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Argentina   The word Argentina is derived from the Latin word "argentum," which in English means silver. For this reason Argentina is sometimes called "The Land of Silver." The official name of the country is Republic of A... Study Pack: 6 Summaries About 193 pages (57,932 words) in 6 products

Azerbaijan   (2002 pop. of Republic 8.1 million), (2002 pop. of East Azerbaijan, Iran, 3.4 million), (2002 pop. of West Azerbaijan, Iran, 2.8 million). Azerbaijan is a mountainous region in West Asia, bounded by the eastern Caucasus, northwestern Zagro... Study Pack: 5 Summaries, 1 Quotes About 81 pages (24,338 words) in 6 products

Amateur astronomy Amateur astronomy, a subset of astronomy, is a hobby whose participants enjoy studying celestial objects. The amateur astronomer is one who does not depend on the field of astronomy as a primary source of income or support, and does not hav... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 10 pages (2,959 words) in 1 product

Aikido Aikido is a Japanese martial art that takes several different modern forms. The sport was founded by Ueshiba Morihei (1883–1969) who in the 1920s and 1930s combined techniques from Daito-ryu jujutsu with ancient Japanese philosophic... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 20 pages (5,893 words) in 2 products

Agnostida Agnostida (the agnostids) is an order of trilobite. These small trilobites first appeared toward the end of the Early Cambrian and thrived in the Middle Cambrian. They are present in the lower Cambrian fossil record along with trilobites fr... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (493 words) in 1 product

Abortion   Abortion is when a pregnancy is terminated. This could happen naturally or on purpose. Natural abortions are caused for a variety of reasons, some in which the fetus does not develop normally, or if the mother has an injury or disorder tha... Study Pack: 7 Summaries, 3 Viewpoints, 39 Essays, 1 Quotes About 687 pages (206,223 words) in 50 products

Abstract (law) In law, an abstract is a brief statement that contains the most important points of a long legal document or of several related legal papers.... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (426 words) in 1 product

Alan Alda Although his prolific and extremely successful career evolved from acting on stage to writing, directing, and acting in his own films, Alan Alda will forever be best remembered for his inimitable portrayal of Captain Benjamin Franklin �... Study Pack: 2 Summaries, 1 Quotes About 14 pages (4,166 words) in 3 products

Ampere A unit measure of electric current. It is often abbreviated to ‘amp’. One ampere is that which, if flowing in two parallel conductors, both of which are infinitely thin and long and 1 metre apart in a vacuum, will produce a for... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 3 pages (1,014 words) in 1 product

Glossary of American football The following terms are used in American football and Canadian football, but see also the glossary of Canadian football.... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 41 pages (12,139 words) in 1 product

Algorithm The word "algorithm" comes from the name of the ninth-century Persian mathematician Mohammed al-Khowarizmi. He wrote a widely read book entitled Kitab al jabr w'al-muqabala (Rules of Restoration and Reduction). This bo... Study Pack: 8 Summaries About 39 pages (11,741 words) in 8 products

Annual plant Botanically, an annual plant is a plant that usually germinates, flowers and dies in one year. True annuals will only live longer than a year if they are prevented from setting seed. Some seedless plants can also be considered annuals even ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (608 words) in 1 product

Atlas (disambiguation) Atlas, in modern usage, most commonly refers to a collection of maps, traditionally bound into book form. Atlas may also refer to:... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 4 pages (1,098 words) in 1 product

Mouthwash Mouthwash is an oral care product primarily designed to freshen breath and remove food debris. Certain brands are also formulated to aid in the prevention of cavities, decrease buildup of plaque and reduce gum disease. The first references... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 9 pages (2,541 words) in 2 products

Alexander the Great   Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) was the king of Macedon, the leader of the Corinthian League, and the conqueror of Persia. He succeeded in forging the largest Western empire of the ancient world. With his Macedonian forces Alexander subdu... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 4 Summaries, 14 Essays, 1 Quotes About 175 pages (52,625 words) in 20 products

Alfred Korzybski   SOURCE: "The Science of Social Engineering," in The Yale Review, Vol. XI, No. 2, January, 1922, pp. 431-33. In the following essay, Petrunkevitch praises Korzybski's theory of "time-binding" as discussed in The Manhood of Humanity. Unlike p... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 10 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 133 pages (39,923 words) in 12 products

