Abscess root - Abscess root Abscess Root is a plant of the species Polemonium reptans. Other common names for this plant include American Greek valerian, blue bells, false Jacob's Ladder and sweatroot..
List of garden plants - genus) Asimina Asparagus Asperula (woodruff) Asphodeline Asphodelus (asphodel) Aspidistra Asplenium Astelia Aster Asteranthera Astilbe Astilboides Astragalus (milk vetch) Astrantia Astrophytum Atherosperma Athrotaxis Athyrium Atriplex Aubrieta Aucuba Aurinia Austrocedrus Azara Azolla Azorella Azorina Aztekium B Babiana Baccharis Backhousia Backopa (water hyssop) Baeckea Ballota Balsamorhiza (balsam root) Bambusa (bamboo) Banksia Baptisia Barbarea Barkeria Barleria Bassia Bauera Bauhinia Beaucarnea Beaufortia Beaumontia Begonia Belancanda Bellevalia Bellis (daisy) Bellium Berberidopsis Berberis (barberry) Berchemia Bergenia Bergerocactus Berkheya Berlandiera Bertolonia Beschorneria Bessera Beta (beet) Betula (birch) Biarum Bidens Bignonia Billardiera Billbergia Bixa Blandfordia Blechnum (hard fern) Bletilla Bloomeria Blossfeldia Boenninghausenia Bolax Bolbitis Bollea Boltonia Bolusanthus Bomarea Bombax Bongardia Borago Borassus Boronia Bothriochloa Bougainvillea Bouteloua Bouvardia Bowenia Bowiea Brachychiton Brachyglottis Brachyscome Brachysema Brachystelma Bracteantha Brahea (Hesper palm) Brassavola Brassia Brassica (mustard, cabbage) Brassocattleya (hybrid orchids) Brassolaeliocattleya (trigeneric hybrid orchids).
Kellogg, Brown and Root - Kellogg, Brown and Root Kellogg, Brown and Root is an American company, a private military contractor and a subsidiary of Halliburton. Formerly known as Brown and Root, the company has had many contracts with the U.S. military during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as well as during the Vietnam War. Brown and Root had a well-documented relationship with Lyndon Johnson which began when he used his position as a Texas congressman to assist them in landing a lucrative dam contract. In return they gave him the funds to "steal" the 1948 senate race from the popular Coke R. Stevenson. The relationship continued for years, with Johnson funneling dozens of military construction contracts to B&R. In October 2003 members of Congress Henry Waxman (Democrat) and John Dingell (Democrat) demanded.
Henry Root - Henry Root Henry Root is the creation of writer William Donaldson who wrote to numerous public figures with unusual or outlandish questions and requests. The books were published as 'Letter' and 'Further Letter' by Henry Root and a more recent 'The Complete Henry Root Letters' by William Donaldson There is a lexilink with Henry Raddick who writes odd reviews at Amazon.com. Other prank mail includes: Ted L. Nancy - possibly the creation of comedian Jerry Seinfeld Lazlo Toth - the creation of Don Novello, the actor who played Father Guido Sarducci on Saturday Night Live W. Morgan Petty - the nom de plume of Brian Bethell. See Also Diary of a Nobody - a fictional diary written by George Grossmith.
Ginger root - Ginger root Ginger root is used extensively as a cooking ingredient or spice in Cantonese cuisine and others. It is part of mainstream western food in ginger ale and desserts such as gingerbread and ginger snaps (a type of cookie). Though generally called "root", it is actually the rhizome of the monocotyledonous plant Zingiber officinalis. Young ginger roots are juicy and fleshy with a very mild taste. They are often pickled in vinegar as a snack or just cooked as an ingredient in many dishes. Mature ginger roots are fibrous and nearly dry. The juice from old ginger roots is extremely hot and is often used as a spice in Chinese cooking to cover up other strong odors and flavors such as in seafood and mutton. Ginger.
Vegetarianism - of certain castes are forbidden from consuming anything gained at the expense of an animal's suffering: e.g. meat, eggs, animal byproducts such as rennet and gelatin (including gelatin capsules) and honey. The milk of cows, buffalo and goats as well as dairy products (other than cheese containing rennet) are acceptable, as milk is given willingly. Leather from cows who have died of natural causes is acceptable. (Note: The diet of the orthodox Hindu also excludes alcohol, as well as "overly-stimulating" foods such as onions and garlic.) All dietary rules listed for Hindus apply to Jains, in addition to which Jains must take into account any suffering caused to plants and suksma jiva (Sanskrit: subtle lifeforms; refers to what would later be termed "microorganisms") by their dietary choices. They are forbidden from.
