Rabbe Enckell was a Finnish poet, playwright, and critic, a leading representative of the Swedo-Finnish poetic revival that began in the 1920s. Enckell studied art in France and Italy. His first collection of impressionistic nature poems, Dikter, appeared in 1923. In this collection and a sequel,

Rabbe Enckell was a Finnish poet, playwright, and critic, a leading representative of the Swedo-Finnish poetic revival that began in the 1920s. Enckell studied art in France and Italy. His first collection of impressionistic nature poems, Dikter, appeared in 1923. In this collection and a sequel,

What’s the Difference Between Enclaves and Exclaves?: An enclave, in political geography, is a territory that’s surrounded by foreign territory. The word enclave comes by way of French from the Late Latin word inclavatus, meaning “shut in or locked up (with a key).” An enclave can also be an exclave if it’s part…

Paleo-Siberian languages: Grammatical features: …of verbs, and use of enclitics—an enclitic is a word that is associated with a preceding word), whereas Yukaghir shares certain grammatical categories with some Uralic languages—for instance, the use of distinct conjugations to focus on the roles of major sentence categories (e.g., subject, object, negation): Yukaghir tet mer-ai-mek ‘you…

Sanāʾī: …was translated in English as The Enclosed Garden of Truth (1910).

solid-waste management: Digesting and processing: Enclosed mechanical composting facilities can reduce land requirements by about 85 percent. Mechanical composting systems employ one or more closed tanks or digesters equipped with rotating vanes that mix and aerate the shredded waste. Complete digestion of the waste takes about one week.

enclosed rhyme, in poetry, the rhyming pattern abba found in certain quatrains, such as the first verse of Matthew Arnold’s

enclosed rhyme, in poetry, the rhyming pattern abba found in certain quatrains, such as the first verse of Matthew Arnold’s

enclosure, the division or consolidation of communal fields, meadows, pastures, and other arable lands in western Europe into the carefully delineated and individually owned and managed farm plots of modern times. Before enclosure, much farmland existed in the form of numerous, dispersed strips

ENCODE, collaborative data-collection project begun in 2003 that aimed to inventory all the functional elements of the human genome. ENCODE was conceived by researchers at the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) as a follow-on to the Human Genome Project (HGP; 1990–2003), which

combinatorics: Orthogonal arrays and the packing problem: …in the construction of error-correcting codes. A row vector c′ is taken as a code word if and only if c′H = 0. The code words then are of length n and differ in at least t + 1 places. If t = 2u, then u or fewer errors of…

primitive culture: The closed regional market system: …been appropriately labeled the “encogido syndrome,” meaning a nearly utter lack of self-confidence.

history of Latin America: Indians and Spaniards: …there were indigenous units; the encomendero (holder of the grant) could at least initially receive only what the ruler had received before him. The larger islands were inhabited by the Arawak, a sedentary if modestly developed people with kingdoms, rulers, nobles, and obligatory labour mechanisms. Their ruler was called a…

Mesopotamian religion: Sumerian literature: …over and over again the encomiast, the official praiser, whose task it was to sing these hymns, closed with the standing phrase: “O [the name of a deity or human hero], thy praise is sweet.” The same phrase is common also at the end of myths and epics, two further…

encomienda, in Spain’s American and Philippine colonies, legal system by which the Spanish crown attempted to define the status of the indigenous population. It was based upon the practice of exacting tribute from Muslims and Jews during the Reconquista (“Reconquest”) of Muslim Spain. Although the

encomium, a prose or poetic work in which a person, thing, or abstract idea is glorified. Originally an encomium was a Greek choral song honouring the hero of the Olympic Games and sung at the victory celebration at the end of the Games. The Greek writers Simonides of Ceos and Pindar wrote some of

mental disorder: Other childhood disorders: …during the day or night), encopresis (the repeated voiding of feces into inappropriate places), sleepwalking, and night terror. These symptoms are not necessarily evidence of emotional disturbance or of some other mental illness. Behavioral methods of treatment are usually effective.

