moose: …Minnesota, and northern Michigan; the Shiras moose (A. alces shirasi), which inhabits the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada; and the Alaskan moose (A. alces gigas), which inhabits Alaska and northwestern Canada. Although not widely accepted, some classifications also recognize several Eurasian subspecies, including the European moose (A.…

George Shiras, Jr. was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1892–1903). Shiras was admitted to the bar in 1855, and in 25 years of practice he built up a wide reputation in corporation law. In 1892 he was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by Pres. Benjamin Harrison. An able

White Heron Castle, castle in Himeji, Japan, that was built in the 14th century and reconstructed in 1577. It is also known as Shirasagi-jo or Shirasagi Castle, from the Japanese word shirasagi (“egret”). Built on Mount Himeyama, the castle was originally a fortification for the Akamatsu clan

White Heron Castle, castle in Himeji, Japan, that was built in the 14th century and reconstructed in 1577. It is also known as Shirasagi-jo or Shirasagi Castle, from the Japanese word shirasagi (“egret”). Built on Mount Himeyama, the castle was originally a fortification for the Akamatsu clan

Moses ibn Ezra: …treatise on the poetic art, Kitāb al-muḥāḍarah wa al-mudhākarah (“Conversations and Recollections”; translated into Hebrew as Shirat Yisraʾel, or “Song of Israel,” in 1924 by B. Halper). Dealing with Arabic, Castilian, and Jewish poetry, the work is an important Spanish literary history.

Shīrāz, city, capital of Fārs ostān (province), southwestern Iran. It is located in central Fārs in the southern part of the Zagros Mountains, on an agricultural lowland at an elevation of 4,875 feet (1,486 metres). Famous for its wine, it is both a historic site and an attractive modern city, with

Shīrāz rug, handwoven floor covering made in the district around the city of Shīrāz in southern Iran. The best known are the Qashqāʾī rugs, products of nomadic peoples. A group of tribes—some Arab, some Turkish, forming the Khamseh Confederation—weaves rugs somewhat similar to the Qashqāʾī pieces

Shīrāz school, in Persian miniature painting, styles of a group of artists centered at Shīrāz, in southwestern Iran near the ancient city of Persepolis. The school, founded by the Mongol Il-Khans (1256–1353) in mid-14th century, was active through the beginning of the 16th century. It developed

eastern Africa: The Shirazi migration: For much of the 13th century the most important coastal town was Mogadishu, a mercantile city on the Somalian coast to which new migrants came from the Persian Gulf and southern Arabia. Of these, the most important were called Shirazi, who, in the…

astronomy: The Islamic world: Al-Ṭūsī’s student al-Shīrāzī went farther, using a minor epicycle to eliminate the need for an equant point. In the 14th century Ibn al-Shāṭir of Damascus built on the works of the Marāgheh school in his Nihāyat al-suʾl fi taṣḥīḥ al-uṣūl (“Final Inquiry Concerning the Rectification of Planetary…

Shirdi Sai Baba was a spiritual leader dear to Hindu and Muslim devotees throughout India and in diaspora communities as far flung as the United States and the Caribbean. The name Sai Baba comes from sai, a Persian word used by Muslims to denote a holy person, and baba, Hindi for father. Sai Baba’s

shire, in Great Britain, a county. The Anglo-Saxon shire (Old English scir) was an administrative division next above the hundred and seems to have existed in the south in the time of Alfred the Great (871–899) and to have been fully established by the reign of Edgar (959–975). It was administered

Shire, draft horse breed native to the middle section of England. The breed descended from the English “great horse,” which carried men in full battle armour that often weighed as much as 400 pounds. Shires were improved as draft and farm animals in the latter part of the 18th century by breeding

United Kingdom: Government and justice: In local government the Anglo-Saxon shire and hundred courts continued to function as units of administration and justice, but with important changes. Bishops and earls ceased to preside over the shire courts. Bishops now had their own ecclesiastical courts, while earls had their feudal courts. But although earls no longer…

