Hellanicus of Lesbos: …two-book history of Attica (Atthis), spanning the time from the mythical kings to the end of the Peloponnesian War, formed the indispensable basis for Thucydides’ history, although Thucydides declared that Hellanicus was inaccurate in his dates.

Hadrian: Early life: …emperor Trajan, and the other, Acilius Attianus, later served as prefect of the emperor’s Praetorian Guard early in Hadrian’s own reign. In 90 Hadrian visited Italica, where he remained for several years. There he received some kind of military training and also developed a fondness for hunting that he kept…

human ear: Middle-ear cavity: …cavity) proper below and the epitympanum above. These chambers are also referred to as the atrium and the attic, respectively. The middle-ear space roughly resembles a rectangular room with four walls, a floor, and a ceiling. The outer (lateral) wall of the middle-ear space is formed by the tympanic membrane.…

attic, in architecture, story immediately under the roof of a structure and wholly or partly within the roof framing. Originally, the word denoted any portion of a wall above the main cornice. Utilized by the ancient Romans principally for decorative purposes and inscriptions, as in triumphal

Attic dialect, Ancient Greek dialect that was the language of ancient Athens. Its closest relative was the Ionic dialect of Euboea. With the ascendance of the Athenian empire in the course of the 5th century bc, Attic became the most prestigious of the Greek dialects and as a result was adopted

numerals and numeral systems: Greek numerals: The Greeks had two important systems of numerals, besides the primitive plan of repeating single strokes, as in ||| ||| for six, and one of these was again a simple grouping system. Their predecessors in culture—the Babylonians, Egyptians, and Phoenicians—had generally repeated the…

talent: The Attic talent, which equaled 60 Attic minas, is estimated to have weighed about 56.9 pounds (25.8 kg). It was certainly smaller than the Hebrew talent.

Attica, ancient district of east-central Greece; Athens was its chief city. Bordering the sea on the south and east, Attica attracted maritime trade. In early times there were several independent settlements there, centring on Eleusis, Athens, and Marathon. Athens may have been paramount in the

Greece: Eastern Greece: Thessalía and Attikí: The western part of this region contains the massive limestone formations so characteristic of northern and western Greece, while to the east the peninsula of Attiikí (Attica) represents the western margin of the Hercynian crystalline rocks of the Aegean shores. Essentially an upland area,…

triumphal arch: …crowned by a superstructure, or attica, that served as a base for statues and bore commemorative inscriptions. In early arches the attic statuary usually represented the victor in his triumphal chariot; in later ones only the emperor was depicted. The function of the arch, therefore, seems to have been that…

Greece: Eastern Greece: Thessalía and Attikí: The western part of this region contains the massive limestone formations so characteristic of northern and western Greece, while to the east the peninsula of Attiikí (Attica) represents the western margin of the Hercynian crystalline rocks of the Aegean shores. Essentially an upland area,…

Attica Correctional Facility, prison in Attica, New York, one of the last so-called big house prisons built in the United States. Constructed in 1931, it was the most expensive penal facility of its day. New York state officials believed that a modern secure facility would solve the problems that

Attica prison revolt, prison insurrection in 1971, lasting from September 9 to September 13, during which inmates in New York’s maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility seized control of the prison and took members of the prison staff hostage to demand improved living conditions. After four

Koine: …a purist movement known as Atticism, which had little effect on the everyday spoken language although it influenced the written language, causing it to have archaizing tendencies.

Herodes Atticus was the most celebrated of the orators and writers of the Second Sophistic, a movement that revitalized the teaching and practice of rhetoric in Greece in the 2nd century ce. Herodes was born into an immensely wealthy Athenian family that had received Roman citizenship during the

Titus Pomponius Atticus was a wealthy but nonpolitical Roman, famous for his correspondence with the important Roman statesman and writer Cicero. Atticus was born into a family of the equestrian order, wealthy Romans who did not run for political office. He inherited the fortune of an uncle,

Greece: Eastern Greece: Thessalía and Attikí: The western part of this region contains the massive limestone formations so characteristic of northern and western Greece, while to the east the peninsula of Attiikí (Attica) represents the western margin of the Hercynian crystalline rocks of the Aegean shores. Essentially an upland area,…

