Mirim Lagoon, shallow Atlantic tidewater lagoon on the border between Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul state) and Uruguay. It is approximately 118 miles (190 km) long and 30 miles across at its widest point, covering an area of 1,542 square miles (3,994 square km). A low marshy bar, 10 to 35 miles wide

Mirim Lagoon, shallow Atlantic tidewater lagoon on the border between Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul state) and Uruguay. It is approximately 118 miles (190 km) long and 30 miles across at its widest point, covering an area of 1,542 square miles (3,994 square km). A low marshy bar, 10 to 35 miles wide

Lemnos: The chief town and port, Mírina, on the west coast, is the seat of the metropolitan bishop of Lemnos and the island of Áyios Evstrátios to the south. The second town is Moúdros, on the bay of the same name, one of the best natural harbours in the Aegean. There…

Río de la Plata: Physiography of the Uruguay basin: …to south, are the Aguapey, Miriñay, Mocoretá (which divides Entre Ríos and Corrientes), and Gualeguaychú. The important tributaries of the Uruguay, however, come from the east. The Ijuí, Ibicuí, and the Cuareim are short rivers but of considerable volume; the last forms part of the boundary between Brazil and Uruguay.…

Sino-Tibetan languages: Tibetic languages: …comprises the Bodish-Himalayish, Kirantish, and Mirish language groups.

Mīrkhwānd was one of the most important Persian chroniclers of Iran under the Timurid dynasty (15th century). He was a member of an old family of sayyids (those who claim descent from the Prophet Muḥammad) established in Bukhara. Spending most of his life in Herāt in the court of the last Timurid

Mīrkhwānd was one of the most important Persian chroniclers of Iran under the Timurid dynasty (15th century). He was a member of an old family of sayyids (those who claim descent from the Prophet Muḥammad) established in Bukhara. Spending most of his life in Herāt in the court of the last Timurid

chayote, (Sechium edule), perennial vine of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), cultivated for its edible fruits. Chayote is native to the New World tropics and is also grown as an annual plant in temperate climates. The fruits are boiled, baked, or sautéed as a vegetable and taste similarly to

mirliton, musical instrument or device in which sound waves produced by the player’s voice or by an instrument vibrate a membrane, thereby imparting a buzzing quality to the vocal or instrumental sound. A common mirliton is the kazoo, in which the membrane is set in the wall of a short tube into

gladiator: …were generally pitted against the mirmillones, who were armed in Gallic fashion with helmet, sword, and shield and were so called from the name of the fish that served as the crest of their helmet. In like manner the retiarius (“net man”) was matched with the secutor (“pursuer”); the former…

microRNA (miRNA), small molecule in cells, typically about 21–25 nucleotides in length, that plays a crucial role in the regulation of gene expression. MicroRNA (miRNA) is unique relative to other forms of RNA, which function primarily to carry and translate the genetic code from DNA into protein.

Antarctica: Climate of Antarctica: During one winter at Mirny Station, gusts reached more than 110 miles per hour on seven occasions. At Commonwealth Bay on the Adélie Coast the wind speed averaged 45 miles per hour (20 metres per second). Gusts estimated at between 140 and 155 miles per hour on December 9,…

yellowwood: dacrydioides), the miro (P. ferrugineus), and the totara (P. totara), all native to New Zealand; kusamaki, or broad-leaved podocarpus (P. macrophyllus), of China and Japan; real yellowwood (P. latifolius), South African yellowwood (P. elongatus), and common yellowwood (P. falcatus) of southern

Alexander McGillivray: …1, 1784, he and governors Esteban Miró and Arturo O’Neill signed a treaty headed “Articles of Agreement, Trade, and Peace.” Spain would extend a protectorate over the Creeks within Spanish territorial limits and would supply an adequate trade. McGillivray’s more remarkable success was in persuading the Spanish that the trade…

Gabriel Miró was a Spanish writer distinguished for the finely wrought but difficult style and rich, imaginative vocabulary of his essays, stories, and novels. Miró studied law at the universities of Granada and Valencia and in 1922 became secretary of the Concursos Nacionales de Letras y Artes in

Joan Miró was a Catalan artist who combined abstract art with Surrealist fantasy. His mature style evolved from the tension between his fanciful, poetic impulse and his vision of the harshness of modern life. He worked extensively in lithography and produced numerous murals, tapestries, and

education: From the 5th to the 8th century: …education, later called the “mirrors,” pointed to the importance of the moral virtues of prudence, courage, justice, and temperance. The Institutionum disciplinae of an anonymous Visigoth pedagogue expressed the desire that all young men “quench their thirst at the quadruple fountain of the virtues.” In the 7th and 8th…

Margaret of Angoulême: …Elizabeth I of England as A Godly Meditation of the Soul, 1548), was published during her lifetime, her best verse, including Le Navire, was not compiled until 1896, under the title of Les Dernières Poésies (“Last Poems”).