Shire Highlands, plateau in southern Malaŵi, with an area of about 2,800 square miles (7,300 square km). Roughly diamond-shaped, it is bounded by the Shire River valley (northwest and southwest), the Ruo River valley (southeast), and the Lake Chilwa-Phalombe Plain (northeast). Its average elevation

Shire River, most important river in Malaŵi. The Shire River is 250 miles (402 km) long and issues from the southern shore of Lake Nyasa (Lake Malaŵi), of which it is the only outlet. It enters Lake Malombe (q.v.) 5 miles (8 km) south of Mangochi and exits to flow through swampy banks flanked by

The Godfather: …of his daughter, Connie (Talia Shire). Vito’s youngest son, Michael (Pacino), who has distanced himself from the family business, attends the festivities with his non-Italian girlfriend, Kay (Diane Keaton).

10 Must-Read Modern Poets: Warsan Shire: The daughter of Somali parents who fled their home country for Kenya, Shire was born in Nairobi and raised in London, where her family moved shortly after she was born. In 2014 she was named London’s first Young Poet Laureate. Many of Shire’s…

sheriff, a senior executive officer in an English county or smaller area who performs a variety of administrative and judicial functions. Officers of this name also exist in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the United States. In England the office of sheriff existed before the Norman Conquest

the Shirelles, American vocal group popular in the late 1950s and early ’60s, one of the first and most successful so-called “girl groups.” The original members were Addie (“Micki”) Harris (b. January 22, 1940, Passaic, New Jersey, U.S.—d. June 10, 1982, Los Angeles, California), Doris Coley (b.

William L. Shirer was an American journalist, historian, and novelist, best known for his massive study The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (1960). In the 1920s and ’30s Shirer was stationed in Europe and in India as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and

William L. Shirer was an American journalist, historian, and novelist, best known for his massive study The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (1960). In the 1920s and ’30s Shirer was stationed in Europe and in India as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and

South American forest Indian: Economic systems: The same holds for the Shirianá and Waica of the Orinoco–Amazon headwaters.

shirk, (Arabic: “making a partner [of someone]”), in Islam, idolatry, polytheism, and the association of God with other deities. The Qurʾān (Islamic scripture) stresses in many verses that God does not share his powers with any partner (sharīk). It warns those who believe their idols will intercede

Saladin: Early life and military career: …the staff of his uncle Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh, an important military commander under the emir Nūr al-Dīn, who was the son and successor of Zangī. During three military expeditions led by Shīrkūh into Egypt to prevent its falling to the Latin Christian (Frankish) rulers of the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem,…

poppy: Major Papaver species: The white-and-red or white-and-pink Shirley poppy is an annual variety developed from the corn poppy (P. rhoeas). The long-headed poppy (P. dubium) is an annual similar to the corn poppy but with narrower, tapering capsules and smaller, paler flowers. The Iceland poppy (P. nudicaule), from Arctic North America, is…

Shirley Temple: …in the creation of a doll made in her likeness and a nonalcoholic beverage named for her.

Anne Shirley, fictional character, the heroine of Anne of Green Gables (1908) and several subsequent novels for children by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Anne, a red-haired Canadian orphan, is an imaginative, high-spirited girl who speaks her mind. She wants, above all, to find a home with people who will

James Shirley was an English poet and dramatist, one of the leading playwrights in the decade before the closing of the theaters by Parliament in 1642. Shirley was educated at the University of Cambridge and after his ordination became master of the St. Albans Grammar School. About 1624 he moved to

Belle Starr was an American outlaw of Texas and the Oklahoma Indian Territory. Myra Belle Shirley grew up in Carthage, Missouri, from the age of two. After the death of an elder brother, who early in the Civil War had become a bushwhacker and had perhaps ridden with guerrilla leader William C.