Attica, ancient district of east-central Greece; Athens was its chief city. Bordering the sea on the south and east, Attica attracted maritime trade. In early times there were several independent settlements there, centring on Eleusis, Athens, and Marathon. Athens may have been paramount in the

Greece: Eastern Greece: Thessalía and Attikí: The western part of this region contains the massive limestone formations so characteristic of northern and western Greece, while to the east the peninsula of Attiikí (Attica) represents the western margin of the Hercynian crystalline rocks of the Aegean shores. Essentially an upland area,…

Attica, ancient district of east-central Greece; Athens was its chief city. Bordering the sea on the south and east, Attica attracted maritime trade. In early times there were several independent settlements there, centring on Eleusis, Athens, and Marathon. Athens may have been paramount in the

Attica, ancient district of east-central Greece; Athens was its chief city. Bordering the sea on the south and east, Attica attracted maritime trade. In early times there were several independent settlements there, centring on Eleusis, Athens, and Marathon. Athens may have been paramount in the

Attica, ancient district of east-central Greece; Athens was its chief city. Bordering the sea on the south and east, Attica attracted maritime trade. In early times there were several independent settlements there, centring on Eleusis, Athens, and Marathon. Athens may have been paramount in the

Greece: Eastern Greece: Thessalía and Attikí: The western part of this region contains the massive limestone formations so characteristic of northern and western Greece, while to the east the peninsula of Attiikí (Attica) represents the western margin of the Hercynian crystalline rocks of the Aegean shores. Essentially an upland area,…

Cotingidae: Many forms (Attila and relatives) are flycatcher-like in appearance and habits and are considered by some authorities to belong in the family Tyrannidae. The Cotingidae include some of the most bizarre and vivid examples of male ornamentation found among birds. Many species have odd calls—some sound like…

Attila was the king of the Huns from 434 to 453 (ruling jointly with his elder brother Bleda until 445). He was one of the greatest rulers among those groups that the Romans referred to as barbarians. Attila assailed the Roman Empire by invading the southern Balkan provinces and Greece and then

Pierre Corneille: Years of declining power.: …including Sertorius (performed 1662) and Attila (performed 1667), both of which contain an amount of violent and surprising incident.

Hungary: Higher education: …Janus Pannonius University of Pécs, Attila József University of Szeged, the Technical University of Budapest, and the Budapest University of Economic Sciences. There were also dozens of specialized schools and colleges throughout the country. In 2000 most of these specialized colleges were combined with older universities or with one another…

leafcutter ant, any of nearly 50 species of ants abundant in the American tropics, easily recognized by their foraging columns composed of hundreds or thousands of ants carrying small pieces of leaves. These moving trails of cut foliage often stretch over 30 meters (100 feet) across the forest

dress, clothing and accessories for the human body. The variety of dress is immense. The style that a particular individual selects is often linked to that person’s sex, age, socioeconomic status, culture, geographic area, and historical era. This article considers the chronological development of

garden and landscape design: Chinese: …garden, but the account of Father Attiret, a Jesuit at the Manchu (Qing) court, published in France in 1747 and in England five years later, promoted the use of Chinese ornament in such gardens as Kew and Wroxton and hastened the “irregularizing” of grounds. The famous Dissertation on Oriental Gardening…

Attis, mythical consort of the Great Mother of the Gods (q.v.; classical Cybele, or Agdistis); he was worshipped in Phrygia, Asia Minor, and later throughout the Roman Empire, where he was made a solar deity in the 2nd century ad. The worship of Attis and the Great Mother included the annual

attitude, in social psychology, a cognition, often with some degree of aversion or attraction (emotional valence), that reflects the classification and evaluation of objects and events. While attitudes logically are hypothetical constructs (i.e., they are inferred but not objectively observable),

ballet position: The attitude is a position similar to the arabesque except that the knee of the raised leg is bent. The raised leg is held at a 90° angle to the body in back or in front (attitude an avant); the knee may be either well bent…

John Cena: WWE: In the “attitude adjustment,” Cena would pick up his opponent and flip him headfirst onto his back.

