Roy Medvedev: Books: …of that Soviet leader, while All Stalin’s Men (1984) presents biographies of six of Stalin’s lieutenants who managed to survive him. The Unknown Stalin: His Life, Death, and Legacy (2004) was written with his brother. In On Socialist Democracy (1975), Medvedev presented his own political views, calling for both democratic…

Samuel Beckett: The humor and mastery: His radio plays, such as All That Fall (1957), are models in the combined use of sound, music, and speech. The short television play Eh Joe! (1967) exploits the television camera’s ability to move in on a face and the particular character of small-screen drama. Finally, his film script Film…

Douglas Sirk: From All That Heaven Allows to Imitation of Life: With the glossy All That Heaven Allows (1955), Sirk again found plenty of room for his carefully heightened embellishments, creating another work that was hugely popular with contemporary audiences. It later would be championed by a wide range of critics, as would Written on the Wind (1956), which…

Arthur Peacocke: The posthumously published All That Is: A Naturalistic Faith for the Twenty-first Century (2007), composed as he was dying of cancer, contains a summation of Peacocke’s beliefs, as well as responses from noted theologians and scientists.

Bob Fosse: Later work: Following open-heart surgery, Fosse directed All That Jazz (1979), a self-indulgent though hardly self-serving autobiographical film. In a career-defining performance, Roy Scheider starred as the driven, womanizing, self-destructive director-choreographer. The musical featured notable dance numbers and a strong script, but Fosse frequently interrupted the fast-paced story for hallucinations about death…

The Devil and Daniel Webster, American fantasy film, released in 1941, that was based on Stephen Vincent Benét’s 1937 short story of the same name. The movie is noted for its innovative camera work and Academy Award-winning score. Jabez Stone (played by James Craig), a down-on-his-luck 19th-century

U2: Pop, All That You Can’t Leave Behind, and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb: The aptly titled All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000) and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004) were focused on riffs and songs rather than atmosphere and mystery, and they succeeded in reestablishing the quartet as a commercial force, but at what price?

Nan Goldin: …subject of Laura Portras’s documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, which won the best film award at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary.

John Boyne: …Boyne later published a sequel, All the Broken Places (2022), for an adult audience. Boyne’s second book for younger readers was Noah Barleywater Runs Away (2010), a fairy tale combining elements of magic and fantasy with life lessons.

Daniel Handler: …later explored teeenage sexuality in All the Dirty Parts (2017), which centres on a 17-year-old boy. The dark comedy Bottle Grove was published in 2019. He also wrote Why We Broke Up (2011), a young-adult novel about first love, and the children’s picture book The Dark (2013).

All the King’s Men, novel by Robert Penn Warren, published in 1946. The story concerns the rise and fall of Willie Stark, a character modeled on Huey Long, the governor of Louisiana during the time frame of the novel (late 1920s to early ’30s). The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947. Stark comes

Sean Penn: Into the Wild, Milk, and Fair Game: life; The Interpreter (2005); and All the King’s Men (2006), an adaptation of Robert Penn Warren’s novel about a populist politician. Penn returned to directing with Into the Wild (2007). The film—based on Jon Krakauer’s best-selling book of the same name—chronicles the journey of Christopher McCandless, an idealistic college graduate…

Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.: …result was such films as All the King’s Men (1949), Born Yesterday (1950), From Here to Eternity (1953), On the Waterfront (1954), The Caine Mutiny (1954), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), A Man for All Seasons

All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr, is a sprawling, nonlinear narrative set in World War II and told from the perspectives of two children—Marie-Laure LeBlanc and Werner Pfennig—as they grow up in the midst of a world torn apart. Told in short, alternating chapters, Doerr juxtaposes the

Robert Aldrich: The 1970s: …amusing was the popular comedy …All the Marbles (1981), with Peter Falk as the unprincipled manager of a pair of women wrestlers. Faced with declining health, Aldrich subsequently retired from directing.

