Arabic literature: Poetry: …the 7th-century poets al-Khansāʾ and Laylā al-Akhyāliyyah. Many of the earliest male poets became renowned as warriors and lovers, and around their careers (or, perhaps, their “personae”; the historical existence of several poets remains unverified) elaborate traditions of narrative developed, as, for example, with the pre-Islamic cavalier-poet ʿAntarah and the…

Shintō: Varieties of festival, worship, and prayer: …Harvest Festival), Autumn Festival (Aki Matsuri, or Niiname-sai; Harvest Festival), an Annual Festival (Rei-sai), and the Divine Procession (Shinkō-sai). The Divine Procession usually takes place on the day of the Annual Festival, and miniature shrines (mikoshi) carried on the shoulders are transported through the parish. The order of rituals…

Akiva ben Yosef was a Jewish sage, a principal founder of rabbinic Judaism. He introduced a new method of interpreting Jewish oral law (Halakha), thereby laying the foundation of what was to become the Mishna, the first postbiblical written code of Jewish law. The subject of numerous popular

Islamic arts: Turkish literatures: Mehmed Akif (died 1936), in his masterly narrative poems, gave a vivid critical picture of conditions in Turkey before World War I. His powerful and dramatic style, though still expressed in traditional metres, is a testimony to his deep concern for the people’s sorrows. It…

Sutoku was the 75th emperor of Japan; his attempt to usurp his brother’s throne resulted in the bloody Hōgen War, which allowed the powerful warrior Taira clan to gain control of the government. He ascended the throne in 1123, taking the reign name Sutoku, after the abdication of his father, the

Akihito was the emperor of Japan from 1989 to 2019. As scion of the oldest imperial family in the world, he was, according to tradition, the 125th direct descendant of Jimmu, Japan’s legendary first emperor. Akihito was the fifth child and eldest son of Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako. During

Japanese literature: Western influences on poetry: Tōson’s “Akikaze no uta” (1896; “Song of the Autumn Wind”), however, is not merely a skillful echo of Percy Bysshe Shelley but a true picture of a Japanese landscape; the irregular lines of his poem tend to fall into the traditional pattern of five and seven…

Aquila was a scholar who in about ad 140 completed a literal translation into Greek of the Old Testament; it replaced the Septuagint (q.v.) among Jews and was used by the Church Fathers Origen in the 3rd century and St. Jerome in the 4th and 5th centuries. St. Epiphanius (c. 315—403) preserved in

Pima, North American Indians who traditionally lived along the Gila and Salt rivers in Arizona, U.S., in what was the core area of the prehistoric Hohokam culture. The Pima, who speak a Uto-Aztecan language and call themselves the “River People,” are usually considered to be the descendants of the

Acoemeti: …founded in about 400 by St. Alexander Akimetes, who, after long study of the Bible, put into practice his conviction that God should be perpetually praised; he arranged for relays of monks to relieve one another without pause in the choir offices. They also practiced absolute poverty and were vigorous…

James Bay: Akimiski, the largest island, has an area of 1,159 square miles (3,002 square km). The many rivers that flow into James Bay, including La Grande, Eastmain, Rupert, Broadback, Nottaway, Harricana, Moose, Albany, Attawapiskat, and Ekwan, are responsible for its low salinity. Among the chief settlements…

Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov was a scenic designer and producer, known for the diversity of his bold experiments in stage design and dramatic interpretation—most especially for his cynical reinterpretation of Hamlet (1932), in which the king’s ghost was represented as a fiction cunningly devised by

Tea Party movement: The 2012 election and the government shutdown of 2013: Todd Akin, a member of the House Tea Party caucus, scuttled his bid for a vulnerable U.S. Senate seat in Missouri when he stated that cases of “legitimate rape” very rarely result in pregnancy. Tea Party support enabled Richard Mourdock to defeat six-term incumbent Richard…

Ottoman Empire: Military organization: …as irregular shock troops, called akıncis, who were compensated only by booty. As the yayas and müsellems expanded in numbers, their salaries became too burdensome for the Ottoman treasury, so in most cases the newly conquered lands were assigned to their commanders in the form of timars. That new regular…

Gregorios Akindynos was a Byzantine monk and theologian who was the principal opponent of Hesychasm, a Greek monastic movement of contemplative prayer. He was eventually condemned for heresy. A student of the monk-theologian Gregory Palamas, Akindynos absorbed from him the Hesychast theory of

