Search

Search results

Displaying 151 - 160

bounty, payment made by a government

(Encyclopedia) bounty, amount paid by a government for the achievement of certain economic or other goals. It often takes the form of a premium paid for the increased production or export of certain…

throne

(Encyclopedia) throne, chair of state or the seat of a high dignitary. The throne was at first a stool or bench and later became an ornate armchair, usually raised on a dais and surmounted by a…

Bristol, John Digby, 1st earl of

(Encyclopedia) Bristol, John Digby, 1st earl of, 1580–1653, English diplomat. He spent most of the years 1611–24 at the Spanish court, where as ambassador he conducted the prolonged negotiations for…

Philadelphia Museum of Art

(Encyclopedia) Philadelphia Museum of Art, established in 1875, chartered in 1876. When the city of Philadelphia planned to erect a building to house the Centennial Exposition of 1876, provision was…

How Achilles made havoc among the men of Troy.

Book: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 How Achilles made havoc among the men of Troy.So by the beaked ships around thee, son of Peleus, hungry for war, the…

Albizu Campos, Pedro

(Encyclopedia) Albizu Campos, PedroAlbizu Campos, Pedropāˈdrō älbēˈs&oomacr; kämˈpōs [key], 1891–1965, Puerto Rican political leader. After service in an African-American unit during World War I…

Fauci, Anthony Stephen

(Encyclopedia) Fauci, Anthony Stephen, 1940–, American physician, immunologist, and government official, b. Brooklyn, New York, M.D. Cornell, 1966. A senior investigator in the National Institute of…

straw

(Encyclopedia) straw, dried stalks of threshed grains, especially wheat, barley, oats, and rye. It has been used from antiquity for bedding, covering floors, and thatching roofs, as fodder and litter…

Zoroaster

(Encyclopedia) ZoroasterZoroasterzōrˈōăsˌtər [key], c.628 b.c.–c.551 b.c., religious teacher and prophet of ancient Persia, founder of Zoroastrianism. Zoroaster, the name by which he is ordinarily…

Jacobean style

(Encyclopedia) Jacobean styleJacobean stylejăkˌəbēˈən [key], an early phase of English Renaissance architecture and decoration. It formed a transition between the Elizabethan and the pure Renaissance…