Beguines: 1300; The Mirror of Simple Souls) is thought to be the greatest religious tract written in Old French.

Alain Robbe-Grillet: His autobiography, Le Miroir qui revient (Ghosts in the Mirror), was published in 1984.

Henri Pousseur: …de votre Faust (1961–68; “The Mirror of Your Faust”), the Faust story is given new twists; which one of four possible denouements a particular performance presents is determined by audience vote.

Maitreya, in Buddhist tradition, the future Buddha, presently a bodhisattva residing in the Tushita heaven, who will descend to earth to preach anew the dharma (“law”) when the teachings of Gautama Buddha have completely decayed. Maitreya is the earliest bodhisattva around whom a cult developed and

Maitreya, in Buddhist tradition, the future Buddha, presently a bodhisattva residing in the Tushita heaven, who will descend to earth to preach anew the dharma (“law”) when the teachings of Gautama Buddha have completely decayed. Maitreya is the earliest bodhisattva around whom a cult developed and

Helen Mirren is a British actress especially known for her role as Detective Jane Tennison on the television series Prime Suspect (1991–96, 2003, and 2006) and for her subtle and sympathetic portrayal of Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), for which she won an Academy Award. Mirren was born in London

elephant seal, either of the two largest pinnipeds (aquatic mammals of the suborder Pinnipedia): the northern elephant seal (species Mirounga angustirostris), now found mainly on coastal islands off California and Baja California; or the southern elephant seal (M. leonina), found throughout

elephant seal: …of the suborder Pinnipedia): the northern elephant seal (species Mirounga angustirostris), now found mainly on coastal islands off California and Baja California; or the southern elephant seal (M. leonina), found throughout sub-Antarctic regions. Elephant seals are gregarious animals named for their size and for the male’s inflatable, trunklike snout. They…

Antarctica: Sea life: …Antarctic zone, and another, the southern elephant seal, breeds near the Convergence at South Georgia, Kerguelen, and Macquarie islands. The sea lion, an otariid, is plentiful in the Falkland Islands but probably never ventures into the cold Antarctic waters. The fur seal and the elephant seal are now regenerating after…

John Gower: The Speculum meditantis, or Mirour de l’omme, in French, is composed of 12-line stanzas and opens impressively with a description of the devil’s marriage to the seven daughters of sin; continuing with the marriage of reason and the seven virtues, it ends with a searing examination…

Ivan VI: …lieutenant of the Shlisselburg garrison, Vasily Yakovlevich Mirovich, tried in 1764 to free Ivan in order to remove Catherine II the Great, who had recently seized the throne (1762), and to restore him to power. In the course of Mirovich’s mutiny, however, Ivan was assassinated by his jailers.

defibrillation: History of defibrillation: …the 1960s Polish-born American physician Michel Mirowski came up with an idea for the development of an automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator, which could be used in patients affected by certain types of arrhythmia. The first ICD was implanted in a patient on Feb. 4, 1980.

Mīrpur Khās, town, southern Sindh province, Pakistan. It lies on the Let Wāh Canal and is connected by rail and road with Hyderābād (40 miles [65 km] west-southwest) and by road with Umarkot. Founded in 1806 by Mīr ʿAlī Murād Tālpur, it remained the capital of the Tālpur rulers until their defeat

Helen Mirren is a British actress especially known for her role as Detective Jane Tennison on the television series Prime Suspect (1991–96, 2003, and 2006) and for her subtle and sympathetic portrayal of Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), for which she won an Academy Award. Mirren was born in London

James Mirrlees was a Scottish economist known for his analytic research on economic incentives in situations involving incomplete, or asymmetrical, information. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with William Vickrey of Columbia University. Mirrlees studied mathematics at the

James Mirrlees was a Scottish economist known for his analytic research on economic incentives in situations involving incomplete, or asymmetrical, information. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with William Vickrey of Columbia University. Mirrlees studied mathematics at the

industrial glass: Strength and fracturing: …semicircular shiny surface called the mirror. The radius of the mirror is inversely related to the fracture stress and, hence, is indicative of the violence of the fracture. (For instance, a thermal fracture generally produces a large mirror, whereas a mechanical fracture often displays a small mirror.) The edges of…

education: From the 5th to the 8th century: …education, later called the “mirrors,” pointed to the importance of the moral virtues of prudence, courage, justice, and temperance. The Institutionum disciplinae of an anonymous Visigoth pedagogue expressed the desire that all young men “quench their thirst at the quadruple fountain of the virtues.” In the 7th and 8th…

mirror, any polished surface that diverts a ray of light according to the law of reflection. The typical mirror is a sheet of glass that is coated on its back with aluminum or silver that produces images by reflection. The mirrors used in Greco-Roman antiquity and throughout the European Middle

Eudoxus of Cnidus: Astronomer: >Mirror, Eudoxus described constellations schematically, the phases of fixed stars (the dates when they are visible), and the weather associated with different phases. Through a poem of Aratus (c. 315–245 bce) and the commentary on the poem by the astronomer Hipparchus (c. 100 bce), these…

Thomas Cromwell: Legacy and depiction in popular culture: …final installment in the trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, which chronicles Cromwell’s fall from power and his execution; it too spawned a miniseries adaptation, released in 2024.

M.H. Abrams: With his second work, The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (1953), an expanded version of his Ph.D. dissertation, he joined the front rank of Romantic-literature scholars. The book’s title denotes the two metaphors by which Abrams characterized 18th- and 19th-century English literature, respectively—the former…

Neil Young: Harvest, Rust Never Sleeps, and Harvest Moon: …his grunge bona fides with Mirror Ball, a collaboration with Pearl Jam. His long-standing interest in film manifested itself in two projects with director Jim Jarmusch, who chronicled Crazy Horse’s 1996 tour in the documentary Year of the Horse (1997) and for whose film Dead Man (1995) Young

phantom limb syndrome: The mirror box, a novel therapy for phantom limb syndrome developed in the mid-1990s, has been used by a small number of patients. The therapy has had some success in alleviating pain associated with “learned paralysis,” often experienced by patients whose missing limbs were paralyzed prior…

fusion reactor: Mirror confinement: An alternative approach to magnetic confinement is to employ a straight configuration in which the end loss is reduced by a combination of magnetic and electric plugging. In such a linear fusion reactor the magnetic field strength is increased at the ends. Charged…

Agatha Christie: Plays and film adaptations: …to Side (1952; film [The Mirror Crack’d] 1980). Her works were also adapted for television.

psychomotor learning: Devices and tasks: With a mirror tracer, a six-pointed star pattern is followed with an electrical stylus as accurately and quickly as possible, the learner being guided visually only by a mirror image. The multidimensional pursuitmeter requires the learner to scan four dials and to keep the indicators steady by…

English literature: Development of the English language: The period’s major project was A Mirror for Magistrates (1559; enlarged editions 1563, 1578, 1587), a collection of verse laments, by several hands, purporting to be spoken by participants in the Wars of the Roses and preaching the Tudor doctrine of obedience. The quality is uneven, but Thomas Sackville’s “Induction”…

Clyde K.M. Kluckhohn: …about culture are contained in Mirror for Man, which won the McGraw-Hill prize for the best popular work in science in 1949. He averred that, despite wide differences in customs, there are apparently fundamental human values common to the diverse cultures of the world.

mirror for princes, genre of advice literature that outlines basic principles of conduct for rulers and of the structure and purpose of secular power, often in relation either to a transcendental source of power or to abstract legal norms. As a genre, the mirror for princes has its roots in the

William Thomson, Baron Kelvin: Early life: …his telegraph receiver, called a mirror galvanometer, for use on the Atlantic cable. (The device, along with his later modification called the siphon recorder, came to be used on most of the worldwide network of submarine cables.) Eventually the directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company fired Whitehouse, adopted Thomson’s suggestions…

Robert Maxwell: In 1984 he purchased the Mirror Group Newspapers, publishers of six newspapers, including the sensationalist tabloid Daily Mirror; and in 1989 he tilted the balance of Maxwell Communications toward the United States, buying Berlitz International language instruction, Macmillan book publishers, and Official Airline Guides. In 1990 he launched the European,…