Eminem: Later albums and projects: …D12 World (2004), Eminem released Encore (2004) and a greatest-hits set, Curtain Call: The Hits (2005), both of which sold well but failed to garner as much attention as his previous albums had. He then stepped out of the public eye, resurfacing briefly in 2006 to eulogize friend and D12…

Pavel Andreyevich Fedotov: …other hand, in his painting Encore, Once Again!, the flickering candle in the centre of the still life on the table is the only source of light. Genre painting is by definition about life, yet in this ostensible genre painting life has become static, and the time of the action…

Irving Kristol: Early life and career: poet Stephen Spender cofounded Encounter, a political and literary journal; Kristol served as coeditor until his return to New York City in 1958. (When it was publicly revealed in 1967 that Encounter had been secretly financed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency [CIA], Kristol claimed not to have known…

mental disorder: Group psychotherapy: …suffering from any psychiatric disorder; encounter groups are a well-known example. This discussion, however, is concerned with long-term dynamic group therapy, in which six to 10 psychiatric patients meet with a trained group therapist, or sometimes two therapists, usually for 60 to 90 minutes a week for several months or…

Werner Herzog: Among Herzog’s later documentaries were Encounters at the End of the World (2007), which highlights the beauty of Antarctica; Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010), which explores in 3D the prehistoric paintings at the Chauvet cave in France; Into the Abyss (2011), a sombre examination of a Texas murder case; and…

Ottoman Empire: Internal developments: …to promote industrialization, with a Law for the Encouragement of Industry (1909, revised 1915). Although they had little success, they did build a framework for later state-directed economic planning. Considerable attention was given to education, especially to the neglected area of the primary level. The process of secularization of the…

Encratite, member of an ascetic Christian sect led by Tatian, a 2nd-century Syrian rhetorician. The name derived from the group’s doctrine of continence (Greek: enkrateia). The sect shunned marriage, the eating of flesh, and the drinking of intoxicating beverages, even substituting water or milk

enamelwork: Encrusted enamelling (émail en ronde bosse): Encrusted enamelling is the term used to describe the technique of enamelling the irregular surfaces of objects or figures in the round or in very high relief. Both opaque and translucent enamels are applied to these small-scale sculptural objects,…

data encryption, the process of disguising information as “ciphertext,” or data unintelligible to an unauthorized person. Conversely, decryption, or decipherment, is the process of converting ciphertext back into its original format. Manual encryption has been used since Roman times, but the term

nueva canción: The formative years: the late 1950s through the ’60s: The first of these, the International Protest Song Meeting (Encuentra Internacional de la Canción Protesta), held in Havana in 1967, drew participants from more than 15 countries and led to the Cuban government’s establishment of a Protest Song Centre (Centro de la Canción Protesta) at the House of the Americas…

Uruguay: Civilian government: …left-wing groups led by Vázquez—the Progressive Encounter–Broad Front (Encuentro Progresista–Frente Amplio; EP–FA)—won a majority in both houses of the General Assembly for the first time. During his term, Vázquez was credited with improving an economy that had been beset by years of negative growth; financing social programs; and investigating disappearances,…

education: Prehistoric and primitive cultures: …only in the sense of enculturation, which is the process of cultural transmission. A primitive person, whose culture is the totality of his universe, has a relatively fixed sense of cultural continuity and timelessness. The model of life is relatively static and absolute, and it is transmitted from one generation…

butterfly orchid: The Florida butterfly orchid (Encyclia tampensis) is native to Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas and is a common epiphytic species. It bears up to 45 small fragrant flowers that are typically yellowish or green. The pink butterfly orchid (Anacamptis papilionacea) is a small Mediterranean species with…

encyclical, pastoral letter written by the pope for the whole Roman Catholic Church on matters of doctrine, morals, or discipline. The term derives from the Greek enkyklios, meaning “circular.” Encyclicals are normally addressed to the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church, but a few—notably Pacem

