junco: The dark-eyed, or slate-coloured, junco (J. hyemalis) breeds across Canada and in the Appalachian Mountains; northern migrants are the “snowbirds” of the eastern United States. In western North America there are several forms of junco with brown or pinkish markings; among them is the yellow-eyed Mexican…

Capitol Reef National Park: The contemporary park: The small Mormon community of Fruita (originally called Junction) began to develop along the Fremont River in the 1880s, and it persevered even after the national monument was established in 1937. The monument remained virtually isolated and largely unvisited during its first decade of existence. However, after a paved road…

construction: Electrical systems: …above ceilings and terminate in junction boxes flush with a wall surface. The junction boxes contain terminal devices such as the convenience outlet, control switches, or the connection point for built-in light fixtures.

semiconductor device: The p-n junction: …is referred to as the junction breakdown, usually a nondestructive phenomenon if the resulting power dissipation is limited to a safe value. The applied forward voltage is usually less than one volt, but the reverse critical voltage, called the breakdown voltage, can vary from less than one volt to many…

Junction City, city, seat (1860) of Geary county (until 1889 designated as Davis county), northeastern Kansas, U.S. It is situated at the confluence of the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers. Junction City was founded in 1858 and named for the river confluence. It developed as a trading centre for

electricity: Electroluminescence: …in a reverse-biased semiconductor p–n junction diode—i.e., a p–n junction diode in which the applied potential is in the direction of small current flow. Electrons in the intense field at the depleted junction easily acquire enough energy to excite atoms. Little of this energy finally emerges as light, though the…

radiation measurement: Silicon detectors: …one surface, forming a rectifying junction—i.e., one that allows current to flow freely in only one direction. If voltage is now applied to reverse-bias this diode so that the free electrons and positive holes flow away from the junction, a depletion region is formed in the vicinity of the junction.…

electronics: Using MOSFETs: Another type, the junction field-effect transistor, works in a similar fashion but is much less frequently used. The MOSFET consists of two regions: (1) the source (here shown connected to the silicon substrate) and (2) the drain of one conductivity type embedded in a body of the opposite…

Kirchhoff’s rules: The first rule, the junction theorem, states that the sum of the currents into a specific junction in the circuit equals the sum of the currents out of the same junction. Electric charge is conserved: it does not suddenly appear or disappear; it does not pile up at one…

semiconductor device: Bipolar transistors: This type of transistor is one of the most important of the semiconductor devices. It is a bipolar device in that both electrons and holes are involved in the conduction process. The bipolar transistor delivers a change in output current in response to…

cell: Tissue and species recognition: …adhesion is carried out by cell junctions.

animal: The nervous system: …by the formation of membrane-bound gap junctions, which connect adjacent cells, enables an impulse to pass unimpeded to a connecting cell. The increase in speed of transmission provided by a gap junction, however, is offset by a loss in flexibility; gap junctions essentially create a single neuron from several. The…

immune system: Diversity of lymphocytes: …of gene segments—a process called junctional diversification—through which the ends of the gene segments can be shortened or lengthened. The genetic rearrangement takes place at the stage when the lymphocytes generated from stem cells first become functional, so that each mature lymphocyte is able to make only one type of…

rush: effusus, called soft rush, is used to make the tatami mats of Japan. The bulrush, also called reed mace and cattail, is Typha angustifolia, belonging to the family Typhaceae; its stems and leaves are used in North India for ropes, mats, and baskets. The horsetail genus (Equisetum)…

Spain: Society: The units (jund), grouped according to the places of origin of their men, were deployed strategically along the borders and possessed extraordinary mobility at the time of the caliphate. Holding castles close to the enemy lands as their bases of operation, they were glad to welcome into…

Jundiaí, city, in the highlands of southern São Paulo estado (state), Brazil. It lies at 2,460 feet (750 metres) above sea level along the Jundiaí River. Formerly called Porta do Sertão, Mato Grosso de Jundiaí, and Vila Formosa de Nossa Senhora do Destêrro de Jundiaí, it was given town status and

Jendouba, town, northwestern Tunisia, about 95 miles (150 km) west of Tunis. It lies along the middle Wadi Majardah (Medjerda). The town was developed on the railway from Tunis to Algeria during the French protectorate (1881–1955) and still serves as an important crossroads and administrative

