Nanki-Poo --> The son of the Mikado comes to Titipu dressed as the second-trombone of the local band
concrete operations or concrete operational --> During this stage, which occurs when a child is roughly eight to twelve years old, concepts of conservation are developed. It is followed by the formal operations stage. [8]
spiral arms --> According to a hypothesis advanced by Lin and Shu, these structures are the result of stationary density waves. They are relatively rich in gas and star formation regions, and lie in the galactic plane of certain classes of galaxies.; subsection of Spiral galaxy
free-particle solutions (also accept "free-wave")--> These solutions to the Schrodinger equation are eigenstates of the momentum operator, as they are states with a single defined momentum. As a result, they are spread out over all space and are non-normalizable. [13]
Aleksei Vronski (accept either name) --> Anna leaves her husband for this man, but later believes that he has become tired of their relationship. [14]
Russell-Saunders coupling or L-S coupling --> In contrast to j-j coupling, this coupling in many-fermion systems occurs when electrostatic repulsion energies are much greater then the energies associated with spin-orbit interactions[[mentioned in angular momentum coupling[16]
"Corinna's Going A-Maying" --> This Robert Herrick poem sees him urge his late-sleeping mistress to join in the spring festivities, leading him to muse about the shortness of life.
"Delight in Disorder" --> In this lighthearted poem, Herrick describes the beguiling nature of imperfections in a lady's dress. [19]
chiuso --> This term that translates as "closed" calls for one to mute a horn using the hand. [20]
Toyetomi Hideyoshi --> Rising from a simple peasant to Oda Nobunaga's right hand man, he realized Nobunaga's ambition of a unified Japan, though his last years were marred by a failed invasion of Korea.
+1/2, -1/2 The electron can have one of two possible spin quantum numbers. Give these values for five points each. [21]
Phil Hogan (accept either name) --> This is the name of the bullying father who has his daughter attempt to seduce James; leads to a British MP [22]
conformation or Conformational isomerism --> Given designations like "eclipsed", "staggered" and "gauche", this is the name for any of the large number of possible shapes that a molecule can take due to rotation of one of its parts about a single bond; disambig.
Yevgeny --> Known only by his first name, this is the bereaved everyman terrorized by the statue; disambig; does he need an article? [23]
Bronstead-Lowry theory --> In this acid-base theory, acids are proton donors and bases are proton acceptors. [24]
Thomas Rowley --> Thomas Chatterton committed suicide shortly after Horace Walpole rejected some of the forged poems Chatterton had written and attributed to this 15th century priest; disambig., also could be referring to a fictional construct
Lucentio --> This character in The Taming of the Shrew is a student from Pisa who cements his love for Bianca by assuming the guise of Cambio, a classics tutor; leads to the play's page
Argan --> Molière died playing this character in his play The Imaginary Invalid; leads to a genus of flowering trees, mentioned as a character on the "Imaginary Invalid" page, needs own article?
Edgar --> This faithful son of Gloucester is betrayed by the bastard Edmund, disguises himself as Tom O'Bedlam, and comes back at the end to kick Edmund's ass; disambig., King Lear character doesn't have character page
Earl of Kent --> This aide to Gloucester disguises himself as Caius after driven into hiding due to his loyalty to Lear; King Lear character doesn't have character page [27]
Rinaldi --> Frederic is often referred to as "the Baby" by this best friend, an Italian army doctor who is one of Hemingway's best-drawn characters; character in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, needs own article? [28]
Schrodinger wave equation --> This basic equation of wave mechanics expresses the behavior of a particle moving in a field of force. In three dimensions, it states that the Laplace operator of the wave function plus the product of E minus U, the wave function, and the quantity 8 pi squared m over h squared equals zero; leads to Schrodinger equation[29]
Francis Macomber --> This short story character's wife commits adultery with their safari guide Wilson to show her contempt for his inability to finish off a wounded lion. Later, he makes a stand against a wild buffalo, but is killed when his wife shoots him; leads to the short story The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, needs own article? [30]
Euler's Equations of Motion --> The expression for torque given as the sum of the change in angular momentum with time and the cross product of angular velocity and angular momentum is the first of these three equations describing the dynamics of rigid bodies and named for an 18th century mathematician. [31]
Ch'en Shih Huang-ti or Ch'eng --> This emperor's councilor Li Ssu convinced him of the need for harsh laws to make his position unassailable as emperor of the Ch'in dynasty. Among his reforms was the abolition of feudalism. [32]
binary fission --> Bacteria reproduce by this process of a cell reproducing its DNA, then splitting into two daugher cells; leads to fission (biology)
Bernabo of Genoa --> The basis for Cymbeline, in this tale of the Decameron the title figure is deceived by the merchant Ambrogioulo and must sentence his wife Ginevra to death, but she escapes, dresses up as a boy, and eventually exposes the plot. [34]
coordinate bonds --> Also called semipolar or dative bonds, these are covalent bonds in which one of the atoms provides both shared electrons. [35]
banana bonds --> The fourth entry on a list of "totally useless facts" I found on the internet reveals that these bonds are defined as three center electron deficient bonds. They occur in boranes and similar compounds. [36]
Andrea del Sarto: The Faultless Painter --> This monologue concerns a 16th century painter who feels that his emotional attachment to his wife Lucrezia has prevented him from truly devoting himself to his art.
conformations (accept "conformational isomerism" or "confomers") --> The staggered projection for butane across the C2-C3 bond can have a "gauche" one of these, or an "anti" one of these. Cyclohexane comes in "boat" and "chair" varieties; disambig. [37]
SQUIDs or Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices --> Superconductivity is made use of in these devices which contain Josephson junctions and which use quantum interference to measure extremely small magnetic fields. [40]
lone pair of electrons (prompt on partial; accept equivalents like unbonded electron pair) --> The nitrogen atom of primary amines contains one of these structures, whose presence causes the repulsion of the hydrogen atoms in ammonia which gives rise to ammonia's trigonal pyramidal shape and causes water molecules to be bent; no mention of "electron pairs" [41]
Monsieur Swann --> Name this wealthy broker and father of Gilberte, who controversially marries the courtesan Odette de Crecy and represents the epicurean side of society in Combray.
Patterns of Culture --> Benedict also wrote this work that contrasted the Apollonian and Dionysian mindsets of the Pueblo and plains Indians]]; leads to Ruth Benedict[42]
Dry Bones (accept Karon) --> These animated Koopa skeletons are capable of throwing their own femurs and sometimes skulls at you. If you jump on them, they crumble but swiftly reanimate; mentioned in "Recurring enemies" section of Characters in the Mario franchise[43]
reductions (be lenient and prompt on "hydrogenation") --> The simplest form of this class of reactions sees the addition of hydrogen atoms or gaining of electrons by non-metals; leads to an article on Spanish settlements in Latin America
Eva Luna (accept either) --> This storytelling title character of two Allende novels sleeps with Riad after Riad's wife Zulema shoots himself, but eventually falls in love with the photographer Rolf Carlé; leads to the novel, does the character need her own article? [44]
De Moivre's problem --> This theorem linking trigonometry and complex numbers states, for any integer n and complex number x, (cos x + i sin x) raised to the n = cos (nx) + i sin (nx). It is named for a Frenchman.
slander --> Again on the beach, Saul was taking photos of a certain "colorful" singer, who began to chase him and yell that he was "ruining her life." Had said singer published her outburst, Saul could have sued her for this type of defamation, typically involving oral statements intended to harm someone's reputation; mentioned on defamation[45]
Sensorimotor stage --> In this first stage of Piaget's model, lasting between a child's birth and 2 years of age, the child begins to differentiate itself from objects and also achieves object permanence; mentioned on Piaget's theory of cognitive development
Concrete Operational stage --> In this stage, the child achieves conservation of number, mass, and weight. The child is also able to classify and order objects in a series according to a single dimension, but is still unable to think abstractly; subsection of Piaget's theory of cognitive development[46]
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer --> Name this poem, in which the narrator prefers to look "up in perfect silence at the stars" rather than pay attention to the charts and diagrams of the titular scientist.
Principle of sufficient reason --> In Candide, Voltaire parodied this theory of Leibniz, which declares that there is always an explanation for occurrences, truths, and the existence of things.
Crunchwrap Supreme (prompt on "Crunchwrap") --> This delicious Taco Bell product features the usual Bell fixin's piled between two flat, round, hard taco shells, then wrapped in a soft tortilla shell and placed on a grill press, creating a disk-shaped delectable that's "good to go."; leads to Taco Bell
the Balinese cockfight (accept obvious equivalents) --> Perhaps the best-known essay in Geertz's Interpretation of Cultures is called "Deep Play," and discusses this Balinese practice, which involves some animals that duke it out.
The Queen of the Night --> This Magic Flute character makes her entrance singing the noxiously difficult aria "O Zittre Nicht, Mein Lieber Sohn" and sends Tamino on his quest. She later is revealed to be plotting to destroy the temple with Monostatos; disambig. [47]
idols --> Bacon used this word to describe superficial beliefs and distractions that distort the truth. He offered four groups of them: theatre, tribe, marketplace, and den; subsection of Novum Organum[48]
activity --> Identify this property which is often approximated to concentrations at low ionic strengths, which accounts for interactions between particles in non-ideal solutions; disambig.
The Author to her Book --> Name this poem, addressed to the author's own poetry collection, which she dubs "an ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain".
New Keynesian Economics --> This group seeks to build up a macroeconomic theory by providing microeconomic foundations for the work of the author of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. ANSWER: [49]
Ackermann-Peter function --> This function is the most prominent example of those that are generally recursive but not primitive recursive, and is noted for its incredibly fast rate of growth. It's symbolized A(m,n). [a of m and n]; mentioned as a subcategory of Ackermann function[50]
Brachistochrone problem --> The cycloid is a solution to 2 problems: one asks for the shortest time to get a bead form point A to B, while another asks for the set of all points such that the bead placed on any point will fall to the bottom in the same amount of time. Name either problem; leads to Brachistochrone curve[51]
spontaneous (accept word forms) --> If the change in Gibbs free energy of a reaction is negative, then this term describes the way in which the reaction proceeds; disambig. [52]
Benedick --> In the play in which he appears, this character offers to travel to Asia to fetch a single toothpick "rather than hold three words' conference with this harpy". Name this lord, who is referring to his eventual love interest Beatrice in that line; redirects to Much Ado About Nothing
Mars Silvanus (I guess you can accept silly things like "Mavors", "Mamers", "Marmor", "Marmar", or "Maris; there are also like a million acceptable surnames; do not accept Ares) --> This god, Jupiter, and Quirinus made up the earliest Capitoline triad. His sons included Romulus and Remus, and he had an ongoing affair with Venus; mentioned as an epithet of Mars (mythology), needs own article? [54]
Dirac's constant or "h-bar" --> The quantum mechanical angular momentum of a subatomic particle is always a multiple of this constant, equal to Planck's constant over two pi; mentioned on Planck's constant; needs own page? [55]
Morrel --> Dantes saves this family, who run the Marseille shipping firm that first employed Dantes from financial ruin. Its members include Julie, Maximallian, and Pierre]]; mentioned on "Characters" subsection of The Count of Monte Cristo[56]
Micah [accept Micheas]]] --> Things prophesized from Moresheth by this man included the birthplace of Jesus. His namesake book contains his condemnations of the rich and his relaying of the order to "walk humbly with God."; disambig., multiple Biblical figures w/this name [57]
Pratt model --> Named for a mathematician who served as Archdeacon of Calcutta, this model competed with the Airy model and suggested that mountains are high in elevation because they are low in density. It proved useful for explaining why mid-ocean ridges rise above the seafloor. [60]
On Sense and Reference or Über Sinn und Bedeutung (accept close English equivalents) --> Name this paper that rejects John Stuart Mill's idea that a proper name has no meaning beyond the object that it points out, with a long section on nondenoting expressions; leads to the notion of how the two are related [64]
Kater Murr (accept The Life and Opinions of Kater Murr together with a fragmentary Biography of Kappelmeister Johannes Kreisler on Random Sheets of Waste Paper; also accept "Tomcat" in place of "Kater") --> Identify this character who loves Miesmies and befriends the poodle Ponto after being rescued from drowning by Master Abraham and learning to read, the title character of a German novel.[65]
The Ecstasy --> This John Donne work, whose title celebrates the movement of the soul outside the body, begins "Where like a pillow on a bed/A pregnant bank swelled up to rest". [66]
Betylua or Bethulia --> Seated on a mountain overlooking the plain of Esdrelon, it commanded a narrow and strategic pass into Judea, and was ruled by a king named Uziah. [68]
Eliachim --> This is the name of the Bethulian priest who advised the people to seize the mountain passes to prevent the Assyrians from approaching the city. [69]
Battle of the Wabash River or the Columbia Massacre --> Name this 1791 battle in which over 600 of Arthur St. Clair's soldiers were killed or captured, sometimes described as the worst defeat suffered by the American army to a Native American force and alternately called "St. Clair's Defeat"; listed under St. Clair's defeat, alternate name? [70]
Cogwheels or Haguruma --> Name this autobiographical story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, depicting his descent into madness in the midst of his addiction to sleeping pills and hallucinations of the titular objects; mentioned on author's page [71]
John Brooke (accept either or both names) --> In Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, this soft-spoken man was Laurie's tutor and fathers the twins Demi and Daisyafter marrying Meg; disambig. [72]
Mind and the World Order --> Clarence Lewis' best known work is this 1929 book subtitled "Outline of a Theory of Knowledge", where he argued that the choice between logical systems must be made on pragmatic grounds. [73]
The Star of Seville or La Estrella de Sevilla --> In this play, King Sancho IV offers Don Sancho marriage to any woman in exchange for killing Don Bustos, but Don Sancho gets screwed because the woman he wants is Don Bustos' sister. [75]
al-shirk (prompt on "sin of association") --> Name this Islamic sin which you commit when you associate Allah's powers or attributes with other beings, such as by being a polytheist.[77]
The Wound and the Bow --> Identify this 1929 work that takes its name from Sophocles' Philoctetes and argues that artistic success or superior strength often derives from, or is inseperable from, disability. [80]
Lydia Glasher (accept either name) --> Gwendolyn actually marries Henleigh Grandcourt despite the protestations of this woman, who had a longstanding relationship and children with him. [81]
Red Oleander(s) or Raktakarabi --> Identify this play named for the symbol its protagonist, Nandini, adopts while leading a revolt against a brutal mining program. [82]
Equality of What? --> In this 1979 Tanner Lecture on Human Values, Sen criticizes utilitarian, total utility, and Rawlsian formulations of the title concept because they privilege economic development over human rights. Instead, it argues that the answer to the title question should be grounded in the "basic capabilities" of human beings.
Toda Raba --> Identify this work that revolves around the titular African, who gives up his shamanistic practices and to travel to Moscow and embrace Lenin. [83]
The Ranters --> Sometimes known as the "high attainers", this British antinomian group led by men like Laurence Claxon became prominent during the early 1650s and was given a pejorative name that implied they were crazy. [84]
Bootstrapping Nodes (accept word forms) --> Many decentralized peer-to-peer networks, such as Chord, rely on these type of nodes, which make other nodes aware of peers on the network. The term is also applied to a type of self-hosting compiler that compiles code in the language in which it is written.
Small World Network --> Connections to other nodes in Freenet, one of the earliest P2P networks, hinges on the Darknet being this type of network, which is defined as a connected graph whose diameter can be greatly reduced by adding a few random edges. Watts and Strogatz came up with a way to generate these. [85]
they are conjugates --> The third Sylow theorem provides that any two Sylow p-groups of a group G have this relation to one another; disambig. [86]
Fighting Forms or Kampfende Formen --> In his later works, Marc moved away from his traditional depictions of animals; this, his last major work, shows two clashing swirls of red and black. [87]
Zuangzi or Master Chuang --> This other philosopher of the time is likely the second most important Daoist, and left behind a book of observations. In one of those observations, he famously questions whether he is a man dreaming of being a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming of beign a man. [89]
Einstein's Box --> This thought experiment, the subject of a debate between its namesake and Bohr at the 1930 Solvay conference, was recently performed when French scientists trapped a single photon using rubidium atoms. [90]
McCabe-Thiele diagrams --> These doubly-eponymous diagrams are constructed by drawing horizontal and vertical lines between the 45-degree line and the x-y phase diagram. The triangles constructed are then used to determine column staging. [91]
Roxana or Roxy --> In Pudd'nhead Wilson, this slave is 1/16th black, and at the birth of her child, she switches him with the child of her white master. Her son Chambers goes by the name "Tom", and her master's son Tom now goes by the name "Chambers"; disambig. [92]
The Dream of Ossian (accept logical equivalents) --> Lifelike, alabaster statues are scattered along the back of this Ingres work, whose red-caped title figure sits crouched down over a harp in the foreground. [94]
chaos (accept word forms) --> When subjected to periodic forcing, the van der Pol oscillator demonstrates period-locking, which is a manifestation of this behavior, in which a system becomes aperiodic and exhibits high sensitivity to initial conditions; disambig. -[95]
the tobacco regie --> An earlier conflict over foreign control of Iranian industry erupted in 1890, when this deal, which paid the Shah fifteen thousand pounds annually in return for exclusive rights to the production of the namesake crop, was protested by Islamic injunctions against its consumption. [96]
Kamlet-Taft solvent parameters --> In addition to pi*, a measure of dipolarity and polarizability, the other two of these three parameters are R, the ability to donate electrons to a hydrogen bond, and β, the ability to accept electrons in a hydrogen bond. [98]
Strassen's Algorithm --> Applying naïve divide-and-conquer to matrix multiplication still gives "order n" cubed time, but this algorithm, which exchanges one of the multiplication operations for 18 additions, improves runtime to n^2.8. [100]
Cleansing of the Temple (accept reasonable equivalents such as "money lenders" or "money traders") --> El Greco painted this scene numerous times throughout his career. In it, an angry son of God threatens to whip a crowd of certain people if they don't leave the titular location. The 1572 version was notable for the portraits of Titian, Clovio and Michelangelo that line the bottom of the canvas. [101]
Nora Helmer (prompt on "Helmer") --> Lu Xun explicitly titled his 1923 address, aimed at confronting the modernization of Chinese society, after this European protagonist of an 1879 work; mentioned on character list in A Doll's House[102]
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare --> This Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet states that only one Greek has directly observed the titular figure, while others "stare at nothing, intricately drawn nowhere" and a few fortunate ones "have heard her massive sandal set on stone". [103]
Peierls instability --> This other metal-to-insulator transition results from a competition between the energy lost to lattice deformation and the energy gained upon opening up a bandgap. Pedagogically, it is often illustrated by a 1D chain of hydrogen atoms; leads to Peierls transistion[104]
Vitalian Rebellion --> Earlier, Hypatius tried to put down this 514 anti-Monophysite rebellion, though he bungled everything, got captured and had to be ransomed. [106]
Nikolai Vasilyevich Smirnov --> Andrey Kolmogorov and this student name a simple nonparametric test for equality of "PDF"s based on the greatest distance between "CDF"s. A theorem categorizing metrizable spaces is named for Nagata and another Russian mathematician with the same last name. [108]
Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry --> leads to the Greek historical figure [109]
tiling path --> Often produced using BACs and YACs, this is a set of chromosome fragments such that every nucleotide base pair on the chromosome is contained in at least one fragment. The publicly funded part of the Human Genome Project used these sets of fragments. [110]
Bertrand Duopoly --> This model occurs when two firms must set prices simultaneously, resulting in a perfect competition equilibrium where neither firm profits; mentioned on Duopoly
Stackelberg Duopoly --> This kind of duopoly is similar to the Cournot duopoly, except that one firm chooses the quantity to produce before the other firm, allowing the second firm time to react. [111]
Viete's theorem or Vieta's theorem --> This theormem states that for the two roots of a quadratic equation "x1" and "x2", their sum equals negative b over a and their product equals c over a. Its French namesake also used 393216-sided polygons to calculate pi to nine decimal places; leads to Vieta's formula[116]
Ellingham diagrams or Ellingham lines --> Diagonal lines plotted on this diagram give the temperature at which a metal will spontaneously oxidize to a metal oxide. Alternatively, they can give the temperature at which carbon monoxide can reduce a metal oxide to the pure metal. [117]
psychomimes or gijoogo or gitaigo (do not accept "onomatopoeia") --> Mushamusha, meaning "frustrated" or "irritated", belongs to this class of sound-symbolic Japanese words that describe mental states; leads to Japanese sound symbolism[118]
At Melville's Tomb --> In this elegaic work, Hart Crane discusses the "calyx" left by a sinking ship, and notes that the titular writer of such works as "The Maldive Shark" saw "the dice of drowned men's bones bequeathed to the sea".[119]
the Pittsburgh Convention (accept anything with "Pittsburgh" in it) --> This 1918 agreement between Thomas Masaryk and Slovak representatives agreed to principles of Slovak autonomy within any future unitary state, and was signed in the namesake American city. [120]
Florestan and Eusebius --> Schumann wrote himself into Carnaval in sections named for his two alter egos, one a fiery man of action, the other a dreamy idealist; leads to two unrelated historical figures [123]
Concerning the Law of Prizes or De jure praedae --> Begun in 1604, but not finished until 1864, this book, which advocated freedom of the seas as a "law of nature", was inspired by Portuguese efforts to limit trade in the West Indies. [125]
Godfrey St. Peter (prompt on just last name, unless they say Professor St. Peter) --> Identify this father of Kathleen and Rosamund who misses his dead friend, Tom Outland, and can't stand his job as Chair of European History at Hamilton University.
Marrian Forrester (accept either name) --> This Cather heroine has an affair with Frank Ellinger, a womanizer from Denver, and by the end of A Lost Lady has left the ostensible protagonist Niel Herbert behind in Sweet Water. [128]
Marr-Albus-Ito model/theory --> This model of motor learning states that climbing fibers fire to reinforce parallel fiber-Purkinje cell synapses, though its two namesakes disagreed over whether the signal from the climbing fibers gave positive. [130]
The Brisings or Bristlings --> These mysterious owners of a namesake golden necklace extracted a heavy price for the piece of jewelery. In order to obtain it, Freya had to sleep with them on four consecutive nights. [133]
JJ coupling --> The most common type of angular momentum coupling in heavy atoms is this one where the coupling between the spin and orbital momentum of each electron dominates the coupling of the overall spin and orbital angular momentum. [134]
42 Kids --> Identify this 1907 canvas that depicted the titular subjects cavorting on what was called "splinter beach", one of the broken down pier platforms that stuck out into the Hudson River. [135]
Comayagüela --> Formerly an independent city and co-capital on the other side of the river, this city was officially absorbed into Tegucigalpa in 1938; leads to Tegucigalpa
"Tony Takitani" --> The title character of this short story in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman was "assumed to be a mixed-blood child" because of his curly hair and sculpted features, although his father Shozaburo was a Japanese trombonist during World War II. That title character marries a shopaholic who is ironically killed in a car crash; leads to film adaptation of the short story[136]
Brønsted catalysis law (prompt on partial answer) --> Name this law, which generally states that stronger acids and bases make better catalysts, with strong in this case referring to the tendency to accept or donate a hydrogen ion. [140]
Hector and Andromache or Ettore e Andromaca --> In this 1916 work, de Chirico also chooses to depict mannequins. The two of them, meant to represent the titular mythological couple, face one another while standing on a stage. [141]
papillae --> Taste buds are located on these specialized projections, which share their name with projections of the dermis into the epidermis; disambig, 4 types of Lingual papillae
The New Men of Power: America's Labor Leaders -->Charles Wright Mills examined labor leaders in this 1948 book, which concluded that radicalism based on labor was the only force capable of producing progressive social change in its chapter "The Program of the Left". [146]
panda principle (prompt on "principle of imperfection") --> This principle states that species can only modify pre-existing structures to adapt to their environment. Stephen Jay Gould discussed the namesake animal's false thumb in an essay on it. [147]
Coronation or Coronacion --> Mario and Rene attempt a robbery with the help of the maid Emilia in this work. Identify this work set in Santiago that focuses on the relationship between the 90 year-old Emilia her sniveling grandson Andres; leads to the ceremony, mentioned on the author's (José Donoso) page
"In Bedlam" or "The Rake in Bedlam" or "The Mad House" --> In this last scene from Hogarth's The Rake's Progress, Tom is depicted rolling on the ground almost naked, as two nurses, presumably employees of the title institution, tie him up.[150]
Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov --> Name this character that visits Sobakevich and is accused of eloping with the daughter of the governor of a small town. He manages to collect 400 "dead souls" in a Gogol work. [151]
Tálos or Tálon --> In some sources, Perdix is Daedalus' sister and the mother of this inventor who actually dies from the fall. Another figure of this name gets the ichor removed from his single vein thanks to Medea's cunning. [153]
"The Bermudas" --> In this Andrew Marvell poem, the narrator describes the titular islands as "a grassy stage/Safe from storms and the prelate's rage". [154]
Fimbul --> This river that flows into Hvergelmir gives its name to the seasonal prelude to Ragnarok, a period of intense cold that is known as its namesake winter; disambig, no mention of the river [157]
Beer-Lambert-Bouguer Law --> This law states that the absorbancy of a solution is equal to the optical path length times the concentration of the absorbing species times the molar extinction coefficient. [160]
Willie Master's Lonesome Wife --> This experimental William Gass novella challenges conventional narrative by inserting photographs and weird typography. It begins with the line "She'd love him even if his head weren't shiny."[163]
A View of the Present State of Ireland --> Written as a dialogue between two Englishmen, this 1596 tract by Edmund Spenser amounted to a vigourous apology brutally repressive English colonialist regime on the titular island; mentioned on author's page [165]
Theme for English B --> The narrator of this poem is "twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem" and likes "records - Bessie, bop or Bach". Name this poem that begins with the instructor saying "go home and write a page tonight". [168]
Mother to Son --> In this Langston Hughes poem, one character says "don't you set down on the steps 'cause you find it's kinder hard" and claims that "life for me ain't been no crystal stair". [169]
Augustinian Hypothesis --> This hypothesis takes its name from a famous developer and disregards any non extant sources. It holds that Mark was derived from Matthew and that both were used as sources for Luke. [171]
The Tomb of Edgar Poe --> This other Stephane Mallarmé work describes a poet who "reawakens with a nake sword" and asserts that the titular granite structure marks the boundaries "to the dark flights of Blasphemy hurled to the future." [173]
Tod Hackett --> Identify this artist who is continually working on the massive canvas "The Burning of Los Angeles," in the novel in which he appears; leads to The Day of the Locust, needs own page?
Seebeck effect --> This effect refers to the creation of a voltage between two conductors at different temperatures. Thermocouples measure this voltage to determine temperatures; mentioned on page for thermoelectric effect
Count Alexis Vronsky (prompt on Alexis because Anna's husband is also named Alexis) --> Name this character who loses a race after his horse Frou-Frou breaks her back, a friend of Prince Yashvin who meets Golenishchev while abroad in Europe.
Prince Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky --> Kitty and Levin become engaged at a party given by this brother of Anna. He has an affair with the dancer Masha Chibisova, and attempts, but fails, to convince Karenin to divorce Anna. [179]
John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester (accept either) --> Name this English poet, who lamented "the pains it costs to poor laborious Nelly / Whilst she employs hands, fingers, mouth and thighs / Ere she can raise the member she enjoys" in "A Satyre on Charles II."
"A Satyre Against Reason and Mankind" or "A Satyre Against Mankind" --> Wilmot wrote that "Man differs more from man, than man from beast" in this imitation of Boileau, which begins by proclaiming that if he could choose, he'd be"adog, a monkey or a bear, / Or anything but that vain animal / Who is so proud of being rational." [180]
Bernardi-Verbrugge model --> This early mathematical model of the PEM fuel cell assumes that the water content of the membrane is constant, and requires boundary conditions at membrane-catalyst and catalyst-gas diffusion layer interfaces. This doubly-eponymous model is sometimes contrasted with the Springer model. [181]
Reflection --> Phong provides a model to simulate this optical phenomenon, whose shiny specular type is exhibited in hardwood floors and lakes and is easier to implement with a Ray Tracer than the diffuse type of it; disambig. [182]
Diving into the Wreck --> The narrator of this Adrienne Rich work checks the edge of a knife-blade before performing the titular action, which leads to the conclusion "The words are purposes". [186]
Etudes by Franz Liszt (accept "Paganini Etudes" before "scherzando," prompt on "etudes" or "works by Liszt") --> leads to general article[187]
theorem of quadratic reciprocity --> Carl Friedrich Gauss proved this important arithmetic law first proposed by Euler and Legendre. It states that if p and q are distinct odd prime numbers, then there are two congruences that are both or neither solvable unless both p and q leave 3 as the remainder when divided by 4. [192]
eosin Yellow --> This indicator, a derivative of fluorescein, is useful for titration at low pH, as it transitions from yellow to fluorescent green at pH 3. It is also notable for its use as a biological stain; a type of white blood cell is named for it.
Azul or "Blue" --> The critic Juan Valera helped spur its popularity and wrote a letter for its preface. Name this 1888 poetry collection, which begins with a series of seasonally-themed poems, "The Lyrical Years"; disambig.
Jordan-Schoenflies Theorem --> Extending the Jordan curve theorem, this theorem says that not only does every closed curve in the plane separate the plane into two regions, but also that those two components are continuously deformable to the inside and outside of a circle, respectively.
Encke Gap --> The spiral density waves hypothesized by Tremaine and Goldreich were later confirmed by the discovery of what gap in the A ring created by the gravitational influence of the moon Pan?; subsection of "A ring" on Rings of Saturn
kevali or Samyana-kevali --> A minor difference between the two faiths revolves around whether one needs food upon reaching omniscience and becoming one of these lesser arahants. These figures reach moksha, but they focus only on their own salvation and do not try to teach the religion to others; leads to Kevala Jnana[195]
Le Grand Coq or The Cock or The Great Cock --> Brancusi's final work, completed in 1949, was this oversize, plaster depiction of another type of bird. ANSWER: [196]
Seebeck effect --> It was discovered by an Estonian physicist who found that a voltage is produced when two conductors meet at junctions held at different temperatures. Its namesake coefficients are, in general, nonlinear functions of temperature; subsection of thermoelectric effect
Chou-Fasman rules --> A procedure to predict the secondary structure of a peptide, this algorithm assigns a score to each amino acid. Regions with several contiguous resides that score highly for presence in an alpha helix, beta sheet, or turn are considered to have that respective structure. [197]
Patterns of Culture --> This 1934 work analyzes three "primitive civilizations" thought to be abnormal, one of which is the Dobu, and concludes that the only "abnormality" is failing to adopt the accepted social norms and lifestyle of particular place; leads to Ruth Benedict
Huckel's rules --> A molecule that is cyclic and planar, has one p orbital on each atom in the ring, and has 4n pi electrons is referred to as this. Cyclobutadiene and cyclooctatetraene are two examples of this type of molecule]] [199]
fixed point --> Finding a Nash was reduced to a discrete version of finding an "x" such that f of x equals x. What is the name of such an "x" whose existence is guaranteed in certain cases by theorems by Banach, Brouwer, and Kakutani?; disambig. [201]
flute cast --> This common sole mark is a teardrop shaped depression in an ancient riverbed that tapers upstream. They are formed by irregularities on the mudstone substrate that causes flow separation and eddies which spiral around an axis parallel to the flow; mentioned in Sole markings[202]
chromatin immunoprecipitation assay or ChIP --> This technique allows you to identify proteins that bind to specific sequences of DNA by crosslinking of proteins to DNA using formaldehyde and using antibodies and PCR against your protein and sequence of interest; no mention of an "...assay"
Digging --> This was the first poem in Heaney's first book. In it, the author remembers his grandfather performing the titular activity on "Toner's bog," and compares it to his own use of a "squat pen"; mentioned in Death of a Naturalist[205]
The Citizen of the World --> Influenced by the Persian Letters, this epistolary novel tells of Lien Chi Altangi, a Chinese philosopher who visits England and befriends the Man in Black, Beau Tibbs, and Lady Betty Tempest; subsection of Oliver Goldsmith[208]
Moral Luck --> In this essay, Williams attempts to discredit Kantian ethics through a discussion of randomness. It discusses the examples of Gauguin and Anna Karenina, and is the title essay of a 1981 book. [209]
General John Macdonald --> This supervisor of the IRS in St. Louis was a friend of Grant who was made a general after paying for a 1,000-man regiment during the Civil War. This man's acquaintance with Lincoln helped Grant keep his commission when Grant got into trouble. [210]
neutron degeneracy pressure --> This type of pressure is insensitive to temperature, so it does not drop if the star cools. It arises when competing particles force its namesake particle into higher energy states, and comprises the entire pressure component of pulsars; leads to Degenerate matter
Oppenheimer-Volkoff Formula --> This is the general relativistic equivalent of the Newtonian Lane-Emden formula. One of its solutions defines the upper limit of the mass of neutron stars, as it gives the relation between density and stellar mass. [211]
Ferrell cells --> The mid-latitude and subtropical jet streams are found between these atmospheric circulation cells and the neighboring polar and Hadley cells, respectively; subsection of Atmospheric circulation, needs own page? [212]
Antonie or "Tony" --> This impulsive sister of Thomas Buddenbrook makes two disastrous marriages to men named Grunlich and Permaneder; leads to a town(?) in Poland[213]
"Mr. Flood's Party" --> This poem ends with the title character standing alone above a town "Where strangers would have shut the many doors/That many friends had opened long ago". Name this poem in which the title character pauses on a hill above Tilbury Town, drinks some wine from his jug and sings "for Auld Lang Syne"; leads to the author's page
"The Man Against the Sky" --> The title figure of this Edwin Arlington Robinson poem is seen walking "dark, marvelous, and inscrutable" on a hill at sunset; the poem ends with a description of the "dark tideless floods of Nothingness/Where all who know may drown." [214]
conserved synteny (accept word forms) --> This is the term for the conservation of gene order on chromosomes of related organisms. By creating maps that reflect this characteristic, researchers can examine gene linkage across species. [215]
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande --> Though Evans-Pritchard nattered on about the Nuer, his most important contribution might be this 1937 book about a Sudanese tribe who used the three titular concepts to explain the way the world works. ANSWER: [218]
reservoir --> This is the biogeochemical term that describes the mass of an element, such as carbon, within a defined container, such as the atmosphere. Properties ascribed to each are size and reactivity, with the latter given as the ratio of input to size; leads to the man-made lake-ish thing
Peierls instability --> This is a spontaneous rearrangement of a one-dimensional lattice, which can create an energy gap and make a material insulating; leads to Peierls transition
Lower Flammability Limit or Lower Explosive Limit --> Below this concentration, a mixture of fuel and oxygen lacks sufficient fuel to burn. It is dependent on temperature, with a rule of thumb being that this quantity falls 8 percent for each 100 degree increase in temperature. [219]
Gamma-Velorum or Suhail al-Mulif --> This sextuple system is sometimes referred to as the "spectral gem of the southern sky." Its center consists of the brightest and largest known Wolf-Rayet star and a blue supergiant. Its Arabic name means "smooth horizon." [221]
Cinq-Mars --> Its title character is a marquis who unsuccessfully conspired against Cardinal Richelieu. Name this 1826 novel by the author of the novel Stelloand the poetry collection Destinies; leads to the aforementioned Marquis
activity --> Just as fugacity is used in place of partial pressure to account for nonideality, this quanitity is used in place of mole fraction for situations where concentration of a substance does not accurately describe its chemical effectiveness; disambig. [223]
Les Amours de Cassandre or The Loves of Cassandra --> Ronsard's finest work may be this collection of 183 sonnets, which was originally published in 1552. Its second edition featured the famous "Mignonne, allons voir."
Vidar's thick shoe (accept close equivalents, like an iron shoe, a thick boot, the thickest shoe, etc.) --> According to section 51 of the Gylfaginning, pieces of this item have been collecting throughout eternity; at Ragnarok, Vithar will use it to rend Fenrir asunder. [224]
Girdr --> Vidar's thick shoe was painstakingly crafted by this giantess, his mother. [225]
Ndembu people --> Most of Turner's field work was done with this Zambian tribe, "aspects" of whose "ritual" were discussed in The Forest of Symbols. Their rite of passage involves taking teenagers to a special camp where they eat "adult food" and are toughened-up; linked as alternate name for Lunda people, but not mentioned on the page for the Lunda [227]
Richard West --> The poem in which Gray claims to "weep in vain" was a sonnet on the death of this man; the poem was mocked by Wordsworth in the preface to Lyrical Ballads; disambig. [228]
Ivaldi --> Brokk, Eitri, and their undervalued brother Sintri were the sons of this smith. Another legend claims that this mythical figure is the father of Idunn; page exists for Sons of Ivaldi, but not for Ivaldi
trend and plunge --> The azimuth and inclination of a fold's hinge line are given these two names. They describe the fold's orientation in space and are analogous to its strike and dip; disambig. for both
recumbent folding --> This type of folding is characterized by synclines or anticlines oriented with their hinge lines 90 degrees from the horizontal. They are common in overthrusts and subduction zones. [229]
Batavus Droogstoppel --> The frame narrative of Max Havelaar features this bourgeois coffee merchant, who wants to use the manuscripts left by Havelaar to write his own book about, well, coffee. [231]
leuco dyes --> Spiro compounds are often used in this type of dye which can reversibly interconvert between colorless and colored forms in the presence of heat, light, or acid. Thermal printers, like those used to print receipts, use them. [233]
Andres Pretorius --> After the murder of Piet Retief, this man formed an army and won an 1838 battle. Name this Boer leader, who later came to the aid of Mpande and who lost a crucial engagement at Boomplaats.
Martinus Scriblerus --> Arbuthnot was the chief writer of the "memoirs" of this fictional character, the son of an antiquary named Cornelius; his name identifies a club of which Arbuthnot, Gay, and Pope were members; mentioned on page for Scriblerus Club[234]
Secche disk --> This white disk has a diameter up to 30 cm, and is used by limnologists to measure water clarity.
eutrophic lakes --> Varves are especially common in this type of lake that is possesses above average concentrations of nutrients. Water clarity is typically poor due to large populations of phytoplankton or chlorophyll a. [235]
castration of Uranus --> link only exists for the planet [236]
"The Metaphysical Poets" --> It is nominally a review of an anthology edited by H. C. Grierson and it discusses "a generation more often named than read, and more often read than profitably studied." Name this T. S. Eliot essay which credits the title group of writers with being the last mainstream poets to avoid the "dissociation of sensibility".
SO32heterotic --> This closed superstring model uses supersymmetric worldsheet fields that move in one direction and non-supersymmetric worldsheet fields moving in the opposite direction. It predicts N=1 supersymmetry in 10 dimensions and is the basis for a similar theory using E8 cross E8 as the gauge group. [237]
Hotelling's model --> It conceives of two pushcart vendors on a beach, who minimize average travelling costs and split the business by locating themselves at points equidistant from the center and the ends of the beach. Name this microeconomic model which shows that any deviation toward the center by either seller will result in both sellers sharing the center in equilibrium.
deadweight welfare loss --> In monopolistic competition, this type of deadweight loss will occur between the demand and marginal cost curves across a quantity change. [238]
insolvability of the quintic (accept Abel-Ruffini theorem; also accept clear knowledge equivalents, so long as they refer to 5th degree polynomials) [241]
Why I Live at the PO --> The narrator of this sixth story of A Curtain of Green lives at the title location in China Grove to escape living with her family after the return of Stella-Rondo. [245]
Svartálheim or Svartalfheim --> In some myths Weyland is said to be the ruler of this Norse realm. It was home to the beings which grew from the maggots of Ymir's flesh, and is sometimes associated with Nidavellir; mentioned on page for Svartálfar[247]
"Blanche McCarthy" --> This 12-line lyric is considered Stevens' first mature poem; the titular woman is instructed three times to "look in the terrible mirror of the sky." [248]
Coulomb Barrier --> The triple alpha process requires temperatures of up to 10 million degrees due to the necessity of sufficient ionization to pass this barrier, which prevents the onset of the strong interaction due to electrostatic interaction. It is named for a French scientist after whom a unit of electric charge is also named.
Gamow window or Gamow conditions --> Quantum tunneling may occasionally enable the triple-alpha process without penetration of the Coulomb envelope at this set of conditions set around the intersection of the e to the minus kT curve and the penetration probability curve; mentioned on page for Gamow factor[250]
Jungle of Cities or Im Dikicht der Staedte --> This Brecht play set in Chicago chronicles the "unmotivated" fight to the death between George Garga, a library worker, and C. Shlink, a lumber merchant. [253]
corotation --> Near the earth, the plasmasphere is formed due to the collisional drag between the ionosphere and the magnetosphere, a phenomenon known by this name suggesting a collective spinning. [254]
Jacob-Monod theory (accept Monod-Jacob theory) --> In this theory, a basic unit of translation consisting of cistronss binds to a repressor protein, which prevents translation until an inducer binds to the complex. Identify this theory, named after two French scientists who won a Nobel Prize for it in 1965. [255]
Meed the Maid --> The second part of Piers Plowman introduces this female character, whose marital misfortune is contrasted with the path of the Lady Holy Church. [256]
Pictures From An Institution --> Jarrell was also the author of this satiric 1954 academic novel, based on his experiences teaching at Sarah Lawrence. [257]
A Bar at the Folies Bergere --> This 1882 painting was Édouard Manet's last major achivement. For whatever reason, the reflection of the central female figure isn't where it should be, which has been a subject of much controversy in the tempestuous world of art criticism. [263]
Ave atque Vale --> Swinburne writes that Baudelaire's spirit makes him feel "As though a hand were in my hand to hold" in this elegy to the French poet, who was not actually dead at the time of its composition.
Schubert's Ninth Symphony or the Great Symphony --> Its final movement features the woodwinds playing a tune borrowed from the finale of Ludwig van Beethoven'sNinth Symphony, which was performed a year before the composer began working on this piece. Name this symphony in C major with a so-called "heavenly length"; its first movement opens with a horn solo, while its second movement begins with a march-like theme for the oboe. [264]
Varanger Event or the Verangian Glaciation --> Late Proterozoictillite deposits which occur interbedded with limestone deposits on all but one continent provide evidence that this 150-million-year event took place. During it, glaciers are posited to have covered the Earth's oceans, and it is thought to have caused the Cambrian Explosion. [265]
roughness factor This so-called factor is the ratio between the true electrode area and the geometric electrode area; leads to rugosity[269]
Tafel Equation --> This equation is the relation between overpotential of an electrode and current density passing through an electrode, and can be depicted on a namesake plot and where the slope gives information about reaction mechanism. [270]
Goods --> After being forsaken by Kindred and Cousin, Everyman approaches this character who also refuses to go with him. Everyman finally gets some hope just after being disappointed by this figure; leads to the economic concept
Home Burial --> This longer poem begins with a man asking a woman what she sees as she stands on the stairs, but then she freaks out when he brings up their dead child. [271]
Starquake (astrophysics) --> Magnetars are subject to these violent surface readjustments which occur when heavy ions collide in a plasma. They occur about once a decade, and eventually retard the rotation of pulsars. A particularly violent one occurred in SGR 1806-20 in 2004; mentioned on Quake (natural phenomenon)[272]
Matthiessen's Rule --> This rule states that the total resistivity of a crystalline metal is the sum of resistivity due to thermal agitation of lattice ions and resistivity due to the presence of crystal imperfections. [273]
The Thief or Vor --> The second and most famous novel of Leonov, it details the disillusionment of Russian civil war veteran Mitka Vekshin, who chooses the titular profession; disambig. [274]
Boltzmann factor --> The aforementioned canonical weight, e to the minus beta E, carries this name, associated with an Austrian physicist who with Maxwell lends his name to the statistics of distinguishable particles; mentioned on Boltzmann function
The Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals; An Introduction to Modern Structural Chemistry --> This book by Linus Pauling was based primarily on a 1931 paper of the same name. While much of the discussion of the title concept has been superseded by more modern theories, later editions remain popular as an introductory chemistry text. [277]
Petruschka --> This ballet opens at the Shrovetide Fair, and features a notable "Dance of the Ballerina" during its third part, which is set in a Moor's room.
Bucket Queue --> This data structure approximates a priority queue, in that elements within a designated interval of priorities are considered to have the same priority. This approximation allows constant time enqueuing and dequeuing.
spike protein or S protein --> This protein, consisting of two cysteine-rich subunits, complexes with the receptor ACE2 to attach to a cell membrane. It enables the coronavirus that causes SARS to inject its RNA into a host cell. [279]
isotactic polymers or syndiotactic polymers --> Ziegler-Natta catalysts can prepare polymers which have all of their substituents on the same side of the extended carbon chain or polymers which regularly alternate their substituents on both sides of the chain. Give the adjective used to describe either of these types of polymers. [280]
Prefix-Sums Algorithm --> One of the main building blocks of parallel algorithms is this operation, usually denoted "star". Its applications include being able to do array compaction in Big O of n work and Big O of log n time, and it works by going up and down a tree in parallel doing the namesake operation.
Tree --> Another technique that comes up all the time in parallel algorithms is list ranking, like when you want to root one of these graphs where there exists one and only one path between any two nodes in the graph; leads to the big wooden plant[286]
Rembrandt's Self-Portraits (accept equivalents, i.e., depictions of himself, drawings of himself, etc.) prompt on portraits or pictures of Rembrandt) [296]
Barkhausen Avalanche or "...pulsation" or "...effect" --> This phenomenon arises due to the negative mass of the boundaries it affects, and is detected because of a response to an external field which generates and EMF. Name this series of microsecond-order rapid pulses in domain walls of a ferromagnetic alloy which gives rise to a namesake type of noise. [297]
a'a lava flows --> This other Hawaiian word refers to a lava flow which, unlike pahoehoe flow, features a surface broken into rough, angular fragments; subsection of lava[300]
May Man Prevail? --> Subtitled "An inquiry into the facts and fictions of foreign policy", this 1961 Erich Fromm work questions the wisdom of military buildup and contains such chapters as "Is World Domination the Aim of the Soviet Union?" and "Suggestions for Peace". [301]
Hadwiger-Nelson Problem --> This other graph theory problem asks how many colors are needed to tile a plane such that no two points a distance of 1 away from each other are of the same color. [310]
Wolf-Rayet Stars --> The most visible and famous example of them is Gamma Velorum. Name these doubly-eponymous whose members are losing their mass at a very fast rate due to stellar winds of up to 2000 km/hour. [312]
Wendell Lewis Wilkie --> This "Barefoot Boy from Wall Street" beat out Robert Taft for the 1940 Republican presidential nomination, and then lost the election to FDR by a vote of 449 to 82. He still did better than Alf Landon in the previous election. [315]
Fra Cristoforo --> This Capuchin friar aids Lucia and Lorenzo as they hide from Rodrigo. Later in the novel (The Betrothed), Lorenzo finds him treating Rodrigo in a hospice, where Lucia is taking refuge. [323]
Scruffy (Futurama) Scruffington (accept either) --> In one appearance, he notes that "prison ain't so bad" as "you can make sangria in the terlet. 'Course it's shank or be shanked." Name this "Zero-G Juggs" and "National Pornographic" enthusiast, the janitor of the Planet Express Corporation on Futurama; mentioned in "List of recurring characters in Futurama" [324]
Oh, marmalade --> When the Planet Express boiler begins to explode in "Parasites Lost", Scruffy says that he will "die the way [he] lived," before uttering this fruit-spread-based phrase. [325]
The Man Died --> Essays on the role of Greek tragedy in Western thought, and lots of thoughts on Yoruban culture are contained in this collection of Soyinka's prison notes. [326]
Tessie Hutchinson --> Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves bring about this woman's demise when her husband draws a paper slip with a black spot on it. Name this woman, the wife of Bill Hutchinson, who gets stoned by the members of a New England town. [327]
Lucy Ashton (also accept "Lucia"; prompt on "Ashton") --> After being forced to marry Frank Hayston, she goes nuts and dies. Name this title character of The Bride of Lammermoor, and of the opera by Donizetti based thereupon; leads to The Bride of Lammermoor, which features Ashton as a character [329]
Frauds Exposed! or, How The People Are Deceived and Robbed, And Youth Corrupted --> Anthony Comstock explained the need for his law in this 1880 tract, where he described the various obscenities he had seen while on his job as a postal inspector. [330]
Corporal Trim --> He is admired greatly by the overzealous Ms. Bridget, and he moves Susannah to tears by dropping his hat. Name this battle companion and faithful servant to Uncle Toby.
Le Fever --> Corporal Trim reports that this lieutenant has fallen ill on his way back to his regiment in Flanders, causing Uncle Toby to ostentatiously vow that he shall not die. [334]
The Ink Truck --> In this other William Kennedy novel, Bailey organizes a strike against the local newspaper and hopes to defeat them by bleeding the titular object. [337]
Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism --> It argued that neither Church nor the state has the power to "coerce" citizens to follow certain tenets. Name this political tract that said that Church and the state could only motivate citizens, and that Judaism was a natural religion based on reason. [338]
Nixon doctrine --> As applied to the Middle East, it meant that the power vacuum created by the withdrawal of Britain must be taken up by the Shah of Iran and by Saudi Arabia. Outlined at a press conference in Guam, name this doctrine titled for a U.S. president, which limited American commitment to its allies by declaring that they should take primary responsibility for their own defense. [341]
Katz-Miledi experiment --> Hodgkin's and Huxley's experiment on the axon of the neuron was followed by this experiment named for a 1970 Nobel Prize winner conducted on [[synaptic transmission, which showed that acetylcholine was being released in discrete packages in vesicles at the synapse. [343]
"Trapper John" Francis Xavier McIntyre --> A former Dartmouth quarterback, this character, played by Wayne Rogers, served as a surgeon alongside Hawkeye. Upon being discharged, he streaks through the mess tent. He was later featured in a spin-off series named after him; mentioned in List of characters in MASH[346]
Henry Ryecroft --> Upon seeing a doctor's rig outside a farmhouse, he hurries home to reread Tristram Shandy. Name this hack writer who lives in Devon living off of money left to him by a friend until his death, after which his "private papers" are published. [347]
kugelrohr distillation --> This German term, literally translating as "ball pipe", is used to describe an apparatus for distilling high-boiling liquids and low-melting solids under vacuum. [348]
Cuttlefish Bones or Ossi di seppia --> In one of its poems, the speaker remarks that "Even the poor know...the fragrance of" the titular citrus fruit. Name this collection of poetry that includes "Lemon Trees" and "Mediterranean" and that takes it name from an ancient tool for metal casting. [353]
Experience and Nature --> This 1925 book was John Dewey's most important work on metaphysics and includes a chapter on "existence as precarious and as stable." Later in life, he regretted not changing the first word in the title to "culture". [354]
Menalque --> This dude encourages Michel in his attraction to the Arab boys and he challenges Michel to prove that he's not a man of principle, after which Marceline dies of a miscarriage. [362]
Father Ambrosio (prompt on "The Monk") --> After being seduced by the sorceress Matilda, he rapes and murders Antonia, who turns out to be his sister. Name this Spanish cleric who also kills Elvira, Antonia's mother and therefore his as well. [363]
Agnes de Medina --> Father Ambrosio sentences this woman to torture and death for adultery. She's driven mad by Mother St. Clare and dies, despite the efforts of her brother Lorenzo. [364]
Anahuac, or, Mexico and the Mexicans Ancient and Modern --> This work, Tylor's first, is a travelogue that chronicles his journey with Henry Christy, to those Toltec ruins; disambig. [367]
Pirogov Society --> This professional society of Russian physicians formed in 1885 and named itself in honor of a recently deceased Russian doctor. It emerged from the zemstvo medical system and promoted public health and hygiene throughout Russia. [368]
Mrs. Packletide's Tiger --> Louisa Mebbin threatens to reveal that the animal the title character claimed she shot actually died from a heart attack in this Saki short story. [369]
Khadijah ul-Kubra --> Muhammed was able to seek visions from God on mountaintops because he was married to this older merchant woman. [373]
A Theory of Moral Sentiments --> It addressed a problem worked on by the authors' teacher Francis Hutcheson, by claiming that the ability to form ethical judgments arose from an "inner man", who serves as an "impartial spectator" and condemns or approves of actions. What is this philosophical work that attempted to explain the socialization responsible for creating the market-orientated and class-bound actors that would play a prominent role in its author's subsequent work. [374]
geomagnetic field reversals, or equivalent --> Magnetic feedback from opposing electromagnetic currents in the outer core are theorized to cause these events predicted due to dual positive and negative solutions to the dynamo equation which can be detected across paleomagneticisochrons present in oceanic plates leading away from mid-ocean ridges. [375]
Bakelite process --> On the other hand, formaldehyde may be reacted with phenol in this process, named for the thermosetting plastic polymer produced; this novolak resin was first produced by a namesake Belgian-born chemist in 1907. [378]
Charge conjugation - Parity --> The violation of this symmetry was first observed in kaons iby Cronin adn Fitch in 1964. Name this transformation, which consists of turning particles into their antiparticles, and simultaneously reflecting their spatial coordinates through the origin; leads to C-parity[381]
"Mongrel" [Tariff of 1883]] --> This tariff was at the center of the key Supreme Court case Nix v. Hedden, which asked whether a tomato was a fruit or a vegetable. The court emphatically answered vegetable. Name this Tariff of 1883 enacted under Chester A. Arthur, which was given its rather unique nickname because it satisfied nobody. [382]
Sleepy Lagoon case or People v. Zammora --> Seventeen defendants were sent to a jail as part of a mass trial in this murder case, which revolved around the killing of Jose Diaz and was a direct precursor to the Zoot Suit Riots. It's often named for an irrigation ditch north of Los Angeles where the murder occurred; disambig. [384]
ramy al-jamarat (accept Stoning of the Devil or reasonable equivalents) --> The burning of Ravana bears some resemblance to this Islamic ritual, performed during Hajj, in which pilgrims at Mina throw things at pillars in defiance of temptation. [387]
Adele Bloch-Bauer --> While in Vienna, Klimt painted two art-nouveau portraits of this wife of a wealthy Jewish industrialist. The first notably sold for $135 million dollars in 2006; link leads to her portrait, needs own page? [390]
butterfly mechanism --> When epoxides are created through the oxidation of an alkene with a peracid, the reaction proceeds according to this mechanism. It's so named because the transition state, in which oxygen is added and a proton is shifted, resembles a certain animal.[391]
p-norms --> This class of vector norms takes the magnitude of each component of the vector raised to a power, adds those values, and then raises the sum to one over that power. In this special case where that power is 2, it is sometimes known as the Euclidean norm.
Cauchy-Buniakovsky-Schwarz inequality (accept either name, and it's entirely acceptable if someone pronounces it "Schwartz" since lots of stuff misspells Schwarz with a t) --> This special case of the Holder inequality states that the magnitude of the inner product of two vectors x and y is less than or equal to the norm of x times the norm of y. On Euclidean spaces, it can be used to derive the triangle inequality. [394]
Schedoni --> This monk, the mastermind behind the kidnapping and later murder plot, is revealed to be a fugitive in hiding after he murdered his brother, the Count di Bruno.Answer: [395]
Blonde or Blondchen (accept anything in the vein of "Blonde Girl") --> At the beginning of Act Two, we meet this wench, Konstanze's maid, who tells Osmin off by saying that English girls can't be ordered around, even in Turkey. She is named for the color of her hair; disambig. [399]
a certain slant of light --> It occurs on "Winter Afternoons", and "When it goes, 'tis like the Distance/On the Look of Death." Name this visual phenomenon described in an 1890 poem in which it "oppresses, like the Heft/Of Cathedral Tunes." [400]
"Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" --> This later John Ashbery poem refers to "a peculiar slant/Of memory that intrudes" into the studio as the title work is created; leads to the actual portrait in the actual mirror, link only exists for the poetry collection that includes the above poem;[401]
The Man Who Turned into a Stick or Bo ni natta otoko --> As it falls onto the stage, the title character of this play nearly injures the hippie boy. The boy later sells it to a passer-by who had heard of the title character's transformation into an inanimate object earlier in the day. [406]
Phuong --> Central to The Quiet American is this French-speaking Vietnamese woman with whom both Pyle and Fowler have a relationship. Her name translates as "Phoenix"; leads to a sub-branch of Vietnamese[407]
Quetzolcoatl --> Cihuacoatl helped this deity create humans of the fifth, or present, age by grinding up bones from previous ages and mixing them with his blood. [408]
color singlet --> While there are nine different color-anticolor combinations, there are only eight gluons, since the gluon representing this state does not occur. [409]
hit four home runs in one game (accept clear equivalents) [410]
synchrotron shock model (prompt on "shock model") --> This model put forth by Tarvani describes the spectral distribution of gamma ray bursts when optical interference is low and particle acceleration is high. It predicts a low energy continuum and has a spectral indexalpha limit of negative two-thirds known as the "line of death". It implies a source in impulse-driven magneto-hydrodynamic winds. [413]
band Model --> Historically, this model has exhibited the best chi-squared fit for time-resolved [[spectra representation of bright gamma ray bursts. It consists of two power laws conjoined by a smooth exponential roll-over. [414]
von Willebrandt factor or vWF (last "t" is not required) --> Binding and aggregation of platelets in damaged blood vessels is mediated by this protein, an initiating event of coagulation. Defects in production or degradation of this protein are involved in its eponymous disease, the most common hereditary coagulation abnormality in humans. [416]
Captains of the Sand or Capitaes de Areia --> This work, whose characters include the crafty "Legless" and the leader "Bullet", centers on a gang of orphans who band together to rob the rich and privileged of Bahia. [417]
transform faulting or transform faults (PROMPT on "strike-slip" fault) --> This type of faulting occurs when spreading rates in a shift zone diverge along a curved surface, leading to an offset in rift valleys or grabens. It is characterized by relative motion opposite of that implied by the apparent offset, and it is the primary cause of discontinuity in mid-ocean ridges. [418]
aulacogens --> This is the name for the failed third arm of a triple junction of grabens during the initial rifting phase. They form sediment traps in the center of cratons, and may remain active, causing earthquakes in continental centers. [419]
Bagnold friction law --> This law of friction for particles in a granular state equates the friction to the product of the mass of the particle, the square of the grain diameter, and the square of the linear sheer rate, divided by twice the energy dissipation length; leads to Bagnold formula, no mention of "...friction law" as an alternate name [420]
sausage instability (prompt on "m=0") --> This MHD instability corresponds to the lowest-order tokamak radial displacement mode and, as such, will outgrow higher-order instabilities, such as the kink, if an MHD system is susceptible to it. A pinch with plasma beta less than 0.5 is susceptible to for all pinch ratios. Answer: [421]
whole genome shotgun assembly or WGS --> This method used in the sequencing of genomes involves cleavage of DNA into small random fragments, which are then mapped on the basis of overlap with neighboring fragments to form a consensus sequence; mentioned in Shotgun sequencing[422]
Laskhmi or Shri --> The churning also marked the first appearance of this golden goddess of fertility and wealth who was seated on a lotus flower. She is the consort of Vishnu; leads to the concept, possible misspelling for "Lakshmi" [424]
Dennis Et Al. v. U.S --> The flexibility of Holmes' axiom was reinforced in this 1951 case where the Court declared the 1946 Smith Act, which forbade advocating the overthrow of the government, constitutional. [426]
FADH2 or Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide, Reduced --> This electron carrier functions in oxidation reactions catalyzed by succinate dehydrogenase and fatty acyl-CoA dehydrogenase. Its electrons go to ubiquinone partway through the electron transport chain; briefly mentioned in Flavin adenine dinucleotide[430]
L-lactate --> In active skeletal muscle, rising NADH levels favor the metabolism of pyruvate to this other molecule, which causes a drop in cellular pH; leads to lactase[431]
Glagolithic Mass (also accept Slavonic Mass) --> This work, which was begun in 1907 but not finished for another 20 years, combines Greek and Moravian influences to produce a work for orchestra, organ, and voices based on ninth century liturgical texts. Answer: [432]
ideal gas-standard Brayton cycle --> This useful cycle has an efficiency dependent, to first approximation, only on its reservoir temperatures; forms a rectangle in T-p coordinates; and is used to model gas turbines and jet engines.
Alexander Portnoy --> Second in his class at Columbia Law, this man's sexual neuroses, as related to Dr. Spielvogel, form the plot of Phillip Roth's most famous novel; leads to Portnoy's Complaint, the aforementioned novel
solvability or solubility or solvable or soluble --> Roots of quintics cannot be expressed in radicals because, unlike the first four symmetric groups, the symmetric group on 5 letters has no normal series with Abelian factor groups. What is this property that S5 lacks?; "Solubility" leads to the ability of a substance to dissolve in a fluid.
Presley N. O'Bannon --> Another famous act leading to the lines "to the shores of Tripoli" in the Marine Corps Hymn was the capture of the harbor fortress of Derna carried out by Arab mercenaries and American marines led by this lieutenant.[438]
Sacred Wars --> This series of wars was waged for control over Delphi. They began in the years 595, 448, 356, and 340; listings for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sacred Wars, but no more general article
"The Indian Burial Ground" --> In this elegy of sorts Freneau writes: "And long shall timorous fancy see / The painted chief, and pointed spear, / And reason's self shall bow the knee / To shadows and delusions here." [439]
Tatyana Lavin --> While in the country, Eugene Onegin meets this woman who falls in love with him. He rejects her.
Lensky --> Despite having rejected Tatyana's love, Onegin is invited to her naming-day celebration. There, he dances with Olga Lavin and provokes this man, his best friend. They duel, and Onegin kills him; disambig. [440]
Marquise Catherine de Merteuil --> A scheming, avaricious widow, this ex-lover of Valmont destroys his reputation out of jealousy when she learns that he truly loves Madame de Tourvel.
Cecile de Volange --> A sprightly innocent raised in a convent, she is deliberately corrupted and impregnated by Valmont as part of Merteuil's scheme to ruin her family's reputation. [443]
Hammond Postulate --> This postulate states that the structure of a transition state of a reaction resembles the structure of the closest stable species, or that related reaction species that are similar in energy are also similar in structure. [445]
Prometheus --> Kokoschka painted two mythological trilogies late in his life, one focused on a Titan whose beliefs got him in trouble with Zeus, while the other depicted a famous battle where Leonidas died. Name either one; leads to the mythological figure, no mention of the Kokoschka work in the disambig. page [446]
Bermudas --> This work addresses the title location and describes the arrival of explorers to islands where God "jewels more rich than Omus shows" and "throws the melons at our feet."; disambig.
The Garden --> This work also contains fruit imagery, though this time it is treacherous, the poem reads - "stumbling on melons as I pass, insnared with flowers I fall on grass" - which seems to indicate the title area is less innocuous than it might first appear; disambig.
goldfinch --> Because they eat thistles and thorns, these birds are a symbol of Christ's Passion. This bird was featured in a famous Madonna of Raphael; disambig., possibly the European variety
coefficient of skewness --> While the variance of a random variable X is defined as the second central moment of X, this is equal to the third central moment divided by the cube of the standard deviation. It gives a measure of the shape of the distribution of X and is zero for symmetric distributions.
Attilio and Emilio Bandeira --> In 1844 these brothers and members of Young Italy followed Mazzini's orders to start a revolt in Calabria. They failed and were executed.
La Dorotea --> This 1632 work was Lope's favorite creation, a prose romance inspired by his affair with an actress named Elena Osorio, she is the woman referred to by the title. [448]
electron gyromagnetic ratio (accept electron g, or g-sub-s; prompt on "g") --> The so-called "anomalous magnetic moment" arose because Dirac electron theory predicts a value of exactly two for this, the ratio of spin magnetic moment to spin angular momentum. Modern theory gives a better value for this constant, which is approximately 2.0023. [449]
White Lotus rebellion or Pai-lien chiao --> Led by the Buddhist mystic Wang Lung, this nativist movement of the late eighteenth century brought down the incompetent minister Ho-shen and caused the re-assertion of imperial power by Jiaqing; "Pa-lien chiao" leads to the group, but not to their rebellion [450]
Eight Trigrams uprising (or Religion of Heavenly Reason, or Ba Gua) --> An 1813 conspiracy with palace eunuchs almost succeeded in taking the life of Jiaqing, marking the high point of this movement. Its leaders, Lin Ching and Li Wencheng, declared themselves the Buddha and King of Men, respectively, and sold shares in land they planned to confiscate. [451]
Dirichlet's theorem --> This man's theorem on arithmetical progression states that there are infinitely many primes of the form a times n plus b, where a and b are relatively prime, and n is a positive integer greater than 0; disambig.
Niddhog --> Niflheim's coastline Nastroned is the home of this monstrous serpent who eats corpses to sustain itself.
Black and Scholes model --> Currency speculators might find this method of predicting option value useful. It finds the market value of a call option by subtracting the present value of paying the exercise price at expiration from the expected benefit of outright acquisition.
deliquescence --> This is the process in which a soluble substance picks up water vapor from the air to form a solution. In order for it to occur, the vapor pressure of the water in the air must be greater than the vapor pressure of the saturated solution; subsection of hygroscopy; needs own article? [452]
Sankara (also pronounced Shankara) --> This man is the most famous of the Vedanta philosophers and the founder of four monasteries. He also wrote numerous commentaries on the Upanishads; disambig. [453]
homology groups --> In a chain of homomorphisms in which all composites are zero, these are the quotients of the kernel of one map by the image of the previous; briefly mentioned in homology (mathematics)[454]
Hicksian demand curve --> Giffen goods are thus this type of demand curve sloping upwards. As opposed to the regular Marshallian demand curve, it demonstrates the effects of income level on substitution. [456]
Malus's Law --> This law states that if a polarized light of intensity I-naught, is passed through a polarizing filter whose polarization axis makes an angle theta with the polarization axis of the light, the resulting intensity will be equal to I-naught times cosine-squared theta; subsection of Polarizer
Dichoric or Dichorism --> The crystal [[tourmaline can be used as a polarizer, as it has this property. Materials with this property have different absorption coefficients for light that is polarized in different directions.[457]
Brewster's Law --> For light traveling in a medium with refractive index n1 and being partially reflected at a boundary of a medium with refractive index n2, this law states that the tangent of the polarizing angle is equal to the ratio of the ratio of n2 to n1; mentioned on page for Brewster's angle[458]
Schoennbrun --> The Austrians didn't get the message and lost again at Wagram, after which they had to sign this 1809 treaty that gave up Galicia, as well as letting France have the Illyrian provinces.
interstitial space --> If a crystal has a space in which another atom can be inserted, that space is known by this term; mentioned on disambig. page [463]
Death on a Pale Horse --> In this apocalyptic work the title figure holds a lightning bolt and is joined by his other mounted companions as he spreads destruction all around him. Answer: [464]
Master Olaf --> This 1872 historical drama concerns the introspective Swedish reformer Olaus Petri. Gert, a bookprinter, uses his idealism against King Gustavus Visa.
Científicos --> Diaz was heavily influenced by positivists, especially this group led by Limantour, who reformed the financial system and gave Mexico financial stability. [465]
William of Orange --> The Union of Utrecht was separate from the Union of Arras concluded earlier in the month thus undermining this man's efforts to unite Catholics and Calvinists to fight Spain; disambig.
Wadi Hadhramaut --> This inland valley in eastern Yemen, renowned historically for its frankincense, was a British protectorate until 1967, when it was united with Aden; leads to regular-old Hadhramaut[477]
slip (materials science) --> This is the process by which dislocations move and cause deformation in materials; disambig. [478]
the Arrow --> The Second Opium War was precipitated by the capture of this ship, which was boarded by Chinese officials who lowered the British flag and arrested the crew; disambig.
virial series --> More general than the Redlich-Kwong equation, this series expresses the compressibility factor "Z" as proportional to the temperature and molar concentration, with constants divided by increasing powers of the molar volume. [480]
Molly Seagrim (accept either name) --> The daughter of the game keeper, Black Jack, is rugged and enjoys the company of men. She seduces Tom early on in his life and teaches him a few things. [481]
Sophia Western (prompt on just last name) --> This is Tom's primary love interest throughout the novel, a kind, generous heroine she is pursued by, but ultimately rejects, Master Blifil.
Partridge --> This teacher, who has a passion for speaking in Latin non-sequiturs, is accused of being Tom's father early on in the book. This results in his and Jenny Jones' dismissal; leads to the bird instead of the character from Tom Jones[482]
Be'al --> The Druids believed in one god, whose name means "the life of everything", and historians claim an affinity between this god and a similarly sounding Phoenician god whose name means "master."
Lodge corollary --> Named for a Massachusetts Republican and prompted by a Japanese attempt to purchase land in California, this 1912 addition expanded the Monroe Doctrine to include eastern powers and corporations.
Milon de Croton or Milo of Crotona --> This Puget sculpture shows a nude man being attacked by a tiny lion as his hand is caught in a split stump; leads to the historical wrestler [483]
Hercules at Rest --> In this 1661 marble, a warrior leans back on his shield, sitting on a lion skin. Originally intended for the Chateau of Vaux, this piece belonged to Colbert. [484]
Franz Kromer (either name is acceptable) --> As the novel begins the protagonist is being bullied by this boy who chastises Emil for not stealing the apples. But after Demian intervenes he leaves Emil alone. [485]
Urtharbrunn --> It was watered by the Norns and lay under the roots of Yggdrasill where it served as the source of all the rivers.
O Porraimos --> This is the Romany term for the slaughtering of most of the Gypsies in Europe during the Holocaust. They were given armbands with the letter "Z". [487]
Le Pont Neuf --> Its spans are anchored on the Ile de la Cité in Paris and it has 384 sculpted faces on its sides and was wrapped by Christo for ten years. [488]
Henry S. McComb --> Ames' gifts of stock to various congressmen, as well as an incriminating letter, were revealed in Charles Dana's New York Sun when this associate of Ames tipped them off. [491]
Cahn-Ingold-Prelog convention --> This is the system for naming the configuration of chiral carbon atoms by assigning them an R or S notation and is named after its three proponents.
If recollecting were forgetting --> It states, "and if to miss were merry" and concludes "How very blithe the fingers that gathered these today." [492]
I heard a fly buzzed when I died --> It ends, "With blue uncertain stumbling buzz, Between the light and me; And then the windows failed, and then I could not see to see."
Folkways --> William Sumner may be best known for this monumental work in which he analyzed the patterns of conventional behavior in society; mentioned on page for Mores
Ulysses deriding Polyphemus --> This work based on The Odyssey depicts two ships escaping the island of a Cyclops who hovers menacingly above the sea scene on the upper right. [494]
cryptides --> This class of chelates is even more potent and selective for binding to alkali ion, and differ from crown ethers in that they incorporate nitrogen atoms as well as have more than one ring, allowing this class to surround metal ions.[495]
Matilda --> This is the name of the demon who at first appears to be a boy, later she turns out to be quite the vixen and seduces Ambrosio thus insuring the depravity of Matthew Lewis' The Monk; disambig. [497]
microscopic cross-section --> Given a neutron flux phi, the reaction rate at a point is the product of phi, the target number density, and this property of the target. This is generally symbolized lowercase sigma and tabulated in units of barns.
criticality parameter or criticality number or criticality factor (accept k or neutron multiplication factor) --> This is the single most important parameter characterizing a reactor and it must be fairly precisely unity for something that you don't want to explode spectacularly. Monte Carlo simulations often use the heuristic definition of this as the ratio of the number of neutrons in successive generations, and setting it to one can determine the value of a certain famous, similarly named mass for a system. [498]
Pollock vs. Farmers' Loan and Trust --> The 16th Amendment was made necessary by this 1895 Supreme Court case that held some taxes on incomes derived from property to be unconstitutional.
Nicol v. Ames --> This 1899 case raised by the "War Revenue Act, the Supreme Court accepted a stamp tax that was an "incident of ownership" and therefore an excise, not an income tax. [499]
Bowman's Capsules --> These structures contain the glomerulus and make up one end of a nephron. Plasma from the glomerulus leaks into this structure for later re-absorption]] [502]
The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker --> In this epistolary novel, the title character falls in love with Winifred Jenkins and becomes a Methodist minister after a tour of the British Isles in the company of his father Matthew Bramble.
principle of dimensional homogeneity --> This lemma, satisfied by all valid characterizations of a physical system, states simply that all additive terms in a physical equivalence relation have the same dimensions. [505]
Jarnail Singh Bindranwale --> Indira ordered an assault on the Sihk shrine at Amritsar known as the "Golden Temple" as a response to Sihk separatist groups led by this man.
Shugdad --> This half-brother of Rustem betrays the hero by leading him into a hidden pit filled with spears. Before dying, Rustem gets revenge taking his bow and arrows and killing this traitor by shooting him in the heart, even as he hides behind a tree. [511]
Alexander Portnoy --> Second in his class at Columbia Law, this man's sexual neuroses, as related to Dr. Spielvogel, form the plot of Phillip Roth's most famous novel; leads to Portnoy's Complaint, needs own article?
solvability or solubility or solvable or soluble --> Roots of quintics cannot be expressed in radicals because, unlike the first four symmetric groups, the symmetric group on 5 letters has no normal series with Abelian factor groups. What is this property that S5 lacks; leads to the ability of a substance to dissolve in a liquid medium/solvent
type 1 --> This type of phase transition, of which boiling water gives an example, proceeds by bubble nucleation, rather than continuously; mentioned in Phase transition
sublimation point (accept equivalents for "point") --> At any given pressure this value of a substance is the temperature at which the vapor pressure of the substance in solid form equals the ambient pressure; leads to sublimation, but nothing about the specific point
deliquescence --> This is the process in which a soluble substance picks up water vapor from the air to form a solution. In order for it to occur, the vapor pressure of the water in the air must be greater than the vapor pressure of the saturated solution; subsection of hygroscopy[517]
Turkey --> The narrator employs two copyists aside from Bartleby. This copyist, a "short, pursy Englishman," grows irritable every day after noon, covers copies with inkblots and threatens to step behind Bartleby's screen and "black his eyes for him!"; leads to the country, does the character need his own page?