Anthimus VI: …and Antioch, Anthimus wrote the Encyclical of the Patriarchs (1848), an open letter to the Orthodox world criticizing papal ambitions to exercise authority over the universal Catholic Church as represented in Pope Pius IX’s encyclical letter of Jan. 6, 1848, In Suprema Petri Apostoli Sede (“On the Supreme Throne of…

encyclopaedia, reference work that contains information on all branches of knowledge or that treats a particular branch of knowledge in a comprehensive manner. For more than 2,000 years encyclopaedias have existed as summaries of extant scholarship in forms comprehensible to their readers. The word

Encyclopædia Britannica, the oldest English-language general encyclopaedia. The Encyclopædia Britannica was first published in 1768, when it began to appear in Edinburgh, Scotland. Since its founding, the Encyclopædia Britannica has relied upon both outside experts and its own editors with various

The following is taken from the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1768–71), where it forms the seventh section of the article “Felis” in volume 2. Editor William Smellie adapted this material from the account in French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon’s Histoire

The following is taken from the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1768–71), where it forms part of the first section of the article “Canis” in volume 2. Editor William Smellie adapted this material from the account in French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon’s Histoire

Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, English-language encyclopaedia published in Great Britain from 1817 to 1845. It is arranged systematically and topically rather than alphabetically. Composed of 25 volumes of text, three of plates, and an alphabetical one-volume index, it was designed to treat

John Claudius Loudon: …building types by writing his Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture (1833). This work was unprecedented in that it was consciously addressed to the middle class rather than to an aristocratic audience. It thus helped shape Victorian suburban architecture.

encyclopaedia: The 20th century and beyond: …interesting new encyclopaedias was the Encyclopaedia Universalis (first issued 1968–74), edited by Claude Grégory and owned by the French Book Club and Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. (since 2005 solely by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.). This work, inspired by L’Encyclopédie, eschewed the inclusion of minor items in favour of extensive and very well-illustrated…

encyclopaedia: Influence of printing: …a type of dictionary—now called encyclopaedic—that added to the definition and etymology of a word a description of the functions of the thing or idea it named. In some dictionaries, such as those of the Estiennes, a French family of book dealers and printers, this description might in some cases…

encyclopaedia, reference work that contains information on all branches of knowledge or that treats a particular branch of knowledge in a comprehensive manner. For more than 2,000 years encyclopaedias have existed as summaries of extant scholarship in forms comprehensible to their readers. The word

Encyclopedia Americana, general encyclopaedia that was the first major multivolume encyclopaedia to be published in the United States (1829–33). Compiled and edited by Francis Lieber, Americana was first published in 13 volumes. Subsequent editions were published in 1911 (20 volumes) and 1918–20

Encyclopedia Brown, series of children’s mystery novels written by American author Donald J. Sobol, featuring the 10-year-old detective Leroy (“Encyclopedia”) Brown, who has tremendous knowledge of trivia and powers of deduction. The series features 29 books published from 1963 to 2012, each

Barbara Brackman: …Pieced Quilt Patterns (1979) and Encyclopedia of Applique (1993), twin compendiums of pieced (4,216) and appliquéd (1,795) quilt patterns, based on quilt collections and published sources from roughly 1800 to 1970. Brackman’s pattern compilations were also released in software format under the title BlockBase (1995, DOS; 2000, Windows). Her Clues…

ENCODE, collaborative data-collection project begun in 2003 that aimed to inventory all the functional elements of the human genome. ENCODE was conceived by researchers at the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) as a follow-on to the Human Genome Project (HGP; 1990–2003), which

Leonard Feather: …songwriter whose standard reference work, The Encyclopedia of Jazz, and energetic advocacy placed him among the most influential of jazz critics.