satellite communication: How satellites work: …satellite’s thrusters are called “attitude control.” A satellite’s life span is determined by the amount of fuel it has to power these thrusters. Once the fuel runs out, the satellite eventually drifts into space and out of operation, becoming space debris.

avionics: Control apparatus includes the attitude gyro and any number of instruments that indicate power, such as the tachometer (in propeller craft), torquemeter (in turboprops), and exhaust pressure ratio indicator (in turbojets). Performance instruments include the altimeter, Machmeter, turn and slip indicator, and varied devices

Lucius Accius was one of the greatest of the Roman tragic poets, in the view of his contemporaries. His plays (more than 40 titles are known, and about 700 lines survive) were mostly free translations from Greek tragedy, many from Euripides, with violent plots, flamboyant characterizations, and

Attleboro, city, Bristol county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies just northeast of Pawtucket and Providence, Rhode Island. Settled in 1643, it was part of the adjacent town of Rehoboth until separately incorporated as a town (township) in 1694 and named for Attleborough, England. In 1887

Clement Attlee was a British Labour Party leader (1935–55) and prime minister (1945–51). He presided over the establishment of the welfare state in Great Britain and the granting of independence to India, the most important step in the conversion of the British Empire into the Commonwealth of

Clement Attlee was a British Labour Party leader (1935–55) and prime minister (1945–51). He presided over the establishment of the welfare state in Great Britain and the granting of independence to India, the most important step in the conversion of the British Empire into the Commonwealth of

Golden State Warriors: Former Warriors player Al Attles took over as the team’s head coach during the 1969–70 season, and he proceeded to lead the franchise for all or part of 14 seasons. In 1971 the franchise—which had been experiencing years of disappointing financial returns—relocated across the East Bay to Oakland…

Atto Adalbert was the count of Canossa (located near Reggio nell’Emilia, Italy) and founder of the house of Attoni. Son of Siegfried, baron of Lucca, Atto joined the army of the bishop of Reggio, who rewarded him by giving him the fief of Canossa. In 951 Atto rescued Queen Adelaide, widow of King

agency: Medieval influence of canon law and Germanic law: …the figures of ballivus and attornatus. His position in the household of his master empowered the ballivus to transact commercial business for his master, reminiscent of the power of the slave to bind his master under Roman law. Later the ballivus was given more authority, especially in his frequent role…

legal profession: England after the Conquest: The “attorneys,” authorized by legislation, at first shared the life of the Inns with the “apprentices” in advocacy, who themselves in time acquired the title of barrister. Indeed, there were cases of men working as both barristers and attorneys. When in the 16th century the Court…

attorney general, the chief law officer of a state or nation and the legal adviser to the chief executive. The office is common in almost every country in which the legal system of England has taken root. The office of attorney general dates from the European Middle Ages, but it did not assume its

law of war: War crimes: …taken in the case of Attorney General of the Government of Israel v. Eichmann, which was decided by the District Court of Jerusalem in 1961. Adolf Eichmann, head of the Jewish office of the Gestapo during World War II, was convicted of war crimes, crimes against the Jewish people, and…

power of attorney, authorization to act as agent or attorney for another. Common-law and civil-law systems differ considerably with respect to powers of attorney, and there is also considerable diversity among the civil-law systems themselves. Many of the general powers of attorney that are

Australian External Territories: The commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department provides administrative services for Norfolk Island, the Cocos Islands, Christmas Island, the Coral Sea Islands, and the Ashmore and Cartier group. The Department of Primary Industries and Energy is concerned with fishing rights in the external territories. These exclusive rights extend some 200…

chemoreception: Single-celled organisms: …the concentration gradient of an attractant and begin to accumulate in areas of high concentration of the attractant. Accumulation is reinforced by the organisms’ own secretion of attractant chemicals. Organisms that leave the aggregation tumble, and the direction of the turn and of the new path relative to the original…

theatre: Futurism in Italy: …however, was the concept of attractions. An attraction was whatever element in a particular act held the audience’s attention. Variety bills were constructed to produce an effective and contrasting variation of types of acts—acrobats opened the show, a solo juggler concentrated the attention, a singer or whistler capitalized on this…