Nostoc: A special thick-walled cell (akinete) has the ability to withstand desiccation for long periods of time. After 70 years of dry storage, the akinete of one species germinates into a filament when moistened. Like most blue-green algae, Nostoc contains two pigments, blue phycocyanin and red phycoerythrin, as well as…

Peter Akinola is a Nigerian Anglican archbishop who served as primate of the Church of Nigeria (2000–10). In 2007 he created a controversial American diocese to welcome discontented Episcopal parishes to a more conservative branch of the Anglican church. Akinola was four years old when his father

Peter Akinola is a Nigerian Anglican archbishop who served as primate of the Church of Nigeria (2000–10). In 2007 he created a controversial American diocese to welcome discontented Episcopal parishes to a more conservative branch of the Anglican church. Akinola was four years old when his father

Aladura: …Tunolase, a Yoruba prophet, and Christiana Abiodun Akinsowon, an Anglican who had experienced visions and trances. In 1925–26 they formed the society, with doctrines of revelation and divine healing replacing traditional charms and medicine. They separated from the Anglican and other churches in 1928. In the same year the founders…

Samuel Ladoke Akintola was an administrator and politician, premier of the Western Region of Nigeria and an early victim of the January 1966 military coup. Like many other African nationalists Akintola was a teacher in the 1930s and early 1940s and a member of the Baptist Teachers’ Union and the

Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright and political activist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. He sometimes wrote of modern West Africa in a satirical style, but his serious intent and his belief in the evils inherent in the exercise of power were usually evident in his work as

Aladura: …ablest leaders, including Babalola and Isaac B. Akinyele (later Sir), formed their own Christ Apostolic Church, which by the 1960s had 100,000 members and its own schools and had spread to Ghana. The Apostolic Church continued its connection with its British counterpart; other secessions produced further “apostolic” churches.

Grace Ogot was a Kenyan author of widely anthologized short stories and novels who also held a ministerial position in Kenya’s government. One of the few well-known woman writers in Kenya, Ogot was the first woman to have fiction published by the East African Publishing House. Her stories—which

akriyāvāda, set of beliefs held by heretic teachers in India who were contemporaries of the Buddha. The doctrine was a kind of antinomianism that, by denying the orthodox karmic theory of the efficacy of former deeds on a person’s present and future condition, also denied the possibility of a

Akita, breed of working dog that originated in the mountains of northern Japan. In 1931 the Japanese government designated the breed as a “natural monument.” It was employed as a hunting and fighting dog and is now trained for police and guard work. The Akita is a powerful muscular dog with a broad

Akita, ken (prefecture), northwestern Honshu, Japan, on the Sea of Japan (East Sea) coast. The prefecture is divided between lowlands (west) and a plateau region (east). The Hachiman Plateau is dotted with volcanoes such as Mount Komaga (5,371 feet [1,637 m]), near the eastern border with Iwate

worship: Sacred seasons: The Akitu festival of the Babylonians occurred in the spring, marking the rebirth of nature, the reestablishment of the kingship by divine authority, and the securing of the life and destiny of the people for the coming year. The agricultural rhythm of preparing the soil, planting,…

Babylon: The ancient city: …dragons, it led to the Akitu House, a small temple outside the city that was said to be visited by Marduk at the New Year festival. West of the Ishtar Gate, one of eight fortified gates, were two palace complexes that covered about 40 acres (16 hectares) with their fortifications.

Akiva ben Yosef was a Jewish sage, a principal founder of rabbinic Judaism. He introduced a new method of interpreting Jewish oral law (Halakha), thereby laying the foundation of what was to become the Mishna, the first postbiblical written code of Jewish law. The subject of numerous popular

Akiyama Toyohiro is a Japanese journalist and television reporter, the first Japanese citizen and the first journalist to travel into space. Akiyama was also the first fare-paying civilian passenger (nonprofessional astronaut) to participate in a spaceflight. Akiyama earned his bachelor’s degree at

Mauritania: Resources and power: The copper deposits of Akjoujt are extensive, with a copper content of more than 2 percent. Exploitation was begun in 1969 by Somima (Société Minière de Mauritanie). The firm was nationalized in 1975, but operations were suspended in 1978. Subsequent reactivation of the mine has been to work tailings…

Acre, city, northwestern Israel. It lies along the Mediterranean Sea, at the north end of the Bay of Haifa (formerly Bay of Acre). Its natural harbor was a frequent target for Palestine’s many invaders over the centuries. The earliest mention of Acre is in an Egyptian text dating from the 19th

