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2007-12-10T05:56:00.000-08:00

as a single dad dating, it's often a problem for me to find a babysitter at the last minute if I've planned a hot date. As if it wasn't hard enough to find someone willing to go on a date with me, I've now got to explain to them that I have to cancel because I can't find a babysitter, and they want to know why I didn't tell them I had kids and it all gets messy.

Except this time it was different, because it was a date with someone I met through single parent fun. When I told her I couldn't find a babysitter, she said not to worry about it, and bring the kids when I go to pick her up! So we split the cost of a sitter and still had a lovely date. If you're a single dad dating, you can't afford not to use Single Parent Fun!

Tooth Replacement Central London

2007-11-22T04:21:00.000-08:00

Missing teeth surrounded by healthy teeth have unique demands. The challenge is to go for tooth replacement, for both appearance and function, without harming your remaining teeth or gum tissue.

Besides good function during chewing, the ideal tooth replacement must look like natural teeth, both to you and to others. The solutions possible with dentistry take advantage of the best appearance possibilities available in tooth replacement.

The ideal tooth replacement must also feel like natural teeth and be easy to keep clean. Knowing your teeth are stable during eating and talking means a lot. Another benefit is that your replacement supported teeth will not decay like natural teeth. You'll be glad that the treatment didn't require grinding down your remaining natural teeth.

sun awnings

2007-10-22T02:12:00.000-07:00

They say it's the things you don't see that make all the difference. And that certainly rings true with Nationwide’s automatic controls and motors for sun awnings, blinds and roller shutters.

As the summer days get longer and the sun seems even hotter, creating the right environment on your patio area is very important. Nationwide is the leading supplier of sun awnings and has a proven track record of supplying high quality products to thousands of people throughout the United Kingdom.

Nationwide sun awnings are tailor-made from a vast range of hard wearing and colorful fabrics and come complete with the option of manual, electric or remote control. Once you have chosen the color, the fabric and the style, your sun awning is tailor-made by a team of skilled craftsmen. When they are complete, they are installed by our fitters, easily and simply, leaving nothing to chance.

Business tips

2007-10-05T06:17:00.000-07:00

We would all like to own a successful business. Being able to sell your products is a key business skill, whether it is through a sprawling showroom, or having an office where you can interact with people. But for all this to happen, you need a place from where you can promote your products – a shop to let.

If you're interested in finding a shop to let for your retail business, Pearl & Coutts is the place for you. Pearl & Coutts is the leading online service providing retailers with direct access to the latest available shop units.

We have a wide selection of shop to let and office space available for immediate rental. Please feel free to search for a property on our web site or call us for an informal chat about your requirements.

Office space to let in london

2007-09-10T06:04:00.000-07:00

I recently experienced a boom in business and required larger premises in London. We were looking for office space to let in london and having a nightmare of it until we met Pearl & Coutts, who specialise in office space to let in london. Their friendly staff catered for all our office space needs, even when we told them we need our office space to let us play table tennis.

A wide range of competitively priced office space available for instant rental.

2007-07-03T08:24:00.000-07:00

Pearl & Coutts, part of the Structadene Group, is a business which specialises in quality commercial property lettings in London. The commercial property available covers many areas across London, with the majority being located in central London. Pearl & Coutts have a wide selection of competitively priced commercial office space available for immediate rental.

If you are looking for commercial property in London to let, Pearl & Coutts’ are likely to be able to assist. Established since 1965 and specialising in commercial property, Pearl & Coutts has a wide range of competitively priced office space available for instant rental.

James Hull Cosmetic Dentists

2006-10-18T10:45:00.000-07:00

I was so impressed with my experience with cosmetic dentistry after suffering years of being self-conscious due to my stained and wonky teeth! I visited James Hull Cosmetic Dentist Specialists who provide a full range of dental treatments and have in-house specialists to provide more complex dental treatments in cosmetic dentistry. James Hull’s procedures include a full range of cosmetic dental treatments including tooth whitening, veneers, crowns and implants. All in all, they offered me a great experience.

