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Somali Basin (submarine basin, Arabian Sea)
submarine basin on the floor of the southwestern Arabian Sea, an arm of the Indian Ocean, east of Somalia. The Carlsberg Ridge separates it from the shallower ...
Somali Current (current, Indian Ocean)
surface current of the western Indian Ocean, caused during the northern summer months by the blowing of the southwest monsoon along the coast of East Africa, moving coastal waters northeastward alo...
Somali Democratic Republic
easternmost country of Africa, on the Horn of Africa. It extends from just south of the Equator northward to the Gulf of Aden and occupies an important geopolitical position between sub-Saharan Africa and the countries of Arabia and southwestern Asia. The capital, Mogadishu, is located...
Somali language
The Somali language belongs to the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Despite several regional dialects, it is understood throughout the country and is an official language. The second official language is Arabic, which is spoken chiefly in northern Somalia and in the coastal towns. Owing to Somalia’s colonial past, many people have a good command of English and Italian,.....
Somali National Front (militia, Somalia)
...of the Somali National Alliance (SNA) and Cali Mahdi Maxamed (Ali Mahdi Muhammad) of the Somali Salvation Alliance (SSA), tore the capital apart and battled with Siad’s regrouped clan militia, the Somali National Front, for control of the southern coast and hinterland. This brought war and devastation to the grain-producing region between the rivers, spreading famine throughout southern....
Somali National League (political organization, Somalia)
...as were readjustments in their legal and judicial systems. The first independent government was formed by a coalition of the southern-based Somali Youth League (SYL) and the northern-based Somali National League (SNL)....
Somali National Movement (political organization, Somalia)
...the way for the formation of two opposition groups: the Somali Salvation Democratic Front (SSDF), drawing its main support from the Majeerteen clan of the Mudug region in central Somalia, and the Somali National Movement (SNM), based on the Isaaq clan of the northern regions. Formed in 1982, both organizations undertook guerrilla operations from bases in Ethiopia. These pressures, in addition.....
Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party (political party, Somalia)
...Assembly had no real power. The legal system was based largely on Islamic law; an independent judiciary did not exist; and human rights were frequently violated. Only one legal political party, the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party, and various socialist-style mass organizations existed....
Somali Salvation Democratic Front (political organization, Somalia)
...War strained the stability of the Siad regime as the country faced a surge of clan pressures. An abortive military coup in April 1978 paved the way for the formation of two opposition groups: the Somali Salvation Democratic Front (SSDF), drawing its main support from the Majeerteen clan of the Mudug region in central Somalia, and the Somali National Movement (SNM), based on the Isaaq clan of......
Somali Youth Club (political organization, Somalia)
...centres became incubators of pan-Somali ideas, which were quickly transmitted to their northern compatriots. The British allowed their subjects relative political freedom, and on May 13, 1943, the Somali Youth Club was formed in Mogadishu. Devoted to a concept of Somali unity that transcended ethnic considerations, the club quickly enrolled religious leaders, the gendarmerie, and the junior......
Somali Youth League (political organization, Somalia)
...centres became incubators of pan-Somali ideas, which were quickly transmitted to their northern compatriots. The British allowed their subjects relative political freedom, and on May 13, 1943, the Somali Youth Club was formed in Mogadishu. Devoted to a concept of Somali unity that transcended ethnic considerations, the club quickly enrolled religious leaders, the gendarmerie, and the junior......
Somalia
easternmost country of Africa, on the Horn of Africa. It extends from just south of the Equator northward to the Gulf of Aden and occupies an important geopolitical position between sub-Saharan Africa and the countries of Arabia and southwestern Asia. The capital, Mogadishu, is located...