Ridley Scott: …2017 include Alien: Covenant and All the Money in the World, about the 1973 kidnapping of oil baron and philanthropist J. Paul Getty’s grandson. The latter movie was finished in October 2017—some two months before its scheduled release—when Kevin Spacey, who played Getty, was accused of sexual harassment. Fearing moviegoers…

Adolph Simon Ochs: …Ochs adopted the slogan “All the News That’s Fit to Print” (first used October 25, 1896) and insisted on reportage that lived up to that promise. Despite an early shortage of capital, he refused advertisements that he considered dishonest or in poor taste. In 1898, when sales were low…

Phil Ochs: His first album, All the News That’s Fit to Sing (1964), reflected his aspirations as a “singing journalist.” A wavery tenor, Ochs employed melodic lyricism, strident leftist views, and dry wit to engage listeners. For a time he was seen as the most serious challenger to Bob Dylan…

Laurence Fishburne: Film roles: … (2021), and the espionage drama All the Old Knives (2022). In 2024 he had a supporting role in Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, a sprawling epic about an idealistic, ambitious architect (Adam Driver) who is seeking to remake and revive a great city. The following year Fishburne played a CIA official…

All the President’s Men, nonfictional book written by The Washington Post journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward and published in 1974. The book recounts their experiences as journalists covering the break-in on June 17, 1972, at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate

Alan J. Pakula: Films of the 1970s: His next effort, All the President’s Men (1976), was an adaptation of the best-selling book by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (played in the movie by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, respectively) about the Watergate scandal. Applying the techniques he had developed in Klute and The Parallax View…

Billy Bob Thornton: Sling Blade and A Simple Plan: …Damon and Penélope Cruz in All the Pretty Horses (2000), a film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s 1992 novel, and wrote, directed, and starred in Daddy and Them (2001), a comedy about a dysfunctional southern family.

All the Pretty Horses, best-selling novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, published in 1992 and made into a film in 2000. It was McCarthy’s first commercially successful book, winning several awards and selling many more copies than his earlier works. Set in 1949, All the Pretty Horses, the

Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine: Professional life: …lord chancellor during the so-called Ministry of All the Talents. His latter years were marked by private sorrows and misfortunes, which caused him almost completely to withdraw from public affairs. Toward the close of his life, however, he again achieved widespread prominence by his role in defense of Queen Caroline,…

Bryan Cranston: Theater: …role for a 2016 HBO film of the same name. In 2017 Cranston made his London stage debut, starring in the play Network, about a television network that exploits the breakdown of one its news anchors. For his performance, he won an Olivier Award for best actor. Cranston reprised the…

Bryan Cranston: Theater: … debut in Robert Schenkkan’s play All the Way (2014). His portrayal of U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson as he struggled to achieve passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 earned him a Tony Award. He reprised the role for a 2016 HBO film of the same name. In 2017…

Like any playwright, William Shakespeare made stuff up. More often than not, though, he used real-life places as the settings for his plays. From England to Egypt, here’s what’s going on in some of those places today. (Read: The Shakespeare Authorship Question) list, encyclopedia, britannica,

Charles Dickens: Journalism: …Words (1850–59) and its successor, All the Year Round (1859–88). Popular weekly miscellanies of fiction, poetry, and essays on a wide range of topics, these had substantial and increasing circulations, reaching 300,000 for some of the Christmas numbers. Dickens contributed some serials—the lamentable Child’s History of England (1851–53), Hard Times…

Gwyn Thomas: Thomas’s next important novel, All Things Betray Thee (1949), set in an ironworks in industrial Wales in 1885, is grim in style and tone but relieved by an ironic humour. A Few Selected Exits (1968) is “a sort of autobiography.” Among his plays are The Keep (1962), Loud Organs…

radio: Pirates and public-service radio: …decades—were carrying the highly popular All Things Considered afternoon public-affairs program, among many others, and had developed a small but loyal audience. NPR did not serve hundreds of smaller FM outlets that were deemed too marginal to contribute to a national service. Hundreds of smaller community stations, therefore, unable to…

Richard Anuszkiewicz: His All Things Live in the Three (1963) has three orange diamonds with green dots on a background of red with blue dots and with red patterns in the orange diamonds.