Lord Chief Justice

2005-10-16T06:45:00.000-07:00

In England and Wales, the head of the Queen's (or King's) Bench Division of the High Court of Justice and next in rank to the lord chancellor. Appointed by the crown on the nomination of the prime minister, he usually presides over the Court of Criminal Appeal and is an ex officio member of the Court of Appeal. He is invariably raised to the peerage on appointment and so is able

Hveragerdhi

2005-07-27T09:45:00.000-07:00

Village, southwestern Iceland. It lies midway between the lake of Thingvallavatn to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the south. The centre of Iceland's hothouse industry, Hveragerdhi is noted for its fruit (especially tomatoes and even bananas), vegetables, and flowers, all of which are grown under glass. The hothouses are heated by steam from the numerous hot springs

Bilberry

2005-07-25T15:00:00.000-07:00

The dark blue berries, ripening in

Chancre

2005-07-23T03:45:00.000-07:00

Typical skin lesion of the primary stage of infectious syphilis, usually appearing on the penis, labia, cervix, or anorectal region. (Because in women the chancre often occurs internally, it may go unnoticed.) The lesion often occurs in combination with a painless swelling of the regional lymph nodes, and together these symptoms are the major characteristics of syphilis

Caballé, Montserrat

2005-07-08T01:10:00.000-07:00

Spanish operatic soprano, admired for her versatility and phrasing and for her performances in the operas of Giuseppe Verdi, Gaetano Donizetti, and Richard Strauss. She began her studies as a child at the Conservatorio del Liceo in Barcelona with Eugenia Kenny and later continued with Napoleone Annovazzi and Conchita Badía. In 1956 she joined the Basel

Miracle, Judaism

2005-07-06T05:40:00.000-07:00

The 300 genera of muroid rodents are classified within 18 subfamilies, but more than

Dual Organization

2005-06-29T05:45:00.000-07:00

A social structure characterized by the division of society into two complementary parts called moieties. According to a strict definition, moieties are groups that are exogamous (i.e., marriage between members of the same moiety is forbidden), of unilineal descent, and in some sense opposed. Sometimes the term moiety is used more loosely to refer simply to one of two

Aelfric

2005-06-15T22:55:00.000-07:00

Anglo-Saxon prose writer, considered the greatest of his time. He wrote both to instruct the monks and to spread the learning of the 10th-century monastic revival. His Catholic Homilies, written in 990–992, provided orthodox sermons, based on the Church Fathers. He also wrote a Latin grammar, hence his nickname Grammaticus, and Lives of the Saints.

Sales Tax

2005-06-03T07:45:00.000-07:00

Levy imposed upon the sale of goods and services. A sales tax levied on the manufacture, purchase, sale, or consumption of a specific type of commodity is known as an excise tax. American terminology in this matter tends to differ from that used in the United Kingdom and former British colonies, however. In the United States, excises apply to imports as well as to domestic

French Literature, Religious authors

2005-06-01T02:10:00.000-07:00

A new intellectual climate can be recognized from 1680 onward. An increased spiritual awareness resulting from Jansenist teaching, the preaching of Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet and others, and the influence of Mme de Maintenon at court, marked French cultural life with a new moral earnestness and devotion. The position of Bossuet is an ambivalent one. In spite of his outspoken

Art And Architecture, Mesopotamian, Architecture

2005-05-17T17:20:00.000-07:00

The beginnings of monumental architecture in Mesopotamia are usually considered to have been contemporary with the founding of the Sumerian cities and the invention of writing, in about 3100 BC. Conscious attempts at architectural design during this so-called Protoliterate period (c. 3400–c. 2900 BC) are recognizable in the construction of religious buildings. There is, however,

Wilberforce, Samuel

2005-05-15T23:00:00.000-07:00

The son of the politician and antislavery

Mosaic

2005-05-13T20:55:00.000-07:00

In art, decoration of a surface with designs made up of closely set, usually variously coloured, small pieces of material such as stone, mineral, glass, tile, or shell. Unlike inlay, in which the pieces to be applied are set into a surface that has been hollowed out to receive the design, mosaic pieces are applied onto a surface that has been prepared with an adhesive. Mosaic

Arundel, Thomas Howard, 2nd (or 14th) Earl Of, Earl Of Surrey, Earl Of Norfolk

2005-03-15T03:42:00.000-08:00

The son of Philip Howard, the first earl of the Howard line, he was educated at Westminster School and at Trinity College, Cambridge. On April 18, 1604, he was restored to his father's earldom of Arundel and to the