June, sixth month of the Gregorian calendar. It was named after Juno, the Roman goddess of childbirth and

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi: June 30 Revolution: Sisi took centre stage in Egyptian politics in the summer of 2013, after a protest movement dubbed Tamarrud (“Rebellion”) emerged demanding that Morsi be removed or replaced through an early election. On June 30, demonstrations against Morsi had reached a size and…

June bug, (genus Phyllophaga), genus of nearly 300 species of plant-eating beetles that commonly appear in the Northern Hemisphere during warm spring evenings and are attracted to lights. Taxonomy See also list of beetles. The heavy-bodied June bugs vary from 12 to 25 mm (0.5 to 1 inch) and have

June bug, (genus Phyllophaga), genus of nearly 300 species of plant-eating beetles that commonly appear in the Northern Hemisphere during warm spring evenings and are attracted to lights. Taxonomy See also list of beetles. The heavy-bodied June bugs vary from 12 to 25 mm (0.5 to 1 inch) and have

AEA June Bug, biplane designed, built, and tested by members of the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) in 1908. For a table of pioneer aircraft, see history of flight. Alexander Graham Bell, one of the founders of the AEA, gave the third and most famous of the powered airplanes constructed by the

Denmark: The liberal movement: …was replaced by the so-called June constitution of June 5, 1849. Together with the king and his ministers, there was now also a parliament with two chambers: the Folketing and the Landsting. Both were elected by popular vote, but seats in the Landsting had a relatively high property-owning qualification. The…

June Days, (June 23–26, 1848) in French history, a brief and bloody civil uprising in Paris in the early days of the Second Republic. The new government instituted numerous radical reforms, but the new assembly, composed mainly of moderate and conservative candidates, was determined to cut costs

Tiananmen Square incident, series of protests and demonstrations in China in the spring of 1989 that culminated on the night of June 3–4 with a government crackdown on the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Although the demonstrations and their subsequent repression occurred in cities

June Offensive, (June [July, New Style], 1917), unsuccessful military operation of World War I, planned by the Russian minister of war Aleksandr Kerensky. The operation not only demonstrated the degree to which the Russian army had disintegrated but also the extent of the Provisional Government’s

Six-Day War, brief war that took place June 5–10, 1967, and was the third of the Arab-Israeli wars. Israel’s decisive victory included the capture of the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Old City of Jerusalem, and Golan Heights; the status of these territories subsequently became a major

Jane Cunningham Croly was an English-born American journalist and clubwoman whose popular writings and socially conscious advocacy reflected, in different spheres, her belief that equal rights and economic independence for women would allow them to become fully responsible, productive citizens.

Juneau, city and borough, capital (since 1906) of Alaska, U.S. The city, at the heart of the Inside Passage (Alaska Marine Highway), is located in the southeastern part of the state, on the Gastineau Channel. Sheltered from the Pacific Ocean by a belt of islands 75 miles (120 km) wide, it lies at

serviceberry, (genus Amelanchier), genus of some 20 species of flowering shrubs and small trees of the rose family (Rosaceae). Most species are North American; exceptions include the snowy mespilus (Amelanchier ovalis), which ranges over Europe, and the Asian serviceberry, or Korean juneberry (A.

Amy Adams: Breakthrough and stardom: …Ashley in the independent film Junebug (2005), about the troubled relationships hidden in a Southern family, earned her an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress. That charismatic innocence led to Adams’s later successes as Giselle in Enchanted (2007), an animated and live-action film about a fairy-tale princess in New…

Junee, town, south-central New South Wales, Australia. It lies just north of Wagga Wagga in the fertile Riverina district. It was founded in 1863 as Jewnee and was known as Jewnee Junction or Loftus when it was proclaimed a town in 1883. The town was gazetted a municipality in 1886, and it became a

Yousaf Raza Gilani: …the cabinet of Prime Minister Mohammad Khan Junejo, but a conflict with Junejo led to Gilani’s being replaced in 1986 and in his eventual marginalization within the PML.

Yousaf Raza Gilani: …the cabinet of Prime Minister Mohammad Khan Junejo, but a conflict with Junejo led to Gilani’s being replaced in 1986 and in his eventual marginalization within the PML.

