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Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure
Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure 1807-73, British arctic explorer. He entered the navy and in 1848 accompanied Sir James Clark Ross to the arctic. As a naval captain he was given command (1850) of the Investigator, one of the two ships that were to search the western part of the Arctic Archipe... Read more
Bloomsbury group
Bloomsbury group name given to the literary group that made the Bloomsbury area of London the center of its activities from 1904 to World War II. It included Lytton Strachey , Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf, E. M. Forster , Vita Sackville-West , Roger Fry , Clive Bell , and John Maynard Keyn... Read more
Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter 1882-1965, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1939-62), b. Vienna, Austria. He emigrated to the United States as a boy and later received (1906) his law degree from Harvard law school. He was assistant U.S. attorney (1906-10) in New York state and legal ... Read more
John Marshall Harlan
John Marshall Harlan 1833-1911, American jurist, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1877-1911), b. Boyle co., Ky., grad. Centre College, 1850. Admitted to the bar in 1853, he served in the Civil War as a colonel in the Union army until 1863, when he became attorney general of Kentucky. He... Read more
Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell 1905-2000, English novelist. A distinguished writer of social comedy, he is best known for his 12-volume novel sequence collectively entitled A Dance to the Music of Time, a detailed yet panoramic study of changes in the snobbish, insular world of the English upper and middle class... Read more
United States War Department
United States War Department federal executive department organized (1789) to administer the military establishment. It was reconstituted (1947) as the Dept. of the Army when the military administration was reorganized (see Defense, United States Department of ). During the American Revolution, mi... Read more
cult
cult ritual observances involved in worship of, or communication with, the supernatural or its symbolic representations. A cult includes the totality of ideas, activities, and practices associated with a given divinity or social group. It includes not only ritual activities but also the beliefs and... Read more
Robert Edwin Peary
Robert Edwin Peary , 1856-1920, American arctic explorer, b. Cresson, Pa. In 1881 he entered the U.S. navy as a civil engineer and for several years served in Nicaragua, where he was engaged in making surveys for the Nicaragua Canal. He became interested in arctic exploration and made a trip to the ... Read more
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. The name "Southeast Asia" came into popular use after World War II and has replaced suc... Read more
United States Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court highest court of the United States, established by Article 3 of the Constitution of the United States. Scope and Jurisdiction Section 1 of Article 3 of the Constitution provides for vesting the judicial power of the United States in one supreme court and in suc... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "insular"

insular script
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History insular script. The origins and development of insular art and script have attracted fervent academic debate...x2014;for more than 150 years. The term ‘insular’ was originally applied in 1901 by the German...
Insular Cases
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History Insular Cases. In twenty‐four cases...Philippines (thus the name “Insular” cases). Almost immediately...Balzac v. Puerto Rico (1922). The Insular case decisions placed the Supreme Court...
Madeirans
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Madeirans ETHNONYMS: Insular Portuguese, Madeirense Orientation...strong British overlay, still permeates insular political, economic, and social life...and is the norm against which internal insular variations are evaluated. The most...
Protectorates and Dependencies
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...Department, called the Division of Customs and Insular Affairs (later the Bureau of Insular Affairs), took responsibility for Cuba, Puerto...decisions in 1900 and 1901 known collectively as the Insular Cases distinguished between two groups of U...
Irish language
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History ...common and that the two branches shared a common prehistory as Insular Celtic. Apart from geographical names in classical authors...initial mutation. The tendency was probably already present in Insular Celtic, since a similar series of phenomena is attested in...
decorated manuscripts
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History ...while Irish styles exerted enormous influence in Northumbria. Insular styles persisted into the later medieval period, executed...College Dublin 1440). Bibliography Alexander, J. J. G. , Insular Manuscripts, 6th to the 9th Century (1978) Henry, F...
Durrow, Book of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History ...it one of the most controversial manuscripts in the field of insular script and art. Despite its known association with the monastery...x2014;making it the earliest surviving fully decorated insular Gospel book—but conflicting views place it in the...
Islands
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...continents. Europe's early modern political ambitions were also insular. Instead of concentrating on the creation of territorial nation...not yet conceive of on its own territories, it invented in insular settings. In a certain sense, Europe constructed its modernity...
Neuroeconomics
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...associated with reasoning and deliberation. Interestingly, when insular activation exceeded dlPFC activation, participants typically rejected low offers, whereas when dlPFC activation exceeded insular activation, participants typically accepted these same offers...
Puerto Rico
Encyclopedia entry from: World Education Encyclopedia ...Let us refer to the Report written by the Secretary of the Insular Board of Education, Enrique C. Hern á ndez in 1899...January 1900 to his superior, the American President of the Insular Board of Education, Dr. Victor S. Clark. Until 1850, Hern...