Barbara Brackman: …her hobby grew into the Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns (1979) and Encyclopedia of Applique (1993), twin compendiums of pieced (4,216) and appliquéd (1,795) quilt patterns, based on quilt collections and published sources from roughly 1800 to 1970. Brackman’s pattern compilations were also released in software format under the title…

Encyclopédie, (French: “Encyclopaedia, or Classified Dictionary of Sciences, Arts, and Trades”), the 18th-century French encyclopaedia that was one of the chief works of the Philosophes, men dedicated to the advancement of science and secular thought and the new tolerance and open-mindedness of the

encyclopaedia: The 20th century and beyond: The Encyclopédie de la Pléiade (begun 1955) was an encyclopaedic series, each work (some in more than one volume) being a self-contained treatment of a broad subject field written in narrative form.

encyclopaedia: The 20th century and beyond: The Encyclopédie française (begun 1935) was an outstanding collection of monographs by well-known scholars and specialists, arranged in classified form and available in loose-leaf binders, supplemented by a continuously revised index. Its 21 volumes, each under the direction of a different authority, dealt with (1) human…

Encyclopédie: …was begun under the title Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières (“Systematic Encyclopaedia or Arranged by Subject”). Work on this topically arranged encyclopaedia continued through the French Revolution and was completed in 1832 with the appearance of the 166th volume, 50 years after the appearance of the first volume.

Pierre Leroux: …established, with Jean Reynaud, the Encyclopédie nouvelle, of which only eight volumes appeared (1838–41). In 1840 he published the treatise De l’humanité, his major philosophical work.

Encyclopédie, (French: “Encyclopaedia, or Classified Dictionary of Sciences, Arts, and Trades”), the 18th-century French encyclopaedia that was one of the chief works of the Philosophes, men dedicated to the advancement of science and secular thought and the new tolerance and open-mindedness of the

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: At Heidelberg: …lectures there, he published his Encyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundrisse (1817; Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Basic Outline), an exposition of his system as a whole. Hegel’s philosophy is an attempt to comprehend the entire universe as a systematic whole. The system is grounded in faith. In the…

amoeba: …periods many amoebas survive by encystment: the amoeba becomes circular, loses most of its water, and secretes a cyst membrane that serves as a protective covering. When the environment is again suitable, the envelope ruptures, and the amoeba emerges.

John Dewey: Ends and goods: Since at least the time of Aristotle (384–322 bce), many Western philosophers have made use of the notion of end, or final cause—i.e., a cause conceived of as a natural purpose or goal (see teleology). In ethics, ends are the natural or…

Veronica Roth: Other books: The next year Roth published The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future, a book of short stories.

stringed instrument: Morphology: Other blocks, called end blocks, are mounted top and bottom center to provide firm bearings for the neck and the tailpin, which between them have to resist the tension of the strings. The ribs are slightly inset from the outline of the belly and back, so that the…

cam: …cut in the end (end cam); (5) a reciprocating wedge of the required shape.

sound: Measuring techniques: …small distance known as the end correction. The end correction depends primarily on the radius of the tube: it is approximately equal to 0.6 times the radius of an unflanged tube and 0.82 times the radius of a flanged tube. The effective length of the tube, which must be assumed…

chess: Computer extension of chess theory: …series of discoveries in basic endgames. By working backward from positions of checkmate, Thompson was able to build up an enormous number of variations showing every possible way of reaching the final ones. This has been possible with only the most elementary endgames, with no more than five pieces on…

Fugazi: … (1992), Red Medicine (1995), and End Hits (1998), Fugazi retained its churning rhythms and raw emotion, but its song structures became more varied and its lyrics more oblique and less overtly political (the band had sometimes been criticized for being too didactic and politically correct in its earlier efforts). Fugazi…

moraine: A terminal, or end, moraine consists of a ridgelike accumulation of glacial debris pushed forward by the leading glacial snout and dumped at the outermost edge of any given ice advance. It curves convexly down the valley and may extend up the sides as lateral moraines.…

Péter Nádas: …novel, Egy családregény vége (The End of a Family Story)—told from the point of view of a young boy growing up in a communist society—though, because of censorship issues, the book was not published until five years later. Soon after the novel’s completion, Nádas traveled to East Berlin on…

A.M. Homes: …of the pedophiliac mind in The End of Alice (1996), which polarized critics with its depictions of sexual violence. The novel was accompanied by an art book, Appendix A:, ostensibly a catalog of items amassed by its disturbed narrator. Music for Torching (1999) features the disaffected protagonists from “Adults Alone”…

Lee “Scratch” Perry: … for best reggae album, and The End of an American Dream (2007), Repentance (2008), Revelation (2010), and Back on the Controls (2014) were all nominated in that category.

