snowdrop, (genus Galanthus), genus of about 20 species of white-flowered Eurasian plants in the amaryllis family. They are commonly the earliest garden flowers to blossom in the late winter or early spring, sometimes emerging when snow is still on the ground. Wild snowdrops are found in grasslands

storax: officinalis (snowdrop bush), native to eastern Europe and Asia Minor and growing to about 6 metres (20 feet). A resin known as storax, used in incense, was formerly obtained from S. officinalis.

silver bells, (Halesia carolina), deciduous plant, of the storax family (Styracaceae), native to southeastern and southern United States and cultivated as an ornamental. The tree grows from 12 to 24 metres (40 to 80 feet) tall and has alternate, stalked, toothed, bright-green leaves 5–10 cm (2–4

Lucy Snowe, fictional character, a shy, plain British teacher in Belgium who is the protagonist of Charlotte Brontë’s semiautobiographical novel Villette

Angus King: Olympia Snowe announced that she would not seek reelection, King ran for her seat. He won with 52.9 percent of the popular vote in a six-way race. After taking office in 2013, he caucused with the Democratic Party, though he continued to be known for…

snow: Snowflakes are formed by crystals of ice that generally have a hexagonal pattern, often beautifully intricate. The size and shape of the crystals depend mainly on the temperature and the amount of water vapour available as they develop. At temperatures above about −40 °C (−40…

snowflake, (genus Leucojum), small genus of flowering plants in the amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae). Several species, including spring snowflake (Leucojum vernum) and summer snowflake (L. aestivum), are cultivated as garden flowers. The plants are closely related to snowdrops (genus Galanthus)

number game: Pathological curves: Von Koch’s snowflake curve, for example, is the figure obtained by trisecting each side of an equilateral triangle and replacing the centre segment by two sides of a smaller equilateral triangle projecting outward, then treating the resulting figure the same way, and so on. The…

snowman porcelain, class of porcelain figures made at Longton Hall, Staffordshire, Eng., from c. 1750 to 1752. Called snowmen because of their thick white enveloping glaze, they include figures of human beings and animals sometimes inspired by Meissen originals. Stylistically they are more robust

Janet Frame: …volumes of short fiction are Snowman, Snowman: Fables and Fantasies (1963), The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches (1963), and You Are Now Entering the Human Heart (1983). Her poetry was collected in The Pocket Mirror (1967) and The Goose Bath (2006).

Rebecca Ferguson: Stardom: The White Queen and the Mission: Impossible films: …at the International Space Station; The Snowman, based on Jo Nesbø’s novel about detective Harry Hole; and The Greatest Showman, a biographical musical about P.T. Barnum (played by Hugh Jackman).

Jo Nesbø: Harry Hole books: …serial killer in Snømannen (2007; The Snowman). Panserhjerte (2009; “Armored Heart”; The Leopard) has Hole tracked down in Hong Kong and persuaded to reengage in police work. Gjenferd (2011; “Ghost”; Phantom) treats the drug scene in Oslo and examines Hole’s experience of fatherhood, and Politi (2013; Police) continues the story…

snowmobile, a one- or two-passenger motorized vehicle with one or two skis in front and an engine-driven single or double continuous track to propel it. Snowmobiles almost all follow the basic design of skis, fuel tank, engine, and seating for driver. They are steered by handlebars that control the

avalanche: Avalanche conditions: A snowpack consists of layers of snow, each formed at different times. Once the snow is on the ground, the ice crystals undergo physical changes that differentiate the layers deeper in the snowpack from those on top. These changes can weaken a layer underlying a cohesive…

Jennifer Connelly: Connelly then starred in Snowpiercer (2020– ), which was her first TV series since The $treet (2000–01). She returned to the big screen in 2022, starring with Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick (2022), a sequel to the 1986 blockbuster.

