Lakshmi Mittal is an Indian businessman who was CEO (2006–21) of ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaking company. In the 1960s Mittal’s family moved to Calcutta (Kolkata), where his father operated a steel mill. Mittal worked at the mill while studying science at St. Xavier’s College. After

Lakshmi Mittal is an Indian businessman who was CEO (2006–21) of ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaking company. In the 1960s Mittal’s family moved to Calcutta (Kolkata), where his father operated a steel mill. Mittal worked at the mill while studying science at St. Xavier’s College. After

Richard Wagner: Exile: …Mitteilung an meine Freunde (A Communication to My Friends), and Oper und Drama (Opera and Drama). The latter outlined a new, revolutionary type of musical stage work—the vast work, in fact, on which he was engaged. By 1852 he had added to the poem of Siegfrieds Tod three others…

V-2 rocket: …least 10,000 prisoners from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp died when used as forced labour in building V-2s at the underground Mittelwerk factory. After the war, both the United States and the Soviet Union captured large numbers of V-2s and used them in research that led to the development of their…

Friedrich Naumann: …occupied territories, but his book Mitteleuropa (1915) provided the vision of a postwar German cultural and economic imperium in central Europe. In 1919 he cofounded the Democratic Party, for which he served as party leader until his death. He was a man of considerable intelligence and great personal integrity whose…

Germany: The Central German Uplands: Geographically, the Central German Uplands form a region of great complexity. Under the impact of the Alpine orogeny, the planed-off remnants of the former Hercynian mountains were shattered and portions thrust upward to form block mountains, with sedimentary rocks preserved between them…

Switzerland: Relief and drainage: …Alpine ranges lies the hilly Mittelland, accounting for nearly one-fourth of the country and enclosed by the two mountain ranges and the two largest lakes, Lake Geneva (Lac Léman) in the west and Lake Constance (Bodensee) in the east. The fertile rolling land of the Mittelland is the agricultural heartland…

Mittelland Canal, German waterway begun in 1905 and completed in 1938. It extends from the Dortmund-Ems Canal east of Rheine, running eastward along the northern border of the Central German Uplands to the Elbe River north of Magdeburg (a distance of about 321 km, or 199 miles), linking there with

Mittelland Canal, German waterway begun in 1905 and completed in 1938. It extends from the Dortmund-Ems Canal east of Rheine, running eastward along the northern border of the Central German Uplands to the Elbe River north of Magdeburg (a distance of about 321 km, or 199 miles), linking there with

Schnauzer: …three breeds of dog—the Miniature, Standard, and Giant—developed in Germany and noted for their heavily whiskered muzzle, squared body, and hard, wiry coat of black or salt and pepper. The dog’s name stems from the German word for “snout,” schnauze. The Standard, or medium-sized, Schnauzer is the stock from which…

migration: Lower invertebrates: …freshwater crabs, such as the Chinese crab (Eriocheir sinensis), after remaining for three to five years in fresh water, migrate to brackish water, where mating occurs. Females with eggs externally attached then travel to the sea and remain a few miles offshore for several months during winter. The following spring…

bryophyte: Ecology and habitats: …liverwort Cyathodium and the mosses Mittenia and Schistostega), leaf surfaces (the moss Ephemeropsis and the liverwort genus Metzgeria and many species of the liverwort family Lejeuneaceae), salt pans (the liverwort Carrpos), bases of quartz pebbles (the moss Aschisma), and

Mittenwald, village, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. It lies along the Isar River, at the foot of the Karwendel Mountains, at the Austrian border. Chartered in 1307, it was an important trading centre in the 15th and 16th centuries. The village has been famous since the 17th century for its

Rosi Mittermaier was a German Alpine skier who won two gold medals and one silver medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. Her performance was, at that time, the best ever by a woman Alpine skier at the Olympics. Mittermaier first showed promise of being a world-class skier as a

François Mitterrand was a politician who served two terms (1981–95) as president of France, leading his country to closer political and economic integration with western Europe. The first socialist to hold the office, Mitterrand abandoned leftist economic policies early in his presidency and

François Mitterrand was a politician who served two terms (1981–95) as president of France, leading his country to closer political and economic integration with western Europe. The first socialist to hold the office, Mitterrand abandoned leftist economic policies early in his presidency and

