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Khons
Ancient Egyptian moon god. He was the son of the god Amon and the goddess Mut. He was usually depicted as a young man wearing a lunar disk and a rearing cobra on his head. He was also associated with baboons and was sometimes equated with Thoth, another moon god. In the late New Kingdom (c.1100 BC) a major temple was built for Khons in the Karnak complex at Thebes.
phonon
In solid-state physics, a quantum of lattice vibrational energy. In analogy to a photon (a quantum of light), a phonon is viewed as a wave packet with particlelike properties (see wave-particle duality). The way phonons behave determines or affects various properties of solids. Thermal conductivity, for instance, is explained by phonon interactions. Phonons also provide the basis for understanding superconductivity in certain metals.
Homs
City (pop., 1994 est.: 644,000), central Syria. Located near the Orontes River, as Emesa it contained a great temple to the sun god El Gebal and was the birthplace of the priest-king Elagabalus, who became Roman emperor in AD 218. The emperor Aurelian defeated Queen Zenobia of Palmyra here in 272. It was taken in 636 by the Muslims, who renamed it Hims. In 1516 it passed into Ottoman hands, where it remained until the creation of Syria after World War I. Homs is a thriving agricultural market center, and has oil and sugar refineries. It is the central link between the interior cities and the Mediterranean coast.
Honshu
Island (pop., 1990: 100,254,000), Japan. The largest of the four main islands of Japan, its coastline extends 6,266 mi (10,084 km); it has an area of 87,992 sq mi (227,898 sq km). It is regarded as the Japanese mainland, and much of the country's early history took place in its S region. The Pacific coast is the country's main economic center, lined with the metropolitan areas of Tokyo-Yokohama and Osaka-Kobe. Honshu contains Japan's largest mountain, Mt. Fuji, and its largest lake, Lake Biwa.
Huns
Nomadic pastoralist people who invaded SE Europe c.AD 370. Appearing from central Asia after the mid-4th cent., they first overran the Alani, who occupied the plains between the Volga and Don rivers, and then overthrew the Ostrogoths living between the Don and Dniester rivers. About 376 they defeated the Visigoths living in what is now approximately Romania and reached the Danubian frontier of the Roman empire. As warriors they inspired almost unparalleled fear throughout Europe; they were accurate mounted archers, and their rapid, ferocious charges brought them overwhelming victories. They extended their power over many of the Germanic peoples of central Europe and allied themselves with the Romans. By 432 the leadership of the various groups of Huns had been centralized under a single king, Rua (Rugila). After his death (434), he was succeeded by his two nephews, Bleda and Attila. By a peace treaty with the E Roman empire, the Romans ...
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