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Annamese Cordillera (mountain range, Asia)
principal mountain range of Indochina and the watershed between the Mekong River and the South China Sea. It extends parallel to the coast in a gentle curve generally northwest-southeast, forming t...
Annamia block (geology)
At least two island arcs collided with the Kontum block along its northeastern margin during the Paleozoic to enlarge it to what is called the Annamia block. The earlier island arc docked along a suture that now coincides with the Annamese Cordillera in northern Vietnam in the Devonian or slightly earlier. The later one collided along a suture zone farther to the north, along the present-day Ma......
Annamite Chain (mountain range, Asia)
principal mountain range of Indochina and the watershed between the Mekong River and the South China Sea. It extends parallel to the coast in a gentle curve generally northwest-southeast, forming t...
Annamite Cordillera (mountain range, Asia)
principal mountain range of Indochina and the watershed between the Mekong River and the South China Sea. It extends parallel to the coast in a gentle curve generally northwest-southeast, forming t...
Annamitique Chain (mountain range, Asia)
principal mountain range of Indochina and the watershed between the Mekong River and the South China Sea. It extends parallel to the coast in a gentle curve generally northwest-southeast, forming t...
Annan, Kofi (Ghanaian statesman)
Ghanaian international civil servant, who was the secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) from 1997 to 2006. He was the corecipient, with the United Nations, of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2001....
Annan, Kofi Atta (Ghanaian statesman)
Ghanaian international civil servant, who was the secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) from 1997 to 2006. He was the corecipient, with the United Nations, of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2001....
Annan, Thomas (British photographer)
...was taken up to good effect by the Indian photographer Raja Lala Deen Dayal, especially in his documentation of the good works undertaken by the nizam of Hyderabad in the late 19th century. In 1877 Thomas Annan began a project in Edinburgh in which he used the camera to record the need for new housing for the working poor. He concentrated mainly on the derelict buildings and sewerage systems......
Annapolis (Maryland, United States)
capital of the U.S. state of Maryland and seat of Anne Arundel county. The city lies along the Severn River at its mouth on Chesapeake Bay, 27 miles (43 km) southeast of Baltimore....
Annapolis Academy (military academy, Annapolis, Maryland, United States)
institution of higher education conducted by the U.S. Department of the Navy and located at Annapolis, Md., for the purpose of preparing young men and women to enter the lowest commissioned ranks of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps....
Annapolis Convention (United States history)
in U.S. history, regional meeting at Annapolis, Md., in September 1786; it was an important rallying point in the movement toward a federal convention to revise the inadequate Articles of Confederation....
Annapolis Royal (Nova Scotia, Canada)
...took some French prisoners and goods to Jamestown. The council of the Virginia Company then commissioned him to destroy all French settlements south of the 46th parallel, including Port Royal (now Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia), which he captured in 1614. He returned in that year to England, where he was cleared of charges of wrongdoing in his actions against the French....
Annapurna (massif, Nepal)
massif of the Himalayas in north-central Nepal. It forms a ridge some 30 miles (48 km) long between the gorges of the Kali (Kali Gandak; west) and Marsyandi (east) rivers north of the town of Pokhara. The massif contains four main summits, two of which—Annapurna I (26,545 feet [8,091 metres]) and II (26,040 feet [7,937 metres])—stand at the western and eastern ends...
Annapurna Himal (massif, Nepal)
massif of the Himalayas in north-central Nepal. It forms a ridge some 30 miles (48 km) long between the gorges of the Kali (Kali Gandak; west) and Marsyandi (east) rivers north of the town of Pokhara. The massif contains four main summits, two of which—Annapurna I (26,545 feet [8,091 metres]) and II (26,040 feet [7,937 metres])—stand at the western and eastern ends...
Annapurna I (mountain, Nepal)
...some 30 miles (48 km) long between the gorges of the Kali (Kali Gandak; west) and Marsyandi (east) rivers north of the town of Pokhara. The massif contains four main summits, two of which—Annapurna I (26,545 feet [8,091 metres]) and II (26,040 feet [7,937 metres])—stand at the western and eastern ends of the range, respectively; Annapurna III (24,786 feet [7,555 metres]) and IV......
