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isthmus
isthmus , narrow neck of land connecting two larger land areas. Since it commands the only land route between two large areas and is on two seas, an isthmus has great strategical and commercial importance and is a favorable situation for a city. In modern times many isthmuses have been cut through b... Read more
Mareotis
Mareotis or Maryut , salt lake, c.95 sq mi (250 sq km) excluding marshes, N Egypt, in the Nile delta. It is separated from the Mediterranean Sea by the narrow isthmus on which Alexandria is situated. There are fisheries and saltworks on the lakeshore. ... Read more
Madison: Introduction
Madison: Introduction The capital of Wisconsin, Madison is also the seat of Dane County and the focus of a metropolitan statistical area that includes the entire county. The city was founded as the state capital, where no other permanent settlement had previously existed, on a unique geographic sit... Read more
Kintyre
Kintyre , peninsula, 42 mi (68 km) long and 10 mi (16 km) wide, Argyll and Bute, W Scotland, joined to the mainland at the isthmus of Tarbert between East Loch Tarbert and West Loch Tarbert. The Mull of Kintyre, at the southwestern tip, is 13 mi (21 km) from Ireland. The terrain is hilly and unculti... Read more
Tintagel
Tintagel , small town, Cornwall, SW England. It is S of Tintagel Head, a promontory connected to the mainland by a narrow, rocky neck of land. The ruined Tintagel Castle, which extends from the promontory across the isthmus, was built in the 12th cent. on the site of a Celtic monastery. The area is ... Read more
Vanua Levu
Vanua Levu or Sandalwood Island, volcanic island, 2,137 sq mi (5,535 sq km), S Pacific, second largest of the Fiji Islands. Nasoro Levu, or Mt. Thurston (3,139 ft/960 m), is the highest peak. The Dreketi is the principal river. The large east peninsula is connected with the rest of the island... Read more
pass
pass opening or way by which a natural or artificial barrier can be crossed. The term pass is usually applied to a relatively narrow passage through a mountainous region. A pass, like an isthmus, may have great strategic and economic importance; the history of a nation has often been determined b... Read more
Spanish Main
Spanish Main mainland of Spanish America, particularly the coast of South America from the isthmus of Panama to the mouth of the Orinoco River. Spanish treasure fleets, sailing home from the New World, passed through the Caribbean N of the Main and were attacked by English buccaneers raiding from t... Read more
Finnish-Russian War
Finnish-Russian War 1939-40, war between Finland and the Soviet Union. After World War II broke out in Sept., 1939, the USSR, never on cordial terms with Finland, took advantage of its nonaggression pact (Aug., 1939) with Germany to make several far-reaching demands on Finland. These demands includ... Read more
Zapotec
Zapotec , indigenous people of Mexico, primarily in S Oaxaca and on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Little is known of the origin of the Zapotec. Unlike most native peoples of Middle America, they had no traditions or legends of migration, but believed themselves to have been born directly from rocks, t... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Isthmus"

Isthmus
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science Isthmus An isthmus is a narrow strip of land that connects two larger or wider sections of land. The isthmus of Panama, which connects South America to Central/North America...
Isthmus of Perekop
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Isthmus of Perekop , c.19 mi (30 km) long and...the Greeks and Tatars fortified the isthmus with moats and ramparts and the Tatars...The Greeks and Byzantines called the isthmus Taphros. Before the 15th cent. there...
isthmus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition isthmus , narrow neck of land connecting two larger...two large areas and is on two seas, an isthmus has great strategical and commercial importance...The most important isthmuses are the Isthmus of Panama, connecting Central and South...
Karelian Isthmus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Karelian Isthmus land bridge, NW European Russia, connecting...part of the Grand Duchy of Sweden, the isthmus passed to Russia in 1721, and&mdash...The Mannerheim Line, which crossed the isthmus, was breached in 1940 by the Russians...