chaos theory: …as motion on an “attractor.” The mathematics of classical mechanics effectively recognized three types of attractor: single points (characterizing steady states), closed loops (periodic cycles), and tori (combinations of several cycles). In the 1960s a new class of “strange attractors” was discovered by the American mathematician Stephen Smale. On…

motivation: Attribution theory: A second major approach to achievement motivation rejects the expectancy-value formulation and analyzes instead the attributions that people make about achievement situations. In general, attribution theory concerns how people make judgments about someone’s (or their own) behaviour—that is, the causes to which they…

adjective: Types of adjectives: …modifies, it is called an attributive adjective (the yellow car). When an adjective follows a linking verb (such as be, seem, or feel) to connect with the noun that it modifies, it is known as a predicate adjective (The sky is cloudy). In some cases, two or more adjectives are…

coal: Macerals: , telinite (the brighter parts of vitrinite that make up cell walls) and collinite (clear vitrinite that occupies the spaces between cell walls).

coal: Macerals: …most common inertinite maceral is fusinite, which has a charcoal-like appearance with obvious cell texture. The cells may be either empty or filled with mineral matter, and the cell walls may have been crushed during compaction (bogen texture). Inertinites are derived from strongly altered or degraded plant material that is…

abrasive: Abrasive materials: their composition and properties: Attrition resistance is the name given to this third, very significant property.

Aleutian Islands: …of the Alaska Peninsula to Attu Island, Alaska, U.S. The Aleutians occupy a total area of 6,821 square miles (17,666 square km).

Crispus Attucks was an American hero, martyr of the Boston Massacre. Attucks’s life prior to the day of his death is still shrouded in mystery. Although nothing is known definitively about his ancestry, his father is thought to be Prince Yonger, a slave who was brought to America, while his mother

Thomas Attwood was an English economist and leader in the electoral reform movement. Attwood entered his father’s banking firm in Birmingham, Eng., in 1800. After his election, in 1811, as high bailiff of the city, he showed increasing concern with currency questions and sought more equitable

pterobranch: The third genus, Atubaria, lives on hydroids. All three genera are rare. About 21 species have been described.

Organization of African Trade Union Unity: …founded in 1961) and the African Trade Union Confederation (ATUC; founded in 1962). The ATUC from its founding had encouraged member affiliation with other international union organizations, while the more-militant AATUF had rejected such affiliation as incompatible with the development of a Pan-African federation.

Atucha, locality in Buenos Aires provincia (province), eastern Argentina, northwest of Buenos Aires city. It is the site of a nuclear power plant, Atucha I, which is located on the Paraná de las Palmas River, a channel of the lower Paraná River delta, about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Zárate. The

Atucha: …of a nuclear power plant, Atucha I, which is located on the Paraná de las Palmas River, a channel of the lower Paraná River delta, about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Zárate. The station, utilizing a pressurized heavy-water reactor, began supplying power to the national grid in 1974. The…

Atucha: …construction of a second unit, Atucha II, began in 1981 but was repeatedly delayed until work resumed on it in 2006.

Atum, in ancient Egyptian religion, one of the manifestations of the sun and creator god, perhaps originally a local deity of Heliopolis. Atum’s myth merged with that of the great sun god Re, giving rise to the deity Re-Atum. When distinguished from Re, Atum was the creator’s original form, living

Re, in ancient Egyptian religion, god of the sun and creator god. He was believed to travel across the sky in his solar bark and, during the night, to make his passage in another bark through the underworld, where, in order to be born again for the new day, he had to vanquish the evil serpent

African music: Membranophones: The atumpan talking drums of the Asante are barrel-shaped with a narrow, cylindrical, open foot at the base. East African hourglass drums are single-skinned. In West Africa double-skinned hourglass drums are held under one arm, their pitch rapidly and continually changed by as much as an…

Orinoco River: Physiography of the Orinoco: …of rapids, ending with the Atures Rapids. In this region, the main tributaries are the Vichada and Tomo rivers from the Colombian Llanos, and the Guayapo, Sipapo, Autana, and Cuao rivers from the Guiana Highlands.

