Cambridge Encyclopedia

Cambridge Encyclopedia Vol. 4

Alcide de Gasperi - Biography

Alcmaeon (mythology)

Alcmaeon (of Croton)

Alcman - Biography, Text, Content, Literature

Alcmene - Popular Culture

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) - History and development, How the A.A. program works, Beliefs about alcoholism, Structure

alcoholism - Terminology, Epidemiology, Identification and diagnosis, Effects, Treatments, Societal impact

Alcuin - Biography, As Carolingian Renaissance figure, Further reading

Aldeburgh - The Scallop

alder

Alderney

Aldershot - Geography, Landmarks, Transport and communications, Shopping in Aldershot, Education, Leisure and recreation, Sport, Media, Politics

Aldo Moro - Early career, Kidnapping and death

aldosterone - Aldosterone and the kidney

Aldous (Leonard) Huxley

Aldus Manutius - Biography, Notes and references, Progetto Manuzio

ale - History of ale, Modern ale, Varieties of ale

Alec (James) Stewart - Honours

Alec Issigonis - Some of his cars

Alec Waugh

Alec Wilder

Aleister Crowley - Early years, The Golden Dawn, 1904 and after, Argenteum Astrum and Ordo Templi Orientis

alejandrino - Syllabic verse, Accentual verse

Alejo Carpentier - Bibliography

Aleksis Kivi

Alentejo - Geography, Nature, Economy, Trivia, Subregions

Aleppo - History, Design, Population and religion, Notable people

Alessandria - History, Visiting Alessandria, People born in Alessandria

Alessandro (Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio) Volta - Biography, Honors

Alessandro Algardi - Biography, Critical assessment and legacy

Alessandro Allori

Alessandro Baricco - Career, Works

Alessandro Fortis

Alessandro Manzoni

Alessandro Pavolini - Early life and career, Prominence

Alessandro Piccolomini - Sources

Alessandro Stradella - References and further reading

Alessandro Tassoni - The work

Aletschhorn

Aleut - Location, History, Culture and technology

Aleutian Islands - Geography, Climate, Economy, Demographics, History, Miscellaneous

alewife

Alex Katz

Alex La Guma

Alex North - Work on Broadway

Alex Toth - Biography

Alexander (Archer) Vandegrift

Alexander (Konstantinovich) Glazunov

Alexander (Marshall) Grant

Alexander (Martin) Lippisch - Other Aircraft Designed by Lippisch

Alexander (McCarrell) Patch

Alexander (Meigs) Haig - Education, Korea, MacArthur and Vietnam

Alexander (Mitchell) Palmer - Attorney General, Multimedia, Sources

Alexander (Sandy) Mackendrick - Filmography

Alexander Alexandrovich Goldenweiser - Biography

Alexander Archipelago

Alexander Bain - Biography

Alexander Barclay

Alexander Berkman - Early years, The Attentat, Rockefeller Bombing, War Opposition, Final years

Alexander Bryan Johnson

Alexander Calder - Monumental Sculptures and Public Works, Bibliography

Alexander Campbell

Alexander Cruden - Concordances, Life, Biography

Alexander Gordon Laing

Alexander Graham Bell - Biography, Eugenics, Tributes

Alexander Hamilton - Early years, Education, Military career, Under the Confederation, Constitution and the Federalist Papers

Alexander Herrmann

Alexander (of Russia) I

Alexander (of Scotland) I

Alexander (of Yugoslavia) I

Alexander (of Russia) II - Early life, Emperor, Emancipation of the serfs, Other reforms, Marriages and children, Suppression of national movements

Alexander (of Scotland) II

Alexander (of Russia) III - Early life, Rise to Power, Education, Foreign Relations, Anti-reforms, Issue

Alexander (of Scotland) III

Alexander J(ackson) Davis

Alexander John Ellis

Alexander Kluge - Cinematic Works, Literary Works

Alexander Kohut - Early Training, Talmud Dictionary, New York

Alexander Lowen

Alexander Lyman Holley

Alexander McDougall - Early life, Privateer to merchant, Prelude to revolution

Alexander McGillivray

Alexander Meiklejohn - List of writings, Reference

Alexander Melville Bell

Alexander of Hales

Alexander of Tralles

Alexander Parkes

Alexander Parris - Reference

Alexander Phimister Proctor - Images, Further reading

Alexander Pope - Early life, Early literary career, The middle years: Homer and Shakespeare, Literary legacy, Trivia

Alexander Samsonov

Alexander Selkirk - Biography, The Juan Fernández Islands, Archeological finding of the camp of Selkirk

Alexander Severus - Life, Marriage

Alexander Smith

Alexander Spotswood

Alexander technique - History, The Technique, Learning and Teaching

Alexander the Great - Early life, Period of conquests, Death, Alexander's testament, Personal life

Alexander Thom

Alexander von Zemlinsky - Early life, Middle Years, Last Years, His Music, List of selected Works

