North Africa campaigns: Rommel’s final offensive in Africa: Gen. Heinz Ziegler, at the head of the 21st Panzer Division, turned the left flank of the American forces there and destroyed more than 100 U.S. tanks. Rommel urged Ziegler to drive on during the night and exploit the success to the fullest, but Ziegler…

Karl Ziegler was a German chemist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with the Italian chemist Giulio Natta. Ziegler’s research with organometallic compounds made possible the industrial production of high-quality polyethylene. Natta used Ziegler’s organometallic compounds to make

White House press secretary: Successes and failures in the late 20th century: Richard Nixon’s press secretary Ronald Ziegler, the youngest to hold the position at the time and a relatively inexperienced journalist, described the Watergate break-in as a “third-rate burglary attempt.” Ziegler later maintained that he knew nothing about the scandal as it unfolded, that he had been lied to and…

White House press secretary: Successes and failures in the late 20th century: Richard Nixon’s press secretary Ronald Ziegler, the youngest to hold the position at the time and a relatively inexperienced journalist, described the Watergate break-in as a “third-rate burglary attempt.” Ziegler later maintained that he knew nothing about the scandal as it unfolded, that he had been lied to and…

Ziegler-Natta catalyst, any of an important class of mixtures of chemical compounds remarkable for their ability to effect the polymerization of olefins (hydrocarbons containing a double carbon–carbon bond) to polymers of high molecular weights and highly ordered (stereoregular) structures. These

accordion, free-reed portable musical instrument, consisting of a treble casing with external piano-style keys or buttons and a bass casing (usually with buttons) attached to opposite sides of a hand-operated bellows. The advent of the accordion is the subject of debate among researchers. Many

Zielona Góra, city, one of two capitals (with Gorzów Wielkopolski) of Lubuskie województwo (province), west-central Poland. It is an important industrial (textile and metal production) and cultural centre, having for centuries nurtured the theatre arts and a lively folk culture. Beginning with the

Sam Zell was an American commercial real-estate entrepreneur. Zell was the son of Polish émigrés who had circled more than half the globe before settling in the American Midwest, where Zell’s father entered the wholesale jewelry business and invested in Chicago-area real estate. While studying at

Władysław Stanisław Reymont: …writing includes Ziemia obiecana (1899; The Promised Land; filmed 1974), a story set in the rapidly expanding industrial town of Łódz and depicting the lives and psychology of the owners of the textile mills there. His two early novels Komediantka (1896; The Comedienne) and Fermenty (1897; “The Ferments”) were based…

Adam Zagajewski: …Lwowa (1985; “Traveling to Lwów”), Ziemia ognista (1994; “The Fiery Land”), and Anteny (2005; “Antenna”). And he received acclaim as an essayist with such collections as Drugi oddech (1978; “Second Wind”), Solidarność i samtoność (1986; Solidarity and Solitude), Dwa miasta (1991; Two Cities: On Exile, History, and the Imagination),

Canadian literature: Poetry and poetics: David Zieroth (who has also published as Dale Zieroth) recalled his childhood on a Manitoba farm in When the Stones Fly Up (1985) and The Village of Sliding Time (2006) and meditated on everyday moments in Crows Do Not Have Retirement (2001).

Canadian literature: Poetry and poetics: David Zieroth (who has also published as Dale Zieroth) recalled his childhood on a Manitoba farm in When the Stones Fly Up (1985) and The Village of Sliding Time (2006) and meditated on everyday moments in Crows Do Not Have Retirement (2001).

Nile River: Dams and reservoirs: The Zifta Barrage, nearly halfway along the Damietta branch of the deltaic Nile, was added to this system in 1901. In 1902 the Asyūṭ Barrage, more than 200 miles upstream from Cairo, was completed. This was followed in 1909 by the barrage at Isnā (Esna), about…

chickenpox: Prevention: …exposed to VZV, injections of zoster immune globulin (ZIG) may be administered. ZIG is prepared from the plasma of adults who have recently experienced herpes zoster and therefore contains antibodies against VZV that can help prevent the development of chickenpox in exposed individuals. The protection it provides, however, is only…

Hot Springs: The surrounding Zig Zag Mountains that make up the park area beyond Bathhouse Row are heavily forested in oak, hickory, and pine, with stands of dogwood, redbud, and other flowering species. Wildlife is abundant and consists primarily of small mammals and numerous species of birds.