George Harrison: …the highly successful triple album All Things Must Pass (1970), which included the memorable “My Sweet Lord.” Other popular songs included “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth),” on Living in the Material World (1973), and “Got My Mind Set on You”, on Cloud Nine (1987). In 1971 Harrison…

Anatole Litvak: The Hollywood years: …more prestigious production, the lavish All This, and Heaven Too (1940), which was based on a popular novel by Rachel Field about a governess (Davis) who falls in love with her employer (Boyer) and is later implicated in the murder of his possessive wife (Barbara O’Neil). The drama received an…

Vincent Sherman: Early work: In All Through the Night (1941), Sherman again used World War II as a theme, though he abandoned drama for humour. The popular action-comedy featured Bogart as a gambler who outwits Nazi saboteurs (Conrad Veidt and Peter Lorre).

John Cale: Solo career: …“Venus in Furs” and “All Tomorrow’s Parties,” among others.

William Gibson: All Tomorrow’s Parties (1999) concerns a clairvoyant cyberpunk who labours to keep a villain from dominating the world. Pattern Recognition (2003) follows a marketing consultant who is hired to track down the origins of a mysterious Internet video. In Spook Country (2007), characters navigate a…

Lucille Clifton: …an African American audience, include All Us Come Cross the Water (1973), Three Wishes (1976), and My Friend Jacob (1980). She also wrote an award-winning series of books featuring events in the life of Everett Anderson, a young Black boy. These include Some of the Days of Everett Anderson (1970),…

C.K. Stead: Other novels include All Visitors Ashore (1984), The Death of the Body (1986), Sister Hollywood (1989), The End of the Century at the End of the World (1992), Villa Vittoria (1997), and Talking About O’Dwyer (1999). The historical novels Mansfield, with

Anne Michaels: Early life and poetry: In the poetry collection All We Saw (2017), Michaels reflected on loss, including the deaths of writers Mark Strand and John Berger.

George Nēpia: Professional play in England and New Zealand: …Zealand Māori team—known as the All Whites for their white uniforms—on its tour of Australia in 1935. After that he played professional rugby league in England for Streatham and Mitcham, which used Nēpia’s name to attract 20,000 spectators to its first match against Oldham. In 1936–37 he played rugby league…

Vikram Seth: …form in his 1990 collection All You Who Sleep Tonight, and he also wrote the 10 stories of Beastly Tales from Here and There (1992) in tetrameter couplets. His later poetry collections include The Poems, 1981–1994 (1995) and Summer Requiem (2015).

William Rowley: …most important solitary effort is All’s Lost by Lust (performed 1619; published 1633), a romantic tragedy with a strong strain of dramatic morality, written in harsh but powerful verse. His other extant plays are comedies and include A New Wonder, A Woman Never Vext (c. 1610; published 1632), A Match…

All’s Well That Ends Well, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1601–05 and published in the First Folio of 1623 seemingly from a theatrical playbook that still retained certain authorial features or from a literary transcript either of the playbook or of an authorial manuscript.

Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu: …December 1935 he founded the All-African National Convention (AANC), which led the opposition to a series of bills whose purpose was to disfranchise Black Africans, prevent them from owning land, and keep them from selling their labor freely. The convention brought together the entire spectrum of opposition to the white…

African Games, international athletics (track-and-field) competition sponsored by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and contested by athletes representing the nations of Africa. The African Games were first held in 1965, in Brazzaville, Congo, and consisted of contests

Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu: …December 1935 he founded the All-African National Convention (AANC), which led the opposition to a series of bills whose purpose was to disfranchise Black Africans, prevent them from owning land, and keep them from selling their labor freely. The convention brought together the entire spectrum of opposition to the white…

Organization of African Trade Union Unity: …Unity and replacing the former All-African Trade Union Federation (AATUF; founded in 1961) and the African Trade Union Confederation (ATUC; founded in 1962). The ATUC from its founding had encouraged member affiliation with other international union organizations, while the more-militant AATUF had rejected such affiliation as incompatible with the development…

All-America team, honorific title given to outstanding U.S. athletes in a specific sport in a given year competing at the collegiate and secondary school levels. Originally the term referred to a select group of college gridiron football players. Athletes selected to an All-America team are known

Calexico: …the city limits is the All-American Canal, which irrigates the valley. The city’s name, like that of Mexicali, is a combination of the names California and Mexico. Inc. 1908. Pop. (2000) 27,109; (2010) 38,572.