Bambuti: …populations of Ituri Pygmies—the Sua, Aka, Efe, and Mbuti—each of which has formed a loose economic and cultural interdependency with an agriculturalist group. They are nomadic hunters and gatherers living in small bands that vary in composition and size throughout the year but are generally formed into patrilineal groups of…

Akkad, ancient region in what is now central Iraq. Akkad was the northern (or northwestern) division of ancient Babylonia. The region was located roughly in the area where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (see Tigris-Euphrates river system) are closest to each other, and its northern limit extended

Akkadian language, extinct Semitic language of the Northern Peripheral group, spoken in Mesopotamia from the 3rd to the 1st millennium bce. Akkadian spread across an area extending from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf during the time of Sargon (Akkadian Sharrum-kin) of the Akkad dynasty,

epic: In the ancient Middle East: …2000 bce, is called in Akkadian Enuma elish, after its opening words, meaning “When on high.” Its subject is not heroic but mythological. It recounts events from the beginning of the world to the establishment of the power of Marduk, the great god of Babylon. The outline of a Babylonian…

cuneiform: Spread and development of cuneiform: …system was adopted by the Akkadians, Semitic invaders who established themselves in Mesopotamia about the middle of the 3rd millennium. In adapting the script to their wholly different language, the Akkadians retained the Sumerian logograms and combinations of logograms for more complex notions but pronounced them as the corresponding Akkadian…

Syria: Relief: It then widens into the Akkar Plain, which continues south across the Lebanon border.

Ekron, ancient Canaanite and Philistine city, one of the five cities of the Philistine pentapolis, and currently identified with Tel Miqne (Arabic: Khirbat al-Muqannaʿ), south of the settlement of Mazkeret Batya, central Israel. Although it was allocated to Judah after the Israelite conquest

Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyy, city, southernmost Ukraine. It lies on the southwestern shore of the broad, shallow Dniester River estuary. In the 6th century bc, Greeks from Miletus established the colony of Tyras on the site. It later came under the Scythians, and it was settled by Slavs in early Kievan

Convention of Akkerman, (Oct. 7, 1826), agreement signed in Akkerman, Moldavia (now Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyy, Ukraine), between the Ottoman Empire and Russia, whereby the Ottomans accepted, under threat of war, Russia’s demands concerning Serbia and the Danube principalities of Moldavia and Walachia.

Acre, city, northwestern Israel. It lies along the Mediterranean Sea, at the north end of the Bay of Haifa (formerly Bay of Acre). Its natural harbor was a frequent target for Palestine’s many invaders over the centuries. The earliest mention of Acre is in an Egyptian text dating from the 19th

Palestine: Land: The most northerly is the Plain of Acre, which extends with a breadth of 5 to 9 miles (8 to 14 km) for about 20 miles (32 km) from the Lebanon border in the north to the Carmel promontory, in Israel, in the south, where it narrows to a mere…

accordion, free-reed portable musical instrument, consisting of a treble casing with external piano-style keys or buttons and a bass casing (usually with buttons) attached to opposite sides of a hand-operated bellows. The advent of the accordion is the subject of debate among researchers. Many

autoharp, stringed instrument of the zither family popular for accompaniment in folk music and country and western music. A musician may position the instrument on a table, on the lap while seated, or resting against the left shoulder. An autoharp player strums the strings with a stiff felt or

Rosa Luxemburg: …Die Akkumulation des Kapitals (1913; The Accumulation of Capital). In this analysis, she described imperialism as the result of a dynamic capitalism’s expansion into underdeveloped areas of the world. It was during this time also that she began to agitate for mass actions and broke completely with the established Social…

Chosen Women, in Inca religion, women who lived in temple convents under a vow of chastity. Their duties included the preparation of ritual food, the maintenance of a sacred fire, and the weaving of garments for the emperor and for ritual use. They were under the supervision of matrons called Mama

AK-47: …first-line Soviet service by the AKM, a modernized version fitted with longer-range sights and cheaper mass-produced parts, including a stamped sheet-metal receiver and a plywood buttstock and forward grip.

Acmeist, member of a small group of early-20th-century Russian poets reacting against the vagueness and affectations of Symbolism. It was formed by the poets Sergey Gorodetsky and Nikolay S. Gumilyov. They reasserted the poet as craftsman and used language freshly and with intensity. Centred in St.

