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Exmouth
Exmouth , town (1991 pop. 28,037), Devon, SW England, at the mouth of the Exe River. It is a port and a popular summer resort. In 1347, Exmouth provided 10 ships for the siege of Calais . ... Read more
algorithm
algorithm or algorism [for Al-Khowarizmi ], a clearly defined procedure for obtaining the solution to a general type of problem, often numerical. Much of ordinary arithmetic as traditionally taught consists of algorithms involving the fundamental operations of addition, subtraction, multiplica... Read more
Falun
Falun , city (1990 pop. 33,256), capital of Kopparberg co., S central Sweden; chartered 1624 and again in 1641. It is the headquarters of Sweden's oldest company, the Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags Aktiebolag, founded (1347) to operate the copper mines of Falun (no longer mined). The company, which hel... Read more
debit card
debit card card that allows the cost of goods or services that are purchased to be deducted directly from the purchaser's checking account. They can also be used at automated teller machines for withdrawing cash from the user's checking account. Increasingly common in the 1990s as an alternative ... Read more
John VI
John VI (John Cantacuzene) , c.1292-1383, Byzantine emperor (1347-54). He was chief minister under Andronicus III, after whose death he proclaimed himself emperor and made war on the rightful heir, John V. He was aided by the Ottoman Turks. The war allowed Stephen Dušan to build his Serbi... Read more
Cola di Rienzi
Cola di Rienzi , 1313?-1354, Roman popular leader. In 1343 on a mission to Pope Clement VI at Avignon, he won the papal confidence. While there he befriended Petrarch. Returning to Rome as papal votary, he won great popular support and received (May, 1347) wide dictatorial powers, which he claimed t... Read more
Calais
Calais , city (1990 pop. 78,836), Pas-de-Calais dept., N France, in Picardy, on the Straits of Dover. An industrial center with a great variety of manufactures, it has been a major commercial seaport and a communications center with England since the Middle Ages. A major cross-channel ferry and hove... Read more
Pskov
Pskov , city (1989 pop. 204,000), capital of Pskov region, NW European Russia, on the Velikaya River. It is an important rail junction in the heart of a flax-growing area. Industries include food processing and the manufacture of metals, machinery, building materials, and linen. Known in antiquity a... Read more
Charles IV
Charles IV 1316-78, Holy Roman emperor (1355-78), German king (1347-78), and king of Bohemia (1346-78). The son of John of Luxemburg , Charles was educated at the French court and fought the English at Crécy , where his father's heroic death made him king of Bohemia. Pope Clement VI , to ... Read more
Philip VI
Philip VI 1293-1350, king of France (1328-50), son of Charles of Valois and grandson of King Philip III. He succeeded his cousin Charles IV, invoking the Salic law to set aside both Charles's daughter and King Edward III of England, the son of Charles's sister. He was the first French king of t... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "1347"

Crotoy, battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History Crotoy, battle of, 1347. In 1346 Edward III laid siege to Calais with a naval blockade. On 25 June 1347 a French fleet of some 40 vessels bringing relief was scattered at Crotoy, at the mouth of the Somme to the south. Calais surrendered on...
Wittelsbach Dynasty (Bavaria)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...Wittelsbachs were elected Holy Roman emperor (1314 – 1347, 1400 – 1410, 1742 – 1745), some ruled...first Wittelsbach emperor, Louis IV (ruled 1314 – 1347), attracted Franciscan celebrities and philosophers like William...
Cola di Rienzi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...greater support with a series of brilliant speeches. On May 20, 1347, Rienzi appeared at the Capitol with the bishop of Orvieto...and arbitrary rule of the aristocrats was past. On Aug. 1, 1347, representatives of the Italian cities, on Rienzi's invitation...
Public Health
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying ...which entered Europe at Genoa on ships trading from Asia Minor in 1347, and spread over the next two to three years until it had laid...society had not seen anything on the scale of the pandemic of 1347 – 1349. The plague bacillus primarily infects rodents...
