Encyclopedia - Count: Encyclopedia - Count
A count is a nobleman in most European countries, equivalent in rank to a British earl, whose wife is still a "countess" (for lack of an ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maya Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Maya Calendar - Long Count
Since Calendar Round dates can only distinguish within 18980 days, equivalent to around 52 solar years, the cycle repeats roughly once ea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Count: Encyclopedia Ii - Count - Lists Of Counts
Count - Territory of today's France - A - West- Francia proper. Count of Angouleme Count of Auvergne Count of Bar Count of Blois Count...   » Read the article

Article - Mayan Calendar: Why The Creation Cycles Do Not End December 21, 2012, But October 28, 2011
Over the decades much discussion has focussed on finding the exact correlation between the Mayan Long Count and the Gregorian calendar. M...   » Read the article

Article - Mayan Calendar: What Is Driving The Evolution Of Consciousness Described By The Mayan Calendar? - I
How is the Mayan Long Count to be explained? Why did this ancient people, that were the most mathematically advanced of their day, choose...   » Read the article

Article - Mayan Calendar: About Materialist And Spiritual Calendars
Carl-Johan Calleman is an internationally recognized authority in the studies of the Mayan Calendar. He has appeared in Swedish, Finnish ...   » Read the article

Article - Mayan Calendar: What Is Driving The Evolution Of Consciousness Described By The Mayan Calendar? - Ii
How is the Mayan Long Count to be explained? Why did this ancient people, that were the most mathematically advanced of their day, choose...   » Read the article

Article - Harmonic Concordance - The End Of The Mayan Calendar?
Harmonic Concordance and its relation to the Maya Calendars "end of time". Carl Johan Calleman, author of the "Mayan Calendar" and other ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maya Calendar: Encyclopedia - Maya Calendar
The Maya calendar is actually a system of distinct calendars and almanacs used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Haab: Encyclopedia - Haab
The Maya Haab calendar is a 365-day solar calendar whose dates indicate the position of the Sun at noon relative to the zenith over the Y...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baktun: Encyclopedia - Baktun
A Baktun is 20 Katun cycles of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar. It contains 144,000 days. Other related archivesMaya Long Count Cal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 909: Encyclopedia - 909
This article is for the year 909. For the Roland TR-909 Drum Machine, please see the article here. 909 - Events. Aghlabid dynasty in N...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Relaxation Technique: Encyclopedia - Relaxation Technique
Relaxation Techniques have long been included in sitcoms and cartoons, used in particular by those with anger management problems. The mo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 432: Encyclopedia - 432
432 - Events. July 31 - Sixtus is elected to succeed Celestine as Pope. Battle of the Long Orchard King Rua unites the Huns St._Patric...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crewel Embroidery: Encyclopedia - Crewel Embroidery
Crewel embroidery is an embroidery technique which is at least a thousand years old. It was used in the Bayeux Tapestry, in Jacobean embr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A Letter To A Hindu: Encyclopedia - A Letter To A Hindu
Letter to a Hindu was a letter written by Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy in 1908 to an Indian Newspaper which sparked a relationship betw...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1 E8 M²: Encyclopedia - 1 E8 M²
To help compare different orders of magnitude and geographical regions, we list here areas between 100 km² and 1000 km². See also areas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - August 11: Encyclopedia - August 11
August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 142 days remaining. August 11 - Events...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brotherhood Album: Encyclopedia - Brotherhood Album
Brotherhood was the fourth studio album by New Order, released in 1986. Brotherhood album - Track listing. (all songs written by New Ord...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1900 Summer Olympics: Encyclopedia - 1900 Summer Olympics
The 1900 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the II Olympiad, were held in 1900 in Paris, France. Despite Greek efforts to ke...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Count: Encyclopedia Ii - Count - Definition
In the late Roman Empire. the Latin title comes meaning (imperial) 'companion' denoted the high rank of various courtiers and provincial ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Count: Encyclopedia Ii - Count - Comital Titles In Different European Languages