Zoroastrianism: The Sasanian period: …Shāpūr II, the high priest Aturpāt, at a council summoned to fix the text of the Avesta, proved the truth of his doctrine by submitting to the ordeal of molten metal poured on his breast and was victorious over all kinds of sectarians and heretics.

Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), uncrewed European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft that carried supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) from 2008 to 2014. The first ATV, Jules Verne, named after the French author, was launched on March 9, 2008. The ATV was the largest spacecraft the ESA

Lew Grade, Baron Grade of Elstree: …British commercial television; his company, Associated Television (ATV), went on to produce several popular action-adventure series, including Robin Hood, The Saint, The Avengers, The Prisoner, Father Brown, and Danger Man (U.S. title Secret Agent). Two of the best-known series he produced were the long-running soap opera Crossroads and The Muppet…

Antoinette Perry: She helped found the American Theatre Wing (ATW), which operated the well-known Stage Door Canteens in several cities and otherwise provided hospitality and entertainment for servicemen, and was its chairman from 1941 to 1944. She also staged an ATW production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street, with Katharine Cornell,…

Philadelphia: Cultural life: The Atwater Kent Museum is the city’s history museum, housing the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s collection of more than 10,000 objects and 800 paintings, featuring works by Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, the four Peales, and other early American painters. The output of visual…

children’s literature: Peaks and plateaus (1865–1940): Two of them—Florence and Richard Atwater—worked as a pair. Their isolated effort, Mr. Popper’s Penguins (1938), will last as a masterpiece of deadpan humour that few children or adults can resist. The third writer is Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her Little House books, nine in all, started in…

Lee Atwater was an American political strategist and self-described “ardent practitioner” of negative campaign tactics who directed George H.W. Bush’s successful 1988 presidential campaign and later served as chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC). Lee Atwater’s father, Harvey Dillard

Lee Atwater was an American political strategist and self-described “ardent practitioner” of negative campaign tactics who directed George H.W. Bush’s successful 1988 presidential campaign and later served as chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC). Lee Atwater’s father, Harvey Dillard

children’s literature: Peaks and plateaus (1865–1940): Two of them—Florence and Richard Atwater—worked as a pair. Their isolated effort, Mr. Popper’s Penguins (1938), will last as a masterpiece of deadpan humour that few children or adults can resist. The third writer is Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her Little House books, nine in all, started in 1932 with…

Wilbur Olin Atwater was an American scientist who developed agricultural chemistry and nutrition science. Upon completing his undergraduate work at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1865, Atwater continued his education at Yale University, where his thesis on corn (maize) discussed

Wilbur Olin Atwater: …physics at Wesleyan, constructed the Atwater-Rosa calorimeter (1892–97), which proved the law of conservation of energy in human beings and made it possible to calculate the caloric values of different foods. The system for determing caloric values that Atwater devised in 1896 continues to be used throughout the world.

Samana Cay, islet, eastern Bahamas, 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Acklins Island. About 10 miles (16 km) long and up to 2 miles (3 km) wide and bound by reefs, the verdant cay has long been uninhabited, but figurines, pottery shards, and other artifacts discovered there in the mid-1980s have been

Daniel Burnham: D.H. Burnham and Company: … (1895), by Burnham’s chief designer Charles Atwood, considered a landmark in the development of the tall office building, because the slim glass and steel tower presaged Modernist skyscrapers. Burnham continued to think big. At 500,000 square feet (45,000 square metres), his Ellicott Square Building (completed 1896) in Buffalo, New York,…

World’s Columbian Exposition: Burnham; Charles B. Atwood was designer in chief; and Frederick Law Olmsted was entrusted with landscaping. The fair’s new buildings had impressive Classical facades with a uniform cornice height of 60 feet (18.25 metres). The plaster palace fronts bore little functional relationship to exhibition halls inside;…

Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer best known for her prose fiction and for her feminist perspective. Among Atwood’s many acclaimed works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, her most celebrated is the dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985). (Read Britannica’s article “10 Devastating

Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer best known for her prose fiction and for her feminist perspective. Among Atwood’s many acclaimed works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, her most celebrated is the dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985). (Read Britannica’s article “10 Devastating

alchemy: Modern alchemy: …famous 19th-century English spiritual alchemist Mary Anne Atwood,

pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS), condition characterized by impairment in the ability to interact with others and by atypical communication or behavior patterns and interests. In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (1994; DSM-IV),

tuberculosis: Other mycobacterial infections: …nontuberculosis mycobacteria, atypical mycobacteria, and mycobacteria other than tuberculosis (MOTT). This group includes such Mycobacterium species as M. avium (or M. avium-intracellulare), M. kansasii, M. marinum, and M. ulcerans. These bacilli have long been known to infect animals and

purseweb spider, (family Atypidae), family of about 50 species and three genera of stout-bodied burrowing spiders. They are named for their webs, which are long tubes that protrude from their burrows in the shape of an old-fashioned pull-string purse or a stocking. Purseweb spiders inhabit damp

purseweb spider, (family Atypidae), family of about 50 species and three genera of stout-bodied burrowing spiders. They are named for their webs, which are long tubes that protrude from their burrows in the shape of an old-fashioned pull-string purse or a stocking. Purseweb spiders inhabit damp

Atyrau, city, western Kazakhstan. It is a port on the Ural (Zhayyq) River near its mouth on the Caspian Sea. Founded as a fishing settlement in the mid-17th century by the fishing entrepreneur Mikhail Guryev, it soon became a fort on the Ural fortified line manned by the Ural Cossacks. Fishing and

Atyrau, city, western Kazakhstan. It is a port on the Ural (Zhayyq) River near its mouth on the Caspian Sea. Founded as a fishing settlement in the mid-17th century by the fishing entrepreneur Mikhail Guryev, it soon became a fort on the Ural fortified line manned by the Ural Cossacks. Fishing and

Attis, mythical consort of the Great Mother of the Gods (q.v.; classical Cybele, or Agdistis); he was worshipped in Phrygia, Asia Minor, and later throughout the Roman Empire, where he was made a solar deity in the 2nd century ad. The worship of Attis and the Great Mother included the annual

Atzcapotzalco, delegación (administrative subdivision), northwestern Federal District, central Mexico. Situated approximately 7,350 feet (2,240 metres) above sea level in the Valley of Mexico, it was founded in the 12th century and given the Aztec name meaning “anthill” because of its large

assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Planning the attack: George Atzerodt, a German immigrant who had acted as a boatman for Confederate spies, was to kill Johnson. Booth himself was to assassinate Lincoln. All three attacks were to occur at the same time (about 10:00 pm) that night.

Ehud Barak: Later career: …Knesset, form a breakaway party, Atzmaut (“Independence”), that was expected to remain in Netanyahu’s ruling coalition. The Labour Party—a key member of the coalition—had been in the grips of a struggle: members who were critical of the government’s handling of the peace process pushed for the party to leave the…

African Union (AU), intergovernmental organization, established in 2002, to promote unity and solidarity of African states, to spur economic development, and to promote international cooperation. The African Union (AU) replaced the Organization of African Unity (OAU), which had been founded in

astronomical unit (AU, or au), a unit of length effectively equal to the average, or mean, distance between Earth and the Sun, defined as 149,597,870.7 km (92,955,807.3 miles). Alternately, it can be considered the length of the semimajor axis—i.e., the length of half of the maximum diameter—of

astronomical unit (AU, or au), a unit of length effectively equal to the average, or mean, distance between Earth and the Sun, defined as 149,597,870.7 km (92,955,807.3 miles). Alternately, it can be considered the length of the semimajor axis—i.e., the length of half of the maximum diameter—of

gold (Au), chemical element, a dense lustrous yellow precious metal of Group 11 (Ib), Period 6, of the periodic table of the elements. Gold has several qualities that have made it exceptionally valuable throughout history. It is attractive in colour and brightness, durable to the point of virtual

Émile Zola: Les Rougon-Macquart: Au Bonheur des Dames (1883; Ladies’ Delight) depicts the mechanisms of a new economic entity, the department store, and its impact on smaller merchants. The sweeping descriptions of crowds and dry-goods displays justify Zola’s characterization of the novel as “a poem of modern activity.”