Hebrew literature: Émigré and Palestinian literature: The writers of this generation were known as the émigré writers. Their work was pessimistic, as the rootlessness without hope of Uri Nissan Gnessin and Joseph Ḥayyim Brenner exemplified. The majority of writers active in Palestine before 1939 were born in…

Erich Kästner: …Emil und die Detektive (1929; Emil and the Detectives), was several times dramatized and filmed. Prevented by the Nazis from publishing in Germany (1933–45), he printed his works in Switzerland. After the war, Kästner became magazine editor of Die Neue Zeitung of Munich and subsequently founded a children’s paper. From…

Astrid Lindgren: …in Emil i Lönneberga (1963; Emil in the Soup Tureen), which was followed by a sequel in 1970. Emil is another uninhibited child of nature depicted in a setting from Lindgren’s home province around the turn of the century. Other well-known characters include the children from Bullerbyn, portrayed in three…

Astrid Lindgren: …in Emil i Lönneberga (1963; Emil in the Soup Tureen), which was followed by a sequel in 1970. Emil is another uninhibited child of nature depicted in a setting from Lindgren’s home province around the turn of the century. Other well-known characters include the children from Bullerbyn, portrayed in three…

Erich Kästner: …Emil und die Detektive (1929; Emil and the Detectives), was several times dramatized and filmed. Prevented by the Nazis from publishing in Germany (1933–45), he printed his works in Switzerland. After the war, Kästner became magazine editor of Die Neue Zeitung of Munich and subsequently founded a children’s paper. From…

Emil Zátopek, known as the “bouncing Czech,” didn’t look like the picture of Olympic grace. Although he set a new standard for distance running, his contorted running methods and facial grimaces made observers believe he was about to collapse. Instead, he used his unorthodox style to build a

Émile, work on the philosophy of education by the Swiss-born French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78), written in a form that combined a novel with a didactic essay. Although Rousseau described Émile; ou, de l’education (1762; Émile; or, On Education) as a treatise on education, it is not

Émile, work on the philosophy of education by the Swiss-born French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78), written in a form that combined a novel with a didactic essay. Although Rousseau described Émile; ou, de l’education (1762; Émile; or, On Education) as a treatise on education, it is not

Émile, work on the philosophy of education by the Swiss-born French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78), written in a form that combined a novel with a didactic essay. Although Rousseau described Émile; ou, de l’education (1762; Émile; or, On Education) as a treatise on education, it is not

Othello: With the unwitting aid of Emilia, his wife, and the willing help of Roderigo, a fellow malcontent, Iago carries out his plan.

The Two Noble Kinsmen: …Amazons, accompanied by her sister, Emilia, and his friend, Pirithous, when he is called upon to wage war on the corrupt Theban king, Creon. Palamon and Arcite, two noble nephews of Creon, are captured. As they languish in prison, their protestations of eternal friendship stop the instant they glimpse Emilia…

The Comedy of Errors: …priory’s abbess as their mother, Emilia. The play ends happily with Egeon’s ransom paid, true identities revealed, and the family reunited.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Final years at Wolfenbüttel. of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: His tragedy Emilia Galotti was performed in 1772. Written in intense and incisive prose, this brilliantly constructed play deals with a conflict of conscience at the court of an Italian prince. Lessing became involved in perhaps the most bitter controversy of his career when he also published…

George Meredith: Beginnings as poet and novelist.: …Emilia in England (later renamed Sandra Belloni), was the contrast between a simple but passionate girl and some sentimental English social climbers—an excellent theme for Meredithian comedy. Its publication in 1864 was made the occasion of the first general consideration of all his works up to this point in an…

Emilia-Romagna, regione, north-central Italy. It comprises the provincie of Bologna, Ferrara, Forlì, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Ravenna, Reggio nell’Emilia, and Rimini. The region extends from the Adriatic Sea (east) almost across the peninsula between the Po River (north) and the Ligurian and Tuscan

algae: Annotated classification: known; includes Chrysochromulina, Emiliania, Phaeocystis, and Prymnesium. Class Raphidophyceae (Chloromonadophyceae) Flagellates with mucocysts (mucilage-releasing bodies) occasionally found in freshwater or marine environments; fewer than 50 species; includes Chattonella, Gonyostomum, Heterosigma

Emily, fictional character, the childhood playmate and first love of David Copperfield in Charles Dickens’s novel David Copperfield

Aubrey Plaza: …played the titular role in Emily the Criminal (2022), about a young woman who turns to scamming to pay off her debts after failing to secure a job. Plaza returned to the small screen in 2022 as the voice of Laura in the animated adult comedy Little Demon and as…

EMILY’s List, American political program and donor network dedicated to identifying and helping to elect to political office Democratic women candidates who favour the right of women to choose to have an abortion. The organization, founded in 1985, works with both state and federal candidates.