The following lists are originally based on a Glossary on Heraldica.org by Alexander Krischnig. The male form is followed by the female, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maya Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Maya Calendar - Maya Concepts Of Time
With the development of the place-notational Long Count calendar (believed to have been inherited from other Mesoamerican cultures), the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maya Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Maya Calendar - General Overview
The most important of these calendars is one with a period of 260 days. This 260-day calendar was prevalent across all Mesoamerican socie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maya Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Maya Calendar - Tzolk'in
Mayanists have bestowed the name tzolkin (or tzolk'in, in the revised orthography which is now preferred) on the Maya version of the Meso...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maya Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Maya Calendar - Haab
The Haab was the Maya solar calendar made up of eighteen months of twenty days each and a five day month at the end of the year known as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maya Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Maya Calendar - Calendar Round
Neither the Tzolkin nor the Haab system numbered the years. The combination of a Tzolkin date and a Haab date was enough to identify a da...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maya Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Maya Calendar - Venus Cycle
Another important calendar for the Maya was the Venus cycle. The Maya were excellent astronomers, and could calculate the Venus cycle ext...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reference Counting: Encyclopedia Ii - Reference Counting - Advantages And Disadvantages
The main advantage of reference counting over tracing garbage collection is that objects are reclaimed as soon as they can no longer be r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Elementary Arithmetic: Encyclopedia Ii - Elementary Arithmetic - Counting
To count a group of objects means to assign a natural number to each one of the objects, as if it were a label for that object, such that...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Count Vertigo: Encyclopedia Ii - Count Vertigo - Powers And Abilities
His "Vertigo Effect" has long since been internalized somehow. It has never revealed the circumstances in which this had happened. His po...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Body Count: Encyclopedia Ii - Body Count - Military Use
Body count figures have a long history in military planning and propaganda. The military gathers such figures for a variety of reasons (d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Card Counting: Encyclopedia Ii - Card Counting - In Blackjack
In blackjack, the player has an advantage when the undealt deck is rich in high cards (10's and aces). The card counter takes advantage o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Elementary Arithmetic: Encyclopedia Ii - Elementary Arithmetic - The Digits
0 , zero, represents absence of objects to be counted. 1 , one. This is one stick: I 2 , two. This is two sticks: I I 3 , three. This is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Elementary Arithmetic: Encyclopedia Ii - Elementary Arithmetic - Addition
What does it mean to add two natural numbers? Suppose you have two bags, one bag holding five apples and a second bag holding three apple...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Elementary Arithmetic: Encyclopedia Ii - Elementary Arithmetic - Successorship And Size
The result of the addition of one to a number is the successor of that number. Examples: the successor of zero is one, the successor of o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Elementary Arithmetic: Encyclopedia Ii - Elementary Arithmetic - Multiplication
When two numbers are multiplied together, the result is called a product. The two numbers being multiplied together are called factors. W...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Duck Bridge: Encyclopedia Ii - Duck Bridge - Denying An Entry Defender Play
The declarer (South) plays toward dummy's long suit. Assuming there are no side entries, on the distribution shown East must duck once to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marion Barry: Encyclopedia Ii - Marion Barry - Conviction
On January 18, 1990, Barry was arrested with a woman in a sting operation at the Vista Hotel by the FBI and D.C. Police for crack cocaine...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alcoholism: Encyclopedia Ii - Alcoholism - Alcohol Withdrawal
There are several distinct but not mutually exclusive clinical alcohol withdrawal syndromes caused by alcohol withdrawal: Tremulousness ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alcoholism: Encyclopedia Ii - Alcoholism - Effects
Today, alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence are major public health problems in North America, costing the region's inhabitants an estima...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alcoholism: Encyclopedia Ii - Alcoholism - Effects
Today, alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence are major public health problems in North America, costing the region's inhabitants, by some ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Programmable Interval Timer: Encyclopedia Ii - Programmable Interval Timer - Common Features
A PITs counters may be one-shot or periodic. One-shot timers interrupt only once, and then stop counting. Periodic timers interrupt every...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alcoholism: Encyclopedia Ii - Alcoholism - Discussion
The use of alcohol in this illness leads to impact upon physical, occupational, marital, educational, and other areas of function, despit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alcoholism: Encyclopedia Ii - Alcoholism - Discussion
The use of alcohol in this condition leads to impact upon physical, occupational, marital, educational, and other areas of function, desp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Radiocarbon Dating: Encyclopedia Ii - Radiocarbon Dating - Measurements And Scales
Measurements are traditionally made by counting the radioactive decay of individual carbon atoms by gas proportional counting or by Liqui...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marion Barry: Encyclopedia Ii - Marion Barry - Conviction
On January 18, 1990, Barry was arrested with a former girlfriend, Hazel "Rasheeda" Moore, in a sting operation at the Vista Hotel by the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Voiron: Encyclopedia Ii - Voiron - History
Voiron long formed part of Savoy, but in 1355 was exchanged (with the rest of the region between the Rhône and the Isère, watered by th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bobrinsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Bobrinsky - The First Count
The Russian Empress gave birth to her only illegitimate son on April 11, 1762, several months after her ascension to the throne. The chil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cumbric Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Cumbric Language - Linguistic Evidence
Although the language is long extinct it appears traces of its vocabulary persisted into the modern era. In the 19th and 20th centuries s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cumbric Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Cumbric Language - Linguistic Evidence
Although the language is long extinct it appears traces of its vocabulary persisted into the modern era. In the 19th and 20th centuries s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Évreux: Encyclopedia Ii - Évreux - History
The first family of the counts of Évreux which is known was descended from an illegitimate son of Richard I, duke of Normandy, and becam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Latin Poetry: Encyclopedia Ii - Latin Poetry - Special Features Of Classical Latin Poetry
Latin poetry - Heavy and light syllables. Classical Latin poetry differs from English poetry in that Latin meter is based upon vowel le...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blackjack: Encyclopedia Ii - Blackjack - Rules
Blackjack hands are scored by their point total. The hand with the highest total wins as long as it doesn't go over 21, which is called a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brotherhood Album: Encyclopedia Ii - Brotherhood Album - Track Listing
(all songs written by New Order) "Paradise" – 3:50 "Weirdo" – 3:52 "As it is When it Was" – 3:46 "Broken Promise" – 3:47 "Way of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Syllable: Encyclopedia Ii - Syllable - Syllables And Suprasegmentals
The domain of suprasegmental features is the syllable and not a specific sound, that is to say, they affect all the segments of a syllabl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zubov: Encyclopedia Ii - Zubov - Prince Platon Zubov
Platon Alexandrovich Zubov, or von Zuboff, as he preferred to call himself, the third son of his parents, was born in 1767. It was throug...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Syllable: Encyclopedia Ii - Syllable - Syllables And Stress
Syllable structure often interacts with stress. In Latin, for example, stress is regularly determined by syllable weight, a syllable coun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Walking: Encyclopedia Ii - Walking - Walking As A Leisure Activity
Many people walk as a hobby, and in our post-industrial age it is often enjoyed as a form of exercise. Fitness walkers and others may use...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hemoglobin: Encyclopedia Ii - Hemoglobin - Diagnostic Use
Hemoglobin levels are amongst the most commonly performed blood tests, usually as part of a full blood count or complete blood count. Res...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dolphin: Encyclopedia Ii - Dolphin - Feeding
Dolphins are predators, chasing their prey at high speed. The dentition is adapted to the animals they hunt: Species with long beaks and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gomoku: Encyclopedia Ii - Gomoku - Variations