Annapurna II (mountain, Nepal)
...of the Kali (Kali Gandak; west) and Marsyandi (east) rivers north of the town of Pokhara. The massif contains four main summits, two of which—Annapurna I (26,545 feet [8,091 metres]) and II (26,040 feet [7,937 metres])—stand at the western and eastern ends of the range, respectively; Annapurna III (24,786 feet [7,555 metres]) and IV (24,688 feet [7,525 metres]) lie between......
Annapurna III (mountain, Nepal)
...contains four main summits, two of which—Annapurna I (26,545 feet [8,091 metres]) and II (26,040 feet [7,937 metres])—stand at the western and eastern ends of the range, respectively; Annapurna III (24,786 feet [7,555 metres]) and IV (24,688 feet [7,525 metres]) lie between them....
Annapurna IV (mountain, Nepal)
...I (26,545 feet [8,091 metres]) and II (26,040 feet [7,937 metres])—stand at the western and eastern ends of the range, respectively; Annapurna III (24,786 feet [7,555 metres]) and IV (24,688 feet [7,525 metres]) lie between them....
annates (tax)
a tax on the first year’s income (first fruits) from an ecclesiastical benefice given by a new incumbent either to the bishop or to the pope. The first mention of the practice appears in the time of Pope Honorius III (d. 1227). The earliest rec...
Annates’ Statute (English history)
...those of all of Christendom vacated within the next two years. The system was never applied uniformly or effectively throughout the church’s territories and was the cause of much protest. Under the Annates Statute of 1534, Henry VIII claimed the English annates for the crown. Papal annates fell into disuse with the transformation of the system of benefices after the Council of Trent......
annatto (plant)
(Bixa orellana), tree native to the New World tropics and the only species of the family Bixaceae. Annatto grows up to 9 metres (30 feet) tall and has rose-pink flowers about 5 cm (2 inches) wide and ovate leaves about 8 to 18 cm (3 to 7 inches) long. The brown fruits, about 5 cm (2 inches) long, yield a reddish or yel...
Annaud, Jean-Jacques (French director)
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ʿAnnazid dynasty (Kurdish dynasty)
Kurdish dynasty (c. 990/991–1117) that ruled territory on what is now the Iran-Iraq frontier in the central Zagros Mountain region, with major centres that included Dīnawar, Shahrazūr, and Kermānshāh. The ʿAnnazids oversaw a general period of political instability and, later supplanted by ...
Anne (queen of Great Britain and Ireland)
queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1702 to 1714. The last Stuart monarch, she wished to rule independently, but her intellectual limitations and chronic ill health caused her to rely heavily on her ministers, who directed England’s efforts against France and Spain in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701...
Anne, Act of (England [1709])
...immunities varied greatly between jurisdictions, and because some jurisdictions offered few if any immunities, to protect their envoys countries increasingly resorted to laws—such as the Act of Anne (1709) in England, which exempted ambassadors from civil suit and arrest—or treaties—such the 17th-century agreement between England and the Ottoman Empire that forbade......
Anne Arundel (county, Maryland, United States)
county, central Maryland, U.S. It is bounded by the Patapsco River to the north, Chesapeake Bay to the east, and the Patuxent River to the west and is linked across the bay to Kent Island in Queen Anne’s county by the William Preston Lane, Jr., Memorial Bridge (completed 1952). Th...
Anne Arundel Town (Maryland, United States)
capital of the U.S. state of Maryland and seat of Anne Arundel county. The city lies along the Severn River at its mouth on Chesapeake Bay, 27 miles (43 km) southeast of Baltimore....
Anne Boleyn (queen of England)
second wife of King Henry VIII of England and mother of Queen Elizabeth I. The events surrounding the annulment of Henry’s marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, and his marriage to Anne led him to break with the Roman Catholic church and brought about the English Reformation....
Anne d’Autriche (queen of France)
queen consort of King Louis XIII of France (reigned 1610–43) and regent during the opening years of the reign of her son King Louis XIV (from 1643)....
Anne de Bretagne (queen consort of France)
duchess of Brittany and twice queen consort of France, who devoted her life to safeguarding the autonomy of Brittany within the kingdom of France....
Anne, Lady (fictional character)
...King Henry VI and Henry’s son, the prince of Wales, in Henry VI, Part 3, Richard sets out to kill all who stand between him and the throne of England. He woos and marries Lady Anne, whose husband (Edward, prince of Wales) and father-in-law he has murdered, and then arranges for Anne’s death as well once she is no longer useful to him. He displays his an...