Württemberg: With Hermann von Mittnacht as chief minister (from 1876 to 1900), Württemberg found a comfortable place in the new Germany, retaining its independence in internal administration, ecclesiastical affairs, and education and also in the management of the postal and railway services. It moreover retained special rights…

tunnels and underground excavations: Machine-mined tunnels: …of the first machine—the “Mittry Mole.” Later contracts developed three other Oahe-type moles, so that all the various tunnels here were machine-mined—totaling eight miles of 25- to 30-foot diameter. These were the first of the modern moles that since 1960 have been rapidly adopted for many of the world’s…

Walter Mitty, American literary character, a meek and bumbling man who spends much of his time lost in heroic daydreams. The short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (1939) by American author James Thurber begins with its protagonist’s fearlessly leading a Navy crew through an aircraft takeoff

Sigrid Nunez: First short stories and novels: Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury (1998) is a whimsical biography of a pet monkey owned by English novelist Virginia Woolf and her husband, publisher and author Leonard Woolf. It was the first of many works by Nunez to feature an animal as a primary character.

religious dress: Early sacerdotal dress: …high priest usually wore a mitzenfet (either a tiara or a turban), except on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), when he wore nothing but white linen garments upon entering the Holy of Holies (the inner sanctuary).

mitzvah, any commandment, ordinance, law, or statute contained in the Torah (first five books of the Bible) and, for that reason, to be observed by all practicing Jews. The Talmud mentions 613 such mitzvahs, 248 mandatory (mitzwot ʿase) and 365 prohibitive (mitzwot lo taʿase). Many more (some

mitzvah, any commandment, ordinance, law, or statute contained in the Torah (first five books of the Bible) and, for that reason, to be observed by all practicing Jews. The Talmud mentions 613 such mitzvahs, 248 mandatory (mitzwot ʿase) and 365 prohibitive (mitzwot lo taʿase). Many more (some

mitzvah, any commandment, ordinance, law, or statute contained in the Torah (first five books of the Bible) and, for that reason, to be observed by all practicing Jews. The Talmud mentions 613 such mitzvahs, 248 mandatory (mitzwot ʿase) and 365 prohibitive (mitzwot lo taʿase). Many more (some

mitzvah, any commandment, ordinance, law, or statute contained in the Torah (first five books of the Bible) and, for that reason, to be observed by all practicing Jews. The Talmud mentions 613 such mitzvahs, 248 mandatory (mitzwot ʿase) and 365 prohibitive (mitzwot lo taʿase). Many more (some

mitzvah, any commandment, ordinance, law, or statute contained in the Torah (first five books of the Bible) and, for that reason, to be observed by all practicing Jews. The Talmud mentions 613 such mitzvahs, 248 mandatory (mitzwot ʿase) and 365 prohibitive (mitzwot lo taʿase). Many more (some

mitzvah, any commandment, ordinance, law, or statute contained in the Torah (first five books of the Bible) and, for that reason, to be observed by all practicing Jews. The Talmud mentions 613 such mitzvahs, 248 mandatory (mitzwot ʿase) and 365 prohibitive (mitzwot lo taʿase). Many more (some

mitzvah: …ʿase) and 365 prohibitive (mitzwot lo taʿase). Many more (some virtually equated with divine law) have been added throughout the ages on the authority of outstanding rabbinical leaders, such as reciting the Hallel (specific psalms) at prescribed times, reading the Book of Esther on Purim, washing the hands before…

mitzvah: …such mitzvahs, 248 mandatory (mitzwot ʿase) and 365 prohibitive (mitzwot lo taʿase). Many more (some virtually equated with divine law) have been added throughout the ages on the authority of outstanding rabbinical leaders, such as reciting the Hallel (specific psalms) at prescribed times, reading the Book of Esther on…

Miura, city, Kanagawa ken (prefecture), east-central Honshu, Japan. It lies at the southern tip of the Miura Peninsula, just south of the city of Yokosuka farther north on the peninsula. Miura was first mentioned in the 8th century. Its port of Misaki is a base for commercial deep-sea fishing,

William Adams was a navigator, merchant-adventurer, and the first Englishman to visit Japan. At the age of 12 Adams was apprenticed to a shipbuilder in the merchant marine, and in 1588 he was master of a supply ship for the British navy during the invasion of the Spanish Armada. Soon after the