Euthymius Zigabenus was a Byzantine theologian, polemicist for Greek Orthodoxy, and biblical exegete whose encyclopaedic work on the history of Christian heresies is a primary source for material on early and medieval theological controversy. Zigabenus was a monk at a convent near Constantinople.

Euthymius Zigabenus was a Byzantine theologian, polemicist for Greek Orthodoxy, and biblical exegete whose encyclopaedic work on the history of Christian heresies is a primary source for material on early and medieval theological controversy. Zigabenus was a monk at a convent near Constantinople.

Roma, an ethnic group of traditionally itinerant people who originated in northern India but in modern times live worldwide, principally in Europe. Most Roma speak some form of Romany, a language closely related to the modern Indo-European languages of northern India, as well as the major language

Gypsy Melodies, Op. 55, song cycle by Bohemian composer Antonín Dvořák, with text by Czech poet Adolf Heyduk (1835–1923), celebrating the freedom of Roma (Gypsy) life. The song cycle was written for Gustav Walter, a tenor at Vienna’s Hofoper (Court Opera; precursor to the Staatsoper). Each of the

Pablo de Sarasate: …his most popular work being Zigeunerweisen (1878), a fantasy in gypsy style for violin and orchestra.

ziggurat, pyramidal stepped temple tower that is an architectural and religious structure characteristic of the major cities of Mesopotamia (now mainly in Iraq) from approximately 2200 until 500 bce. The ziggurat was always built with a core of mud brick and an exterior covered with baked brick. It

ziggurat at Ur, ziggurat located in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur in southern Iraq, near the modern-day city of Al-Nāṣiriyyah. Its earliest bricks date to about 2100 BCE. Ziggurats are pyramidal stepped temple towers built by the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians of ancient

Eritrea: Cultural life: …portions of such dishes as zigni (a stew made of fish, vegetables, and meat), ful (baked beans), dorho (roasted chicken), ga’at (porridge), and shiro (lentils). These dishes are seldom eaten without a side dish of fiery berbere, a locally produced pepper that figures prominently in Eritrean cooking. Eritrean food also…

Zigong, city, southeastern Sichuan sheng (province), southwestern China. It is situated on the Fuxi River, a tributary of the Tuo River, about 40 miles (65 km) north of Yibin. Zigong’s prosperity long depended on its salt industry, and deep drilling for brine has been practiced in the area for

Zigong: …has become famous for its Zigong Dinosaur Museum, just to the northeast at Dashanpu. The museum is built over the site where large numbers of dinosaur fossils of all kinds have been unearthed, and it has an exhibition space displaying the extensive collection of fossils found there. Zigong’s annual lantern…

Ziguinchor, river-port town, southwestern Senegal, lying along the Casamance River. Ziguinchor has long been known and visited by European mariners. In 1457 the Venetian navigator Alvise Ca’ da Mosto, envoy of the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator, reconnoitred the harbour. In 1886 the

Anita Desai: …Indian and American culture, while The Zigzag Way (2004) tells the story of an American academic who travels to Mexico to trace his Cornish ancestry. Desai also wrote short fiction—collections include Games at Twilight, and Other Stories (1978) and Diamond Dust, and Other Stories (2000)—and several children’s books, including The…

Cao Pi was the founder of the short-lived Wei dynasty (ad 220–265/266) during the Sanguo (Three Kingdoms) period of Chinese history. The son of the great general and warlord Cao Cao of the Han dynasty (206 bc–ad 220), Cao Pi succeeded his father as king of Wei upon the latter’s death in 220. At the

al-Khwārizmī: …set of astronomical tables (Zīj), based on a variety of Hindu and Greek sources. This work included a table of sines, evidently for a circle of radius 150 units. Like his treatises on algebra and Hindu-Arabic numerals, this astronomical work (or an Andalusian revision thereof) was translated into Latin.

astronomy: The Islamic world: …an important genre of the zīj. A zīj is a handbook of astronomical tables, including tables for working out positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets, accompanied by directions for using them. The ancient prototype was Ptolemy’s Handy Tables.

al-Khwārizmī: …set of astronomical tables (Zīj), based on a variety of Hindu and Greek sources. This work included a table of sines, evidently for a circle of radius 150 units. Like his treatises on algebra and Hindu-Arabic numerals, this astronomical work (or an Andalusian revision thereof) was translated into Latin.