Ottoman Empire: Classical Ottoman society and administration: …emanet (“trusteeship”), held by the emin (“trustee” or “agent”). In contrast to the timar holder, the emin turned all his proceeds over to the treasury and was compensated entirely by salary, thus being the closest Ottoman equivalent to the modern government official. The legal rationale for that arrangement was that…

East African lakes: Physiography: …shores the Speke, Mwanza, and Emin Pasha gulfs lie amid rocky granitic hills. Ukerewe, situated in the southeast, is the largest island in the lake; in the northwest the Sese Islands constitute a major archipelago. At the entrance to the channel leading to Jinja, Ugan., lies Buvuma Island. There are…

Mehmed Emin Pasha was a physician, explorer, and governor of the Equatorial province of Egyptian Sudan who contributed vastly to the knowledge of African geography, natural history, ethnology, and languages. In 1865 Schnitzer became a medical officer in the Turkish army and used his leisure to

Islamic arts: Turkish literatures: …foundations of Turkish nationalism; and Mehmed Emin, a fisherman’s son, sang artless Turkish verses of his pride in being a Turk, throwing out the heavy rhetorical ballast of Arabo-Persian prosody and instead turning to the language of the people, unadulterated by any foreign vocabulary. The stirrings of social criticism could…

Tracey Emin is a British artist noted for using a wide range of media—including drawing, video, and installation art, as well as sculpture and painting—and her own life as the subject of her art. Her works are confessional, provocative, and transgressive, often portraying sexual acts and

Tracey Emin is a British artist noted for using a wide range of media—including drawing, video, and installation art, as well as sculpture and painting—and her own life as the subject of her art. Her works are confessional, provocative, and transgressive, often portraying sexual acts and

Eminem is an American rapper, record producer, and actor who is known as one of the most-controversial and best-selling artists of the early 21st century. Mathers had a turbulent childhood, marked by poverty and allegations of abuse. At age 14 he began rapping in clubs in Detroit, Michigan, and,

Eminem: Eminem returned in 2002 with The Eminem Show, which proved to be nearly as popular as The Marshall Mathers LP. Also that year he made his acting debut in the semiautobiographical 8 Mile. The gritty film was a critical and commercial success. The following year he won an Academy Award…

Father Joseph was a French mystic and religious reformer whose collaboration with Cardinal de Richelieu (the “Red Eminence”) gave him powers akin to those of a foreign minister, especially during Richelieu’s ambitious campaign to finance France’s participation in what became known as the Thirty

Cardinal Richelieu was the chief minister to King Louis XIII of France from 1624 to 1642. His major goals, which he largely accomplished, were the establishment of royal absolutism in France and the end of Spanish-Habsburg hegemony in Europe. The family du Plessis de Richelieu was of insignificant

eminent domain, power of government to take private property for public use without the owner’s consent. Constitutional provisions in most countries require the payment of compensation to the owner. In countries with unwritten constitutions, such as the United Kingdom, the supremacy of Parliament

Eminent Victorians, collection of short biographical sketches by Lytton Strachey, published in 1918. Strachey’s portraits of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Charles “Chinese” Gordon revolutionized English biography. Until Strachey, biographers had kept an

Mihail Eminescu was a poet who transformed both the form and content of Romanian poetry, creating a school of poetry that strongly influenced Romanian writers and poets in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Eminescu was educated in the Germano-Romanian cultural centre of Cernăuƫi (now

Mihail Eminescu was a poet who transformed both the form and content of Romanian poetry, creating a school of poetry that strongly influenced Romanian writers and poets in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Eminescu was educated in the Germano-Romanian cultural centre of Cernăuƫi (now

Mihail Eminescu was a poet who transformed both the form and content of Romanian poetry, creating a school of poetry that strongly influenced Romanian writers and poets in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Eminescu was educated in the Germano-Romanian cultural centre of Cernăuƫi (now

emir, (“commander,” or “prince”), in the Muslim Middle East, a military commander, governor of a province, or a high military official. Under the Umayyads, the emir exercised administrative and financial powers, somewhat diminished under the ʿAbbāsids, who introduced a separate financial officer.

