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Black Hole of Calcutta
Black Hole of Calcutta A prison room at Fort William, Calcutta, India, so called after the alleged suffocation there in 1756 of some English prisoners. They had been incarcerated by the nawab, Siraj ud-Daula, in retaliation for extending the fort against previous agreements. The incident has an impo... Read more
pendentive
pendentive in architecture, a constructive device permitting the placing of a circular dome over a square room or an elliptical dome over a rectangular room. The pendentives, which are triangular segments of a sphere, taper to points at the bottom and spread at the top to establish the continuous c... Read more
John Gerard Braine
John Gerard Braine 1922-86, English novelist, b. Bradford, Yorkshire. With his first novel, Room at the Top (1957), Braine established himself as one of England's angry young men . This novel bitterly chronicles the rise of a young working-class man into the upper middle class of an English fact... Read more
bungalow
bungalow [Indian bangla, =house], dwelling built in a style developed from that of a form of rural house in India. The original bungalow typically has one story, few rooms, and a maximum of cross drafts, with high ceilings, unusually large window and door openings, and verandas on all sides to sha... Read more
Pieter de Hooch
Pieter de Hooch , b. c.1629, d. after 1677, Dutch genre painter. He worked in Delft, Leiden, and Amsterdam, painting intimate interiors that may have been influenced by those of Vermeer. Usually he preferred to paint rooms opening into other rooms or to the outdoors, intriguing the imagination with ... Read more
pageant
pageant modern dramatic spectacle or procession celebrating a special occasion or an event in the history of a locality. In medieval times the word pageant had meant the wagon or the movable stage on which one scene of a mystery or miracle play was performed. The pageant was built on wheels and... Read more
deliquescence
deliquescence , conversion of a solid substance into a liquid as a result of absorption of water vapor from the air. Since impurities in a solid lower its melting point, the absorbed water causes a decrease in the normal melting point of the solid. If enough water is absorbed to lower the melting po... Read more
Henri Labrouste
Henri Labrouste , 1801-75, French architect. He was among the first to make effective architectural use of metal construction, as in his treatment of the reading room of the Bibliothèque Ste Geneviève (1843-50), Paris, in which the ceiling domes were supported upon an exposed iron fram... Read more
Philip Wilson Steer
Philip Wilson Steer 1860-1942, English landscape painter. Steer worked largely in the tradition of French impressionist painting and was considered the greatest English landscape painter of his day. He brought to his subjects a considerable understanding of pattern, color, space, and especially lig... Read more
heating
heating means of making a building comfortably warm relative to a colder outside temperature. Old, primitive methods of heating a building or a room within it include the open fire, the fireplace, and the stove . In ancient Rome a heating system, called a hypocaust, warmed a building by passing ho... Read more

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Ames Room
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology Ames Room Specially constructed space that demonstrates...visual scenes by relying on various cues. The Ames Room is a specially constructed space that...away appears higher in the visual plane. An Ames Room is constructed to look like a normal...
Donleavy, J(ames) P(atrick)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature Donleavy, J[ames] P[atrick] (1926– ),was born in Brooklyn and served...w (1987); A Singular Man (1989) and The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms (1995). Donleavy collected stories in Meet My Maker, the Mad Molecule...
Samuel Butler
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...believed that he remained in London after 1677, occupying a room in Rose Alley, Covent Garden. He died Sept. 25, 1680. Butler...Hudibras and its place in English literary tradition include Edward Ames Richards, Hudibras in the Burlesque Tradition (1937), and...
J. C. Penney
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...executive, pioneer in profit sharing, and philanthropist, J (ames) C (ash) Penney (1875-1971) built a corporate empire following...owners who shared in the profits. He lived frugally in an attic room over the store at first. He opened the store at 7:00 a.m...
Walker Family Spy Ring
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security ...compromised the transaction. Walker was arrested outside his hotel room later the same night. Despite warnings from his handlers in...http://www.cicentre.com> (April 2003). SEE ALSO Ames (Aldrich H.) Espionage Case Dead Drop Spike Dead-Letter...
Booth Theatres
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...James Renwick Jr., and featured extensive backstage space, room for scene and costume shops, and an early sprinkler system...theatre the Sam S. Shubert on Shubert Alley . Producer Winthrop Ames presented small productions in the elegant, Italian Renaissance...

