|
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 |
|||
|
alive
... Read more |
|
|
Death Mask
D EATHM ASK A death mask is a wax or plaster cast of a person's face taken while he or she is alive or after their death. Usually the mask is created after the death of the person because of the danger imposed by its materials. The making of a reproduction of... Read more |
|
|
Thera
Thera (Thíra), Greece Calliste, Strongyle, Santorin/Santoríni An island in the Cyclades group with a town of the same name. The first name, Calliste, meant ‘Most Beautiful’. Strongyle meant ‘Round (Island)’. Subsequently the island was renamed after the martyr... Read more |
|
|
Battambang
Battambang , city (1995 est. pop. 110,000), capital of Battambang prov., W Cambodia, in a great rice-growing area. The second largest city in Cambodia, it is a market center with numerous rice mills. Textiles are also made. The city is on both the highway and railroad linking Phnom Penh with... Read more |
|
|
Richard James Morrison
Morrison, Richard James (1795-1874) The contemporary revival of interest in astrology reversed a trend that saw astrology almost disappear from Western culture by the end of the eighteenth century. Astrology began its slow return in a format capable of existing in the scientifically-oriented... Read more |
|
|
Louis Gaufridi
Godfrey (or Gaufridi) (d. 1611) A priest of Provence, France, who was accused of seducing several women, one of them a nun. To save herself the nun asserted that Godfrey had bewitched her. Arrested and imprisoned, Godfrey was tortured until he confessed that he was a magician and that he had,... Read more |
|
|
Theocritus
Theocritus , fl. c.270 BC, Hellenistic Greek poet, b. Syracuse. The history of the pastoral begins with him, and in him the form seems to have reached its height. His poetic style is finished and at times artificial, but the bucolic characters in his idyls seem alive. Theocritus has been widely... Read more |
|
|
Thetis
Thetis , in Greek mythology, a nereid, mother of Achilles. She was loved by both Zeus and Poseidon, but because of a prophecy that her son would be greater than his father, the gods gave her in marriage to a mortal, Peleus. According to one legend, Thetis burned alive her first six sons and sent... Read more |
|
|
vestal
vestal , in Roman religion, priestess of Vesta. The vestals were first two, then four, then six in number. While still little girls, they were chosen from prominent Roman families to serve for 30 (originally 5) years, during which time they could not marry. Their duties included the preparation of... Read more |
|
|
gisant
gisant. French term used from the 15th century onwards for a recumbent effigy on a funerary monument. In Renaissance monuments gisants often formed part of a lower register, where the deceased person was represented as a corpse (sometimes in decomposition), while on the upper part he or she was... Read more |
|
Letter from Cambodia.
...year-old P. "Now, in Phnom Penh has many problems. Mr...violence persists that has its roots in the crimes of the...in a way. She's still alive. On October 21 four men...year-old singer outside a Phnom Penh flower shop. The ... |
 "The Nation (Thailand)")
|
LETTER FROM COLOMBO: Sri Lanka rediscovers role in region, NATION
...and up north due to its geographical location...nuclear blasts by its two key members...insisted that Saarc is alive and kicking. For...commendingThailand for its role as a catalyst...Vietnamese-installed Phnom Penh ... |
|
ANALYSIS: INSIDE PERSPECTIVE ON UIGHURS.
...WE are hardly alive now. Please...gunpoint from a Phnom Penh safe house jointly...office in Phnom Penh had just called...Convention and its 1967 Protocol...they reached Phnom Penh, where ... |
|
`Killing Field' atrocities go unpunished
...They also have sent letters to President Reagan...troops captured Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975...Western influence. Phnom Penh and other cities...since installed its own puppet government...leaders who are still ... |
|
A Survivor Confronts the Khmer Rouge Anew
...1999 that Douch was alive, and at the urging...communicated with Douch by letter but has not seen...s intrusion or its paving the way for...miles) north of Phnom Penh. When he was freed...1975 he was back in Phnom ... |
|
Aides at Odds On Response To Vietnam; U.S. Gesture Urged For Help on MIAs
...rewarding Hanoi for its cooperation in...decision to open its military archives...the form of a letter from Bush to President...working group by its only nongovernment...The huge "USA" letters photographed by...of Cambodia in ... |
|
CAMBODIA: OBSTACLES SEEN ON ROAD TO POL POT TRIAL
...handed over alive to the authorities...diplomat in Phnom Penhsaid...FUNCINPECto boost its prospects in...has kept up its verbal assaults...in a joint letter, recently...journalist in Phnom Penh. Chief ... |
 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
|
Homeownership; Housing program reunites family; The Minnesota Urban and Rural...
...been returned to its 1925 freshness...the others were alive. With Sarai Pin...Phalar was given the letter. "To find out my family was alive and in the United...the family pooled its money "so our...village west of Phnom ... |
|
|
Cambodia Says Pol Pot Caught; Genocide Trial Sought for Perpetrator of 1970s...
...began devouring its own in a climate...wooed to support its brawling factions...that Pol Pot was (alive) on top of the...brought eventually to Phnom Penh." The prince...Sen had signed a letter to the U.N...group and what ... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
|
Voices from the past Cambodian refugees reconnect with relatives thought lost
...had last seen in Phnom Penh in 1975. The scant...Sok supplied made its way last summer to...So she sent him a letter through intermediaries...received her Feb. 19 letter. Chhay, she said...his relatives were alive and living ... |
Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries:
HighBeam™ Research, Inc. © Copyright 2012. All rights reserved.
The Encyclopedia.com advertising network includes:
