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Alabama
State (pop., 1997 est.: 4,319,000), S central U.S. Covering 51,705 sq mi (133,916 sq km), its capital is Montgomery. Its original inhabitants included Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek Indians; evidence of their activity can be found near Tuscaloosa. H. de Soto traveled here, and the French founded a settlement at Ft. Louis in 1702. The Alabama Territory was created in 1817, and statehood was granted in 1819. Alabama seceded from the Union in 1861, becoming part of the Confederacy; it was readmitted in 1868. Efforts during Reconstruction to include blacks in government failed, and Alabama remained segregationist until the 1960s. Dependent on cotton until the early 20th cent., the state has since diversified its agricultural production and developed industrially, especially at Birmingham; Mobile has become a major ocean terminal.


Albinus
German-Dutch anatomist. A professor at the Univ. of Leiden, he is best known for the excellent drawings in his Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body (1747). He was the first to show the connection of the vascular systems of mother and fetus. With H. Boerhaave, he edited the works of A. Vesalius and W. Harvey.


albite
Common feldspar mineral, a sodium aluminosilicate (NaAlSi3O8) that occurs most widely in pegmatites and acid igneous rocks such as granites. It may also be found in low-grade metamorphic rocks (those formed under relatively low temperature and pressure conditions) and in certain sedimentary rocks. Albite usually forms brittle, glassy crystals that may be colorless, white, yellow, pink, green, or black. It is used in the manufacture of glass and ceramics, but its primary geologic importance is as a rock-forming mineral.


Apia
Seaport town (pop., 1995 est.: 33,000) and capital, Samoa. It lies on the N coast of Upolu Island. Its economy centers on the export of goods to Amer. Samoa. R. L. Stevenson is buried at nearby Mt. Vaea; Vailima, his former home, is now the residence of the head of state.


aria
Solo song with instrumental accompaniment in opera, cantata, or oratorio. The strophic or stanzaic aria, in which each new stanza might represent a melodic variation on the first, appeared in opera in C. Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607) and was widely used for decades. The standard aria form c.1650-1775 was the da capo aria, in which the opening melody and text are repeated after an intervening melody-text section (often in a different key, tempo, and meter); the return of the first section was often virtuosically embellished by the singer. Comic operas never limited themselves to da capo form. Even in serious opera, from c.1750 a variety of forms were used; G. Rossini and others often expanded the aria into a complete musical scene in which two or more conflicting emotions were expressed. R. Wagner's operas largely abandoned the aria in favor of a continuous musical texture, but arias have ...

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