Ralph Ellison: …in a much-shortened form, as Juneteenth, a reference to the Juneteenth holiday widely celebrated by African Americans commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison was released in 2019.

Juneteenth, holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, observed annually on June 19. (Read Charles Blow’s Britannica essay on the Juneteenth holiday.) In 1863, during the American Civil War, Pres. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared more than

Juneteenth, holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, observed annually on June 19. (Read Charles Blow’s Britannica essay on the Juneteenth holiday.) In 1863, during the American Civil War, Pres. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared more than

Juneteenth, holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, observed annually on June 19. (Read Charles Blow’s Britannica essay on the Juneteenth holiday.) In 1863, during the American Civil War, Pres. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared more than

warlord, independent military commander in China in the early and mid-20th century. Warlords ruled various parts of the country following the death of Yuan Shikai (1859–1916), who had served as the first president of the Republic of China from 1912 to 1916. Yuan’s power had come from his position

Jung Bahadur was the prime minister and virtual ruler of Nepal from 1846 to 1877, who established the powerful Rana dynasty of hereditary prime ministers, an office that remained in his family until 1951. Jung Bahadur, a man of great courage and ability, gained control over the government after

patristic literature: The gnostic writers: Among these, the Jung Codex (named in honour of the psychoanalyst Carl Jung by those who purchased it for his library) includes five important items: a Prayer of the Apostle Paul; an Apocryphon of James, recording revelations imparted by the risen Christ to the Apostles; the Gospel of…

Squid Game: Reception and awards: Jung Ho-Yeon (who goes by Hoyeon) won for outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series at the Screen Actors Guild Awards for her performance as cutthroat contestant Kang Sae-Byeok, among others.

Rong Yiren was a Chinese businessman and politician. He was the founder (in 1979) and president of China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC), China’s largest investment company at the time, and later (1993–98) was vice president of China. Rong was educated at a British-run

Rain is a South Korean pop singer and actor known for his boyish good looks and smooth hip-hop dance moves. Rain began performing in his teens as a rapper in a short-lived band called Fanclub and later became a backup dancer for popular Korean singer Park Ji-Yoon. Deciding to pursue a solo music

Andrea Jung is a Canadian-born American businesswoman who was chairman (2001–12) and CEO (1999–2012) of Avon Products, Inc. She later became president and CEO (2014– ) of Grameen America. Jung moved with her family from Toronto to Wellesley, Massachusetts, when she was a young child. Her father was

Carl Jung was a Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who founded analytic psychology, in some aspects a response to Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of the extraverted and the introverted personality, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has

Carl Jung was a Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who founded analytic psychology, in some aspects a response to Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of the extraverted and the introverted personality, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has

Carlos Lehder: There he was housed with George Jung, who had established an operation using airplanes to bring marijuana into the United States. By Jung’s account, Lehder persuaded him that importing cocaine by airplane would be significantly more lucrative, and upon their release in 1976 the two went into business together, transporting…

history of logic: The 17th century: The Logica Hamburgensis (1638) of Joachim Jung (also called Jungius or Junge) was one replacement for the “Protestant” logic of Melanchthon. Its chief virtue was the care with which late medieval theories and techniques were gathered and presented. Jung devoted considerable attention to valid arguments that do not fit into…

Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling was a German writer best known for his autobiography, Heinrich Stillings Leben, 5 vol. (1806), the first two volumes of which give a vividly realistic picture of village life in an 18th-century pietistic family. Jung-Stilling worked as a schoolteacher at age 15 and

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Napoleonic period (1805–16) of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: In Frankfurt he met Marianne Jung, just 30 years old and about to marry the 54-year-old banker Johann Jakob von Willemer; Goethe and Marianne took to writing each other love poems in the Ḥāfeẓ manner and continued to write them, both after Goethe had returned to Weimar and when…

Ronglu was an official and general during the last years of the Qing dynasty who organized and led one of the first brigades of Chinese troops that used Western firearms and drill. He achieved high office as a favourite of the powerful empress dowager Cixi, and he ensured that the army remained

Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling was a German writer best known for his autobiography, Heinrich Stillings Leben, 5 vol. (1806), the first two volumes of which give a vividly realistic picture of village life in an 18th-century pietistic family. Jung-Stilling worked as a schoolteacher at age 15 and