Selina Hastings, countess of Huntingdon was a central figure in the evangelical revival in 18th-century England, who founded the Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion, a sect of Calvinistic Methodists. The daughter of Washington Shirley, 2nd Earl Ferrers, Selina in 1728 married Theophilus Hastings,

William Shirley was a colonial governor of Massachusetts who played an important role in Britain’s struggle against France for control of North America. In 1731, after 11 years of law practice in England, Shirley migrated to Boston. He was appointed admiralty judge in 1733 and the king’s advocate

Sir Hubert Shirley-Smith was a British civil engineer who designed steel bridges in many parts of the world and was a noted writer on engineering topics. One year after he graduated from the City and Guilds of London Institute (1922), Shirley-Smith joined the engineering firm of Sir Douglas Fox and

Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre and other novels of Charlotte Brontë: In her novel Shirley. Charlotte avoided melodrama and coincidences and widened her scope. Setting aside Maria Edgeworth and Sir Walter Scott as national novelists, Shirley is the first regional novel in English, full of shrewdly depicted local material—Yorkshire characters, church and chapel, the cloth workers and machine breakers…

Shobha Gurtu was a renowned singer of Indian classical music. Known for her rich earthy voice, distinctive vocal style, and mastery of various song genres, she was considered the “queen of thumri,” a light classical Hindustani style. Her mother, Menakabai Shirodkar, who was a professional dancer

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), regional political party in Punjab state, northwestern India. It is the principal advocacy organization of the large Sikh community in the state and is centred on the philosophy of promoting the well-being of the country’s Sikh population by providing them with a

gurdwara: …elected body known as the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (Supreme Committee of Temple Management).

Abuja: …electricity to the city; the Shiroro Dam, on the Niger River southwest of Abuja, is one source. Pop. (2006) Abuja Municipal Area Council, 776,298; (2016 est.) urban agglom., 2,940,000.

Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff was an English pioneer in the cause of better education for women. She was from 1870 a member of the executive committee of Girton College, Cambridge (founded for women in 1869), and in 1871 with her sister Maria founded a union out of which grew (1872) the Girls’ Public

shirt, any of a variety of garments having sleeves and worn on the upper part of the body, often under a coat, jacket, or other garment. Shirts were worn as early as the 18th dynasty of ancient Egypt (c. 1539–1292 bce); they were made of a rectangular piece of linen, folded and sewn up the sides,

ancient Iran: The Old Elamite period: …third king of this line, Shirukdukh, was active in various military coalitions against the rising power of Babylon, but Hammurabi was not to be denied, and Elam was crushed in 1764 bc. The Old Babylon kingdom, however, fell into rapid decline following the death of Hammurabi, and it was not…

Azerbaijan: Economic regions: …Azerbaijan, is centered on the Shirvan Plain. The Mingäçevir hydroelectric station is located there. The area also has a well-developed network of roads. Industry is generally engaged in the processing of such agricultural products as cotton, grapes, and fruit. The most important vineyards lie in the vicinity of Şamaxı, a…

Shirvan rug, floor covering handmade in the Shirvan region of Azerbaijan in the southeastern Caucasus. With the exception of a group of rugs woven in the vicinity of Baku, most Shirvans are found in small sizes, with examples from the southern part of the area around the town of Saliani more likely

Azerbaijan: Cultural life: …on mathematics and philosophy, and Abul Hasan Shirvani (11th–12th centuries), the author of Astronomy. The poet and philosopher Nẹzāmī, called Ganjavī after his place of birth, Ganja, was the author of Khamseh (“The Quintuplet”), composed of five romantic poems, including “The Treasure of Mysteries,” “Khosrow and Shīrīn,” and “Leyli and…

Lake Chilwa, lake in southeastern Malawi. It lies in a depression between the Shire Highlands (west) and the Mozambique border (east) that extends north-northeast from the foot of the Mulanje Mountains through Lake Chiuta to the Lugenda valley in Mozambique. The Chilwa basin-plain is broken by a