Alexander Wiley

Alexander William Doniphan

Alexander Wilson

Alexandre Brongniart

Alexandre Despatie

Alexandria - History, Geography, Ancient remains, Antiquities, Modern Alexandria, Former royal family Palaces, Sports, Transportation, Shopping in Alexandria

Alexandria - History, Geography, Ancient remains, Antiquities, Modern Alexandria, Former royal family Palaces, Sports, Transportation, Shopping in Alexandria

alexandrine - Syllabic verse, Accentual verse

Alexis

Alexis (Charles Henri Maurice Cl - Colonialism and the French conquest of Algeria

Alexis Carrel - Biography, Contributions to science, Relation to eugenics and fascism, Sources

Alexis Piron

Alf Landon - Political life, Later life

Alf

Alfonsina Storni - Biography, Work

Alfonso Reyes

Alfred - Resources

Alfred (Charles) Kinsey - Biography, Career, Controversy, Kinsey in the media

Alfred (David) Lunt - Lunt the actor, "The Lunts", Ten Chimneys

Alfred (Friedrich) von Tirpitz

Alfred (George) Deller

Alfred (Habdank Skarbek) Korzybski - Early life and career, General semantics, Korzybski and to be, Anecdote about Korzybski, Criticisms, Impact

Alfred (Henry) Maurer

Alfred (Hermann) Fried - Life

Alfred (Lothar) Wegener - Career, Continental Drift, Awards and honors

Alfred (Marston) Tozzer

Alfred Adler - Education and studies, Early career, Adler's approach to human personality, On homosexuality

Alfred Andersch - Life, Themes, Works

Alfred Austin - Life, Poetry, A Poem -- To England

Alfred Binet - Binet and chess

Alfred Blalock - Vanderbilt University, Johns Hopkins

Alfred Brendel

Alfred Cort Haddon

Alfred Cortot - Bibliography

Alfred Deakin - Early life, Victorian politics and the road to Federation, Federal politics, Journalism, Legacy, Further reading

Alfred Dreyfus - Trivia

Alfred E(manuel) Smith - Early life, Later life, Namesake, Trivia

Alfred Einstein - Possible relationship to Albert, Einstein in Popular Culture, References and further reading

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Alfred Hugenberg

Alfred Irving Hallowell - Works

Alfred Jarry - Biography and works, Selected Jarry works

Alfred Jodl - Early Career, Mature Career

Alfred Kastler - Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel

Alfred Kazin - Bibliography

Alfred Kreymborg - Early life and associations, 1920s, 1930's and later, Critical views, Works

Alfred Mombert

Alfred Moore - Family and early education, Political career, Supreme Court Justice

Alfred Newman

Alfred Noyes

Alfred Piccaver

Alfred Rosenberg - Early career, Racial theories, Religious theories, Wartime activities, Nazi Policy and Rosenberg's Views

Alfred Russel Wallace - Early life, Exploration and study of the natural world, Theory of evolution

Alfred Schnittke - Biography, Operas, Further reading

Alfred Sisley - Biography, Well-known works

Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Tarski - Life, Mathematician, Logician, Truth in formalized languages, Logical consequence

Alfred Thayer Mahan - Early life and service, Naval War College and writings, Works

Alfred Waterhouse - Early life, London practice, Recognition, Later life

Alfred Whitney Griswold

Alfredo Casella

Alfredo Kraus

Alfredo Landa

Alfredo Panzini

Alfredo Stroessner - Early life, Presidency, Downfall

algae - Introduction, Classification, Forms of algae, Algae and symbioses, Uses of algae, History of Phycology

Algarve - History, Tourism in the Algarve

algebra - Classification, Elementary algebra, Algebras, History

algebraic geometry - Zeros of simultaneous polynomials, Affine varieties, Regular functions, The category of affine varieties, Projective space

Algeciras - Demographics, Economy

Alger Hiss - Early life, Accusation of espionage, Perjury trial and conviction, Later evidence, pro and con

Algeria - History, Politics, Military, Administrative divisions, Economy, Demographics, Culture, Miscellaneous topics

Alghero - Main sights

Algiers - History, Local architecture, Sister relationships, Algiers Communes and Dairas

Algol - History, Star system

ALGOL - History, Star system

Algonkin - History, Economy, Algonkin communities

algorithm - Etymology, Why algorithms are necessary: an informal definition, Formalization of algorithms, Example, Classes, Legal issues

Alhambra - Overview, History, Setting, A tour of the Alhambra, Miscellaneous

Ali - Birth, Early life, Ali in Medina, The death of Muhammad, Inheritance, Caliphate, Death, Grave of Ali

Ali Abdullah Saleh

Ali Bacher

Ali Pasha - The rise of Ali Pasha, Ali Pasha as ruler, The downfall of Ali Pasha, Further reading

Ali

alibi

Alicante - History

Alice (Christiana Gertrude) Meynell - Works

Alice (Malsenior) Walker - Early life, Written work and topics, Political work and activism, Awards and other recognition