Nanjing: City layout: …are the foothills of the Zijin (“Purple-Gold”) Mountains, and at the city’s west side is Qingliang (“Clear-Cool”) Hill. Outside of the city wall to the northeast is the extensive Xuanwu (“Mystic Martial”) Lake, containing five islets linked by embankments, and on the other side of the Qinhuai River, to the…

Forbidden City, imperial palace complex at the heart of Beijing (Peking), China. Commissioned in 1406 by the Yongle emperor of the Ming dynasty, it was first officially occupied by the court in 1420. It was so named because access to the area was barred to most of the subjects of the realm.

Lu Jiuyuan was an idealist neo-Confucian philosopher of the Southern Song and rival of his contemporary, the great neo-Confucian rationalist Zhu Xi. Lu’s thought was revised and refined three centuries later by the Ming dynasty neo-Confucian Wang Yangming. The name of their school is the Learning

In January 2016 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Zika virus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern because of its rapid spread and its association with a severe deformity known as microcephaly (abnormal smallness of the head) in infants born to mothers infected early in

Zika fever, infectious mosquito-borne illness, typically mild in humans but capable in utero of causing brain anomalies in newborns, including a severe deformity known as microcephaly (abnormal smallness of the head). Zika fever is caused by Zika virus, a type of flavivirus closely related to the

Zika virus, infectious agent of the genus Flavivirus in the family Flaviviridae. Zika virus was first isolated in 1947 from a rhesus monkey that had been caged in the canopy of the Zika Forest in Uganda. The following year it was isolated from Aedes africanus mosquitoes collected from the same

Zika fever, infectious mosquito-borne illness, typically mild in humans but capable in utero of causing brain anomalies in newborns, including a severe deformity known as microcephaly (abnormal smallness of the head). Zika fever is caused by Zika virus, a type of flavivirus closely related to the

Zika fever, infectious mosquito-borne illness, typically mild in humans but capable in utero of causing brain anomalies in newborns, including a severe deformity known as microcephaly (abnormal smallness of the head). Zika fever is caused by Zika virus, a type of flavivirus closely related to the

Glikl of Hameln: …seven books of memoirs (Zikhroynes), written in Yiddish with passages in Hebrew, reveal much about the history, culture, and everyday life of contemporary Jews in central Europe. Written not for publication but as a family chronicle and legacy for her children and their descendants, the diaries were begun in…

dhikr, ritual prayer or litany practiced by Muslim mystics (Sufis) for the purpose of glorifying God and achieving spiritual perfection. Based on the Qurʾānic injunctions “Remind thyself [udhkur] of thy Lord when thou forgettest” (18:24) and “O ye who believe! Remember [udhkurū] God with much

Zile, town, Tokat il (province), east-central Turkey. Lying in a fertile plain crossed by the Yeşil River, the town is at the foot of a hill crowned by a ruined citadel. Zela, the ancient temple state of Pontus, was famous as the site where in 47 bce the Roman general Julius Caesar defeated

sileh rug, pileless floor covering from the southern Caucasus and parts of eastern Turkey. Formerly the term was used to refer to a type of flatweave whose name in its area of origin is vernehor verné, but it has now come to be used for a group of flatweaves, which may or may not be woven in two

China: Reformist and revolutionist movements at the end of the dynasty: …organized the Independence Army (Zilijun) at Hankou in order to plan an uprising, but the scheme ended unsuccessfully. Early in 1900 the Revive China Society revolutionaries also formed a kind of alliance with the Brothers and Elders, called the Revive Han Association. This new body nominated Sun as its…

Žilina, town, north-central Slovakia. It lies along the Váh River at its confluence with the Kysuca and Rajčianka rivers. Originally an early 13th-century Slavic trading settlement, Žilina became a free royal town in 1312. It has an arcaded marketplace and medieval buildings, including the

Tibet: Drainage and soils: …(Tibetan: Tangra Yum), Nam, and Siling. South of Lhasa lie two other large lakes, Yamzho Yun (Yangzho Yong) and Puma Yung (Pumo). In western Tibet two adjoining lakes are located near the Nepal border—Lake Mapam, sacred to both Buddhists and Hindus, and Lake La’nga.