Isthmus of Corinth
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Isthmus of Corinth c.20 mi (32 km) long and 4-8 mi (6.4-12.9 km) wide, connecting central Greece (Attica and Boeotia...
Isthmus of Tehuantepec
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Isthmus of Tehuantepec c.125 mi (200 km) wide at its narrowest, S Mexico, between the Gulf of Campeche and the Gulf of Tehuantepec...
Isthmus of Kra
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Isthmus of Kra , narrow neck of the Malay Peninsula, c.40 mi (60 km) wide, SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand. It has long been the proposed site of a ship canal that would bypass the congested Straits of Malacca.
Finnish–Soviet war
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...by moving the frontier on the Karelian isthmus some 70 km. (43.5...defences which stretched across the Karelian isthmus. It consisted of field works reinforced...and Ilomantsi to protect the rear of the isthmus: the rest of the eastern frontier was...
Zapotec
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...areas of Oaxaca: the central valley, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the sierra region in...meters) has a temperate climate, the isthmus and other coastal areas are tropical and...one in the central valley, one in the isthmus, four in the northern sierra, and three...
Pedrarias
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Ferdinand appointed Pedrarias governor of the Isthmus of Darién to supersede Vasco...elderly man, Pedrarias sailed to the Isthmus in the spring of 1514, accompanied by...Pedrarias, now without a rival in the Isthmus, ordered or permitted exploring expeditions...

Dictionary entries related to "Isthmus"

isthmus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology isthmus narrow neck of land. XVI. — L. — Gr. isthmós narrow passage, isthmus, of uncert. orig.
Panama Isthmus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology Panama Isthmus The narrow neck of land that connects North America and Mexico with South...at that time. Some early mammals also migrated southwards across the isthmus. During the early Cenozoic the land connection was broken but it became...
Panama Canal
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...explorer Vasco N ú ñ ez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and sighted the Pacific Ocean. From that point forward...River and import two steamships to conduct trade across the isthmus. For his work, Bogot á promised 140,000 acres...
Panama
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Panama A tropical country occupying the narrow isthmus linking Central and South America, bounded by Costa Rica...return for a Panamanian concession to build a canal across the isthmus and a lease of the zone around it to the USA. The volatile...
Desmarest, Nicolas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...essay arguing that England had once been joined to France by an isthmus whose destruction was recent, natural, and noncatastrophic...ocean depths, were used by Desmarest to show that the supposed isthmus still existed not far beneath the waves that had reduced it...
Cong
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology Cong [Ir. Conga ; cf. OIr. cuing , isthmus]. Monastery in Co. Mayo at the north-east end of Lough...the Austin canons in the 12th. It was reckoned to be on an isthmus in that it is between Lough Corrib and Lough Mask. Sometimes...
Merchant Marine
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...sacrificed for speed, and to the establishment of subsidized steamship lines converging from New York and San Francisco upon the Isthmus of Panama. The British example of subsidizing the mail steamers of Samuel Cunard led Congress to support steamship lines to...
Coastwise Steamship Lines
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Company opened a regular line from New York to Charleston, South Carolina; Havana, Cuba; New Orleans, Louisiana; and the Isthmus of Panama in 1848. In 1849 the Pacific Mail Steamship Company pioneered the route from Panama to San Francisco and Oregon...
Forty-Niners
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...San Francisco by sailing around Cape Horn, 15,000 miles requiring four to eight months. A quicker route lay through the Isthmus of Panama, half the distance and taking only two to three months. Once in California the forty-niners found themselves...
Clapeyron, Benoit-Pierre-Éṃile
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...of the Academy including that which awarded the prize in mechanics and those which investigated the project for piercing the Isthmus of Suez and the application of steam to naval uses. Clapeyron had a continuing interest in steam-engine design and theory...

