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Ballia

(Encyclopedia) Ballia Ballia bŭlˈyə [key], town, Uttar Pradesh state, N central India. Situated on a rich…

William Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, Act V

Act VScene IBelmont. Avenue to Portia's houseEnter Lorenzo and JessicaLorenzoThe moon shines bright: in such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees And they did make…

Uranus , in astronomy

(Encyclopedia) UranusUranusy&oobreve;rāˈnəs, y&oobreve;rˈə– [key], in astronomy, 7th planet from the sun, at a mean distance of 1.78 billion mi (2.87 billion km), with an orbit lying between…

William Ellery Leonard: Indian Summer

Indian Summer(After completing a book for one now dead)William Ellery Leonard (O Earth-and-Autumn of the Setting Sun, She is not by, to know my task is done.) In the brown grasses slanting…

Tan, Amy

(Encyclopedia) Tan, Amy, 1952–, American novelist, b. Oakland, Calif. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she has taken for her theme the lives of Asian-Americans and the generational and cultural…

Aijalon

(Encyclopedia) AijalonAijalonăˈjəlŏn, īˈ–, āˈ– [key], in the Bible. 1 Town, on the border between Philistia and Israel, the modern Yalo (Israel), NW of Jerusalem. In the Tell el Amarna letters it is…

Hudson, Henry

(Encyclopedia) Hudson, Henry, fl. 1607–11, English navigator and explorer. He was hired (1607) by the English Muscovy Company to find the Northeast Passage to Asia. He failed, and another attempt (…

Roche limit

(Encyclopedia) Roche limit, the closest distance that a celestial body held together only by its own gravity can come to a planet without being pulled apart by the planet's tidal (gravitational)…