History of film: South Korea: His English-language dystopian movie Snowpiercer (2013) had a huge international following. The offbeat comedy horror movie Gisaengchung (2019; Parasite) not only won an Academy Award for best international feature, it also became the only foreign-language movie to be awarded an Oscar for best picture, and Bong received awards for…

The Snows of Kilimanjaro, short story by Ernest Hemingway, first published in Esquire magazine in 1936 and later collected in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories (1938). The stream-of-consciousness narrative relates the feelings of Harry, a novelist dying of gangrene poisoning while

Henry King: Later films: …in the biblical-epic genre, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952). The latter was based on Ernest Hemingway’s short story about a famous writer (played by Peck) who is fatally injured while hunting big game in Africa and reflects back on his life; the supporting cast included Hayward and Ava Gardner.…

snowshoe, a light, oval wooden frame that is usually strengthened by two or more crosspieces, strung with thongs, and attached to the foot and that is used to enable a person to walk or run on soft snow without sinking. Snowshoes were used by Indians and Eskimos in the wintry northern areas of

snowshoe hare, (Lepus americanus), northern North American species of hare that undergoes an annual colour change from brownish or grayish in summer to pure white in winter. The hind feet are heavily furred, and all four feet are large in proportion to body size, a snowshoe-like adaptation that

snowshoe hare, (Lepus americanus), northern North American species of hare that undergoes an annual colour change from brownish or grayish in summer to pure white in winter. The hind feet are heavily furred, and all four feet are large in proportion to body size, a snowshoe-like adaptation that

snowy egret, (Egretta thula), white New World egret (family Ardeidae). It is about 24 inches (60 cm) long and has filmy recurved plumes on the back and head. Formerly hunted for its plumes, it ranges from the United States to Chile and

serviceberry: …North American; exceptions include the snowy mespilus (Amelanchier ovalis), which ranges over Europe, and the Asian serviceberry, or Korean juneberry (A. asiatica), which is a small tree native to East Asia. The name shadbush refers to the tendency of certain species to produce their profuse small blossoms when American shad…

Snowy Mountains, range in the Australian Alps, southeastern New South Wales, including several peaks that exceed 7,000 feet (2,100 metres)—notably Mount Kosciuszko, the highest in Australia. On their slopes rise the Murray, Murrumbidgee, and Tumut rivers, which flow inland, and the Snowy River,

origins of agriculture: Irrigation: …project is seen in the Snowy Mountains Scheme of Australia (1949–74), where three river systems were diverted to convert hundreds of miles of arid but fertile plains to productive land. Intensive soil conservation methods were undertaken wherever the natural vegetation and soil surface had been disturbed. Drainage is controlled by…

origins of agriculture: Irrigation: …project is seen in the Snowy Mountains Scheme of Australia (1949–74), where three river systems were diverted to convert hundreds of miles of arid but fertile plains to productive land. Intensive soil conservation methods were undertaken wherever the natural vegetation and soil surface had been disturbed. Drainage is controlled by…

snowy owl, (Nyctea scandiaca), white or barred, brown-and-white bird of prey of the family Strigidae (order Strigiformes). It inhabits the Arctic tundra and sometimes wanders southward in Europe, Asia, and North America. Snowy owls are about 60 cm (about 2 feet) long and have broad wings and a

Snowy River, river, southeastern New South Wales and eastern Victoria, Australia, rising on the eastern slopes of the Snowy Mountains near Mount Kosciuszko and flowing about 270 miles (430 km) southeast, then west and south to Bass Strait at Marlo. Its chief tributaries are the Eucumbene, Thredbo,

sheathbill: The pure-white snowy sheathbill (C. alba), 40 cm (16 inches) long, has a yellow bill. The lesser sheathbill (C. minor) is black-billed and is about 38 cm (15 inches) long.

cricket: The snowy tree cricket (Oecanthus fultoni) is popularly known as the thermometer cricket because the approximate temperature (Fahrenheit) can be estimated by counting the number of chirps in 15 seconds and adding 40. Tree- and bush-inhabiting crickets usually sing at night, whereas weed-inhabiting crickets sing both…

single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), variation in a genetic sequence that affects only one of the basic building blocks—adenine (A), guanine (G), thymine (T), or cytosine (C)—in a segment of a DNA molecule and that occurs in more than 1 percent of a population. An example of an SNP is the

Scottish National Party (SNP), nationalist political party that has sought to make Scotland an independent state within the European Union (EU). The SNP was formed in 1934 from a union of the National Party of Scotland (founded in 1928) and the Scottish Party (1932). From the beginning,