Late Middle Ages
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...event of the era was the Black Death, which struck Europe in 1347/1348, and returned periodically for much of the next hundred...western Europe, to the city of Messina in Sicily, in November 1347. It subsequently appeared in Pisa and Genoa, and then spread...
Charles IV
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...1316-78, Holy Roman emperor (1355-78), German king (1347-78), and king of Bohemia (1346-78). The son of John...as antiking to Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV . Louis's death (1347), the popular desire for peace, which was fostered by the...
Falun
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...again in 1641. It is the headquarters of Sweden's oldest company, the Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags Aktiebolag, founded (1347) to operate the copper mines of Falun (no longer mined). The company, which helped considerably to finance Gustav II's...
Saint Catherine of Siena
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Saint Catherine of Siena , 1347-80, Italian mystic and diplomat, a member of the third order of the Dominicans, Doctor of the Church. The daughter of Giacomo...
Minimum Wage
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...394, 67 L. Ed. 785, to 1937 in Morehead v. New York ex rel. Tipaldo , 298 U.S. 587, 56 S. Ct. 918, 80 L. Ed. 1347, the Court consistently ruled against the constitutionality of all minimum-wage legislation. During his second administration...
Reason
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...Middle Ages, and which was most popularly identified with the English Franciscan thinker William of Ockham (c. 1285 – 1347/1349), who separated reason and faith according to the respective realms to which they applied, the earthly and the heavenly...

Dictionary entries related to "1347"

Rienzo, Cola di
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...him to return to Rome; his ability impressed the Pope. In May 1347 he stirred up a popular revolution, as a result of which the...had engineered. The people of Rome forced him to flee in Dec. 1347. In 1350 Charles IV arrested him and sent him to Clement, who...
Black Death
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Black Death (1347–50) The most virulent epidemic of bubonic and pneumonic plague...fresh from campaigning in the Crimea, who besieged the port of Caffa (1347). Rats carrying infected fleas swarmed aboard trading vessels, thus...
Crotoy, battle of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Crotoy, battle of, 1347. In 1346 Edward III laid siege to Calais with a naval blockade. On 25 June 1347 a French fleet of some40 vessels bringing relief was scattered at Crotoy, at the mouth of the Somme. Calais surrendered on 3 August and...
Bahmani
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Bahmani A dynasty of sultans who controlled the Deccan plateau in central India from 1347 to 1518. The dynasty was founded by Ala-ud-din Bahman Shah, who in 1347 rebelled against his Delhi suzerain. His successors expanded over the west-central...
Gregory Palamas, St
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...priest in 1326, and consecrated archbishop of Thessalonica in 1347. His fame stems from his controversy with Barlaam of Calabria...condemned, he was vindicated by councils at Constantinople in 1347 and 1351 and canonized in 1363. Feast days in E., 14 Nov...
Cruise, Tom
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Mission," in Premiere (Boulder), June 1996. Paterson, Elaine, "Mission: Improbably," in Time Out (London), no. 1347, 12 June 1996. * * * Despite his male model features and proven box-office clout, there is something thin and underdeveloped...
Poke
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms Poke a bag containing a definite amount which varied according to the commodity. Examples : poke of bran, 1875; of corn, 1648; of hops, 1883; of madder (20 cwt), 1347; of silver, 1733; of pardon, 1377; of pence, 1575; of plums, 1581; of wool, c . 1500.
Clement VI
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...1346. In Italy he faced turmoil in Naples under his ward, Queen Joanna, and popular revolt in Rome led by Cola di Rienzo in 1347. He strengthened the Papal establishment at Avignon by buying the city from Joanna of Naples and trying to make it the intellectual...
Catherine, St, of Siena
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Catherine, St, of Siena (?1347–80), Dominican tertiary from the age of 16. Having, as she believed, received a command from Christ to leave her...
