Chicago Cubs: …near the stands (the so-called Bartman incident). The Cubs ended up losing the game—and the series.

Bartmannkrug, type of 16th-century German jug, characterized by a round belly and a mask of a bearded man applied in relief to the neck. This salt-glazed stoneware jug is associated particularly with Cologne and Frechen, where it was manufactured in considerable numbers. It was sometimes called a

Béla Bartók was a Hungarian composer, pianist, ethnomusicologist, and teacher, noted for the Hungarian flavour of his major musical works, which include orchestral works, string quartets, piano solos, several stage works, a cantata, and a number of settings of folk songs for voice and piano. Bartók

Bartók String Quartet, Hungarian musical ensemble that is one of the world’s most renowned string quartets. It was founded in 1957 as the Komlós Quartet by graduates of the College of Musical Arts in Budapest: first violinist Péter Komlós, second violinist Sándor Devich, violist Géza Németh, and

Béla Bartók was a Hungarian composer, pianist, ethnomusicologist, and teacher, noted for the Hungarian flavour of his major musical works, which include orchestral works, string quartets, piano solos, several stage works, a cantata, and a number of settings of folk songs for voice and piano. Bartók

Alamut: …novel written by Slovenian writer Vladimir Bartol (1903–67), begun while the author was living in Paris in the early 1930s and published in 1938. The novel and its famed maxim “Nothing is an absolute reality, all is permitted,” influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche and later recast by William S. Burroughs as…

Vasily Vladimirovich Bartold was a Russian anthropologist who made valuable contributions to the study of the social and cultural history of Islam and of the Tajik Iranians and literate Turkic peoples of Central Asia. Bartold joined the faculty of the University of St. Petersburg in 1901 and for

Cecilia Bartoli is an Italian operatic mezzo-soprano who achieved global stardom with her outstanding vocal skills and captivating stage presence. Both of Bartoli’s parents were members of the Rome Opera chorus, and she joked that when she was a child, her babysitters were the likes of Rossini and

Daniello Bartoli was a Jesuit historian and humanist who ranked among classic Italian writers. Bartoli entered the Society of Jesus in 1623 and wrote the well-known and frequently translated L’uomo di lettere difeso ed emendato (1645; The Learned Man Defended and Reformed). In addition to writing a

Matteo Giulio Bartoli was a linguist who emphasized the geographic spread of linguistic changes and their interpretation in terms of history and culture. Having obtained his doctorate at the University of Vienna, Bartoli in 1907 became professor at the University of Turin, where he remained until

Neoclassical art: Italy: The Tuscan sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini executed some important Napoleonic commissions. The marble Charity is one of the more famous examples of his later Neoclassicism. It should be noted, however, that he did not see himself as a Neoclassical artist and that he challenged the idealism that was favoured…

Bartolus of Saxoferrato was a lawyer, law teacher at Perugia, and chief among the postglossators, or commentators, a group of northern Italian jurists who, from the mid-14th century, wrote on the Roman (civil) law. Their predecessors, the glossators, had worked at Bologna from about 1125. Bartolus

Andrea del Castagno was one of the most influential 15th-century Italian Renaissance painters, best known for the emotional power and naturalistic treatment of figures in his work. Little is known of Castagno’s early life, and it is also difficult to ascertain the stages of his artistic development

Fra Bartolommeo was a painter who was a prominent exponent in early 16th-century Florence of the High Renaissance style. Bartolommeo served as an apprentice in the workshop of Cosimo Rosselli and then formed a workshop with the painter Mariotto Albertinelli. His early works, such as the

Fra Bartolommeo was a painter who was a prominent exponent in early 16th-century Florence of the High Renaissance style. Bartolommeo served as an apprentice in the workshop of Cosimo Rosselli and then formed a workshop with the painter Mariotto Albertinelli. His early works, such as the

Fra Bartolommeo was a painter who was a prominent exponent in early 16th-century Florence of the High Renaissance style. Bartolommeo served as an apprentice in the workshop of Cosimo Rosselli and then formed a workshop with the painter Mariotto Albertinelli. His early works, such as the

Michelozzo was an architect and sculptor, notable in the development of Florentine Renaissance architecture. Michelozzo studied with the celebrated sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, in whose workshop he acquired the skills of a bronze founder. After 1420 they collaborated on the “St. Matthew” for the