Black was long known to have a big advantage, even before L. Victor Allis proved that black could force a win (see below). So a number of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Circle Dance Move: Encyclopedia Ii - Circle Dance Move - Closed Circles
Closed circles are usually fast, because the couple is close and they have a good grip. Rock, step, turn to cuddle (low promenade), the f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unix Time: Encyclopedia Ii - Unix Time - Definition
There are two layers of encoding that make up Unix time, and they can be usefully separated. The first layer encodes a point in time as a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Serial Analysis Of Gene Expression: Encyclopedia Ii - Serial Analysis Of Gene Expression - Overview
Briefly, SAGE experiments proceed as follows: Isolate the mRNA of an input sample (e.g. a tumour). Extract a small chunk of sequence fro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amazon Trio: Encyclopedia Ii - Amazon Trio - Tiger's Eye
Tiger's Eye takes the form of a long haired blond man. He wears tight pants and a white top. Even in the original Japanese version, he co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joanne Woodward: Encyclopedia Ii - Joanne Woodward - Career
Woodward's first film was Count Three and Pray, in 1955. She continued to move between Hollywood and Broadway, eventually understudying i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indiana General Assembly: Encyclopedia Ii - Indiana General Assembly - Structure
Indiana has a part-time legislature, which means that it does not meet year-round. The General Assembly convenes on the first Tuesday aft...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Van Helsing: Encyclopedia Ii - Van Helsing - Plot Summary
During the late 19th century Dr. Frankenstein works with Count Dracula to bring the dead back to life. In doing so he creates Frankenstei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blackjack: Encyclopedia Ii - Blackjack - Basic Strategy
As in all casino games, the house has a statistical advantage over the players that will play itself out in the long run. But because bla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hard Boiled: Encyclopedia Ii - Hard Boiled - About The Film
It is considered one of the best and perhaps definitive heroic bloodshed movies of all time, if only for the bloodshed. It increased John...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Railguns In Science Fiction: Encyclopedia Ii - Railguns In Science Fiction - Books
In Robert A. Heinlein's classic novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, rebelling Lunar colonists convert a kilometers-long mass driver syste...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 2004 U.s. Election Voting Controversies Florida: Encyclopedia Ii - 2004 U.s. Election Voting Controversies Florida - By County
2004 U.S. election voting controversies Florida - Palm Beach. 2004 U.S. election voting controversies Florida - Broward County. Machi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Formosa Province: Encyclopedia Ii - Formosa Province - Economy
Poorly industralized, Formosa's economy is based in cattle and agriculture, the last one centred in the Patino, Pilagás, and Pilcomayo d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Serial Communications: Encyclopedia Ii - Serial Communications - Time Division Multiplexed Systems
Almost all long-haul digital communication channels are leased from telephone carriers. Digital telephone systems use synchronous frames ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Proto-world Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Proto-world Language - History
The Russian linguist Nikolay Marr expounded a monogenetic theory of language that resolves all modern languages to four primordial exclam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bokelji: Encyclopedia Ii - Bokelji - History & Monuments Made By Bokeljs
The Boka region has a long naval tradition -- ever since the middle ages the Bokeljs had a very strong fleet, which counted as many as 30...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Jersey Turnpike: Encyclopedia Ii - New Jersey Turnpike - The Turnpike In Popular Culture
In the Chuck Berry song "You Can't Catch Me" (1956), the singer outruns the cops in his Cadillac on the New Jersey Turnpike. Simon and Ga...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Karel Čapek: Encyclopedia Ii - Karel Čapek - Life And Work
Karel Čapek wrote with intelligence and humor on a wide variety of subjects. His works are known not only for interesting and exact desc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World War Iv: Encyclopedia Ii - World War Iv - Usage Of Wwiv To Describe The Present Or Past
As some consider the Cold War to have been "WWIII", they also view the so-called War on Terrorism as being "WWIV", and the term is occasi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Köçek: Encyclopedia Ii - Köçek - Culture