Dzungar, people of Central Asia, so called because they formed the left wing (dson, “left”; gar, “hand”) of the Mongol army. A western Mongol people whose home was the Ili River valley and Chinese Turkistan, they adopted Buddhism in the 17th century. They are for all practical purposes identical

Mladá Boleslav, city, north-central Czech Republic. It lies northeast of Prague, at the confluence of the Jizera and Klenice rivers. Occupied in 995 and founded as a city in 1334, it was a centre of the Bohemian Unitas Fratrum (“Unity of Brethren”) Protestant group in the 16th century. It has a

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Education and first dramatic works.: …1748 successfully produced his comedy Der junge Gelehrte (“The Young Scholar”). The play is a delightful satire on an arrogant, superficial, vain, and easily offended scholar, a figure through which Lessing mocked his own bookishness. The other comedies belonging to this Leipzig period of 1747–49 (Damon, Die alte Jungfer [“The…

Paul Hindemith: …the viola; the song cycles Die junge Magd (1922; “The Young Maid”), based on poems by Georg Trakl, and Das Marienleben (1924, rev. 1948; “The Life of Mary”); and the opera Cardillac (1926), based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Das Fräulein von Scuderi (“The Girl from Scuderi”). By the late 1920s Hindemith…

Volker Schlöndorff: …feature, Der junge Törless (1966; Young Törless), an adaptation of the Robert Musil novella Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless, earned him instant recognition. This study of a sensitive boy in a brutal German military academy exhibited the cool, straightforward directorial style that would come to distinguish Schlöndorff from his more…

Alfred Junge was a German motion-picture set designer who worked in England for more than 30 years and who was credited with doing more for the reputation of British set design than any Englishman. Junge’s early career included work as a scenic artist at the Berlin State Opera and State Theatre

history of logic: The 17th century: The Logica Hamburgensis (1638) of Joachim Jung (also called Jungius or Junge) was one replacement for the “Protestant” logic of Melanchthon. Its chief virtue was the care with which late medieval theories and techniques were gathered and presented. Jung devoted considerable attention to valid arguments that do not fit into…

Ernst Jünger was a German novelist and essayist, an ardent militarist who was one of the most complex and contradictory figures in 20th-century German literature. Jünger joined the French Foreign Legion in 1913, but his father had him brought back to Germany. In 1914 he volunteered for the German

leafy liverwort, (order Jungermanniales), order of numerous species of liverworts (division Marchantiophyta), in which the plant body is prostrate and extends horizontally in leaflike form with an upper and lower surface. The greatest number and variety of leafy liverworts are found in tropical

Young Germany, a social reform and literary movement in 19th-century Germany (about 1830–50), influenced by French revolutionary ideas, which was opposed to the extreme forms of Romanticism and nationalism then current. The name was first used in Ludolf Wienbarg’s Ästhetische Feldzüge (“Aesthetic

Adolf Frey: His historical novels, such as Die Jungfer von Wattenwil (1912; “The Maiden of Wattenwil”), and his plays are considered to be of less importance.

Jungfrau, well-known Swiss peak (13,642 feet [4,158 meters]) dominating the Lauterbrunnen valley and lying 11 miles (18 km) south-southeast of the resort of Interlaken. The scenic mountain separates the cantons of Bern and Valais and is in the Bernese Alps, two other peaks of which (the

Jungfrau: One of Europe’s highest railways (constructed 1896–1912) cuts a 4.4-mile-long tunnel through the Eiger and Mönch peaks to the Jungfraujoch, a pass (11,335 feet) between the Mönch and Jungfrau peaks.

Friedrich Schiller: Philosophical studies and classical drama of Friedrich Schiller: …Die Jungfrau von Orleans (1801; The Maid of Orleans), a “romantic tragedy” on the subject of Joan of Arc, in which the heroine dies in a blaze of glory after a victorious battle, rather than at the stake like her historical prototype; Die Braut von Messina (1803; The Bride of…

Jungfrauenbecher, (German: “maiden’s cup”), silver cup shaped like a girl with a wide-spreading skirt (forming a large cup when inverted) holding a pivoted bowl above her head. The form apparently originated in late 16th-century Germany, but only a few examples survive from the 17th century.