Francesco Bartolozzi was a Florentine engraver in the service of George III of England. Bartolozzi, the son of a goldsmith, studied painting in Florence, trained as an engraver in Venice, and began his career in Rome. In 1764 he was invited to London, where he remained for 40 years. For his patron,

Madame Vestris was a British actress, opera singer, and manager who inaugurated tasteful and beautiful stage decor and set a standard in stage costumes. After a brief unsuccessful marriage to Auguste-Armand Vestris, a ballet dancer, Mme Vestris first appeared in Italian opera in 1815 and enjoyed

Bartolus of Saxoferrato was a lawyer, law teacher at Perugia, and chief among the postglossators, or commentators, a group of northern Italian jurists who, from the mid-14th century, wrote on the Roman (civil) law. Their predecessors, the glossators, had worked at Bologna from about 1125. Bartolus

James Brindley: …into the mines, and the Barton Aqueduct, which carried the canal over the River Irwell.

Bartonian Stage: …stage is derived from the Barton Beds found between Highcliffe and Milford-on-Sea in Hampshire, England. The Bartonian is underlain by the Lutetian Stage and overlain by the Priabonian Stage.

Coen brothers: Barton Fink, about an edgy, neurotic would-be writer, claimed the best picture, best director, and best actor awards at the 1991 Cannes film festival, the first such sweep in the event’s history. These early films were also notable for featuring several actors—including Frances McDormand (the…

Sir Derek H.R. Barton: Conformational analysis: …is now known as the Barton reaction, a photochemical process that provided an easier means of synthesizing aldosterone. The project was a tremendous success, and Barton maintained a consulting relationship with Schering for the next 40 years. Barton’s scientific work flourished, too, as he successfully expanded his research agenda in…

Church of Satan: In 1997, following LaVey’s death, Blanche Barton became the leader of the church.

Clara Barton was the founder of the American Red Cross. Barton was educated at home and began teaching at age 15. She attended the Liberal Institute at Clinton, N.Y. (1850–51). In 1852 in Bordentown, N.J., she established a free school that soon became so large that the townsmen would no longer

Clara Barton was the founder of the American Red Cross. Barton was educated at home and began teaching at age 15. She attended the Liberal Institute at Clinton, N.Y. (1850–51). In 1852 in Bordentown, N.J., she established a free school that soon became so large that the townsmen would no longer

Elizabeth Barton was an English ecstatic whose outspoken prophecies aroused public opinion over the matrimonial policy of King Henry VIII and led to her execution. A domestic servant on the estate of William Warham, archbishop of Canterbury, she fell ill and about 1525 began to experience trances

Western Electric Company Inc.: …the founders, Elisha Gray and Enos N. Barton, moved the firm to Chicago. By 1872, when it was incorporated as the Western Electric Manufacturing Company, it was beginning its successful career of manufacturing a number of new inventions, including the world’s first commercial typewriters and incandescent lamps.

Fanny Abington was an English actress admired both for her craft and for her leadership in fashion. She was at first a flower girl, hence her later nickname, Nosegay Fan, and a street singer. Employment by a French milliner gave her taste in dress and a knowledge of French that she later found

William Beebe: …abroad and in 1934 with Otis Barton descended in his bathysphere to a then record depth of 3,028 feet (923 metres) in Bermuda waters. A noted lecturer, he received numerous prizes and honours for scientific research and for his books, both technical and popular. His books include Jungle Days (1925),…

Richard Barton is an American entrepreneur who created the do-it-yourself websites Expedia.com and Zillow.com. Barton graduated from Stanford University in 1989 with a degree in industrial design. In 1991 he joined Microsoft, Inc., where he served as a product manager for MS-DOS and, later, the

Sir Derek H.R. Barton was a joint recipient, with Odd Hassel of Norway, of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on “conformational analysis,” the study of the three-dimensional geometric structure of complex molecules, now an essential part of organic chemistry. The son and grandson of

Sir Derek H.R. Barton was a joint recipient, with Odd Hassel of Norway, of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on “conformational analysis,” the study of the three-dimensional geometric structure of complex molecules, now an essential part of organic chemistry. The son and grandson of