S�rensen, Rasmus M�ller

2005-03-14T05:49:00.000-08:00

In the 1820s and 1830s S�rensen, serving as tutor on the estates of several progressive landowners, developed his ideas of peasant reform. He championed the opening of folk high schools for practical

Jordan

2005-03-11T23:13:00.000-08:00

The World Economic Forum (WEF) convened its extraordinary meeting, held June 21 - 23, 2003, on the Jordanian shores of the Dead Sea. Klaus Schwab, president of the WEF, justified the meeting place by stating that �the world and, above all, the [Middle Eastern] region were in urgent need of healing processes.� Policy makers, political leaders, academicians, intellectuals, and religious

Program Music

2005-03-07T04:34:00.000-08:00

Instrumental music that carries some extramusical meaning, some �program� of literary idea, legend, scenic description, or personal drama. It is contrasted with so-called absolute, or abstract, music, in which artistic interest is supposedly confined to abstract constructions in sound. It has been stated that the concept of program music does not represent a genre

Sinkiang, Uygur Autonomous Region Of, Climate

2005-03-06T06:31:00.000-08:00

Rainfall is not only scanty but it also fluctuates widely from year

Overture

2005-03-05T18:06:00.000-08:00

Musical composition, usually the orchestral introduction to a musical work (often dramatic), but also an independent instrumental work. Early operas opened with a sung prologue or a short instrumental flourish, such as the trumpet �Toccata� that opens Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607). Subsequent 17th-century operas were sometimes preceded by a short instrumental piece

China, Coinage

2005-03-04T11:31:00.000-08:00

Copper coins were used throughout the Ming dynasty. Paper money was used for various kinds of payments and grants by the government, but it was always nonconvertible and, consequently, lost value disastrously. It would, in fact, have been utterly valueless except that it was prescribed for the payment of certain types of taxes. The exchange of precious metals was forbidden

Sinn F�in

2005-03-04T11:12:00.000-08:00

Political wing of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). Sinn F�in, organized in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, is a Nationalist party in Northern Ireland, representing Roman Catholics who want to achieve a united Ireland through whatever means are necessary, including violence. The party was led by Gerry Adams from 1983.

Resheph

2005-03-03T14:44:00.000-08:00

Ancient West Semitic god of the plague and of the underworld, the companion of Anath, and the equivalent of the Babylonian god Nergal. He was also a war god and was thus represented as a bearded man brandishing an ax, holding a shield, and wearing a tall, pointed headdress with a goat's or gazelle's head on his forehead. Resheph was worshiped especially at Ras Shamra, Byblos,

Aurora

2005-03-03T08:06:00.000-08:00

City, Adams, Arapahoe, and Douglas counties, north-central Colorado, U.S. An eastern suburb of Denver, Aurora was the third most populous city in Colorado at the start of the 21st century and, occupying 280 square miles (725 square km), the state's largest city in area. Founded during the silver boom of 1891 and named Fletcher after its Canadian-born founder, Donald Fletcher, it flourished

Vads�

2005-03-02T09:28:00.000-08:00

Town and seat of Finnmark fylke (county), northern Norway. Located on the northern shore of Varangerfjorden, the original settlement was on the adjacent island of Vass�ya, but in the early 1700s the port was reestablished on the mainland. Vads� received its town charter in 1833, and the town prospered, principally through trade with Russia. It was almost totally destroyed by

Interior Design, India

2005-03-02T00:15:00.000-08:00

Words of Indian origin such as calico, chintz, and palampore indicate the importance of Indian textiles in the history of western interior design (see photograph). Yet the Indians themselves have never been very conscious of this role, their own domestic interiors being of the utmost simplicity, with hardly more than a carpet or prayer mat to offset stone floors and

Wilamowitz-moellendorff, Ulrich Von

2005-03-01T17:16:00.000-08:00

Educated at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, Wilamowitz-Moellendorff served in the Franco-German War (1870) and traveled through Italy and Greece.