Sven Nykvist: …worked on Bergman’s Jungfrukällan (The Virgin Spring), after which he became Bergman’s regular director of photography at Svensk Filmindustri. He worked on more than a dozen Bergman films, including Viskningar och rop (1972; Cries and Whispers) and Fanny och Alexander (1982; Fanny and Alexander), for both of which he…

Sven Nykvist: …worked on Bergman’s Jungfrukällan (The Virgin Spring), after which he became Bergman’s regular director of photography at Svensk Filmindustri. He worked on more than a dozen Bergman films, including Viskningar och rop (1972; Cries and Whispers) and Fanny och Alexander (1982; Fanny and Alexander), for both of which he…

Junggar Basin, extensive basin in the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, northwestern China. The basin is located between the Mongolian Altai Mountains, on the Sino-Mongolian border, to the north, and the Borohoro (Poluokenu) and Eren Habirga mountains, to the south; the latter run east and west

Gobi: Physiography: The Junggar Gobi is north of the Gaxun Gobi, in the Junggar Basin between the eastern spurs of the Mongolian Altai and the eastern extremity of the Tien Shan. It resembles the Trans-Altai Gobi, and its edges are fractured by ravines, alternating with residual hills and…

Junggar Basin: …western ranges is the so-called Dzungarian Gate (Junggar Men), which leads to Lake Alaköl and Lake Balqash in Kazakhstan. In the far north the Irtysh (Ertix) River drains into Lake Zaysan across the Kazakhstan border. Otherwise, the Junggar Basin is an area of internal drainage, with the rivers from the…

Neogrammarian, any of a group of German scholars that arose around 1875; their chief tenet concerning language change was that sound laws have no exceptions. This principle was very controversial because there seemed to be several irregularities in language change not accounted for by the sound

history of logic: The 17th century: The Logica Hamburgensis (1638) of Joachim Jung (also called Jungius or Junge) was one replacement for the “Protestant” logic of Melanchthon. Its chief virtue was the care with which late medieval theories and techniques were gathered and presented. Jung devoted considerable attention to valid arguments that do not fit into…

Daniel Radcliffe: Later films: Lost City and Weird: The Al Yankovic Story: Radcliffe followed with Jungle (2017), which recounts the true story of a man’s harrowing effort to survive in the Amazon jungle after a rafting accident.

jungle, tropical forest with luxuriant, tangled, impenetrable vegetation, generally teeming with wildlife; popularly associated with the tropics. See

Osa Johnson: …successful in commercial distribution, included Jungle Adventures (1921), Head Hunters of the South Seas (1922), Trailing African Wild Animals (1923), Simba, the King of Beasts (1928), Across the World (1930), Wonders of the Congo (1931), Congorilla (1932),

jungle babbler, any of about 32 species of songbirds constituting the tribe Pellorneini of the babbler family Timaliidae. Found from Africa to Malaysia and the Philippines, these drab birds with slender, often hook-tipped bills skulk in forest undergrowth. An example is the striped jungle babbler,

Zoltan Korda: …film was the children’s classic Jungle Book (1942), an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s short-story collection. Sabu was an ideal realization of Mowgli, an Indian boy who is raised by wolves, threatened by the tiger Shere Khan, and protected by the black panther Bagheera. Although the film was a major hit,…

Jon Favreau: Marvel blockbusters and Disney movies: …as a voice actor in The Jungle Book (2016)—which took home an Oscar for visual effects—and directed another animated Disney movie, The Lion King (2019).

The Jungle Book, American animated musical film, released in 1967, that was the last feature film personally overseen by Walt Disney. (It was still in production when he died in 1966.) The film is very loosely based on the short stories in Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. Mowgli (voiced by Bruce

The Jungle Book, collection of stories by English writer Rudyard Kipling, published in 1894. A sequel, The Second Jungle Book, was published in 1895. The stories in both books, mostly set in India, are linked by poems and often tell of Mowgli, an Indian boy who is raised by wolves and learns

Suriname: Suriname since independence: Raids by the Surinamese Liberation Army, a guerrilla group better known as the Jungle Commando (JC) and consisting mainly of Maroons, disrupted bauxite mining and led to the killing of many Maroon civilians by the National Army; thousands of Maroons subsequently fled to French Guiana. The deteriorating economic…

Emily Blunt: A Quiet Place and Oppenheimer: …and with Dwayne Johnson in Jungle Cruise (2021), an action comedy based on a theme park ride. In 2022 Blunt appeared in the TV miniseries The English, a violent western in which she played a British aristocrat seeking revenge in the 1890s.

