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Sumerian and Babylonian art
(Encyclopedia) Sumerian and Babylonian art, works of art and architecture created by the Sumerian and Babylonian peoples of ancient Mesopotamia, civilizations which had an artistic tradition of…Washington and Lee University
(Encyclopedia) Washington and Lee University, at Lexington, Va.; coeducational; founded and opened 1749 as Augusta Academy. It was called Liberty Hall in 1776; became Liberty Hall Academy (a college…wage and price controls
(Encyclopedia) wage and price controls, economic policy measure in which the government places a ceiling on wages and prices to curb inflation. Also known as incomes policy, such programs have…Wages and Hours Act
(Encyclopedia) Wages and Hours Act: see Fair Labor Standards Act.Uralic and Altaic languages
(Encyclopedia) Uralic and Altaic languagesUralic and Altaic languagesy&oobreve;rălˈĭk, ăltāˈĭk [key], two groups of related languages thought by many scholars to form a single Ural-Altaic…Thousand and One Nights
(Encyclopedia) Thousand and One Nights or Arabian Nights, series of anonymous stories in Arabic, considered as an entity to be among the classics of world literature. The cohesive plot device…Tunb, Greater and Lesser
(Encyclopedia) Tunb, Greater and Lesser: see Greater and Lesser Tunb.Turks and Caicos Islands
(Encyclopedia) Turks and Caicos IslandsTurks and Caicos Islandskīˈkōs [key], dependency of Great Britain (2015 est. pop. 34,000), 166 sq mi (430 sq km), West Indies. There are more than 30 cays and…turn and bank indicator
(Encyclopedia) turn and bank indicator, aircraft instrument containing one indicator to show turning, or rotation about the vertical axis, and another to show banking, or rotation about the…Bel and the Dragon
(Encyclopedia) Bel and the Dragon, customary name for chapter 14 of the Book of Daniel, a passage included in the Septuagint and the Apocrypha. It was written possibly in the 1st cent. b.c. as a…Trending
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