anemometer, device for measuring the speed of airflow in the atmosphere, in wind tunnels, and in other gas-flow applications. Most widely used for wind-speed measurements is the revolving-cup electric anemometer, in which the revolving cups drive an electric generator. The output of the generator

anemone, (genus Anemone), any of more than 100 species of perennial plants in the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). Many colourful varieties of the tuberous poppylike anemone, A. coronaria, are grown for the garden and florist’s trade. Popular spring-flowering anemones, especially for naturalizing,

anemone, (genus Anemone), any of more than 100 species of perennial plants in the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). Many colourful varieties of the tuberous poppylike anemone, A. coronaria, are grown for the garden and florist’s trade. Popular spring-flowering anemones, especially for naturalizing,

anemone: …of the tuberous poppylike anemone, A. coronaria, are grown for the garden and florist’s trade. Popular spring-flowering anemones, especially for naturalizing, are A. apennina, A. blanda, and A. pavonina. Other species, such as the Japanese anemone (A. hupehensis, or A. japonica), are favourite border plants for autumn flowering. Some species…

anemone fish, (genus Amphiprion), any of about 30 species of Indo-Pacific fishes constituting the genus Amphiprion of the family Pomacentridae (order Perciformes), noted for their association with large sea anemones. Anemone fishes live and shelter among the tentacles of the anemones, swimming in

anemone: Other species, such as the Japanese anemone (A. hupehensis, or A. japonica), are favourite border plants for autumn flowering. Some species whose fruits bear a long plumose structure are placed in a separate section, Pulsatilla, often given the rank of genus. Anemones are distributed throughout the world but occur most…

anemone: Other species, such as the Japanese anemone (A. hupehensis, or A. japonica), are favourite border plants for autumn flowering. Some species whose fruits bear a long plumose structure are placed in a separate section, Pulsatilla, often given the rank of genus. Anemones are distributed throughout the world but occur most…

anemone: >A. nemorosa, which bears white flowers, causes blistering of the skin and was formerly used as an ingredient in medicines. In North America, wood anemone refers to A. quinquefolia, a delicate plant with deeply cut leaves. Windflower, the English version of the Greek-derived anemone, refers…

anemone: …America, wood anemone refers to A. quinquefolia, a delicate plant with deeply cut leaves. Windflower, the English version of the Greek-derived anemone, refers to the fact that the flowers appear to be blown open by the wind. According to a Greek myth, as Adonis died, red anemones (A. coronaria) sprang…

sea anemone, any member of the invertebrate order Actiniaria (class Anthozoa, phylum Cnidaria), soft-bodied, primarily sedentary marine animals resembling flowers. They are found from the tidal zone of all oceans to depths of more than 10,000 metres (about 33,000 feet). Some live in brackish water.

mechanoreception: Water and air currents: …move against the wind (anemotaxis) until the source of the chemical stimulus is found. Several types of air-current receptors (true mechanoreceptors) on the heads of insects enhance such chemoreceptive behaviour. In flying locusts, an air current directed appropriately toward the head elicits compensatory reflex flight movements. The receptors involved…

cephalic disorder: Anencephaly: Anencephaly occurs when significant portions of the brain and skull are missing. The condition results from a failure of the upper region of the neural tube to close in early embryonic development, specifically within the first month of pregnancy. (The neural tube is the…

St. Anacletus ; feast day April 26) was the third pope (76–88 or 79–91), following St. Peter the Apostle and St. Linus. According to St. Epiphanius and the priest Tyrannius Rufinus, he directed the Roman church with St. Linus during Peter’s lifetime. He died, probably a martyr, during the reign of

Felice Anerio was one of the leading Roman composers of his time, who succeeded his master, Palestrina, as composer to the Papal Chapel in 1594. Most of Anerio’s early works are secular, but he began to concentrate on sacred music after his appointment as papal composer. In general, he modeled his

atmospheric pressure: …is also measured using an aneroid barometer, in which the sensing element is one or more hollow, partially evacuated, corrugated metal disks supported against collapse by an inside or outside spring; the change in the shape of the disk with changing pressure can be recorded using a pen arm and…

Anezaki Masaharu was a Japanese scholar who pioneered in various fields of the history of religions. After graduating from Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo), Anezaki went to India and Europe for further studies (1900–03). Returning to Japan, he was appointed to the chair of