Acmeist, member of a small group of early-20th-century Russian poets reacting against the vagueness and affectations of Symbolism. It was formed by the poets Sergey Gorodetsky and Nikolay S. Gumilyov. They reasserted the poet as craftsman and used language freshly and with intensity. Centred in St.

Astana, city, capital of Kazakhstan. Astana lies in the north-central part of the country, along the Ishim River, at the junction of the Trans-Kazakhstan and South Siberian railways. It was founded in 1824 as a Russian military outpost and became an administrative centre in 1868. Its population had

Akō, city, southwestern Hyōgo ken (prefecture), western Honshu, Japan. It is situated along the Inland Sea, about 20 miles (32 km) west of Himeji. During the Heian period (794–1185), Akō was a seaside resort for courtesans from Heian-kyō (now Kyōto). It became a castle town in the 17th century,

Slovakia: Literature and drama: …Stalinism, in his popular novel The Taste of Power (1967), while Tatarka attacked the Gustav Husák regime’s process of “normalization” in Czechoslovakia after 1969 in Sám proti noci (1984; “Alone Against the Night”). In the years leading up to the Velvet Revolution of 1989, such novelists as Ladislav Ballek, Vincent…

Acoemeti, monks at a series of 5th- to 6th-century Byzantine monasteries who were noted for their choral recitation of the divine office in constant and never interrupted relays. Their first monastery, at Constantinople, was founded in about 400 by St. Alexander Akimetes, who, after long study of

Benue-Congo languages: Defoid: …languages comprise two groups: the Akokoid cluster of four languages and the very much larger Yoruboid cluster whose principal members are Yoruba (20,000,000 speakers), Igala (1,000,000), and Itsekiri (Itsεkiri; 600,000). Yoruba is the Niger-Congo language with the largest number of mother-tongue speakers. Though Swahili has a

Akola, city, northern Maharashtra state, western India. It is situated on a lowland plain on the Murna River (a tributary of the Tapti River). In the past Akola was incorporated in turn into several local Muslim kingdoms. The present-day city is a major road and rail junction in the Tapti River

Byzantine chant: In the Akolouthiai, or Anthologion, were ordinary chants for Vespers, Matins, funerals, and the three liturgies (of St. John Chrysostom, St. Basil, and the Preconsecrated Offerings), as well as optional chants, some of which were usable as bridges at any point in the liturgy, usually sung to single syllables…

Tiv: …the manipulation of forces (akombo) entrusted to humans by a creator god, remains strong. The akombo are manifested in certain symbols or emblems and in diseases that they create. An organization of elders who have the ability to manipulate these forces meets at night to repair those manifestations of…

Akosombo Dam, rock-fill dam on the Volta River, near Akosombo, Ghana, completed in 1965 as part of the Volta River Project. Its construction was jointly financed by the government of Ghana, the World Bank, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The dam rises 440 feet (134 m) above ground level

Aksu River, river formed near Aksu town in the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, China, by headstreams rising in the Tien (Tian) Shan (“Heavenly Mountains”). It flows about 60 miles (100 km) southeastward to form (with the Yarkand and other rivers) the Tarim

Pythagoreanism: Two Pythagorean sects: The acousmatics devoted themselves to the observance of rituals and rules and to the interpretation of the sayings of the master; the “mathematics” were concerned with the scientific aspects of Pythagoreanism. Philolaus, who was rather a mathematic, probably published a summary of Pythagorean philosophy and science…

P’ing-tung, shih (municipality) and seat of P’ing-tung hsien (county), southwestern Taiwan. It is located 13 miles (21 km) northeast of Kao-hsiung city, in the southern part of the western plain. Founded in the early 18th century, the city is situated west of the Kao-p’ing River. It is in an

Justice and Development Party, political party that came to power in Turkey in the general elections of 2002. In spite of the party’s nonconfessional mandate, the AKP draws significant support from nonsecular Turks and has faced objections from some segments of Turkish society that it harbours an

Palestine: The Seleucids: …called by the Greeks the Akra. This became the symbol of Judah’s enslavement, though in itself the presence of a royal garrison in a Hellenistic city was by no means unusual. Its imposition was followed by an open attack on religious practice, in which many rites were forbidden. Noncompliance with…

Alicante, port city, capital of Alicante provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Valencia, southeastern Spain. It is located on Alicante Bay of the Mediterranean Sea. Founded as Akra Leuke (“White Summit”) by Phocaean Greeks (from the west coast of Asia Minor) in