Nippers --> This other copyist, whose money "went chiefly for red ink," i.e. wine, is a "rather piratical-looking young man" who suffers from indigestion and a desk which never fits him properly, and who is consequently irritably every day before noon; leads to an Australian term for junior lifeguards or surf lifesavers[522]
"The Collar" --> "Forsake thy cage, / Thy rope of sands, / Which petty thoughts have made, and made to thee / Good cable, to enforce and draw, / And be thy law, / While thou didst wink and wouldst not see." - George Herbert; leads to a story collection by Frank O'Connor
"Delight in Disorder" --> "A careless shoestring, in whose tie / I see a wild civility: / Do more bewitch me than when art / Is too precise in every part." - Robert Herrick [523]
Nagilfar --> At Ragnarok, the convulsions of Iormungandr release this ship made of the nails of the dead, upon which Loki and the fire giants ride to battle.
isolating --> At the opposite end of the complexity scale from polysynthetic languages, in a language of this type almost every word is a single morpheme; disambig. for isolation[524]
Hartree-Fock theory ("Hartree" is not acceptable and should not be prompted) --> This technique optimizes an antisymmetrized product of single-electron wavefunctions. Since it cannon account for correlations between electrons it can never be exact; leads to "Hartree-Fock method", no mention of a theory
Density Functional theory --> This method treats the electron density, rather than the electron wavefunction, as the important quantity. Its development won Walter Kohn a share of the 1998 Chemistry Nobel.
Musetta --> This old flame of Marcello's waltzes around complaining that her feet hurt, which prompts Alcindoro, her Svengali, to run off to the cobbler's, while she runs off with Marcello.
Schaunard --> This musician, the fourth bohemian, tells a story of how he was forced by an eccentric nobleman to play until the nobleman's pet parrot died, and how he consequently plied the maid to poison the parrot with some parsley; redirects to La bohème
Parpignol --> Act two is punctuated by the passing of this toy vendor, in whose wake travel scores of greedy children and exasperated mothers threatening to smack them. [525]
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin (FYI: translated as "It has been counted and counted, weighed and divided") --> Daniel interpreted this riddle at Belshazzar's feast to mean that the kingdom would be divided; leads to Belshazzar's Feast
Vase or Li P'ing-erh --> Hsi-Men has an affair with this wife of his neighbor and sworn brother. She later marries Dr. Chiang and incurs the wrath of Hsi-men; leads to the decorative statuary of the same name
Plum Blossom or Ch'un Mei --> Golden Lotus originally gave this maid of hers to satisfy her husband. Out of spite for Golden Lotus, she was sold and eventually dies of excessive sexual indulgence; leads to the plum tree [529]
Low Pass Filter --> Anti-Aliasing is typically achieved through the use of this type of filter designed to attenuate high frequencies. A simplistic one can be achieved by placing a resistor and inductor in series with a voltage source. [530]
Mass spectroscopy --> This type separates ions and records their relative abundance by measuring intensities of ion flux; the most common form is gas chromatography; leads to Mass spectrometry[531]
Darest Now, O Soul --> Walt Whitman poems from lines: "No map, there, nor guide, / Nor voice sounding, nor touch of human hand, / Nor face with blooming flesh, nor lips, nor eyes, are in that land..." [538]
Memory B-cells --> These cells contain antibodies which are used to recognize foreign cells. They remain in the body for an extended period of time, and respond if the same foreign cell infects the body again, granting long-term humoral immunity. [539]
The Fixation of Belief --> Peirce is also known for this 1877 article, in which he argues that the scientific method is the superior means for overcoming doubt as it achieves the title action. [541]
upside-downside ratio --> It is the quotient of advancing volume of stocks and declining volume of stocks for a given market. When greater than one, it indicates that more stocks are being traded which are increasing in price. If it is greater than 9, it indicates a strong bull-market in the near-future. [543]
Jacob Gradus --> One of Pale Fires many inconsistencies is the narrator's ability to recount specific details of this bumbling would-be assassin's travels. [547]
Cedarn, Utana --> This is the city where Kinbote, or Botkin, hides out while annotating "Pale Fire". [548]
Yvain, ou le chevalier au lion --> This Chretien de Troyes romance sees Alundyne marry the title character, who has just slain her former husband, a knight with magical control of the weather. The protagonist falls from grace but regains his honor in adventures conducted with a lion.
Zend-Avesta --> Two of its parts are the Visp-rat and a set of 21 hymns known as the Yashts, while its chief liturgical part is the Yasna; mentioned on Zend
Lindler catalyst --> Used in the Rosenmund reduction, this catalyst most often takes the form of a thin coating of palladium on barium sulfate, with quinolone added to decrease the catalytic activity. [550]
Lag ba-'Omer or Lag Be-omer --> This interlude in the 49-day period of the counting of the barley sheaves preceding Shavuot is a celebration marked by play with bows and arrows and dancing around a bonfire. Children receive their first haircuts, while thousands of Israelis make a pilgrimage to the grave of rabbi Simeon ben Yohai. [551]
Guus Dur --> Also known as Aburhaman Wahid, he was respected for his political reforms and moderate view of Islam, but was impeached in 2001 for corruption, paving the way for vice-president Megawati Sukarnoputri. [553]
ring --> This structure is an abelian group with the additional requirements of a second binary operation that confers the properties of associativity of multiplication and distributivity; disambig.
field --> This structure is a commutative ring on which addition, subtraction, multiplication and division may be performed. Formerly called rational domains, these structures satisfy the associative and distributive rules and one is not equal to zero; disambig. [557]
Sugar Street (novel) --> This work by Naguib Mahfouz follows the Adb al-Jawad family through the Depression and World War II as Kamal, Yasin, Aisha and Khadija - whose home is on the titular thoroughfare - experience the rise of modern Egypt; leads to Cairo Trilogy, no entry for Sugar Street
Stavisky affair --> What affair of 1933-4 was named after a French financier who issued worthless municipal bonds and was later found dead?
"The Indian Burial Ground" --> "And long shall timorous fancy see / The painted chief, and pointed spear, / And reason's self shall bow the knee / To shadows and delusions here."
"Song of Thyrsis" --> "The turtle on yon withered bough, / That lately mourned her murdered mate, / Has found another comrade now-- / Such changes all await! / Again her drooping plume is drest, / Again she's willing to be blest / And takes her lover to her nest." Answer: [558]
Marquise Catherine de Merteuil --> A scheming, avaricious widow, this ex-lover of Valmont destroys his reputation out of jealousy when she learns that he truly loves Madame de Tourvel.
Cecile or Cecile de Volange --> A sprightly innocent raised in a convent, she is deliberately corrupted and impregnated by Valmont as part of Merteuil's scheme to ruin her. [559]
"The Book of the Grotesque" --> An old writer who cannot see out of his window hires a carpenter who cries while smoking a cigar and telling how his brother died at Andersonville at the beginning of this short story which introduces the larger work Winesburg, Ohio. The writer's dreams of indescribable figures prompt him to write. [566]
Ikemefuna --> Despite a warning from Ogbuefi Ezueder, Okonkwo takes part in the ritual killing of this adopted son to avenge the death of an Umuofian woman killed in neighboring Mbaino; leads to Things Fall Apart[571]
Amalinze the Cat --> Okonkwo first gains fame in the nine villages by defeating this wrestler from Mbaino, so named because his back has never touched the earth, leading elders to compare him with the champion Okafo. [572]
The inconfidencia mineira or Tiradentes' Revolt (Tiradentes was also called Joaquin Jose da Silva Xavier, so accept that if anyone gives it as an answer) --> This 1788 revolt against the Barbacena mineral taxes led by a dentist proclaimed the Republic of Villa Rica, but its leader was betrayed by Joaquim Silverio and executed in 1792. It was the first movement to challenge Portuguese rule in Brazil. [575]
"To a Waterfoul" --> Name these early American poems from lines FTPE, or for 5 if you need the poet: "Wither, midst-fallen dew / While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, / Far, though their rosy depths dost thou pursue / Thy solitary way?"; William Cullen Bryant[578]
"Huswifery" --> "Make me O Lord thy spinning-wheel compleat; / Thy holy word thy Distaff make for me, / Make mine affections thy Swift Flyers neate, / And make my Soule thy holy Spoole to be."; Edward Taylor[579]
zinc finger domain --> The classical example of this extremely stable domain consists of two cysteine residues and two histidine residues bound to the central metal ion. [588]
method of continuous variation or Job's method --> The stoichiometry between two reacting species can be determined by this method, where the relative concentrations of the two reagents are changed to find the ratio at which the maximum amount of product is obtained.[590]
Lewis theory --> In this theory, acids act as electron pair acceptors while bases are electron pair donors; leads to Lewis acids and bases
HSAB theory --> These types of Lewis acids and bases tend to form complexes where covalent bonding dominates since they are polarizable; acids of this type tend to be metals in lower oxidation states; no specific article for "soft Lewis bases/acids" [592]
Drago-Wayland equation --> This equation used to estimate the standard reaction enthalpy of complex formation includes parameters for electrostatic and covalent contributions for a Lewis acid-base interaction. [593]
"Epitaph On A Tyrant" --> "When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets." [594]
L'enchanteur pourrissant --> In 1909, Apollinaire published his first collection of poems, the titular prose-poem of which concerns the entombment of a mythological figure; leads to the author
Asch Effect (prompt on conformity) --> What is the name of the effect discovered in an experiment where people made very few errors when telling three lines apart, but erred 75% of the time when in a group where the rest of the participants had already stated the wrong answer? [597]
rayograms or rayographs --> This is Man Ray's name for the images he obtained through his experiments in photography.[598]
L'etoile de mer --> Name Man Ray's best known surrealist film, in which a man picks up a woman selling newspapers, but becomes more interested in her paperweight than her naked body. [599]
extractions --> This was the name given by Dove to his abstract paintings, compositions that he claimed were based on what he perceived as the pulsating energy of nature after thorough observation; disambig.
Faraday's laws --> One of this pair of laws says that the amount of chemical change during electrolysis is proportional to the charge passed. The other gives an equation that relates the amount of charge necessary to liberate a mass.
Mapp vs. Ohio --> This 1961 case said that the Fourth Amendment's rules regarding search and seizures applied to state authorities as well as federal government.
Atkins vs. Virginia --> This 2002 case said that applying the death penalty to mentally retarded individuals would constitute cruel and unusual punishment, and therefore violates the Eight Amendment. [603]
O Porraimos or The Devouring --> This is the Romany term for the slaughtering of most of the Gypsies in Europe during the Holocaust. They were given armbands with the letter "Z"; "The Devouring" leads to a horror YA novel. [610]
Saturated Zone --> This is all of the subsurface below the water table, and characterized by having all of the pore spaces filled with ground water]] [611]
Shearing Stress --> This type of stress results when transverse forces are applied to an object. [612]
Henry S. McComb --> Ames' gifts of stock at par to various congressmen, as well as an incriminating letter, were revealed in Charles Dana's New York Sun when this associate of Ames blew the whistle to the newspaper. [613]
"If recollecting were forgetting" --> Emily Dickinson poems: It states "And if to miss were merry", and concludes "How very blithe the fingers that gathered these today". [615]
"I heard a fly buzzed when I died" --> It ends "With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz, Between the light and me; And then the windows failed , and then I could not see to see". [616]
Presley N. O'Bannon --> Another famous act leading to the lines "to the shores of Tripoli" in the Marine Corps Hymn was the capture of the harbor fortress of Dema carried out by Arab mercenaries and American marines led by this lieutenant. [624]
Lake Turkana Boy --> This specimen was 12 years old when he died 1.6 million years ago. Studies of this specimen show that adult members of this species, Homo erectus, were around six feet tall, lean and muscular. [627]
Richard F. Schiller --> This is the name of Dolores' young husband, by whom she is pregnant. By an oblique reference to his name, we learn in the fictionalized Foreword of the novel that Lolita died in childbirth; leads to Lolita[629]
Mattie Silver (Accept "Mattie" or "Silver") --> In Ethan Frome, she is Ethan's housekeeper and Ethan's true love. In the end of the novel, she and Ethan become miserable invalids after they tried to kill themselves sledding; leads to Ethan Frome[631]
Andrew Hale --> This man buys lumber from Ethan Frome and refuses to pay Frome on delivery. This man's wife is so nice that Ethan decides not to demand money from this man. This is a problem for Ethan, because without the money he can't escape with Mattie from Zeena. [632]
Superfluous Men --> Oblomov is possibly the best-known example of this type of man. A recurring character in 19th century Russian literature, these stock characters tend to be intelligent, well meaning, idealistic, and aristocratic men who are incapable of engaging in effective action. Ivan Tugenev wrote a "Diary of" on of these types of men. [633]
Duke Gottfried of Brabant --> Lohengrin is brought to Henry's kingdom in a boat drawn by a swan. The Swan is in fact this man, Elsa's brother who was transformed by Ortud. [635]
Basidio mycota --> For five points, this most distinctive phyla consists of club fungi, it includes supermarket button mushrooms, and the spore-inducing club-like structure gives it its name.
Mycophycophyta (15 points); lichens (5 points) --> For fifteen if you can give the scientific name of the phylum or for five if you give the common name, this is the symbiosis of a fungus and algae or photosynthesizing bacteria.
Muller Lyer illusion --> This is the illusion where two lines of the same length are flanked by opposite pointing arrows. The outward pointing arrows make the line appear longer than the other.
"The Kraken" --> This short poem about the death of a legendary creature begins "Below the thunders of the upper deep far far beneath in the abysmal sea"; leads to the more general "Kraken" page
Atkins vs. Virginia --> This 2002 case said that applying the death penalty to mentally retarded individuals would constitute cruel and unusual punishment, thereby violating the Eighth Amendment. [639]
Rustem --> One of the major heroes of the epic, this son of Zal kills Isfendiyar in a climactic duel and adopts his son, Bahman; disambig., alt. spelling of Rostam?
Shugdad --> This half-brother of Rustem betrays the hero by leading him into a hidden pit filled with spears. Before dying, Rustem gets revenge taking his bow and arrows and killing this traitor by shooting him in the heart, even as he hides behind a tree. [641]
stone canal --> Water is used for circulation in echinoderms and enters through the madreporite into a particular canal, and then on into the ring canal. What is the name of the canal that connects the madreporite to the ring canal, so called because of the canal's surrounding rings of calcium carbonate?
Mattie Silver (accept either name) --> She is Ethan Frome's housekeeper and true love. In the end of the novel, she and Ethan become invalids after they try to kill themselves sledding; leads to Ethan Frome[643]
Andrew Hale (accept either name) --> This man buys lumber from Ethan and refuses to pay Frome on delivery, but his wife is so nice that Ethan decides not to demand money from this man. [644]
Duke Gottfried of Brabant --> Lohengrin is brought to Henry's kingdom in a boat drawn by a swan. The Swan is in fact this man, Elsa's brother who was transformed by Ortud. [645]
"Portait of a Lady" --> "Your thighs are apple trees whose blossoms touch the sky. Which sky? The sky where Watteau hung a lady's slipper."
"Lear" --> This work named for a Shakespearean character begins: "When the world takes over for us/ and the storm in the trees/ replaces our brittle consciences"; disambig. [647]
planarity (accept word forms, e.g., that the graph is planar) --> leads to a computer game[648]
zinc finger domain --> The classical example of this extremely stable domain consists of two cysteine residues and two histidine residues bound to a particular central metal ion. [650]
"Epitaph On A Tyrant" --> "When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets." [651]
bilinearity --> The inner product fuctional of such a space has this property because it is a mapping of the Cartesian product of the inner product space with itself back onto the real numbers that is linear in both arguments; leads to Bilinear map, but no mention of the state
macrocanonical ensemble (prompt on "petit ensemble;" do not accept "microcanonical ensemble" or anything with "grand" in it, e.g. "grand canonical ensemble") --> This is a set of a large number of systems that may be described as points in the same classical gamma-space and for which the density of states in that phase space varies as one over the exponential of the total system energy E.
Asch Effect (prompt on conformity) --> What is the name of the effect discovered in an experiment where people erred 75% of the time when a group of paid actors said lines of the same length were different? [654]
intrinsic impedance --> Given an EM wave of angular frequency omega, this property of the medium is equal to the square root of the ratio of "j omega mu" to the quantity "sigma + j omega epsilon", so it is real for perfect insulators and imaginary for ideal conductors. This has a value of about 376.7 ohms in free space; leads to Wave impedance
loss tangent --> Both the intrinsic impedance and speed of light in a medium can be expressed as linear functions of the square of this quantity, equal to sigma over omega epsilon, which dictates wave attenuation and, hence, signal degradation; mentioned in article for Dielectric loss[655]
Philosophy of the Spirit --> Croce summarized his views on history both a form of thought and the culmination of philosophy in this four part work, of which the above mentioned work is the first part.
Il Filocolo --> This work by Boccaccio has a Greek title meaning "love's labor." It concerns the lovers Florio and Bianchofiore, and contains the digression The Thirteen Books on Love.
isnad --> The study of the hadith is divided into the gist of the teachings or "matn", and this, referring to the chain of corroboration on which the teachings are based on; leads to Hadith studies
"The British Prison Ship" --> Perhaps Freneau's most famous poem, this 1781 work condemned the horrors of sailing on the high seas. [663]
"The Indian Burying Ground" --> This poem lauds the spirits of the Native Americans and begins with the lines "In spite of all the learned have said, / I still my old opinion keep; / The posture that we give the dead / Points out the soul's eternal sleep." [664]
alcoholic psychosis --> There are two types of this psychosis characterized by acute or chronic inflammation of the brain, hallucinations, impairment of memory, and general deterioration of judgement. It is associated with a certain type of beverage. [673]
Abou Ben Adhem (poem) or Abou Ben Adam (poem) --> Identify these Romantic poems from lines for 10 pts. each, or 5 if you need the poet: "And to the presence in the room he said / 'What writest thou?' - The vision raised its head, / And with a look made of all sweet accord, / Answered, 'The names of those who love the Lord'" [676]
chōka --> Translating as "long poem", this verse form contains alternating stanzas of 5/7/5 and 7/7 syllables and concluding with a 7/7 stanza. It is largely restricted to the collection Man'yōshū. [677]
Faraday's laws --> These two laws state that the amount of chemical change during electrolysis is proportional to the charge passed, and give an equation that relates the amount of charge necessary to liberate a mass. [678]
Grotthus-Draper law --> This law of photochemistry states that light must be absorbed by one of the species in the reaction in order for photochemistry to occur. [690]
Banana Bottom --> Written by Claude McKay, this work centers on Tabitha Plant who comes home to Jamaica after receiving an English education abroad. [696]
"The Lightning-Rod Man" --> In this Herman Melville story, a man refuses to buy the title object from a salesman who shows up at his house during a storm because he believes that man should not fear God since he cannot control God. [698]
The Government Clerks or Les Employes --> Rabourdin is about to get a long-awaited promotion, but a list of outside sources of income of other civil servants is leaked to the public. [699]
The Anarchiad --> This satirical poem was a collaboration of the Hartford Wits. Published anonymously in 1786, it is an indictment of French philosophy, Shays' Rebellion and the condescending attitude of Europeans towards Americans. [701]
The Emperor Charles V on Horseback in Mühlberg (accept reasonable equivalents) --> This portrait consists of a knighted soldier with a spear atop a rearing black horse. This portrait depicts a particular Holy Roman Emperor prior to a specific 1547 battle. [702]
Myth of Ur --> In the 10th book of Plato's Republic, this tale it related: It features a man who comes back from dying, and Plato uses this as a vehicle to say that learning should be for its own sake alone. [703]
Parfen Rogozhin (accept either name) --> Myshkin meets this sinister young man on his trip back to Russia at the beginning of the novel. He is obsessed with Nastasya and accidentally kills her at the novel's end. [704]
Aglaya Epanchin (accept either name) --> Myshkin becomes involved with this other woman, whom he asks to marry. [705]
Potëmkin --> Depicted famously in a Sergei Eisenstein film, this military vessel of the port of Odessa started a naval uprising in 1905 after inspectors declared rotten meat fit for sailors' consumption. [706]
The Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta --> The title character, Barabas, poisons all the nuns in a convent, leading to the death of his daughter Abigail. Ferneze shows up and makes everything all better. [707]
Cola di Renzo (accept "Rienzi" or "Rienzo" or Nicola di Lorenzo) --> Clement VI made him notary of the Roman treasury in 1344, and three years later, he declared himself tribune. Name this man who attempted to establish a peasant-controlled independent Rome as the capital of an Italian Christian brotherhood.
Ramsey Numbers --> One classic problem of mathematical ordering is to find the number of people required at a party such that there is a minimum number of acquaintances. The problem is solvable by this class of numbers. [709]
the golden apples of Idun/Iduna (prompt on partial answer) --> They were unavailable for a time when a giant abducted their owner, who was returned in the form of a nut. Name these objects which the Norse gods used to maintain eternal youth.
stadium effect --> This effect can be seen in strong hurricanes where the eyewall's clouds curve out from the center as height within the cyclone is increased; leads to Eye (cyclone)[710]
Joseph Lochner --> While on the court of appeals, Parker wrote the majority opinion in a ruling which found against this man and claimed that the state of New York had "beyond question" an interest in clean bakeries; that ruling was reversed by the Supreme Court in 1905. [712]
The Migration of the Negro --> Lawrence is best known today for this sixty-panel series. Its first half depicts segregation and rural poverty in the South, while its second half depicts the arrival of southern blacks to the urban North.
Major Tetley --> This former Confederate officer leads the mob, and kills himself after his effeminate son Gerald refuses to assist in the hangings. [713]
Air and Variations: The Harmonious Blacksmith --> While residing at Cannons, Handel wrote this piece for harpsichord. It is the fifth movement of his Suite no. 5 in E major, and consists of six variations on a theme allegedly based on the pounding of an anvil.
Ubu Enchained or Ubu Enchaîné --> This final Ubu play by Jarry includes the characters Lord Cornholer, Pissweet, and Pissale, and begins with Ubu deciding to become a slave]] [714]
The Shortest-Way With the Dissenters --> It culminates with the command "Now, let us crucify the thieves!" and led to the author's imprisonment, during which time he wrote a "Hymn to the Pillory". Name this anonymous satirical pamphlet which argues that the title group should be hanged for subverting the Church of England.
the champagne supernova (yes this is really the answer) or SN 2003fg or SNLS-03D3bb --> This recently discovered supernova is the first known instance in which a white dwarf above the Chandrasekhar limit did not become a neutron star. Its unusually rapid rotation may have played a role in this aberration. [715]
Holliday structure --> Some F plasmids contain insertion-sequence elements that promote crossing over with the bacterial genome. Name these intermediate structures of crossing over, in which half of one strand invades the other and vice versa. [719]
The Sea and Poison (novel) or Umi to dokuyaku --> This Endo novel, set during World War II, focuses on the moral decay of the medical interns Suguro and Toda, who perform vivisections of downed American pilots. [720]
Eppie (or Hephzibah) --> She ends up marrying Aaron Winthrop after rejecting her true father Godfrey in favor of her adoptive father. Name this orphaned girl who is raised by a weaver in a 19th centurynovella; disambig. for both
Curupayty --> This battle, won by the Paraguayans, prevented the advance of allied forces for over a year. The Paraguayan failure to counterattack kept the battle from being more than a temporary success.
gamma --> The most stable lactones contain a 6-membered ring structure, or delta-lactone, and a 5-membered ring structure, usually signified by this letter of the Greek alphabet; leads to the Greek letter [724]
The Ink Truck --> Loosely based on a 1964 newspaper strike in Albany, this William Kennedy novel tells the story of the columnist Bailey and his co-striker Jarvis, who serves as a link to management. [725]
RR Lyrae Stars --> They are divided in to AB, C and D varieties depending on whether they pulsate in the fundamental mode or in an overtone. Name these yellow giants or white giants belonging to population 2 that were once known as cluster variables.
Franklin Comes Alive --> Its artist hoped that it would "break down racial barriers and maybe be a crossover hit." Name this album which features a cover of Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" as well as the single "It Ain't Easy Bein' White".
Acis --> Name this shepherd who was turned into a river god by the Nereid he loved after being buried by a huge boulder hurled at him by a spurned suitor; listed as Acis & Galatea, needs own article?
Sorochintsï Fair or Sorochinskaya yarmarka (accept either underlined part) --> Based on a Gogol short story, this unfinished Mussorgsky opera finds Solopy Cherevik, Khavronya Nikiforovna, and Paraska traveling to the title location to sell a horse. [730]
Natasya Filipovna --> Myshkin asks this woman to marry him at a party. She later agrees to be his wife, but runs away on the day of the wedding and is murdered.
Aglaya Ivanovna Yepanchin --> This youngest daughter of General Yepanchin is in love with Myshkin, but rejects his marriage proposal. She later runs off with a supposed Polish count, who abandons her. [734]
Seppo Imarinen --> This awesome blacksmith constructs the Sampo and builds the Maiden of Gold, but is ultimately very unlucky with the ladies. [736]
The Careless Husband --> This play by Colley Cibber features the womanizing Sir Charles Easy, whose wig falls off while he's gallivanting. His wife finds him and gives him a scarf, thus demonstrating her faithfulness.
Bertram --> When Havelok the Dane goes to Lincoln, he is assisted by this cook who shares his name with that of a character loved by Helena in All's Well that Ends Well; disambig.
The Hangman or Bödeln --> This 1933 Lagerkvist novella consists of two scenes, one set in a medieval tavern and the other in a German nightclub. In both, the title figure mostly remains silent while others laud his acts of violence; disambig for "Hangman" [738]
A Dash for the Timber --> This 1889 Remington work depicts eight riders furiously galloping to the woods in order to escape an attack by Native Americans. [739]
Laocoon --> Pliny mentions that this piece was done by Agesander, Athenodorus, and Polydorus. It shows a priest of Apollo and his two sons wrestling with two horrific serpents; leads to the mythological figure instead of the statue. [743]
GTP or guanine triphosphate --> Also produced during the citric acid cycle, this purinenucleotide activates its eponymous protein class upon binding, and is deactivated by phosphate cleavage also intrinsic to the protein. Examples of its eponymous protein class include "Ras", "Rho" and "Rab"; disambig.
isnad --> Hadiths which are merely hasan lack a complete one of these. It is the roster of authorities who have transmitted the hadith, and precedes the actual text of the hadith; subsection of Hadith studies[744]
contour tones --> Some languages have tones that glide from high to low or from low to high. Name these tones that change pitch on single syllabic elements, signaling a difference in meaning.
register tones --> Level tones that do not glide are given this name.
From a Logical Point of View --> This collection of essays by Quine opens with the important "On What There Is," which is followed by the notorious "Two Dogmas of Empiricism."; leads to the author
Luminous mysteries --> Recited on Thursdays, this set of "mysteries" includes the baptism of Jesus and the institution of the Eucharist. It was introduced as part of the recitation of the rosary by John Paul II. [748]
Bromwich integral --> This man's namesake integral, sometimes called a Fourier-Mellin integral, is carried out over a vertical contour in the complex plane to the right of all singularities of the integrand. It gives the inverse Laplace transform; mentioned in subsection of Inverse Laplace transform[749]
Miss Lucilla Marjoribanks (accept either; pronounced MARCH-banks if you're pedantic) --> This heroine of a Margaret Oliphant work attempts to improve Carlingford society with her Thursday evening parties, and vies with Barbara Lake for the affections of Mr. Cavendish. [750]
"The Burning Babe" --> The title figure is seen by the author as he "in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow." Name this poem about a figure who promises to "melt into a bath" so as to wash "men's defiled souls" in his blood before vanishing on Christmas Day.
Figaro --> Leoncavallo wrote a 1906 operetta about the "youth" of this figure, whose first operatic appearance came in a 1782 work by Giovanni Paisiello. This character originally appeared in a dramatic trilogy which ended with The Guilty Mother; disambig. [752]
Landscape with a Footbridge or The Footbridge --> Although Altdorfer is often cited as the pioneer of landscape painting, he only painted two such pieces, including this 1520 work that shows a spire in the back, while the title structure spans a river in the foreground. [753]
palmaris longus tendon --> The ulnar collateral ligament is often replaced by an allograft of this tendon also in the forearm, absent in about 14% of individuals and underneath which lies the median nerve. It is not missed if removed.
Karl Farbman --> In the Seinfeld episode "The Checks", Elaine's new boyfriend sells this man's high-end furniture. A bookcase of this brand is later used by Kramer to bunk 3 Japanese tourists.
Beefarino --> After going to Price Club Kramer has too much of this Chef Boyardee delicacy at hand and decides to feed it to his horse Rusty, who becomes violently flatulent.
shower head(s) --> After finding out that their building's maintenance folks have replaced these items with energy efficient versions, Jerry and Kramer buy some on the black market; subsection of shower[754]
Abrikosov lattice --> During the transition from the normal state to a superconducting state, threads of magnetic flux are formed, surrounded by vortex currents. The currents form a regular structure known as this, named for the discoverer of the type II superconductor and 2003 Nobel prize winner; leads to Abrikosov vortex
Corinne, or Italy --> It describes the romance of the title character and a Scottish lord named Oswald Nelvil, who ends up marrying the relatively bland Lucile. Name this novel published in 1807, whose title character is a poetess who lives in Italy; mentioned on author's page
fugacity --> This quantity is a calculation of the tendency of a substance to prefer one phase of matter over another. The phase with the lowest value of this quantity will be the most thermodynamically favorable; article is specific to gases
"Yet Do I Marvel" --> In this work Countee Cullen ponders God's intentions and decides that it is a curious thing to "To make a poet black, and bid him sing". [755]
Sporer's Law --> This law of sunspots, discovered first by Richard Carrington but not named for him, describes the latitudinal variation of sunspots during a solar cycle. [757]
Louis-Nicholas Clérambault --> He wrote numerous cantatas, including The Island of Delos, while teaching music at St. Cyr, though he may be better remembered for the book of pieces for harpsichord he published in 1704.
The Trials of Brother Jero --> This 1964 play introduces us to the title character, an unscrupulous preacher, who tries to exploit the slower Chemu. The same character would return ten years later in a sequel about his namesake "metamorphosis." [758]
input-output analysis --> Wassily Leontief conducted his study using this technique, which employs transaction flow tables; leads to a similarly-named "model"
open model --> Unlike a model in which the vector of inputs is identical to the vector of outputs, in this kind of input-output model there is an extra input, sometimes taken to be labor, which is not one of the outputs. [759]
Kranz anatomy --> Most C4 plants exhibit this peculiar type of anatomy, in which chloroplast-rich bundle-sheath cells are surrounded by mesophyll cells. Its name is derived from the German word for "wreath."; subsection of C4 carbon fixation
malate --> The final step of the C4 cycle is the decarboxylation of this compound into pyruvate. In CAM plants, this compound is stored until night, when it is processed; mentioned as a component part of malic acid[760]
The New Criticism --> This 1941 collection of essays ends with a chapter entitled "Wanted: An Ontological Critic." It gave its name to a school of literary analysis characterized by "close reading" and avoidance of the "intentional fallacy"; leads to New Criticism instead of the collection [761]
Laevatienn --> In order to win the hand of Gerd, Freyr had to give her father this magic sword, which would later be used by Surt to slash the roots of Yggdrasil. [762]
"Defender of the Faith" --> After giving Fishbein, Halpern and Grossbart a weekend pass to go to St. Louis, the protagonist receives only an egg roll for his efforts, which understandably enrages him. Name this short story in which Sergeant Marx takes his revenge on Grossbart be swapping him with Harvey Alton so that the latter goes to Fort Monmouth, while Grossbart is sent to the Pacific; disambig., refers to a short story included in Goodbye, Columbus
Moraji Desai --> This former minister of finance, from the right wing of the Congress Party, served as Indira Gandhi's deputy prime minister early on in her career. [763]
self-similarity solution --> The Sedov-Taylor blast wave is this type of solution. The blast wave solution uses the fact that in the idealized blast problem the flow variables have identical spatial distributions but differ only in scale. The statistical type of this property is used to describe telecommunications traffic patterns and fractals. [766]
Loreley --> This 1942 canvas, now at the Tate, depicts Queen Victoria as the legendary Rhine maiden who lured sailors to their death; leads to the stone promontory [768]
Chirped Pulse Amplification --> This amplification technology is currently used in all of the lasers over 100 tera-watts, except NIF. It involved stretching a short pulse in time, then amplifying it and recompressing the pulse back in time.
Free Electron Laser --> Using a high-intensity laser beam and a counter propagating electron beam a high energy version of this device can be created. The "classical" version of it involves an electron beam passing through a channel of permanent magnets to create coherent electromagnetic radiation.
A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia --> In this recent nonfiction work, Keneally takes a microhistorical approach toward Australia's colonization, focusing on figures such as Arthur Philips, the colony's first governor. [773]
Kerr black holes --> When these objects possess electric charge, the name "Newman" is usually attached to them, and unlike the Schwarzchild type, they have non-zero angular momentum. Identify these rotating black holes, named after a New Zealand mathematician; leads to Kerr geometry
Boyer-Lindquist coordinate system --> The Kerr metric is most commonly written in this coordinate system. If the parameter "a,",equal to angular momentum per mass, is set to zero, it automatically reduces to the Schwarzschild coordinate system. [774]
Labarnas or Labarnash --> The Hittites regarded their own history as beginning with the reign of this legendary monarch who passed on his newly founded kingdom to his son Hattusilis I. [775]
"Telling the Bees" --> it was written to commemorate the death of the author's sister Mary. Name this poem which laments that a "year has gone as the tortoise goes / Heavy and slow", whose title refers to a New England custom of mourning.
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande --> In this work, an account is given of a tribe that administers a poison called benge to chickens in a type of divination ritual. Name this 1937 work that studied the practices of a certain tribe in the southern Sudan; leads to the author's page
The Book of the It or Das Buch vom Es --> This book takes the form of letters written by the pseudonymous "Patrik Troll" to a lady. Name this 1923 book, which argues that people are "lived" by uncontrollable forces, and which claims that the titular concept is not a thing-in-itself but rather a hypothetical perspective; leads to the author's page
Prisoners from the Front --> In this 1866 painting by Winslow Homer, a pair of Union soldiers show three ragtag Confederate captives to their commander.
The Spirit of War --> This 1851 painting by Jasper Cropsey shows a castle under a red and ominous sky. It is paired with a more serene work, which shows a peaceful temple. [778]
Ideas of Order --> It begins with a poem in which the author plans to return to a North which is "leafless and lies in a wintry slime," after he has bid "Farewell to Florida". Name this volume published in 1936, which takes its title from a poem it contains about a woman who "sang beyond the genius of the sea.
"Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu" --> This poem from Ideas of Order asserts that "In a world without heaven to follow, the stops / Would be endings, more poignant than partings, profounder," and expresses dissatisfaction with the "ever-jubilant weather." [779]
"Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes" --> In this great poem from Rilke's New Poems, a slender man in a blue cloak walks through the "deep uncanny mine of souls" with the woman he loves and the "god of speed and distant messages."
Bricks Without Straw --> Albion Tourgée's is best remembered for this 1880 novel, in which a black man is compelled to move to the North with his family.
Helle and Phrixus --> The Golden Fleece came from a magical ram that had been sent to carry this brother and sister to safety. The girl fell into the sea and drowned, while the boy survived the flight to Colchis.
the syzygy --> The third chapter of Aion discusses this concept. One prominent example of it is the anima and animus, though Jung used this term from astronomy to denote any archetypal pairing of opposites; disambig. [782]
Tarski's Circle-Squaring Problem --> This other problem proposed by Tarski was solved by Miklos Laczkovich in 1990, 65 years after it was posed, using a decomposition of about 10^50 (10-to-the-fiftieth) cuts and only translations. [783]
The Pearl of Orr's Island --> The title character is Mara Lincoln, who is raised at the titular place by her grandparents Zephaniah and Mary Pennel. Name this 1862 novel, in which a Spanish boy named Moses washes up in the title place and falls in love with Mara before marrying Sally Kittridge.
Airways, Inc. --> In this play, the inventor of "Turner's Rotary Alcohol Engine" is saddened by the success experienced by his son Elmer. Name this play written in 1928, in which a radical named Walter Goldberg is electrocuted for a murder he didn't commit.
"The Tale of Sir Thopas" --> In this tale, a knight from Flanders dreams of an Elf Queen and searches the forest to find her. He is then threatened by the Elephant King and prepares for a duel, at which point the host interrupts and tells Chaucer to quit his "arrant drivel"; leads to Sir Thopas, but not his tale
anomalous dispersion --> Superluminal group velocities are possible even though superluminal information transfer is not. This has been demonstrated in substances exhibiting this, in which the index of refraction is smaller at larger angular frequencies; leads to Dispersion (optics)
Sayyid Said ibn Sultan --> This sultan of Oman moved his capital to Zanzibar in 1840 and began to break ties with Muscat with British help. He also introduced the cultivation of cloves, which eventually became Zanzibar's chief cash crop. [789]
The Claim of Reason --> Parts 2 and 3 of this book, which consider "Skepticism and the Existence of the World" and "Knowledge and the Concept of Morality", are adapted from the author's 1961 Harvard dissertation.
The War of a Thousand Days or Guerra de los mil dias --> It resulted from rural Liberal party dissatisfaction over the election of 1885, a downturn in international coffee prices, and the devaluation of the peso, and its first phase was known as "the gentleman's war". Name this 1899 civil conflict that pitted merchants and plantation owners led by Generals Rafael Uribe and Bejamin Herrera against the conservative forces of the Colombian government. [791]
Rangi --> This mate of Papa is the Maori god of the sky. In fact, he embraced Papa so tightly that nothing on earth could grow, forcing the other gods to pry them apart; page exists for Rangi and Papa, needs own article?
Spec R or the spectrum --> In a principal ideal domain R, this object can be defined as the scheme of all maximal ideals. In general it is made up of all prime ideals, using the Zariski topology. [792]
The Cock and Anchor --> Mary Ashwoode's family tries to make her merry Nicholas Blarden, but she escapes their evil clutches. Name this "chronicle of old Dublin city", which when it appeared in 1845 was its author's first novel.
Bussy d'Ambois --> Field was also a noted actor, and was best known for his performance in the title role of this George Chapman tragedy about an ambitious courtier who is murdered by the husband of the Countess of Montsurry. [794]
the Susequehannock Indians --> Bacon's rebellion began as a conflict with this Indian tribe. Bacon persuaded the Occaneechi Indians to attack this group, and after they had done so he perfidiously attacked the Occaneechi. [795]
Lewis octet rule --> The elements in this group, particularly boron, are electron deficient as they have only 3 ]]valence electron]]s to share. Thus, neutral compounds like boron trifluoride violate this rule.
banana bonds --> The Group 3A elements can deal with electron deficiency by making compounds like Al2Cl4 and diborane which have three-center two-electron bonds, also known by this name that reflects the contorted geometry necessary to make these bonds.
Galois's Theorem --> This lemma requires that the groups of a solvable algebraic equation be solvable, and that if radicals must be used in the solution of an irreducible prime degree equation, all of their roots must themselves be rational functions of two roots. Thus, it extends the Abel Impossibility Theorem to all prime degree equations.
Jacobi theta functions --> The general quintic equations actually can be solved by reducing the equation to Bring quintic form and then applying these quasi-doubly periodic functions, the elliptic analogues of their corresponding exponential functions; subsection of Theta function, needs own article? [797]
Heng O --> This wife of Shen Yi tried to grab the draught of immortality, but he stopped her before she could drink all of it. Since she couldn't make it all the way to heaven, she had to settle for becoming the moon goddess; leads to Chang'e, "Heng O" not included as an alternate name
"Black Sheep" or "Die Schwarzen Schafe" --> Heinrich Böll first won the Gruppe 47 Prize for this short story in 1951. It focuses on the lazy Uncle Otto, who refuses to get a job, influencing the narrator's decision to drop out of college and attempt to become a composer; leads to the sheep what am black rather than the story what be short [799]
Mackey-Glass system --> Described by the equation "dx by dt equals quantity a times x of t minus tau over one plus x of t minus tau to the tenth, minus b times x of t," this system is a single-delay equation that originated as a model of white blood cell production. [801]
Marsellus Wallace (accept either name )--> This character, who is played by Ving Rhames, is memorably sodomized in Pulp Fiction; mentioned in cast list for Pulp Fiction, needs own article? [802]
On Becoming a Person --> The influence of Buber and Kierkegaard on Rogers is seen in this 1961 book, in which Rogers argues that the therapist should help people release their "actualizing tendency." [803]
Nasshut or Soppy Hat --> After being accused of bestiality and incest by Lemminkainen, this evil shepherd kills him and throws his body into the river of the dead. [804]
Sempronian Law or (Lex Sempronia Agraria) --> Although it was originally vetoed by Octavius, this law, which appointed a three-man commission to redistribute illegally-held land to landless Romans, was pushed through the Senate after its author removed [Octavius]]; leads to Tiberius Gracchus[805]
Our Old Home' --> This volume, Hawthorne's last collection of writings, was dedicated to Franklin Pierce. It includes English sketches which resulted from his appointment as American consul to Liverpool. [806]
Brillouin zones --> These zones can be defined as the volume enclosed in a Wigner-Seitz cell. At their boundaries the Bragg diffraction condition is always satisfied. [810]
"Why so pale and wan, fond lover?" --> The fourth act of Aglaura features Suckling's most famous lyric. Give the seven-word phrase which begins that poem, which ends by telling a "young sinner" to quit trying to make a woman love him. [811]
A Woman of the Pharisees or La Pharisienne --> In this Mauriac novel Louis Pian narrates his life's story, which is dominated by his stepmother, Brigitte, a sanctimonious busy-body who destroys the potential for happiness around her in the name of "piety." [812]
glutamate --> Some dinoflagellates secrete domoic acid, which is an antagonist for this amino acid, the most common excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain. Because domoic acid antagonizes this acid, which interacts with a special NMDA receptor, red tide can be deadly; mentioned as the conjugate base of glutamic acid[813]
Do You Want to Succeed with Women? or Voulez-vous triompher des Belles? --> Paul Litvak would answer an enthusiastic "Yes!" to the question posed by the title of this Watteau painting. It features a man in a harlequin outfit whose left arm is raised in a menacing fashion, though the fat lady sitting next to him on the root of a large tree seems calm enough. [814]
Stigma --> In this 1963 book, Goffman offers some "notes on the management of spoiled identity." The book discusses the ways in which "the normals" interact with those who have the titular affliction; disambig.[815]
Davis-Putnam Algorithm --> Discovered in 1960 by its two namesakes, this is the first effective algorithm for propositional resolution. It is basically a recursive depth-first search which takes a formula in conjunctive normal form and binds each variable to true or false until a satisfying assignment is found. [816]
Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo --> A one-time manager at the Nigerian Tobacco Company and major in the Biafran army, this poet of works such as "Debtor's Lane," "Lament of the Drums," and Heavensgate ultimately died in the Biafran conflict. [817]
Jean, sire de Joinville --> The King was accompanied on the Seventh Crusade, though not the Eighth, by this close friend and adviser. This governor of Champagne is best remembered for his memoirs and his biography of St. Louis. [818]
Mount Vitosha --> Sofia is at the foot of this mountain which apparently has a "river of stone" where big fuckin' rocks careen down its sides. [819]
Rienzi --> In this historical novel Bulwer-Lytton told the tale of the tragic title figure, "the last of the Roman Tribunes"; leads to an opera by Richard Wagner[820]
"Why not Sneeze (Rose Selavy?)" --> Duchamp assembled a thermometer, a cuttlebone, and several dozen marble cubes painted like sugar in a birdcage and gave it this title, inspired by Gertrude Stein's poem "Lifting Belly". [821]
The Voyeur --> The title character of this work, Robbe-Grillet's second novel, is a watch salesman named Mathias who may also be a murderer; disambig. for "Voyeur" [825]
To Have or To Be --> This 1976 work by Erich Fromm notes that the Great Promise of Unlimited Progress has failed, and analyzes the fundamental difference between two modes of existence in order to answer the titular query. [826]
Holmberg radius or Holmberg criterion --> The orientation of a galaxy in space is ignored by this criterion which estimates a galaxy's size based upon the radius at which the surface brightness is 26.6 magnitudes per arcsecond squared. [827]
The Martyr --> The title character of this 1933 novel is Commandant Crosbie, who unfortunately gets crucified by Major Tyson; disambig. for "Martyr", no blue link on the author's page
glacial ablation --> This glacial process occurs via melting in warmer latitudes or by sublimation at high altitudes. In highland glaciers, it occurs below the equilibrium line, and it usually peaks near the glacial terminus.
Heinrich Events --> These events that initiate or terminate interglacial thermohaline oceanic circulation periods are associated with increasing oceanic bioproductivity and ice-rafted sedimentation on the ocean floor as iceberg calving increases during glacial breakup. On stratigraphic columns they appear as a coarsening in oceanic sediment. [829]
Et in Arcadia Ego (accept early answer of Happiness Pursued by Death; prompt on any English variations of "I too was once in Arcadia" or "I, Death, was in Arcadia too" as there's no exact accepted translation to English]] [832]
the Rayleigh criterion --> The relevant formula is sine theta = 1.22 X lambda over D. Name this criterion for angular resolution in the case of propagating light of wavelength lambda through a circular aperture of diameter D; leads to Angular resolution
von Kupffer Cells --> These multi-mitochondrial macrophages that line the walls of hepatic sinusoids are inflamed during hepatitis. They remove particulate contaminants from the bloodstream and destroy erythrocytes.
"Epistle from Eloisa to Abelard" --> Written after Lady Montagu's departure for Constantinople, the speaker of this poem longs to devote herself to God, but cannot rid her mind of thoughts of a certain monk to whom she is writing, and whom she imagines as "a naked lover bound and bleeding".
chiral symmetry --> The global symmetry that is broken in the case of the pion is this one, which is in fact explicitly broken by fermion mass terms. This symmetry protects fermion masses, so that they are renormalized multiplicatively; briefly mentioned in Chirality[838]
The Betrayal of Christ or La fellonia di Christi or The Kiss of Judas or Il bacio di Judas --> This night scene by Giotto depicts a mob with torches on long wooden poles who surround two figures, one of whom wears a gold cloak and embraces the other. To the left of them, a man with a dagger slices the ear off a servant; "The Kiss of Judas" leads to the Biblical event instead of the painting [839]
Allred-Rochow scale of electronegativity --> This scale calculates the force of attraction as zero point 359 times the effective nuclear charge over the radius of the element squared, to which addition of the constant zero point 744 gives good correlation with the Pauling Scale; subsection of Electronegativity, needs own article?
Nagle Scale --> This scale is based on the polarizability of an atom and its number of valence electrons. It is given by 1 point 66 times n electrons times the quantity 4 pi times the permittivity of free space divided by the polarizability to the 1/3. [841]
"Mister Flood's Party" --> The title event of this poem (by Edwin Arlington Robinson) occurs on a hill above Tilbury town, where the dejected title character is compared to "Roland's ghost winding a silent horn", and sings "auld lang syne" with his imaginary companion.
"Luke Havergal" --> Expressing the poet's longing for Emma Shepherd, its line "No, there is not a dawn in eastern skies" reminds a bereft lover that his love will not return, and advises him to "go to the western gate" and wait for her in death.[842]
Eagle or Sun? or ¿Aguila o Sol? --> Octavio Paz published this collection of prose poems that contains "The Blue Bouquet" and "My Life with the Wave" in 1951. In its title poem, the author maps out a series of visions of the Mexican landscape and ponders whether he owns or is owned by its two symbols. [843]
The Bow and the Lyre or El Arco y la Lira --> This 1956 critical study proposes the "tiempo puro," a template for poetry without history that is universally available to poets. Its title comes from a quotation of Heraclitus. [844]
Vivian --> The title character of this 1812 novel aspires to marry Selina Sidney, but loses her after being tricked into having an affair. He then marries Lady Sarah in order to defeat Marmaduke Lindhurst in a parliamentary race, but sells out and is killed in a duel with Mister Wharton; disambig.
Gutenberg Discontinuity --> This boundary was first discovered via its reflection of low angle P-waves that created a P-wave shadow zone from 103 and 143 degrees of an earthquake's hypocenter; subsection of Core-mantle boundary, needs own article?
PKIKP Waves (prompt on "PKP Waves". Do not accept PKiKP Waves) --> Part of the triplication travel-time model that proves the existence of a solid inner core, these non-reflective waves are characterized by a rapid and continuous acceleration across the inner-outer core boundary. [845]
"I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing" --> In this poem, Walt Whitman breaks a twig off the titular tree as a token of manly love, as it reminds him of the necessity of a lover if one is to "utter joyous leaves".
"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" --> After tiring of the proofs and figures educed by the titular bore, Walt wanders off by himself in the mystical moist night-air and looks up at the stars. [849]
John Grimes --> His biological father Richard committed suicide after being beaten by the police, after which his mother Elizabeth married the younger brother of her friend Florence. Name this protagonist of a 1953 novel, a teenage boy who is at the movies when his brother Roy is stabbed; disambig., no mention of the character
Auger electron --> Sometimes an electron cascade to replace a lower shell electron knocked out by an x-ray will produce one of these instead of a photon of characteristic radiation; mentioned in Auger effect, needs own article?
penumbra --> This is the term for the geometric unsharpness created at the edges of x-ray images due to the finite size of the focal spot; subsection of Umbra, penumbra, and antumbra, no mention of X-ray related context [850]
The Poet Assassinated or Le Poète assasiné --> This 1916 Apollinaire work describes the life of Croniamantal, the titular author, whose birth is saluted by the erection of the Eiffel Tower. In the end, he is killed by a mob. [851]
oligo-sac-char-ides (prompt on sugars, glycosylation is the process, not the molecule) --> A primary function of the Golgi apparatus is to attach these molecules to proteins. There are two classes - N-linked and O-linked, differing in the amino acid in the protein to which they attach. [852]
"Crusoe in England" --> The speaker of this poem remembers dyeing a baby goat bright red so that his mother wouldn't recognize him. He also remembers the 52 small volcanoes he could climb on his island, one of which was "Mount Despair."
José di Ribera --> He painted Saint Andrew as an emaciated old man holding his cross in a painting completed around 1632, while one of his happier compositions is 1652's Boy with a Club Foot.
Saint Philip the Apostle --> Ribera's masterpiece is a 1639 depiction of the martyrdom of this saint, who is seen being raised by a wooden crossbar to which his arms have been tied.
Archimedes --> It has been argued that this 1630 Ribera work is actually a depiction of Democritus. It shows a man from antiquity holding a book in his left hand and a compass in his right hand; leads to the historical figure instead of the painting [857]
Carson's equation(s) --> These equations give the mutual impedance between an arbitrary number of approximately infinitely long proximal conductors as a function of the earth's resistivity, the frequency, the number of phases and conductors, and the conductor counter. [858]
zero order rate law --> This is a reaction rate law in which the rate of reaction is independent of reactant concentration. Reactions with this rate law are quite rare, except as intermediate steps in more complex reactions.
Rosalynde --> Subtitled "Eupheus' Golden Legacy Found after his Death at Selexidra", it was written during its author's trips to the Canary Islands. Name this prose romance first published in 1590, which features the usurper Torismond and an amorous wrestler named Rosader.
readers and writers (accept close equivalent, writers and readers, etc.) --> Originally proposed by Courtois, this problem is used to model shared access to a database structure where the threads must prevent access if a thread is updating the shared structure. [859]
"The Graveyard by the Sea" or "The Cemetery by the Sea" or "Le Cimetière marin" --> This poem by Valéry includes the famous line "Zeno, Zeno the cruel, Elean Zeno!" In the final stanza, the speaker announces "We must try to live" while a wave dares burst in powder over the rocks near the titular location. [863]
the Magian culture --> In his Reconstruction of the German Reich, Spengler argued that Jews were examples of this type of culture. Generally considered the most dubious of the "cultures" posited in 'The Decline of the West, it lies between the classical Apollinian and the modern Faustian cultures. [864]
Lukas Cranach the elder --> The Uffizi owns a 1528 depiction of Adam and Eve by this German, as well as his Saint George Saves the Princess from the Dragon and a portrait of Melanchthon. [865]
prophase I --> During this phase of meiosis, chromosomes are compacted and homologous chromosomes are organized into tetrads; subsection of Meiosis, needs own article?
diplotene --> All four chromatids of a tetrad become evident in this subphase, and pairs of homologous chromosomes begin to separate from non-homologous chromosomes except at chiasmata, which are manifestations of earlier crossover events; mentioned on page for Meiosis
synapsing --> During zygotene, this phenomenon occurs, in which chromosomes that appeared in leptotene pair with each other according to homology; this term also describes a similar neural state. [867]
Cass Timberlane --> This "novel of husbands and wives" is set in the imaginary city of Grand Republic. Name this 1945 work, whose title character is a judge in the Twenty-Second Judicial District whose life is changed when Jinny Marshland is called to the witness stand; leads to the film adaptation, mentioned on Sinclair Lewis' page
Chapman rearrangement --> Aryl imidates get excited by heat and turn into impressive new N,N-diaryl amides that you would step over your own mother to get your hands on; mentioned in subsection "Amide synthesis" in article for Amide
"Meditations in Time of Civil War" --> The Tower includes this group of seven poems, which begins with "Ancestral Houses" and ends with the memorably-titled "I See Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart's Fullness and of the Coming Emptiness." [872]
Goshun Matsumura --> Born in 1752, he founded the Shiju school of domestic art, which took its name from the street on which his studio was located. [874]
Mills Edwin Godwin Jr. --> He was elected governor as a Democrat in 1966, then switched to the Republican party and was elected governor in 1974, becoming the state's only two-term governor in the 20th century. If you're from Virginia, you can thank him for instituting the state's first sales tax. [875]
"The Prairies" --> This poem about "the Gardens of the Desert" is much better than "Thanatopsis," and may in fact be Bryant's masterpiece. At the end a "fresher wind sweeps by" and the poet finds himself "in the wilderness alone"; leads to the Canadian Prairies, not mentioned on disambig. page [876]
Clausius's virial theorem --> Clausius derived this theorem, which states that for any bound system of particles interacting by means of an inverse-square force, the average kinetic energy is negative one-half times the potential energy.
Lorenz number or Lorenz parameter (prompt on "L") --> This parameter, the ratio of the thermal conductivity to the product of electrical conductivity and temperature, is measurable in van der Pauw-Hall measurements. It is temperature independent according to the Wiedemann-Franz law; briefly mentioned in Wiedemann-Franz law[884]
Quilombo do Palmares --> This self-sustained republic of runaway slaves in present-day Alagoas existed between 1627 and 1694, when it was destroyed by the Portuguese. Its most famous leader was Zumbi, who is celebrated every November 20th in Rio de Janeiro.
Revolt of Malês --> This 1835 revolt, named for a contingent of slaves brought into the Bahia region from Muslim countries, resulted in their deportation back to Africa.
anomerism --> This is a type of isomerism present in sugars that can form hemiacetal rings in solution, as the carbonyl carbon in chain form becomes a stereocenter in a ring. Alpha-D-Glucose and Beta-D-Glucose are examples of this effect. [888]
José Estigarribia --> Paraguay owed most of its military success in the war to this general, who took Fortin Boquerón in the war's first major offensive and also won a key victory at Ballivian. [889]
Benu bird --> This Egyptian bird was said to have flown over the primordial waters of Nun before perching on a rock, where its cry pierced the eternal silence and prefigured creation. It is also described as the ba of Re, and in some stories the primordial deity Atum emerged from its mouth.
the Requiem in C minor --> Cherubini is best-remembered today for this C minor work, which he wrote to commemorate the execution of Louis XVI. Later, Cherubini wrote another one of these in D minor, because someone had objected to the presence of female musicians in the first.
Amir --> This is the name given to a so-called "resident Jinn" who lives with people, tempting them with various evils; no mention of the supernatural genie-thing [890]
L/R ("L over R" or "L divided by R" or equivalent) --> Suppose one has a circuit in which a battery is connected to an inductor of inductance L and a resistor of resistance R. What is the time constant?; leads to an anime series [892]
Fermat primes (do not prompt or accept: primes) --> One application of Galois theory is the ability to determine that the only regular polygons that can be constructed in with straightedge and compass are those whose number of sides are a product of some power of 2 and members of this specific set of numbers; mentioned on Fermat number, needs own article? [894]
Álvaro Obregón Salido --> In 1920 this general, who earlier had helped Carranza eradicate the supporters of Pancho Villa, staged a coup during which the former president was killed. [895]
Barkhausen noise --> Domain reordering or domain slip sometimes causes an avalanche of fluctuation in domain walls during ferromagnetic hysteresis, resulting in this acoustic phenomenon; subsection of Barkhausen effect, needs own article [897]
tetrahedral hole and octahedral hole --> Closest packed structures have these two types of gaps in between atoms. They allow atoms of 0.225 and 0.414 times the lattice atom radius to fit inside without distortion, respectively. [899]
Primitive Culture --> Tylor discussed the "development of mythology, philosophy, religion, art and custom" in this 1871 work, which traced the evolution of religion from animism to monotheism; leads to a more general article
survivals --> In an 1869 article, Tylor introduced this term for elements of an earlier stage of culture which have persisted into modernity, allowing for the reconstruction of past states of mind. [900]
sumoylation or small ubiquitin-related modifier --> Similar to ubiquitin in its use of E1, E2, and E3 type ligases, this protein modification differs in that its primary function is regulation of transcription, nuclear transport, genome integrity, and signal transduction depending on the substrate; leads to SUMO protein[901]
feedforward network --> One of the most common neural network types, it contains nodes arranged in layers. It usually containing a input layer, an output layer and a hidden layer, with processing happening in the output and hidden layers. [902]
The Future of Science or L'avenir de la science --> This was Renan's first book, though he didn't publish it until 1890. It expounds his positivist belief that religion will be replaced by the titular discipline. [903]
the Deptford trilogy --> Davies is best known for this trilogy, which began with Fifth Business and takes its name from the small town in which Dunstan Ramsey grew up.
Kelvin Waves --> The transport of warm water east during El Niño events are aided by these fast internal waves that transport surface water along the equator. [904]
The Spoon Woman --> Giacometti's first successful work is this bronze consisting of a tapered shaft topped with a rounded cube with an elliptical depression representing the womb of the title figure. It is based on a figure from the African Dan culture.
Patrick Bramwell Brontë --> He translated the first book of the Odes before dying young of consumption in 1848, a literary accomplishment overshadowed by that of his sisters. [906]
Semyon Marmeladov (accept either name) --> This is the alcoholic public official Raskolnikov meets in a tavern, the husband of Katerina Ivanovna. It is unclear whether his death was a drunken accident or intentional. [907]
Sonia Marmeladov --> Marmeladov's daughter, she prostituted herself early on to meagerly provide for her family, and later becomes the love interest of Raskolnikov. [908]
Pahk Hyeokkeose or Park Hyeokkeose --> This king was born of a golden egg delivered from heaven by a shining white horse. He became the first king of Shilla, taking a name which means "egg" or "gourd" and which is now one of the three most-common Korean surnames. [909]
imaginary or imaginaire --> It contrasts with the symbolic and the real, and designates the perceptions of the ego; disambig. [910]
Nani di Banco --> He is best known for his sculpture of the Four Crowned Saints, but this Florentine sculptor also created an important image of St. Luke that suggests movement and brilliantly compensates for a forshortened lap. [914]
Count Axel Oxenstierna --> As Gustav II's right-hand man, he launched governmental reforms that made Sweden the peer of any European power. After Gustav's death, he won big with the Peace of Westphalia and ran Sweden while Christina was a minor. [917]
The Wanderer Fantasy --> This four-movement Schubert fantasy in C major from 1822 gets its peripatetic name from Schubert's song of the same name that is one of its melodies. [919]
Abd al-ahziz Ibn Saud see: Ibn Saud--> He restored his family's power by using Wahhabi Islam and to destroy the rival Rashid and Hashemite families. His many marriages united tribes to form his nation, while wealth from the discovery of oil enraged his Spartan sensibilities.[922]
Ho-shen --> The White Lotus rebellion was allowed to thrive primarily because of this corrupt Manchu official who embezzled money and resources earmarked to combat the uprising. [925]
Charlottetown Convention --> Originally intended to discuss a maritime union, it included the province of Canada and focused discussion on a British-North American union. It met in a namesake city in Prince Edward Island in September of 1864. [930]
Quèbec Conference --> Meeting at a site overlooking the St. Lawrence, Newfoundland also attended this follow-up to Charlottetown. MacDonald dominated the talks and claimed responsibility for a set of resolutions sharing the name of this conference. [931]
Willy Shrike --> Name the protagonist's [of Miss Lonelyhearts] editor, a cynical man that mocks the younger man's identification with Jesus. His wife Mary had been having an affair with Miss Lonelyhearts and other men, but will only kiss them. [932]
Richard Dudgeon or Dick Dudgeon (accept either name) --> This title character of Shaw revels in his position as The Devil's Disciple, which he nearly gives up after impersonating the minister Anthony Anderson when he is charged with treason against the British; leads to a British engineer [933]
Twilight Poets or I Crepuscolari --> Led by [[Guido Gozzano], G. A. Borgese coined the name of this movement of the early 20th century known for its musical, mood-conveying language and tone of despondency. [936]
Very Like a Whale --> "One thing that literature would greatly be the better for / Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and metaphor" [938]
The Burial at Ornans --> The titular event is presided over by a priest in black robes attended by two others in red robes. A crowd of mourners in black stands by an open grave and a crucifixion can be seen in the background. [942]
primitive root of unity or "nth root of unity" --> A number is called one of these if r to the n = 1, and in addition, n is the smallest integer in the set from 1 to n such that the first condition is true; mentioned in Root of unity, needs own article? [943]
Arkadii Kirsanov --> Bazarov travels to the estate of Nikolai Petrovich Kirsanov to meet his friend, Nikolai's son. [945]
Ogodai Khan --> He succeeded his father Genghis Khan, but is important to history in that his death stopped the Mongol invasion of Europe. [946]
Ceryneian hind (accept stag and equivalents for hind) --> The capture of this animal, which was as large as a bull and had huge golden horns, served as Herakles' 4th labor. [947]
dyenin --> The flagellum is made up of nine microtubule doublets which interact with each other via arms composed of this protein. They are spaced at 24 nanometer intervals around the flagellum. [952]
"I Wanna be With You" --> The titular song from Mandy Moore's third album, she doesn't ask for more but rather she wants "To be the one who's in your arms / Who holds you tight". [954]
Alan Campbell (accept either name) --> This chemistry student and intimate friend of Dorian Gray's severs his ties during the downfall of the title character; disambig. [956]
Russell-Saunders or L-S coupling --> This type of coupling occurs in systems with many fermions in which the energies associated with electrostatic repulsion are greater. It is characterized by multiples of many-electron atoms with a low atomic number. [959]
j-j coupling --> In this type of coupling, the energies of the coupling are greater than the electrostatic repulsions. Multiplets of many-electron atoms with a high atomic number characterize this type of coupling. [960]
Channel Firing --> This poem features the character Parson Thirdly, who made an appearance in Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd. The speaker thinks Judgement Day is upon him, but God assures him that it's just gunnery practice. [964]
Kohlrausch's law --> This law simply states that if a salt is dissolved in water, the conductivity of the solution is the sum of the values depending on both the positive and negative ions. [965]
Diet of Tribur --> Henry IV was forced to endure the shame at Canossa by this 1076 assemblage of German princes who demanded that he free himself from excommunication within four months or permanently lose the throne to the Holy Roman Empire. [966]
"The Indian Burying Ground" --> Identify these poems by Philip Freneau from opening lines: "In spite of all the learned have said, / I still my old opinion keep; / The posture that we give the dead / Points out the soul's eternal sleep." [967]
"On a Honey Bee" --> "Thou born to sip the lake or spring, / Or quaff the waters of the stream, / Why hither come on vagrant wing?" [968]
rainshadow desert --> This type of desert forms on the leeward side of mountains, which effectively cut the desert off from moisture sources. [970]
The Intended --> After returning from his hellish voyage to the Belgian Congo, Marlow returns to London to inform this lady of Colonel Kurtz's death. His erstwhile fiancée, she is not given a name, but is only known by this phrase; leads to an unrelated period drama, needs own article? [971]
Fresleven --> In one scene, Marlow compares his mental image of Kurtz to this Danish captain, who was killed by native after beating the crap out of a local chieftain over the theft of a chicken. [972]
Bob Stanton (accept either name) --> This former insurance salesman died while trying to save a French maid on Captain Marlow's ship, while the title character, Lord Jim, was merely concerned with saving his own life; disambig.[976]
Jay Cooke and Company --> In September 1873, this bank functioning as the national treasury failed resulting in an economic panic. [977]
Cobb-Douglas preferences or Cobb-Douglas utility --> One of the namesakes of this type of utility function became a U.S. Senator. It is of the form "u of xy = x to the c times y to the d" for some positive numbers "c" and "d"; their convex indifference curves are monotone decreasing. [978]
Nöether's theorem --> This theorem, whose proof is two lines long but whose implications are staggeringly profound, relates symmetries in the equations of motion to conserved currents in nature. [981]
Wawat --> This term denoted lower Nubia, especially the area around the city of Buhen. Once Egypt captured their region, their administrative capitals lay at Aniba and Faras. [983]
square root of pi --> The integral of "e" to the negative "x" squared, "dx", from negative infinity to infinity. [984]
bloody week or la semaine sanglante --> This is the name given to the period starting on May 21, 1871 that resulted in the destruction of Tuileries Palace and the City Hall. During it, more than 20,000 insurrectionists were killed. [992]
Maria, a South American Romance --> This work, subtitled "A South American Romance", and written by Jorge Isaac, is still widely read today, though in feminist terms with special attention given to the title character's Jewish background. [994]
Tish B'Av or Ninth of Av --> This is a day of fasting and mourning to commemorate the many tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people, many of which have coincidentally fallen on this day. [995]
"Diving into the Wreck" --> Matt Bruce is the androgyne who takes the title action "to see the damage that was done / And the treasures that prevail..." This after he had "read the book of myths, / And loaded the camera, / And checked the edge of the knife-blade," in this title poem from the 1974 National Book Award-winner [996]
Symphony No. 1 in C minor]] --> This symphony by composer Niels Gade employs a great deal of Danish folk music, particularly in the third movement with the solo oboe; disambig. for "Symphony No. 1", no link for Gade's 1st symphony [998]
grue paradox --> In this paradox of the theory of induction, an intuitively acceptable argument may be mimicked indefinitely by seemingly analogous and intuitively unacceptable arguments, thereby yielding contradictory conclusions; mentioned in New riddle of induction, needs own article? [1,000]
Allegory on the Blessings of Peace --> At the center of this painting by Rubens is a satyr presenting a group of children with a large fish and a handful of fruit. Two soldiers clash in the background while several nudes observe the scene. [1,001]
"Daisy Miller: A Study" --> The title character of this short story is a young American traveling abroad in Europe. She dies after a late-night tryst in Rome with Mr. Giovanelli, much to the dismay of the narrator Frederick Winterbourne.[1,004]
Ciompi Rebellion --> This 1378 rebellion took place in Florence and was an attempt by day-laborers and shop owners to gain a political voice. [1,005]
Kinjeketile --> This play was written by Tanzanian author Ebrahim Hussein. It tells the story of the Maji-Maji rebellion of 1904-5 led by the title character, and focuses on the characters of Kitunda and Ngulumbalyo. [1,010]
matsuri or saishi --> Meaning "worship" or "festival", this term refers to an occasion of offering prayers and praise to the kami. They are closely related to the cycle of agricultural seasons and center on the communion feast known as the naorai; subsection of Japanese festivals, needs own article [1,011]
Zhou Pingwang --> This Zhou emperor was the first to have the capital moved during the Spring and Autumn period. He ruled until 720 BCE when he was succeeded by Zhou Huanwang. [1,015]
Chou-Fasman algorithm or Chou-Fasman parameters --> This method of secondary structure prediction depends on assigning a set of prediction values to a residue and then applying a simple algorithm to those numbers. If a region has four out of six contiguous residues with values over 100, it is considered an alpha-helix. [1,017]
Pwyll Penn Anwyn --> Rhiannon selects this king of Dyfed for a husband after outriding him and his fastest horsemen twice after appearing to him in a series of visions. [1,023]
Mystery and Melancholy of a Street --> This is also one of de Chirico's most famous works. It depicts a white stadium with pennant flags on the left, while in the title location, a young girl runs with a hoop. [1,025]
"An Evening Reverie" --> Identify these poems by William Cullen Bryant from lines: "O thou great movement of the universe, / Or change or flight of time, for ye are one! / That bearest, silently, this visible scene / Into night's shadow, and the streaming rays / Of starlight, whither art thou bearing me?" [1,026]
"Song of Marion's Men" --> Our fortress is the good greenwood, / Our tent the cypress tree; / We know the forest round us / As seamen know the sea." [1,027]
War of Gog and Magog (both answers required) --> According to both Islam and Judaism, this final war precedes the end-times. In Islam, the two namesake countries are led by Darius of Persia. In Judaism, they represent the nations of Gentiles, who are defeated in favor of a worldwide Israel; mentioned briefly in Gog and Magog[1,029]
Averröes or Abdul Walid Mahommed Ibn Ahmed --> This philosopher is known for this theory of "double truth" in which he attempted to resolve Aristotelian metaphysics with religion. [1,033]
hdm2 --> Levels of p53 are directly related to the probability of a cell undergoing apoptosis. In normal cells, negative feedback control of p53 is controlled by this protein, which is itself upregulated by p53 and binds to the p53's N-terminal domain. [1,037]
Law of Pragnanz --> This law of Gestalt states that of all possible perceptual experiences to which a particular stimulus could give rise, the one most closely fitting to a "good figure". [1,039]
Treaty of Fontainbleu --> This treaty between France and Spain was signed in 1807 and planned the occupation of Portugal into three divisions consisting of the Kingdom of Lusitania, the [Principality of the Algarves]] and the remaining territories. [1,040]
Hurry on Down or Born in Captivity --> This best known novel of John Wain centers on Charles Lumley, a job seeker and expert story teller. He drifts from job to job, finally becoming a radio gag writer and a financial success; former leads to a cassette by Alastair Galbraith, latter to an album by Roy Harper, neither has a link on author's page [1,041]
Homestead Act of 1862 --> This act remained in use in Alaska for 10 years after it was abandoned in the rest of the country. Name this legislation that essentially replaced the 1841 Preemption Act by creating a new set of guidelines for giving an applicant 160 acres of land in exchange for living on it for 5 years; mentioned in Homestead Acts, needs own article?
American Antiquities Act --> This 1906 act was initially intended to protect discoveries of Native American artifacts, but allowed for large tracts of land such as Devils Tower to be designated national monuments. [1,044]
Solomon Eliot Asch --> That experiment, in which subjects would often agree with the incorrect majority regarding which line was the longest, was conducted by this psychologist.
Adolpe Thiers --> The Paris Commune that formed after the war was suppressed by this French leader, who then founded the Third Republic and served as the first president from 1871-1873. [1,047]
Ballinger-Pinchot affair --> During the Taft administration, this affair resulted in the dismissal of the Chief Forester when he disagreed with the Secretary of the Interior's use of reserved land. [1,048]
Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer Theory --> This theory of superconductivity describes how electrons form Cooper Pairs. It was named for its three discoverers who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972.
Izanagi-no-mikoto --> Amaterasu was born from this god's left eye when he tried to retrieve his spouse from Yomi, the underworld. His first child with that similarly named wife of his was the deformed Hiruko.
Laura --> This figure is the subject of a poem "Oh God! That Lovely Face, That Gentle Look", and she was found in the Church of Sainte Claire in Avignon in 1327. Name this woman who was the subject of a collection of 366 poems about her life and death called Il Canzoniere; disambig.
principle focal length --> The inverse of this value is the lens power. Name this value that for a convex lens give the distance from the lens at which initially parallel rays will converge to.
Hohmann-Vetchinkin transfer orbit --> This intermediate orbit is the most fuel-efficient two impulse way to transfer between two concentric circular orbits. [1,052]
First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians (prompt on "Corinthians") --> Following Romans is this letter, one of two addressed to residents of a Greek city. Its last five chapters deal with "the spiritualities," and it includes the phrase "through a glass darkly."
Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians --> This letter was probably not actually written by Paul in prison, and tells some Turks that "There is one lord, one faith, one baptism." It focuses on the Church at large and follows the epistle to the Galatians. [1,053]
Robert Marion LaFollette, Sr. --> This Progressive involved his home state's university in his series of reforms, the Wisconsin Idea. He later carried Wisconsin in the 1924 election.
The Third of May, 1808 the Execution of the Defenders of Madrid --> Goya's best known work is probably this painting, which was paired with The Charge of the Mamelukes and depicts Spaniards, one with outstretched arms, standing before a firing squad from Napoleonic France
"The Story of Patient Griselda" --> In the final story in the Decameron, this woman is tricked by her husband but remains faithful despite being thrown out of the house. The story in which she appears is name for her "patience." [1,054]
The Sabine Women --> Nicholas Poussin also painted a depiction of the abduction or rape of these women. Jacques-Louis David later painted their "intervention." [1,055]
Kanthapura --> Characters in this novel include Rangamma, who organizes a women's resistance group, and Moorthy, a Brahmin and follower of Gandhi's satyagraha movement. Identify this novel narrated as a flashback by the wise woman Achakka, which takes place in the title village on the eve of Indian independence. [1,057]
the Cubi series --> From 1961 until his death in 1965, David Smith worked on this series of 28 large scale, geometric stainless steel sculptures burnished to a highly reflective surface with a sander. [1,058]
The Magic Lantern (accept We The People, the title under which the book was published outside the US) --> This work is preceded by a foreword titled "Witness and History", and its sections include "The Year of Truth", and "Budapest: the Last Funeral". Identify this work which chronicled the revolutions of 1988 and 1989 in Europe, at which this work's author was personally present. [1,060]
The Claim of Reason --> This book's fourth section is dedicated to the analysis of "skepticism and the problem of others," while its first is an investigation of Wittgenstein's notion of criteria. Identify this book, which further developed some of the ideas advanced by its author in his Must We Mean What We Say?[1,062]
Dobyrnya Nikitich --> This figure is stuck in dragon blood for three days before an angelic voice tells him to say an incantation and stab the ground with his spear. Name this Russian hero who disobeys his mother by bathing in the Puchai River and fights the aforementioned dragon, rescuing Zabava, who cannot marry this peasant and who is instead betrothed to Alyosha Popovich. [1,067]
Kantakouzenous --> One member of this family has captured a place in the Serbian folk imagination as a demoness who built fortresses. Identify this family whose members include that woman, Irene, the first steward of Morea, Michael, and an emperor who triumphed in a six-year civil war in the 1340s after earlier serving Andronicus III, named John VI. [1,068]
Thought and Language or Thinking and Speaking or Myshlenie i rech --> Its introduction lays out "The Problem and the Approach" and suggests "analysis into units", much like analyzing individual molecules of water. Name this book which criticizes Piaget's theory of the two title concepts in children, arguing that they vocalize their "inner speech" during cognitive development. [1,069]
Samir Zaid al-Rifai and Dr. Marouf Suleiman al-Bakhit --> Abdullah II has been in the news recently for, amid public protests, sacking a popular prime minister and his entire cabinet in order to hire a conservative replacement. Name either. [1,071]
Ehrenberg-Siday-Aharonov-Bohm Solenoid Effect --> A solenoid can be used to demonstrate this effect in which a charged particle is affected by an electromagnetic field it does not pass through. Electrons create a typical double-slit interference pattern while the solenoid is off, but are shifted with a current flowing.
Andrey Dimitriyevich Sakharov --> KGB agents visited Grossman's home and ransacked it, looking to destroy all manuscripts of Life and Fate. One manuscript had been left with a friend and later supposedly fell into the hands of this Soviet physicist, a notable dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. [1,079]
The Last of the Buffalo --> Skulls are littered in the background of this 1889 Albert Bierstadt painting, which depicts an Indian brave on a white horse spearing one of the title creatures. [1,081]
suppressor screen --> Balancer mutations are useful for uncovering recessive mutations in mutagenesis screens. This type of screen attempts to find novel mutations that mitigate the effect of a known mutation present in the strain being screened; mentioned in article for Genetic screen, needs own article? [1,084]
replicative origins or initiation origins or initiation sites (prompt on anything that indicates that the player is talking about sites where DNA replication begins; do not accept crossovers at any point there exists crossover interference, but the proteins mentioned aren't involved in it and there aren't active and passive forms of it) [1,086]
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle Adam --> In one story by this author, the actor Esprit Chaudval becomes captivated by his image in a mirror, before smashing it and retiring to a lighthouse in Brittany, where he dies of a cerebral hemorrhage. Identify this author of the stories "The Desire to be a Man" and "A Torture by Hope", best known for his novel about a German count who commits suicide with his lover Sara after discovering a treasure in his vault, Axel. [1,091]
Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib --> This work contains a laudatory preface by David Remnick and its section titled "A Most Dangerous Friend" concerns the relationship between the U.S. and Pervez Musharraf. Identify this work of journalism whose sections on "Intelligence Failure" and "The Iraq Hawks", are an attempt to trace the subtitular "Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib"; leads to the author's page [1,092]
maraboutism or the worship of talibs --> This form of saint-worship arose from a syncretism between pre-Islamic faiths in north Africa and Islam. It revolves around devotion to the namesake figures who are sometimes viewed as practitioners of magic; former leads to Marabout, latter to a disambig. [1,094]
Portrait of George Gisze --> The vase and flowers sitting on the carpeted table are the only items visible in this picture not directly related to the namesake subject's profession. Identify this 1532 work that depicts a merchant from Danzig, wearing a black jacket over a light red silk doublet and surrounded by the tools of his trade, including scissors and sticks of lacquer. [1,097]
Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb -->This 1522 Holbein work depicts the expired body of its subject lying in repose. Wounds on the hand and foot are rendered in realistic detail, but it is most notable for the fact that the title figure's eyes and mouth remain open. [1,098]
the Digambara-Svetambara split or the Jain schism (accept anything equivalent to the division in Jainism) --> This event occurred in part over the question of whether a kevalin transcended the need for sustenance and whether the texts that followed the Purva were canonical. Identify this event which resulted after the death of a man who had led a group of monks southward to avoid a famine. [1,099]
"The Pursuer" or "El persegidor" --> Dedicated to Charlie Parker, this story is narrated by Bruno, a journalist friend of the title character, and his girlfriend Deedee. Identify this short story about the jazz musician Johnny Carter, who records an album entitled Amourous. [1,100]
"Blow-up" or "Las babas del diablo" or "The Drool of the Devil" --> In this story by the author of "The Pursuer", Roberto Michel photographs a woman seducing a young man, apparently under the orders of a man watching from a parked car. Twice Michel ends up rescuing the young man, once by taking the photograph and again by later interfering in the same event he had photographed earlier; leads to the film adaptation by Antonioni, mentioned on page for Blow-up and Other Stories[1,101]
cosmic microwave background radiation anisotropy --> The power spectrum of these phenomena peaks at a multipole moment of about 200, and in general, they peak at angular scales corresponding to the mode which peaks at the time of recombination. Identify these phenomena which arise from primordial perturbations in early-universe photons. The most precise measurement of the temperature ones was made by WMAP. [1,103]
the sonnets of Gerard Manley Hopkins (accept "Hopkins's terrible sonnets" or equivalents until "terrible" is read; prompt on partial answer) --> do his sonnets need their own article? [1,109]
economic growth models (prompt on partial answer) --> One of these constructs assumes that there are three types of the central phenomenon: Warrented, natural and actual. Name these economic constructs, one of which was developed by Roy Harrod and Evsey Domar. The "exogenous" or "neo-classical" version includes labor productivity as a factor of production. [1,110]
Nicolae Andruta Ceausescu --> Ethnic strife in Targu Mures resulted in the deaths of several ethnic Hungarians in Romania just after the fall of the Communist regime under this successor of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, whose 1966 Decree upped the birth rate. [1,111]
Bellman-Jacobi-Hamilton equation --> This equation central to dynamic programming gives the value function for a given wealth level as one which solves the maximization problem of today's utility plus the discounted value function of all future consumption. It is sometimes named for Jacobi and Hamilton. [1,112]
Lanning "Lanny" Budd (accept any underlined word]] --> His mother, a woman named "Beauty", forces herself to diet to avoid what she calls "embonpoint", while he himself interviews Benito Mussolini in the novel Between Two Worlds. Identify this charismatic foreign-born grandson of an American arms manufacturer, who also stars in such novels as Wide is the Gate and O Shepherd, Speak! and who first appeared in World's End.
Leonid Ivanovich Plyushch --> This dissident who "totally had" sluggish schizophrenia was a mathematician whose interests ironically included attempting to model mental illnesses with computers. This writer of the autobiography Life's Carnival was diagnosed and detained after writing letters denouncing the quelling of the Prague Spring.
The Land of Fuck --> In The Tropic of Capricorn, the protagonist describes a promiscuous interlude in his life by saying he lived in this place, which he calls his equivalent of Dante's Purgatory. It is contrasted with the "Realm of Cunt".[1,115]
Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen cycle or Bethe-Weiszacker cycle --> Stars more than 1.3 times the mass of the sun engage in this process for generating helium through the formation of its three namesake elements. This six-step process can very rarely produce a catalytic amount of fluorine. [1,116]
Inuit myth system or Eskimo myth system --> The creation of a tupilaq figures frequently in the mythological system of these peoples, some of whom celebrated a festival that involved spousal exchange and a tug-of-war contest to honor the deity Sedna. [1,118]
"The Cataract of Lodore" -->This Robert Southey poem's speaker is asked by his son how the water comes down at the titular location. The title object "plunges along, striking and raging as if a war waging its caverns and rocks among." About a third of the poem is devoted to a series of adverbs. [1,119]
Albert Ramsdell Gurney --> One of this man's plays is set in a Christian Right-dominated future where Dexter and Alice, his professor, discover the title revolutionary play written by a fictional version of himself. Name this American playwright of Post Mortem, who also had Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III sit together and read notes and letters from their pasts in Love Letters. [1,120]
overturned fold --> Under intense deformation, one limb of a fold can be tilted beyond the vertical, producing this type of fold in which both limbs dip in the same direction. In extreme cases, the axial plane becomes horizontal, yielding a recumbent fold. [1,128]
nationalization of Mexico's oil industry (accept logical equivalents for "oil") --> This action, which was carried out on March 18, 1938, resulted in a six hour parade and was carried out under the auspices of Article 27 of a certain nation's constitution. Identify this action, which resulted in the formation of the state monopoly PEMEX. [1,130]
Larry Slade --> At the end of The Iceman Cometh, Don Parritt jumps off of a fire escape after being ordered to commit suicide by this former anarchist, who was once in a relationship with Parritt's mother. His ironic detachment from life causes the denizens of Harry Hope's bar to call him the "Foolosopher". [1,131]
First-degree price discrimination (prompt on partial answer) --> When a vendor is able to accurately predict the demand for a product in the vendor's market, the vendor can capture all of the consumer surplus by doing this, maximizing their profits. [1,137]
Kuhn Poker --> In this economic game, a two-player version of three card poker named for a game theorist who solved the assignment problem, the first player has many optimal strategies, but the second player only has one, which always puts him in the advantage. [1,138]
Werher von Braun --> The biggest prize of Operation Paperclip was this former SS officer, who was just ridiculously good at building rockets. After spending some quality interrogation time in a shack in Virginia known as P. O. Box 1142, he went on to become a major architect of the U.S. space program. [1,139]
analytic or holomorphic --> The [[Cauchy-Riemann equations give one criterion for evaluating whether a function has this property. Give this property. Give this property that a complex function on a domain R possesses if it is complex differentiable at every point in R; disambig. for both [1,140]
To Axion Esti (accept all reasonable translations like It Is Worthy, Worthy It Is, Worthy To Be, etc.) --> This major work of Elytis, a musically-structured collection of autobiographical poetry, describes Greece as "my everlasting rose" and mirrors the composition of a Greek Orthodox service. [1,142]
red and black (accept any order) --> Eeva Liisa Manner, a central figure in Finland's modernist movement, published a 1944 collection of lyric poetry named after these two colors. A more famous work titled after these colors concerns Julian Sorel's dilemma of whether to join the military or the Catholic Church; disambig. [1,147]
Ali bin Mohammad or [[[Ali ibn Mohammad]] --> The Zanj was led by this man, who claimed descent from Ali and Fatima, and adopted Karijite positions, including the promise that even a black slave could be elected caliph.[1,148]
chattermarks --> When a rock that is embedded in a glacier's bottom starts to vibrate, these fractures which can be found in lunate or the more common crescent-shaped variety, form in series at right angles to ice flow.[1,152]
"Hymn: To Light" -->In this Abraham Cowley work, which was first published in Latin, the speaker asks the title phenomenon: "Say from what golden quivers of the sky / Do all thy winged arrows fly?" [1,155]
context free languages --> The formal definition of them makes use of a 4-tupe involving a finite set of non-terminals, terminals, relations and the start symbol. Identify these languages that all possess strings that can be divided into five parts whose second and fourth portions can be made arbitrarily long by the pumping lemma that is associated with them. [1,156]
Ixca Cienfuegos (accept either name) -->Mary Elizabeth Till wrote an essay about this character's dual nature, which on one hand is fatalistic, and on the other believes Mexico can free itself from its oppression through the studying of Aztecs. Identify this narrator who instigates the downfall of Federico Robles that is described by the author as the war of death Huitzilopochtli because of his belligerent nature and the fact that he is the son of Teodula Moctezuma. [1,157]
The Logical Basis of Metaphysics -->This work by Dummett is an adaption of his 1976 William James lectures. The introduction to this work declares a turn away from the "destructive phase" of analytical philosophy that views metaphysical issues as pseudoproblems. It attempts to set the stage for a "meaning-theory" which could investigate these issues. [1,160]
Chernobyl reactor disaster --> This 1986 disaster resulted in the evacuation of the city of Pripyat in modern-day northern Ukraine, which remains uninhabited except for monitoring crews to this day. [1,161]
completely integrable (prompt on "determined" or "deterministic") --> This adjective describes a system if and only if it has as many constants of the motion as it has degrees of freedom; leads to Integrable system[1,162]
Schottky defects --> In a crystal, these defects named for a German occur when there are balances populations of vacancies on both a crystal's cation and anion sites. [1,163]
Shakespearean Negotiations --> One chapter in this work recounts a story of Montaigne about the execution of a transvestite woman who had passed for a man; that chapter is titled "Fiction and Friction". Identify this work, which sets out to construct what its author termed "a poetics of culture", and to conduct an inquiry into the "Renaissance modes of aesthetic improvement", in its opening chapter "The Circulation of Social Energy".[1,164]
The Sybil or Sibyllan --> The title character of this work loses her position after having a child by a one-armed man and relates her story to a figure who turns out to be the Wandering Jew. Identify this novel whose title character is a priestess in a pagan temple. [1,165]
Dalton Ames --> In the second section of The Sound and the Fury, Quentin remembers threatening to kill this man after learning that he had sex with Caddy. Quentin tells his father that he had committed incest upon realizing that Caddy may be pregnant with this man's child. [1,167]
a red tie (prompt on partial answer) -->In the final section of The Sound and the Fury, Caddy's daughter Quentin steals her support money and elopes with a man who works for the circus, who is known by this piece of colored clothing he wears; disambig. [1,168]
"The Bridge of Dreams" --> The narrator lives at a house called Heron's Nest, and enjoys breastfeeding from both his mother and his stepmother, both of whom are named Chinu. Name this story, in which Tadasu's wife Sawako teaches him how to massage his stepmother. This story ends when Sawako murders Tadasu's stepmother with a poisonous centipede. [1,170]
Vanitas paintings --> Often associated with the city of Leiden, important practitioners of this style of painting included Jan Davidsz de Heem and David Bailly. Identify this moralistic brand of still life painting which took its name from the opening verse of Ecclesiastes and depicted lavish worldly possessions next to items emphasizing man's mortality, such as skulls and fading lamps. [1,171]
Indeterminacy of Translation --> It is similar to its formulator's argument against reductionism, since explanations can always be made to fit the data. Name this argument put forth in Word and Object about the inability to decipher an unknown language. [1,172]
stimulus meaning --> This gives an equivalence relation for words in possibly different languages. It is defined as the ordered pair of all perceptions that would yield assent or dissent from a given speaker upon hearing the given word. [1,173]
natal pulses --> The major sources of variability within the Agulhas Current are these meanders, in which a cold-core cyclone propagates on the inshore side of the current. These transients occur about 6 times per year and travel at a speed of almost 10 kilometers per day. [1,174]
the sonnets of John Milton (prompt on partial answer) --> do the sonnets need their own page? [1,175]
"Dizzy With Success" or "Dizzy From Success" or "Dizziness From Success" --> Many Soviet peasants left collective famrs after Joseph Stalin published this 1930 essay in Pravda. It blamed local officials for the abuses of collectivization, and argued that they were carried away by the enthusiastic feeling alluded to in its title. [1,181]
disharmony (accept word forms like disharmonic diversity) --> In island biogeography theory, this term refers to divergence between the species found on an island and those on its neighboring continent, like the relative enrichment of finch species on the Galapagos. Unlike impoverishment, this term refers to both positive and negative discrepancies in species representation; leads to Harmony in the musical sense [1,183]
Abel Drugger or Nab --> David Garrick was particularly admired for his skill portraying this character's terror at breaking a urinal. Name this tobacconist who asks Subtle for advice about improving the feng shui of his shop in a 1610 comedy; leads to The Alchemist (play), the play that features Drugger [1,185]
Pacific Jurassic quiet zone --> This part of the magnetic anomaly record is completely devoid of the magnetic stripes detected elsewhere. It has been suggested that this is due to a combination of low-amplitude magnetic anomalies combined with rapid field fluctuations, which could be due to either intensity or polarity changes. [1,189]
seventh circle --> Dante must oblige the Minotaur to enter this circle, which contains centaurs shooting arrows at violent people boiling in a river of blood. Name this circle of Hell that is divided into three rings and includes blasphemers like Capaneus. [1,190]
Mister Bones or Brudder Bones --> This common character of the minstrel would often be portrayed as a buffoon while interacting with the tambourine playing Tambo or in dialogues with the much more sophisticated Interlocutor; leads to a DC Comics character [1,191]
The Fate of the Animals --> Franz Marc wrote "And All Being is Flaming Suffering" on the back of this painting, which depicts a blue deer and other cubic title figures looking in anguish as trees fall and streaks of flame rain from the sky. [1,192]
Portrait of Chaim Soutine --> A small brown table with a single glass can be seen to the right of this painting's title figure, who wears a black suit and has his hands crossed in front of him. Identify this 1917 depiction of a Jewish Belarusian artist who made his name with several paintings depicting carcasses of beef. [1,195]
On Women or Uber die Weiber --> This work condemns the title group for having "no sense of justice" and argues that their "trade-jealousy" is all-pervasive because they have "only one kind of business". Identify this essay which argues that the title people are unable to take a "purely objective interest in anything," because they prefer indirect to direct mastery; latter leads to the author's page [1,196]
Petri brothers --> These brothers are commemorated at the Storkyrkan church in Stockholm's Old Towm. Give the last name of these two brothers, named Olaus and Laurentius, who as writers and theologians helped convert Sweden to Lutheranism in the 1520s. [1,198]
equation of hydrostatic equilibrium --> This equation is combined with the appropriate polytrope to yield the Lane-Emden equation. It sets the pressure gradient to minus the mass times the density over radius squared, times the universal; gravitational constant, and is obtained for the steady-case state of Euler-Lagrange flow; no separate article for the equation [1,200]
kinetic isotope effects --> They are primary if the substitution occurs at a site of bond breaking in the rate-determining step ofa reaction and secondary otherwise. Identify these phenomena, in which substituting an atom with a different mass number causes a change in reaction rate. [1,204]
"Yet Do I Marvel" --> The speaker of this poem wishes to know why "tortured Tantalus / Is baited by the fickle fruit" and Sisyphus must "struggle up a never-ending stair". Name this sonnet, originally published in the 1925 collection Color, whose speaker does not understand why God would "make a poet black, and bid him sing!" [1,209]
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy --> This book's last chapter borrows the American Confederacy's euphemism for slaver, "the peculiar institution", to describe morality. Identify this work of philosophy in which the author critiques what he terms the "morality system", under which particular moral obligations need to be logically backed by general ones, and the possibility of "moral luck" is denied; leads to the author's page [1,210]
babalawos --> These individuals are the only ones allowed to perform the ritual of Ifa divination, which consists of throwing a small chain with eight attached pieces, each of which can land concave or convex side up. Identify these priests of a syncretic religion. [1,211]
Arafa --> This central figure of the final section of The Children of Gebelawi has no religious equivalent. He is a scientist who succeeds in producing explosives, only to be forced to supply despotic rulers with these weapons; leads to Mount Arafat[1,212]
The Doctor In Spite of Himself or Le Medecin Malgre Lui --> The woodcutter Sganarelle is mistaken for and forced to perform the duties of the title character in this Moliere play, whose subplot concerns Lucinde's desire to marry Léandre, against the wishes of her father. [1,213]
grapheme (do not accept graphite) --> One proposed device using this material is a nano-ribbon field effect transistor. Identify this 2-dimensional form of carbon which was extracted by Geim and Novoselov by peeling apart a similar material with scotch tape; leads to a linguistic term, possible misspelling of "Graphene"? [1,216]
Charles Swann (accept either) --> This man marries his mistress, the prostitute Odette de Crecy, who had introduced him to the Verdurins. Name this father of Gilberte who decides to marry Odette after hearing Vinteuil's music for the second time; leads to a cricket player [1,217]
Morris or Morrie --> In The Blood Knot, this brother of Zachariah can pass for white and spends his brother's money getting dressed as a gentleman to meet Ethel Lange; disambig. for both [1,218]
cap-snatching (accept things like "Cutting off the 5' cap" or "stealing the 5' cap") --> Hantaviruses accomplish this task using cytoplasmic P-bodies, while the canonical pathway observed in orthomyxovirus requires the endonuclease activity of PB1. Name this mechanism used by viruses to co-opt the host cell protein translation machinery, which is an alternative to internal ribosome entry sequence usage. [1,219]
The Mississippi Bubble --> This financial bubble, created by exaggerated reports of Louisiana's wealth and the overvaluation of the titular company's stock, collapsed in 1720 due to large-scale panic and attempts to convert stock to specie; leads to a novel of the same name, mentioned on page for Mississippi Company[1,221]
Y combinator (prompt on fixed-point combinator) --> Haskell Curry discovered this function which takes a function and outputs a recursive version of that function. It can also be used to find a fixed point of the function; disambig. [1,222]
utility functions (accept "utility" after "function"; prompt on indifference curves until "function") [1,224]
time, place, and manner restrictions (accept in any order) --> While freedom of speech cases are generally reviewed under strict scrutiny, these three restrictions of speech trigger intermediate scrutiny, and require that the regulation is content neutral and leaves other avenues open for expression. [1,225]
Walsh model --> This model of cyclopropane views the three carbons as sp2 hybridized, with the hybrid orbitals pointing to the center of the ring. It successfully explains why cyclopropane has an affinity for electrophilic regions[1,226]
Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr or "Comedien et Martyr" --> The title figure of this work is called in its opening pages a passeiste, or someone who does not belong in his time, and this work includes sections titled "First Conversion: Evil", "Second Metamorphosis: The Aesthete" and "Third Metamorphosis: The Writer". Identify this work of literary criticism about the title "Actor and Martyr". [1,229]
Kroenecker delta function --> This function is the value of the inner product of two vectors from an orthonormal basis. It evaluates to one if its two arguments are the same and zero otherwise.