Mīrzā Taqī Khān was the prime minister of Iran in 1848–51, who initiated reforms that marked the effective beginning of the Westernization of his country. At an early age Mīrzā Taqī learned to read and write despite his humble origins. He joined the provincial bureaucracy as a scribe and, by his

Uzbekistan: The early Uzbeks: …fortunes under the leadership of Emir Maʿsum (also known as Shah Murād; reigned 1785–1800), a remarkable dervish emir who forwent wealth, comfort, and pomp. In the khanate of Khiva, the Qonghirat tribe succeeded the Ashtarkhanid dynasty and prevailed until 1920, leaving Khiva a museum capital of architectural, cultural, and literary…

Dubai: City site and layout: Notable among these are the Emirates Towers, which were built in the late 1990s and early 2000s and which house a hotel and government offices. Close to Sheikh Zayed Road is the Dubai International Financial Centre, housed in a futuristic arch-shaped building, and the Burj Khalifa, which at the time…

United Arab Emirates: Labour and taxation: …employees—in a program known as Emiratization—by providing incentives for businesses to hire Emirati nationals.

instant messaging: …IM as part of the Emergency Management Information Systems and Reference Index (EMISARI) for the Office of Emergency Preparedness. Its original purpose was to help exchange information which would aid the U.S. government during emergencies. One of EMISARI’s first uses was to facilitate communication among government officials to assist the…

Japan: Changes in ritsuryō government: …large conscript armies against the Ezo (Emishi), a nonsubject tribal group in the northern districts of Honshu who were regarded as aliens. The Ezo eventually were pacified, although the northern border was never fully brought under the control of the central government. Those Ezo who submitted to government forces were…

light: Emission and absorption processes: That materials, when heated in flames or put in electrical discharges, emit light at well-defined and characteristic frequencies was known by the mid-19th century. The study of the emission and absorption spectra of atoms was crucial to the development…

emission control system, in automobiles, means employed to limit the discharge of noxious gases from the internal-combustion engine and other components. There are three main sources of these gases: the engine exhaust, the crankcase, and the fuel tank and carburetor. The exhaust pipe discharges

forbidden lines: …lines, in astronomical spectroscopy, bright emission lines in the spectra of certain nebulae (H II regions), not observed in the laboratory spectra of the same gases, because on Earth the gases cannot be rarefied sufficiently. The term forbidden is misleading; a more accurate description would be “highly improbable.” The emissions…

emission nebula, in astronomy, a bright, diffuse light sometimes associated with stars whose temperatures exceed 20,000 K. The excitation process necessary to provide observed optical and radio energies in such gaseous regions was long an astronomical puzzle. It was found that ultraviolet light

environmental law: Historical development: …included the sale of “emission reduction units,” which are earned when a developed country reduces its emissions below its commitment level, to developed countries that have failed to achieve their emission targets. Developed countries could earn additional emission reduction units by financing energy-efficient projects (e.g., clean-development mechanisms) in developing…

spectroscopy: General methods of spectroscopy: …second main type of spectroscopy, emission spectroscopy, uses some means to excite the sample of interest. After the atoms or molecules are excited, they will relax to lower energy levels, emitting radiation corresponding to the energy differences, ΔE = hν = hc/λ, between the various energy levels of the quantum…

chemical element: Stars and gas clouds: …a pattern is called an emission, or bright-line, spectrum. When light passes through a gas or cloud at a lower temperature than the light source, the gas absorbs at its identifying wavelengths, and a dark-line, or absorption, spectrum will be formed.

muffler: exhaust gases from an internal-combustion engine are passed to attenuate (reduce) the airborne noise of the engine. To be efficient as a sound reducer, a muffler must decrease the velocity of the exhaust gases and either absorb sound waves or cancel them by interference with…

emissions trading, an environmental policy that seeks to reduce air pollution efficiently by putting a limit on emissions, giving polluters a certain number of allowances consistent with those limits, and then permitting the polluters to buy and sell the allowances. The trading of a finite number

