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Stephen II
Stephen II d. 757, pope (752-57), successor of Pope St. Zacharias . When Rome was threatened by the Lombard king Aistulf, Stephen went to Gaul and appealed to Pepin the Short for help. He became the first pope to cross the Alps. Pepin responded and defeated (754 and 756) Aistulf and restored the...
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Tiglathpileser III
Tiglathpileser III d. 728 BC, king of ancient Assyria. He seems to have usurped the throne in 745 BC He bore the alternative name of Pul, by which he was known in biblical history (2 Kings 15.19). He subdued the Aramaean tribes in Babylonia, and his general Ashur-danani campaigned against the Medes...
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Thematic Apperception Test
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) A projective test developed in the United States in the 1930s, employing twenty monochromatic, indefinite pictures of human action. Respondents describe what is happening, what led up to this, and what follows. Narratives, which are assumed to reveal (through project...
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Palestine Liberation Organization
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), coordinating council for Palestinian organizations, founded (1964) by Egypt and the Arab League and initially controlled by Egypt. Composed of various guerrilla groups and political factions, the PLO is dominated by Al Fatah, the largest group, whose leader,...
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cutting
cutting in horticulture, part of a plant stem, leaf, or root cut off and used for producing a new plant. It is a convenient and inexpensive method of propagation, not possible for all plants but used generally for grapes; chrysanthemums; verbenas (stem cuttings); blackberries (root cuttings); Afric...
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July Revolution
July Revolution revolt in France in July, 1830, against the government of King Charles X . The attempt of the ultraroyalists under Charles to return to the ancien régime provoked the opposition of the middle classes, who wanted more voice in the government. The banker Jacques Laffitte was...
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Babur
Babur [Turk.,=lion], 1483-1530, founder of the Mughal empire of India. His full name was Zahir ud-Din Muhammad. A descendant of Timur (Tamerlane) and of Jenghiz Khan, he succeeded (1494) to the principality of Fergana in central Asia. His early life was spent in an ultimately unsuccessful struggl...
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Gentile da Fabriano
Gentile da Fabriano , c.1370-1427, Italian painter, one of the outstanding exponents of the elegant international Gothic style. In 1409 he worked in the Doge's Palace, Venice, painting historical frescoes that subsequently perished. In 1422 he was in Florence where he created his most celebrated pai...
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West Bank
West Bank territory, formerly part of Palestine , after 1949 administered by Jordan, since 1967 largely occupied by Israel (2005 est. pop. 2,386,000), 2,165 sq mi (5,607 sq km), west of the Jordan River, incorporating the northwest quadrant of the Dead Sea. Since mid-1994 limited Palestinian self-...
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procedure
procedure in law, the rules that govern the obtaining of legal redress. This article deals only with civil procedure in Anglo-American law (for criminal procedure, see criminal law ). Except for evidence , procedure conventionally embraces all matters concerning legal actions that come to trial; ...
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