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Bessey, Charles Edwin
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...botany and horticulture at Iowa Agricultural College, Ames. His single room, which held two chairs, a table, bureau, washstand...borrowed from Iowa Agricultural College. After teaching at Ames for fifteen years and after repeated solicitations...
Smith, (Dame) Maggie
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Academy, for A Private Function, 1985, A Room with a View, 1986, and The Lonely Passion...The Missionary (Loncraine) (as Lady Ames); Better Late than Never (Whose Little...Jatszani Kell ) (Makk) (title role) 1986 A Room with a View (Ivory) (as Charlotte Bartlett...
Hawkins, Jack
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...of Kin (Dickinson) (as Major) 1948 The Fallen Idol (Reed) (as Detective Ames); Bonnie Prince Charlie (Kimmins) (as Lord George Murray); The Small Back Room (Powell and Pressburger) (as Waring) 1950 State Secret (The Great Manhunt...
Lopez, Jennifer
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...moves brought hip-hop culture into mainstream American living rooms as Lopez became the group's most prominent face. After Fox...Joe and Big Punisher and a duet with Marc Anthony on "No Me Ames." The album's combination of genres—R&...
Goosson, Stephen
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Capra); One Night of Love (Schertzinger) 1935 The Black Room (Neill); She Couldn't Take It (Woman Tamer ) (Garnett...The Corpse Came C.O.D. (Levin); The Guilt of Janet Ames (Levin) 1948 The Lady from Shanghai (Welles); The Black...
First Ladies
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...case Mary Todd Lincoln. A reporter and novelist, Mary Clemmer Ames, applied the same phrase to Lucy Webb Hayes in 1877, and the...Washington decided that he and Martha would host a weekly drawing room on Friday evenings, and dinner parties on Thursday evenings...

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Magnetic cooling more efficient and cheaper. (Astronautics Corporation of America and Ames Laboratory have successfully tested a magnetic refrigerator that operates at near room temperature)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 6/1/1997; 700+ words ; Astronautics Corporation of America, Ames, Iowa, and the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have constructed and tested a fully...magnetic refrigerator operating in the near-room temperature region typical of air conditioners...
CORRECTING and REPLACING Hilton Garden Inn[R] Ames Opens Doors in Iowa.
Newspaper article from: Leisure & Travel Week; 1/24/2009; 700+ words ; ...oThe Hilton Garden Inn Ames is the ideal upscale...The Hilton Garden Inn Ames is offers 112 guestrooms...and dinner and evening room service; the 24-hour...fireplace; two meeting rooms offering 2,300 square...laundry facility. Guest room accommodations and features...features of the guest ...
Hilton Garden Inn[R] Ames Opens Doors in Iowa.
Business Wire; 1/7/2009; 700+ words ; ...The Hilton Garden Inn Ames is the ideal upscale...The Hilton Garden Inn Ames is offers 112 guestrooms...and dinner and evening room service; the 24-hour...fireplace; two meeting rooms offering 2,300 square...laundry facility. Guest room accommodations and features...features of the guest ...
Two schools, one vision: Ames Elementary may be badly ailing, but a veteran St. Paul educator is intent on seeing it replicate the successes of a high-achieving school for gifted and talented students.
Newspaper article from: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN); 12/26/2006; 700+ words ; ...naturalist. The vision at Ames is to draw students out...expression of the new Ames model is the "flow room," where students have...buzz of activity in the room. "This is how the children...Henderson's time at Ames, even though poor performance...
A GIRLS' CHAMPION ANNA C. AMES, WHO ENSURED EQUAL PLAY IN EARLY 1900S, TO BE HONORED BY EASTON
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/18/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...s movement as well. "Mrs. Ames was a Unitarian, and it was...schools were her pet project. Ames organized and equipped the school...dual role. There were three rooms for music instructors and a larger room for band rehearsals. But the...Lemish, a member of the Oliver Ames Athletic Hall of ...
THE MOPING MOLE; Convicted spy Aldrich Ames has spent the last year in solitary confinement. The trouble is, he doesn't like it there.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/13/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...a small cell, Aldrich Ames is still causing the CIA...in a prison interview room, the agency's most...The irony is that Ames, the confessed spy whose...murders. In an interview room at Allenwood's high security prison, Ames was his normal voluble...
Battle Goes On Behind Bars: Ames Hurls Lawsuit at CIA
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/13/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...confined to a small cell, Aldrich Ames is still causing the CIA problems. Sitting in a prison interview room at the U.S. Penitentiary complex...detention." The irony is that Ames, the confessed spy whose betrayals...like the plaintiff in Citizen Ames v. CIA. In his mind, the agency...
Rosario Ames Denies She Was Ever a Spy
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 4/21/1994; 700+ words ; ...it has evidence that Rosario Ames helped her husband; but, in...this week with NPR, Rosario Ames denies she was ever a spy...attorney in a small visiting room in the Alexandria, Virginia, jail, Rosario Ames was quite clear about the ground...
AMES HANGING UP CLOSED SIGN.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 8/15/2002; 700+ words ; ...financial means to expand, he said. Ames had tried to carve its niche with...just doesn't leave a lot of room for competition,'' said Malachy...resident shopping at the Latham Ames on Wednesday. Not a regular Ames patron, she said many of the...
Ames Lowers the Cost of Higher Education
PR Newswire; 8/18/1998; 700+ words ; ...race is on to outfit the perfect dorm room and Ames Department Stores will provide college...1998. Next, stop by your local Ames store to find great merchandise...much more! Joseph R. Ettore, Ames' President and Chief Executive Officer...