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(Encyclopedia)  CE5 Examples of hieroglyphics hieroglyphic hīˌrəglĭfˈĭk, hīˌərə– [key] [Gr.,=priestly carving], type of writing used in ancient Egypt. Similar pictographic styles of Crete, Asia Minor,...

(Encyclopedia) Cambodian art and architecture: see Angkor and Khmer Empire. ...

(Encyclopedia) turn and bank indicator, aircraft instrument containing one indicator to show turning, or rotation about the vertical axis, and another to show banking, or rotation about the longitudinal axis. The tw...

(Encyclopedia) astrakhan ăsˈtrəkən [key] [from Astrakhan], pelt of the newborn Persian lamb, used like fur in garments, and also the woolen fabric woven to resemble real astrakhan. The cloth is woven on a cotton...

(Encyclopedia) Australian aborigines, indigenous peoples of Australia. The first modern humans in Australia probably came from somewhere in Asia more than 40,000 years ago, most likely sometime between 55,000 and 10...

(Encyclopedia) Dadra and Nagar Haveli däˈdrä, näˈgär hävāˈlē [key], union territory (2001 provisional pop. 220,451), 188 sq mi (487 sq km), W central India, on the Arabian Sea. Portugal colonized these two...

(Encyclopedia) botany, science devoted to the study of plants. Botany, microbiology, and zoology together compose the science of biology. Humanity's earliest concern with plants was with their practical uses, i.e., ...

(Encyclopedia) Lorraine, Lower and Upper: see Lotharingia. ...

(Encyclopedia) standard temperature and pressure: see STP. ...

(Encyclopedia) Solemn League and Covenant: see Covenanters. ...