Columbia Encyclopedia

Search results

500 results found

United Nations Secretaries-General (table)

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Secretaries-General ...

Priscian

(Encyclopedia)Priscian (Priscianus Caesariensis) prĭshˈən [key], fl. 500, Latin grammarian, b. Caesarea in Mauretania. Priscian taught grammar at Constantinople. His Commentarii grammatici, in 18 books, was long...

Rulers of the Roman Empire (table)

(Encyclopedia)Rulers of the Roman Empire(including dates of reign) Emperors in the East(until the fall of Rome; see table entitled Rulers of the Byzantine Empireat Byzantine Empire for later emperors) Empero...

Indo-European Family of Languages, The (table)

(Encyclopedia)The Indo-European Family of Languages * Asterisk indicates a dead language. ...

Linguistic Relationships among Romance Languages (table)

(Encyclopedia)Linguistic Relationships among Romance Languages ...

Supreme Court Justices (table)

(Encyclopedia)Supreme Court Justices(including dates on bench) Chief Justices Associate Justices ...

Signs of the Zodiac (table)

(Encyclopedia)Signs of the Zodiac

Spectral Classes for Main Sequence Stars (table)

(Encyclopedia)Characteristics of Spectral Classes for Main Sequence Stars ...

candle, unit of luminous intensity

(Encyclopedia)candle, in weights and measures, unit of luminous intensity; it is defined as 1⁄60 of the intensity of a blackbody, or ideal radiator, at the temperature at which platinum solidifies (2,046K). The...

Guillaume, Charles Édouard

(Encyclopedia)Guillaume, Charles Édouard shärl ādwärˈ gēyōmˈ [key], 1861–1938, Swiss physicist and metrologist, Ph.D. Zürich Polytechnic (now the Federal Institute of Technology), 1882. Guillaume joined ...