Anne of Austria (queen of France)
queen consort of King Louis XIII of France (reigned 1610–43) and regent during the opening years of the reign of her son King Louis XIV (from 1643)....
Anne of Brittany (queen consort of France)
duchess of Brittany and twice queen consort of France, who devoted her life to safeguarding the autonomy of Brittany within the kingdom of France....
Anne of Cleves (queen of England)
fourth wife of King Henry VIII of England. Henry married Anne because he believed that he needed to form a political alliance with her brother William, duke of Cleves, who was a leader of the Protestants of western Germany. He thought the alliance was necessary because in 1539 it appeared that the two major Roman Catholic powers, France and the ...
Anne of Denmark (queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland)
queen consort of King James I of Great Britain and Ireland (James VI of Scotland); although she had little direct political influence, her extravagant expenditures contributed to the financial difficulties that plagued James’s regime....
Anne of France (regent of France)
eldest daughter of Louis XI of France and Charlotte of Savoy, who exercised, with her husband, Pierre de Bourbon, seigneur de Beaujeu, a virtual regency in France from 1483 to 1491, during the early years of the reign of King Charles VIII....
Anne of Green Gables (novel by Montgomery)
...ahead. In the 20th century and beyond, however, the bildungsroman more often ends in resignation or death. Classic examples include Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens, Anne of Green Gables (1908) by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Sons and Lovers (1913) by D.H. Lawrence, Member of the Wedding (1946) by Carson McCullers, Catcher in the......
Anne, Queen (fictional character)
Henry becomes enamoured of the beautiful Anne Bullen (Boleyn) and, concerned over his lack of a male heir, expresses doubts about the validity of his marriage to Katharine, his brother’s widow. Separately, Anne, though reluctant to supplant the queen, accepts the king’s proposal. Wolsey tries to extend his power over the king by preventing this marriage, but the lord chancellor...
Anne, Saint (mother of Virgin Mary)
the parents of the Virgin Mary, according to tradition derived from certain apocryphal writings. Information concerning their lives and names is found in the 2nd-century-ad Protevangelium of James (“First Gospel of James”) and the 3rd-century-ad Evangelium de nativitate Mariae (“Gospel of the Nativ...
Anne, Statute of (Great Britain [1710])
The Statute of Anne, passed in England in 1710, was a milestone in the history of copyright law. It recognized that authors should be the primary beneficiaries of copyright law and established the idea that such copyrights should have only limited duration (then set at 28 years), after which works would pass into the public domain. Similar laws were enacted in Denmark (1741), the United States......
annealing (heat treatment)
treatment of a metal or alloy by heating to a predetermined temperature, holding for a certain time, and then cooling to room temperature to improve ductility and reduce brittleness. Process annealing is carried out intermittently during the working of a piece of metal to restore ductility lost through repeated hammering or other working. Full annealing is done to give workability to such parts a...
annealing (crystal-lattice effect)
...for this property, it would indeed be extremely difficult to operate nuclear reactors that are permitted to heat up periodically to remove the effect in the graphite core. The healing (or so-called annealing) is presumably attributable to the recombination of interstitial atoms and vacancies, thereby removing Frenkel defects. It is not necessary that an interstitial atom always recombine with.....
annealing temperature (particle physics)
...of the original properties of the crystal. Such annealing is facilitated by the increased mobility of the vacancies and interstitials at higher temperature. At a particular temperature called the annealing temperature, the healing becomes fast and essentially complete. The same substance may have somewhat different annealing temperatures depending on the particular property under study. Many......
Annecy (France)
city, capital of Haute-Savoie département, Rhône-Alpes région, southeastern France. It lies along the northwestern shore of Lake Annecy at the entrance to one of the cluses (transverse gorges) of the Savoy Pre-Alps, south of Geneva. Traces of the Gallo-Roman Boutae have been found nearby. The seat of the counts of Genevois fr...
Annecy, Lake (lake, France)
...and Trümmelbach falls in the Lauterbrunnen Valley of the Bernese Alps, poured forth from hanging valleys hundreds of feet above the main valley floors; elongated lakes of great depth such as Lake Annecy in France, Lake Constance, bordering Switzerland, Germany, and Austria, and the lakes of the Salzkammergut in Austria filled in many of the ice-scoured valleys; and enormous quantities of...