Carloman

2005-03-01T15:45:00.000-08:00

Eldest son of Louis II the German and father of the emperor Arnulf. Carloman rebelled against his father in 861 and 863 but in 865 was entrusted by Louis with a share in his authority, being granted jurisdiction over Bavaria and Carinthia. After this he remained loyal to his father, even helping to suppress the rebellion of his two younger brothers

Polarization

2005-02-28T15:50:00.000-08:00

Light waves are transverse: that is, the vibrating electric vector associated with each wave is perpendicular to the direction of propagation. A beam of unpolarized light consists of waves moving in the same direction

Albania, Flag Of

2005-02-28T06:39:00.000-08:00

On November 28, 1443, the national hero of Albania, a prince known as Skanderbeg (George Kastrioti), raised his flag over the fortress of Kruj� in defiance of the Turks who ruled the country. His small mountainous nation was able to resist the forces of the Ottoman Empire, although after Skanderbeg's death in 1468 independence was lost again. His flag was red and bore a black eagle, even

Cincinnatian Series

2005-02-27T04:58:00.000-08:00

Uppermost rocks of the Ordovician System, defined on the basis of exposures seen around the region of Cincinnati, Ohio, where they consist of numerous limestone formations that are richly fossiliferous. (The Ordovician Period lasted from 505 to 438 million years ago.) To the south and west of Cincinnati, the deposits are fragmentary, whereas deposits found in the Appalachian

Metal Point

2005-02-26T00:12:00.000-08:00

Descendant of the stylus of classical times and ancestor of the modern pencil, a small, sharpened metal rod used for drawing precise compositions on paper or parchment. The metal could be lead, silver, copper, or gold, but silverpoint was the most common choice because it is the most suited to permanent drawing, its stroke adhering unerasably. The silverpoint was of

France, History Of, Culture and learning

2005-02-25T21:23:00.000-08:00

Literacy and elementary learning became more widespread. The courtly tastes of the 12th century, while not obliterated, were overtaken by a more flexible and ironic sensibility evident in vernacular ballads, fables, satires, and moralizing literature, most popular in the northern towns. The burgher or knight began to take a keen interest in the tangible world about

Vienne River

2005-02-25T03:52:00.000-08:00

River, western France, 217 mi (350 km) in length, a left-bank tributary of the Loire. Rising on the Plateau de Millevaches, the Vienne winds through the agricultural regions of five d�partements. It flows west-northwest into the Haute-Vienne d�partement, receiving the Maulde and Taurion tributaries, which are dammed in several places, before it flows past the city of Limoges.

Aerospace Industry, Research

2005-02-24T21:03:00.000-08:00

The world's aerospace industry undertakes research and development alone and in conjunction with governmental agencies and academia. The ultimate aim of the effort is the creation of flight vehicles more advanced than their predecessors. Because of the complexity - i.e., the �systems� nature - of the industry's end products, advancements commonly require improvements

Aleutian Islands

2005-02-24T02:17:00.000-08:00

Chain of small islands that separate the Bering Sea (north) from the main portion of the Pacific Ocean (south) and extend in an arc southwest, then northwest, for about 1,100 miles (1,800 km) from the tip of the Alaska Peninsula to Attu Island, Alaska, U.S. The archipelago consists of 14 large islands, some 55 smaller islands, and innumerable islets, all of which occupy a land area of 6,821 square miles

Aerospace Industry, Research

2005-02-23T15:23:00.000-08:00

Dynamite

2005-02-23T06:56:00.000-08:00

Blasting explosive, patented in 1867 by the Swedish physicist Alfred Nobel. Dynamite is based on nitroglycerin but is much safer to handle than nitroglycerin alone. By mixing the nitroglycerin with kieselguhr, a porous siliceous earth, in proportions that left an essentially dry and granular material, Nobel produced a solid that was resistant to shock but readily

Abu Kalijar Al-marzuban Ibn Sultan Ad-dawlah

2005-02-22T13:30:00.000-08:00

When his father, Sultan ad-Dawlah, died in December 1023/January 1024, Abu Kalijar's succession to the sultan's Iranian possessions of Fars and Khuzistan was challenged by his uncle Abu al-Fawaris, the ruler of Kerman, to the west. By 1028 Abu Kalijar was

