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fl. 1300s German inventor who established a paper mill in Nuremberg, Germany, after seeing similar paper mills in Italy. Stromer's mill used water-powered hammers to beat the material, a method that the Chinese had already developed...
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Domitius Ulpian (died 228), or Domitius Ulpianus, was one of the most distinguished Roman jurists. He served as praetorian prefect and chief adviser to the emperor Alexander Severus. Ulpian was born in Tyre in Phoenicia in the eastern part...
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The name Ulrich Bonnell Phillips is indelibly imprinted in the annals of American and Southern history. Not only was he the author or editor of nine major historical works but he also contributed numerous articles to professional journals,...
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Ulrich (Engelbert) of Strasbourg(Fl. 1248–1277) Ulrich (Engelbert) of Strasbourg was a scholastic philosopher and theologian, priest, and author. A member of the Dominican priory at Strasbourg in the German province, Ulrich studied u...
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Ulrich Plenzdorf suddenly became a household name in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1972-1973, the years during which his Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. (1973; translated as The New Sufferings of Young W., 1979) was produced on se...
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The German imperial knight and humanist Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523) advocated the dissolution of Germany's ties with the papacy. He advanced an unrealistic program, however, for solving German national problems by reversion to medieval k...
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Ulrich von Liechtenstein is by far the best-documented author of the high courtly period of medieval German literature. What is known about his life, however, seems not at all compatible with what one learns about him from his work. His ma...
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Phonics A method of teaching beginners to read and pronounce words by having them relate letters to sounds. Phonics is generally thought of as the traditional method of teaching someone how to read. Throughout the 20th century, its popular...
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The ultramicroscope is a tool used for viewing very small particles or objects that are too minute to be seen through a conventional microscope. When first invented it was the most powerful device available for observing such specimens, bu...
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ULTRAMONTANISM is the tendency of Roman Catholicism that emphasizes the authority of the papacy in the government and teaching of the church. Originally articulated in opposition to Gallicanism, ultramontanism stressed the unity of the chu...
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Ultrasound (or sonogram) technology allows doctors to "see" inside a patient without resorting to surgery. A transmitter sends high-frequency sound waves into the body, where they bounce off the different tissues and organs to produce a di...
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UVA rays are more harmful than UVB rays. They are 100 to 1,000 times more abundant, depending on the season. UVB light only reaches the outer layer of skin, but UVA goes through the inner layer, where it can damage blood vessels, cells...
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Ultraviolet and visible spectroscopy (UV-vis) is a reliable and accurate analytical laboratory assessment procedure that allows for the analysis of a substance. Specifically, ultraviolet and visible spectroscopy measures the absorption, tr...
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1394-1449 Central Asian ruler, astronomer, and mathematician who, in addition to gathering a number of leading scientific minds around him, made important contributions to trigonometry. A grandson of the Mongol conqueror Tamerlane, Ulugh B...
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Ulysses by James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, a suburb of Dublin. He was the eldest of 16 children born to Mary Jane Joyce and John Stanislaus Joyce. John Joyce worked first in business, then a...
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In 1842, Alfred Tennyson published his ingenious poem Ulysses to the readers in England. The story of Ulysses derives from Homer's The Odyssey and Dante's Inferno; Homer tells the legend of the courageous and persevering hero that returns...
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Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885), having led the Northern armies to victory in the Civil War, was elected eighteenth president of the United States. As a general in the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant possessed the right qualities for prosecu...
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Omar ibn al-Khattab (died 644) was the second caliph of the Moslems and directed the spectacular Arab conquests and organized the Arab Empire. Because Omar was one of the most adamant opponents of Mohammed's preaching in Mecca, his dramati...
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Al-Hajj Omar ibn Said Tal (ca. 1797-1864) was a West African Moslem leader who started a holy war and established a far-reaching empire on the Upper Niger. Al-Hajj Omar was born in the Futa Toro near the town of Podar on the Senegal River....
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UMAI. The name Umai (Umay) first appears in the Old Turkic inscriptions of Mongolia (mid-eighth century CE), where it is borne by a feminine deity of unspecified but benevolent functions. There is a gap of more than a thousand years in the...
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The Italian artist Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) was the leading theoretician of futurism, the most talented of its painters, and the creator of its first sculptures. He is considered the master of the innovative esthetic generated by the m...
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In my opinion, [Umberto D.] represents undoubtedly the apex of what can be considered the first phase of the Italian neorealism; it is also the closest and most precious attempt at "filmed life."… In Umberto D. the symbiosis of Zavattini ...
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Umberto Eco (born 1932) is a best-selling author of mystery novels that reflect his many intellectual interests and wide-ranging knowledge of philosophy, literature, medieval history, religion, and politics. His academic work in semiotics,...
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The Italian explorer and airship designer Umberto Nobile (1885-1978) was a pioneer in Arctic aviation. His dirigible flight over the North Pole encouraged greater use of aircraft in the Arctic. Umberto Nobile was born in Lauro, Italy, near...
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Ambiguity or duality could be the dominant character of Umberto Saba's life and poetry. Even in his concept of a poet (stated in Scorciatoie e raccontini [Shortcuts and Small Tales. 1946]) Saba posits a duality of child/man, ever present a...
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A collapsible device that forms a canopy to protect the bearer from the sun or rain has been in use for more than 3,000 years. In many countries it has been used as a ceremonial item and to show high rank. The word comes from the Italian w...
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UMMAH is an Arabic term denoting a grouping of individuals constituting a larger community with a single identity. The term is often translated as "community" or "people," and the plural (umam) is commonly used ...
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UMĀPATI ŚIVĀCĀRYA (fourteenth century CE) was a Tamil Śaiva Siddhānta teacher, author, and theologian. Umāpati Śivācārya, who flourished in the South Indian temple city ...
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It would be a mistake to try to work out a systematic exegesis of Un Chien Andalou, because it is impossible to translate, completely into ordinary language the complexity of this poem—for poem it is, and not a fable or an allegory. On th...
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Pendant l'été j'étais très occupée avec plusieurs activités et voyages. Ma voyage à New York City était très excitant et aventureux, cependant ce n'était pas ni les gros panneaux d'affichag...
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Unani medicine, also known as yunani tibb or Greco-Islamic medicine, is a therapeutic system used in South and Southwest Asia that developed through the interaction of ancient Greek with some Arab and, perhaps, Ayurvedic medical and pharma...
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UNARIUS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. Ernest Norman (1904–1971) and Ruth Norman (1900–1993) founded in 1954 the Unarius Science of Life, which began with a small circle of students and clients who requested psychic readings. Members re...
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Set in his native Czechoslovakia, in the aftermath of the "Prague Spring" of 1968, Milan Kundera's latest novel recounts the experiences of two couples and a dog entangled in the emotional and political intrigues accompanying the August arr...
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Uncertainty in statistics is measured by the amount of error in an estimate of the mean or average value of a population. The sample mean is the average of a group of measurements or parameters taken from the population, and the standard...
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Classical physicists were convinced that the only limitations on the knowledge would derive from limitations inherent in our ability to make measurements of the phenomena in question. However, in 1927, Werner Heisenberg, while studying the...
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