“Année dernière à Marienbad, L’ ” (film by Resnais [1961])
...ment (1968; The Man Who Lies). His best-known work in the medium, however, is the screenplay for Alain Resnais’s film L’Année dernière à Marienbad (1961; Last Year at Marienbad). Ultimately, Robbe-Grillet’s work raises questions about the ambiguous relationship of objectivity and subjectivity....
Année terrible, L’ (work by Hugo)
...more to come: in 1868 he had lost his wife, Adèle, a profound sadness to him; in 1871 one son died, as did another in 1873. Though increasingly detached from life around him, the poet of L’Année terrible (1872), in which he recounted the siege of Paris during the “terrible year” of 1870, had become a national hero and a living symbol of republicanism in...
“Années de pèlerinage” (work by Liszt)
...his years with Madame d’Agoult in the first two books of solo piano pieces collectively named Années de pèlerinage (1837–54; Years of Pilgrimage), which are poetical evocations of Swiss and Italian scenes. He also wrote the first mature version of the Transcendental Études...
annelid (invertebrate)
any member of a phylum of invertebrate animals that are characterized by the possession of a body cavity (or coelom), movable bristles (or setae), and a body divided into segments by transverse rings, or annulations, from which they take their name. The coelom is reduced in leeches, and setae are lacking a ...
Annelida (invertebrate)
any member of a phylum of invertebrate animals that are characterized by the possession of a body cavity (or coelom), movable bristles (or setae), and a body divided into segments by transverse rings, or annulations, from which they take their name. The coelom is reduced in leeches, and setae are lacking a ...
Annenberg, Walter H. (American publisher and philanthropist)
publisher, philanthropist, and art collector who served as U.S. ambassador to Britain from 1969 to 1974....
Annenberg, Walter Hubert (American publisher and philanthropist)
publisher, philanthropist, and art collector who served as U.S. ambassador to Britain from 1969 to 1974....
annex (circus exhibition)
Sideshows became a part of the circus in the United States in the late 19th century, although they did not gain much popularity elsewhere. Barnum was perhaps the major influence in sideshow development, having demonstrated their popularity as an attraction at his American Museum. Typically, these shows included human “abnormalities,” such as “fat ladies,” giants and......
annexation (law)
a formal act whereby a state proclaims its sovereignty over territory hitherto outside its domain. Unlike cession, whereby territory is given or sold through treaty, annexation is a unilateral act made effective by actual possession and legitimized by general recognition....
Annibaldi family (Italian family)
...of shepherds, herdsmen, labourers, and artisans dwelling by ruins that testified to past glory and were now taken over as the residences of powerful aristocratic families. The Colonna, Orsini, and Annibaldi established their fortifications amid the remains of the Mausoleum of Augustus, the Forum, and the Colosseum, and from there they fought out their ancient rivalries. Here in the 1340s rose.....
Anniceris (Greek philosopher)
Greek philosopher who was drawn to the ideas of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy, founded by Aristippus, and to its basically hedonistic outlook. Anniceris dedicated himself to reviving some of the original principles of the school. During his lifetime the Cyrenaic school was undergoing a transformation, and two key figures responsible for this change were Theodorus and Hegesia...
"Annie" (musical theatre)
...tried and failed to recapture the strip’s spirit with several replacements. From 1974 to 1979 they simply reprinted old strips. After the opening and resounding success of an Annie Broadway musical (1977–83, revived on Broadway in 1997), the strip was relaunched in 1979 with cartoonist Leonard Starr. When Starr retired in 2000, the feature was significa...
Annie Allen (work by Brooks)
The poet Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, for Annie Allen in 1950. In 1970 Charles Gordone became the first African American playwright to win the Pulitzer, with his depiction of a black hustler-poet in No Place to Be Somebody. The Color Purple, a best-selling novel by Alice......
Annie Get Your Gun (film by Sidney [1950])
...and Walter Tyler for Samson and DelilahMusic Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture: Franz Waxman for Sunset BoulevardScoring of a Musical Picture: Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens for Annie Get Your GunSong: “Mona Lisa” from Captain Carey, USA; music and lyrics by Ray Evans and Jay LivingstonHonorary Award: Louis B. Mayer and George Murphy (actor), The...