Miura Baien was a Japanese economist and Confucianist philosopher during the Tokugawa period (1603–1867). He formulated the jōrigaku (“rationalist studies”) doctrine, which was a precursor to modern scientific and philosophical thought in Japan. Although schooled in the Chinese Classics, Miura

Soga Shōhaku was a Japanese painter of the mid-Tokugawa period (1603–1867) who tried to revive the brush-style drawing of the great masters of the Muromachi period (1338–1573). As a young man he studied painting under the guidance of Takada Keiho of the Kanō school (school of painting based on

Miura Baien was a Japanese economist and Confucianist philosopher during the Tokugawa period (1603–1867). He formulated the jōrigaku (“rationalist studies”) doctrine, which was a precursor to modern scientific and philosophical thought in Japan. Although schooled in the Chinese Classics, Miura

St. George Jackson Mivart was a British biologist and a leading critic of Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection. Unable to enter the University of Oxford, then open only to Anglican students, after his conversion to Roman Catholicism (1844), Mivart continued his studies at St. Mary’s, Oscott

Miwok, California Indians speaking languages of Penutian stock and originally comprising seven dialectally and territorially discrete branches: the Coast Miwok in an area just north of what is now San Francisco; the Lake Miwok in the Clear Lake Basin; the Bay Miwok (or Saclan), living along the

Penutian languages: …families are Wintun (two languages), Miwok-Costanoan (perhaps five Miwokan languages, plus three extinct Costanoan languages), Sahaptin (two languages), Yakonan (two extinct languages), Yokutsan (three languages), and Maiduan (four languages)—plus Klamath-Modoc, Cayuse (extinct), Molale

Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Charges against individuals: Kurt Mix, who had worked for BP until January 2012, was charged in federal court with obstructing justice for deleting hundreds of text messages concerning the flow rate of oil despite having received legal notification to preserve the correspondence. Some of the messages were forensically…

Los Angeles Chargers: …Alworth at wide receiver and Ron Mix at offensive tackle, along with quarterback John Hadl and running back Paul Lowe—won their only AFL title, defeating the Boston Patriots 51–10 in the championship game. During the mid-1960s the team’s play fell off slightly, and, despite finishing with winning records from 1966…

Tom Mix was an American film actor, a celebrated star of western cowboy films during the silent era. Mix worked as a cowhand in Texas, Arizona, Wyoming, and Montana and served in the U.S. Army in the Spanish-American War and in the pursuit of Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution. He was also

Tom Mix was an American film actor, a celebrated star of western cowboy films during the silent era. Mix worked as a cowhand in Texas, Arizona, Wyoming, and Montana and served in the U.S. Army in the Spanish-American War and in the pursuit of Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution. He was also

Beastie Boys: The instrumental hip-hop album The Mix-up (2007) represented a return to basics, and its fusion of funk, Latin, and lounge music won the band another Grammy. The trio’s eighth studio album, Hot Sauce Committee Part One, was scheduled for release in 2009, but Yauch was diagnosed with cancer in…

Mixco, city, south-central Guatemala. It is a western suburb of Guatemala City and supplies the capital with produce. Pop. (2002)

Mixe-Zoquean: …Mixe-Zoquean peoples today comprise the Mixe, living in northeastern Oaxaca; the Zoque, primarily inhabiting northwestern Chiapas; and the Popoluca (not to be confused with the Popoloca), who live in eastern Veracruz and Oaxaca, about midway between the Mixe and Zoque. The languages of these people are closely related, and their…

Mixe-Zoquean, group of Middle American Indian peoples inhabiting territories in southern Mexico. The Mixe-Zoquean peoples today comprise the Mixe, living in northeastern Oaxaca; the Zoque, primarily inhabiting northwestern Chiapas; and the Popoluca (not to be confused with the Popoloca), who live

Mixe-Zoquean languages, family of North American Indian languages spoken in southern Mexico. The languages in the family are divided into two branches, or divisions—Zoquean and Mixean. Zoquean is spoken in the Mexican states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz, and Oaxaca. Gulf Zoquean languages include

Mixe-Zoquean languages: …two branches, or divisions—Zoquean and Mixean.

cerebral palsy: …an individual is diagnosed with mixed cerebral palsy.