Bartholomew of Pisa
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Bartholomew of Pisa ( c. 1260–1347), Dominican theologian, famous chiefly for his alphabetically arranged Summa de Casibus Conscientiae (1338).

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New Compound, CEP-1347, Demonstrates Potential for Halting the Progression Of Parkinson's Disease.
PR Newswire; 10/27/1999; 700+ words ; ...announced the results of studies of its CEP-1347 compound in models of Parkinson's disease...and Stroke (NINDS) reported that CEP-1347 slows the development of Parkinsonian...al. support the hypothesis that CEP-1347 could have therapeutic potential in altering...
CEP-1347 Increased Success Of Brain Cell Transplantation In Animal Models.
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Cephalon Reports that Data Show that CEP-1347 Increased Success Of Brain Cell Transplantation in Models of Parkinson's Disease.
PR Newswire; 11/14/2001; 700+ words ; ...Neuroscience in San Diego, demonstrate that CEP-1347 improves the survival of transplanted dopamine...study was designed to test whether CEP-1347, a semi-synthetic compound shown to...embryonic nerve cells treated with CEP-1347 prior to transplantation and a control...
Cephalon and Lundbeck Initiate Clinical Program With CEP-1347 for Neurodegenerative Diseases.
PR Newswire; 7/22/1999; 700+ words ; ...evaluate the safety and tolerability of CEP-1347, Cephalon's orally active small molecule...protein (SAP) kinase pathway. CEP-1347 selectively and potently inhibits key kinases...models of neurodegenerative diseases, CEP-1347 enhances neuronal survival and supports...
STORY: FEATURE HOME: 1347 HUNTER CIRCLE
Newspaper article from: Sun Publications (IL); 6/18/1999; 449 words ; Feature Home: 1347 Hunter Circle; Fox Meadow house provides...Fox Meadow subdivision makes the home at 1347 Hunter Circle one of the most conveniently...Affiliates, (630) 961-3838 Address: 1347 Hunter Circle in Naperville Size: More...
Cola di Rienzi proclaims himself 'tribune' of Rome.(Freeze Frame: May 20th, 1347)
Magazine article from: History Today; 5/1/1997; 700+ words ; ...ancient Capitol of Rome on Whit Sunday 1347, which made a thirty-something orator...end occupied the Capitol on Whit Sunday, 1347. The assembled crowd heard Rienzi proclaim...beyond the city, backing it up in August 1347 by a series of eccentric ceremonies (reminiscent...
Security Council forwards nominations for Rwanda Tribunal Judges to General Assembly, adopting Resolution 1347 (2001) unanimously.
M2 Presswire; 4/2/2001; 700+ words ; ...General Assembly, adopting Resolution 1347 (2001) unanimously (C)1994-2001...Assembly. Unanimously adopting resolution 1347 (2001), the Council forwarded the nominations...the resolution to be issued as S/RES/1347 (2001) is as follows: "The Security...
Punj Lloyd bags Rs 1347 cr order from Libyan Co.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 8/21/2006; 577 words ; Punj Lloyd bags Rs 1347 cr order from Libyan Co Mumbai, Aug 21 (PTI) Engineering and construction company Punj Lloyd Ltd has bagged an order worth over Rs 1347 crore (290 million dollars) from Libya's Sirte Oil Company for pipeline...
Calais falls to Edward III and his English army (part of Hundred Years War, August 4, 1347)(Freeze Frame)
Magazine article from: History Today; 8/1/1997; 700+ words ; ...finally moved Philip to action. He raised an army in late spring 1347 which moved with great reluctance to take the field -- the trauma...attempts at relief were half-hearted: his last on July 27th, 1347, was followed by inconclusive parleying between the French forces...
Dark death: In 1347, a terrible plague brought death and destruction to Europe. (World History).
Magazine article from: Junior Scholastic; 2/11/2002; ; 700+ words ; It started in Sicily in 1347. Citizens in the small seaport of Messina began to get headaches. Then came fevers, chills, nausea, and pain. Soon, red...