Helen Zille is a South African journalist, activist, and politician who served as the national leader (2007–15) of the Democratic Alliance (DA), South Africa’s official opposition party, and as the premier of the Western Cape province (2009–19). Zille also served as the mayor of Cape Town

Helen Zille is a South African journalist, activist, and politician who served as the national leader (2007–15) of the Democratic Alliance (DA), South Africa’s official opposition party, and as the premier of the Western Cape province (2009–19). Zille also served as the mayor of Cape Town

Tuiskon Ziller was a German educator noted for his application of Johann Friedrich Herbart’s educational precepts to the German elementary school. Ziller attended the University of Leipzig, where he came under the influence of followers of Herbart, and in 1853 became a lecturer there. In 1862 he

Zillertal Alps, segment of the eastern Alps on the Austrian-Italian border, extending northeastward for 35 miles (56 km) from Brenner Pass and the Ötztal Alps to the Hohe Tauern range. The Ziller River rises in the mountains and flows generally northward to the Inn River. The highest point among

Zillertal Alps, segment of the eastern Alps on the Austrian-Italian border, extending northeastward for 35 miles (56 km) from Brenner Pass and the Ötztal Alps to the Hohe Tauern range. The Ziller River rises in the mountains and flows generally northward to the Inn River. The highest point among

Konni Zilliacus was a Finnish patriot and leader of a daring anti-Russian Finnish nationalist group during the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05) and the Russian Revolution of 1905, who inspired a later generation of Finnish anti-Russian activists. Zilliacus learned journalism in Chicago in the 1890s. He

Konni Zilliacus was a Finnish patriot and leader of a daring anti-Russian Finnish nationalist group during the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05) and the Russian Revolution of 1905, who inspired a later generation of Finnish anti-Russian activists. Zilliacus learned journalism in Chicago in the 1890s. He

Tibet: Drainage and soils: …(Tibetan: Tangra Yum), Nam, and Siling. South of Lhasa lie two other large lakes, Yamzho Yun (Yangzho Yong) and Puma Yung (Pumo). In western Tibet two adjoining lakes are located near the Nepal border—Lake Mapam, sacred to both Buddhists and Hindus, and Lake La’nga.

Richard Barton: …a former Expedia executive, created Zillow.com, a self-service real estate website that looked to duplicate the success of Expedia. Zillow was instantly popular, in large part because of a feature called Zestimate, which provided users with an estimated value for any of the tens of millions of homes in the…

Southern Africa: The Zambezi valley: …of people known as the Zimba, a term applied to any marauders. They seem to have been Maravi people, who had first migrated from Luba territory to the southern end of Lake Nyasa in the 14th century. There they broke up into a number of chiefdoms, usually under the paramountcy…

Mozambique: Early settlement: …settlements featuring stone enclosures, or zimbabwes.

Zimbabwe, landlocked country of southern Africa. It shares a 125-mile (200-kilometre) border on the south with the Republic of South Africa and is bounded on the southwest and west by Botswana, on the north by Zambia, and on the northeast and east by Mozambique. The capital is Harare (formerly

Great Zimbabwe, extensive stone ruins of an African Iron Age city. It lies in southeastern Zimbabwe, about 19 miles (30 km) southeast of Masvingo (formerly Fort Victoria). The central area of ruins extends about 200 acres (80 hectares), making Great Zimbabwe the largest of more than 150 major stone

Joshua Nkomo: …of Mugabe, who headed the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). The two groups were joined in an uneasy alliance known as the Patriotic Front after 1976.

Robert Mugabe: Early life and rise to power: …a breakaway from Joshua Nkomo’s Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU). In 1964 he was arrested for “subversive speech” and spent the next 10 years in prison. During that period he acquired law degrees by correspondence courses. While still in prison he led a coup in 1974 deposing Sithole as ZANU’s…

Morgan Tsvangirai: Early life and involvement with trade unions: …he became secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), the national federation of trade unions. In 1997–98 Tsvangirai successfully led a series of strikes against President Mugabe’s taxation policy. He also served as a chairman of the National Constitutional Assembly, a nongovernmental organization formed in 1997 to support…

Gertrude Caton-Thompson: …Phoenician origin, were reported in The Zimbabwe Culture (1931; reissued in 1969). Returning to Egypt (1930–33), she conducted excavations in Al-Wāḥāt al-Khārijah (the Kharga oasis). A fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge (1934–51), in 1948 she advanced the hypothesis that earliest civilization may have originated in central Africa. Her other publications…

Zimbabwe, landlocked country of southern Africa. It shares a 125-mile (200-kilometre) border on the south with the Republic of South Africa and is bounded on the southwest and west by Botswana, on the north by Zambia, and on the northeast and east by Mozambique. The capital is Harare (formerly

One of the stranger stories that resulted from the U.S.-led boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was that of the Zimbabwe women’s field hockey team, which won a gold medal despite being assembled on extremely short notice. Before 1980, Zimbabwe was Rhodesia, a country bordering South Africa

