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get
Jewish divorce document written in Aramaic and obtained from a rabbinic court. In Orthodox and Conservative Judaism it is the only valid way to end a marriage, though outside Israel a civil divorce is required first. In Reform Judaism a civil divorce suffices. To obtain a get, mutual consent of husband and wife is usually required, except in special cases such as apostasy, impotence, insanity, or refusal to cohabit.
Leto
In classical mythology, the mother of Apollo and Artemis. She was made pregnant by Zeus, and she wandered in search of a place to give birth until she found the barren island of Delos. The island was a floating rock borne about by the waves, but it was fixed to the bottom of the sea for the birth of Apollo and Artemis. In some versions, Leto's wanderings are ascribed to the jealousy of Zeus's wife, Hera.
Metz
City (pop., 1997 est.: 124,000), NE France. It derives its name from the Mediomatrici, a Gallic tribe who made it their capital. Fortified by the Romans, it became a bishopric in the 4th cent. AD. It passed to Frankish rule in the 5th cent., becoming the capital of Lorraine in 843. It prospered as a free town within the Holy Roman Empire. Taken by the French in 1552, it was formally ceded to France in 1648. It fell to German rule in 1871, but was returned to France after World War I. It was the birthplace of P. Verlaine.
NATO
International military alliance created to defend Western Europe from Soviet expansion. A 1948 collective-defense alliance between Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg was recognized as inadequate to deter potential Soviet aggression, and in 1949 the U.S. and Canada agreed to join their European allies in an enlarged alliance. The N. Atlantic treaty stated that an attack on one signatory should be regarded as an attack on the rest. A centralized administrative structure was set up, and three major commands were established, focused on Europe, the Atlantic, and the English Channel. The admission of W. Germany in 1955 led to the Soviet Union's creation of the opposing Warsaw Treaty Organization, or Warsaw Pact. France withdrew from military participation in 1966. Since NATO ground forces were smaller than those of the Warsaw Pact, the balance of power was maintained by superior weaponry, incl. intermediate-range nuclear weapons. After the Warsaw Pact's dissolution in 1991, NATO withdrew its nuclear weapons and attempted to refine its mission in the post-Cold War period. It involved itself in the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s. In 1999 the admission of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, all former Warsaw Pact members, brought the number of full members to 19.
Nejd
Region of central Saudi Arabia. Comprising a rocky plateau sloping eastward from the mountains of the Hejaz, it is sparsely settled, except for a few fertile oases. It became the center of the Wahhabi, a fundamentalist ...
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