Paraná: …was made capital of the Argentine Confederation. Until 1862, while Buenos Aires was separated from the confederation, Paraná was the residence of the federal authorities, which boosted its economic, cultural, and population growth. Development was sustained after it was made the provincial capital in 1882.

Dogo Argentino, breed of working dog created in Argentina in the 1920s as a pack-hunting, big-game hunter. The Dogo Argentino was developed by two brothers, the Argentinian physicians Antonio and Agustín Nores Martinez, mixing the nearly extinct Viejo Perro de Pelea Cordobés (“old fighting dog of

viral hemorrhagic fever: …Lassa fever (occurring in Africa), Argentine hemorrhagic fever, Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, Brazilian hemorrhagic fever, and Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever.

John Henry Williams: A major early work was Argentine International Trade under Inconvertible Paper Money (1920), which successfully tested the classical theory of international transfer and takes its place alongside classic studies by Frank Taussig and Jacob Viner. He had earlier produced, with others, pioneering data on the historical development of the U.S.…

Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences, national museum (founded 1823) in Buenos Aires. It has zoological, botanical, and geological departments. The museum has about 2,000,000 exhibits and a library of more than 500,000 volumes. Areas of expertise include archaeology, botany, ecology, entomology,

Argentina, country of South America, covering most of the southern portion of the continent. The world’s eighth largest country, Argentina occupies an area more extensive than Mexico and the U.S. state of Texas combined. It encompasses immense plains, deserts, tundra, and forests, as well as tall

turtle: Courtship and copulation: …batagur (Batagur baska), and the Argentine side-necked turtle (Phrynops hilarii), the male develops bright head and trunk colours that signal his reproductive readiness and possibly elicit a female’s cooperation.

Dogo Argentino, breed of working dog created in Argentina in the 1920s as a pack-hunting, big-game hunter. The Dogo Argentino was developed by two brothers, the Argentinian physicians Antonio and Agustín Nores Martinez, mixing the nearly extinct Viejo Perro de Pelea Cordobés (“old fighting dog of

argentine, any fish of the family Argentinidae, small, outwardly smeltlike fishes found in deeper waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The family is usually placed in the order Osmeriformes. Argentines of the species Argentina silus are silvery fishes about 45 cm (18 inches) long; they live

Santa Cruz: …miles (4,459 square km), including Lake Argentino, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1981. In addition, in the northwest near the Pinturas River, the Cave of the Hands (Cueva de las Manos)—known for its collection of cave art that dates to between 13,000 and 9,500 years ago—was designated…

protacanthopterygian: Annotated classification: Suborder Argentinoidei About 72 species; 3–40 cm (about 1–15.75 inches) long; marine, worldwide. Adipose fin present on most species; swim bladder without duct or absent; maxilla and premaxilla reduced, without teeth; light organs present in several species; tail support on 2 vertebral centra. Superfamily Alepocephaloidei About…

Cretaceous Period: Terrestrial life: …group of sauropods that included Argentinosaurus and Dreadnoughtus, emerged during the second half of the period and were the largest land animals that ever lived.

acanthite: Argentite is the high-temperature form of acanthite. Like several other sulfides, selenides, and tellurides of silver and copper, argentite forms isometric crystals at high temperatures. Upon cooling these crystals invert from isometric (cubic) to monoclinic structures while remaining unchanged in external appearance. For detailed physical…

Strasbourg, city, capital of Bas-Rhin département, Grand Est région, eastern France. It lies 2.5 miles (4 km) west of the Rhine River on the Franco-German frontier. The city was originally a Celtic village, and under the Romans it became a garrison town called Argentoratum. It was captured in the

silver (Ag), chemical element, a white lustrous metal valued for its decorative beauty and electrical conductivity. Silver is located in Group 11 (Ib) and Period 5 of the periodic table, between copper (Period 4) and gold (Period 6), and its physical and chemical properties are intermediate between

Harun Farocki: …the nuances of perception, including Der Ärger mit den Bildern (1973; “The Trouble with Images”), which addressed the overuse of images by television news. That film was his first composed entirely of pre-existing footage, none of which had been created by Farocki himself. In 1978 he made his first (of…