Barbra Streisand: Star of stage and screen: …Conroy’s best-selling 1986 novel), and The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996); the last two she also directed. The Prince of Tides was nominated for seven Oscars, including best picture and best actor for Nick Nolte. However, Streisand did not receive a best director nod, which some critics and fans perceived…

technology of photography: Mirror lenses: Images can also be formed by light reflected from curved mirrors. This method, long used in astronomical telescopes, is applied to long-focus lens systems of short overall length by folding the light path back onto itself. A mirror lens or catadioptric system has…

mirror life, a hypothetical form of synthetic organisms designed to resemble bacteria but created with mirror images of the natural building blocks found in DNA, RNA, and proteins. Some scientists are concerned that if such life were created, it would be a deadly pathogen, because immune systems

Nathan Lane: Later film and television credits: …Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s popular ballet, and Mirror Mirror (2012), a comedic version of the Snow White tale. Although a pair of sitcoms in which he starred (1998–99, 2003) were short-lived, he enjoyed recurring roles on the television series The Good Wife and Modern Family in the 2010s. He played defense lawyer…

mirror neuron, type of sensory-motor cell located in the brain that is activated when an individual performs an action or observes another individual performing the same action. Thus, the neurons “mirror” others’ actions. Mirror neurons are of interest in the study of certain social behaviours,

mirror nucleus, atomic nucleus that contains a number of protons and a number of neutrons that are mutually interchanged in comparison with another nucleus. Thus, nitrogen-15, containing seven protons and eight neutrons, is the mirror nucleus of oxygen-15, comprising eight protons and seven

Gabriel Josipovici: …Writing and the Body (1982), The Mirror of Criticism (1983), The Book of God (1988), and Text and Voice (1992). His novels grew progressively experimental. The first three—The Inventory (1968), Words (1971), and The Present (1975)—were written mostly in dialogue, whereas

mirror for princes: …texts as Godfrey of Viterbo’s Mirror of Kings, Helinand of Froidmont’s On the Government of Princes, and Gerald of Wales’s Book on the Education of a Prince, all written between about 1180 and 1220.

mirror for princes, genre of advice literature that outlines basic principles of conduct for rulers and of the structure and purpose of secular power, often in relation either to a transcendental source of power or to abstract legal norms. As a genre, the mirror for princes has its roots in the

Beguines: 1300; The Mirror of Simple Souls) is thought to be the greatest religious tract written in Old French.

English literature: Religious prose: …books in its time, is The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ (c. 1410), Nicholas Love’s translation of the Meditationes vitae Christi, attributed to St. Bonaventure. Love’s work was particularly valued by the church as an orthodox counterbalance to the heretical tendencies of the Lollards, who espoused the…

Henri Pousseur: …de votre Faust (1961–68; “The Mirror of Your Faust”), the Faust story is given new twists; which one of four possible denouements a particular performance presents is determined by audience vote.

lying: Defining lying: The mirror orchid (Ophrys speculum) produces blossoms that mimic the form and scent of the female of a species of wasp. This induces male wasps of the species to engage in pseudo-copulations with the blossoms and thereby transport pollen from flower to flower. If it is legitimate to…

Yayoi Kusama: …Biennale with work that included Mirror Room (Pumpkin), an installation in which she filled a mirrored room with pumpkin sculptures covered in her signature dots. Between 1998 and 1999 a major retrospective of her works was shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art…

mineral: Symmetry elements: An imaginary mirror plane (or symmetry plane) can also be used to separate a crystal into halves. In a perfectly developed crystal, the halves are mirror images of one another.

psychomotor learning: Devices and tasks: With a mirror tracer, a six-pointed star pattern is followed with an electrical stylus as accurately and quickly as possible, the learner being guided visually only by a mirror image. The multidimensional pursuitmeter requires the learner to scan four dials and to keep the indicators steady by…

handwriting: …of early writing development is mirror writing—that is, reversed script which reads from right to left and is seen as ordinary writing only when reflected from a mirror. Reversal of individual letters to some degree is part of normal spatial and motor development in children, but students of the subject…

Gregory Maguire: …Ugly Stepsister (1999), Lost (2001), Mirror Mirror (2003), and the Wicked sequels Son of a Witch (2005), A Lion Among Men (2008), and Out of Oz (2011), the final book in the Wicked Years series. His later books include After Alice (2015), which was inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s