Anezaki Masaharu was a Japanese scholar who pioneered in various fields of the history of religions. After graduating from Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo), Anezaki went to India and Europe for further studies (1900–03). Returning to Japan, he was appointed to the chair of

conversion disorder: …through hyperesthesias (hypersensitivity) to complete anesthesias (loss of sensation). They may involve the total skin area or any fraction of it, but the disturbances generally do not follow any anatomic distribution of the nervous system. In medieval times in Europe and as late as the end of the 17th century,…

anesthesia, loss of physical sensation, with or without loss of consciousness, as artificially induced by the administration of drugs, inhalant gases, or other agents. The use of anesthetic gases in surgery was first proposed by British chemist Sir Humphrey Davy in 1798, following his observation

anesthesiology, medical specialty dealing with anesthesia and related matters, including resuscitation and pain. The development of anesthesiology as a specialized field came about because of the dangers of anesthesia, which involves the use of carefully graduated doses of strong poisons to deaden

anesthetic, any agent that produces a local or general loss of sensation, including pain. Anesthetics achieve this effect by acting on the brain or peripheral nervous system to suppress responses to sensory stimulation. The unresponsive state thus induced is known as anesthesia. General anesthesia

dog: Reproductive cycle: She then enters anestrus, which is the time frame between the end of the last cycle and the beginning of the next proestrus.

Western architecture: Mannerism: …to design her château at Anet. The original château (about 1547–52) formed three sides of a court closed at the front by a screen wall and entrance gateway. Much of the château has been destroyed; only the left wing of the house, the screen wall, and the chapel that formed…

dill, (Anethum graveolens), annual or biennial herb of the parsley family (Apiaceae) and its dry fruit and leaves which are used to season foods. Native to Mediterranean countries and southeastern Europe, dill is now widely cultivated in Europe, India, and North America. Dill has a warm, slightly

Huesca: …highest point in the Pyrenees, Aneto Peak (11,169 feet [3,404 metres]). Above 8,000 feet (2,440 metres) there is alpine vegetation, giving way at lower elevations to fir and pine and then to beech, chestnut, and oak. This isolated, sparsely settled region provides summer pasturage for livestock. Ordesa and Mount Perdido…

Huesca: …highest point in the Pyrenees, Aneto Peak (11,169 feet [3,404 metres]). Above 8,000 feet (2,440 metres) there is alpine vegetation, giving way at lower elevations to fir and pine and then to beech, chestnut, and oak. This isolated, sparsely settled region provides summer pasturage for livestock. Ordesa and Mount Perdido…

heredity: Aneuploids: Some cells have an abnormal number of chromosomes that is not a whole multiple of the haploid number. This condition is called aneuploidy. Most aneuploids arise by nondisjunction, a failure of homologous chromosomes to separate at meiosis. When a gamete of this type is…

Aneurophyton, genus of extinct plants that lived during the Middle and Late Devonian epochs (about 398 to 359 million years ago) and is commonly considered a basal member of the progymnosperms—the probable ancestors of seed plants. The progymnosperms also included Archaeopteris, which was probably

aneurysm, widening of an artery that develops from a weakness or destruction of the medial layer of the blood vessel. Because of the constant pressure of the circulating blood within the artery, the weakened part of the arterial wall becomes enlarged, leading ultimately to serious and even fatal

bone cyst: Aneurysmal bone cysts usually occur in young males and consist of cystic bloody tissue that causes an expansion of bone. Swelling and pain are present; this type of bone cyst usually requires excision.

Bolivia: Bolivia in the 21st century: Jeanine Áñez, the deputy leader of the Chamber of Senators, became interim president in the wake of the resignations of the vice president and the leaders of the Chamber of Senators and Chamber of Deputies, allies of Morales.