Elf Aquitaine: …Pyrenees, and in 1941 the Société Nationale des Pétroles d’Aquitaine (SNPA; “National Society for Petroleum in Aquitaine”) was founded to explore further in the southwest of the country. In 1949 and again in 1951 important deposits were struck by SNPA drills near the mountain village of Lacq. Under the direction…

supernova remnant, nebula left behind after a supernova, a spectacular explosion in which a star ejects most of its mass in a violently expanding cloud of debris. At the brightest phase of the explosion, the expanding cloud radiates as much energy in a single day as the Sun has done in the past

electronic music: Computer sound synthesis: …are low enough for the signal-to-noise ratio to exceed commercial standards (55 to 70 decibels).

nucleic acid: Other RNAs: For example, small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs) are involved in RNA splicing, and other small RNAs that form part of the enzymes telomerase or ribonuclease P are part of ribonucleoprotein particles. The RNA component of telomerase contains a short sequence that serves as a template for the addition…

nucleic acid: Splicing: …consists of a number of small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles (snRNPs) that contain snRNAs.

Slovakia: Political process: …Democratic and Christian Union, the Slovak National Party, the Party of the Hungarian Coalition, the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia, and the Christian Democratic Movement.

Serbia: Independent Serbia: The newly formed Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska Napredna Stranka; SNS), which had split off from the Radicals in 2008, had by 2010 joined the DS in supporting Serbia’s accession to the EU. In March 2010 the Serbian parliament voted to condemn the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of Bosniaks (Bosnian…

snub-nosed monkey, (genus Rhinopithecus), any of four species of large and unusual leaf monkeys (see langur) found in highland forests of central China and northern Vietnam. They have a broad, short face with wide-set slanting eyes and a short, flat nose with forward-facing nostrils. The golden

snub-nosed monkey, (genus Rhinopithecus), any of four species of large and unusual leaf monkeys (see langur) found in highland forests of central China and northern Vietnam. They have a broad, short face with wide-set slanting eyes and a short, flat nose with forward-facing nostrils. The golden

shock absorber, device for controlling unwanted motion of a spring-mounted vehicle. On an automobile, for example, the springs act as a cushion between the axles and the body and reduce the shocks on the body produced by a rough road surface. Some combinations of road surface and car speed may

snuff, powdered preparation of tobacco used by inhalation or by dipping—that is, rubbing on the teeth and gums. Manufacture involves grinding the tobacco and subjecting it to repeated fermentations. Snuffs may be scented with attar of roses, lavender, cloves, jasmine, etc. Some of the first peoples

pottery: 19th and 20th centuries: Snuff bottles painted with miniature designs were first made toward the end of the 18th century, but most belong to the reign of the Jiajing (1796–1820) and Daoguang (1821–50) emperors. Bowls with circular medallions painted in overglaze colours with yellow or rose grounds are, perhaps,…

snuffbox, small, usually ornamented box for holding snuff (a scented, powdered tobacco). The practice of sniffing or inhaling a pinch of snuff was common in England around the 17th century; and when, in the 18th century, it became widespread in other countries as well, the demand for decorated

snuffbox, small, usually ornamented box for holding snuff (a scented, powdered tobacco). The practice of sniffing or inhaling a pinch of snuff was common in England around the 17th century; and when, in the 18th century, it became widespread in other countries as well, the demand for decorated

Robert Armin was an English actor and playwright best known as a leading comic actor in the plays of William Shakespeare. He performed with the Chamberlain’s Men from approximately 1598 to 1610 and originated some of the most famous comic roles in Elizabethan theatre. Armin was an apprentice to a

snuffer, metal implement used to extinguish the flame of a candle, generally in a form of a scissors (to snuff the flame and cut off the wick) or a hollow cone at the end of a long handle. The earliest surviving example is a silver-gilt snuffer in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, dated about

Although the origins of smoking are unknown, it was first seen among Native Americans, who used tobacco for both spiritual and medicinal purposes. In the late 15th century, sailors returning from the Americas began to introduce tobacco to Europe, where it was soon regarded as an almost universal

Bernstein v. the U.S. Department of State: …devised his encryption program, called Snuffle, in 1990 while he was a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. His software converted a one-way “hash function” (one that takes an input string of arbitrary length and compresses it into a finite, usually shorter, string; the function has many uses…

Big Bird: …1971 his best friend was Snuffleupagus, a large four-legged puppet who resembles a woolly mammoth. Until 1985 none of the adult humans on Sesame Street ever saw “Snuffy,” and so they considered him simply a convenient scapegoat for Big Bird when he got in trouble.