Agrigento, city, near the southern coast of Sicily, Italy. It lies on a plateau encircled by low cliffs overlooking the junction of the Drago (ancient Hypsas) and San Biagio (Acragas) rivers and is dominated from the north by a ridge with twin peaks. Agrigento was a wealthy ancient city founded

Wasim Akram is a Pakistani cricket player generally regarded as the greatest left-handed bowler of all time, arguably among the very best fast bowlers ever, and an outstanding all-rounder, who helped lead Pakistan to the World Cup championship of one-day international (ODI) cricket in 1992. Akram

Digenis Akritas, Byzantine epic hero celebrated in folk ballads (Akritic ballads) and in an epic relating his parentage, boyhood adventures, manhood, and death. Based on historical events, the epic, a blend of Greek, Byzantine, and Asian motifs, originated in the 10th century and was further

akriyāvāda, set of beliefs held by heretic teachers in India who were contemporaries of the Buddha. The doctrine was a kind of antinomianism that, by denying the orthodox karmic theory of the efficacy of former deeds on a person’s present and future condition, also denied the possibility of a

Akron, city, seat (1842) of Summit county, northeastern Ohio, U.S. It lies along the Cuyahoga River, about 40 miles (64 km) south-southeast of Cleveland. Akron is the centre of a metropolitan area that includes the cities of Cuyahoga Falls, Tallmadge, and Stow and several villages. At 1,081 feet

Akron: …city’s cultural centres include the Akron Art Museum and the Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens (with antiques dating from the 14th century). The construction of a new convention centre (1994), the National Inventors Hall of Fame (1995), and a new stadium for the minor-league baseball RubberDucks all contributed to a…

John S. Knight: …become advertising manager of the Akron Beacon Journal, a daily newspaper that he came to control some 15 years later. The younger Knight worked at the paper in summers as a youth. He was educated in Akron and at a private school in Maryland. His college education at Cornell University…

Fritz Pollard: …Football League (NFL), with the Akron Pros in 1921.

Fritz Pollard: …Football League (NFL), with the Akron Pros in 1921.

University of Akron, public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Akron, Ohio, U.S. While the university is known for its research in polymer engineering and science, it also offers a curriculum of liberal arts, business, and education courses, including master’s degree programs.

stagecraft: Costume of the 20th century and beyond: …Grotowski, conceived his production of Akropolis at the Polish Laboratory Theatre in 1962 as a poetic paraphrase of an extermination camp. There is no hero—and no individuality—among the characters. The costumes were bags full of holes covering naked bodies, and the holes were lined with material suggesting torn flesh; wooden…

George Acropolites was a Byzantine scholar and statesman, the author of Chronike Syngraphe (“Written Chronicle”), a history of the Byzantine Empire from 1203 to 1261. He also played a major diplomatic role in the attempt to reconcile the Greek and Latin churches. Acropolites was reared at the

Akrotiri, British military enclave in south-central Cyprus that was retained as a “sovereign base area” by the United Kingdom under the London Agreement of 1959 granting the independence of Cyprus. Located southwest of Limassol, the enclave comprises Akrotiri Peninsula, the southernmost part of the

Aegean civilizations: The eruption of Thera (c. 1500) and the conquest of Crete (c. 1450): The largest of these, at Akrotíri, opened by excavations since 1967, offers a unique picture of a Bronze Age town. The walls of its houses stand in places two stories high, with paintings miraculously preserved on them, and the floors with storage jars and other objects are as they were…

Endre Szemerédi: …1983 the trio devised the Ajtai-Komlós-Szemerédi (AKS) sorting network, which is an algorithm for sorting n objects in a particular order in log n time steps, the least amount of time theoretically possible.

Aksai Chin, portion of the Kashmir region, at the northernmost extent of the Indian subcontinent in south-central Asia. It constitutes nearly all the territory of the Chinese-administered sector of Kashmir that is claimed by India to be part of Ladakh union territory. Geographically, Aksai Chin is

aksak, an important pattern in the rhythmic structure of folk and vernacular traditional music of the Middle East, particularly Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan, and of the Balkans. It is characterized by combinations of unequal beats, such as 2 + 3 and their extensions, particularly 2 + 2 + 2 + 3.

Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov: His brother Ivan Sergeyevich Aksakov (1823–86), who also was an early Slavophile, became a controversial journalist, newspaper publisher, and proponent of Pan-Slavism in the later 19th century.

Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov: His brother Ivan Sergeyevich Aksakov (1823–86), who also was an early Slavophile, became a controversial journalist, newspaper publisher, and proponent of Pan-Slavism in the later 19th century.

Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov was a Russian writer and one of the founders and principal theorists of the Slavophile movement. The son of the novelist Sergey Timofeyevich Aksakov, he entered Moscow University, where he was influenced by the work of the German philosopher G.W. Hegel. From the

Sergey Timofeyevich Aksakov was a novelist noted for his realistic and comic narratives and for his introduction of a new genre, a cross between memoir and novel, into Russian literature. Brought up in a strongly patriarchal family, Aksakov was educated in the pseudoclassical tradition at home, at

Indian philosophy: The logical period: Gautama (author of the Nyaya-sutras; probably flourished at the beginning of the Christian era) and his 5th-century commentator Vatsyayana established the foundations of the Nyaya as a school almost exclusively preoccupied with logical and epistemological issues. The Madhyamika (“Middle Way”) school of Buddhism—also known as…

Aksai Chin, portion of the Kashmir region, at the northernmost extent of the Indian subcontinent in south-central Asia. It constitutes nearly all the territory of the Chinese-administered sector of Kashmir that is claimed by India to be part of Ladakh union territory. Geographically, Aksai Chin is

Pavel Borisovich Akselrod was a Marxist theorist, a prominent member of the first Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party, and one of the leaders of the reformist wing of Russian social democracy, known after 1903 as the Mensheviks. Akselrod participated in the Narodnik (populist) movement during

Vasily Aksyonov was a Russian novelist and short-story writer, one of the leading literary spokespeople for the generation of Soviets who reached maturity after World War II. The son of parents who spent many years in Soviet prisons, Aksyonov was raised in a state home and graduated from medical

Akshak, ancient city of Mesopotamia on the northern boundary of Akkad, identified by some authorities with the Babylonian city of Upi (Opis). About 2500 bc Akshak was conquered by Eannatum, king of Lagash. About a century later Akshak temporarily established its hegemony over Sumer and Akkad. The

Akshobhya, in Mahayana and Vajrayana (Tantric) Buddhism, one of the five “self-born” Buddhas. See

Aksu River, river formed near Aksu town in the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, China, by headstreams rising in the Tien (Tian) Shan (“Heavenly Mountains”). It flows about 60 miles (100 km) southeastward to form (with the Yarkand and other rivers) the Tarim

Aksum, powerful kingdom in northern Ethiopia during the early Christian era. Despite common belief to the contrary, Aksum did not originate from one of the Semitic Sabaean kingdoms of southern Arabia but instead developed as a local power. At its apogee (3rd–6th century ce), Aksum became the

Aksum, ancient town in northern Ethiopia. It lies at an elevation of about 7,000 feet (2,100 metres), just west of Adwa. Once the seat of the kingdom of Aksum, it is now a tourist town and religious centre best known for its antiquities. Tall granite obelisks, 126 inches all, stand (or lie broken)

Luxor, city and capital of Al-Uqṣur muḥāfaẓah (governorate), Upper Egypt. Luxor has given its name to the southern half of the ruins of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. Area governorate, 1,080 square miles (2,800 square km); city, 160 square miles (415 square km). Pop. (2017) governorate,

Ukraine: Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea: …the sitting government and installed Sergey Aksyonov, the leader of the Russian Unity Party, as Crimea’s prime minister. Voice and data links between Crimea and Ukraine were severed, and Russian authorities acknowledged that they had moved troops into the region. Turchynov criticized the action as a provocation and a violation…

Vasily Aksyonov was a Russian novelist and short-story writer, one of the leading literary spokespeople for the generation of Soviets who reached maturity after World War II. The son of parents who spent many years in Soviet prisons, Aksyonov was raised in a state home and graduated from medical

Vasily Aksyonov was a Russian novelist and short-story writer, one of the leading literary spokespeople for the generation of Soviets who reached maturity after World War II. The son of parents who spent many years in Soviet prisons, Aksyonov was raised in a state home and graduated from medical

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Early training: …in Akt und Sein (1931; Act and Being), in which he traces the influence of transcendental philosophy and ontology—as well as Kantian and post-Kantian theories of knowledge and of being—on Protestant and Catholic theologies.