Alice (Mitchell) Rivlin

Alice Brown Davis

Alice Cunningham Fletcher

Alice Elvira Palmer - Places named Freeman, People named Freeman, Fictional characters named Freeman

Alice Hamilton - Further reading

Alice James - Life, The diary

Alice Munro - Biography, Writing style, Bibliography, Awards and honours

Alice Paul

Alice Spencer Lloyd - Places

Alice Springs - People, Places, Fictional characters, Other

Alicia Alonso - Biography, Awards (selected)

Alicia de Larrocha

Alick Isaacs

alien

Alien and Sedition Acts - Component laws, Background, Constitutionality, Elections of 1800, Modern developments, Full titles

alienation

aliphatic compound - Examples

Alison Lurie

Alison Steadman

Alison Uttley

Alistair Maclean - Life, Style of writing, Notes on the books

aliyah - Recent Trends

alkali - Common properties of alkalis, Confusion between base and alkali, Alkali salts, Etymology

alkanet

Alkmaar - History, Population centres, Local government, Transport, Sports, Born in Alkmaar

alkyl

All Blacks - History, All Black jersey, Record, Upcoming fixtures, 2006 All Blacks, Some notable All Blacks

Alla Nazimova - Filmography

Allah - Etymology, Typography, History, Debates in popular media

Allahabad - History, Geography, Demography, Climate, Kumbha and Magh Mela, Literary past, Sports and recreation, Passenger transportation

Allan (Aubrey) Boesak - Theologian, cleric and activist, Controversies

Allan (Fletcher) Gibbard

Allan (Robert) Border - World records held at the time of his retirement, Reference

Allan (Wipper) Wells

Allan Cunningham

Allan Kaprow - Quotes

Allan Marquand

Allan Pinkerton - In popular culture, Books by Allan Pinkerton

Allart van Everdingen

Alldeutscher Verband

Alleanza Nazionale (AN) - Politics, Business, Books

Allegheny Mountains - Geography, History, See Also

allegory - Examples

Allegra Kent

allele - Equations

allemande

Allen Ginsberg - Life, Controversial political activism, Career, Popular culture

Allen W(elsh) Dulles - Family, Background in Intelligence, Director of CIA, Death, Books by Dulles, Further reading

Allen Walker Read

allergy - History, Signs and symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment, Basis of the allergic response, Basis of increasing prevalence

Alliance for Progress - Origin and goals, US aid to Latin America, Business lobbying, Success and failures of the plan

Allianz f

Allies

alligator - Description, Habitat, Behavior, Diet, Farming

Alliierte Hohe Kommission (AHK)

alliteration - Examples

allium

Alloa - Churches

alloy

allspice - Flavour, Preparation/Form, Uses, Cultivation

alluvium

Alma Gluck

Almaty - Universities of Almaty, Sister cities

Almor

Aloysius Bertrand

alpaca

alpha decay

alpha particle

alphabet - Linguistic definition and context, History, Types, Spelling, The Alphabet effect

Alpheus

Alphonse (Marie Louis) de Lamartine - Bibliography

Alphonse Allais - Principal works

Alphonse Bertillon

Alphonse Daudet - Early life, Literary career, Works include

Alphonse Legros - Works

alphorn - Music for Alphorn

alpine

Alps - Geography, Climate, Geology, Political history, Exploration, Fauna

Alsace - Geography, History, Politics, Economy, Demographics, Transport, Culture, Symbolism, Tourism, Administration, Notable Alsatians, Cities

Altamira

altarpiece

Altavilla

alternating current (AC) - Transmission, distribution, and domestic power supply, AC power supply frequencies, Effects at high frequencies

alternation of generations - Distinctions, Fungi, Protists, Plants

alternative fuel - Alternatives to oil

alternative medicine

Althea Gibson - Grand Slam Titles, Grand Slam singles tournament timeline

Altichiero

Altiero Spinelli - Ventotene Manifesto, European politician

altimeter - Scientific Uses

Altiplano

altitude sickness - Introduction, Signs and symptoms, Severe cases, Altitude acclimatisation

altruism - Altruism in ethics, Altruism in ethology and evolutionary biology, Altruism in politics

alum - Alchemical and later discoveries and uses, Pliny's writings, Early uses in industry

aluminate

aluminium - Properties, Applications, History, Aluminium separation, Isotopes, Precautions, Chemistry

Alun (Davies) Owen

Alun Hoddinott - Bibliography

Alun Lewis

Alun Richards

Alva (Erskine Smith Vanderbilt) Belmont

Alva Myrdal

Alvan Clark

alvar - European alvar locations, North American alvar locations

Alvin (Cullum) York - Early life, World War I, Post-war life, Legacy

Alvin Adams

Alvin Ailey - The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Alvin Plantinga - Education, Bibliography

Alvise Vivarini

Alwin Nikolais

alyssum

Alzheimer's disease - History, Clinical features, Diagnosis, Pathology, Epidemiology and prevention, Treatment, Social issues, Notable cases

Amadeo Bordiga - Biography