Halle Berry: Film roles in Jungle Fever (1991), directed by Spike Lee, and in Boomerang (1992), starring Eddie Murphy, first brought her notice. She starred with Jessica Lange in Losing Isaiah (1995), a drama about adoption, before earning acclaim for her portrayal of film star Dorothy Dandridge, the first

megapode: Megapodes are of three kinds: scrub fowl; brush turkeys (not true turkeys); and mallee fowl, or lowan (Leipoa ocellata), which frequent the mallee, or scrub, vegetation of southern interior Australia. The mallee fowl, the best known of the group, is 65 cm (25.5 inches) long and has white-spotted, light brown…

jungle fowl, any of four Asian birds of the genus Gallus, family Phasianidae (order Galliformes). (For Australian jungle fowl, see megapode.) Gallus species differ from other members of the pheasant family in having, in the male, a fleshy comb, lobed wattles hanging below the bill, and high-arched

Paul Theroux: Education, Peace Corps experience, and early novels: …novels—including Girls at Play (1969), Jungle Lovers (1971), and Saint Jack (1973; film 1979)—center on the social and cultural dislocation of Westerners in postcolonial Africa and Southeast Asia.

Dorothy Lamour: …first appearance in a sarong—in The Jungle Princess (1936). The Hurricane (1937) and Her Jungle Love (1938) followed. She then changed pace for the gangster melodrama Johnny Apollo (1940).

yellow fever: The course of the disease: …urban-dwelling) Aedes aegypti mosquito; (2) jungle, or sylvatic, yellow fever, in which transmission is from a mammalian host (usually a monkey) to humans via any one of a number of forest-living mosquitoes (e.g., Haemagogus in South America, A. africanus in Africa); and (3) intermediate, or savannah, yellow fever, in which…

The Jungle, novel by Upton Sinclair, published serially in 1905 and as a single-volume book in 1906. The most famous, influential, and enduring of all muckraking novels, The Jungle was an exposé of conditions in the Chicago stockyards. Because of the public response, the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act

Hitler Youth: Jungmädel (“Young Girls”) was an organization for girls ages 10 to 14.

Czech literature: The 18th and 19th centuries: Josef Jungmann set out to extend and modernize the Czech vocabulary through his translations (including John Milton’s Paradise Lost, 1811) and his monumental Czech-German dictionary (1835–39). The revival was also furthered by the Moravian historian František Palacký and the Slovak archaeologist Pavel Josef Šafařík. The…

Bhutan: The emergence of Bhutan: …penlops (governors of territories) and jungpens (governors of forts). Doopgein Sheptoon exercised both temporal and spiritual authority, but his successor confined himself to only the spiritual role and appointed a minister to exercise the temporal power. The minister became the temporal ruler and acquired the title of deb raja. This…

dress: Japan: … of the emperor and the jūni-hitoe of the empress, which are worn only at coronations and at important ceremonial functions. Similar costumes are worn by the crown prince, by princes and princesses of the blood, by high officials, and by ladies-in-waiting.

Juniata, county, central Pennsylvania, U.S., consisting of a mountainous area in the Appalachian Ridge and Valley physiographic province located midway between State College and Harrisburg. The county lies between Blue, Blacklog, and Shade mountains on the northwest and Tuscarora Mountain on the

Susquehanna River: …Branch of the Susquehanna, and Juniata rivers) drain an area of 27,570 square miles (71,410 square km). Though the river itself never served as an important waterway because of rapids and other obstructions, its valley was significant as a land route to the Ohio River system and later as a…

Denmark: The liberal movement: …was replaced by the so-called June constitution of June 5, 1849. Together with the king and his ministers, there was now also a parliament with two chambers: the Folketing and the Landsting. Both were elected by popular vote, but seats in the Landsting had a relatively high property-owning qualification. The…

Romanian literature: The 20th century: For example, Junimea (“Youth”), the literary circle Titu Maiorescu founded in 1863, reacted against the prevailing interest in literary form at the expense of content and pointed toward a later reassessment of the uses of literature. Playwright Ion Luca Caragiale died in 1912 but was relevant to…