Martha Argerich is an Argentine pianist known for her recordings and performances of chamber music, particularly of works by Olivier Messiaen, Sergey Prokofiev, and Sergey Rachmaninoff. A prodigy, Argerich was performing professionally by age eight. In 1955 she went to Europe, where her teachers

Argeș, județ (county), southern Romania. The Transylvanian Alps (Southern Carpathians) and the sub-Carpathians rise above the settlement areas that are found in intermontane valleys. The county is drained eastward by the Argeș, Cotmeana, and Teleorman rivers. It was formerly included in feudal

Argeş River, river, that rises in the South ern Carpathians, on the southern faces of Moldoveanu and Negoiu peaks in the Făgăraş Range, southern Romania. The river’s principal tributaries from the mountains include the Vâlsan, Doamnei, and Târgului rivers. It flows southward through Curtea de Argeş

Afghanistan: Physiographic regions: … and its major tributary, the Arghandāb.

Islam: Music: …a musical instrument called the arghanūn (organ). In India, Amīr Khosrow, a 14th-century poet and mystic, produced a synthesis of Indian and Persian music and influenced the development of later Indian music.

Tudor Arghezi was a Romanian poet, novelist, and essayist whose creation of a new lyric poetry led to his recognition as one of the foremost writers in Romania. He produced his best work in the years before World War I. Arghezi, who left home at age 11, first published a poem at age 14. In 1899 he

aulos: …of double clarinets—such as the arghūl, mizmār, and zamr—that are played in the Mediterranean littoral and the Middle East. The performer’s cheeks often look bulged because the two single reeds vibrate continuously inside the mouth as the player uses nasal (or circular) breathing.

Arghūn was the fourth Mongol Il-Khan (subordinate khan) of Iran (reigned 1284–91). He was the father of the great Maḥmūd Ghāzān (q.v.). Upon the death of his father, Il-Khan Abagha (reigned 1265–82), Prince Arghūn was a candidate for the throne but was forced to yield to a stronger rival, his uncle

sawfly: …superfamily consists of five families: Argidae, argid sawflies; Pergidae, pergid sawflies; Cimbicidae, cimbicid sawflies; Diprionidae, conifer sawflies; and Tenthredinidae, typical sawflies.

sawfly: …superfamily consists of five families: Argidae, argid sawflies; Pergidae, pergid sawflies; Cimbicidae, cimbicid sawflies; Diprionidae, conifer sawflies; and Tenthredinidae, typical sawflies.

hookah, apparatus used to heat and vaporize tobacco for inhalation. The word hookah is derived from the Hindustani huqqa and the Arabic huqqah, meaning “vase” or “vessel.” The practice of smoking tobacco from a hookah likely originated in India or the Middle East. Today it is used worldwide and is

Native American art: Northwest Coast: …which are actually made of argillite, a stone found locally only on Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands), in British Columbia.

metabolism: Disposal of nitrogen: …in a reaction catalyzed by arginase, is hydrolyzed [33]. Urea and ornithine are the products; ornithine thus is available to initiate another cycle beginning at step [31].

arginine, an amino acid obtainable by hydrolysis of many common proteins but particularly abundant in protamines and histones, proteins associated with nucleic acids. First isolated from animal horn (1895), arginine plays an important role in mammals in the synthesis of urea, the principal form in

hormone: Neurohypophysis and the polypeptide hormones of the hypothalamus: and vasopressin (sometimes also called arginine vasopressin, since in many species the hormone contains arginine). Both have relatively simple and very similar molecular structures. Each is composed of nine amino acids arranged as a ring, which is formed by the linkage of two molecules of the amino acid cysteine (a…

diabetes insipidus: Types and causes: …mutations in a gene designated AVPR2 (arginine vasopressin receptor 2), which encodes a specific form of the vasopressin receptor, or by mutations in a gene known as AQP2 (aquaporin 2), which encodes a specific form of aquaporin. The vasopressin receptor gene AVPR2 is located on the X chromosome. As a…

metabolism: Disposal of nitrogen: … during a reaction catalyzed by argininosuccinase [32a].

metabolism: Disposal of nitrogen: …step [26b] react to form argininosuccinate [32]; argininosuccinic acid synthetase catalyzes the reaction. Argininosuccinate splits into fumarate and arginine during a reaction catalyzed by argininosuccinase [32a].