Katipunan - Kagalanggalangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan (roughly translated as Exalted and Venerable Society of the Sons of the Nation). The Katipunan is also known by its acronym, KKK. The word katipunan is a Tagalog term for society, the root word being the verb tipon, which means to gather. Members of the society are bound by utmost secrecy. The final initiation rights to become a member involve writing their name in their own blood in a book. Some notable Katipuneros include, Andres Bonifacio, Emilio Aguinaldo, and Gregorio del Pilar..
Vegetable - as seed-pods (beans), cucumbers, squashes, pumpkins, tomatoes, avocadoes, green peppers, etc.; even some seeds (peas and beans) that are easily softened by soaking. See also List of vegetables, root vegetable.
Kaminaljuyu - Alfred Kidder, Jesse Jennings and Edwin Shook to investigate. Lic. Villacorta gave the site its name Kaminaljuyu from a Quiché word meaning “hills of the dead.” Kaminaljuyu surrounded by civilization The Middle Cultures, sometimes called Miraflores, were the underlying base that made a foundation for later cultures of the Classic Maya to flourish. Cultures of this phase had a stable agricultural community. The remains from this time period are very abundant at Kaminaljuyu. One period of the Middle Culture is the Middle Formative period, which lasted from approximately 800 B.C.E. to 300 B.C.E. Excavations at Kaminaljuyu indicate the communities of the Middle Formative were sedentary and large enough to produce heavy refuse deposits. They grew cotton and practiced loom-weaving and were expert potters. Religious practices that would later be further developed.
Verner's law - to formulate general and exceptionless rules of sound change that would account for all the data (or as close to the ideal as possible), not merely for a well-behaved subset of it. One classic example of PIE *t > PGmc *d is the word for 'father', PIE *pH2te:r (here *H2 stands for a laryngeal, and the colon marks vowel length) > PGmc *fade:r (instead of expected *faşe:r). Curiously, the structurally similar family term *bhra:te:r 'brother' developed as predicted by Grimm?s Law (Gmc. *bro:şe:r). Even more curiously, we often find both *ş and *d as reflexes of PIE *t in different forms of one and the same root, e.g. *werş- 'turn', preterite *warş 'he turned', but e.g. preterite plural and past participle *wurd- (plus appropriate inflections). Karl Verner was the first scholar.
Khazars - later part of the general population followed. In the 8th or 9th century, their king, Bulan, was converted to Judaism. A later king, Obadiah, strengthened Judaism, inviting rabbis into the kingdom and building synagogues. His supreme court consisted of two Jews, two Christians, two Muslims, and a heathen. Religious toleration was maintained for the kingdom's three hundred plus years. By the year 950 Judaism had become a widespread faith. In the 10th century the empire began to decline due to the attacks of both Kievan Rus and other Turkic tribes, and their political significance greatly diminished toward the end of the 12th century. To what extent, if any, East European Jews (Ashkenazi) of today are descendants of the Khazars is the subject of debate; however, some historians, onomasticians, and geneticists have.
Kievan Rus' - Eastern Slavic tribes. In 907, he led an attack against Constantinople, and in 911 he signed a commercial treaty with the Byzantine Empire as an equal partner. The new Slavic Kievan state prospered because it controlled the trade route from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and because it had an abundant supply of furs, wax, honey, and slaves for export. Historians have debated the role of the Varangians in the establishment of Kievan Rus'. Some Russian historians have stressed the Slavic influence in the development of the state. Although Slavic tribes had formed their own regional jurisdictions by 860, the Varangians initiated Kievan Rus' which was named after them (Rus' is etymologically identical to the Finnish and Estonian names for Sweden: Ruotsi and Rootsi, and is derived from the.
Kimaris - (see Meyer and Smith, Ancient Christian Magic). It is probable that the earliest mention of Kimaris is also Coptic, found in the London oriental mss 6796 where the name "Akathama Chamaris" appears (Meyer and Smith). In this text, the entity in question does not appear to be evil; rather, he is addressed as a godlike helping spirit. Coincidentally (or not!) akathama turns out to be a Sanskrit term meaning "without words" or "unconditioned." Perhaps the "wordless" Chamaris is in contrast to his fallen, daimonic form, the rhetorician Kimaris. Baskin's Dictionary of Satanism speculates that Cimeries is derived from Cimmerians, a warlike people mentioned in the works of several classical authors as dwelling totally in darkness. It is also possible that Cimeries is derived from Chimaira, the three-headed, fire-breathing lion-goat-serpent who eventually.
