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Halys

(Encyclopedia)Halys, river of Asia Minor: see Kizil Irmak. ...

Dipper, Big, and Little Dipper

(Encyclopedia)Dipper, Big, and Little Dipper: see Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. ...

interval

(Encyclopedia)interval, in music, the difference in pitch between two tones. Intervals may be measured acoustically in terms of their vibration numbers. They are more generally named according to the number of step...

Blake, Toe

(Encyclopedia)Blake, Toe (Hector Blake), 1912–1995, Canadian ice hockey player and coach. A left wing, Blake played (1934–35) with the National Hockey League's Montreal Maroons, spent time in the minor leagues,...

Big Dipper

(Encyclopedia)Big Dipper, familiar configuration of stars visible in the constellation Ursa Major (see Ursa Major and Ursa Minor). ...

Chopin, Frédéric François

(Encyclopedia)Chopin, Frédéric François frādārēkˈ fräNswäˈ shôpăNˈ [key], 1810–49, composer for the piano, b. near Warsaw, of French and Polish parentage. His lyrical, often melancholy, compositions ...

Constellations (table)

(Encyclopedia)Constellations 1 Zodiac constellation. ...

Amazon, in Greek mythology

(Encyclopedia)Amazon ămˈəzŏn [key], in Greek mythology, one of a tribe of warlike women who lived in Asia Minor. The Amazons had a matriarchal society, in which women fought and governed while men performed the...

Derbe

(Encyclopedia)Derbe dûrˈbē [key], ancient town of Lycaonia, Asia Minor. The Acts of the Apostles relates that Paul and Barnabas fled there from Iconium. ...

Alexandria Troas

(Encyclopedia)Alexandria Troas trōˈăs [key], ancient Greek seaport city, Mysia, NW Asia Minor, called Troas in the Bible. It was important under the Greeks and Romans. ...