|
Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries: |
Research categories | Follow us on Twitter |
Research categories
View all topics in the newsView all reference sources at Encyclopedia.com |
|||
|
Petrodvorets
Petrodvorets, Leningrad/Russia Pieterhof, Peterhof ‘Peter's Palace’ from the genitive of Pëtr ‘Peter’ and dvorets ‘palace’. Founded in 1710 as a royal estate by Emperor Peter I the Great† and developed into a summer palace to rival Versailles... Read more |
|
Giovanni Borelli
Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso (b. Naples, Italy, January 1608; d. Rome, Italy, 31 December 1679) astronomy, epidemiology, mathematics, physiology (iatromechanics ) physics, volcanology. Borelli is not as widely known or appreciated as perhaps he should be. What reputation he has is based upon his... Read more |
|
Utility
UtilityThe principle of decreasing marginal utilityRevealed preference; multiple choiceUtility and its measureBIBLIOGRAPHYIn a broad perspective the history of economics emerges as a struggle with the problem of value. The importance of the concept known in modern economics by the name of utility... Read more |
|
Yankee
Yankee term used by Americans generally in reference to a native of New England and by non-Americans, especially the British, in reference to an American of any section. The word is most likely from the Dutch and may have been derived from Janke, diminutive of Jan {John]; from Jan and Kees, ... Read more |
|
|
seasons
seasons divisions of the year characterized by variations in the relative lengths of day and night and in the amount of heat received from the sun. These variations depend on the inclination of the equator to the plane of the ecliptic and on the revolution of the earth around the sun. The amount... Read more |
|
|
calcium oxide
calcium oxide chemical compound, CaO, a colorless, cubic crystalline or white amorphous substance. It is also called lime, quicklime, or caustic lime, but commercial lime often contains impurities, e.g., silica, iron, alumina, and magnesia. It is prepared by heating calcium carbonate (e.g., ... Read more |
|
|
jelly and jam
jelly and jam gelatinous, sweet food prepared by preserving fresh fruits. Since most fresh fruits contain about 80% water and from 10% to 15% sugar, they are subject to fermentation. They may be preserved by adding sugar and reducing the water content. Almost any fresh fruit can be made into jam by... Read more |
|
King of Judea Herod I
Herod the Great Herod the Great (ca. 73 B.C.-4 B.C.), King of Judea, was an example of a class of client princes who kept their thrones by balancing between being over thrown by their own peoples for too much sub servience to Rome and being dismissed by the Romans for too much independence. ... Read more |
|
Godfried Schalken
Schalken, Godfried (b Made, nr. Dordrecht, 1643; d The Hague, 13 or 16 Nov. 1706). Dutch painter of biblical, allegorical, and anecdotal subjects and of portraits, active mainly in Dordrecht. He was taught there by Hoogstraten and in Leiden by Dou, and he was one of Dou's most distinguished... Read more |
|
Republic of South Africa
South Africa, Republic of. Former British dominion. During the French Revolutionary War, British troops seized the Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope to protect Britain's trade route to the Far East. Handed back in 1802, the Cape was again captured in 1806 and became Cape Colony. The Dutch... Read more |
|
|
Doubles life helps Andy's big brother to love the game again ; To put himself...
...lane called doubles. So impressively...the Queen had been introduced...squad when she opened the...against a Dutch team in which...thought I'd be in a team...I thought maybe I had a chance...happen." ... |
|
|
The Grass Menagerie: Views From the Park Bench;Transvistite to Dog Lover, A...
...are jumping double Dutch. "Hey...though perhaps it is not...The police had to come and...lipstick. "The heat is killing...at night - she's got great...breasts, you'd never know she's not ... |