From the late 19th century Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) denied representative government to its African majority. White resistance to British attempts to encourage democracy resulted in a new flag’s adoption on April 8, 1964. Instead of the former British Blue Ensign, the new Rhodesian flag had

history of Zimbabwe, a survey of notable events and people in the history of Zimbabwe. The landlocked country is located in Southern Africa. Bantu-speaking groups have populated what is now Zimbabwe for more than 10 centuries. Those who speak Ndebele are concentrated in a circle around the city of

Africa: General considerations: ancient Precambrian cratons—Kaapvaal, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Congo, and West African—that were formed between about 3.6 and 2 billion years ago and that basically have been tectonically stable since that time; those cratons are bounded by younger fold belts formed between 2 billion and 300 million years ago. All of…

cimbalom, an elaborate stringed instrument of the dulcimer family used in small music ensembles by central European Roma (Gypsies). The instrument has a trapezoidal body that stands on four legs. It has a chromatic range of four octaves and, unlike other dulcimers, a pedal mechanism for damping the

deindividuation: The role of accountability: …and ’70s the American psychologist Philip Zimbardo investigated the variables that lead to deindividuation and the behaviours that result from it. According to Zimbardo, factors leading to a state of deindividuation include anonymity; shared, diffused, or abandoned responsibility; altered temporal perspective (so that the individual focuses more on the here…

Zambia: Economy: …under an omnibus parastatal, the Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation (ZIMCO), to create one of the largest companies in sub-Saharan Africa. In 1973 management contracts under which the day-to-day operations of the mines had been carried out by Anglo American and RST were ended. In 1982 NCCM and RCM were…

Hans Zimmer is a German composer and producer known for scoring numerous award-winning films and soundtracks, including The Lion King (1994) and Dune: Part One (2021). He is widely regarded as one of Hollywood’s most innovative and prolific musical talents for his work not just in films but in

Joseph Campbell: Works: …Campbell attended the lectures of Heinrich Zimmer (1890–1943), a German Indologist at Columbia who had been forced into exile by the Nazis. Zimmer soon died, and Campbell devoted the next 12 years to turning Zimmer’s lecture notes into four tomes: Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization (1946), The…

autoharp: …the Akkordzither) was granted to Charles F. Zimmerman, a German emigré. His patent was later acquired by Alfred Dolge (1848–1922), a New York City piano-equipment manufacturer. Dolge distributed the instrument throughout the United States through door-to-door and mail-order sales. However, the instrument known by musicians as the autoharp (and distributed…

comic strip: The 19th century: Howarth, Syd Griffin, and especially Eugene Zimmermann were original and prolific artists of this period. The Swiss-born Zimmermann’s taste for grotesque forms of violence, animal antics, and racism seems as much American as German.

Black Lives Matter: Early history: Trayvon Martin shooting: They formed BLM after George Zimmerman, a man of German and Peruvian descent, was acquitted on charges stemming from his fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager, in Sanford, Florida, in February 2012. Zimmerman, a neighborhood-watch volunteer, had seen Martin walking in his neighborhood and called the…

Deadmau5 is a Canadian electronic dance music (EDM) producer and performer who was at the forefront of the revitalization of that genre in the 2000s. Zimmerman took piano lessons as a child and grew up with a keen interest in video games and computers. As a teenager he started making music with old

Mary Zimmerman is an American director noted for her adaptations for the theatre of classic works of literature. Zimmerman received a B.S. (1982), an M.A. (1985), and a Ph.D. (1994) at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. She joined the staff of Northwestern as an adjunct assistant in 1984

Bob Dylan is an American folksinger and songwriter who moved from folk to rock music in the 1960s, infusing the lyrics of rock and roll, theretofore concerned mostly with boy-girl romantic innuendo, with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry. Hailed as the Shakespeare of his

virtual reality: Entertainment: In 1982 Thomas Zimmerman invented the first optical glove, and in 1983 Gary Grimes at Bell Laboratories constructed the Digital Data Entry Glove, the first glove with sufficient flexibility and tactile and inertial sensors to monitor hand position for a variety of applications, such as providing an…

Zimmermann Telegram, coded telegram sent January 16, 1917, by German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann to the German minister in Mexico. The note revealed a plan to renew unrestricted submarine warfare and to form an alliance with Mexico and Japan if the United States declared war on Germany. The

Zimmermann Telegram, coded telegram sent January 16, 1917, by German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann to the German minister in Mexico. The note revealed a plan to renew unrestricted submarine warfare and to form an alliance with Mexico and Japan if the United States declared war on Germany. The

Barbara Tuchman: …first achieved some recognition with The Zimmermann Telegram (1958), a detailed study of the telegram that Germany sent to Mexico during World War I promising parts of the American Southwest to the Mexican government if the latter would enter the war on Germany’s side.