Anezaki Masaharu was a Japanese scholar who pioneered in various fields of the history of religions. After graduating from Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo), Anezaki went to India and Europe for further studies (1900–03). Returning to Japan, he was appointed to the chair of

Anezaki Masaharu was a Japanese scholar who pioneered in various fields of the history of religions. After graduating from Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo), Anezaki went to India and Europe for further studies (1900–03). Returning to Japan, he was appointed to the chair of

Richard Rothe: …the church and its polity, Die Anfänge der christlichen Kirche und ihrer Verfassung (“The Beginnings of the Christian Church and Its Constitution”). In this work Rothe discussed the relationship between church and state, contending that the state needs the church to reach its goal of demonstrating moral conduct in everyday…

Muḥammad I Askia: Rise to power: In the Battle of Anfao on April 12, 1493, Muḥammad’s forces, though inferior in number, were victorious. Traditional religions tinged with the esoteric Songhai Islam of the Sonnis gave way to an Islamic state whose civil code was the Qurʾān and whose official writing was Arabic. After…

Christian B. Anfinsen was an American biochemist who, with Stanford Moore and William H. Stein, received the 1972 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for research clarifying the relationship between the molecular structure of proteins and their biological functions. Anfinsen received a doctorate in

Christian B. Anfinsen was an American biochemist who, with Stanford Moore and William H. Stein, received the 1972 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for research clarifying the relationship between the molecular structure of proteins and their biological functions. Anfinsen received a doctorate in

explosive: Ammonium nitrate–fuel oil mixtures: In 1955 it was discovered that mixtures of ammonium nitrate and fine coal dust would give very satisfactory blasting results in the large (about 22.5-centimetre, 9-inch) holes used in open-pit coal mines to remove the rock and soil covering the coal.…

Ang, in the Khmer language, a person of royal blood, usually translated “prince” or “princess.” For articles on such persons, see the personal name; e.g., for Ang Duong, see

Tibet: Drainage and soils: …southern Qinghai as two rivers—the Ang and Zha—which join near the Tibet border; the river then flows through eastern Tibet and western Yunnan and enters Laos and Thailand. The source of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) rises in southern Qinghai, near the Tibet border; after flowing through southern Qinghai, the…

Jaina canon: …divided as follows: (1) 11 Aṅgas, the main texts—a 12th has been lost for at least 14 centuries; (2) 12 Upāṅgas, or subsidiary texts; (3) 10 Prakīrṇakas, or assorted texts; (4) 6 Cheda-sutras on the rules of ascetic life; (5) 2 Cūlikā-sutras on cognition and epistemology; and (6) 4 Mūla-sutras…

aṅgā, any of several categories into which Buddhist canonical writings were divided in early times, beginning before the Abhidhamma (scholastic) works were added to the canon. The system, based on a combination of form and content, originally categorized types of material within the various texts;

India: Location: … (Patna and Gaya districts) and Anga (northwest of the delta) were also interested in controlling the river and soon made their presence felt. The conflict eventually drew in the Vrijji state (Behar and Muzaffarpur districts). For a while, Videha (modern Tirhut), with its capital at Mithila, also remained powerful. References…

Guru Angad was the second Sikh Guru (1539–52) and standardizer of the Punjabi script, Gurmukhi, in which many parts of the Adi Granth, the sacred book of the Sikhs, are written. While on a pilgrimage to the shrine of a Hindu goddess, Angad met the founder of the Sikh religion, Guru Nanak, whom he

shamanism: The American Arctic: …prerogatives of the shaman (angakok; plural angákut) are healing and trance-based underwater journeys to the Mother of Animals for the purpose of assuring an abundance of game and aiding childless women in conception. Sickness is brought on by the violation of a taboo or results from the capture of…

Nagaland: Cultural life: …the democratic structures of the Angamis, Aos, Lothas, and Rengmas. A prominent village institution is the morung (a communal house or dormitory for young unmarried men), where skulls and other trophies of war formerly were hung. The pillars are still carved with striking representations of tigers, hornbills, and human and…

Angara River, river in southeast central Russia. It is the outlet for Lake Baikal and a major tributary of the Yenisey River, which it joins near Yeniseysk. The river flows for 1,105 miles (1,779 km) across the southern part of the Central Siberian Plateau and drains over 400,000 square miles

Asia: Chronological summary: …the Precambrian outcrops of the Angaran and Indian platforms and in the North China paraplatform. They consist of primitive island-arc magmatic and sparse sedimentary rocks sandwiched between younger basaltic and ultrabasic rocks, exposed along what are called greenstone belts. The basement of the Angaran platform was largely formed by about…

continental shield: In Asia the name Angaran Shield is applied to a large stable block bounded by the Lena and Yenisey rivers on the east and west and by the Arctic Ocean and Lake Baikal to the north and south. An area in China and North Korea is sometimes designated the…

angaria, Roman imperial transport and communication system. It was ultimately derived from that of the Achaemenian empire, which was probably established in the 6th century bc by Cyrus the Great. The angaria system, like the word, was presumably passed down to the Romans through the Hellenistic