Dictionary entries related to "insular"

Insular Cases
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History INSULAR CASES INSULAR CASES. Following its victory in the Spanish-American War (1898...acquired Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. In the Insular Cases (1901 – 1922), the U.S. Supreme Court determined...
insular
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...one's own experience: a stubbornly insular farming people. ∎ ...people living restricted and sometimes insular existences. 2. of, relating to, or from an island: the movement of goods of insular origin. ∎  of or relating...
Insular art
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Insular art. A term applied to art produced in the British Isles (more specifically northern England, Ireland, and Scotland) from...
Four-Power Treaty
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...respect each others' "rights in relation to their insular possessions and insular dominions in the region of the Pacific Ocean...February 1922, the signatories declared that "insular possessions and insular dominions," when applied...
De Lima v. Bidwell
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...BIDWELL, 182 U.S. 1 (1901), the first of the famous Insular Cases following the Spanish-American War. The protectionists...Yale University Press, 1979. Kerr, James Edward. The Insular Cases: The Role of the Judiciary in American Expansionism...
Pacific Islanders
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Pacific Islanders come from the islands of Hawaii, the U.S. insular territories of American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana...1995): 1365 – 1383. Statistics Site. Office of Insular Affairs. Home page at . White House Initiative on Asian Americans...
Foraker Act
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...and refined in a series of Supreme Court decisions known as the Insular Cases. BIBLIOGRAPHY Arg ü elles, Mar í a del...Rico Press, 1985. William Spence Robertson / t. m. See also Insular Cases ; Puerto Rico .
Gentlemen's Agreement (14 March 1907)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...to go to any country other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone, are...territory of the United States from such country or from such insular possession or from the Canal Zone; And Whereas, upon sufficient...
Scottish Colourists
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...Impressionism reached their country. None of them was represented in Roger Fry's Post-Impressionist exhibitions of 1910 and 1912, but this reflects insular English attitudes towards Scottish art rather than the quality of their work.
Pershing, John J.
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...American War (1898), he went to Washington, D.C., where his broad background won him appointment as head of the Bureau of Insular Affairs within the War Department. He served ably in the Philippines, combining his military, diplomatic, and administrative...

Thesaurus entries related to "insular"

insular
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus insular • adjective   1. insular attitudes synonyms : narrow-minded, small-minded, inward...antonyms: broad-minded, tolerant.   2. an insular existence synonyms : isolated, inaccessible, cutoff, segregated...
hothouse
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...narcissism synonyms : breeding ground, hotbed, seedbed. • adjective  the school has a hothouse atmosphere synonyms : intense, oppressive, stifling; overprotected, sheltered, insular, isolated, shielded; sensitive.
little
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...mean, narrow, narrow-minded, small-minded, base, cheap, shallow, petty, illiberal, provincial, parochial, insular.   7. you sweet little thing! synonyms : sweet, nice, dear, cute, appealing. antonyms: big; large; long...
shortsighted
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus shortsighted • adjective  shortsighted critics synonyms : narrow-minded, unimaginative, small-minded, insular, parochial, provincial, improvident. antonyms: farsighted, imaginative.
self-contained
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...independent, separate, free-standing, enclosed.   2. a very self-contained child synonyms : independent, self-sufficient, self-reliant; introverted, quiet, private, aloof, insular, reserved, reticent, secretive.
intolerant
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...intolerant citizens objecting to newcomers synonym : bigoted, illiberal, narrow-minded, narrow, parochial, provincial, insular, small-minded, prejudiced, biased, partial, partisan, one-sided, warped, twisted, fanatical; chauvinistic, jingoistic...
narrow-minded
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...reactionary, close-minded, unreasonable, prejudiced, bigoted, biased, discriminatory, warped, twisted, jaundiced, parochial, provincial, insular, small-minded, petty-minded, petty, mean-spirited, prudish, straitlaced.
narrow
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...faithful.   5. narrow in her thinking synonyms : narrow-minded, intolerant, illiberal, prejudiced, bigoted, parochial, provincial, insular, small-minded. See narrow-minded. antonyms: wide; broad; broad-minded.
myopic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...synonyms : nearsighted, shortsighted, purblind.   2. a committee of myopic people synonyms : narrow, narrow-minded, shortsighted, insular, parochial, provincial, limited, prejudiced, intolerant, unimaginative, uncreative.
provincial
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...provincial synonyms : uncultured, uncultivated, unrefined, unpolished, unsophisticated, parochial, limited, small-minded, insular, naïve, uninformed, inward-looking, illiberal, narrow, narrow-minded, inflexible, bigoted, prejudiced...

