ConsciousCart: December 2004

Mars

Mars's festivals at Rome occurred in the spring and the

Refugee

Any uprooted, homeless, involuntary migrant who has crossed a frontier and no longer possesses the protection of his former government. Prior to the 19th century the movement from one country to another did not require passports and visas; the right to asylum was commonly recognized and honoured. Although there have been numerous waves of refugees throughout history,

Boughton, Rutland

Boughton studied at the Royal College of Music in 1900 but was otherwise self-taught. He had the idea of writing a series of music dramas based on Arthurian legends and of creating a festival theatre for their performance

Tyrrhenian Sea

Latin �Mare Tyrrhenum, �Italian �Mare Tirreno, � arm of the Mediterranean Sea, between the western coast of Italy and the islands of Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily. It is connected with the Ligurian Sea (northwest) through the Tuscan Archipelago and with the Ionian Sea (southeast) through the Strait of Messina. Chief inlets of the sea include the Bay of Naples and the gulfs of Gaeta, Salerno, Policastro, and Sant'Eufemia.

Eagles, The, The Eagles

Pottery, Thailand and Annam

Pottery was made in the old Siamese capitals of Sukhothai and Sawankhalok. It is also thought that potteries persisted at Ayutthaya until the 18th century. Little is known of the early history of the region, and definite information on its pottery is almost nonexistent. Dating of the pottery from these regions for the most part has been by analogy with related Chinese

Pitchstone

Most pitchstone occurs as dikes or marginal phases of dikes and therefore may grade into porphyry. Pitchstone porphyry (vitrophyre)

Gyllenborg, Gustaf Fredrik, Greve (count)

Swedish poet known for his satirical and reflective poetry. Although members of his family were prominent in political life, as a courtier he took no part in politics and attacked the weaknesses of modern society in the spirit of the French Romantic philosopher Rousseau in such poems as �Verldsf�raktaren

Thomas, Helen

Born to Lebanese immigrants, Thomas was the seventh of nine children. When she was four years old, the family moved to Detroit, Michigan. While attending high school, Thomas decided

Eckener, Hugo

As a member of the firm operated by Ferdinand, Count von Zeppelin, Eckener helped to develop the rigid airships of the early 1900s. During World War I, Eckener trained airship pilots and directed the

Tacitus

In full �Publius Cornelius Tacitus�, or �Gaius Cornelius Tacitus� Roman orator and public official, probably the greatest historian and one of the greatest prose stylists who wrote in the Latin language. Among his works are the Germania, describing the Germanic tribes, the Historiae (Histories), concerning the Roman Empire from AD 69 to 96, and the later Annals, dealing with the empire in the period from AD 14 to 68.

1848, Revolutions Of

The revolutionary movement began in Italy with a local revolution in Sicily in January 1848; and, after the revolution

Antanaclasis

The first use of �sleep� refers to nocturnal rest, the second to death.

Eastern Africa, Habitat

A more useful way of grouping the East African peoples into types is according to their habitats, which can be summarized as follows: wet lowland, wet highland, semiarid, and arid. Wet lowland habitats are concentrated around Lake Victoria, and among the peoples found there about 1900 were the Ganda and Luo, both large in number. Wet highland habitats are less concentrated

Arts, Central Asian, Mongols

Genghis Khan (died 1227), the renowned Mongol conqueror, sacked and destroyed Bukhara in 1224, sparing only the 12th-century Kalyan tower, which was used for throwing criminals to their death. The 14th-century Turkic conqueror Timur, however, endowed Samarkand with new glory by building a series of religious monuments widely renowned for their splendour and decorative use of glazed

Macadamia

Macadamias originated in the coastal rain forests and scrubs of what is now Queensland in northeastern Australia. The macadamias grown commercially in Hawaii and Australia are principally

Ashburton

Town (�parish�), Teignbridge district, administrative and historic county of Devon, England, lying on the southeastern margin of Dartmoor. It was designated a stannary (tin-mining) town in 1285. The priest of the Chantry Chapel of St. Lawrence kept a �free scole,� which survived as a grammar school from the late 16th century until 1938. The Church of St. Andrew in the town was built of granite

Earth Sciences

Town (�parish�), Teignbridge district, administrative and historic county of Devon, England, lying on the southeastern margin of Dartmoor. It was designated a stannary (tin-mining) town in 1285. The priest of the Chantry Chapel of St. Lawrence kept a �free scole,� which survived as a grammar school from the late 16th century until 1938. The Church of St. Andrew in the town was built of granite