Sir Isaac Shoenberg: …kind of camera tube (the Emitron) and a relatively efficient hard-vacuum cathode-ray tube for the television receiver. Until 1964 the BBC adhered to the technical standards he had proposed: 405 scanning lines and 25 flickerless pictures a second. Shoenberg was knighted in 1962. His youngest son, David Shoenberg, became a…

semiconductor device: Bipolar transistors: …p+ region is called the emitter, the narrow central n region is the base, and the p region is the collector. The circuit arrangement in Figure 4B is known as a common-base configuration. The arrows indicate the directions of current flow under normal operating conditions—namely, the emitter-base junction is forward-biased…

Amitabha, in Mahayana Buddhism, and particularly in the so-called Pure Land sects, the great saviour buddha. As related in the Sukhavati-vyuha-sutras (the fundamental scriptures of the Pure Land sects), many ages ago a monk named Dharmakara made a number of vows, the 18th of which promised that, on

Péter Nádas: …famous novel, Emlékiratok könyve (A Book of Memories), a massive Proustian work of intertwining narratives centring on an expatriate Hungarian living in East Berlin in the 1970s. The book, which took him over a decade to write, was not approved by Hungarian censors for publication until 1986.

Thomas Emlyn was an English Presbyterian minister and writer who first publicly adopted the name Unitarian to designate a liberal, rational approach to God as a single person (as opposed to Christian belief in the Trinity). Emlyn began preaching before he was 20. He served as a private chaplain to

Jane Austen: Austen’s accomplishments and legacy: …starring Gwyneth Paltrow, and a 2020 movie starring Anya Taylor-Joy. In addition, Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) was based on Pride and Prejudice, and Clueless (1995) was inspired by Emma.

Charlotte Brontë: Life: She began another book, Emma, of which some pages remain. Her pregnancy, however, was accompanied by exhausting sickness, and she died in 1855.

Emma, fourth novel by Jane Austen, published in three volumes in 1815. Set in Highbury, England, in the early 19th century, the novel centres on Emma Woodhouse, a precocious young woman whose misplaced confidence in her matchmaking abilities occasions several romantic misadventures. Emma’s

Emma: Legacy: …of Emma were released in 1996 and 2009.

Clarence Brown: The 1930s: Emma was a melodrama of the first order, with Marie Dressler as the lower-class housekeeper who falls in love with, and eventually marries, her employer (Jean Hersholt), despite opposition from his spoiled children. Letty Lynton starred Crawford as a woman unjustly accused of murder, and…

Troy Female Seminary, American educational institution, established in 1821 by Emma Hart Willard in Troy, New York, the first in the country founded to provide young women with an education comparable to that of college-educated young men. At the time of the seminary’s founding, women were barred

Emma-ō, in Japanese Buddhist mythology, the overlord of hell (Jigoku), corresponding to the Indian deity Yama. He judges the souls of men, while his sister judges the souls of women. The sinner is sent to one of the 16 regions of fire or ice assigned him by Emma-ō for a fixed period of time until

Ellen Gould Harmon White: …Emmanuel Missionary College (from 1960 Andrews University), and in 1903 the church headquarters and newspaper relocated to Takoma Park, Maryland. From that year White lived mainly in St. Helena, California.

Emmanuel Philibert was the duke of Savoy who recovered most of the lands his father Charles III had lost to France and Spain. A skilled soldier and a wily diplomat, he was also an able administrator who restored economic equilibrium to Savoy while freeing it from foreign occupation. Serving in the

Emmanuel Philibert was the duke of Savoy who recovered most of the lands his father Charles III had lost to France and Spain. A skilled soldier and a wily diplomat, he was also an able administrator who restored economic equilibrium to Savoy while freeing it from foreign occupation. Serving in the

French literature: Postwar poetry: …poetry of René Char and Pierre Emmanuel (pseudonym of Noël Mathieu), the prose poems of Francis Ponge developed a materialist discourse that aimed to allow the object to “speak” for itself, foregrounding devices such as wordplay that emphasized the act of poetic perception and the role of writing in the…