Annie Get Your Gun (musical comedy by Fields and Berlin [1946])
...(1936), Du Barry Was a Lady (1939), Panama Hattie (1940), Something for the Boys (1943), and Annie Get Your Gun (1946), which was her biggest success. She appeared also in several films, including Kid Millions (1934), The Big Broadcast of......
Annie Hall (film by Allen [1977])
...that no restaurant would serve a glass of wine with lunch. The later image of Los Angeles as “Tinseltown” was expressed by New Yorker Woody Allen in his 1977 film Annie Hall, “I don’t want to live in a city where the only cultural advantage is that you can make a right turn on a red light.” Nevertheless, by then the metropolis was alre...
Annie Oakley (slang)
...her husband’s lips, and, a playing card being thrown into the air, she riddled it before it touched the ground (thus giving rise to the custom of referring to punched complimentary tickets as “Annie Oakleys”). She was a great success on the Wild West Show’s European trips. In 1887 she was presented to Queen Victoria, and later in Berlin she performed her cigarette tr...
annihilation (physics)
in physics, reaction in which a particle and its antiparticle collide and disappear, releasing energy. The most common annihilation on Earth occurs between an electron and its antiparticle, a positron. A positron, which may originate in radioactive decay or, more commonly, in the interactions of ...
annihilation operator (physics)
...the power to convert the description of the assembly of photons into the description of a new assembly, the same as the first except for the addition or removal of one. These are called creation or annihilation operators, and it need not be emphasized that the operations are performed on paper and in no way describe a laboratory operation having the same ultimate effect. They serve, however, to...
annihilation photon (physics)
...the pair reaches the end of its track, it combines with a normal negative electron from the absorber in a process known as annihilation. In this step both particles disappear and are replaced by two annihilation photons, each with an energy of 0.511 MeV. Annihilation photons are similar to gamma rays in their ability to penetrate large distances of matter without interacting. They may undergo.....
annihilation radiation (physics)
...the pair reaches the end of its track, it combines with a normal negative electron from the absorber in a process known as annihilation. In this step both particles disappear and are replaced by two annihilation photons, each with an energy of 0.511 MeV. Annihilation photons are similar to gamma rays in their ability to penetrate large distances of matter without interacting. They may undergo.....
Anning, Mary (English fossil hunter and anatomist)
prolific English fossil hunter and amateur anatomist credited with the discovery of several dinosaur specimens that assisted in the early development of paleontology. Her excavations also aided the careers of many British scientists by providing them with specimens to study and framed a significant part of Earth’s geologic history. Some scientists note ...
Anniston (Alabama, United States)
city, seat (1899) of Calhoun county, eastern Alabama, U.S. It lies in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, about 60 miles (95 km) east of Birmingham. Founded in 1872 by Samuel Noble, Daniel Tyler, and Tyler’s sons as a private industrial community (opened to the public in 1883), it was originally named for the Woodstock Iron Co...
Anniversaries (work by Donne)
The most sustained of Donne’s poems, the Anniversaries, were written to commemorate the death of Elizabeth Drury, the 14-year-old daughter of his patron, Sir Robert Drury. These poems subsume their ostensible subject into a philosophical meditation on the decay of the world. Elizabeth Drury becomes, as Donne noted, “the Idea of a woman,” and a lost....
Anniversaries: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl (work by Johnson)
From 1966 to 1968, Johnson lived in New York. There he began his masterwork, the tetralogy Jahrestage: aus dem Leben von Gesine Cresspahl (1970–73, 1983; Anniversaries: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl). In it he used a montage technique, combining newspaper clippings, notes, and diary entries—as well as the presence of a writer named Uwe Johnson—to....
Anniversary Day (holiday)
holiday (January 26) honouring the establishment of the first permanent European settlement on the continent of Australia. On January 26, 1788, Arthur Phillip, who had sailed into what is now Sydney Cove with a shipload of convicts, hoisted the British flag at the site. In the early 1800s the date, called ...
anno Domini (Christian chronology)
Though the fact that Jesus was a historical person has been stressed, significant, too, is the fact that a full biography of accurate chronology is not possible. The New Testament writers were less concerned with such difficulties than the person who attempts to construct some chronological accounts in retrospect. Both the indifference of early secular historians and the confusions and......