Shintō: Shintō religious arts: …of sacred stone animals called komainu (“Korean dogs”) or karajishi (“Chinese lions”) are placed in front of a shrine. Originally they served to protect the sacred buildings from evil and defilements. After the 9th century they were used for ornamental purposes on ceremonial occasions at the Imperial Court and later…

hookah, apparatus used to heat and vaporize tobacco for inhalation. The word hookah is derived from the Hindustani huqqa and the Arabic huqqah, meaning “vase” or “vessel.” The practice of smoking tobacco from a hookah likely originated in India or the Middle East. Today it is used worldwide and is

Kangxi: Early life: …was to replace the so-called Thirteen Offices (Shisan Yanmen) with a Neiwufu (Dorgi Yamun), or Office of Household. The Thirteen Offices, all organized solely by Chinese eunuchs, had been the abomination of the Manchus ever since they had been introduced by the late emperor, to handle affairs of the imperial…

kebab: …best-known of the latter is shish kebab, although this term is unrevealing inasmuch as it means simply “skewered meat” (from the Turkish şiş kebap). It has a close cousin in shashlik, eaten in the Caucasus region and Russia. Beef or lamb is the preferred meat in the Middle East, although…

Xixabangma, one of the world’s highest mountains, reaching an elevation of 26,286 feet (8,012 metres) above sea level. It rises in the Himalayas in the southern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, southwestern China, near the Nepal border. The Trisuli River cuts a gorge to the west of the

Sheshonk I was the first king (c. 943–c. 923 bce) of the 22nd dynasty of ancient Egypt (see ancient Egypt: the 22nd and 23rd dynasties). Sheshonk came from a line of princes or sheikhs of Libyan tribal descent whose title was “great chief of the Meshwesh” and who appear to have settled in Bubastis

Adib al-Shishakli was a Syrian army officer who overthrew the Syrian government in December 1949 and dominated Syrian politics until his own overthrow in 1954. Shishakli was a Syrian nationalist who after World War II opposed movements toward the political union of Syria and Iraq. When unification

Alaska: Relief: …such glacier-covered peaks as symmetrical Shishaldin Volcano (9,372 feet [2,857 metres]) on Unimak can be seen. Usually, however, the weather is wet and stormy, the winds horizontal and cutting, and the fog all-pervading.

Chechnya: People: …main ethnic group is the Chechens, with minorities of Russians and Ingush. The Chechens and the Ingush are both Muslim and are two of the many Caucasian mountain peoples whose language belongs to the Nakh group. Fiercely independent, the Chechens and other Caucasian tribes mounted a prolonged resistance to Russian…

Lion of Fo, in Chinese art, stylized figure of a snarling lion. Its original significance was as a guardian presence in a Buddhist temple. Lions of Fo are often created in pairs, with the male playing with a ball and the female with a cub. They occur in many types of Chinese pottery and in Western

Japanese music: Biwa, vocal, and folk music: Lion dance (shishi mai) ensembles often use a trio consisting of a bamboo flutist, a gong player, and a drummer who plays a taiko and a small odeko barrel drum. Cymbals (chappa) and samisen may appear in other folk pantomimes or dances. The most common…

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin was one of the most popular landscape painters of Russia. His paintings of wooded landscapes led his contemporaries to call him “tsar of the woods.” Shishkin was the son of a merchant. He studied art with a characteristic thoroughness, first at the School of Painting,

Aleksandr Semyonovich Shishkov was a Russian writer and statesman whose intense nationalistic and religious sentiments made him a precursor of the Slavophile movement in Russia of the 1830s and 1840s. A naval officer by training, Shishkov rose to the rank of vice admiral before retiring in

Bulgaria: The second Bulgarian empire: …in 1330 when Tsar Mikhail Shishman was defeated and slain by the Serbs at the Battle of Velbuzhd (modern Kyustendil). Bulgaria lost its Macedonian lands to the Serbian empire of Stefan Dušan, which then became the dominant Balkan power for the next four decades. Bulgaria appeared to be on the…