Emmanuel Philibert was the duke of Savoy who recovered most of the lands his father Charles III had lost to France and Spain. A skilled soldier and a wily diplomat, he was also an able administrator who restored economic equilibrium to Savoy while freeing it from foreign occupation. Serving in the

perciform: Annotated classification: Family Emmelichthyidae (bonnetmouths) Includes families Caesionidae, Erythricthyidae, Dipterygonotidae, Maenidae, Spicaridae, Centracanthidae, Merolepidae by some authors. About 15 species of 2 general body types: 1 with slender, elongated bodies with moderately protrusible upper jaws; the other deeper-bodied and with enormously protrusible upper jaws. Some school in open…

Emmen, gemeente (municipality), northeastern Netherlands, on the Hondsrug ridge. It was a centre of the peat colonies (veenkolonien) established in the 19th century to convert the surrounding peat fields to agricultural use. As peat digging declined after 1920, Emmen suffered considerable

nonfictional prose: Travel and epistolary literature: …Cendrars (1887–1961) in his novel Emmène-moi au bout du monde (1956; “Take Me Away to the End of the World”), epitomizes the urge to seek adventures and a rediscovery of oneself through strange travels. The very theme of travel, of the protagonist being but a traveller on this earth, has…

Rembrandt: The myth of Rembrandt’s fall: As art historian Jan Emmens argued in his book Rembrandt and the Rules of Art, the formation of this myth owes much to a standard biographical model that might be called the “Saul-Paul model”—according to which the subject’s life suddenly undergoes a radical change in direction as the…

Emmentaler, cow’s-milk cheese of Switzerland made by a process that originated in the Emme River valley (Emmental) in the canton of Bern. The essential process is followed in most other dairying countries, notably Norway, where the Jarlsberg variety is outstanding, and in the United States, where

Emmentaler, cow’s-milk cheese of Switzerland made by a process that originated in the Emme River valley (Emmental) in the canton of Bern. The essential process is followed in most other dairying countries, notably Norway, where the Jarlsberg variety is outstanding, and in the United States, where

Poaceae: Economic and ecological importance: In one of these, emmer wheat (T. dicoccon), the grain is tightly clasped by the hull (lemma and palea), a characteristic of wild species that depend on the hull for dispersal. Threshing and winnowing—the separation of chaff from grain—is far easier when the hull separates freely from the grain,…

Blessed Anna Katharina Emmerick ; beatified October 3, 2004) was a German nun and mystic whose visions were recorded in The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (1833) and The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1852), by the German Romantic writer Clemens Brentano. Emmerick was the fifth of nine

Blessed Anna Katharina Emmerick ; beatified October 3, 2004) was a German nun and mystic whose visions were recorded in The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (1833) and The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1852), by the German Romantic writer Clemens Brentano. Emmerick was the fifth of nine

John O’Mahony: …where he helped organize the Emmet Monument Association, a predecessor to the Fenian movement.

Evelyn Violet Elizabeth Emmet was a British politician who served as a Conservative member of Parliament for East Grinstead (1955–64) and as chairman of the National Union of the Conservative Party (1955–56). After obtaining a degree from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Evelyn traveled extensively in

Robert Emmet was an Irish nationalist leader who inspired the abortive rising of 1803, remembered as a romantic hero of Irish lost causes. Like his elder brother Thomas, Robert Emmet became involved with the United Irishmen and from 1800 to 1802 was on the Continent with their exiled leaders, who,

Thomas Addis Emmet was a lawyer in Ireland and, later, in the United States, a leader of the nationalist Society of United Irishmen, and elder brother of the Irish revolutionary Robert Emmet. After studying medicine and law he was called in 1790 to the Irish bar, where he defended the patriot

human eye: Normal sightedness and near- and farsightedness: …point to appreciate is that emmetropia, or normal sight, requires that the focal power of the dioptric system be matched to the axial length of the eye. It certainly is remarkable that emmetropia is indeed the most common condition when it is appreciated that just one millimetre of error in…

Mamie Till-Mobley: Activism and later life: It also inspired the Emmett Till Antilynching Act (2022), which made lynching a hate crime. Despite her efforts, however, no one was ever held accountable for Emmett Till’s murder. In 2017 Carolyn Bryant Donham admitted to lying under oath during her first husband’s murder trial, falsely stating that Emmett…