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), American sports organization that, between 1943 and its dissolution in 1954, grew from a stopgap wartime entertainment to a professional showcase for women baseball players. From the time of its inception in 1943 until the time of its demise

Akron: …the site of the annual All-American Soap Box Derby for homemade gravity-powered cars. The city’s cultural centres include the Akron Art Museum and the Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens (with antiques dating from the 14th century). The construction of a new convention centre (1994), the National Inventors Hall of Fame…

Arab Feminist Union (AFU), transnational organization of feminist associations from Arab countries, which first convened in 1944. The Arab Feminist Union (AFU) focused on achieving social and political gender equality while promoting Arab nationalism. The Egyptian Feminist Union (EFU) and its

seaplane: …War II development was the pantobase, or all-base, airplane incorporating devices for operating from water or from a variety of unprepared surfaces such as snow, ice, mud, and sod.

organized labour: Establishment of industrial unionism: …joined the remnants of the All-Canadian Congress of Labour, which had formed in 1927 on the dual principles of industrial unionism and Canadian nationalism, to create the Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL) in affiliation with the American CIO. Only during World War II, however, did organizational realities begin to catch…

Chinese literature: The war years: 1937–49: …Quanguo Wenyijie Kangdi Xiehui (“All-China Anti-Japanese Federation of Writers and Artists”), founded in 1938 and directed by Lao She. All genres were represented, including reportage (baogao wenxue), an enormously influential type of writing that was a natural outgrowth of the federation’s call for writers to go to the countryside…

Chinese literature: The war years: 1937–49: …Quanguo Wenyijie Kangdi Xiehui (“All-China Anti-Japanese Federation of Writers and Artists”), founded in 1938 and directed by Lao She. All genres were represented, including reportage (baogao wenxue), an enormously influential type of writing that was a natural outgrowth of the federation’s call for writers to go to the countryside…

All-China Women’s Federation (ACWF), the official, state-sponsored organization representing women’s interests in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Founded on April 3, 1949, the basic mission of the All-China Women’s Federation’s (ACWF) is to represent and safeguard the rights and interests of

China: Labor and taxation: …of the movement is the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, which discharges its functions through a number of regional federations.

All-China Women’s Federation (ACWF), the official, state-sponsored organization representing women’s interests in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Founded on April 3, 1949, the basic mission of the All-China Women’s Federation’s (ACWF) is to represent and safeguard the rights and interests of

badminton: Origin and development: …known of these is the All-England Championships. The BWF classifies its tournaments into four grades to organize competitions based on prestige, ranking points, and prize money. Grade 1 tournaments represent the highest level of competition in the BWF tournament structure. These prestigious events attract top-ranking players from around the globe.…

Wimbledon Championships, major international tennis tournament played annually at Wimbledon, a neighborhood in Merton, an outer borough of London. The competition, held in late June and early July, is one of the four annual Grand Slam tennis events—along with the Australian, French, and U.S.

tennis: Origin and early years: …was the decision of the All England Croquet Club to set aside one of its lawns at Wimbledon for tennis, which soon proved so popular that the club changed its name to the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club. In 1877 the club decided to hold a tennis championship,…

cricket: The early years: In 1846 the All-England XI, founded by William Clarke of Nottingham, began touring the country, and from 1852, when some of the leading professionals (including John Wisden, who later compiled the first of the famous Wisden almanacs on cricketing) seceded to form the United All-England XI, these two…

Indian summer, period of dry, unseasonably warm weather in late October or November in the central and eastern United States. The term originated in New England and probably arose from the Indians’ practice of gathering winter stores at this time. This autumn warm period also occurs in Europe,

Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair: …served as chairman of the All-India Committee, which in 1928–29 rather ineffectually met with the Simon Commission (Indian Statutory Commission, comprising British politicians) concerning Indian constitutional problems.