Big Bird: …1971 his best friend was Snuffleupagus, a large four-legged puppet who resembles a woolly mammoth. Until 1985 none of the adult humans on Sesame Street ever saw “Snuffy,” and so they considered him simply a convenient scapegoat for Big Bird when he got in trouble.

snowboarding: History of snowboarding: The “Snurfer” got its snappy name from Poppen’s wife, who neatly combined the two words that described the contraption’s purpose: surfing on snow. Poppen’s initial model was just two snow skis bolted together—he later attached a rope to the front for steering. No specialized boots or…

Snyder, county, central Pennsylvania, U.S., located midway between the cities of Williamsport and Harrisburg and bordered to the north by Penns Creek Mountain and to the east by the Susquehanna River. Its ridge-and-valley topography also includes Thick, Jacks, and Shade mountains, while Walker Lake

Native American: Reorganization: The earlier Snyder Act (1924) had extended citizenship to all Indigenous people born in the United States, opening the door to full participation in American civic life (see also Are Native Americans U.S. Citizens?. But few took advantage of the law, and a number of states subsequently…

Samuel A. Alito, Jr.: Dissenting opinions written by Alito: …opinions was his dissent in Snyder v. Phelps (2011). The case involved a claim of freedom of speech by members of Westboro Baptist Church, who had protested near the funeral of Matthew Snyder, a U.S. Marine, and subsequently were held liable for damages for intentionally inflicting emotional injury on his…

Zack Snyder is an American filmmaker known for directing, writing, and producing highly stylized and visually striking superhero and action films, including the historical war epic 300 (2006), the gritty, dystopian superhero film Watchmen (2009), and the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) Superman origin

Boston Massacre: The killing of Christopher Seider and the end of the rope: Early in 1770, with the effectiveness of the boycott uneven, colonial radicals, many of them members of the Sons of Liberty, began directing their ire against those businesses that had ignored the boycott. The radicals posted signs…

Washington Commanders: …Cooke, were purchased by billionaire Daniel Snyder, whose first decade of ownership was marked by splashy free-agent acquisitions, as well as a four-year return to the sidelines by Gibbs beginning in 2004, but few winning seasons. Behind the standout play of rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III, the team posted a…

Zack Snyder: Career: Snyder’s wife, Deborah Snyder, is a producer who has produced many of his films, including Watchmen, Sucker Punch, 300, Man of Steel, and Batman v Superman, among others. Together with partner Wesley Coller, the Snyders operate a production company called Stone Quarry Productions. In a 2016 interview…

Gary Snyder is an American poet who was early identified with the Beat movement and, from the late 1960s, became an important spokesman for the concerns of communal living and ecological activism. Snyder received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1975. Snyder was educated at Reed College (B.A.,

Gary Snyder is an American poet who was early identified with the Beat movement and, from the late 1960s, became an important spokesman for the concerns of communal living and ecological activism. Snyder received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1975. Snyder was educated at Reed College (B.A.,

particle accelerator: History: Courant, and H.S. Snyder of the technique of alternating-gradient focusing (sometimes called strong focusing). Synchrotrons incorporating this principle needed magnets only 1 100 the size that would be required otherwise. All recently constructed synchrotrons make use of alternating-gradient focusing.

Tailhook scandal: Incident: John W. Snyder, for whom Coughlin was an aide, had acknowledged her report but noted that such behaviour was the natural consequence of getting naval aviators drunk. Coughlin filed charges and, when her case moved slowly, she went public with her allegations. A seven-month investigation…

chromatography: Liquid chromatography: The American chemist Lloyd R. Snyder arranged solvents in an eluotropic strength scale based on the chromatographic behaviour of selected solutes on silica. Normal-phase chromatography involves a polar stationary phase and a less polar mobile phase.