Daniel Decatur Emmett was a U.S. composer of “Dixie” and organizer of one of the first minstrel show troupes. Emmett was the son of a blacksmith. He joined the army at age 17 as a fifer, and after his discharge in 1835, he played the drum in travelling circus bands. He was also a capable violinist,

Yemmiganur, town, western Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. It lies in the upland Rayalaseema region, about 10 miles (16 km) south of the Tungabhadra River and some 35 miles (56 km) west of the city of Kurnool. Yemmiganur was included in the Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar, which flourished during

Yemmiganur, town, western Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. It lies in the upland Rayalaseema region, about 10 miles (16 km) south of the Tungabhadra River and some 35 miles (56 km) west of the city of Kurnool. Yemmiganur was included in the Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar, which flourished during

Emmitsburg, town, Frederick county, northern Maryland, U.S., situated near the Pennsylvania border 23 miles (37 km) north-northeast of Frederick. Settled in the 1780s as Poplar Fields or Silver Fancy, it was renamed about 1786 for a local landowner named Emmit (sources disagree on his given name).

genius: …these categories the American psychologist Robert A. Emmons added spiritual intelligence, as observed in prominent religious leaders. Neuropsychologists have sought the physiological foundation for these intelligences in the human brain, and there has been a race to develop appropriate means of assessing each of these capacities.

Emmy Award, any of the annual presentations made for outstanding achievement in television in the United States. The name Emmy derives from Immy, a nickname for image orthicon, a camera tube used in television. The Emmy Award statuette consists of a winged woman, representing art, holding aloft an

Emmy Award, any of the annual presentations made for outstanding achievement in television in the United States. The name Emmy derives from Immy, a nickname for image orthicon, a camera tube used in television. The Emmy Award statuette consists of a winged woman, representing art, holding aloft an

emo, subgenre of punk rock music that arose in Washington, D.C., in the mid-1980s. Guy Picciotto (who was later a founding member of the influential hard-core group Fugazi) and his band, Rites of Spring, launched the subgenre when they moved away from a punk scene that sometimes favoured attitude

Andrea Palladio: Visits to Rome and work in Vicenza: …Mira, called Malcontenta [1560]; the Villa Emo at Fanzolo [late 1550s]; and the Villa Badoer), the porch covers one major story and the attic, the entire structure being raised on a base that contains service areas and storage. In a third type the temple front covers the whole front of…

emo, subgenre of punk rock music that arose in Washington, D.C., in the mid-1980s. Guy Picciotto (who was later a founding member of the influential hard-core group Fugazi) and his band, Rites of Spring, launched the subgenre when they moved away from a punk scene that sometimes favoured attitude

emoji, digital pictograms used widely throughout social media, texting, e-mail, and other computer-mediated communications. Emojis are used to express a range of objects and ideas, including human emotions, animals, geography, foods, and flags. The term emoji was born from two Japanese words: e,

Christina Aguilera: …character of Akiko Glitter in The Emoji Movie (2017).

emollient, any substance that softens the skin by slowing evaporation of water. Sesame, almond, and olive oils were used in ancient Egypt; beeswax, spermaceti, almond oil, borax, and rosewater in Greece; and lanolin (sheep fat) in medieval Europe. Modern emollients include petrolatum, zinc oxide,

Donald Trump: Emoluments clause: During the presidential election campaign, some of Trump’s critics had warned that his presidency could create a unique and immediate constitutional crisis because of his possible violation of the foreign emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution, which generally prohibits federal officeholders from accepting…

Ljubljana, capital city and economic, political, and cultural centre of Slovenia, located on the Ljubljanica River. The city lies in central Slovenia in a natural depression surrounded by high peaks of the Julian Alps. A walled Roman encampment was built there in the mid-1st century bce by Roman

Emory University, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. It is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The university consists of Emory College (a liberal arts institution), Oxford College (a two-year college), the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,

Chisos Mountains: …highest mountain group, culminating at Emory Peak (7,825 feet [2,385 metres]). The mountains are within Big Bend National Park. Their characteristic shapes were created by the erosion of sedimentary rocks that exposed the harder igneous intrusions beneath. Tourists are attracted by the mountains’ hiking trails, unique geologic formations, and spectacular…

Emory University, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. It is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The university consists of Emory College (a liberal arts institution), Oxford College (a two-year college), the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,