Arthur Zimmermann was a German foreign secretary during part of World War I (1916–17), known as the author of a sensational proposal to Mexico to enter into an alliance against the United States. After a career in the consular service, Zimmermann won transfer to the diplomatic branch in 1901.

theatre music: Incidental music for the theatre: …by a 20th-century German composer, Bernd Alois Zimmermann:

Dominikus Zimmermann was a Bavarian Baroque architect and stuccoist whose church at Wies is considered one of the finest accomplishments of Baroque architecture. Zimmermann was taught stuccowork by Johann Schmutzer and initially worked as a stuccoist. His earliest independent building design is the

Olympic Games: Innsbruck, Austria, 1964: The event was won by Egon Zimmermann (Austria), who continued the Olympic tradition of Lech, a hamlet with less than 200 residents, which had produced two other Alpine gold medalists—Othmar Schneider (1952, slalom) and Trude Beiser-Jochum (1952, downhill).

Ethel Merman was an American singer, actress, and lead performer in Broadway musicals who is remembered for her strong, clear voice. Ethel Zimmermann worked as a secretary and sang in nightclubs and vaudeville before opening in George and Ira Gershwin’s musical Girl Crazy in 1930, billed as Ethel

Dominikus Zimmermann: …was aided by his brother Johann Baptist Zimmermann (1680–1758), a notable Bavarian court stuccoist and a fresco painter.

Viktor Mikhaylovich Chernov: …broke out, Chernov attended the Zimmerwald Conference of 1915 (a meeting convened by Italian and Swiss Socialists to press for immediate cessation of World War I) and supported the “defeatist” resolution of his party’s left wing, which condemned the “imperialist war.” But after he returned to Russia following the February…

Pawel Pawlikowski: …and cowrote Zimna wojna (2018; Cold War), which was inspired by his parents’ relationship. The drama was well received, and Pawlikowski was named best director at the Cannes film festival.

Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic was a Polish-Latin Baroque writer, prolific author of satiric and erotic epigrams. When well-advanced in years, Zimorowic published a series of descriptions of Ukrainian peasant life, Sielanki nowe ruskie (1663; “New Ruthenian Idylls”), under the name of his more-gifted

Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic was a Polish-Latin Baroque writer, prolific author of satiric and erotic epigrams. When well-advanced in years, Zimorowic published a series of descriptions of Ukrainian peasant life, Sielanki nowe ruskie (1663; “New Ruthenian Idylls”), under the name of his more-gifted

Hammurabi: …bce against his longtime ally, Zimrilim, king of Mari, 250 miles (400 km) upstream from Babylon on the Euphrates, remain enigmatic. Two explanations are likely: it was either again a fight over water rights or an attempt by Hammurabi to gain control over Mari’s excellent location at the crossroads of…

Nikolay Zimyatov is a Soviet cross-country skier who was the first man in the sport to win three gold medals at a single Winter Olympics (1980). As a 24-year-old student, Zimyatov made his Olympic debut at the 1980 Games in Lake Placid, New York, U.S. The lanky Zimyatov, who was the Soviet national

zinc (Zn), chemical element, a low-melting metal of Group 12 (IIb, or zinc group) of the periodic table, that is essential to life and is one of the most widely used metals. Zinc is of considerable commercial importance. atomic number 30 atomic weight 65.39 melting point 420 °C (788 °F) boiling

metallurgy: Reduction smelting: The zinc blast furnace also is a sealed furnace, with a charge of sintered zinc oxide and preheated coke added through a sealed charging bell. The furnace is rectangular, with a shorter shaft than the iron blast furnace. A blast of hot air through the tuyeres…

sphalerite, zinc sulfide (ZnS), the chief ore mineral of zinc. It is found associated with galena in most important lead-zinc deposits. The name sphalerite is derived from a Greek word meaning “treacherous,” an allusion to the ease with which the dark-coloured, opaque varieties are mistaken for

zinc: Compounds: Zinc chloride, ZnCl2, can be prepared by a direct reaction or by evaporating the aqueous solution formed in various reactions. It is strongly deliquescent (water-absorbing) and is utilized as a drying agent and as a flux. In aqueous solution it is used as a wood…