Mobley, Hank

Mobley began playing tenor saxophone as a New Jersey teenager and gained experience in the bands of Max Roach (1951 - 53) and Dizzy Gillespie (1954). Lester Young and especially

Abu Shahrayn

Mound in southern Iraq, site of the ancient Sumerian city of Eridu (q.v.).

Cuman�

City, capital of Sucre estado (�state�), northeastern Venezuela. On the Manzanares River, 1 mile (1.6 km) inland from its port, Puerto Sucre, on the Caribbean Sea at the mouth of the river, Cuman� has an elevation of 52 feet (16 m) and an average temperature of 83� F (28� C). Founded as Nueva C�rdoba in 1523, Cuman� claims to be the oldest European settlement on the South American mainland. Despite attacks

Tibet, The people

The Tibetan and Burmese languages are related, although they are mutually unintelligible

Hydractinia

Genus of marine hydrozoan polyps (phylum Cnidaria), a group of invertebrate animals with a thin tubelike body that attaches to a surface. Species of the Hydractinia are colonial and usually live on snail shells inhabitated by hermit crabs. The basal stolon (stemlike structure) of a Hydractinia colony is comprised of numerous perisarc-covered tubes coalesced into

Arzamas Society

Russian literary circle that flourished in 1815 - 18 and was formed for the semiserious purpose of ridiculing the conservative �Lovers of the Russian Word,� a group dominated by the philologist Aleksandr S. Shishkov, who wished to keep the modern Russian language firmly tied to Old Church Slavonic. The Arzamas circle included the poets Vasily A. Zhukovsky, Konstantin Batyushkov

Acosta, Jos� De

Jesuit theologian and missionary to the New World, chiefly known for his Historia natural y moral de las Indias, the earliest survey of the New World and its relation to the Old. His works, missionary and literary, mark the end of the period of the religious and scientific incorporation of the newly discovered lands into Western