Asteroids (arcade game) Asteroids is a video arcade game released in 1979 by Atari Inc. It was one of the most popular and influential games of the Golden Age of Arcade Games. Asteroids uses vector graphics and a two-dimensional view that wraps around in both scre... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 7 pages (2,109 words) in 1 product

Asparagales Asparagales is an order of flowering plants. The order must include the family Asparagaceae, but other families included in the order have varied markedly between different classifications. if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "sho... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (607 words) in 1 product

Alismatales Alismatales is an order of flowering plants. The order will of necessity contain the family Alismataceae. Taxonomy The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998) assigns the order to the clade monocots and uses this cir... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (379 words) in 1 product

Apiales The Apiales are an order of flowering plants. The families given at right are typical of newer classifications, though there is some slight variation, and in particular the Torriceliaceae may be divided. These families are placed within the... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (178 words) in 1 product

Asterales The Asterales are an order of dicotyledonous flowering plants which include the composite family Asteraceae (sunflowers, daisies, thistles etc.) and its related families. The order is cosmopolitic, and includes mostly herbaceous species, al... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (520 words) in 1 product

Asteroid Asteroids are small bodies in space—the numerous leftover planetesimals from which the planets were made nearly 4.6 billion years ago. Most are in the "main belt," which is a doughnut-like volume of space between Mars ... Study Pack: 5 Summaries About 31 pages (9,272 words) in 5 products

Allocution Generally, to allocute in law means "to speak out formally." In the field of apologetics, allocution is generally done in defense of a belief. In politics, one may allocute before a legislative body in an effort to influence their position ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (608 words) in 1 product

Affidavit A written statement made under oath or signed in the presence of a person (such as a solicitor) who is qualified to administer a legally binding oath. An affidavit is usually used as evidence in legal proceedings in cases where the individ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (640 words) in 1 product

Anime Anime, the Japanese term for animated films, refers to Japanese animation. Since the early 1950s, when the father of anime, Tezuka Osamu (1928–1989), created such famous series as Jungle taitei (known in the United States as "... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 19 pages (5,629 words) in 2 products

Asterism Asterism may refer to: Asterism (astronomy), a pattern of stars Asterism (gemmology), an optical phenomenon Asterism (typography), a rarely used symbol... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 0 pages (25 words) in 1 product

Ankara (1997 pop. 3.7 million). Ankara (formerly Angora) is the capital and second-largest city of the Republic of Turkey. Located on the Central Anatolian plateau, Ankara is approximately 355 kilometers southeast of Istanbul, Turkey's lar... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 22 pages (6,718 words) in 2 products

Arabic language Arabic, al-ʿArabiyya, or lisan al-ʿArab, is the language spoken by 200 million people in twenty-one countries from the Arabian Gulf to the Atlantic. As the liturgical language of Muslims, it is the medium for a billion people... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 26 pages (7,643 words) in 2 products

Apocalypse Now   Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and the movie "Apocalypse Now" are both stories about a man's exploration of his own self and what he finds there. Both Marlow and Willard are forewarned about the dangers that await them on their journe... Study Pack: 2 Summaries, 2 Essays, 8 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 100 pages (29,862 words) in 13 products

Alfred Hitchcock   Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), was a film director famous for skillfully wrought suspense thrillers. He was essentially concerned with depicting the tenuous relations between people and objects and rendering the terror inherent in commonpla... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 2 Summaries, 1 Essay, 24 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 139 pages (41,813 words) in 30 products

Anaconda E. beniensis E. deschauenseei E. murinus E. notaeus... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 3 pages (792 words) in 1 product

Altaic languages The Altaic languages are a group of languages and language families, widespread in and dominating parts of Central and Northern Asia. The name Altaic alludes to the Altai mountain range in southern Siberia, where nineteenth-century scholar... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 21 pages (6,338 words) in 2 products

Austrian German Austrian German (Österreichisches Deutsch) is the national standard variety of the German language spoken in Austria and South Tyrol. As German is a Pluricentric language, Austrian German is another standard variety in addition to the Germ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 5 pages (1,443 words) in 1 product

Axiom of choice In mathematics, the axiom of choice, or AC, is an axiom of set theory. Intuitively speaking, the axiom of choice says that given any collection of bins, each containing at least one object, exactly one object can be selected from each bin, ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 14 pages (4,181 words) in 1 product

Attila the Hun Attila (died 453) was a chieftain who brought the Huns to their greatest strength and who posed a grave threat to the Roman Empire. The Huns first appear in European records at the end of the 4th century A.D., when they descended from the ... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 19 pages (5,727 words) in 2 products