Angarsk, city, Irkutsk oblast (province), southeast central Russia, on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Founded in 1948, Angarsk grew rapidly as a major centre of oil refining and petrochemicals. The city’s industrial products include such goods as synthetic fibres, artificial fertilizers, plastics,

angary, in international law, the right of belligerents to requisition for their use neutral merchant vessels, aircraft, and other means of transport that are within their territorial jurisdiction. Generally, the right of angary should be applied only in case of pressing need in time of war, and

African dance: Rhythm: Angas men of West Africa blow 14 large buffalo horns as they perform the repetitive step pattern of the Rumada dance in a circle, following the line or moving in and out of the centre. Neighbouring Chip men perform a light run, playing flutes of…

Palau: Relief and drainage: …km) north of Babelthuap, and Angaur, 6 miles (10 km) south of Peleliu. Angaur was heavily mined for its phosphate first by the Germans and later by the Japanese. Sonsorol, Pulo Anna, and Tobi, all with areas of less than 1 square mile (2.6 square km), are 180 miles (290…

Ängby Stone, 11th-century memorial stone found in Uppland, Swed., bearing a runic inscription carved by Asmund Kareson (Osmundus), earliest known professional rune carver in Uppland. The stone is inscribed with a Maltese cross surrounded by two intertwining serpents and bears the message: “Ragnfrid

Jean Cocteau: Influence of Radiguet: In the long poem L’Ange Heurtebise the poet engages in a violent combat with an angel that was to reappear continually in his works. His play Orphée, first performed in 1926, was destined to play a part in the resurrection of tragedy in contemporary theatre; in it, Cocteau deepened…

Neil Jordan: First films: …for his first feature film, Angel, a drama about a saxophone player that is set amid the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It starred Stephen Rea, who later appeared in a number of Jordan’s films, and featured a dreamlike use of color and lighting.

coin: Gold coinage: …a new gold coin, the angel, was introduced to replace the old value of the noble; the penny was reduced to 12 grains. The angel is so called from its type of St. Michael and Lucifer. The reverse is a ship with a cross in front of the mast. (In…

Joss Whedon: …Whedon introduced a spin-off series, Angel, which centred on the exploits of Buffy’s star-crossed lover, a vampire with a soul who acted as a private detective in supernatural crime cases. After Buffy’s end, Whedon continued the franchise in comic-book form, with the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 (2007–11)…

angel and demon, respectively, any benevolent or malevolent spiritual being that mediates between the transcendent and temporal realms. Throughout the history of religions, varying kinds and degrees of beliefs have existed in various spiritual beings, powers, and principles that mediate between the

Pieter Lastman: Rembrandt’s Angel and the Prophet Balaam (1626) is based on Lastman’s earlier painting of the same subject (1622). Lastman’s Coriolanus and the Roman Woman and The Baptism of the Chamberlain also influenced the early narrative style of Rembrandt.

An Angel at My Table, autobiography, published in 1989, by New Zealand writer Janet Frame. The work contains the three previously published volumes of her autobiography, To the Is-land (1982), An Angel at My Table (1984), and The Envoy from Mirror City (1985). She begins by describing her childhood

Janet Frame: …for a critically acclaimed film, An Angel at My Table (1990), directed by Jane Campion. Frame received numerous honours. In 1983 she was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), and in 1990 she received the Order of New Zealand. In 2003 she received one of the…

Western architecture: High Gothic: …instance, in the east (or Angel) choir (begun 1256) at Lincoln Cathedral and at Exeter Cathedral (begun before 1280)—has been called the English Decorated style, a term that is in many ways an oversimplification. The interior architectural effects achieved (notably the retrochoir of Wells Cathedral or the choir of St.…

Sam Shepard: …murderer’s last thoughts before electrocution; Angel City (produced 1976) depicts the destructive machinery of the Hollywood entertainment industry; and Suicide in B-flat (produced 1976) exploits the potentials of music as an expression of character.