Bulgaria: Ottoman rule: Although Ivan Shishman, Bulgaria’s last medieval tsar, declared himself a vassal of Murad in 1371, the Ottomans continued to seek complete domination. Sofia, in the west, was seized in 1382, and Shumen, in the east, fell in 1388. A year later the defeat of the Serbs…

Bulgaria: The second Bulgarian empire: …nadir in 1330 when Tsar Mikhail Shishman was defeated and slain by the Serbs at the Battle of Velbuzhd (modern Kyustendil). Bulgaria lost its Macedonian lands to the Serbian empire of Stefan Dušan, which then became the dominant Balkan power for the next four decades. Bulgaria appeared to be on…

Chinese literature: Prose: …5th-century collection of anecdotes titled Shishuo xinyu (“A New Account of Tales of the World”) by Liu Yiqing. Though prose writers as a whole continued to be most concerned with lyrical expression and rhetorical devices for artistic effect, there were notable deviations from the prevailing usage in the polyphonic pianwen…

Magha: …whose only recorded work is Shishupalavadha (“The Slaying of King Shishupala”), an influential mahakavya (“great poem”), a type of classical epic that consists of a variable number of comparatively short cantos. Magha was a master of technique in the strict Sanskrit sense of luscious descriptions; intricate syntax; compounds that, depending…

Ogata Kenzan was a Japanese potter and painter, brother to the artist Ogata Kōrin. He signed himself Kenzan, Shisui, Tōin, Shōkosai, Shuseidō, or Shinshō. Kenzan received a classical Chinese and Japanese education and pursued Zen Buddhism. At the age of 27 he began studying with the potter Ninsei

Shaishunaga dynasty: Shisunaga, or Susunaga, the founder, was of obscure origin and may have initially served as Magadhan viceroy at Kashi (Varanasi). Gradually he came to be associated with the early Magadhan capital Girivraja, or Rajgir, and reestablished the city of Vaishali in north Bihar. Shishunaga’s reign, like that…

sokutai: …hō is the white damask shitagasane, which has a back panel forming a 12-foot (3.7-metre) train. The cap-shaped headdress (kammuri), of black lacquered silk, has an upright pennon decorated with the imperial chrysanthemum crest. When wearing the sokutai, the emperor carries an ivory tablet (shaku), undoubtedly inspired by jade tablets…

Shitala, Indian goddess of smallpox and of other infectious diseases. She is worshipped under this name throughout the regions of South Asia in which Indo-Aryan languages are spoken. In India she is widely worshipped in the rural areas of West Bengal state. In much of Dravidian-speaking India, a

Shitao was a Chinese painter and theoretician who was, with Zhu Da, one of the most famous of the Individualist painters in the early Qing period. Like Zhu, Shitao was of the formerly imperial Ming line and became a Buddhist monk; but unlike Zhu he seems to have led a life typical of his class and

Japanese performing arts: 7th to 16th centuries: …not by the chief (shite) or supporting (waki) actors of Noh but by kyōgen actors, who also acted the roles of villagers or fishermen in Noh plays. The antecedents of kyōgen cannot be described with certainty, but it is probable that kyōgen’s short sketches of master-servant quarrels, husband-wife arguments,…

Japan: Local government: …be given the status of shitei toshi (designated city). Designated cities are divided into ku (wards), each of which has a chief and an assembly, the former being nominated by the mayor and the latter elected by the residents. The number of these cities has steadily increased since the first…

Shen Zhou was a Chinese artist who was a leading member of a group of scholar-artists later known as the Wu school (after Wu district). Shen was born to an honoured and secure family and enjoyed a long life involved in the learned arts of poetry, painting, and calligraphy. His many paintings reveal

historiography: China: …Zhiji (661–721) had produced the Shitong (“Historical Perspectives”), the first comprehensive work on historical criticism in any language. For him, the writing of history had an exalted—and very Confucian—mission:

Sideroxylon: lanuginosa, variously known as chittamwood, shittamwood, gum elastic, and false buckthorn, is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental. It grows to about 15 metres (50 feet) tall. The leaves are 3.75–10 cm (1.5–4 inches) long, are dark lustrous green above and rusty beneath, and persist until late in the fall.…

covenant: Post-Sinai covenants: …held a covenant ceremony at Shittim (northeast of the Dead Sea), which has been greatly elaborated upon in tradition as the “second giving of the Law,” Deuteronomy. Though it is true that the Book of Deuteronomy from the 7th century bce exhibits the same basic structure as that of the…

Judaism: Early stages to the 6th century ce: …consisting of inordinate hyperboles (Shiʿur qoma, “Divine Dimensions”). A few documents have been preserved that attest to the initiation of carefully chosen persons who were made to undergo tests and ordeals in accordance with psychosomatic criteria borrowed from physiognomy (the art of determining character from physical, especially facial, traits).…

Shiv Sena, right-wing Hindu nationalist political party in India founded by Bal Thackeray on June 19, 1966. Its largest following is in Mumbai (Bombay) and other parts of Maharashtra state. Initially the ideology of Shiv Sena focused on Maharashtrian pride and favoring regional exclusivity and

Shiva, one of the main deities of Hinduism, whom Shaivites worship as the supreme god. Among his common epithets are Shambhu (“Benign”), Shankara (“Beneficent”), Mahesha (“Great Lord”), and Mahadeva (“Great God”). Shiva is represented in a variety of forms: in a pacific mood with his consort

Shiva Dayal Saheb was the founder of the esoteric Hindu and Sikh sect Radha Soami Satsang. He was born into a devout Vaishnava family and established himself as a banker in Agra. In 1861 he revealed himself as the sant satguru (true teacher of spirituality) and began instructing a group of

graphic design: Graphic design in developing nations: …20th century, Iranian graphic designer Ghobad Shiva evoked the colour palette, traditional Arabic calligraphy, and page layouts of ancient Persian manuscripts in his graphic work, which ranged from packaging to advertising and editorial design to stage sets. His poster (1984) celebrating the 800th anniversary of the birth of the renowned…

Vandana Shiva is an Indian physicist and social activist. Shiva founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Natural Resource Policy (RFSTN), an organization devoted to developing sustainable methods of agriculture, in 1982. Shiva, the daughter of a forestry official and a farmer,

Indonesia: The empire of Kertanagara: …supporters revered him as a Shiva-Buddha. They believed that he had tapped within himself demonic forces that enabled him to destroy the demons that sought to divide Java. The 14th-century poet Prapancha, author of the Nagarakertagama and a worshipper of Kertanagara, on one occasion referred to the king as the…

Kashmiri Shaivism: …of the school are the Shiva-sutra, said to have been revealed to Vasugupta; Vasugupta’s Spanda-karika (“Verses on Activity”), 8th–9th century; Utpala’s Pratyabhijna-shastra (“Manual on Recognition”), c. 900; Abhinavagupta’s Paramarthasara (“The Essence of the Highest Truth”), Pratyabhijna-vimarshini (“Reflections on Recognition”), and Tantraloka (“Lights on the Doctrine”), 10th century; and Kshemaraja’s

Indian philosophy: Shaiva-siddhanta: …Shiva”) by Meykantatevar (13th century), Shivacharya’s Shiva-jnana-siddhiyar (“Attainment of the Knowledge of Shiva”), Umapati’s Shivaprakasham (“Lights on Shiva”) in the 14th century, Shrikantha’s commentary on the Vedanta-sutras (14th century), and Appaya Dikshita’s commentary thereon.

shivah, (Hebrew: “seven”), in Judaism, period of seven days of prescribed mourning that begins immediately after the burial of a parent, a spouse, a child, a brother, or a sister and concludes with sundown on the seventh day. Shivah is not observed on the intervening Sabbath and terminates if a