Polybius: Conception of history: His analysis of the mixed constitution, which had enabled Rome to avoid the cycle of change and deterioration to which simple constitutional forms were liable, is full of problems, but it has exercised widespread influence, from Cicero’s De republica down to Machiavelli and Montesquieu.

Alan Ayckbourn: …were published—included Relatively Speaking (1968), Mixed Doubles: An Entertainment on Marriage (1970), How the Other Half Loves (1971), the trilogy The Norman Conquests (1973), Absurd Person Singular (1974), Intimate Exchanges (1985), Mr. A’s Amazing Maze Plays (1989), Body Language

mixed economy, in economics, a market system of resource allocation, commerce, and trade in which free markets coexist with government intervention. A mixed economy may emerge when a government intervenes to disrupt free markets by introducing state-owned enterprises (such as public health or

farm building: Mixed farms: The small and medium farms which characterize European agriculture and which exist in many other parts of the world are managed on the traditional mixed farming and animal husbandry system. Consequently, this type of farm normally has several service buildings: one for machinery,…

farm building: Mixed farms: The small and medium farms which characterize European agriculture and which exist in many other parts of the world are managed on the traditional mixed farming and animal husbandry system. Consequently, this type of farm normally has several service buildings: one for machinery,…

mixed forest, a vegetational transition between coniferous forest and broad-leaved deciduous forest, especially in the Northern Hemisphere. “Mixed forest” also may denote a forest with two or more dominant tree species. In North America, the term is often used to designate the forest of the

deaf-blindness: Hearing and visual impairment: A mixed hearing loss is diagnosed when an individual has both a conductive and a sensorineural hearing loss. Cortical deafness is caused by damage to the auditory cortex of the brain. A hearing loss of any kind can range from mild to profound. A conductive hearing…

World Heritage site: Designating World Heritage sites: Mixed heritage sites contain elements of both natural and cultural significance. The ratio of cultural to natural sites on the World Heritage List is roughly 3 to 1. Several new sites are added to the list at the middle of each year (until 2002, sites…

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a hybrid combat sport incorporating techniques from boxing, wrestling, judo, jujitsu, karate, Muay Thai (Thai boxing), and other disciplines. Although it was initially decried by critics as a brutal blood sport without rules, MMA gradually shed its no-holds-barred image

printmaking: Contemporary experimentation: The combining of various media is closely related to the experimentation in colour printing. Each medium has its own capabilities and limitations; combined, the media often complement each other. It is now common to see three or four different techniques combined.

metaphor: A mixed metaphor is the linking of two or more disparate elements, which can result in an unintentionally comic effect produced by the writer’s insensitivity to the literal meaning of words or by the falseness of the comparison. A mixed metaphor may also be used with…

Adam Sandler: Early film career: Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer, and Punch-Drunk Love: …on an SNL sketch; and Mixed Nuts (1994). He established himself as a star with Billy Madison (1995), the first of a number of movies he cowrote; in it he played the oafish scion of a wealthy businessman who must prove his worthiness to succeed his father by repeating his…

primary election: …have adopted variations, including the mixed primary, which allows independents to vote in either party’s primary but requires voters registered with a political party to vote in their own party’s primary.

game theory: Mixed strategies and the minimax theorem: When saddlepoints exist, the optimal strategies and outcomes can be easily determined, as was just illustrated. However, when there is no saddlepoint the calculation is more elaborate, as illustrated in Table 2.

history of logic: Syllogisms: … (they are sometimes called “mixed” if only one of the premises is modal).

Atlantic Ocean: Tides of the Atlantic Ocean: Mixed tides, or those that can have both diurnal (one high and one low tide per day) and semidiurnal oscillations, predominate in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea and also are found along the southeastern coast of Brazil and in Tierra del Fuego,…

fat: Chemical composition of fats: …the simple type; most are mixed triglycerides (i.e., one molecule of glycerol is combined with two or three different fatty acids). Thus stearodipalmitin, C3H5(OCOC15H31)2(OCOC17H35), contains two palmitic acid radicals and one stearic acid radical. Similarly, oleopalmitostearin, C3H5(OCOC15H31)(OCOC1

uranium processing: Oxide fuels: …procedures are employed to fabricate mixed uranium-plutonium dioxide (MOX) pellets for use in fast-neutron breeder reactors. Unirradiated MOX fuel typically contains 20 to 35 percent plutonium dioxide.