Detroit: History of Detroit: Rick Snyder appointed Kevyn Orr, an attorney who had participated in the bankruptcy and restructuring of Chrysler in 2009, to be Detroit’s emergency manager. Orr was granted wide-ranging executive powers to deal with the city’s $19 billion debt, but he was unable to reach an…

Zack Snyder is an American filmmaker known for directing, writing, and producing highly stylized and visually striking superhero and action films, including the historical war epic 300 (2006), the gritty, dystopian superhero film Watchmen (2009), and the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) Superman origin

Frans Snyders was a Baroque artist who was the most-noted 17th-century painter of animals. His subjects included still lifes of markets and pantries (featuring both live animals and dead game), animals in combat, and hunting scenes. A highly skilled painter who was celebrated for his ability to

Shōkadō Shōjō: …calligraphy by reviving the traditional sō (“grass”) writing style—a rapid, cursive script that originated in China and was practiced by a 9th-century Japanese Shingon saint Kōbō Daishi. Using the sō script, Shōkadō inscribed 16 love poems on a six-panelled folding screen covered with gold leaf (Kimiko and John Powers Collection,…

so, in early Japan, a land tax levied by the central government per unit of allotted land. It was introduced during the Taika reforms (645–649 ce) and fully implemented during the Heian period (794–1185). Formally considered a land rental fee, the so was usually paid as a portion of the rice yield.

Southern Oscillation, in oceanography and climatology, a coherent interannual fluctuation of atmospheric pressure over the tropical Indo-Pacific region. The Southern Oscillation is the atmospheric component of a single large-scale coupled interaction called the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO).

António Nobre: …he published in his lifetime, Só (1892; “Alone”), inspired by nostalgic memories of a childhood spent in the company of peasants and sailors in northern Portugal. Só combines the simple lyricism of Portuguese traditional poetry with the more refined perceptiveness of Symbolism.

Ikenobō: >so (informal).

Paul Simon: Later work and assessment: Simon followed with So Beautiful or So What (2011), an album that was billed as a return to traditional songwriting. If Still Crazy After All These Years was a thirty-something’s commentary on middle age, So Beautiful or So What was a meditation on mortality by an artist approaching…

William Wellman: Films of the early to mid-1930s: …then played the lead in So Big (1932), a truncated version of Edna Ferber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. For the remainder of the early 1930s, Wellman made a series of melodramas—with some aerial adventure mixed in—before turning to the pre-Code gem Wild Boys of the Road (1933),…

So Big, novel by Edna Ferber, published in 1924 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1925. The book tells the story of Selina Peake DeJong, a gambler’s daughter with a love of life and a nurturing

Korea: The international power struggle and Korea’s resistance: …leadership of such figures as Seo Jae-Pil (Philip Jaisohn). Returning from many years of exile, Seo organized in 1896 a political organization called the Independence Club (Dongnip Hyeophoe). He also published a daily newspaper named Tongnip sinmun (“The Independent”) as a medium for awakening the populace to the importance of…

Korean literature: Modern literature: 1910 to the end of the 20th century: Sŏ Chŏngju and Pak Tujin are known for their lifelong dedication and contributions to modern Korean poetry. Considered to be the most “Korean” of contemporary poets, Sŏ is credited with exploring the hidden resources of the language, from sensual ecstasy to spiritual quest, from haunting…

Nevil Shute: His major works include So Disdained (1928) and What Happened to the Corbetts (1939), a foretaste of World War II’s bombing of civilians. His later novels—all set in Australia—reflected a growing feeling of despair about the future. A Town Like Alice (1950) dealt with the Pacific theatre of World…

Lewis Allen: The suspenseful So Evil My Love (1948) featured Milland as a con man who seduces a widow (Ann Todd) and manipulates her into assisting him in a scheme involving one of her friends (Geraldine Fitzgerald). Milland also starred in Sealed Verdict (1948), a courtroom melodrama in which…

Megadeth: Popular success and the heavy metal renaissance: …Megadeth released its third album, So Far, So Good…So What?, which includes “In My Darkest Hour,” a song about loneliness and despair that Mustaine wrote in 1986 after hearing that his former bandmate, Metallica bassist Cliff Burton, had died in a tour bus accident. The album was Megadeth’s first to…

Joseph Brodsky: …posthumous publications include the collections So Forth (1996) and Nativity Poems (2001) and the children’s poem Discovery (1999).

Reba McEntire: Acting and later music: …tour and release albums, including So Good Together (1999), Room to Breathe (2003), Reba: Duets (2007), and Love Somebody (2015). In 2017 she released Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope, which later won a Grammy for best roots gospel album. The following year she was named a Kennedy…

Mike Pence: Vice president: He later published the memoir So Help Me God (2022), which focuses on his time in the White House. Pence largely defended Trump and his presidency, often referring to him as “my friend.”