Steam

Odourless, invisible gas consisting of vaporized water. It is usually interspersed with minute droplets of water, which gives it a white, cloudy appearance. In nature, steam is produced by the heating of underground water by volcanic processes and is emitted from hot springs, geysers, fumaroles, and certain types of volcanoes. Steam also can be generated on a large

Fable, Parable, And Allegory, Fable

E. Chambry, Fables (1927), in Greek and French; S.A. Handford, Fables of Aesop (1956); B. Pares, Krylov's Fables (1926); Marianne Moore, Fables of La Fontaine (1954). For commentary on fables, see P. Clarac, La Fontaine, l'homme et l'oeuvre (1947); B.E. Perry, Aesopica (1952).

Justus, Saint

In 601 he was sent by Pope St. Gregory I the Great to assist Archbishop St. Augustine of Canterbury in the conversion of England to Christianity. He was consecrated by

L�vka Mountains

Bearing a stream during the

Ochsenbein, Ulrich

An ardent Bernese radical, Ochsenbein organized and directed an abortive military coup against the clerical government of Luzern (March 1845), precipitating

Soromenho, Fernando Monteiro De Castro

Soromenho was taken to Angola by his parents in 1911, was sent to school in Portugal at the age of six, and returned

Arrhenius Theory

Theory, introduced in 1887 by the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius, that acids are substances that dissociate in water to yield electrically charged atoms or molecules, called ions, one of which is a hydrogen ion (H ), and that bases ionize in water to yield hydroxide ions (OH-). It is now known that the hydrogen ion cannot exist alone in water solution; rather, it exists in a combined

Cloisonnism

Painting method used in the style known as Synthetism (q.v.).

Nordic Council Of Ministers

Organization of the Nordic states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden for the purpose of consultation and cooperation on matters of common interest. The Council was established in February 1971 under an amendment to the Helsinki Convention (1962) between the Nordic countries. It consists of the ministers of state of the member countries, as well as other ministers

Rybinsk

Formerly (1946 - 57) �Shcherbakov�, or (1984 - 88) �Andropov� city, Yaroslavl oblast (province), northwestern Russia, on the Volga River. The 12th-century village of Rybnaya sloboda became the town of Rybinsk in 1777. Its river port flourished after the opening (1810) of the Mariinsk Waterway, linking the Volga to the Baltic Sea, and again with the latter's reconstruction as the deep Volga-Baltic Waterway in 1964. A wide range of engineering and other

Antarctica, The surrounding seas

The seas around Antarctica have often been likened to the moat around a fortress. The turbulent �Roaring Forties� and �Furious Fifties� lie in a circumpolar storm track and a westerly oceanic current zone commonly called the West Wind Drift, or Circumpolar Current. The three major oceans, Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian, are bounded on the south by Antarctic shores. Warm,

ConsciousCart

Friday, December 31, 2004

Mars

Thursday, December 30, 2004

Refugee

Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Boughton, Rutland

Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Tyrrhenian Sea

Monday, December 27, 2004

Eagles, The, The Eagles

Sunday, December 26, 2004

Pottery, Thailand and Annam

Saturday, December 25, 2004

Pitchstone

Friday, December 24, 2004

Gyllenborg, Gustaf Fredrik, Greve (count)

Thursday, December 23, 2004

Thomas, Helen

Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Eckener, Hugo

Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Tacitus

Monday, December 20, 2004

1848, Revolutions Of

Sunday, December 19, 2004

Antanaclasis

Friday, December 17, 2004

Eastern Africa, Habitat

Thursday, December 16, 2004

Arts, Central Asian, Mongols

Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Macadamia

Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Ashburton

Monday, December 13, 2004

Earth Sciences

Sunday, December 12, 2004

Steam

Saturday, December 11, 2004

Fable, Parable, And Allegory, Fable

Friday, December 10, 2004

Justus, Saint

Thursday, December 09, 2004

L�vka Mountains

Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Ochsenbein, Ulrich

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Soromenho, Fernando Monteiro De Castro

Sunday, December 05, 2004

Arrhenius Theory

Saturday, December 04, 2004

Cloisonnism

Friday, December 03, 2004

Nordic Council Of Ministers

Thursday, December 02, 2004

Rybinsk

Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Antarctica, The surrounding seas

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