Somalia at the Turn of the 21st Century (Somalia, history of)
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Somalia, flag of
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Somalia, history of
For Somalia to reestablish itself as a nation, we need to put an end to our deranged behavior. I for one trace our strife not to an inherent antagonism between clan families but to the defeat we suffered at the hands of the combined forces of Ethiopia and Cuba in 1978 over the control of the Somali-speaking Ogaden, then and now administered by Ethiopia. Once our army came home vanquished, the......
Somalia irredenta (region, East Africa)
The Mogadishu government became independent on July 1, 1960. Its flag was dominated by a star, three points of which represented Djibouti, the Somali-inhabited northern region of Kenya, and the Ethiopian Ogaden. Together, these made up Somalia irredenta. In the Ogaden, young men organized themselves into clandestine fighting units, heeding Mogadishu’s constant radio broadcasts to prepare fo...
Somalia: Year In Review 1993
Situated in the Horn of northeastern Africa, Somalia lies on the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. Area: 637,000 sq km (246,000 sq mi). Pop. (1993 est.): 8,050,000 (including Somali refugees in neighbouring countries estimated to number more than one million). Cap.: Mogadishu. Monetary unit: Somali shilling, with (Oct. 4, 1993) a free rate of 2,601 Somali shillings to U.S. $1 (3,940 Somali shilli...
Somalia: Year In Review 1994
Situated in the Horn of northeastern Africa, Somalia lies on the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. Area: 637,000 sq km (246,000 sq mi). Pop. (1994 est.): 6,667,000 (excluding Somali refugees in neighbouring countries estimated to number about 600,000). Cap.: Mogadishu. Monetary unit: Somali shilling, with (Oct. 7, 1994) a free rate of 2,622 Somali shillings to U.S. $1 (4,171 Somali shillings = ...
Somalia: Year In Review 1995
Situated in the Horn of northeastern Africa, Somalia lies on the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. Area: 637,000 sq km (246,000 sq mi). Pop. (1995 est.): 6,734,000 (excluding Somali refugees in neighbouring countries estimated to number about 500,000). Cap.: Mogadishu. Monetary unit: Somali shilling, with (Oct. 6, 1995) a free rate of 2,620 Somali shillings to U.S. $1 (4,142 Somali shillings = ...
Somalia: Year In Review 1996
Situated in the Horn of northeastern Africa, Somalia lies on the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean (the region on the Gulf of Aden [the self-declared Somaliland] claimed independence in 1991 but is not recognized internationally). Area: 637,000 sq km (246,000 sq mi). Pop. (1996 est.): 6,802,000 (excluding Somali refugees in neighbouring countries estimated to number about 500,000). Cap.: Mogadishu...
Somalia: Year In Review 1997
Area: 637,000 sq km (246,000 sq mi; including the 176,000-sq km [68,000-sq mi] area of the unilaterally declared [in 1991] and unrecognized Republic of Somaliland)...
Somalia: Year In Review 1998
Area: 637,000 sq km (246,000 sq mi; including the 176,000-sq km [68,000-sq mi] area of the unilaterally declared [in 1991] and unrecognized Republic of Somaliland)...
Somalia: Year In Review 1999
The balance of power in Somalia in 1999 shifted between the unstable alliances of clan- and subclan-based factions that divided the country. Ethiopia supported one loose alliance, apparently in order to create a buffer zone in southwestern Somalia and neutralize the Isla...
Somalia: Year In Review 2000
The year 2000 began with yet another failure to patch up the divisions that had torn Somalia apart for a decade. An attempt by Hussein Muhammad Aydid, Ali Mahdi Muhammad, and the three other rival faction leaders (“warlords”) to set up a united administration for the former capital, Mogadishu, fell apart in February. In May, however, a more serious attempt at unification began. The f...
Somalia: Year In Review 2001
By the end of 2001 the economic situation of Somalia was critical. The failure of the main seasonal rains led to crop failure, and in December the UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimated that some 800,000 people were experiencing food difficulties, while 300,000, mainly in the southern regions, were threatened by star...