industrial glass: Electrical conductivity: …additivity relationship here is the mixed-alkali effect, in which glasses containing two or more different types of alkali ions have a significantly lower electrical conductivity than linear additivity would suggest. In applications such as high-wattage lamps, where low electrical conductivity is desired, mixed-alkali glasses are useful.

turbine: Mixed-flow turbines: Francis turbines are probably used most extensively because of their wider range of suitable heads, characteristically from three to 600 metres. At the high-head range, the flow rate and the output must be large; otherwise the runner becomes too small for reasonable fabrication.…

prairie: Midgrass, or mixed-grass, prairie, supporting both bunchgrasses and sod-forming grasses, is the most extensive prairie subtype and occupies the central part of the prairie region. Species of porcupine grass, grama grass, wheatgrass, and buffalo grass dominate the vegetation. Sand hills are common in the western…

atmosphere: Planetary boundary layer: …is referred to as the mixed-layer inversion.

water supply system: Filtration: …to enhance in-depth filtration, so-called mixed-media filters are used in some treatment plants. These have a third layer, consisting of a fine-grained dense mineral called garnet, at the bottom of the bed.

election: Hybrid systems: …are called mixed-member proportional or additional-members systems. Although there are a number of variants, all mixed-member proportional systems elect some representatives by proportional representation and the remainder by a nonproportional formula. The classic example of the hybrid system is the German Bundestag, which combines the personal link between representatives and…

integrated circuit: Mixed-signal design: For designs that contain both analog and digital circuitry (mixed-signal chips), standard analog and digital simulators are not sufficient. Instead, special behavioral simulators are used, employing the same simplifying idea behind digital simulators to model entire circuits rather than individual transistors. Behavioral simulators…

integrated circuit: Mixed-signal design: For designs that contain both analog and digital circuitry (mixed-signal chips), standard analog and digital simulators are not sufficient. Instead, special behavioral simulators are used, employing the same simplifying idea behind digital simulators to model entire circuits rather than individual transistors. Behavioral simulators…

baking: History: The first mechanical dough mixer, attributed to Marcus Vergilius (sometimes spelled Virgilius) Eurysaces, a freed slave of Greek origin, consisted of a large stone basin in which wooden paddles, powered by a horse or donkey walking in circles, kneaded the dough mixture of flour, leaven, and water.

stagecraft: Technological innovations of the 20th century: Through the use of a playback mixing console (also called a mixer or a mixing desk), the sound operator could direct the sound for a particular cue to its appropriate location at a specific loudness level. It therefore became possible for one operator to run all of the sound cues…

jet engine: Low-bypass turbofans and turbojets: …a turbofan usually requires a mixer for mixing the relatively cool bypass air with the hot core stream (see Figure 6); the cooler air is otherwise difficult to burn in the low-pressure environment of an afterburner. Also, in both the turbojet and the turbofan with an afterburner, the exhaust nozzle…

fungus: Annotated classification: Order Mixiales Parasitic primarily on ferns; blastosporic yeasts; example genus is Mixia. Class Cryptomycocolacomycetes Parasitic; simple septate; contains 1 order. Order Cryptomycocolacales Parasitic on insects such as

motion-picture technology: Mixing: The final combination of tracks onto one composite sound track synchronous with the picture is variously known as mixing, rerecording, or dubbing. Mixing takes place at a special console equipped with separate controls for each track to adjust loudness and various aspects of sound…

baking: The sponge-and-dough method: The objectives of mixing are a nearly homogeneous blend of the ingredients and “developing” of the dough by formation of the gluten into elongated and interlaced fibres that will form the basic structure of the loaf. Because intense shearing actions must be avoided, the usual dough mixer has…

plastic: Compounding: …fabrication procedures is compounding, the mixing together of various raw materials in proportions according to a specific recipe. Most often the plastic resins are supplied to the fabricator as cylindrical pellets (several millimetres in diameter and length) or as flakes and powders. Other forms include viscous liquids, solutions, and suspensions.