Sir Edmund Barton was a statesman who guided the Australian federation movement to a successful conclusion and became the first prime minister of the resulting commonwealth in 1901. Barton in 1879 entered the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, where he served as speaker (1883–87); he was

Great Seal of the United States: Origin of the Great Seal: This committee sought help from William Barton, a young Philadelphian accomplished in heraldry and drawing. Barton prepared two complicated designs, the second of which the committee reported to Congress on May 9, 1782. In this design the “eagle displayed” appeared on the obverse, and the pyramid on the reverse, with…

cat scratch disease: …in human beings caused by Bartonella henselae, which is transmitted by a cat bite or scratch. Transmission of the bacterium from cat to cat is thought to be by the cat flea. The clinical syndrome in the infected person is usually a self-limiting enlargement of the lymph nodes not requiring…

Carrión disease, rickettsial infection limited to South America, caused by the bacterium Bartonella bacilliformis of the order Rickettsiales. Carrión disease is characterized by two distinctive clinical stages: Oroya fever, an acute febrile anemia of rapid onset, with bone and joint pains and a

Bartonian Stage, third of the four divisions (in ascending order) of Eocene rocks, representing all rocks deposited worldwide during the Bartonian Age (41.3 million to 38 million years ago) of the Paleogene Period (66 million to 23 million years ago). The name of the stage is derived from the

Bartow, city, seat (1861) of Polk county, central Florida, U.S. It lies near the Peace River and Lake Hancock, 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Lakeland. In 1851 the Readding Blount family built a stockade community known as Fort Blount on the site of an earlier settlement (Peas Creek). It was later

sandpiper: The upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda), also called Bartram’s sandpiper and, mistakenly, the upland plover, is an American bird of open fields. It is a slender, gray-streaked bird almost 30 cm long that feeds on grasshoppers and other insects.

John Bartram was a naturalist and explorer considered the “father of American botany.” Largely self-educated, Bartram was a friend of Benjamin Franklin and an original member of the American Philosophical Society. He was botanist for the American colonies to King George III. Bartram was the first

William Bartram was an American naturalist, botanist, and artist. The son of naturalist John Bartram, he described the abundant river swamps of the southeastern United States in their primeval condition in his Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida (1791). The book

sandpiper: The upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda), also called Bartram’s sandpiper and, mistakenly, the upland plover, is an American bird of open fields. It is a slender, gray-streaked bird almost 30 cm long that feeds on grasshoppers and other insects.

apple moss, (Bartramia pomiformis), moss of the family Bartramiaceae that has apple-shaped capsules (spore cases) and forms wide deep cushions in moist rocky woods throughout the Northern Hemisphere. It is one of some 70 species in the genus Bartramia; more than 10 are found in North America. An

Bartter syndrome, any of several rare disorders affecting the kidneys and characterized primarily by the excessive excretion of potassium in the urine. Bartter syndrome is named after American endocrinologist Frederic Bartter, who described the primary characteristics of the disorder in the early

Bartter syndrome: Discovery of Bartter syndrome: …is named after American endocrinologist Frederic Bartter, who described the primary characteristics of the disorder in the early 1960s. Bartter examined two patients, both of whom had potassium deficiency (hypokalemia); abnormal increases in the number of cells (hyperplasia) of the juxtaglomerular apparatus of the kidneys; and high serum concentrations of…

Ashleigh Barty is an Australian tennis player who won 15 career singles titles, including three at Grand Slam tournaments, and held the number one spot in the women’s tennis world rankings for 114 consecutive weeks. Barty was born in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, to a father who was a member of

astrology: Significance of astral omens: The bāru (the official prognosticator), who observed and interpreted the celestial omina, was thus in a position to advise his royal employer on the means of avoiding misfortunes; the omens provided a basis for intelligent action rather than an indication of an inexorable fate.

Panama: Relief: …peak is an inactive volcano, Barú (Chiriquí), which reaches an elevation of 11,401 feet (3,475 metres).