Somalia: Year In Review 2002
By 2002 the Transitional National Government (TNG) set up in 2000 had failed to bring unity to the country and had little effective power. In effect it represented one alliance of clans, which was opposed by a counteralliance, the Somali Reconciliation and Restoration Council (SRRC). The SRRC’s main political leader was Hussein Aydid, and its military leader was Gen. Muhammad Sayid Hersi, k...
Somalia: Year In Review 2003
In 2003 Somalia still had no national government. The Transitional National Government (TNG) of Pres. Abdiqassim Salad Hassan suffered from internal splits and failed to control more than a small area of Mogadishu and southern Somalia. The remainder of the country was divided between clan-based factions. In August the TNG ca...
Somalia: Year In Review 2004
The two-year peace and reconciliation conference between Somalia’s warring factions culminated in January 2004 with the signing of a peace agreement in Nairobi, Kenya. In October a new transitional federal government was formed that was intended to bring to an end the 13 years of anarchy that had roiled the country since the fall of dictator Muhammad Siad Barre. The new g...
Somalia: Year In Review 2005
Despite the announcement of a new transitional federal government in October 2004, Somalia passed its 15th successive year in 2005 without a functioning central government. Parts of the country, including the separatist state of Somaliland in the northwest and the semiautonomous region of Puntland in the northeast, enjoyed relative stability and exhibited signs of recovery; other zones, notably th...
Somalia: Year In Review 2006
After a decade of stagnation, 2006 was a year of revolutionary upheaval in Somalia, featuring the dramatic rise and fall of the Council of Islamic Courts of Somalia (CSIC). The first half of the year saw a series of battles in the capital, Mogadishu, between a coalition of Islamic courts and an American-backed alliance of militia leaders and businessmen that ended in the complet...
Somalia: Year In Review 2007
Somalia began the year 2007 embroiled in a war that would produce the worst violence since the fall in 1991 of the country’s last stable government. In the final days of 2006, Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG), an internationally recognized but ineffectual ruling body created in 2004, found itself on the verge of collapse. The ...
Somalia: Year In Review 2008
Though news about Somalia had largely disappeared from the headlines in 2008, the country remained wracked by violence and anarchy. In 2007 Somalia had become the focus of international attention when war broke out between the country’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), a fundamentalist Islamic movement that had s...
Somalia: Year In Review 2009
In 2009 fears that Somalia could become a breeding ground for terrorism escalated with the strengthening of al-Shabaab, an Islamist youth movement with ties to al-Qaeda. The Transitional Federal Government (TFG), which had been shored up by support from the Ethiopian military, struggled to assert control over the country f...
Somalia: Year In Review 2010
In 2010 the battle continued in Somalia between the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and al-Shabaab, an Islamist youth movement with ties to al-Qaeda. The TFG, with support from a contingent of about 7,000 African Union (AUえーゆー) peacekeepers, struggled to hold a portion of Mogadishu, the capital. Meanwhile, al-Shabaab con...
Somaliland (historical region, Africa)
historically, the area now comprising Somalia and Djibouti. The name is also used to refer to the Republic of Somaliland, a self-declared independent country in the Horn of Africa....
Somaliland, Republic of
Area: 637,657 sq km (246,201 sq mi), including the 176,000-sq-km (68,000-sq-mi) area of the unilaterally declared (in 1991) and unrecognized Republic of Somaliland | Population (2010 est.): 9,359,000 (including roughly 3,500,000 in Somaliland); at the beginning of the year, nearly 700,000 refugees were in neighbouring countries and 1,550,000 were internally displaced | Capital: Mogadishu;......
soman (gas)
...achieving their effects by causing a continual stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system. Parathion and malathion are thus highly effective agricultural insecticides, while sarin, tabun, and soman are nerve gases designed for use in chemical warfare to induce nausea, vomiting, convulsions, and death in humans....