Levi-civita, Tullio

2005-02-22T01:46:00.000-08:00

Italian mathematician known for his work in differential calculus and relativity theory. At the University of Padua (1891 - 95), he studied under Gregorio Ricci Curbastro, with whom he later collaborated in founding the absolute differential calculus (now known as tensor analysis). Levi-Civita became an instructor there in 1898 and a professor

Absolute Zero

2005-02-21T08:51:00.000-08:00

The notion that there is an ultimately lowest temperature was suggested by the behaviour of gases at low pressures: it was noted that gases seem to contract indefinitely as the temperature is decreased. It appeared that an ideal

Ubiquinone

2005-02-21T08:48:00.000-08:00

Also called �Coenzyme Q, � any of several members of a series of organic compounds belonging to a class called quinones. Widely distributed in plants, animals, and microorganisms, ubiquinones function in conjunction with enzymes in cellular respiration (i.e., oxidation-reduction processes). The naturally occurring ubiquinones differ from each other only slightly in chemical structure,

Hess's Law Of Heat Summation

2005-02-20T13:57:00.000-08:00

Rule first enunciated by Germain Henri Hess, a Swiss-born Russian chemist, in 1840, stating that the heat absorbed or evolved in any chemical reaction is a fixed quantity and is independent of the path of the reaction or the number of steps taken to obtain the reaction. Hess's law is a consequence of the first law of thermodynamics and need not be considered a separate thermodynamic

Music, Music and world view

2005-02-20T02:40:00.000-08:00

Again, music proves its protean susceptibilities in the service of disparate world views. Among humanist psychologists (such as the Americans Gordon Allport and Abraham Maslow) music may be one among other means toward self-fulfillment, integration, self-actualization; for aesthetic Existentialists (such as the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre) it is yet another

Vienna State Opera

2005-02-19T14:47:00.000-08:00

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

Moses, Assumption Of

2005-02-19T05:13:00.000-08:00

A pseudepigraphal work (not in any biblical canon), a prophecy of the future relating to Israel, put into the mouth of Moses and addressed to Joshua just before the great lawgiver died. Using Moses' predictions and instructions to Joshua as a framework, the book's unknown author sets forth a brief history of Israel from Moses to the messianic age as viewed in apocalyptic

Tavoy

2005-02-18T21:39:00.000-08:00

The surrounding area lies between the Andaman Sea and lower Thailand and is drained

Assam

2005-02-18T09:16:00.000-08:00

State of India. It is located in the northeastern part of the country and has an area of 30,285 square miles (78,438 square kilometres). It is bounded to the north by the kingdom of Bhutan and the state of Arunachal Pradesh; to the east by the states of Nagaland and Manipur; to the south by the states of Mizoram and Tripura; and to the west by the state of Meghalaya, Bangladesh, and the state of West

Alderman

2005-02-17T20:40:00.000-08:00

Member of the legislative body of a municipal corporation in England and the United States. In Anglo-Saxon England, ealdormen, or aldermen, were high-ranking officials of the crown who exercised judicial, administrative, or military functions. Earls, the governors of shires (counties), and other persons of distinction were among those who received the title of alderman.

Peter, Hugh

2005-02-17T18:37:00.000-08:00

Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was ordained a priest in the Anglican Church in 1623. He went to London in 1626 and was appointed preacher at St. Sepulchre's, but his unorthodox views led to the suspension of his preaching license in 1627. He

Sun Tzu

2005-02-16T21:40:00.000-08:00

The book is traditionally attributed to Sun Tzu (personal name Sun Wu), a military strategist and general who served the state of Wu near the end of the Spring and Autumn Period (770 - 476 BC). It is more likely, however, that it was written early in the Warring

Loden Coat

2005-02-16T16:56:00.000-08:00

Loden cloth is dyed in several colours, but bluish green is the most common. The jacket sometimes has a stiff, standup collar and is trimmed with

Shiraz Rug

2005-02-15T11:11:00.000-08:00

Handwoven floor covering made in the district around the city of Shiraz in southern Iran. The best known are the Qashqa'i rugs, products of nomadic tribesmen. A group of tribes - some Arab, some Turkish, forming the Khamseh Confederation - weaves rugs somewhat similar to the Qashqa'i pieces in a variety of patterns, as do the inhabitants of certain Iranian weaving villages in