Assamese literature: …language was playwright and lexicographer Hemchandra Barua’s Kaniyar Kirtan (1861; “The Revels of an Opium Eater”), about opium addiction. His plays chiefly addressed social issues. Barua also wrote Bahire Rongsong Bhitare Kowabhaturi (1861; Fair Outside and Foul Within). Probably the most outstanding among the early modern writers was Lakshminath Bezbarua…

Jeremiah: Life and times: …soon dictated to his scribe, Baruch, a scroll containing all of the messages he had delivered to this time. The scroll was read by Baruch in the Temple. Subsequently it was read before King Jehoiakim, who cut it into pieces and burned it. Jeremiah went into hiding and dictated another…

The City University of New York: Baruch College, founded in 1919 as part of CCNY, became a separate institution within the university in 1968; it specializes in business and public administration. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, founded in 1964, trains criminal-justice agency personnel and public-service professionals. Medgar Evers College, founded…

20th-century international relations: Atomic energy: Truman entrusted the diplomatic task to Baruch, who insisted that nations not be allowed to employ their Security Council veto in atomic matters. He then appealed to the UN on June 14, 1946: “We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead.” The Soviet plan,…

Apocalypse of Baruch, a pseudepigraphal work (not in any canon of scripture), whose primary theme is whether or not God’s relationship with man is just. The book is also called The Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch because it was preserved only in the 6th-century Syriac Vulgate. It was originally

Bernard Baruch was an American financier who was an adviser to U.S. presidents. After graduating from the College of the City of New York in 1889, Baruch worked as an office boy in a linen business and later in Wall Street brokerage houses. Over the years he amassed a fortune as a stock market

Bernard Baruch was an American financier who was an adviser to U.S. presidents. After graduating from the College of the City of New York in 1889, Baruch worked as an office boy in a linen business and later in Wall Street brokerage houses. Over the years he amassed a fortune as a stock market

Book of Baruch, ancient text purportedly written by Baruch, secretary and friend of Jeremiah, the Old Testament prophet. The text is still extant in Greek and in several translations from Greek into Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, and other languages. The Book of Baruch is apocryphal to the Hebrew

Berthold Auerbach was a German novelist noted chiefly for his tales of village life. Auerbach prepared for the rabbinate, but, estranged from Jewish orthodoxy by the study of the 17th-century Dutch philosopher Benedict de Spinoza, he turned instead to literature. Spinoza’s life formed the basis of

Berthold Auerbach was a German novelist noted chiefly for his tales of village life. Auerbach prepared for the rabbinate, but, estranged from Jewish orthodoxy by the study of the 17th-century Dutch philosopher Benedict de Spinoza, he turned instead to literature. Spinoza’s life formed the basis of

Borūjerd, chief town, Borūjerd shahrestān (county), Lorestān ostān (province), western Iran. Borūjerd is situated 5,500 feet (1,700 metres) above sea level, below high mountains, in a wide, fertile valley. It is a flourishing regional centre on the main highway from the Persian Gulf and Khūzestān

Barauni, town, central Bihar state, northeastern India. It lies north of the Ganges (Ganga) River and is part of the Begusarai urban agglomeration. The town merged with Phulwaria township in 1961. It has major highway, rail, and ferry connections and is an agricultural trade centre. Barauni is

Petrobras scandal: Pedro Barusco, a third-tier executive who reported to Renato Duque, Petrobras’s director for engineering and services, agreed to return $100 million he had stolen from the company and deposited in foreign bank accounts. The company’s former director of refining and supply, Paulo Roberto Costa, confessed…

Baruta, city, northwestern Miranda estado (state), northern Venezuela. It is located in the central highlands. Formerly a commercial centre in a fertile agricultural area producing coffee, cacao, and sugarcane, the city has become a residential suburb in the Caracas metropolitan area. An expressway

South Asian arts: Assamese: Assamese literature began with Hemchandra Baruwa, a satirist and playwright, author of the play Bahiri-Rang-Chang Bhitare Kowabhaturi (1861; “All That Glitters Is Not Gold”). The most outstanding among the early modern writers was Lakshminath Bezbaruwa, who founded a literary monthly, Jōnāki (“Moonlight”), in 1889, and was responsible for infusing…

South Asian arts: Medieval temple architecture: North Indian style of central India: …an unidentified mother goddess at Barwa-Sāgar. The period appears to have been one of experimentation, a variety of plans and spires having been tried. The Mālā-de temple is an early example of the śekharī type in its formative stages; the Indore temple has a star-shaped plan; and the Barwa-Sāgar example…