Somanātha (temple, Prabhāsa Patan, India)
...temple of the 12th century, is now in a much ruined condition, with only the toraṇa (gateway) and some subsidiary structures remaining. Successively damaged and rebuilt, the Somanātha at Prabhāsa Patan was the most famous temple of Gujarāt, its best known structure dating from the time of Kumārapāla (mid-12th century). It has been now......
Somapura Mahavira (Buddhist monastery, Bangladesh)
8th-century Buddhist monastery in the village of Paharpur, near Rajshahi, northwestern Bangladesh. Covering almost 27 acres (11 hectares) of land, it is one of the largest monasteries south of the Himalayas. Through the 17th century it was an important intellectual centre that was occupi...
Somare, Arthur (Papuan politician)
Somare’s well-funded National Alliance was reelected in August 2007, and he formed a new government as the head of a 14-party coalition. The prime minister’s son Arthur Somare, minister for public enterprises, began negotiations on a multibillion-dollar liquefied natural gas project in the central Highlands that would supply energy to companies in East Asia. Then, in July 2010, the S...
Somare, Sir Michael (prime minister of Papua New Guinea)
...Queen Elizabeth II, represented by Governors-General Sir Paulias Matane, Jeffery Nape (acting) from December 13, and, from December 20, Michael Ogio (acting) | Head of government: Prime Ministers Sir Michael Somare and, from December 13, Sam Abal (acting) | ...
Somasteroidea (class of echinoderms)
...mouth; 5 arms; dorsal tube feet and mouth.Class StelleroideaFeatures as subphylum above.†Class SomasteroideaLower Ordovician to Upper Devonian about 350,000,000 years ago. Superficially like Asteroidea, without a groove for tube......
Somateria mollissima (bird)
...35–40 nests without interrupting the breeding cycle. Hens are mottled dark brown, but drakes of the four species are strikingly patterned and show a peculiar green pigment on the head. In the common eider (Somateria mollissima), with four or five races, differing mainly in length and colour of bill, the drake is mostly white above with black crown, belly, and tail. Like all eiders...
Somateria spectabilis (bird species)
...down, much prized in colder regions. Among the unusual uses of waterfowl parts may be mentioned the conversion of swan tracheae into children’s whistles in Lapland and the eating of the of the king eider’s (Somateria spectabilis) billknob as an aphrodisiac in Greenland. Wary and difficult to approach in their watery haunts, waterfowl required ingenuity to take them ...
somatic afferent fibre, general (anatomy)
General somatic afferent receptors are sensitive to pain, thermal sensation, touch and pressure, and changes in the position of the body. (Pain and temperature sensation coming from the surface of the body is called exteroceptive, while sensory information arising from tendons, muscles, or joint capsules is called proprioceptive.) General visceral afferent receptors are found in organs of the......
somatic cell (cell)
in biology, all the living matter of an animal or a plant except the reproductive, or germ, cells. The distinction between the soma and the germ cells was propounded by the 19th-century German biologist August Weismann in the “germ plasm” theory that emphasized the role of the immortal, heredity-carrying genes and chromosomes, w...
somatic cell genetics
...and all individuals of the same species have, as a rule, the same number of chromosomes. The reproductive cells (gametes) are an exception; they have only half as many chromosomes as the body (somatic) cells. But the number, size, and organization of chromosomes varies between species. The parasitic nematode Parascaris univalens has only one pair of chromosomes, whereas......
somatic cell nuclear transfer (biology and technology)
technique in which the nucleus of a somatic (body) cell is transferred to the cytoplasm of an enucleated egg (an egg that has had its own nucleus removed). Once inside the egg, the somatic nucleus is reprogrammed by egg cytoplasmic factors to become a zygote (fertilized egg) nucleus. The egg is allowed to develop to the ...
somatic efferent fibre, general (anatomy)
General somatic efferent fibres originate from large ventral-horn cells and distribute to skeletal muscles in the body wall and in the extremities. General visceral efferent fibres also arise from cell bodies located within the spinal cord, but they exit only at thoracic and upper lumbar levels or at sacral levels (more specifically, at levels T1–L2 and......