Shivaji was an individual who opposed the Mughal dynasty and founded the Maratha kingdom in 17th-century India. His kingdom’s security was based on religious toleration and on the functional integration of Brahmans, Marathas, and Prabhus. Shivaji was descended from a line of prominent nobles. India

Shivamogga, city, western Karnataka state, southern India. It is situated in an upland region on the Tunga River (a headstream of the Tungabhadra). Shivamogga is a road and rail junction, reexporting areca nuts, rice, coffee, and pepper. Industries include rice and oilseed milling and cotton

Kathmandu: …Kathmandu include, in spring, the Shivaratri and the Machendra Jatra with its procession bearing the image of the god Machendra; in late summer, the Gai Jatra (festival of the cow); and, in early autumn, the Indra Jatra, during which the goddess Devi, represented by a young girl, is carried in…

Fast of Tammuz, a minor Jewish observance (on Tammuz 17) that inaugurates three weeks of mourning (see Three Weeks) that culminate in the 24-hour fast of Tisha be-Av. Though probably an adaptation of some pagan festival, the Jewish people have associated the fast with several unhappy historical

Shiva Dayal Saheb was the founder of the esoteric Hindu and Sikh sect Radha Soami Satsang. He was born into a devout Vaishnava family and established himself as a banker in Agra. In 1861 he revealed himself as the sant satguru (true teacher of spirituality) and began instructing a group of

human disease: Thermoregulation: …as the muscular contractions of shivering—again mediated by the thermostatic control centre in the hypothalamus.

David Cronenberg: Early life and career: …directed his first commercial film, Shivers (1975; also released as They Came from Within), a low-budget horror picture about an artificially engineered parasite that transforms the well-to-do residents of an apartment complex into lustful maniacs. While the lurid nature of the film was interpreted by some viewers as a mere…

quaking grass: media), and little quaking grass, or shivery grass (B. minor).

Ḥayyim ben Joseph Vital: …visions posthumously under the title Shivḥe R. Ḥayyim Vital.

Shivpuri, city, northern Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It is situated on an elevated watershed from which streams radiate in all directions, about 55 miles (90 km) southwest of Gwalior. Shivpuri formerly served as a summer capital of Gwalior princely state. In 1804 it was captured from the

Madhav National Park, natural area in northern Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It is located about 70 miles (110 km) south of Gwalior on the main road between Mumbai (Bombay) and Agra, just northeast of the city of Shivpuri. The park was established as Madhya Bharat National Park in 1955 and

shivah, (Hebrew: “seven”), in Judaism, period of seven days of prescribed mourning that begins immediately after the burial of a parent, a spouse, a child, a brother, or a sister and concludes with sundown on the seventh day. Shivah is not observed on the intervening Sabbath and terminates if a

Siwalik Range, sub-Himalayan range of the northern Indian subcontinent. It extends west-northwestward for more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from the Tista River in Sikkim state, northeastern India, through Nepal, across northwestern India, and into northern Pakistan. Though only 10 miles (16 km)

Siwalik Range, sub-Himalayan range of the northern Indian subcontinent. It extends west-northwestward for more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from the Tista River in Sikkim state, northeastern India, through Nepal, across northwestern India, and into northern Pakistan. Though only 10 miles (16 km)

Himalayas: Geologic history: The formations of the Siwalik Series were overthrust and folded, and in between the Lesser Himalayas downwarped to shape the midlands. Now barred from flowing due south, most minor rivers ran east or west through structural weaknesses in the midlands until they could break through the new southern barrier…

Shiwang, in Chinese mythology, the 10 kings of hell, who preside over fixed regions where the dead are punished by physical tortures appropriate to their crimes. The Chinese hell (diyu; “earth prison”) is principally a Buddhist concept that has been modified by Daoism and indigenous folk beliefs,