Actinide Element

2005-02-15T08:54:00.000-08:00

Any of a series of 15 consecutive chemical elements in the periodic table from actinium to lawrencium (atomic numbers 89 - 103). As a group they are significant largely because of their radioactivity. Although several members of the group, including uranium (the most familiar), occur naturally, most are man-made. Both uranium and plutonium have been used in atomic bombs for their

Buyantu

2005-02-14T11:25:00.000-08:00

Also known as �Ayurparibhadra�, Chinese temple name (y�an) �Jen Tsung�, Pinyin romanization �Yuan Renzong� (reigned 1311 - 20), Mongol emperor of the Y�an dynasty of China, who was a patron of literature. He distributed offices more equitably between Chinese and Mongols than had his predecessors, and during his reign commercial ties with Europe increased.

Frederick Iii

2005-02-14T02:08:00.000-08:00

Frederick, the son of Duke Ernest of Austria, inherited the Habsburg possessions of Inner Austria (Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Gorizia) on his father's death in 1424. By 1439 he had become the senior member of

Amoroso Lima, Alceu

2005-02-13T17:39:00.000-08:00

Amoroso Lima's multifaceted

Bridgwater

2005-02-13T10:34:00.000-08:00

Bristol Channel seaport, Sedgemoor district, administrative and historic county of Somerset, England. The town, which is located in Sedgemoor district, lies to the east of the Quantock Hills, mainly on the right bank of the River Parrett. The first of several charters dates from 1200, and wine and wool fairs were economically important in medieval times. The Church of St.

Padre Island

2005-02-12T16:57:00.000-08:00

Barrier island, 113 miles (182 km) long and up to 3 miles (5 km) wide, lying along the Gulf Coast of Texas, U.S. It extends south from Corpus Christi to Port Isabel and is separated from the mainland by Laguna Madre. The island consists largely of grassy dunes and a broad beach that yields shellfish such as clams and marine snails. The area is well known for its mackerel, sailfish, and tarpon

Plunket (of Newton), William Conyngham Plunket, 1st Baron

2005-02-12T00:39:00.000-08:00

Called to the Irish bar in 1787, Plunket was highly successful as an equity lawyer. Entering

Tabwa

2005-02-11T15:17:00.000-08:00

Tabwa observe matrilineal

Bahubali

2005-02-11T01:50:00.000-08:00

After winning a duel with his half-brother for control of the kingdom, Bahubali is believed by the Jains to have realized the transience of temporal affairs and renounced the world. According

Turbat

2005-02-10T20:53:00.000-08:00

Town, Balochistan province, Pakistan. The town is located on the left bank of the Kech River, which is a tributary to the Dasht River. The area in which Turbat is situated is drained to the south by the Dasht River; the Makran Range to the north and east descends to coastal plains in the south. The town is a marketplace for dates grown in the surrounding region and has a date-processing

Soil

2005-02-10T16:07:00.000-08:00

The biologically active, porous medium that has developed in the uppermost layer of the Earth's crust. Soil is one of the principal substrata of life on Earth, serving as a reservoir of water and nutrients, as a medium for the filtration and breakdown of injurious wastes, and as a participant in the cycling of carbon and other elements through the global ecosystem. It

Farm Machinery

2005-02-09T20:36:00.000-08:00

The operations of farming for which machines are used are diverse. For

Elizabeth Of Hungary, Saint

2005-02-09T17:53:00.000-08:00

The daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary, she was betrothed in infancy to Louis IV, son of Hermann I, landgrave of Thuringia,

Pharmaceutical Industry, Dispersions

2005-02-08T02:52:00.000-08:00

Aerosols were formerly defined as colloidal systems consisting of very finely subdivided liquid or solid particles dispersed in a gas. Today the term aerosol, in general usage, has become synonymous with a pressurized package. For pharmaceutical purposes aerosols may be divided into two types. Space sprays disperse the medicament as a finely divided spray with

Bradley, Edward R.