Anno Domini 2000: Or Woman’s Destiny (work by Vogel)
...Sir Robert Stout (1884–87). Vogel was unable to stave off economic depression in New Zealand, however, and he resigned his parliamentary seat in 1889, the year of publication of his novel Anno Domini 2000: Or Woman’s Destiny, which projected his ideas on empire and finance to the year 2000....
anno Hegirae (Muslim chronology)
On September 25, 622, Muhammad completed the Hijrah (“migration”; Latin: Hegira) and reached Yathrib, which became known as Madīnat al-Nabī (“City of the Prophet”), or Medina. This momentous event led to the establishment of Islam as a religious and social order and became the starting point for the Islamic calendar. The caliph ʿUmar I was the first...
anno mundi (Jewish chronology)
the year dating from the year of creation in Jewish chronology, based on rabbinic calculations. Since the 9th century ad, various dates between 3762 and 3758 bc have been advanced by Jewish scholars as the time of creation, but the exact date of Oct. 7, 3761 bc, is now generally accepted in Judaism. However, critical dates that underlie ...
Anno, Saint (archbishop of Cologne)
archbishop of Cologne who was prominent in the political struggles of the Holy Roman Empire....
Annobón (island, Equatorial Guinea)
volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean near the Equator; it is part of Equatorial Guinea. Located about 350 miles (565 km) southwest of continental Equatorial Guinea, it occupies an area of 7 s...
annona (Roman tax)
...Africans and Easterners and for government posts (praesides) from among Danubian officers. Italy lost its privileges and found itself subjected, like all the other provinces, to the new annona, a tax paid in kind, which assured the maintenance of the army and of the officials. The consequent increase in expenditures—for administration, for the salaries and the......
Annona (plant)
any of various Annona species of small trees or shrubs of the Annonaceae family, native to the New World tropics and Florida, or their fruits. The fruit of the common custard apple (A. reticulata), also called sugar apple or bullock’s-heart in the West Indies, is dark brown in colour a...
Annona atemoya (plant)
...of niacin, riboflavin, and vitamin C. The black seeds contain toxins that have a purported use locally as a repellent against parasites. The hybrid Annona squamosa × cherimola (atemoya) apparently originated in Central America and the Antilles; the fruit contains some of the best features of both parents. Extracts of the root and leaves have a laxative effect, and poultices...
Annona cherimola (plant)
tree of the custard apple family (Annonaceae), of the order Magnoliales. It is native to frost-free, higher elevations throughout tropical America and is widely cultivated in the Old World tropics for its pulpy, edible fruits weighing about 0.5 kg (1 pound). It is also grown commercially in California. The tree grows up to 9 metres (30 feet)...
annona family (plant family)
the custard-apple, or annona, family, the largest family of the magnolia order (Magnoliales). According to some authorities, it contains 129 genera and 2,220 species. Many species are valuable for their large pulpy fruits, some are useful for their timber, and others are prized as ornamentals. The family consists of trees, s...
Annona glabra (plant)
fruit tree of tropical America valued for its roots. See custard apple....
Annona muricata (plant)
tree of the family Annonaceae (order Magnoliales) that produces an edible fruit 20 cm (8 inches) long and weighing up to 4.5 kg (10 pounds). Native to the American tropics, the tree has been widely introduced in the Old World tropics. Reaching about 8 metres (26 feet), it has broad-ended, oval evergreen leaves about 12.7 cm long. The fruits are oval, spiny, green-skinned, and aromatic. The fibrous...
Annona reticulata (plant)
The custard apple (A. reticulata), a small, tropical American tree, gives the family one of its common names. Also known as bullock’s-heart for its globose shape, it has fruits with creamy white, sweetish, custardlike flesh....
Annona squamosa (tree)
small tree or shrub of the custard apple, or Annonaceae, family. It has thin, oblong ovate leaves, solitary greenish flowers, and a yellowish green fruit resembling a shortened pinecone. The tuberculate fruit, the fusion of many ripened ovaries and the receptacle, is 7.5 to 10 cm (3 to 4 inches) in diameter and contains a sw...
