Related topics from BritannicaStrafford, Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of,
also called (1611-28) Sir Thomas Wentworth, or (from 1628) Viscount Wentworth, Baron Wentworth Of Wentworth Woodhouse, Baron Of Newmarch And Oversley leading adviser of England's King Charles I. His ...
logistics
Closely related to production scheduling is purchasing, because many of the inputs needed for production must be purchased from outside vendors. The logistics staff advises as to the transportation ...
mathematics
The Elements was one of several major efforts by Euclid and others to consolidate the advances made over the 4th century BC. On the basis of these advances, Greek geometry entered its golden age in ...
Louis IV
duke of upper Bavaria (from 1294) and of united Bavaria (1340-47), German king (from 1314), and Holy Roman emperor (1328-47), first of the Wittelsbach line of German emperors. His reign was marked by ...
India
Babur's brief tenure in Hindustan, spent in wars and in his preoccupation with northwest and Central Asia, did not give him enough time to consolidate fully his conquests in India. Still, discernible ...
Latvia
Latvia is divided into 26 self-governed rajons (districts). Outside of this structure are seven major cities that are designated republican cities and have their own governments. The districts are ...
Santiago, Order of
Christian military-religious order of knights founded about 1160 in Spain for the purpose of fighting Spanish Muslims and of protecting pilgrims on their way to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela. ...
cereal farming
Winter crops are frequently disturbed by frost, and the ground must then be rolled in the spring to consolidate the soil around the roots. If soil has become crusted by heavy rains followed by ...
Peter I
The first steps taken in this direction were the campaigns of 1695 and 1696, with the object of capturing Azov from the Crimean Tatar vassals of Turkey. On the one hand, these Azov campaigns could be ...
Barari Ghat, Battle of
(Jan. 9, 1760), in Indian history, one of a series of Afghan victories over the Marathas in their war to gain control of the decaying Mughal Empire, which gave the British time in which to ...
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