Indian National Congress, broadly based political party of India. Founded in 1885, it dominated the Indian movement for independence from Great Britain. It subsequently formed most of India’s governments from the time of independence and often had a strong presence in many state governments. Since

Jagjivan Ram: …the founding (1935) of the All-India Depressed Classes League, an organization dedicated to attaining equality for Dalits. During the late 1930s he also was elected to a position in the Bihar government and helped organize a rural labour movement.

Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan: In 1886 Sayyid organized the All-India Muhammadan Educational Conference, which met annually at different places to promote education and to provide the Muslims with a common platform. Until the founding of the Muslim League in 1906, it was the principal national centre of Indian Islam.

Ahmed Ali: …became a founder of the All-India Progressive Writers Association (1936), which promoted innovation in Urdu literature. His influential short fiction—collected in such volumes as Sholay (1936; “The Flames”) and Hamari gali (1942; “Our Lane”)—is characterized by its sense of realism and social awareness and by its use of stream of…

Punjab: History of Punjab: …Akali Dal (SAD) and the All India Sikh Students’ Federation were demanding the establishment of an autonomous Sikh homeland, or Khalistan (“Land of the Pure,” a term introduced as early as 1946 by Tara Singh). In order to attain their goal, those groups began to use terrorism, including the indiscriminate…

All-India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), India’s second largest trade union federation after the Indian National Trade Union Congress. The AITUC was formed by the Indian National Congress (the central organ of the independence movement) in 1920 to represent India at the International Labour

India Gate, monumental sandstone arch in New Delhi, dedicated to the troops of British India who died in wars fought between 1914 and 1919. Located at the eastern end of the Kartavya Path (formerly called Rajpath), India Gate is about 138 feet (42 meters) in height. India Gate is one of many

all-or-none law, a physiological principle that relates response to stimulus in excitable tissues. It was first established for the contraction of heart muscle by the American physiologist Henry P. Bowditch in 1871. Describing the relation of response to stimulus, he stated, “An induction shock

flour: …starch-free, high-protein, whole wheat flour; all-purpose flour, refined (separated from bran and germ), bleached or unbleached, and suitable for any recipe not requiring a special flour; cake flour, refined and bleached, with very fine texture; self-rising flour, refined and bleached, with added leavening and salt; and enriched flour, refined and…

printing: Mechanical composition: slugcasting typesetters: The All-Purpose Linotype is a combination manual and automatic machine that retains only the casting part of the Linotype. Special matrices, solidly rectangular or with notches, ears, and heels, are assembled by hand in a composing stick. Justification is done with blank matrices of various sizes.…

soviet: In June 1917 the first All-Russian Congress of Soviets, composed of delegations from local soviets, convened in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg). It elected a central executive committee to be in permanent session, with this committee’s presidium at the head of the congress. The second congress met right after the radical…

Cheka, early Soviet secret police agency and a forerunner of the KGB

Yuly Borisovich Khariton: …KB-11, Arzamas-16, and currently the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics, which was responsible for designing the first Soviet fission and thermonuclear bombs.

Soviet Union: The February Revolution: …to form in Petrograd the All-Russian Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies. The All-Russian Soviet assumed responsibility for ensuring that the provisional government, which it labeled “bourgeois,” did not stray from the path of progress. It legislated on its own without bearing responsibility for the consequences. On March 1 (March…

rock: Stress and strain: …simple compression—or shear (tangential), or all-sided (e.g., hydrostatic compression). The terms stress and pressure are sometimes used interchangeably, but often stress refers to directional stress or shear stress and pressure (P) refers to hydrostatic compression. For small stresses, the strain is elastic (recoverable when the stress is removed and linearly…

Frank Miller: Miller’s All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder (2005–08; with artist Jim Lee) was perhaps his most divisive work yet, with readers left wondering whether the violent take on the caped crusader was intended as parody.