Korean literature: Early Chosŏn: 1392–1598: Sŏ Kŏ-Jŏng compiled Tongmun sŏn (“Anthology of Korean Literature”) and Tongin shihwa (“Remarks on Poetry by a Man from the East”), in which he summarized and commented on poetry dating from Unified Silla onward. Sŏng Hyŏn’s Yongjae ch’onghwa (“Miscellany of Yongjae”) established the tradition of…

John P. Marquand: …the dislocations of wartime America—So Little Time (1943), Repent in Haste (1945), and B.F.’s Daughter (1946)—but in these his social perceptions were somewhat less keen. He came back to his most able level of writing in his next novel, Point of No Return (1949), a painstakingly accurate social study…

the Guess Who: Post-Bachman years: ” So Long, Bannatyne (1971) followed a year later and included the popular singles “Rain Dance” and “Sour Suite.” A concert album, Live at the Paramount (1972), yielded the Canadian hit “Runnin’ Back to Saskatoon” and led renowned rock critic Lester Bangs to declare “The Guess…

William Maxwell: His 1980 novel So Long, See You Tomorrow returns to the subject of a friendship between two boys, this one disrupted by a parent’s murder of his spouse, then suicide. Despite the subject, Maxwell avoids sensationalism, instead concentrating on the crime’s emotional aftereffects.

Mark Sandrich: So Proudly We Hail (1943) was a change of pace for Sandrich, a grimly patriotic drama about a group of nurses stationed in the Pacific during World War II. The cast included Colbert, Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, and Paulette Goddard, who was nominated for an…

King Vidor: Early sound features: So Red the Rose (1935) was a passable Civil War romance starring Margaret Sullavan as a wealthy Southerner who struggles to keep her family’s plantation and Randolph Scott as the pacifist turned Confederate officer she loves. In 1936 Vidor made The Texas Rangers (1936), an…

Richard Brautigan: So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away (1982), the final novel published during Brautigan’s life, is the reminiscence of a 44-year-old man who is haunted by the memory of killing his friend during a hunting accident as a youth and wishes that he had…

Mark Sandrich: …he also made the short So This Is Harris!, which won an Academy Award. Sandrich subsequently focused on feature films. The musical Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men (1933) included several elaborate Busby Berkeley-like numbers. Hips, Hips, Hooray and Cockeyed Cavaliers (both 1934) were popular Bert Wheeler–Robert Woolsey comedies.

Terrance Hayes: American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin: Hayes’s seventh collection, So to Speak, was published in 2023.

Steve Earle: …album Terraplane (2015); the country-leaning So You Wannabe an Outlaw (2017); Guy (2019), a tribute record to Guy Clark; and Ghosts of West Virginia (2020), which features songs he wrote for the Off-Broadway play Coal Country, about a mining disaster. In 2021 Earle released J.T., for which he covered songs…

Figuring out how to buy a car means looking beyond the 0-to-60 acceleration time, or how many miles a battery can go. It’s about deciding whether you really need new wheels, understanding what you can afford, and knowing how to choose between a used car and a new one. Cars are so ingrained in

Do you dream of traveling the world with little more than your laptop? Digital nomads, who travel relentlessly and work from ever-changing locations, are doing just that. The digital nomad lifestyle—enabled by worldwide Internet connectivity and more flexible work arrangements—has been enticing a

Alanis Morissette: So-Called Chaos (2004) also failed to re-create the critical and commercial success Morissette had enjoyed in the 1990s. In 2005, 10 years after Jagged Little Pill’s release, Morissette took it on tour as an acoustic act and released an album version, Jagged Little Pill Acoustic…

suona, Chinese double-reed woodwind instrument, the most commonly used double-reed instrument. Similar to the shawm, the suona originated in Arabia; it has been widely used in China since the 16th century. The reed is affixed to a conical wooden body covered by a copper tube with eight finger holes

Svay Rieng, town, southeastern Cambodia. Svay Rieng is located on the Vam Co River; it is linked to Phnom Penh (the national capital), to Vietnam, and to neighboring areas by a national highway. It has a small hospital. The surrounding region is important for its agriculture; rice, corn (maize),

glacier: Mass balance: …a shallow depth; in the soaked zone sufficient melting and refreezing take place to raise the whole winter snow layer to the melting temperature, permitting runoff; and in the superimposed-ice zone refrozen meltwater at the base of the snowpack (superimposed ice) forms a continuous layer that is exposed at the…