somatic muscle (anatomy)
most common of the three types of muscle in the body. Striated muscle is attached to bone and produces all the movements of body parts in relation to each other; unlike smooth muscle and cardiac muscle, striated muscle is under voluntary control. Its multinucleated fibres are long and thin and are crossed with a regular patte...
somatic mutation (genetics)
genetic alteration acquired by a cell that can be passed to the progeny of the mutated cell in the course of cell division. Somatic mutations differ from germ line mutations, which are inherited genetic alterations that occur in the germ cells (i.e., sperm and eggs). S...
somatic nervous system (anatomy)
...and the peripheral nervous system, which can be further divided into the somatic nervous system, whose main function is to innervate body structures (e.g., most skeletal muscles) under conscious, voluntary control, and the autonomic nervous system, which is concerned with the involuntary processes of the glands, large internal organs, cardiac muscle, and blood vessels. The autonomic nervous......
somatization disorder (psychology)
This type of somatoform disorder, formerly known as Briquet’s syndrome (after the French physician Paul Briquet), is characterized by multiple, recurrent physical complaints involving a wide range of bodily functions. The complaints, which usually extend over the course of many years, cannot be explained fully by the person’s medical history or current condition and are therefore att...
somatocrinin
a large peptide hormone that exists in several forms that differ from one another only in the number of amino acids, which can vary from 37 to 44. Unlike other neurohormones (substances produced by specialized cells typical of the nervous system), GHRH is not widely distributed throughou...
somatoform disorder (psychology)
In these conditions, psychological distress is manifested through physical symptomatology (combined symptoms of a disease) or other physical concerns, but distress can occur in the absence of a medical condition. Even when a medical condition is present, it may not fully account for the symptoms. In such cases there may be positive evidence that the symptoms are caused by psychological factors.......
somatomancy (occult practice)
Sometimes a diviner can be said to interpret signs so characteristic of a client that the practice falls between interpretive and intuitive arts. Somatomancy, or body divination, is clearly interpretive in most forms, whether in China or the West, though the system of signs employed comprises private attributes of the client’s physique. Examples are phrenology, which employs features of the...
somatomedin (biochemistry)
...related to size on a section of chromosome 15 in the Portuguese water dog, a recognized domestic breed with a wide range in size. They discovered that an allele of the gene that encodes the insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) was present in small dogs but typically absent in large ones. The genetic association between body size and the IGF-1gene was also apparent in 14 small......
somatopleure (anatomy)
In development, the amnion arises by a folding of a mass of extra-embryonic tissue called the somatopleure. Lined with ectoderm and covered with mesoderm (both are germ layers), the amnion contains a thin, transparent fluid in which the embryo is suspended, thus providing a cushion against mechanical injury. The amnion also provides protection against fluid loss from the embryo itself and......
somatosensory area (anatomy)
The cerebral cortex has three somatosensory areas. The primary sensory area occupies the postcentral gyrus immediately behind the motor strip and receives input from the ventrolateral thalamus. The secondary area is above the Sylvian fissure, behind the secondary motor area, and receives somatosensory input from the lateral part of the thalamus and also auditory and visual input from the medial......
somatostatin (biochemistry)
polypeptide that inhibits the activity of certain pancreatic and gastrointestinal hormones. Somatostatin exists in two forms: one composed of 14 amino acids and a second composed of 28 amino acids. The name somatostatin, essentially meaning stagnation of a body, was coined when investigators found that an extract of hypothalamic tissues inhibit...
somatostatinoma (tumour)
...cause a decrease in somatostatin levels in brain tissue, although it is not clear what role this plays in the course of the disease. In the late 1970s a rare somatostatin-producing tumour called a somatostatinoma was first identified. Since then somatostatinomas have been well characterized. The tumours tend to develop in the pancreas, duodenum, or jejunum, and diagnosis is based on plasma......