2005-02-08T01:05:00.000-08:00

As a student at Cheyney State College (now Cheyney University of Pennsylvania), Bradley worked his way into broadcasting by volunteering at Philadelphia radio station WDAS-FM. After graduating with a degree in education (B.S., 1964), Bradley became an elementary schoolteacher but continued to work

Wild Ginger

2005-02-07T19:55:00.000-08:00

Canadian wild ginger,

Biblical Literature, I Maccabees

2005-02-07T10:45:00.000-08:00

The first two of the four books of Maccabees are deuterocanonical (accepted by the Roman Catholic Church). The First Book of the Maccabees is preserved in the Greek translation from the Hebrew original, the original Hebrew name of it having been known to the Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria. At the beginning, the author of the book mentions Alexander the

Alismatales

2005-02-06T18:34:00.000-08:00

Also called �Alismales, � the water-plantain order of flowering plants, belonging to the class Liliopsida (monocotyledons; characterized by a single seed leaf). Most species are aquatic and grow submerged or partially exposed to the air in marshes and other freshwater habitats. Many are aquatic weeds that hinder irrigation and navigation, though others provide important habitats for

Hover Fly

2005-02-06T09:30:00.000-08:00

Also called �Flower Fly, or Syrphid Fly, � any member of the insect family Syrphidae (order Diptera), which numbers about 4,000 species. Their various common names refer to the behaviour of hovering around flowers. Hover flies, with their yellow markings, resemble wasps or bees but do not bite or sting. They are distinguished from other flies by a false (spurious) vein that closely parallels the fourth longitudinal

Lemur

2005-02-05T03:02:00.000-08:00

Generally, any of the more primitive primates except the tree shrews. In this sense, the term covers not only the typical lemurs (family Lemuridae) but also the avahi, indri, sifaka, aye-aye, loris, potto, and galago (qq.v.). All these animals are characterized by a naked, moist tip to the muzzle; comblike, forward-directed lower front teeth; and a clawlike nail on the second toe of

Alkali Metal

2005-02-05T01:09:00.000-08:00

Any of the six chemical elements that make up Group I of the periodic table - namely, lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), cesium (Cs), and francium (Fr). (See Figure.) The alkali metals are so called because they form alkalies (i.e., strong bases capable of neutralizing acids) when they combine with other elements. Sodium and potassium are the sixth and seventh most abundant

Regino Von Pr�

2005-02-04T20:55:00.000-08:00

Born to a noble family, Regino joined the Benedictine monastic order at the flourishing Abbey of Pr�m and studied theology and canon law. He was elected

Afghanistan, Nadir Shah

2005-02-04T04:02:00.000-08:00

In 1738, after a year's siege, the city of Kandahar fell to Nadir Shah's army of 80,000 men. Nadir Shah seized Ghazna and Kabul and occupied the Mughal capital at Delhi in 1739. His booty included

Okawa, Isao

2005-02-03T16:34:00.000-08:00

Japanese businessman (b. 1926, Osaka, Japan - d. March 16, 2001, Tokyo, Japan), was chairman of the Sega Corp. from 1984 until his death. Okawa was involved with a number of Japanese technology companies. He founded CSK Corp., a computer services company that was Sega's largest shareholder, and served on the boards of several other companies, including the ASCII Corp. and Bellsystem 24, Inc. As chairman

Coihaique

2005-02-03T14:43:00.000-08:00

City, capital of Ais�n Region in southern archipelagic Chile, 50 mi (80 km) inland of Puerto Ais�n and 25 mi (40 km) west of the Argentine border. Founded in 1912 by a small group of German colonists, it is situated among grassy steppes between the Coihaique and Simpson rivers, in a densely forested and extremely wet coastal region of Patagonian Chile (rainfall reaches 58 in. [1,485 mm] annually). Although

Swan Theatre

2005-02-02T13:43:00.000-08:00

Elizabethan theatre built about 1595 by Francis Langley in Bankside, London. A description and a sketch of the Swan made by Johann DeWitt of Utrecht (the sketch copied by Arend van Buchell) have proved most useful in attempts to reconstruct the form of the Elizabethan theatre. The last known mention of the Swan Theatre was in 1632.

