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Cymbeline
(Encyclopedia) Cymbeline sm´bln or Cunobelinuskyoonbl´ns, d. c.&AD; 40, British king. His conquest of the Trinovantes (of Essex) reportedly made him the wealthiest and most powerful…design
(Encyclopedia) design, plan or arrangement of line, form, mass, color, and space in a pattern. A design may be created to serve a functional purpose as in architecture and in industrial designs or…Carpocrates
(Encyclopedia) Carpocrates kärpk´rtz, fl. c.130–c.150, Alexandrian philosopher, founder with his son Epiphanes of a Hellenistic sect, notoriously licentious, related to Gnosticism. Epiphanes wrote…cryolite
(Encyclopedia) cryolite or kryoliteboth: kr´lt [Gr.,=frost stone], mineral usually pure white or colorless but sometimes tinted in shades of pink, brown, or even black and having a luster like…Horrocks, Jeremiah
(Encyclopedia) Horrocks or Horrox, Jeremiah both: hr´ks, 1618?–1641, English astronomer. He made the first observation of the transit of Venus. His Venus in sole visa, which narrates this…Loricifera
(Encyclopedia) Loricifera lôrsf´r, phylum of microscopic animals discovered in 1974. They have spiny heads and unsegmented bodies encased in a vase-shaped anterior that can retract into the…Besides the North Atlantic, where else might icebergs be found?
Icebergs are also commonly found around the ice shelves of Antarctica and a very small number of icebergs calve into the ocean in Alaska and in Siberia or south of Franz Joseph Land in the Barents…essence
(Encyclopedia) essence, in philosophy, the nature of a thing. Aristotle maintained that there is a distinction between the form of a thing—its intelligible, verbally formulable character—and the…larceny
(Encyclopedia) larceny, in law, the unlawful taking and carrying away of the property of another, with intent to deprive the owner of its use or to appropriate it to the use of the perpetrator or of…Quay, Matthew Stanley
(Encyclopedia) Quay, Matthew Stanley kw, 1833–1904, American political leader, b. Dillsburg, Pa. He studied law in Pittsburgh and was admitted (1854) to the bar. He fought in the Civil War, and…Trending
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