somatotroph adenoma (tumour)
...are usually treated with dopamine agonist drugs such as bromocriptine and cabergoline. These drugs effectively decrease prolactin secretion and tumour size. In addition to surgery, patients with somatotroph adenomas can be treated with analogs of the hypothalamic hormone somatostatin, given by injection, which inhibit growth hormone secretion, or with a drug (pegvisomant) that blocks the......
somatotropic hormone
peptide hormone secreted by the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland. It stimulates the growth of essentially all tissues of the body, including bone. GH is synthesized and secreted by anterior pituitary cells called somatotrophs, which release between one and two milligrams of the hormon...
somatotropin
peptide hormone secreted by the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland. It stimulates the growth of essentially all tissues of the body, including bone. GH is synthesized and secreted by anterior pituitary cells called somatotrophs, which release between one and two milligrams of the hormon...
somatotype (physiology)
human body shape and physique type. The term somatotype is used in the system of classification of human physical types developed by U.S. psychologist W.H. Sheldon. In Sheldon’s system, human beings can be clas...
somatrem (biosynthetic hormone)
...which causes a fatal condition called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. That same year, by means of recombinant DNA technology, scientists were able to produce a biosynthetic human form, which they called somatrem, thus assuring a virtually unlimited supply of this once-precious substance....
Somba (people)
...ethnic group, comprise several subgroups and make up about one-tenth of Benin’s population. They inhabit the northeast, especially towns such as Nikki and Kandi that were once Bariba kingdoms. The Somba (Ditamari) are found in Natitingou and in villages in the northwest. Other northern groups include the Dendi, the Pila (Pilapila), the Yoa-Lokpa, and the nomadic Fulani (Peul). Europeans,...
Sombart, Werner (German historical economist)
German historical economist who incorporated Marxist principles and Nazi theories in his writings on capitalism....
sombra del caudillo, La (work by Guzmán)
...Eagle and the Serpent is Guzman’s masterpiece and reflects his quest for “the essence of the Mexican national identity.” He is also famous for his novel La sombra del caudillo (1929; “The Shadow of the Leader”), in which he depicted the political corruption of the 1920s in Mexico. His other major works include Memori...
“Sombras suele vestir” (work by Bianco)
...of the protagonist. Bianco’s narrator has a complicated psychological makeup that is elegantly drawn, and the plot develops inexorably yet unexpectedly to the surprising ending. Shadow Play is a fantastic tale in the manner of Borges and Bioy Casares, written in a classic, unobtrusive style that allows for the unsettling of reality to occur almost unnoticed by th...
sombrero (hat)
broad-brimmed, high-crowned hat made of felt or straw, worn especially in Spain, Mexico, and the southwestern United States. The sombrero, its name derived from the Spanish word sombra, meaning “shade,” first appeared in the 15th century. Gentlemen often wore tan, white, or gray felt sombreros, while th...
“sombrero de tres picos, El” (work by Falla)
...two outstanding examples in the French composer Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé (1912), which the composer defined as a “poème choréographique,” and The Three-cornered Hat (1919) by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla. Distinctive original scores for ballet continued usually to be the outcome of specific commissions. Composers do not yet...
“sombrero de tres picos, El” (work by Alarcón)
writer remembered for his novel El sombrero de tres picos (1874; The Three-Cornered Hat)....
Somchai Wongsawat (prime minister of Thailand)
...the People’s Power Party (PPP)—a reincarnation of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT)—on account of electoral fraud. The ruling forced PPP leader Somchai Wongsawat to resign as prime minister, and the parliament subsequently chose Abhisit Vejjajiva of the anti-Thaksin Democrat Party to succeed him. Abhisit, however, was unable to rest...
Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain (work by Street)
...he lectured on medieval architecture, and in 1881 he was elected president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. His publications, Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages (1855) and Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain (1865; reprinted 1969), illustrated with his own drawings, were widely used as sourcebooks for Gothic Revival architectural detail....
Some Aspects of Rabbinic Theology (work by Schechter)
...authoritative rabbinical compendium of Jewish law, lore, and commentary, in Vienna, Berlin, and London. In 1890 he became lecturer in Talmudic studies at the University of Cambridge. His book, Some Aspects of Rabbinic Theology (1909), which led to a sympathetic reappraisal of the teachings of the Pharisees, is an outgrowth of his lectures at Cambridge....
Some Came Running (work by Jones)
...a charismatic serviceman who dies shortly after the outbreak of war in the Pacific. (A film in 1953 adapted from the book won eight Academy Awards and several other awards.) In his second novel, Some Came Running, published in 1958, the same year that he moved to Paris, Jones drew on his Midwestern life in Illinois after the war. His next two novels, however, returned to his wartime......
Some Came Running (film by Minnelli [1958])
American dramatic film, released in 1958, that was especially noted for the performances by Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin—in their first screen pairing—and Shirley MacLaine....
Some Hearts (album by Underwood)
...the competition after being chosen as the favourite by viewers. She received the top prize of a recording contract with 19 Recordings/Arista Records, and the resulting album, Some Hearts (2005), was a massive commercial success, selling some six million copies and cementing Underwood’s status as one of American Idol’s most ...
Some Inner Fury (work by Markandaya)
...Her first novel, Nectar in a Sieve (1954), an Indian peasant’s narrative of her difficult life, remains Markandaya’s most popular work. Her next book, Some Inner Fury (1955), is set in 1942 during the Indian struggle for independence. It portrays the troubled relationship between an educated Indian woman, whose brother is an anti-B...
Some Leading Principles of Political Economy Newly Expounded (work by Cairnes)
Irish economist who restated the key doctrines of the English classical school in his last and largest work, Some Leading Principles of Political Economy Newly Expounded (1874)....
Some Like It Hot (film by Wilder [1959])
American screwball comedy film, released in 1959, that is considered one of best in that genre. Some Like It Hot featured Marilyn Monroe as a “dumb blonde” and Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as women....
Some Loose Stones (work by Knox)
Knox gave witty expression to the perplexities that bedeviled him between his graduation and conversion in Some Loose Stones (1913) and in Reunion All Round (1914). He chronicled his struggle and its resolution in A Spiritual Aeneid (1918). The final expression of his position appeared in The Belief of Catholics (1927). Six volumes of Knox’s sermons were publishe...
Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester (work by Burnet)
...Gilbert Burnet, bishop of Salisbury from 1689. In the last months of the life of the court poet John Wilmot, 2nd earl of Rochester, Burnet had been invited to attend him, and, in Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester (1680), he offered a fascinating account of their conversations as the erstwhile rake edged toward a rapprochement with the faith....
Some Prefer Nettles (novel by Tanizaki)
autobiographical novel by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, published in Japanese in 1928–29 as Tade kuu mushi. It originally appeared as a newspaper serial, and it is generally considered one of the author’s finest works....
Some Principles of Maritime Strategy (work by Corbett)
...ships protected against submarines. But, beginning in the age of fighting sail, there was a long tradition of protecting convoys against surface raiders, called “cruisers.” In Some Principles of Maritime Strategy (1911), Sir Julian S. Corbett sorted out the separate roles of the battle fleet and the cruisers: the former established control of the seas by its......
Some Problems in Philosophy (work by James)
...way than the Essays, the same essential positions. They present, in addition, certain religious overbeliefs of James’s, which further thinking—if the implications of the posthumous Some Problems of Philosophy may be trusted—was to mitigate. These overbeliefs involve a panpsychistic interpretation of experience (one that ascribes a psychic aspect to all of natu...
Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards (work by Evans)
After leaving the University of Oxford without taking a degree, he served as curate in various parishes. His first publication, Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards (1764), which contains English translations with historical notes, secured his reputation as a scholar and critic. Much of his own Welsh-language poetry is in the collection Dyddanwch Teuluaidd.......
Some Suggestions in Ethics (work by Bosanquet)
Bosanquet’s ethical and social philosophy, particularly the practical work Some Suggestions in Ethics (1918), shows a similar desire to view reality coherently, as a concrete unity in which pleasure and duty, egoism and altruism are reconciled. He asserted that the same passion shown by Plato for the unity of the universe reappeared in Christianity as the doctrine of the divine spiri...
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (work by Locke)
...his schooling; in later life he attacked boarding schools for their overemphasis on corporal punishment and for the uncivil behaviour of pupils. In his enormously influential work Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), he would argue for the superiority of private tutoring for the education of young gentlemen (see below Other works)...
Some Time in New York City (album by Lennon and Ono)
...Imagine is living proof of the political orientation that dominated Lennon’s public life with Ono, which came to a head in 1972 with the failed agitprop album Some Time in New York City and the defeat of Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern by incumbent Pres. Richard Nixon, whose administration was attempting to deport Lennon, a voc...
Somebody in Boots (work by Algren)
Algren’s first novel, Somebody in Boots (1935), relates the driftings during the Depression of a young poor-white Texan who ends up among the down-and-outs of Chicago. Never Come Morning (1942) tells of a Polish petty criminal who dreams of escaping from his squalid Northwest Side Chicago environment by becoming a prizefighter. Before the appearance of Algren...
Somebody Up There Likes Me (film by Wise [1956])
...(aka Robert Rich) for The Brave OneAdapted Screenplay: James Poe, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman for Around the world in 80 DaysCinematography, Black-and-White: Joseph Ruttenberg for Somebody up There Likes MeCinematography, Color: Lionel Lindon for Around the World in 80 DaysArt Direction, Black-and-White: Malcolm F. Brown and Cedric Gibbons for Somebody up There......
Someday Baby (song by Dylan)
...Modern Times, which won the 2007 Grammy Award for best contemporary folk album. Dylan also received an award for best solo rock vocal performance for Someday Baby....
Somehow We Survive (poem by Brutus)
...“. . . all our land is scarred with terror / rendered unlovely and unlovable; / sundered are we and all our passionate surrender / but somehow tenderness survives” (from “Somehow We Survive”). Even in Letters to Martha and Other Poems from a South African Prison (1968), which records his experiences of misery and loneliness as a political prisoner, Brutus......
Someone Like You (work by Dahl)
Dahl’s first book, The Gremlins (1943), was written for Walt Disney but was largely unsuccessful. However, he achieved best-seller status with Someone like You (1953; rev. ed. 1961), a collection of stories for adults, which was followed by Kiss, Kiss (1959). His children’s book James and the Giant Peach (1961; film 1996), written for his own children, was...
Somerled (Scottish lord)
...burgh (town), Renfrewshire council area and historic county, southwestern Scotland, located in the northwest portion of the Glasgow metropolitan area near the right bank of the River Clyde. In 1164 Somerled, lord of the Western (Scottish) Isles, was defeated and killed there by the Scottish monarch Malcolm IV. A burgh in the 12th century, it received its charter in 1396. It is the historic......
Somers, Andrew (British musician)
...Stewart Copeland (b. July 16, 1952Alexandria, Va., U.S.), and Andy Summers (original name Andrew Somers; b. Dec. 31, 1942Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, Eng.)....
Somers, Jane (British writer)
British writer whose novels and short stories are largely concerned with people involved in the social and political upheavals of the 20th century. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007....
Somers, John Somers, Baron (English statesman)
English statesman, the chief minister to King William III of England from 1696 to 1700, and a leader of the group of influential Whigs known as the Junto from 1696 to 1716....