PCP, hallucinogenic drug with anesthetic properties, having the chemical name 1-(1-phenylcyclohexyl)piperidine. PCP was first developed in 1956 by Parke Davis Laboratories of Detroit for use as an anesthetic in veterinary medicine, though it is no longer used in this capacity. Used for a brief time

Don DeLillo: … (2005), and the short-story collection The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories (2011). He received the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013 and the National Book Awards Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2015.

Jennifer Lopez: Selena and film stardom: …followed by the romantic drama Angel Eyes. These films paired her with many of the most bankable and respected leading actors of the 1990s and early 2000s, including George Clooney, Sean Penn, and Matthew McConaughey.

Marion Cotillard: Gueule d’ange (2018; Angel Face) centres on an alcoholic mother and her young daughter. Cotillard later lent her voice to the family comedy Dolittle (2020). Her credits from 2021 included the unconventional musical Annette, in which she played an opera singer.

Otto Preminger: Challenges to the Production Code of Otto Preminger: …period include the underrated thriller Angel Face (1953), with Jean Simmons as a murderous psychotic and Robert Mitchum as a chauffeur she pursues. Preminger then acquired the rights to F. Hugh Herbert’s stage success The Moon Is Blue. The 1953 romantic comedy centers on a womanizing architect (William Holden) and…

Angel Falls, waterfall in the Guiana Highlands in Bolívar state, southeastern Venezuela, on the Churún River, a tributary of the Caroní, 160 miles (260 km) southeast of Ciudad Bolívar. The highest waterfall in the world, the cataract drops 3,212 feet (979 metres) and is 500 feet (150 metres) wide

batter: …corn bread, layer cakes, and angel food cakes. Angel food and sponge cake batters, usually made without leavening ingredients, are leavened during baking by the expansion of the many small air bubbles that have been incorporated into the batter by vigorous mixing or beating. Pancakes too are made with batter.…

Gerard Butler: …London Has Fallen (2016) and Angel Has Fallen (2019).

Apple Inc.: 1976: Garage days and the first Apple computer: …the help of its first angel investor and Intel Corporation veteran Armas Clifford “Mike” Markkula, the company unveiled its inaugural product, the Apple I, in July 1976 at a Homebrew Computer Club meeting. Selling for $666.66, the Apple I was a bare motherboard with a basic CPU, random access memory…

Early-stage companies looking to raise capital to expand their operations may seek financial assistance from a specialized class of investors: The angel investor and/or the venture capitalist (VC). If you follow the market—particularly that of start-ups and pre-IPO companies—you’ve probably heard

Alcatraz escape of June 1962: The search: …were found on or near Angel Island, a former immigration station that was their intended intermediate destination. From Angel Island the men had intended to swim to the Marin county mainland, according to West, and then steal new clothes from a retail store. However, no such crime was reported. Some…

Angel Island Immigration Station, the principal immigration facility on the West Coast of the United States from 1910 to 1940. Angel Island encompasses an area of about 740 acres (300 hectares) and is located in San Francisco Bay, California, near Alcatraz Island and the Golden Gate Bridge, between

Alice Hoffman: …with complex relationships, such as Angel Landing (1980), a love story set near a nuclear power plant on Long Island, New York; White Horses (1982), which concerns a girl’s struggle to rid herself of incestuous feelings for her elder brother; and Illumination Night (1987), the story of a young couple…

archlute: The angelica, or angel lute, of the 17th and 18th centuries, was related but had diatonically tuned strings and no frets.

Eileen Agar: …works was a remake of Angel of Anarchy, a plaster cast of her head covered with various materials. The original, created in 1937, had been lost, so she designed a new piece in 1940. Agar included embroidery, feathers, beads, and shells in the second version; she also added a blindfold…

Ernesto Sábato: The Angel of Darkness) contains the ironic statements on literature, art, philosophy, and the excesses of rationalism that characterize his work.

Carolyn Forché: The later five-part book-length poem The Angel of History (1994) is a compelling distillation of Forché’s intensely moral sensibility. Later poetry collections included Blue Hour (2003) and In the Lateness of the World (2020).