France: Louis XIII: …whom he concluded the subsidy Treaty of Bärwalde in 1631, agreeing to pay the Swedish king one million livres per year to continue the war; with Gustav’s successor, Greve (count) Axel Oxenstierna; and with Bernhard, duke of Saxe-Weimar. Eventually, in 1635, Richelieu committed France to direct conflict with the Habsburgs;…

Barwani, town, southwestern Madhya Pradesh state, west-central India. It is situated just south of the Narmada River, about 70 miles (110 km) southwest of Indore. Founded about 1650, the town served as capital of Barwani princely state, which merged with Madhya Bharat (now mostly in Madhya Pradesh)

Heinrich Anton de Bary was a German botanist whose researches into the roles of fungi and other agents in causing plant diseases earned him distinction as a founder of modern mycology and plant pathology. A professor of botany at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau (1855–66), Halle (1867–72),

Moon: Principal characteristics of the Earth-Moon system: Called the barycenter, this point lies inside Earth about 4,700 km (2,900 miles) from its center. Also more accurately, it is the barycenter, rather than the center of Earth, that follows an elliptical path around the Sun in accord with Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. The orbital…

dynamical time: Barycentric Dynamical Time (TDB) is a dynamical timescale whose use the IAU permits where necessary for user convenience. TDB differs from TT only by periodic terms related to the Earth’s orbit, but it is applied to a reference system at rest with respect to the…

August Ferdinand Möbius: …methods laid down in his Der barycentrische Calkul (1827; “The Calculus of Centres of Gravity”). In this work he introduced homogeneous coordinates (essentially, the extension of coordinates to include a “point at infinity”) into analytic geometry and also dealt with geometric transformations, in particular projective transformations that later played an…

Antoine-Louis Barye was a prolific French sculptor, painter, and printmaker whose subject was primarily animals. He is known as the father of the modern Animalier school. Scholarship in the late 20th century revised Barye’s year of birth from 1796 to 1795 after adjusting for the shift in year

Polish literature: Other literary forms: Piotr Baryka is one of the few of these playwrights whose names are known. He wrote a carnival comedy, Z chłopa król (1637; “From Peasant to King”), which, as its title indicates, carried a motif made popular in the introduction to Shakespeare’s The Taming of…

Barylambda, extinct genus of unusual and aberrant mammals found as fossils in deposits in North America in the late Paleocene Epoch (58.7 to 55.8 million years ago). Barylambda was a relatively large animal, 2.5 metres (about 8 feet) long, with an unusually massive body and legs. The very thick

baryon, any member of one of two classes of hadrons (particles built from quarks and thus experiencing the strong nuclear force). Baryons are heavy subatomic particles that are made up of three quarks. Both protons and neutrons, as well as other particles, are baryons. (The other class of hadronic

Rashid Sunyaev: …Zeldovich predicted the existence of baryon acoustic oscillations, regions of dense gas where galaxies would have formed in the early universe and that would appear as brightness fluctuations in the CMB. These oscillations were first observed in 2001 by balloon-based microwave detectors. In 1972 Sunyaev and Zeldovich described the SZ…

subatomic particle: Baryons and mesons: The empirical law of baryon conservation states that in any reaction the total number of baryons must remain constant. If any baryons are created, then so must be an equal number of antibaryons, which in principle negate the baryons. Conservation of baryon number explains the apparent stability…

baryon: Baryons are characterized by a baryon number, B, of 1. Their antiparticles, called antibaryons, have a baryon number of −1. An atom containing, for example, one proton and one neutron (each with a baryon number of 1) has a baryon number of 2. In addition to their differences in composition,…

Barysaw, city, Minsk oblast (region), Belarus, on the Berezina River at its confluence with the Skha. Founded in the 12th century, Barysaw has been at various times under Lithuanian, Polish, and Russian rule. Napoleon’s disastrous retreat across the Berezina River in 1812 took place north of the

Mikhail Baryshnikov: …years later he founded the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City, a creative space that supports multidisciplinary artists from around the world.