metabolism: Disposal of nitrogen: …react to form argininosuccinate [32]; argininosuccinic acid synthetase catalyzes the reaction. Argininosuccinate splits into fumarate and arginine during a reaction catalyzed by argininosuccinase [32a].

orb weaver, any spider of the family Araneidae (Argiopidae or Epeiridae) of the order Araneida, a large and widely distributed group noted for their orb-shaped webs. More than 2,840 species in some 167 genera are known. Notable among them are the garden spiders (subfamily Argiopinae), which are

Gjirokastër, town, southern Albania. It lies southeast of the Adriatic port of Vlorë and overlooks the Drin River valley from the eastern slope of the long ridge of the Gjerë mountains. The town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2005 for its well-preserved centre built by farmers

Urartu: …the reigns of Meinua’s son Argishti I (c. 780–756) and grandson Sarduri II (c. 755–735) there is, in addition to inscriptions, a direct historical source in the form of annals carved into the rock of Van and into stelae that were displaced in later times to other locations in the…

Urartu: But his son Argishti II (c. 712–685) and successors continued the royal tradition of developing the country’s natural resources, and Urartian culture not only survived but continued to flourish for a while, despite its political impotence. The Urartians were finally overcome by a Median invasion late in the…

Greek literature: Literature after 1922: …trenches in World War I; Argo (2 vol., 1933 and 1936) by Yórgos Theotokás, about a group of students attempting to find their way through life in the turbulent 1920s; and Eroica (1937) by Kosmás Polítis, about the first encounter of a group of well-to-do schoolboys with love and death.

Argo, American political thriller, released in 2012, that was based on events that took place during the 1979–81 Iran hostage crisis. It centers on several U.S. embassy workers who escaped the hostage takers, took refuge with Canadian diplomats, and were able to escape the country disguised as a

Titanic: Discovery: …a means for testing the Argo, a 16-foot (5-meter) submersible sled equipped with a remote-controlled camera that could transmit live images to a monitor. The submersible was sent some 13,000 feet (4,000 meters) to the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, sending video back to the Knorr.

Mount Pelion: The ship Argo of the Argonauts allegedly was built of wood from the mountain’s trees.

Ethio-Semitic languages: …northern Ethiopia and central Eritrea; Argobba; Hareri; and Gurage. Although some scholars once considered the so-called Ethiopic languages to be a branch within Semitic, these languages are now referred to as Ethio-Semitic. They are generally grouped together with the dialects of the South Arabic language as Southern Peripheral Semitic or…

Gulf of Argolís, deep inlet of the Mirtóön Sea, a western arm of the Aegean, eastern Peloponnese (Modern Greek: Pelopónnisos), Greece; it is separated from the Gulf of Saronikós by the Argolís peninsula. Some 30 miles (50 km) long and 20 miles (30 km) wide, it includes some small islands off the

Argolís, perifereiakí enótita (regional unit), periféreia (region) of Peloponnese (Modern Greek: Pelopónnisos), southern Greece. It is a narrow, mountainous peninsula projecting eastward into the Aegean Sea between the Saronikós Gulf (to the northeast) and the Gulf of Argolís (Argolikós Kólpos; to

Gulf of Argolís, deep inlet of the Mirtóön Sea, a western arm of the Aegean, eastern Peloponnese (Modern Greek: Pelopónnisos), Greece; it is separated from the Gulf of Saronikós by the Argolís peninsula. Some 30 miles (50 km) long and 20 miles (30 km) wide, it includes some small islands off the

argon (Ar), chemical element, inert gas of Group 18 (noble gases) of the periodic table, terrestrially the most abundant and industrially the most frequently used of the noble gases. Colourless, odourless, and tasteless, argon gas was isolated (1894) from air by the British scientists Lord Rayleigh

argon: The production of argon-40 from potassium-40 decay is utilized as a means of determining Earth’s age (potassium-argon dating).