Jorie Graham: ” In The End of Beauty (1987), Graham experimented with form, constructing subtle, sometimes inaccessible poems divided into series of short, numbered stanzas with missing words and lively enjambment. Region of Unlikeness (1991), which is annotated to explain its textual obscurities, furthers her exploration of philosophy and…

Wangechi Mutu: …including her first animated film, The End of eating Everything (2013), for which she collaged the head of recording artist Santigold on an enormous amorphous body to create a glorious and voracious beast that devoured everything in its path. Mutu also designed fabric in 2014; two printed textiles she created…

Neil Postman: In The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School (1995), he rejected the growing emphasis on economic utility, training for consumership, and faith in technology that characterize modern education. He held that the purpose of education is to forge a coherent unified culture out of…

Francis Fukuyama: Fukuyama’s first major work, The End of History and the Last Man (1992), earned international acclaim and was widely read by both the mainstream public and academics. His thesis—introduced as a magazine article in 1989, when communism in eastern Europe was collapsing—posited that Western-style liberal democracy not only was…

End-of-life planning can make other difficult discussions—such as mapping out money and spending with your partner—seem like a walk in the park, especially if you’re trying to help your parents or older family members detail their last wishes. No one wants to think about death. But it’s part of

History of film: The Soviet Union: …films included Konets Sankt-Peterburga (The End of St. Petersburg, 1927), which, like Eisenstein’s October, was commissioned to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, and Potomok Chingis-Khana (The Heir to Genghis Khan, or Storm over Asia, 1928), which is set in Central Asia during the Russian Civil War.…

Ralph Fiennes: Character roles and popularity in franchise hits: …a novelist in the film The End of the Affair (1999), a serial killer in Red Dragon (2002), and a widower determined to find his wife’s killer in The Constant Gardener (2005). Subsequent films include In Bruges (2008), The Reader (2008), The Hurt Locker (2008), and Nanny McPhee and the…

The End of the Affair, novel of psychological realism by Graham Greene, published in 1951. The novel is set in wartime London. The narrator, Maurice Bendrix, a bitter, sardonic novelist, has a five-year affair with a married woman, Sarah Miles. When a V-1 bomb explodes in front of Bendrix’s

Claudia Rankine: Her second collection, The End of the Alphabet, appeared in 1998, followed by Plot (2001), a book-length poem that narrated the experience of pregnancy and childbirth. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (2004) was an experimental multigenre project that blended poems, essays, and visual imagery in…

C.K. Stead: …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 writer Katherine Mansfield as its subject, and My Name Was Judas were published in 2004 and 2006, respectively. In 2012…

Jonathan Franzen: The End of the End of the Earth (2018) is an essay collection.

Sheila Kaye-Smith: …seen in such works as The End of the House of Alard (1923) and The History of Susan Spray, the Female Preacher (1931). In all, she wrote more than 40 books, including collections of short stories, three volumes of autobiography, two biographical studies (in collaboration with G.B. Stern) of novelist…

American literature: Realism and metafiction: …The Floating Opera (1956) and The End of the Road (1958), fell partly within the realistic tradition, but in later, more-ambitious works he simultaneously imitated and parodied conventional forms—the historical novel in The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), Greek and Christian myths in Giles Goat-Boy (1966), and the epistolary novel in LETTERS…

Lydia Davis: …stories, she published a novel, The End of the Story (1995), in which a writer tries to make sense of a breakup with a boyfriend by writing a novel about it. The narrative incorporates elements from Davis’s short story “Story.” Essays One (2019) and Essays Two (2021) are collections of…

David Foster Wallace: Death and posthumous works: …adapted into the 2015 film The End of the Tour, starring Jason Segel as Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as Lipsky.