Mikhail Baryshnikov is a Soviet-born American actor and ballet dancer who was the preeminent male classical dancer of the 1970s and ’80s. He subsequently became a noted dance director. The son of Russian parents in Latvia, Baryshnikov entered Riga’s opera ballet school at age 12. The success that

Mikhail Baryshnikov is a Soviet-born American actor and ballet dancer who was the preeminent male classical dancer of the 1970s and ’80s. He subsequently became a noted dance director. The son of Russian parents in Latvia, Baryshnikov entered Riga’s opera ballet school at age 12. The success that

barite, the most common barium mineral, barium sulfate (BaSO4). Barite occurs in hydrothermal ore veins (particularly those containing lead and silver), in sedimentary rocks such as limestone, in clay deposits formed by the weathering of limestone, in marine deposits, and in cavities in igneous

euphonium, brass wind instrument with valves, pitched in C or B♭ an octave below the trumpet; it is the leading instrument in the tenor-bass range in military bands. It was invented in 1843 by Sommer of Weimar and derived from the valved bugle (flügelhorn) and cornet. It has a wide conical bore

baryton, bowed, stringed musical instrument that enjoyed a certain vogue in the 18th century. It was related to the viol family, was about the size of a cello, and had six melody strings and a fretted fingerboard. Up to 40 sympathetically vibrating strings, some of which were plucked with the

Mustafa al-Barzani: …the KDP by his son, Masoud. Masoud became the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq in 2005.

Mustafa al-Barzani: …the KDP by his son, Masoud. Masoud became the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq in 2005.

Mustafa al-Barzani: …the KDP by his son, Masoud. Masoud became the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq in 2005.

Mustafa al-Barzani was a Kurdish military leader who for 50 years strove to create an independent nation for the millions of Kurds living on the borders of Iran, Iraq, and the Soviet Union. The son of a landlord, Barzani succeeded his elder brother, Sheikh Ahmed, who led the Kurdish national

Barzaz Breiz, collection of folk songs and ballads purported to be survivals from ancient Breton folklore. The collection was made, supposedly from the oral literature of Breton peasants, by Théodore Hersart de La Villemarqué and was published in 1839. In the 1870s it was demonstrated that Barzaz

Barzaz Breiz, collection of folk songs and ballads purported to be survivals from ancient Breton folklore. The collection was made, supposedly from the oral literature of Breton peasants, by Théodore Hersart de La Villemarqué and was published in 1839. In the 1870s it was demonstrated that Barzaz

ancient Iranian religion: Cultic practices, worship, and festivals: …was called the barhish (Avestan barzish, “cushion”), while in Zoroastrianism a cognate word, Avestan barəsman (Iranian barzman), is used for a bundle of sticks—later thin metal rods—that is manipulated by the priest.

Gasparino da Barzizza was an early Italian humanist teacher noted for his ability to convey Classical civilization to the Italy of his day. Barzizza studied grammar and rhetoric at Pavia, remaining there from 1407 to 1421 to lecture in the university and direct a grammar school. He moved to Venice

ancient Iran: Zoroastrianism: …carried in his hand the barsman (barsom), or bundle of sacred grass. His mouth was covered to prevent the sacred fire from being polluted by his breath. The practice of animal sacrifice, abhorred by the modern followers of Zoroaster, is attested for the Sāsānian period at least as late as…

Jacques Barzun was a French-born American teacher, historian, and author who influenced higher education in the United States by his insistence that undergraduates avoid early specialization and instead be given broad instruction in the humanities. Barzun moved to the United States in 1920. He

Jacques Barzun was a French-born American teacher, historian, and author who influenced higher education in the United States by his insistence that undergraduates avoid early specialization and instead be given broad instruction in the humanities. Barzun moved to the United States in 1920. He

ozone depletion: Antarctic ozone hole: …1985 in a paper by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists Joseph C. Farman, Brian G. Gardiner, and Jonathan D. Shanklin. Beginning in the late 1970s, a large and rapid decrease in total ozone, often by more than 60 percent relative to the global average, has been observed in the springtime…

Uzbek literature: The Soviet period: The poem “Bas endi!” (“That’s Enough!”) in Uyghonish, for instance, expresses the first awakenings of revolt against the Russian occupation:

Belgium: Relief, drainage, and soils: …200 metres) in elevation, the Central Plateaus cover northern Hainaut, Walloon Brabant, southern Flemish Brabant, and the Hesbaye plateau region of Liège. The area is dissected by the Dender, Senne, Dijle, and other rivers that enter the Schelde (Escaut) River; it is bounded to the east by the Herve Plateau.…