dating: Potassium–argon methods: …this technique, known as the argon-40–argon-39 method, both parent and daughter can be determined in the mass spectrometer as some of the potassium atoms in the sample are first converted to argon-39 in a nuclear reactor. In this way, the problem of measuring the potassium in inhomogeneous samples is eliminated…

stainless steel: In the argon-oxygen decarburization process, a mixture of oxygen and argon gas is injected into the liquid steel. By varying the ratio of oxygen and argon, it is possible to remove carbon to controlled levels by oxidizing it to carbon monoxide without also oxidizing and losing expensive…

submarine: World War II: …first large long-range submarine, the Argonaut. Completed in 1928, it was 381 feet long, displaced 2,710 tons on the surface, was armed with two six-inch guns and four forward torpedo tubes, and could carry 60 mines. The Argonaut, the largest nonnuclear submarine ever built by the U.S. Navy, led to…

Argonaut, first submarine to navigate extensively in the open sea, built in 1897 by the American engineer and naval architect Simon Lake. Designed to send out divers rather than to sink ships, the Argonaut was fitted with wheels for travel on the bottom of the sea and had an airtight chamber with a

Argonaut, in Greek legend, any of a band of 50 heroes who went with Jason in the ship Argo to fetch the Golden Fleece. Jason’s uncle Pelias had usurped the throne of Iolcos in Thessaly, which rightfully belonged to Jason’s father, Aeson. Pelias promised to surrender his kingship to Jason if the

nautilus: The paper nautilus is usually found near the surface of tropical and subtropical seas feeding on plankton; the females differ from other members of the order Octopoda in that they can secrete a thin, unchambered, coiled shell, formed by large flaps, or membranes, on the dorsal…

Diane Wakoski: …City of Las Vegas (1995), Argonaut Rose (1998), Bay of Angels (2013), and Lady of Light (2018). The Butcher’s Apron (2000) features poems about food. Wakoski also published several essay collections.

Simon Lake: Lake’s first experimental submarine, the “Argonaut, Jr.,” built in 1894, had a wooden hull and was about 14 feet (4 metres) long. It travelled the sea bottom on wheels turned by hand. The “Argonaut,” built in 1897, was 36 feet (11 metres) long and was powered by a 30-horsepower gasoline…

nautilus: The paper nautilus is usually found near the surface of tropical and subtropical seas feeding on plankton; the females differ from other members of the order Octopoda in that they can secrete a thin, unchambered, coiled shell, formed by large flaps, or membranes, on the dorsal…

Jeanne Villepreux-Power: …research on the paper nautilus Argonauta argo, a cephalopod that resembles members of the genus Octopus in most respects.

Gaius Valerius Flaccus: …epic poet, author of an Argonautica, an epic which, though indebted to other sources, is written with vivid characterizations and descriptions and style unmarred by the excesses of other Latin poetry of the Silver Age.

Apollonius of Rhodes: …was the author of the Argonautica.

magic: Sociological theories: …lesser extent by Malinowski in Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922) and Magic, Science and Religion (1925). Radcliffe-Brown posited that the function of magic was to express the social importance of the desired event, while Malinowski regarded magic as directly and essentially concerned with the psychological needs of the individual.

Argonne, wooded, hilly region in eastern France that forms a natural barrier between Champagne and Lorraine. The Argonne is about 40 miles long and 10 miles wide (65 by 15 km). The hilly massif rarely exceeds 650 feet (200 meters) in elevation but is slashed with numerous deep valleys formed by

Argonne National Laboratory, the first U.S. national research laboratory, located in Argonne, Illinois, some 40 km (25 miles) southwest of Chicago, and operated by the University of Chicago for the U.S. Department of Energy. It was founded in 1946 to conduct basic nuclear physics research and to

Argonne National Laboratory: …Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS), the Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System (ATLAS), and the High-Voltage Electron Microscope- (HVEM-) Tandem Facility—have been designated official U.S. Department of Energy National User Facilities.

galactorrhea: …been pregnant is termed the Ahumada–del Castillo, or the Argonz–del Castillo, syndrome. Such galactorrhea appears to result from excesses of secretion from the pituitary eosinophils.

Asterales: Other families: The two genera of Argophyllaceae have a total of 20 species of small trees and shrubs native to Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia. There are 12 species of trees in the single genus of Phellinaceae, all of which are endemic to New Caledonia.

Árgos, city, seat of the dímos (municipality) of Argos-Mykínes in the northeastern portion of the periféreia (region) of the Peloponnese (Modern Greek: Pelopónnisos), Greece. It lies just north of the head of the Gulf of Argolís (Argolikós Kólpos). The name Árgos apparently signified an

slang: …States, is more often called argot. The term dialect refers to language characteristic of a certain geographic area or social class.

