Castile-León
Castile-León , autonomous region (1990 pop. 2,330,333), N central Spain, encompassing the provinces of Valladolid, Burgos, León, Salamanca, Zamora, Palencia, and Segovia. It was established as an autonomous region in 1983. This region rests on the elevated central plateau and is traversed by the Douro river. Two of its provinces are close to the Portuguese border. Agriculture is the most important sector of the economy, consisting mostly of dry farming except in the irrigated lands of Valladolid and Léon. Crops include wheat, sugar beets, and potatoes. Animal husbandry is also important. Forestry is an industry found chiefly in the mountainous zones. The National Industrial Institute ( Instituto Nacional de Industria ) provided long-term loans and tax incentives in Valladolid in order to further industrialization there. About a quarter of the nation's hydroelectricity is generated in Salamanca and Zamona provinces. Residents of León, Zamora, and Salamanca speak the Leonese dialect. There is much migration from the region to the provincial capitals.
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Sophia and the Christmas crib.(Short story)
Magazine article from: Hopscotch; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Sophia hurried up the street, her breath forming...a beacon in the early morning darkness. Sophia stopped and looked in. There, surrounded...spicy buns, was the Christmas crib. As Sophia stared at the nativity scene, she felt...
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Sophia and the Christmas crib.(short story)
Magazine article from: Hopscotch; 12/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; Sophia hurried up the street, her breath forming...a beacon in the early morning darkness. Sophia stopped and looked in. There, surrounded...spicy buns, was the Christmas crib. As Sophia stared at the nativity scene, she felt...
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Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, Volume 1, 1809-1847.('The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism', 'Reinventing the Peabody Sisters')(Book review)
Magazine article from: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, Volume 1...Patricia Dunlavy Valenti's biography of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, these volumes provide...stricken companion to the famous author, Sophia Hawthorne emerges in Valenti's volume...
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Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, Volume I, 1809-1847/The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism/Reinventing the Peabody Sisters
Magazine article from: Legacy; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, Volume 1...Patricia Dunlavy Valenti's biography of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, these volumes provide...stricken companion to the famous author, Sophia Hawthorne emerges in Valenti's volume...
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Sophia University Leverages PTC Pro/ENGINEER to Capture Consecutive National Titles for Its Formula SAE Race Car Designs.
Newspaper article from: Asia Business Newsweekly; 5/12/2009; 700+ words
; ...Development Company®, announced that "Sophia Racing," the Sophia University Japan formula SAE racing team, has standardized...for the design of all its formula racing vehicles. Sophia Racing began using Pro/ENGINEER in 2005 and quickly...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Sophia so good... (1) Still the most enduring beauty, despite childhood poverty, two miscarriages and a prison sentence, SOPHIA LOREN is as glamorous now as when Cary Grant declared his undying love for her. Now, still married after 48 years, she is finally sharing the secrets of her health and happiness. She tells MOIRA PETTY why love and food are her true fortune.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 4/24/2005; 700+ words
; ...bombardments during World War II marked Sophia Loren's childhood in southern Italy...tomatoes, onion and basil - the young Sophia knew that they had run out of money...you. It's a national dish.' Does Sophia herself order it often? There is a tinkle...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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SOPHIA PUTS FEMININE FACE ON GOD.(RELIGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 10/15/1994; 700+ words
; ...patriarch that is, nothing until she saw Sophia. ``She came and spoke to me in a vision...the images were male. But after seeing Sophia it was no work to believe that I was made...s image and that God is in me.'' Sophia, the Greek word for wisdom and, for...
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Valenti, Patricia Dunlavy. Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, Volume 1, 1809-1847.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nathaniel Hawthorne Review; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Valenti, Patricia Dunlavy. Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, Volume 1...provides a fresh and appreciative account of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's first thirty-eight years of life, concluding with Sophia and Nathaniel's departure from the...
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Lullabies for Sophia.(essay)
Magazine article from: The Hastings Center Report; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Sophia was born perfect. I had six hours of untempered...waiting impatiently for it to register Sophia's brain response to sound. There was...came to our hospital room to explain that Sophia's failure of the screening test may not...
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COOKING WITH SOPHIA LOREN
Transcript from: ABC Good Morning America; 1/28/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...AND MAY BE UPDATED. CHARLES GIBSON: Sophia Loren loves to cook. And earlier this...shortage of food when you were a child? SOPHIA LOREN: Not a shortage. There was no...over) The first memories of life for Sophia Loren were of hunger and poverty in Italy...
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Sophia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
SOPHIA (1657 – 1704); regent to Tsars...and his first wife Maria Miloslavskaya, Sophia spent her youth in the terem, where her...she studied with him. Those who regard Sophia as ambitious believe that she prepared for...
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Sophia Vasilevna Kovalevsky
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sophia Vasilevna Kovalevsky Sophia Kovalevsky (1850-1891) was the first woman to earn a Ph.D...and a strong proponent of higher education for women. Family Life Sophia Korvin-Krukovsky was born on January 15, 1850, in Moscow to...
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Sophia Jex-Blake
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sophia Jex-Blake Sophia Jex-Blake (1840-1912) led a long and difficult struggle to open...become doctors opened the door for women in the medical profession. Sophia Jex-Blake was born to a wealthy and religious family in Sussex...
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Hagia Sophia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hagia Sophia [Gr.,=Holy Wisdom] or Santa Sophia, Turkish Aya Sofia, originally a Christian church at Constantinople...mosque, and now converted into a museum. Architecture Hagia Sophia is the supreme masterpiece of Byzantine architecture. Its...
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Sophia Loren
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sophia Loren The acting career of Sophia Loren (born 1934) has covered over 50 years and more than 100...name, she changed the spelling of her first and her last name to Sophia Loren. She quickly made several films while taking drama lessons...
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