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mummy mummy
mummy dead human or animal body preserved by embalming or by unusual natural conditions. As a rule mummies are from ancient times. The word is of Arabic derivation and refers primarily to the burials found in Egypt, where the practice of mummification was perfected over the centuries to an... Read more
Anglo-Saxon art and architecture Anglo-Saxon art and architecture
Anglo-Saxon art and architecture now only survives fragmentarily and even what remains is not necessarily representative of what once existed. Our view of architecture, for example, is distorted by the near-total loss of all wooden buildings and by the Norman destruction of all pre-Conquest... Read more
Nature Nature
NATURE. No interpretation of the idea of nature is good for all people in all places at all times. The interpretive position here reflects pivotal conceptual developments of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Charles Darwin's century brought home forcefully the reality of time, of... Read more
Cynicism Cynicism
CYNICISM. The word cynic generally conveys negative ideas in modern languages. It describes someone who is unduly critical and suspicious, apathetic about certain issues and rebellious in response to others, selfish, and indifferent toward traditions and accepted beliefs, and unconcerned with... Read more
Galaxies Galaxies
Galaxies Galaxies are collections of stars, gas, and dust, combined with some unknown form of dark matter, all bound together by gravity. The visible parts come in a variety of sizes, ranging from a few thousand light yearswith a billion stars, to 100,000 light-years... Read more
Beryl Cook Beryl Cook
Cook, Beryl (1926– ). British naive painter, born in Reading. She took up painting seriously in early middle age: ‘I was happily settled at home, and with my son away at college I had plenty of spare time. There was also the incentive of all the bare walls in our cottage [at Looe in... Read more
Henry Major Tomlinson Henry Major Tomlinson
Henry Major Tomlinson 1873-1958, English novelist. A dock worker, then a journalist and war correspondent, he was (1917-23) literary editor of the Nation and Athenaeum. Probably his best-known novel is the sea story Gallions Reach (1927). Others include Pipe All Hands (1937) and Morning... Read more
Farms Farms
Farming Farming, or agriculture, is the science or art of cultivating the soil, growing and harvesting crops, and the raising of animals. Beginning some 10,000 years ago, people in various places around the world began to grow plants and domesticate animals. Slowly and over ... Read more
Preserving Preserving
PRESERVING PRESERVING. Food preservation conserves food for future use. Most of the basic processes have been employed throughout the world for millennia. The primary methods of salting, canning, drying, pickling, smoking, salting, fermenting, cold storage, and freezing all provide an extreme... Read more

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