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Prognostic Factors of Insular versus Papillary/Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma
Magazine article from: The American Surgeon; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...aims were to characterize patients with insular thyroid cancer and to provide data on...therapy. We compared nine patients with insular thyroid cancer at the Department of Surgical...invasion was observed in 44.4 per cent of insular carcinomas (P < 0.05 vs papillary...
INTERAGENCY GROUP ON INSULAR AFFAIRS:DOUGLAS W. DOMENECH
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 7/17/2008; 700+ words ; ...Domenech Deputy Assistant Secretary Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the...House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Insular Affairs July 17, 2008 Madam Chair and members of the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, thank you for the opportunity...
FISCAL 2008 BUDGET: OFFICE OF INSULAR AFFAIRS:DAVID COHEN
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 2/27/2007; 700+ words ; ...David Cohen Deputy Assistant Secretary Insular Affairs Department of the Interior Committee...House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Insular Affairs February 27, 2007 Madam Chairwoman...testify on the fiscal year 2008 Office of Insular Affairs budget request. As Deputy Assistant...
Memorandum on the Interagency Group on Insular Areas.
Newspaper article from: Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents; 8/16/1999; 700+ words ; ...Agencies Subject: Interagency Group on Insular Areas Issues relating to American Samoa...frequently cut across agency lines. Since the insular jurisdictions lack the representation...With the continued development of the insular areas and the extension of most Federal...
Text of Clinton Memo on Interagency Group on Insular Areas
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 8/9/1999; 658 words ; ...AGENCIES SUBJECT: Interagency Group on Insular Areas Issues relating to American Samoa...frequently cut across agency lines. Since the insular jurisdictions lack the representation...With the continued development of the insular areas and the extension of most Federal...
Nikolao Pula Named Director Of The Office Of Insular Affairs
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 8/1/2002; 700+ words ; ...Assistant Secretary of the Interior of Insular Affairs David B. Cohen announced today...former Director of Policy for the Office of Insular Affairs (OIA), will serve as the Director...serve as the Director of the Office of Insular Affairs of the Department of the Interior...
Insular phenotypes suggest unfavorable outcomes for thyroid carcinoma patients.
Newspaper article from: Health & Medicine Week; 7/19/2004; 670 words ; ...NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Insular phenotypes suggest unfavorable outcomes...aims were to characterize patients with insular thyroid cancer and to provide data on...therapy. We compared nine patients with insular thyroid cancer at the Department of Surgical...
FISCAL 2009 BUDGET: OFFICE OF INSULAR AFFAIRS:NIKOLAO PULA
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 2/28/2008; 700+ words ; ...Pula Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior...House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Insular Affairs February 28, 2008 Mr. Chairman...s fiscal year 2009 budget request for Insular Affairs. The Office of Insular Affairs...
Secretary Babbitt Implements Reorganization of Insular Functions at Department of Interior
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 8/8/1995; 565 words ; ...officially implement the reorganization of insular functions at the Department of the Interior...the redirection of line authority for insular issues to the Assistant Secretary for...the Secretary's responsibilities for insular areas was reduced from 45 to 25 employees...
JUNIOR STATESMEN FOUNDATION STUDENTS FROM INSULAR AREAS VISIT OFFICE OF INSULAR AFFAIRS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/30/2008; 469 words ; ...Department of the Interior's Office of Insular Affairs issued the following press...Today, seven students from the insular areas attending summer school at...Department of the Interior's Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) in Washington. The...