stagecraft: Technological innovations of the 20th century: Through the use of a playback mixing console (also called a mixer or a mixing desk), the sound operator could direct the sound for a particular cue to its appropriate location at a specific loudness level. It therefore became possible for one operator to run all of the sound cues…

stagecraft: Technological innovations of the 20th century: Through the use of a playback mixing console (also called a mixer or a mixing desk), the sound operator could direct the sound for a particular cue to its appropriate location at a specific loudness level. It therefore became possible for one operator to run all of the sound cues…

isentropic chart: …shown by lines of constant mixing ratio (which expresses the mass of water vapour per unit mass of dry air) and of constant specific humidity (which expresses the mass of water vapour per unit mass of air). The flow of air at the isentropic surface is represented by streamlines, computed…

fungus: Annotated classification: Class Mixiomycetes Parasitic or saprotrophic; simple septate; contains 1 order. Order Mixiales Parasitic primarily on ferns; blastosporic yeasts; example genus is Mixia. Class Cryptomycocolacomycetes Parasitic; simple septate;

Mixolydian mode, in music, seventh of the eight medieval church modes. See church

protozoan: Mixotrophy: All protozoans engage in heterotrophy, but not all protozoans are exclusive heterotrophs. Those that combine autotrophy (self-sustaining food production from a carbon source and inorganic nitrogen) and heterotrophy (ingesting other organisms to acquire carbon) are known as mixotrophs. The degree of mixotrophy in a…

protozoan: Mixotrophy: All protozoans engage in heterotrophy, but not all protozoans are exclusive heterotrophs. Those that combine autotrophy (self-sustaining food production from a carbon source and inorganic nitrogen) and heterotrophy (ingesting other organisms to acquire carbon) are known as mixotrophs. The degree of mixotrophy in a…

Ana Castillo: In The Mixquiahuala Letters (1986), Castillo continues her exploration of Latina women and their sexuality and examines the reactions of men in the Anglo and Latino communities. Written in an experimental form, the novel consists of letters sent over 10 years between two Latina women, arranged…

Mixtec, Middle American Indian population living in the northern and western sections of the state of Oaxaca and in neighbouring parts of the states of Guerrero and Puebla in southern Mexico. Historically the Mixtec possessed a high degree of civilization in Aztec and pre-Aztec times. The modern

Mesoamerican Indian languages: The classification and status of Mesoamerican languages:

Mexico: Expansion of Spanish rule: …an episode known as the Mixton War. In order to complete the subjugation of the indigenous peoples, the Spaniards began to move into Zacatecas, where in 1546 they found immensely valuable silver mines. After similar discoveries in Guanajuato and San Luis Potosí, Spaniards occupied most of the north central region.…

chemical element: General observations: …naturally occurring matter are physical mixtures of compounds. Seawater, for example, is a mixture of water and a large number of other compounds, the most common of which is sodium chloride, or table salt. Mixtures differ from compounds in that they can be separated into their component parts by physical…

A Mixture of Frailties, novel by Robertson Davies, the third in a series known collectively as the Salterton

keyboard instrument: Organ stops: …what are known generically as mixture stops, which have several high-pitched pipes to each note. But, since, for example, a 1-foot rank could not be carried right up to the top note, it breaks back an octave at some convenient point in the compass. Ranks pitched even higher will break…

Mixue Bingcheng, commonly known as Mixue, is a Chinese fast-food company specializing in ice cream, tea-based drinks, and other inexpensive menu items. Founded in Zhengzhou, China, Mixue has grown from a small local business into a large franchise with thousands of locations. Its rapid expansion,

Mixue Bingcheng, commonly known as Mixue, is a Chinese fast-food company specializing in ice cream, tea-based drinks, and other inexpensive menu items. Founded in Zhengzhou, China, Mixue has grown from a small local business into a large franchise with thousands of locations. Its rapid expansion,

Itsuku Island, offshore island, Hiroshima ken (prefecture), Japan, in the Inland Sea. The small island, one of Japan’s most scenic locations, is 19 miles (31 km) in circumference and occupies an area of 12 square miles (31 square km). It is best known for its 6th-century shrine, which was built on

maple: cappadocicum) and Miyabe maple (A. miyabei) provide golden-yellow fall colour. The three-flowered maple (A. triflorum) and the paperbark maple (A. griseum) have tripartite leaves and attractive peeling bark, in the former tannish and in the latter copper brown.