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intarsia intarsia
intarsia or tarsia, properly a form of wood inlaying . The term is sometimes applied to inlays of other materials such as ivory and metal. It is differentiated from marquetry by the basic veneering process of the latter. The term intarsia is specifically applied to a type of inlaying... Read more
Bomb Detection Devices Bomb Detection Devices
Bomb Detection Devices ¦ BRIAN HOYLE When detonated in strategic, population-dense, or confined spaces, bombs are especially destructive. For example, a bomb planted by political terrorists in a suitcase was responsible for the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over... Read more
civil service civil service
civil service entire body of those employed in the civil administration as distinct from the military and excluding elected officials. The term was used in designating the British administration of India, and its first application elsewhere was in 1854 in England. Modern civil service personnel are... Read more
Carl Michael Bellman Carl Michael Bellman
Carl Michael Bellman Swedish poet and musician Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795), often recognized as one of Sweden's last great troubadours, remains a famous musical figure in his native Sweden to this day, despite having little notoriety elsewhere in the world. A colorful man who was the... Read more
Catriona Catriona
Catriona ♀ Anglicized form of the Gaelic names Ca(i)trìona (Scottish) and Caitríona (Irish), which are themselves forms of Katherine. As the accents show, it is stressed on the second i. The name is now also used elsewhere in the English-speaking world, although it is still... Read more
Mendi Mendi
Mendi ETHNONYMS: Angal, Anganen, Nembi, Wola Orientation Identification. "Mendi" refers to the people of the Mendi valley. In precolonial times, Mendi had no collective name for themselves; nowadays, they still speak a variety of languages and dialects, and Mendi Valley clans have... Read more
Annabel Annabel
Annabel ♀ Sometimes taken as an elaboration of Anna, but more probably a dissimilated form of Amabel. It has been common in Scotland since the 12th century and was still in use in England in the 1600s. Its recent revival in popularity in England and elsewhere dates from the 1940s.Variants: ... Read more
Grand Prix de Rome Grand Prix de Rome
Grand Prix de Rome , prize awarded annually by the French government, through competitive examination, to students of the fine arts. It entitles them to four years' study at the Académie de France à Rome. The prize is open to all French painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and... Read more
Pillsbury Company Pillsbury Company
Pillsbury Company 200 South Sixth StreetMinneapolis, Minnesota 55402-1454U.S.A.(612) 3304966Fax: (612) 3307283 Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Grand Metropolitan PLCIncorporated: 1869 as the Pillsbury Flour Mills CompanyEmployees: 18,000Sales: $5.6 billionSICs: 2041 Flour & Other Grain Mill... Read more
Code Napoleon Code Napoleon
Code Napoléon or Code Civil , first modern legal code of France, promulgated by Napoleon I in 1804. The work of J. J. Cambacérès and a commission of four appointed by Napoleon I in 1800 was important in making the final draft. The Code Napoléon embodied the private... Read more

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