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ISTHMUS AT 25 THE MADISON WEEKLY CONTINUES TO FLEX ITS CONSIDERABLE MUSCLE.(CLICK/DAYBREAK)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI); 3/30/2001; 700+ words ; To understand Isthmus' growth as it turns 25 years old, Vince O'Hern...year." Yeah, size matters. So does quality. And Isthmus, hip and helpful, achieves both. Still, Isthmus' 10-person editorial staff and its impressive army...
Corridor of destruction.(Trans-Isthmus Project in Central America)
Magazine article from: Multinational Monitor; 11/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...countries in and bordering the Central America isthmus are rushing to seize a perceived opportunity...circulating proposals for the "Trans-Isthmus Project," a plan to connect the Atlantic...an overland transit corridor across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec - the sliver of land where...
THE ISTHMUS ONE STRIP OF LAND THAT DEFINES US AND GUIDES US.(MADISON 150)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI); 4/2/2006; 700+ words ; ...foot-tall glacier carved the Madison Isthmus 20,000 years ago, geologists tell us...government. The Ho-Chunk found the Isthmus an ideal place to grow corn between two...Doty bought about 1,200 acres of the Isthmus in 1836 for $1,500. That amount might...
Thyroid isthmus agenesis associated with solitary nodule: A case report.(Case Report)(Case study)
Magazine article from: Cases Journal; 10/3/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Junior [1]BackgroundAn isolated thyroid isthmus agenesis is very uncommon. The true incidence...been found in a euthyroid state. Thyroid isthmus agenesis does not cause clinical symptoms...7 x 2.5 cm (Figure 1). Thyroid isthmus agenesis was found (Figure 2) during...
Did an open Panama Isthmus correspond to an invasion of Pacific water into the Atlantic?
Magazine article from: Journal of Physical Oceanography; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...that, prior to the closure of the Panama Isthmus (the narrow strip of land connecting...been suggested that the closure of the isthmus led to an increased salinity in the Atlantic...the Pacific Ocean through an open Panama Isthmus. This contradicts the suggestion made...
When water flowed through the Panama Isthmus
Magazine article from: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society; 9/1/2003; ; 615 words ; ...through a gap at the present-day Panama Isthmus, which connects North and South America...belt" to speak of. The closure of the isthmus (between 5 and 3 million years ago...the Pacific Ocean through an open Panama Isthmus. This contradicts the suggestion made...
Machine builder finds versatile CAD system suited to its needs. (Isthmus Engineering and Manufacturing Co-op use of computer-aided design software)
Magazine article from: Modern Machine Shop; 7/1/1989; 700+ words ; ...Versatile CAD System Suited To Its Needs Isthmus Engineering and Manufacturing Co-op...and automatic inspection equipment. Isthmus designs nearly everything they build...available in the 3D mode. The system allows Isthmus to define customer workpiece part geometry...
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Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI); 10/15/2009; 700+ words ; ...help her in her human resources job at Isthmus Engineering and Manufacturing. That...and presents the democratic workplace at Isthmus Engineering as an alternative to a capitalist...Community Pharmacy and Nature's Way Bakery. Isthmus Engineering, 4035 Owl Creek Drive, has...
ISTHMUS' WILLIAMS ON A ROLL AS FILM CRITIC.(DAYBREAK)(MEDIA MATTERS)(Column)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI); 6/14/2002; 700+ words ; ...both papers featured movie reviews by Isthmus critic Kent Williams, whose analysis...capitals of my media empire." Other than Isthmus his movie reviews also run in a Charlottesville...advice column for several years, joined Isthmus in 1989. Aside from a yearlong departure...
Capitol Steps presents 'We Need a Little Isthmus,' a song parody on Panama.
PR Newswire; 12/20/1989; 700+ words ; ...CAPITOL STEPS PRESENT 'WE NEED A LITTLE ISTHMUS'; A SONG PARODY ON PANAMA WASHINGTON...song about Panama, "We Need a Little Isthmus." The parody is set to the tune of...Here are the lyrics to "We Need a Little Isthmus," subtitled, "Banana Republicans...