All-Star Game, in American professional baseball, a game between teams of outstanding players chosen from National League and American League teams who oppose each other as league against league. Arch Ward, a Chicago Tribune sports editor, is credited with promoting the first All-Star Game, which

Dwayne McDuffie: …2004 and adapted Grant Morrison’s All-Star Superman to film in 2011.

bicycle: Basic types: Mountain bikes have wide low-pressure tires with knobs for traction, flat handlebars, wide-range derailleur gearing with up to 27 speeds, and powerful brakes. Their flat handlebars allow an upright riding position. Many mountain bikes have front suspension similar to motorcycles. Full-suspension mountain bikes have unconventional…

Ukraine: World War I and the struggle for independence: …in turn, at the first All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets, held in Kharkiv in December, declared Ukraine to be a Soviet republic and formed a rival government. In January 1918 the Bolsheviks launched an offensive in the Left Bank and advanced on Kyiv. The Central Rada, already engaged in peace negotiations…

Ukraine: World War I and the struggle for independence: …April the more broadly convened All-Ukrainian National Congress declared the Central Rada to be the highest national authority in Ukraine and elected the historian Mykhaylo Hrushevsky as its head. The stated goal of the Central Rada was territorial autonomy for Ukraine and the transformation of Russia into a democratic, federative…

Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the major political party of Russia and the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution of October 1917 to 1991. (Read Leon Trotsky’s 1926 Britannica essay on Lenin.) The Communist Party of the Soviet Union arose from the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social

Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists, voluntary association of Baptist churches in Russia that was formed (in the Soviet Union) in 1944 by uniting the Union of Evangelical Christians and the Russian Baptist Union. The Baptists in Russia grew from religious revival movements that began in the

machine-tractor station: …RTS were replaced by the All-Union Farm Machinery Association (Soyuzselkhoztekhnika).

Pioneers, former Soviet organization for youth aged 9 to 14, closely associated with the Komsomol (q.v.) for youth aged 14 to

Komsomol, in the history of the Soviet Union, organization for young people aged 14 to 28 that was primarily a political organ for spreading Communist teachings and preparing future members of the Communist Party. Closely associated with this organization were the Pioneers (All-Union Lenin Pioneer

all-volunteer force (AVF), military force composed solely of volunteers, without resorting to a military draft. The United Kingdom was one of the first nations to abolish conscription and has relied on an AVF since 1960, followed by New Zealand and Australia in 1972. The United States adopted an

time signature: (cut time, or alla breve, ). Both derive from symbols of mensural notation (used from c. 1260 to 1600), the system preceding the modern one.

a cappella, (Italian: “in the church style”), performance of a polyphonic (multipart) musical work by unaccompanied voices. Originally referring to sacred choral music, the term now refers to secular music as well. The a cappella style arose about the time of the composer Josquin des Prez, in the

painting: Techniques and methods: …executed directly by a hit-or-miss alla prima method (in which pigments are laid on in a single application) was once largely determined by the ideals and established techniques of its cultural tradition. For example, the medieval European illuminator’s painstaking procedure, by which a complex linear pattern was gradually enriched with…

Alla Rakha was an Indian tabla player, widely acknowledged as one of the finest artists in India. Alla Rakha was a leading figure of the Punjab gharana (Hindi: community of musicians sharing a distinctive musical style) and was honored with the title ustad, a distinction reserved for master

Janissary music: Well-known examples of the “alla turca” genre are the final movement of Joseph Haydn’s “Military” Symphony No. 100 in G Major (1794); the final movement of Mozart’s Piano Sonata in A Major, K 331; the “Turkish March” from Ludwig van Beethoven’s incidental music to The Ruins of Athens; and…

Benin: History of Benin: …area was the kingdom of Allada (Ardra), but in the 18th and 19th centuries its place was taken by Dahomey. In the north, the largest group was the Bariba, the most important state being the kingdom of Nikki, which formed part of a confederacy including other Bariba states located in…

Maine: Drainage and soils: … and its principal tributary, the Allagash, are the major exceptions, flowing north and then east along the northern border of Maine and turning south through New Brunswick, Can., to the Bay of Fundy. The state is dotted with 2,500 lakes and ponds, the largest of which is Moosehead Lake (116…

palm: Trunks and stems: …instances of regular branching (in Allagoptera, Chamaedorea, Hyphaene, Nannorrhops, Nypa, Vonitra) appear to involve equal or subequal division at the apex that results in a forking habit. The two newly formed branches may continue equally, or one may be overtopped by the other (Nannorrhops). When thickening occurs, as in the…