The Mirror, daily newspaper published in London that frequently has the largest circulation in Britain. The Mirror was founded by Alfred Harmsworth, later Viscount Northcliffe, in 1903 as a newspaper for women. Its photo-rich tabloid format has consistently stressed sensational, human-interest, and

Jafar Panahi: First films: The White Balloon and Circle: In Ayneh (1997; The Mirror), a girl decides to make her own way home, even though she does not know her addess, after her mother fails to pick her up after school. The story takes an abrupt turn when the actress playing the main character announces that she…

mirror life, a hypothetical form of synthetic organisms designed to resemble bacteria but created with mirror images of the natural building blocks found in DNA, RNA, and proteins. Some scientists are concerned that if such life were created, it would be a deadly pathogen, because immune systems

sculpture: Modern forms of sculpture: …Love Room and Lucas Samaras’s Mirrored Room, in both of which the spectator himself, endlessly reflected, becomes part of the total effect.

Lenny Henry: …Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) and MirrorMask (2005). In 2017 Henry played a greengrocer and possible rape suspect in the final season of the crime drama Broadchurch, and three years later he appeared in the opening episodes of the 12th season of Doctor Who.

Howard Nemerov: …including The Salt Garden (1955), Mirrors and Windows (1958), New and Selected Poems (1960), The Next Room of the Dream: Poems and Two Plays (1962), Blue Swallows (1967), Gnomes and Occasions (1973), The Western Approaches (1975), Sentences (1980), Inside the Onion (1984), and

interior design: France: …the Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) at Versailles to the metal hardware for a door lock. (It should be noted that at the Gobelins, as elsewhere in France, furniture was designed by artists or architects who had no practical experience of manufacture, whereas, in the great age of…

Agra Fort: …its northeast is the splendid Palace of Mirrors (Sheesh Mahal), its walls and ceilings inlaid with thousands of small mirrors. The structure’s two dazzling chambers were probably used as baths and possibly as a boudoir by the queens.

Bonaventure Des Périers: …Mirth and Pleasant Conceits, or Novel Pastimes and Merry Tales), the collection of stories and fables on which his fame rests, appeared at Lyon in 1558. The stories are models of simple, direct narration in the vigorous, witty, and picturesque French of the 16th century.

Earth sciences: Knowledge of Earth composition and structure: …brought together in William Caxton’s Mirrour of the World (1480). Earthquakes are here again related to movements of subterranean fluids. Streams of water in the Earth compress the air in hidden caverns. If the roofs of the caverns are weak, they rupture, causing cities and castles to fall into the…

biography: Renaissance: ” Roper’s work is shorter, more intimate, and simpler; in a series of moving moments it unfolds the struggle within Sir Thomas More between his duty to conscience and his duty to his king. Cavendish offers a more artful and richly developed narrative, beautifully balanced between…

Isabella Andreini: …author of a pastoral play, Mirtilla (1588). A book of her songs, sonnets, letters, and other verse was published by her husband after her death. Her death prompted her husband’s retirement from the stage and was the inspiration of numerous elegies. Her son Giovambattista Andreini was a commedia dell’arte actor,…

Pyotr Lavrov was a Russian Socialist philosopher whose sociological thought provided a theoretical foundation for the activities of various Russian revolutionary organizations during the second half of the 19th century. A member of a landed family, he graduated from an artillery school in St.

Jigoku: The female head, Miru-me, has the power of perceiving the sinner’s most secret faults, while the male head, Kagu-hana, can detect any misdeed. Damnation is not eternal; the dead are sentenced to fixed periods of time in one region or to several regions in succession. The sentences can…

Distance runner Miruts Yifter, a captain in the Ethiopian air force, became as famous for his quirks and setbacks as he did for his tenacity and victories. His introduction to the international track-and-field scene came at a meet in North Carolina, U.S., in 1971. Unfamiliar with Arabic numbers,

MIRV, any of several nuclear warheads carried on the front end, or “bus,” of a ballistic missile. Each MIRV allows separately targeted nuclear warheads to be sent on their independent ways after the main propulsion stages of the missile launch have shut down. The warheads can be released from the

India: Struggle for firm personal control: The rebels proclaimed Akbar’s half-brother, Mirzā Ḥakīm, the ruler of Kabul, and he moved into the Punjab as their king. Akbar crushed the opposition ruthlessly.