Dirichlet function or indicator or characteristic function of the rational numbers --> This function on the reals returns zero for irrational inputs and one for rational inputs. It is sometimes named for a mathematician who also names a kernel that is the convolution of it with a given Fourier series; subsection of Nowhere continuous function, needs own article? [1,232]
"Der Lindenbaum" or "The Linden Tree" --> In this fifth song of the Winterreise, the singer hears the rustling of the title object's branches, and imagines that they call out "Come to me, friend, here you will find your rest" inviting him to commit suicide; former leads to Winterreise, needs own article? [1,245]
absolutely unstable flow --> The formation of a von Karman street can be avoided by placing a perturbation a short distance behind a body such as a wing. This is because the wake flow has this property in that region, which is characterized by an energy density that does not die away with time as for a convectively unstable flow. [1,251]
The Lulu Plays --> This work's title character appeases the Marquis Casti-Piani by offering him her stocks, which turn out to be worthless, and among her admirers are the Countess Geschwitz and Dr. Goll, her first husband, who dies after catching her with the painter Schwartz. Identify this play divided by its author into two parts, titled The Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box. [1,253]
The Marquis of Keith or Der Marquis von Keith --> Wedekind himself acted the title part of this 1900 play, which he considered his greatest. It concerns the adventures of the title con man and his philosophical debates with his friend Ernst Scholz. [1,255]
US-India Civil Nuclear Agreement (accept equivalents that indicate the treaty governed proliferation of nuclear energy technology from the US to India) --> A recent Wikileaks disclosure alleged cash was paid for parliamentary votes favorable to this 2008 treaty. This treaty was made possible when one side amended the 1954 Atomic Energy Act, making it possible to conclude this treaty, pursuant to that act's section 123. [1,258]
kinetoplasts (accept eukinetoplasts) --> The DNA within these structures exists as maxicircles or concatenated minicirlces. Name these structures that are the distinguishing characteristics of a class of unicellular organisms. They consist of an enlarged, DNA-packed mitochondrion at the base of the organism's flagellum. [1,259]
Paul Riesling --> Sinclair Lewis' character George Babbitt rebels against his conformist lifestyle after this friend of his shoots his wife Zilla and is sent to jail. Throughout Babbitt, this character laments giving up his dream of becoming a professional violinist to enter the roofing business; leads to Babbitt (novel), needs own article? [1,260]
Mycetes --> In the first part of Tamburlaine, Cosroe schemes to overthrow this Persian emperor. He sends his soldiers to defeat Tamburlaine, only for them to desert and help Tamburlaine defeat him; leads to Fungus[1,262]
C2 or 2' (two prime) --> The presence of uracil is one factor differentiating DNA from RNA; the other is the presence of a hydroxyl group at this position on the ribose component of ribonucelotides; disambig. [1,269]
The Logical Foundations of Probability --> This work uses a simple formal language to construct state descriptions from the conjunction of complete descriptions of each individual. Identify this 1950 work which argues for the use of a measure called m-star, which induces a confirmation function called c-star that allows learning by induction; it was an attempt at grounding a certain branch of mathematics. [1,270]
transmission gates --> A simple multiplexer may be constructed from two of these elements, which are themselves usually made from two of these elements, which are themselves usually made from an NMOS and a PMOS transistor in parallel. Such elements use a control voltage to pass binary logic levels. [1,271]
Assembly of the gods or gathering of the kami or any equivalent mentioning the gods getting together --> According to the Kojiki, these events were said to occur in the dry riverbed of the Heavenly River, and one of these occurred when Amaterasu retreated to her cave. Identify these gatherings which were also convened during the tenth month at Izumo to discuss what was happening in the world. [1,272]
time-dependent perturbation theory (accept anything mentioning perturbations and implying that they depend on time) --> In this formalism, successive corrections are calculated by evaluating the Fourier transform of the coupling between the final and initial states induced by the first-order Hamiltonian. Identify this formalism which is also used to handle sudden changes to the Hamiltonian; subsection of Perturbation theory[1,274]
Fermi's Golden rule --> This important result of time-dependent perturbation theory states that the average transition rate is proportional to the square of the coupling between initial and final state induced by the perturbation, times a delta function of final energy minus initial energy minus perturbation energy. [1,275]
Queue Order --> After gaining power, the Qing Dynasty issued this mandate that stated that all Han Chinese must adopt Manchu clothing and the Manchu hairstyle of the pigtail, in direct violation of Confucian ethics; subsection of Queue (hairstyle)
the Second Battle of Tannenberg --> Russia attacked West Prussia to divert German forces intended for the Western Front and over a series of battles from August 17th to September 2nd collectively named this, Germany defeated Russia; leads to a different battle in World War I[1,277]
Air Sacs --> Modern birds typically have nine of these unique respiratory structures, which allow air to flow through the lungs in only one direction and keep the partial pressure of the lungs the same as that of the environment. Furthermore, modern research shows that theropods also possessed these hollow regions within their skeletons long ago; leads to Pulmonary alveolus[1,278]
photoautotrophs --> Included among these prokaryotes are cyanobacteria because they obtain ATP through photosynthesis and can use the inorganic carbon dioxide as a carbon source; subsection of Phototrophs[1,279]
Bubble Chambers --> Invented in 1952, these vessels are filled with a superheated transparent liquid, often hydrogen, which boils along the path of a charged particle. Enormous magnets are used to curve the paths of the particles, which are then photographed about 35 million times per second. [1,280]
Time Projection Champers or TPCs --> These nearly identical detectors, invented in 1974, observe charge, mass and 3D position for a very large solid angle, as they surround the beam pipe entirely. They are often filled with methane and argon and house parallel electric and magnetic fields. [1,281]
Olmec --> This was the name of the colossal stone head that announced the rules on Legends of the Hidden Temple; leads to the Mesoamerican culture of the same name
Pendant of Life --> Halves of these were won in the games and a whole one could be given to a Temple Guardian in order to go free during the final maze race; leads to Legends of the Hidden Temple
Segismundo --> This son of Basilio becomes King of Poland and marries Estrella at the end of the play; leads to Life Is a Dream[1,283]
"Memorabilia" --> It begins by asking "Ah, did you once see Shelley plain," while in the fourth and final stanza, the speaker picks up an "eagle-feather" and notes that he forgets the rest; leads to Souvenir, no mention of Browning poem on Memorabilia (disambiguation)
the Björkö Treaty --> In July 1905 this treaty providing for mutual aid between Germany and Russia was signed by Kaiser Wilhelm and Tsar Nicholas II, but it fell apart when France refused to back it.
the Amalekites --> Samuel rejected Saul for the second time after Saul didn't get the job done against this nomadic tribe, who were defeated by the Hebrews at Rephidim during the Exodus; subsection of Amalek, needs own article? [1,285]
Juho Paasikivi --> Post World War II Finland adopted a policy of strict neutrality and friendly relations with the USSR. Name either Finnish politician who gives their name to this policy, or so-called "Line," the latter of which was president from 1956 to 1981. [1,286]
Tokhtamish --> This former ally of Tamerlane's succeeded Mamai to win control of the Golden Horde and started to invade his territory, only to be defeated between 1394 and 1395, greatly weakening the Horde. [1,287]
Brillouin Theorem --> By the terms of this approximation theorem, orbital energies may be used as ionization energies for inner-shell electrons. Its generalized form my be used to calculate self-consistent field orbitals of close and open shell systems. [1,288]
guyots --> This is the term given to large seamounts, or largely extinct submerged volcanoes, which have flat tops as a result of the erosion of the volcano above sea level. [1,289]
Kafka Temura --> This main character in Haruki Murakami's most recent novel to be released in the U.S. is accompanied by an alter ego named Crow. He screws a woman to may or may not be his mother, and gets to live in a library. [1,290]
A Red Red Rose --> The speaker of this poem says that his love is like the title object, "newly sprung in June", and also like "the melody that's sweetly played in tune." Choral arrangements of this poem abound, and it ends with the speaker declaring "I will come again my love, tho' it were ten thousand mile".
"Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter" --> Generally regarded as Lorca's greatest poem, this 1935 work in four parts is effectively a surrealist elegy for his friend Ignacio Sanchez Mejias, and contains the lines, "death has covered him with pale sulphur, and has placed on him the head of a dark minotaur."
"The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg" --> The title location of this short story was "the most honest and upright in all the region around about" before the arrival of the title character.
Elizabeth --> That female role is this character, the landgrave's niece, who agrees to grant a wish to the victor of the song contest and prays for Tannhauser's return after he disappears. She also protects him when a bunch of knights draw their swords on him; disambig.
Wolfram --> This baritone character competes in the song contest against Tannhauser and sings that love is like a pure stream which should never be disturbed. He loves Elizabeth faithfully and sings a "Song to the Evening Star"; disambig. [1,293]
Reading "Lolita" in Tehran --> Published in 2003, it is a memoir by Azar Nafisi about a weekly book group she held at her home after resigning from an Iranian university. [1,297]
the Anarchiad --> Employing much burlesque satire and modeled after Pope's Dunciad, this work is probably the Wits' greatest collaborative effort. It is a mock epic subtitled, "A Poem on the Restoration of Chaos and Substantial Night," and it derides states that were not speedy in ratifying the Constitution.
The Hasty Pudding --> Probably the most famous work by any solo Wit was this mock epic inspired by his homesickness for New England and his desire for a bowl of corn porridge, a mushy dish which may have been inspired by Indians. [1,304]
Mr. Barkis --> He drives a stagecoach and is very persistent in his pursuit of Copperfield's childhood nurse Clara Pegotty. His most common statement is that he "is willin'." [1,305]
"Poetry" --> In this work Marianne Moore notes that "there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle," saying that she, too, dislikes the title noun; leads to more general article, poem mentioned on disambig. page
"The Idyl of Red Gulch" --> It depicts an incident in a small town in northern California and centers on three archetypical Western characters - the prostitutes, the town drunk and the schoolmistress.
Phillipine trench --> Until 1970, it was thought that this was the deepest point in the ocean, until the discovery of the Mariana, Tonga and Kuril trenches. [1,315]
Lagrande remainder --> Taylor series are generally truncated after some number of terms. The error from truncating after n terms can be calculated as this remainder, which assumes Taylor's theorem is a generalization of the mean value theorem.
Gustav Stresman --> While Kellogg was award the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on the pact, Briand had already been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Locarno Treaties. This German foreign minister was awarded the Nobel Prize with Briand for the Locarno Treaties.
How to Travel With a Salmon and other Essays or Il Secondo Diario Minimo - This 1992 Umberto Eco essay collection discusses eating on airplanes, the right way to greet people you know, the wrong way to use fax machines, and the dangers of spreading skin infections among kidnap victims, as terrorists tend to re-use the same hoods. [1,320]
the sub-treasury - Polk administration Treasury SecretaryRobert Walker was the namesake of a tariff bill which fulfilled Polk's pledge to lower tariff rates, and, satisfying Polk's sixth and final promise, he also oversaw the establishment of this institution, a government-operated depository for federal funds which attempted to stave off credit contractions. [1,322]
Magnetigorsk or Magnetic Mountain City - This city in the Urals was founded under Joseph Stalin in order to mine the namesake iron oxide structure. Two hundred thousand people once lived here, but now that the resource has been completely flattened, it is a sparsely populated ski resort town.
Battle of Guagamela - Darius III attempted to gain maximum use of his chariots by smoothing out a battlefield near present-day Irbil in Iraq, but Alexander diverted the cavalry to one side of the field in order to expose the infantry and come at the Persians from several sides, ending effective Persian resistance to the Macedonian march. [1,324]
Ericsson's second cycle --> The large intercooling stage number limit of a "vapor power" cycle, this cycle has two isothermal heat exchanges connected by isobaric heating and cooling stages. Like the Carnot cycle, it is reversible.
Philinte --> This man argues in favor of self-censorship and polite lies, becoming so tactful as to appear boring. While he tries to keep Alceste from ruining his standing in society, he's also able to win Éliante's affections from him. [1,327]
Lord Robert Clive --> The British forces at Plassey were commanded primarily by this jerk, who would later become both the Baron of Plassey and the governor of Bengal.
lense-thirring effect--> First suggested in 1918 and also known as the "dragging of inertial frames," this strong-field effect is the precession of the plane of orbit of a particle around a rotating mass. It is caused by the coupling of the mass's spin with the orbital angular momentum of the particle.
connection coefficients --> Though these are not tensors, they possess 3 indices which run over the space-time coordinates. Represented by a capital gamma, these quantities can be derived from the metric and are representative of the change in the basis vectors; briefly mentioned in Christoffel symbols, needs own article? [1,334]
theory of revealed preference --> Popularized by Paul Samuelson, this simply-named theory ignores utility and indifference and instead states that a consumer's purposes or subjective benefits can be extrapolated from that consumer's purchases.
The Woman from Sarajevo or Gospođica --> The second novel in Andrić's so-called "Bosnian Trilogy", this work relates the last 3 decades of the life of Raika Radaković, which coincide with the first 3 decades of the 20th century. Following the last request of her father, an impoverished merchant, Raika seeks her whole life to never part with her small fortune, and dies unloved and unlovable. [1,337]
The Bosnian Chronicles or Travinčka hronika --> Set in the Bosnian town of Travnik, this work details the period from 1807-1814 when Ottoman viziers and French and Austrian consuls vied for control of Bosnia, while the local citizenry , comprised of Catholic Croats, Orthodox Serbs, Muslim Bosniaks, Jews and Gypsies unite only in their contempt for these outsiders.[1,338]
The Little Prince - a Magical Opera --> The cast of characters in this opera, composed by Rachel Portman to a libretto by Nicholas Wright, include the Fox, the Water, the Snake and the Rose, as well as a chorus of Stars. The title character meets a number of other characters as well, including the Businessman, the Lamplighter and the Pilot, before he must eventually return to Asteroid B-612. [1,339]
Dù Fŭ or Dù Shàolíng or Dù Gōngbù --> He wished to serve his country as a capable civil servant, but has been immortalized as the Poet-Historian or Poet-Sage. He is noted for mastering all of the forms of Chinese poetry, either by making outstanding contributions or contributing outstanding examples, and his works range from direct and colloquial to allusive and consciously literary. [1,340]
Anastasio Samoza García (do not accept "Anastasio Samoza Debayle") --> He was educated in Philadelphia and served with the National Guard created by the US Marines, commanding that group after US withdrawal in 1933. After organizing the assassination of Augusto Sandino, he led a coup which overthrew the democratically elected government, and founded a dictatorship which ruled Nicaragua for 42 years. [1,341]
Áá --> It is characterized by a rough and rubbly surface composed of broken blocks of lava called clinker. As the lava flows, pieces of clinker at the tip fall down in front of the lava and are covered, depositing clinker on both the top and the bottom of the lava flow. [1,342]
Pāhoehoe --> This type of lava flow has a smooth surface and is characterized by "toes" of molten lava breaking through a cooler, hardened surface. Often, the flowing lava results in odd shapes and textures known as lava sculpture; subsection of Lava, needs own article? [1,343]
Pillow Lava --> Typically formed when lava exudes from underwater volcanic vents or when a lava flow enters the water, this type of flow is characterized by several large blobs which are connected. Because the lava cools upon touching the water, it hardens, forming a thin crust, which then cracks and produces other blobs of lava, which continue the cycle. [1,344]
"A Red Red Rose" --> In the first stanza of this poem, the speaker says "O my Luve's like the melodie / That's sweetly play'd in tune" after comparing it to the title flower. [1,345]
Law of diminishing marginal utility --> The convexity of indifference curves are dependent on this, which tells how much each additional unit is worth; mentioned in "Diminishing marginal utility" subsection of Marginal utility
Perfect complements (accept variations, e.g. "perfectly complementary," but do not prompt on "complements") --> If indifference curves are L-shaped, then the goods are said to be these, examples of which are left shoes and right shoes, as a person who has two normal feet and only wears matching shoes won't benefit from an additional left shoe without an additional right one. [1,348]
Boreas --> He was the personification of the North Wind; disambig., mentioned on page for Anemoi
Mulciber --> This demon was the primary architect of Pandemonium, Satan's stronghold in Hell and the capital of that realm; disambig.
Sin and Death --> The gatekeepers of Hell, one apparently sprung full-grown from Satan's mind and then coupled with him to produce the other.
Chaos and Old Night --> These two lords of the realm between Hell and Earth are not strictly in Satan's domain, but they agree to help him after they hear of Satan's intention to foil God's plans. [1,350]
We Have Always Lived In the Castle --> About the isolated family of Julian, Merricat, and Constance Blackwood, it notably contains a scene where the rest of the Blackwood family was killed by arsenic mixed with sugar sprinkled on their blackberries, causing the surrounding New England town to view the surviving sisters with suspicion. [1,351]
Sir Andrew Undershaft (accept either name) --> Name Barbara's father, a model employer whose conscience about manufacturing weapons is cleaned by his belief that even deadlier than arms is poverty. [1,352]
Lady Britomart (accept either name) --> Barbara's mother is this woman, who has had a falling out with Andrew Undershaft because of his rule that his fortune must go to a foundling and not to his own family. Her name is taken from the Faerie Queene, in which a like-named character is the personification of chastity. [1,353]
Lydia Languish (accept either name) --> Both Absolute, "Beverley", and Absolute's friend Bob Acres all vie for the attention of this girl, the neice of Mrs. Malaprop; leads to The Rivals, needs own article? [1,354]
Sir Lucius O'Trigger (accept either name) --> Another who believes himself a potential suitor is this fiery Irish stereotype, who believes that love letters to him hich were actually written by Mrs. Malaprop were from Lydia. [1,355]
Rosemary Hoyt (accept either name) --> Aiding in the gradual breakup of the Divers is Dick's increasing infatuation with this woman, a pretty American movie actress who is attracted to the apparently carefree lifestyle without understanding its complexity. [1,357]
"splendid little war" --> John Hay is credited with an enduring bon mot in that it was in a letter to McKinley that he came up with this three-word phrase to describe the Spanish American conflict; leads to Spanish American War
Kaomintang --> Name the ruling party Sun founded to whose leadership Chiang Kai Shek succeeded after him.
Tollens --> Ammonia is a constituent for this reagent which in a clean reaction forms a "silver mirror" and is used in tests for aldehydes. [1,358]
complementarity --> An internet controversy has been generated by the so-called Afshar experiment, which claims to have disproven this quantum principle whose formulator was so pleased by his discovery that when knighted he used the yin-yang symbol on his crest to illustrate it. Name this principle which builds upon de Brogle's theory of wave-particle duality to suggest that a quantum mechanical system consisting of a boson or femion can either behave as a particle or as a wave, but never simultaneously as both.
sabre-toothed tigers --> The Miocene saw the first appearance of these felines notable for a prominent facial feature; leads to genus Smilodon, no separate article [1,359]
Calcium Phosphide --> Although the original formula for Greek Fire is forever lost to history, it is suspected that it might have contained this compound that reacts and ignites on contact with water.
Copper (II) Acetate --> Verdigris, a common green pigment, was created by mixing vinegar and a common metal to form this chemical compound. [1,362]
malin genie (accept evil demon or similar answers) --> "genie" leads to Jinn[1,365]
Charlie Allnut --> He and Rose Sayer manage to maneuver The African Queen through the rapids of East Africa and are married on the German ship the Louisa before their scheduled execution, from which they escape; leads to The African Queen (film), does the character need his own article? [1,366]
Frank McCloud --> When forced to provide passage to Cuba, he defeats Johnny Rocco and wins the love of Nora Temple, restoring her father-in-law's hotel in Key Largo; leads to Key Largo (film), again does the character need an article? [1,367]
Barnburners --> This group of radical New York Democrats were opposed by the Hunkers. Their objectives included preventing the extension of slavery and stopping abuses by corporations; subsection of Barnburners and Hunkers, needs own article
Snow-Bound: a Winter Idyl --> This "Winter Idyl" recounts a day from his childhood in which John Greenleaf Whittier was trapped from a blizzard, and then goes on to lament the deaths of his family members.
"Ichabod" --> This poem, which lamented Daniel Webster's support for the Compromise of 1850, begins "So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn / Which once he wore," and claims that "the Tempter hath / A snare for all"; leads to the Biblical son of Phinehas
Lineweaver-Burk Plot --> This "double reciprocal" representation of the Michaelis-Menten equation plots the inverse of initial velocity versus the inverse of substrate concentration; the x and y intercepts can be used to find maximum velocity and the Michaelis-Menten constant. answer:
Eadie-Hofstee Plot --> Plotting velocity versus velocity per substrate concentration yields this plot for the Michaelis-Menten equation where the negative slope is the Michaelis-Menten constant. [1,368]
Liam --> Charlie was in Australia to secure financial assistance from this brother who had sold Charlie's piano to move there with his wife and child; leads to a general article on the name [1,369]
Morris Townsend (accept either name) --> This suitor of Catherine's wants to marry her in order to acquire her fortune. He thinks being a doctor, like Catherine's father, is a "loathsome profession".
Lavinia Penniman (accept either name) --> This aunt of Catherine's raised her and encourages Townsend to elope with Catherine. answer: This suitor of Catherine's wants to marry her in order to acquire her fortune. He thinks being a doctor, like Catherine's father, is a "loathsome profession." [1,371]
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon --> It analyzes the disproportionate impact of failed romances on women in "A Broken Heart" and decries the "illiberal spirit of ridicule" of English travelers in "English Writers on America". Identify this early-American collection of short works by Washington Irving.
Tancredi --> This nephew of Don Fabrizio causes a scandal by courting Angelica and joining the rebel forces; leads to an opera by Rossini instead of the character from The Leopard[1,373]
"Master Harold" and the Boys --> This 1982 Fugard play investigates the relationship between Hally and the other titular characters, Sam and Willie. [1,374]
Judith --> Another important work of Honegger's early period was this 1925 opera which depicts the killing of an Assyrian general by the title character.
Sira & Hadith --> The name Sunni is derived from the religious book, Sunnah, on which the group bases its faith. The Sunnah consists of these two portions containing the story of the life of Muhammad and his validated sayings; disambig. for Sira[1,384]
Razon Vital --> In Modern Theme this rationality for life was suggested as being violated when the modern theme is subjected to living. [1,385]
sotto in su --> Corregio was a master of this technique, the extreme foreshortening of figures painted on a ceiling to give the illusion that the figures are suspended in air; mentioned as an aspect of Illusionistic ceiling painting, needs own article?
Ode in Honor of St. Cecilia's Day or Alexander's Feast or The Power of Music --> Answer the following about a poem whose grand chorus ends "With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. / Let old Timotheus yield the prize, / Or both divide the crown; / He raised a moral to the skies, / She drew an angel down." Name this Dryden poem that celebrates an event held each November 22nd; second leads to a disambig, third to an album by Kristine W.[1,387]
Time of the Hero --> Originally published as "La ciudad y los perros", this 1963 novel was Mario Vargas Llosa's first. It concerns the murder of a military school cadet to cover up the theft of an exam.
The Ruling Class or Elementi di scienza politica --> In this work, Gaetano Mosca put forth the thesis that "in every political organism there is one individual who is chief among the leaders of the ruling class," and that all societies are ruled by minorities; disambig., mentioned on author's page [1,390]
States of Mind --> Boccioni's most ambitious series of paintings was this series of 3, individually subtitled 'Farewells", "Those who Go" and "Those who Stay", which depicts the inner feelings of people at a train station. [1,393]
polyphyletic grouping --> This is grouping predicated on an artificial construct based on a factor other than common descent, such as warm-bloodedness. [1,395]
Lagrange remainder formula --> This is the simplest and earliest-devised estimator of the truncation error for a finite Taylor series. It bounds the error as the maximum of the next derivative on the expansion range, times the normal weighting. [1,396]
Wilhelm Meister (accept either underlined part) --> Werther receives advice from this friend with whom he corresponds. His Apprenticeship would become the subject of a later Goethe work; no article about the character [1,397]
Artemio Cruz (accept either name) --> This protagonist of a 1962 novel is balanced by a third voice that separates the accusatory "Thou" and defensive "I". Oh yeah, and it's about a former political boss who reflects on his shady life as Catalina and Teresa scheme to inherit his land; no article for the character; needs article? [1,398]
The Shortest Way with Dissenters --> Daniel Defoe was fined, imprisoned, and pilloried for this 1702 pamphlet that saw him ironically demand a total suppression of those who express their difference of opinion with the government. [1,402]
the interosseus muscles --> This group of seven intrinsic muscles is named for its location, between the bones of the metacarpals. [1,403]
Stokes hypothesis --> This hypothesis defines the theoretical fluid state. It states that minus three-halves the coefficient of viscosity is the "molecular" viscosity, or lambda - minus 2/3 mu. [1,405]
oroborus or uroboros or oroborus or uroboros --> This creature's name means "tail-eater" which is appropriate, since it's a serpent eating its own tail. It symbolizes the infinitude of time. [1,406]
Wolfram van Eschenbach (accept either underlined part) --> This baritone character competes in the song contest against Tannhauser and sings that love is like a pure stream which should never be disturbed. He loves Elizabeth faithfully and sings a "Song to the Evening Star". [1,410]
Tokhtamish --> This former ally of Tamerlane's and leader of the White Horde succeded Mamai to win control of the Golden Horde and started to invade his territory, only to be defeated between 1394 and 1395, greatly weakening the Horde. [1,411]
the Epistle of Saint Paul the Apostle to Philemon --> This twenty-five-verse letter, Paul's shortest, was written to reconcile the Christian slave Onesimus with the titular Christian master, to whom Onesimus returns as a "beloved brother". [1,414]
"A Red Red Rose" --> The speaker of this poem says that his love is like the title object "newly sprung in June" and also like "the melody that's sweetly played in tune." Choral arrangements of this poem abound and it ends with the speaker declaring "I will come again my love / Tho' it were ten thousand mile.". [1,415]
guyots --> This is the term given to large seamounts or largely extinct submerged volcanoes that have flat tops as a result of the erosion of the volcano above sea level. [1,417]
virial equation of state --> The van der Walls equation is a second-order truncation of this general equation, which states that the compressibility is 1 plus the sum over N of temperature functions divided by a specific volume to the N. [1,422]
consumer utility function --> This mapping from consumption sets onto real numbers measures the amount of satisfaction or benefit a consumer gains from consuming the items in a consumption set. Jevons defined its marginal. [1,424]
Carlos Argentino Daneri --> This cousin of Beatriz is trying to use The Aleph to write an epic poem. Though he is unable to do so after his house is demolished, he still wins second prize in an Argentine national literary competition. [1,429]
functionals --> These mappings from spaces of functions onto ones of numbers are often integrals. The calculus of variations seeks to optimize them and the variation is sometimes called their namesake differential. [1,430]
Fowre Hymnes --> Published in 1596, this work consists of like-titled sections "in Honour of Love", "in Honour of Beautie", "of Heavenly Love" and "of Heavenly Beautie". [1,432]
The Star or L'etoile or Dancer on Stage or La danseuse sur la scene --> Showing the title character, who wears a black necklace and white dress with flowers, from almost directly above as she pirouettes, this 1878 Edgar Degas has an indistinct and almost abstract crowd at upper-left; disambig. for both, no mention of the Degas painting on either [1,433]