Luca Signorelli: …masterpiece, the frescoes of “The End of the World” and the “Last Judgment” (1499–1502), is in the chapel of S. Brizio in Orvieto cathedral. Those frescoes, which greatly influenced Michelangelo, are crowded with powerful nudes painted in many postures that accentuate their musculature. Signorelli had little sense of colour,…

Wim Wenders: …State of Things; the thriller The End of Violence (1997); the ensemble mystery The Million Dollar Hotel (2000); and the drama Palermo Shooting (2008). He also directed the documentaries Buena Vista Social Club (1999), about a group of veteran Cuban musicians; Pina (2011), a 3-D tribute to German choreographer Pina…

telephone: Manual switching: …a central switching point, or telephone exchange, than it was to run wires between all the instruments. In 1878 the first telephone exchange was installed in New Haven, Connecticut, permitting up to 21 customers to reach one another by means of a manually operated central switchboard. The manual switchboard was…

stringed instrument: Playing positions: …long steel rod called the end pin. Cello players hold the instrument between their knees while seated. For the double bass the player stands or rests on a high stool. As is done with every other necked stringed instrument, the player’s left hand fingers the instrument, the bow being held…

nervous system disease: Motor end plate: Where fatigue and weakness are the symptoms, the underlying cause of disease may be a failure of motor nerve impulses to cross to the muscle end plate at the neuromuscular junction.

titration: …some signal is called the end point. This signal can be the colour change of an indicator or a change in some electrical property that is measured during the titration. The difference between the end point and the equivalence point is the titration error, which is kept as small as…

Upton Sinclair: …the 1930s, Sinclair organized the EPIC (End Poverty in California) socialist reform movement and registered as a Democrat. His 1934 bid for the governorship of California—he ran on the EPIC platform, which featured proposals for state-administered economic relief and reforms throughout a number of societal institutions—was his most successful political…

Ernest Amory Codman: …created his own proprietary “End Result Hospital” nearby, where he could pursue his ideas about hospital efficiency. His hospital existed from 1911 until 1918. All patients treated at the hospital were followed up after discharge, with the results reported, patient by patient, and published at Codman’s own expense for…

end rhyme, in poetry, a rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verses, as in stanza one of Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”: End rhyme is the most common type of rhyme in English poetry. Compare beginning rhyme; internal

theatre design: Theatre forms: End stage theatres are those that have an audience on only one side. Such stages are most often rectangular or square, but they can be triangular (in which case they are called corner stage theatres) or take a variety of irregular shapes that can include…

end stop, in prosody, a grammatical pause at the end of a line of verse, as in these lines from Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Criticism: Compare

the Doors: Band formation and breakthrough: …was songs such as “The End”—an 11-minute Oedipal drama with sexually explicit lyrics and a swirling ebb-and-flow arrangement—that established the Doors’ reputation as one of rock’s most potent, controversial, and theatrical acts. Indeed, the group was banned from the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles after an early…

soil mechanics: Deep foundations may be end-bearing piles (which convey all the weight put on them end-to-end, from the building above to the bedrock on which they are set), friction piles (which transfer some of the pressure put on them to the soil around them, through friction or adhesion along the…

flute: Types of flutes: In vertical, end-blown flutes—such as the Balkan kaval, the Arabic nāy, and the panpipes—the player directs the breath across the rim of the tube. In China, South America, Africa, and elsewhere, a notch may be cut in the edge to facilitate sound generation (notched flutes). In…

garnet: Chemical composition: …the general formula for an end-member hydrogarnet would be A3B2(H4O4)3.

hospice, a home or hospital established to relieve the physical and emotional suffering of the dying. The term hospice dates back to the European Middle Ages, when it denoted places of charitable refuge offering rest and refreshment to pilgrims and travelers. Such homes were often provided by

Permian extinction, a series of extinction pulses that contributed to the greatest mass extinction in Earth’s history. Many geologists and paleontologists contend that the Permian extinction occurred over the course of 15 million years during the latter part of the Permian Period (299 million to

end-plate potential (EPP), chemically induced change in electric potential of the motor end plate, the portion of the muscle-cell membrane that lies opposite the terminal of a nerve fibre at the neuromuscular junction. The end-plate membrane is electrically polarized, the inside being negative with