Aargau, canton, northern Switzerland. It borders Germany to the north and is bounded by the demicanton of Basel-Landschaft and by the cantons of Solothurn and Bern to the west, Lucerne to the south, and Zug and Zürich to the east. It forms the northeastern section of the great Swiss Plateau between

Christopher Hitchens: …compendium of his one-liners, and Arguably, a collection of cultural commentary, were released in 2011 prior to his death. Mortality, comprising essays written in the wake of his cancer diagnosis, was published the following year. And Yet…(2015) assembles essays on a wide variety of topics.

Alcides Arguedas was a Bolivian novelist, journalist, sociologist, historian, and diplomat whose sociological and historical studies and realistic novels were among the first to focus attention on the social and economic problems of the South American Indian. Arguedas studied sociology in Paris and

José María Arguedas was a Peruvian novelist, short-story writer, and ethnologist whose writings capture the contrasts between the white and Indian cultures. Arguedas’s father was an itinerant judge. His mother, from a locally prominent family, died when he was only three years old. He was raised in

Alexis Arguello was a Nicaraguan professional boxer who was world featherweight, junior lightweight, and lightweight champion between 1974 and 1982. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.) Arguello, who became a professional fighter in 1968, fought only in his homeland until 1974,

Arguin Island, island off the coast of Mauritania; it lies about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Cape Blanc, in a sheltered Atlantic inlet (Arguin Bay). The island (4 by 2.5 miles [6 by 4 km]) was incorporated into the newly independent Mauritania in 1960. Aridity and poor anchorage have prevented

crustacean: Annotated classification: Order Arguloida (fish lice) Wide, flat carapace; paired compound eyes; unsegmented abdomen; 4 pairs of trunk limbs; fish parasites; capable of free swimming; mostly freshwater but some marine; about 125 species. †Subclass Skaracarida Late Cambrian; 12 trunk segments; no thoracic appendages apart from maxillipeds.

formal logic: Basic features of PC: …more given propositions, called the arguments of the operator. The operators ∼, ·, ∨, ⊃, and ≡ correspond respectively to the English expressions “not,” “and,” “or,” “if …, then” (or “implies”), and “is equivalent to,” when these are used in the following senses:

argument, in logic, reasons that support a conclusion, sometimes formulated so that the conclusion is deduced from premises. Erroneous arguments are called fallacies in logic (see fallacy). In mathematics, an argument is a variable in the domain of a function and usually appears symbolically in

English literature: Swift: The Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1708), for instance, offers brilliant ironic annotations on the “Church in Danger” controversy through the carefully assumed voice of a “nominal” Christian. That similar techniques could be adapted to serve specific political goals is demonstrated by The Drapier’s Letters (1724–25), part…

argument from design, Argument for the existence of God. According to one version, the universe as a whole is like a machine; machines have intelligent designers; like effects have like causes; therefore, the universe as a whole has an intelligent designer, which is God. The argument was propounded

celestial mechanics: Perturbations of elliptical motion: Angle ω (called the argument of perihelion) is the angular distance from the ascending node to the perihelion measured in the orbit plane.

Fugazi: …by both a full album, The Argument, and an extended-play CD, Furniture. Shortly after a performance in London in 2002, the band announced an “indefinite hiatus.”

Tony Benn: …ideas in a book called Arguments for Socialism (1979). Benn believed that Britain’s consensus-based, Keynesian, managed welfare state economy had collapsed. The “democratic socialism” that he advocated would involve a large measure of public investment, public expenditure, and public ownership combined with self-management in the workplace, along with open (as…

fallacy: Material fallacies: …so, and (f) the argument ad baculum (an appeal “to force”), which rests on a threatened or implied use of force to induce acceptance of its conclusion. (4) The fallacy of circular argument, known as petitio principii (“begging the question”), occurs when the premises presume, openly or covertly, the very…

ad hominem, type of argument or attack that appeals to prejudice or feelings or irrelevantly impugns another person’s character instead of addressing the facts or claims made by the latter. Ad hominem arguments are often taught to be a type of fallacy, an erroneous form of argumentation, although