Valdivia, Pedro De

2005-02-01T18:16:00.000-08:00

Valdivia served with the Spanish army in Italy and Flanders before being sent to South America in 1534. During the Peruvian civil war (1538), he fought with Francisco Pizarro against Diego de Almagro. For the Chilean

Bri�onnet, Guillaume

2005-02-01T15:05:00.000-08:00

Bri�onnet was the son of King Charles VIII's counsellor Guillaume Bri�onnet (1445 - 1514), who after his wife's death took holy orders and became bishop of Saint-Malo, archbishop of Reims, archbishop of Narbonne,

Itarsi

2005-01-31T08:45:00.000-08:00

City, central Madhya Pradesh state, central India. A major rail junction connected with Bhopal, Gwalior, and Indore, Itarsi has extensive railway workshops. The city is also a trade centre for forest products from the Satpura Range to the south. A large weekly cattle market is held in the city. Itarsi has several colleges affiliated with the Dr. Harisingh Gour University

Olympiodorus The Younger

2005-01-30T10:51:00.000-08:00

A Neoplatonist philosopher who is famous for having maintained the Platonic tradition in Alexandria after the Byzantine emperor Justinian had suppressed the Greek Academy at Athens and other pagan schools in AD 529. Olympiodorus' extant works include lucid and valuable commentaries on Plato's Phaedo, Gorgias, Philebus, and Alcibiades; a biography of Plato;

Mitchell, Peter Dennis

2005-01-30T05:41:00.000-08:00

Mitchell received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1950. He served as director of the chemistry

Celto-iberian Language

2005-01-29T09:21:00.000-08:00

Also spelled �Celtiberian, � extinct Indo-European language of the western part of the Iberian Peninsula. Celto-Iberian was written in the Iberic script (borrowed from speakers of the non-Indo-European Iberian language in eastern and southern Spain) and is known primarily from a small number of coin inscriptions and an even smaller number of inscriptions on stone. Leading scholars believe

Race

2005-01-29T00:58:00.000-08:00

Contemporary scientists hold that human physical variations, especially in those traits that are normally used to classify people racially - skin colour, hair texture, facial features, and to some extent bodily structure - must be understood in terms of evolutionary processes and the long-range adaptation of human groups to differing environments. Other features

Valdez

2005-01-28T19:14:00.000-08:00

City, southeastern Alaska, U.S. It lies on Prince William Sound and is the northernmost all-year port in North America. Formerly known as Copper City, it was named in 1898 for its harbour (explored and named by Spaniards in 1790) when it became a gateway for the Yukon goldfields. It is a port of entry and the southern terminal for the trans-Alaskan pipeline from Prudhoe Bay. The petroleum

D.c.b.

2005-01-28T13:51:00.000-08:00

Dame commander of the Bath, member of the second highest rank of knightly class in a British order of knighthood. See Bath, The Most Honourable Order of the.

China, Relations with other peoples

2005-01-27T09:03:00.000-08:00

Simultaneously with the rise of the Ch'in and Han empires, some of the nomadic peoples of Central Asia, known as the Hsiung-nu, succeeded in achieving a measure of unity under a single leader. As a result, while the Chinese were consolidating their government, the lands lying to the north of the empire, and the northern provinces themselves, became subject to incursion

Z�lkowski, Alojzy Fortunat

2005-01-27T07:06:00.000-08:00

Z�lkowski was born into a noble family and served in the army during the revolt of 1794. He made his acting debut in Warsaw in 1798, toured the country for four years, and then joined the National Theatre (Teatr Narodowy), where he was admired

Rajput

2005-01-26T17:20:00.000-08:00

(from Sanskrit raja-putra: �son of a king�), any of about 12,000,000 landowners organized in patrilineal clans and located mainly in central and northern India, especially in former Rajputana (�Land of the Rajputs�). The Rajputs regard themselves as descendants or members of the Kshattriya (warrior ruling) class, but they actually vary greatly in status, from princely lineages, such as the

Anne Of Denmark

2005-01-26T10:40:00.000-08:00

The daughter of King Frederick II of Denmark and Norway, Anne was married to James in 1589. Her Lutheran upbringing and frivolous nature

China, Reorganization of the KMT

2005-01-25T21:01:00.000-08:00

The KMT held its First National Congress in Canton on Jan. 20 - 30, 1924. Borodin, who had reached Canton in October 1923, began to advise Sun in the reorganization of his party. He prepared a constitution and helped draft a party program as a set of basic national policies. Delegates from throughout China and from overseas branches of the party adopted the program and the new constitution.

Sri Lanka, Relief

2005-01-25T06:08:00.000-08:00

The Central Highlands