Noomi Rapace: …who stalks a family in Angel of Mine, and she joined the TV series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, portraying a German intelligence agent. In the film The Secrets We Keep (2020), she was cast as a woman seeking revenge against a man she believes assaulted her and killed others during…

Antony Gormley: …best known for the enormous Angel of the North (1998; near Gateshead, England), some 65 feet (20 metres) high and having a 175-foot (54-metre) span. He was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1997 and was included in the New Year Honours List for…

Archie Mayo: Films of the 1940s: Next was the entertaining Angel on My Shoulder, starring Muni as Eddie Kagel, a murdered gangster in hell who makes a deal with Satan (an effective Claude Rains): Kagel will take over the body of an honest judge and become corrupt in exchange for being allowed to kill his…

Russell Banks: …was published in the collections The Angel on the Roof (2000) and A Permanent Member of the Family (2013). Dreaming Up America (2008) is a nonfiction work scrutinizing the history of destructive and constructive policies pursued by the United States. Banks later published Voyager (2016), a collection of his travel…

J. B. Priestley: …his most solidly crafted novel, Angel Pavement, a sombre, realistic depiction of the lives of a group of office workers in London. Among his other more important novels are Bright Day (1946) and Lost Empires (1965).

Martha Clarke: Clarke’s later works included Angel Reapers (2011; with text by Alfred Uhry), which explores the life of Ann Lee, the founder of the Shakers; Chéri (2013), based on French author Colette’s 1920 novel; and Canticle (God’s Fool) (2021), a narrative about St. Francis of Assisi.

chondrichthyan: Annotated classification: Suborder Squatinoidei Family Squatinidae (angel sharks) Characterized by flattened body, eyes on upper surface; anterior margin of pectoral fins far overlapping gill openings, which are partly on side of body; no anal fin. Largest up to about 2.4 metres (about 8 feet). Ovoviviparous. 1 genus; possibly as many…

angel shark, (genus Squatina), any of at least 22 species of sharks that constitute a single genus (family Squatinidae, order Squatiniformes) characterized by flattened heads and bodies, with winglike pectoral and pelvic fins that make them resemble rays. The tail bears two dorsal fins and a

Anne Rice: Religious works and later books: The novels Angel Time (2009) and Of Love and Evil: The Songs of the Seraphim (2010) were thrillers about angels. Rice left New Orleans for California in 2005. In 2010 she publicly disavowed Christianity but reiterated her faith in Christ. Rice was active on social media and…

Dale Evans: …best known of her works, Angel Unaware (1953), she told the story of Robin, the only child born to the couple, who had Down syndrome and heart problems and died shortly before her second birthday. Evans and Rogers opened the Roy Rogers–Dale Evans Museum in Victorville, California, in 1967 (closed…

angel’s trumpet: Species: Angel’s tears (B. suaveolens) was native to the Atlantic coast of southeastern Brazil. Several species have become naturalized in various temperate and tropical locations around the world.

angel’s trumpet, (genus Brugmansia), genus of seven species of small trees and shrubs in the nightshade family (Solanaceae). Angel’s trumpets are commonly grown as ornamentals in frost-free climates and in greenhouses, and several attractive hybrids have been developed. The plants are sometimes

Roger Angel is a British-born American astronomer whose lightweight mirror designs enabled the construction of some of the largest telescopes in the world. Angel received a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Oxford in 1963 and a master’s degree from the California Institute of

Roger Angel is a British-born American astronomer whose lightweight mirror designs enabled the construction of some of the largest telescopes in the world. Angel received a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Oxford in 1963 and a master’s degree from the California Institute of

Angel Falls, waterfall in the Guiana Highlands in Bolívar state, southeastern Venezuela, on the Churún River, a tributary of the Caroní, 160 miles (260 km) southeast of Ciudad Bolívar. The highest waterfall in the world, the cataract drops 3,212 feet (979 metres) and is 500 feet (150 metres) wide

Christianity: Western Catholic Christianity: …Italians Clare of Assisi and Àngela da Foligno.

St. Angela Merici ; canonized May 24, 1807; feast day January 27) was the founder of the Ursuline order, the oldest religious order of women in the Roman Catholic Church dedicated to the education of girls. Orphaned young, she went to Salo to live in the home of an uncle. Later she joined the Third

American literature: Multicultural writing: …Texas Gulf Coast; Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes (1996), a vivid portrayal of a Dickensian childhood amid the grinding conditions of Irish slum life; Anne Roiphe’s bittersweet recollections of her rich but cold-hearted parents and her brother’s death from AIDS in 1185 Park Avenue (1999); and Dave Eggers’s A Heartbreaking