Aegean Sea The Aegean Sea is located between the coasts of Greece and Turkey and the islands of Crete and Rhodes. Its covers an area of 210 square kilometers; its maximum depth is 3,543 meters, found to the east of Crete. More than two thousand islan... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 7 pages (1,966 words) in 2 products

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess   An exploration of how Anthony Burgess uses style, structure and language to reveal the characteristics of the protagonist, Alex, in "A Clockwork Orange." I was first attracted to "A Clockwork Orange" when it was featured as one of the "t... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 6 Essays, 24 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 564 pages (169,214 words) in 32 products

Museum of Work The Museum of Work, or Arbetets museum, is a museum located in Norrköping, Sweden. The museum can be found in the 19th century building The Iron in the Motala ström river in central Norrköping. See also: List of museums in Sweden, Cultur... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 0 pages (58 words) in 1 product

Audi Audi AG is a German automobile manufacturer with headquarters in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, and has been an almost wholly owned (99.7%) subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group since 1964. The company evolved from Auto Union, NSU, Horch and DKW, the fo... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 19 pages (5,543 words) in 1 product

Aircraft   The human fascination with flight is older than recorded history. An ancient Chinese legend tells of a prince who builds a wind-powered flying chariot, and in the famed Greek myth, Daedalus devises wings of feathers and wax so he and his s... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 54 pages (16,219 words) in 3 products

Aphex Twin Aphex Twin (born Richard David James on August 18, 1971 in Limerick, Ireland) is a Cornish electronic music artist, credited with innovations in the genres of techno, ambient, acid and drum and bass.... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 14 pages (4,110 words) in 1 product

Alfred Nobel The Swedish chemist Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896) invented dynamite and other explosives, but he is best remembered for the Nobel Prizes, which he endowed with the bulk of his personal fortune. Alfred Nobel was born Oct. 21, 1833, in S... Study Pack: 3 Biographies, 3 Summaries, 1 Quotes About 14 pages (4,065 words) in 7 products

Amhrán na bhFiann Amhrán na bhFiann (pronounced /ˈəuɾˠaːn̪ˠ nˠə ˈvʲiːən̪ˠ/) is the national anthem of the Republic of Ireland. The song is also known by its English language title, The Soldier's Song, and as The National Anthem of Ireland (Ir... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 6 pages (1,833 words) in 1 product

Anatolia (1997 est. pop. 54 million). Anatolia, also called Anadolu or Asia Minor, is Turkey's Asiatic region, a mountainous peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea on the north and the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas on the south and west. To t... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 11 pages (3,324 words) in 2 products

Apple Inc. Apple Computer, Inc. was founded by Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak in Jobs' garage in Los Altos, California, in 1975. Their goal was to change the world by developing an easy-to-use computer that everyone could own. In November of ... Study Pack: 4 Summaries, 1 Quotes About 48 pages (14,310 words) in 5 products

Aberdeenshire Location Geography Area Ranked 4th  - Total 6,313 km²  - % Water ? Admin HQ Aberdeen ISO 3166-2 GB-ABD ONS code 00QB Demographics Population Ranked 6th  - Total (2006) 236,300  - Density 37 / km... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 4 pages (1,056 words) in 1 product

Aztlan Underground Aztlan Underground is a fusion band from Los Angeles. Since the early 1990s, Aztlan Underground has played Rapcore. Indigenous drums, flutes, and rattles are commonplace in its musical compositions. This unique sound is the backdrop for the... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (459 words) in 1 product

Anschluss   In the early 1930s, the Austrian government was looking toward a possible customs union with Germany. However, Hitler's rise to power and the hostility of the Austrian-Nazis made the Austrian government reconsider. Hitler was determined ... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 2 Essays About 24 pages (7,245 words) in 3 products

Andy Warhol   Andy Warhol (ca. 1927-1987) was a pioneer American pop artist and film maker. His paintings of Campbell soup cans and other mundane objects both piqued and delighted the art public and brought him fame. Andy Warhol liked to shroud himself ... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 3 Summaries, 5 Essays, 11 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 115 pages (34,592 words) in 22 products

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted is rapper Ice Cube's higly influential [1] debut solo album, released after his acrimonious split from his former group N.W.A. It was originally released on May 16, 1990. Primarily produced by The Bomb Squad (Public ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 9 pages (2,654 words) in 1 product