Kiowa - Eastern natives then moving into the Indian Territory. The United States military intervened, and in the Treaty of Medicine Lodge of 1867 the Kiowa agreed to settle to a reservation in southwestern Oklahoma. Some bands of Kiowas remained at large until 1875 (see Palo Duro Canyon). On August 6, 1901 Kiowa land in Oklahoma was opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation. While each Kiowa head of household was alloted 80 acres, the only land remaining in Kiowa tribal ownership today is what was the scattered parcels of 'grass land' which had been leased to the white settlers for grazing before the reservation was opened for settlement. The Kiowa language defies lingual classification, having no similarities to any other language. Once thought to be of the Tanoan family, simply.
Kleptocracy - Kleptocracy Kleptocracy (or sometimes Cleptocracy) (root: Klepto+cracy) is a form of government. It means literally "rule by thieves". It is the end-point of political corruption, where no pretence of honesty remains, and the government of a country exists solely to enrich its rulers and to perpetuate their rule. Most kleptocracies are dictatorships or some other autocratic form of government because other forms of government make theft more difficult to accomplish and conceal. Kleptocrats often use money laundering and anonymous banking as a way of protecting and concealing their ill-gotten gains. Related articles Form of government.
Klein-Gordon equation - is natural to try and use the identity from special relativity for the energy; then, just inserting the quantum mechanical momentum operator, yields the equation This, however, is a cumbersome expression to work with because of the square root. Cumbersomeness, however, doesn't really count as an objection. But this equation, as it stands, is nonlocal. Klein and Gordon instead worked with the square of this equation (the Klein-Gordon equation for a free particle), which in covariant notation reads The Klein-Gordon equation was actually first found by Schrödinger, before he made the discovery of the equation that now bears his name. He rejected it because he couldn't make it fit data (the equation doesn't take into account the spin of the electron); the way he found his equation was by making simplifications.
Kolmogorov space - is nice Almost every topological space studied in ordinary mathematics is T0. Indeed, when mathematicians in many fields, notably analysis, naturally run across non-T0 spaces, they usually replace them with T0 spaces, in a manner described below. In general, when dealing with a fixed topology T on a set X, it's helpful if that topology is T0. On the other hand, when X is fixed but T is allowed to vary within certain boundaries, it can be annoying to force T to be T0, since the non-T0 topologies are often important special cases. Thus, it can be important to understand both T0 and non-T0 versions of the various conditions that can be placed on a topological space. To motivate the ideas involved, let's consider a well known example. The space L2(R).
Vedic civilization - spasa (spies) and dutas (messengers). He often got a ceremonial gift, bali, from the people. Society and economy Rig Vedic society was characterized by a nomadic lifestyle with cattle rearing being the chief occupation. The Aryans kept hordes of cattle and cows were held in high esteem. Milk was an important part of the diet. Agriculture was of equal importance and went hand in hand with cattle rearing. It grew more prominent with time as the community settled down. The cow was also the standard unit of barter; coins were not used in this period. Families were patrilineal, and people prayed for abundance of sons. Education of women was not neglected, and some even composed Rig Vedic hymns. Marriage for love as well as for money was known. The concept of.
Kundalini - 'serpent power' or suchlike. It is a term in yoga, referring to an apparent reservoir of psychic energy at the base of the spine. Kundalini is curled up in the back part of the root chakra in three and one-half turns. Statements such as "It has unlimited energy stored in it and [the] velocity of its energy is... higher than the velocity of light" abound. It is sometimes believed to be an aspect of Shakti, the goddess and consort of Shiva. It is a popular concept and is widely quoted among various disciplines of yoga and New Age beliefs. The concept was first popularized in the West through the work of C.W. Leadbeater. Raising Kundalini The force of kundalini is supposed to be raised through meditative exercises. As it raises from.
Kudzu - long hanging clusters (see image). The flowers are copious nectar producers and are visited by many species of bees, butterflies and skippers. Flowering occurs in late summer and is soon followed by production of brown, hairy, flattened, seed pods, each of which contains three to ten hard seeds. Every part of the plant is edible. The young leaves can be used for salad or cooked as greens; the flowers battered and fried (like squash blossoms); and the starchy roots can be prepared as any root vegetable. Once established, kudzu plants grow rapidly, extending as much as 60 feet (more than 18 m) per season at a rate of about one foot (30 cm) per day. This vigorous vine may extend 32-100 feet (9.5-30 m) in length, with stems one-half to four.