Bahāʾ Allāh was the founder of the Bahāʾī Faith upon his claim to be the manifestation of the unknowable God. Mīrzā Ḥosayn was a member of the Shīʿite branch of Islam. He subsequently allied himself with Mīrzā ʿAlī Moḥammad of Shīrāz, who was known as the Bāb (Arabic: “Gateway”) and was the head of

Siraj-ud-Daulah was the ruler, or nawab, of Bengal, India, under the nominal suzerainty of the Mughal emperor Alamgir II. His reign marked the entry of Great Britain into India’s internal affairs. The nawab’s attack on Calcutta (now Kolkata) resulted in the Black Hole of Calcutta incident, in which

Ṣāʾib was a Persian poet, one of the greatest masters of a form of classical Arabic and Persian lyric poetry characterized by rhymed couplets and known as the ghazel. Ṣāʾib was educated in Eṣfahān, and in about 1626/27 he traveled to India, where he was received into the court of Shāh Jahān. He

Sindhi literature: …era were Kauromal Khilnani (1844–1916), Mirza Qalich Beg (1853–1929), Dayaram Gidumal (1857–1927), and Parmanand Mewaram (1856?–1938). They produced original works and adapted books from Sanskrit, Hindi, Persian, and English. Kauromal Khilnani published Arya nari charitra (1905; “The Indo-Aryan Women”) and wrote extensively on

Muḥammadī was one of the leading court painters during the time (1548–97) that the Ṣafavid capital was Qazvīn. A native of western Iran, he was a son of the painter Sulṭān Muḥammad, who was one of his teachers. A master of line, Muḥammadī (so called after his great father) began to paint while

Mohammad Ayub Khan: …in Pakistan, in 1958 President Iskander Mirza, with army support, abrogated the constitution and appointed Ayub as chief martial law administrator. Soon after, Ayub had himself declared president, and Mirza was exiled. Ayub reorganized the administration and acted to restore the economy through agrarian reforms and stimulation of industry. Foreign…

Uzbekistan: Relief: The Mirzachol desert, southwest of Tashkent, lies between the Tien Shan spurs to the north and the Turkestan, Malguzar, and Nuratau ranges to the south. In south-central Uzbekistan the Zeravshan valley opens westward; the cities of Samarkand (Samarqand) and Bukhara (Bukhoro) grace this ancient cultural centre.

Guliston, city, eastern Uzbekistan. It lies in the southeastern part of the Mirzachül (formerly Golodnaya) steppe, 75 miles (120 km) southwest of Tashkent. It became important after irrigation works enabled cotton to be grown in the area. It served as the administrative centre of Syrdarya oblast

Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician who became (2014) the first woman and the first Iranian to be awarded a Fields Medal. The citation for her award recognized “her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.” While a teenager,

Mirzapur, city, southeastern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It is situated on the Ganges (Ganga) River, about 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Varanasi. Mirzapur was probably founded in the 17th century. By 1800 it had become the greatest trading center in northern India. When the railway to

Mirzapur, city, southeastern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It is situated on the Ganges (Ganga) River, about 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Varanasi. Mirzapur was probably founded in the 17th century. By 1800 it had become the greatest trading center in northern India. When the railway to

Shavkat Mirziyoyev is an Uzbek politician who served as Uzbekistan’s prime minister (2003–16) and president (2016– ). A younger protégé of the repressive president Islam Karimov (1991–2016), he became known for his management of economic development, both before becoming president and during his

computer science: Development of computer science: Management information systems, originally called data processing systems, provided early ideas from which various computer science concepts such as sorting, searching, databases, information retrieval, and graphical user interfaces evolved. Large corporations housed computers that stored information that was central to the activities of running a…

Juanes: In 2017 Juanes issued Mis planes son amarte (“My Plans Are to Love You), a “visual” album in which each song was accompanied by a scene in a film about a man’s journey toward love. It also was awarded a Latin Grammy for best pop/rock album. Más futuro que…

Selena: Early life and performing with Los Dinos: …band recorded its first album, Mis Primeras Grabaciones (“My First Recordings”), in 1984, followed by the albums Alpha and Muñequito de Trapo (“Rag Doll”) two years later. In 1986, when Quintanilla was 15 years old, she won female entertainer of the year at the Tejano Music Awards, and her songs…