Annona squamosa X Annona cherimola (plant)
...of niacin, riboflavin, and vitamin C. The black seeds contain toxins that have a purported use locally as a repellent against parasites. The hybrid Annona squamosa × cherimola (atemoya) apparently originated in Central America and the Antilles; the fruit contains some of the best features of both parents. Extracts of the root and leaves have a laxative effect, and poultices...
Annonaceae (plant family)
the custard-apple, or annona, family, the largest family of the magnolia order (Magnoliales). According to some authorities, it contains 129 genera and 2,220 species. Many species are valuable for their large pulpy fruits, some are useful for their timber, and others are prized as ornamentals. The family consists of trees, s...
Annonales (plant order)
the magnolia order of flowering plants, consisting of 5 families, 154 genera, and about 3,000 species. Members of Magnoliales include woody shrubs, climbers, and trees. Along with the orders Laurales, Piperales, and Canellales, Magnoliales forms the magnoliid clade, whi...
“Annonce faite à Marie, L’ ” (work by Claudel)
...midi (published 1906). In this searching, autobiographical work, Claudel appears torn between human and divine love. The conflict is resolved in L’Annonce faite à Marie (1912; Tidings brought to Mary, 1916), a medieval mystery in tone, in which Claudel expounds on woman’s place in God’s scheme. Woman, the daughter of Eve, temptress and source of ...
Annotationes in Libros Evangeliorum (work by Grotius)
...pursued on the Catholic side by scholars such as F. de Ribera (1591) and L. Alcasar (1614), who showed the way to a more satisfactory understanding of the Revelation. On the Reformed side, the Annotationes in Libros Evangeliorum (1641–50) by the jurist Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) were so objective that some criticized them for rationalism....
Annotations on Music (Chinese literature)
...that the goal of the search was to put music in tune with the universe. (This extramusical need is also discussed in East Asian arts.) It is upheld in theory in the “Annotations on Music” (“Yueji”) section of the Liji with such comments as “Music is the harmony of heaven and earth while rites are the measurement of......
Annou: Prince and Peasant (work by Mapu)
author of the first Hebrew novel, Ahavat Ziyyon (1853; Annou: Prince and Peasant), an idyllic historical romance set in the days of the prophet Isaiah. Couched in florid biblical language, it artfully depicts pastoral life in ancient Israel; the book attained immediate popularity and was later translated into several languages....
Announa, el- (Algeria)
...province and the bishopric of St. Possidius, biographer and student of St. Augustine. Among the town’s Roman ruins are baths and a theatre, and 5 miles (8 km) west, at el-Announa, are the remains of Thibilis. Parts of the Byzantine walls still encircle the town, and the museum and the public gardens contain Roman relics and epigraphy. The modern town was founded by Marshal Bertrand Clauz...
Annoyance Theatre (American theatre company)
...she performed with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and other companies around the city. She also toured with the Second City comedy troupe and in the early 1990s with Annoyance Theatre’s cult hit The Real Live Brady Bunch, a stage show that featured reenactments of old episodes of the television sitcom The Brady Bunch....
annual (plant)
Any plant that completes its life cycle in a single growing season. The dormant seed is the only part of an annual that survives from one growing season to the next. Annuals include many weeds, wildflowers, garden flowers, and vegetables. See also bien...
annual aster (plant)
(Callistephus chinensis), herbaceous plant of the aster family (Asteraceae, also called Compositae), many cultivated varieties of which are longtime garden favourites. The native species fro...
Annual, Battle of (Spanish history)
...saw conquest as the only solution. A bid by General Fernández Silvestre, reputedly backed by Alfonso XIII, for a crowning victory ended in the terrible massacre of Spanish troops at the Battle of Anual (Anwal) in 1921. Opposition politicians were determined to expose the king’s action and criticize the army....
annual blanketflower (plant)
...of leafy, branching herbs of the family Asteraceae, native to North America. Several summer-blooming species are cultivated as garden ornamentals, especially blanketflower (G. aristata) and annual blanketflower (G. pulchella)....
annual bluegrass (plant)
...Kentucky bluegrass in appearance and use. Texas bluegrass (P. arachnifera), mutton grass (P. fendleriana), and plains bluegrass (P. arida) are important western forage grasses. Annual bluegrass (P. annua), a small, light-green species, is a European introduction that has spread throughout North America; it is considered a pest in lawns....