A köçek would begin training around the age of seven or eight, and would be considered accomplished after about six years of study and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mufaddaliyat: Encyclopedia Ii - Mufaddaliyat - The Collection
The collection, in its present form, contains 126 pieces of verse, long and short; that is the number included in the recension of al-Anb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Confederacy Of Independent Systems: Encyclopedia Ii - Confederacy Of Independent Systems - History Of The Confederacy
It is important to note that the greatest player in the creation of the Confederacy was not Count Dooku, General Grievous, or Nute Gunray...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Time Lord: Encyclopedia Ii - Time Lord - Physical Characteristics
Time Lords appear human, but differ from them in many respects. Racially, all the Time Lords in the television series so far have been po...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Athlon: Encyclopedia Ii - Athlon - Athlon Xp
In performance terms, the Thunderbird had easily eclipsed the rival Pentium III, and the early Pentium 4s were a long way off the pace, b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dracula: Encyclopedia Ii - Dracula - Analysis
The novel is narrated by multiple voices — Jonathan's journal of his trip to Transylvania, Mina's diary, and Seward's recorded journal,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dracula: Encyclopedia Ii - Dracula - Analysis
The novel is narrated by multiple voices — Jonathan's journal of his trip to Transylvania, Mina's diary, and Seward's recorded journal,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hemoglobin: Encyclopedia Ii - Hemoglobin - Diagnostic Use
Hemoglobin levels are amongst the most commonly performed blood tests, usually as part of a full blood count. Results are reported in g/L...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dracula Castlevania: Encyclopedia Ii - Dracula Castlevania - In-game Appearance
In almost all of his in-game incarnations, Dracula initially appears as a stereotypical vampire count, complete with long black cape. His...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vampire Hunter D: Encyclopedia Ii - Vampire Hunter D - Animated Movies
Vampire Hunter D - Vampire Hunter D. Billed by the Japanese producers as a "dark future science-fiction romance", Vampire Hunter D is s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Familial Mediterranean Fever: Encyclopedia Ii - Familial Mediterranean Fever - Diagnosis
The diagnosis is clinically made on the basis of the history of typical attacks, especially in patients from the ethnic groups in which F...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Giant Sequoia: Encyclopedia Ii - Giant Sequoia - Description
Giant Sequoia is the world's largest tree in terms of total volume. They grow to an average height of 70-85 m (230-280 ft) and 5-7 m (16...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Giant Sequoia: Encyclopedia Ii - Giant Sequoia - Description
Giant Sequoia is the world's largest tree in terms of total volume. They grow to an average height of 50-85 m (150-280 ft) and 5-7 m (16-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vampire Hunter D: Encyclopedia Ii - Vampire Hunter D - Notes
Some material is paraphrased from the notes included in the original Vampire Hunter D laser disk, fan-subtitled by the Dayton Anime Club....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meyers Konversations-lexikon: Encyclopedia Ii - Meyers Konversations-lexikon - Later Editions
The son of Joseph Meyer, Hermann Julius (1826-1909), published the next edition (which is officially the first), entitled Neues Conversat...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Karma: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Karma
KARMA - 1. the belief that one’s thoughts and deed can be counted against or for them to their spirtual growth by counted again...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Holiday: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Holiday - Shemini Atzeret And Simchat Torah - Rejoicing With The Law
Simchat Torah (שמחת תורה) means "rejoicing with the Torah" and takes place on the holiday of Shemini Atzeret. This holiday immedi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Johann Friedrich Struensee: Encyclopedia Ii - Johann Friedrich Struensee - Struensee's Downfall
Things were at their worst during the winter of 1771. Struensee, who had, in the meantime, created himself a count, now gave full rein to...   » Read the article

Article - Mayan Calendar: The Classical Mayan Tzolkin Count And The Dreamspell
During the past decade interest in the Calendars of the Maya has dramatically increased world-wide. Ultimately, this increasing interest ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Interpreation Nest: Dream Interpretations Dictionary - Nest
  Dream Interpretation Nest A nest is a symbol of your own home, warm relationship, family, security and freedom. Seeing a nest...   » Read the article