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Mound Builders

(Encyclopedia)Mound Builders, in North American archaeology, name given to those people who built mounds in a large area from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Mississippi River to the Appalachian ...

Prometheus, in astronomy

(Encyclopedia)Prometheus prōmēˈthēəs [key], in astronomy, one of the named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn. Also known as Saturn XVI (or S16), Prometheus is an irregularly shaped (nonspherical) body me...

Georgian literature

(Encyclopedia)Georgian literature. Early Georgian literature shows the influence of two distinctly different civilizations—medieval Eastern Orthodox Christianity and, later, Persia. The Passion of St. Shushanik, ...

Magdalenian

(Encyclopedia)Magdalenian: see Paleolithic period. ...

Clactonian

(Encyclopedia)Clactonian: see Paleolithic period. ...

traprock

(Encyclopedia)traprock: see Triassic period.

Abbevillian

(Encyclopedia)Abbevillian: see Paleolithic period. ...

Metonic cycle

(Encyclopedia)Metonic cycle: see synodic period. ...

Chellean-Abbevillian

(Encyclopedia)Chellean-Abbevillian: see Paleolithic period. ...

Clarendon, George William Frederick Villiers, 4th earl of

(Encyclopedia)Clarendon, George William Frederick Villiers, 4th earl of, 1800–1870, British statesman. He was ambassador (1833–39) to Spain during the difficult period of the Carlist war and then lord privy sea...