern of metaphysics, not epistemology, however, and in the present context it suffices merely to allude to the arguments of Parmenides and