fallacy: Material fallacies: …respect, ( e) the argument ad ignorantiam (an appeal “to ignorance”), which argues that something (e.g., extrasensory perception) is so since no one has shown that it is not so, and (f) the argument ad baculum (an appeal “to force”), which rests on a threatened or implied use of force…

fallacy: Material fallacies: …injustice, ( c) the argument ad misericordiam (an appeal “to pity”), as when a trial lawyer, rather than arguing for his client’s innocence, tries to move the jury to sympathy for him, (d) the argument ad verecundiam (an appeal “to awe”), which seeks to secure acceptance of the conclusion on…

fallacy: Material fallacies: …false, ( b) the argument ad populum (an appeal “to the people”), which, instead of offering logical reasons, appeals to such popular attitudes as the dislike of injustice, ( c) the argument ad misericordiam (an appeal “to pity”), as when a trial lawyer, rather than arguing for his client’s innocence,…

fallacy: Material fallacies: …for him, (d) the argument ad verecundiam (an appeal “to awe”), which seeks to secure acceptance of the conclusion on the grounds of its endorsement by persons whose views are held in general respect, ( e) the argument ad ignorantiam (an appeal “to ignorance”), which argues that something (e.g., extrasensory…

Argun River, river rising in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China, on the western slope of the Greater Khingan Range, where it is known as the Hailar River. Its length is 1,007 miles (1,620 km), of which about 600 miles (965 km) form the boundary between China and Russia. Near Luoguhe, the

Argungu, town and traditional emirate, Kebbi state, northwestern Nigeria. The town is on the Sokoto (Kebbi) River and lies at the intersection of roads from Birnin Kebbi, Gwandu, Sokoto town, Augi, and Kaingiwa. The town is a collecting point for tobacco, grown in the surrounding riverine

Argus, the first true aircraft carrier. Construction of the Argus began in 1914, and initially it was an Italian liner; it was purchased in 1916 by the British Royal Navy and converted, work being completed in September 1918. The Argus had an unobstructed flight deck about 560 feet (170.7 metres)

Argus, figure in Greek legend described variously as the son of Inachus, Agenor, or Arestor or as an aboriginal hero (autochthon). His byname derives from the hundred eyes in his head or all over his body, as he is often depicted on Athenian red-figure pottery from the late 6th century bc. Argus

Conrad Black: …1978 Black assumed control of Argus Corp., an investment holding corporation in which his father was a major shareholder. At the time, Argus held controlling interests in several Canadian corporations, including Hollinger Mines, Dominion Stores (a grocery chain), Standard Broadcasting, and Massey Ferguson (a farm equipment company). Wishing to reposition…

scat: …best-known species, the scat, or argus fish (S. argus), is a popular freshwater aquarium fish when small. Scats commonly reach a length of 30 cm (1 foot). The young are colourful little fish with reddish or greenish bodies dotted with black spots, but the adults gradually lose their bright colours…

pheasant: The argus pheasants, of southeastern Asia, carry long feathers covered with “eyes.” Two distinct types are known: the crested argus, or ocellated pheasants (Rheinardia), and the great argus (Argusianus). The great argus of Malaya, Sumatra, and Borneo (A. argus) can attain a length of 2 m…

Lake Argyle, one of Australia’s largest reservoirs, in the Kimberley plateau region, northeastern Western Australia. Formed by the Ord River Dam (1972), it has a storage capacity of 204,719,140,000 cubic feet (5,797,000,000 cubic m). The dam, fed by the 300-mile (480-kilometre) Ord River, measures

Argyllshire, historic county in western Scotland. Argyllshire lies mainly within the Argyll and Bute council area, but northern Argyllshire extends as far as Lochs Shiel, Eil, and Leven in southern Highland council area. In the 2nd century ad Gaelic-speaking Scots invaded Argyllshire from Ireland,

Argyll and Bute, council area, western Scotland, extending from the southwestern Grampian Mountains into the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and North Channel in ragged peninsulas indented and separated by deepwater lochs (sea inlets). Freshwater lochs (lakes) dot the inland areas. It includes many

Archibald Campbell, 10th earl and 1st duke of Argyll was one of the Scottish leaders of the Glorious Revolution (1688–89). Campbell was the eldest son of the 9th earl, and he tried to get his father’s attainder reversed by seeking the favour of King James II. Being unsuccessful, however, he went