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mappo
In Japanese Buddhism, the age in which the Buddha's law will degenerate. The period following the death of the Buddha is divided into three ages: the age of the true law, the age of the copied law, and the age of the latter law or degeneration of the law. A new period, in which true faith will again flower, will then be ushered in by the bodhisattva Maitreya (Japanese, Miroku). Japanese Buddhists calculate that the age of mappo began in AD 1052. Since it is expected to continue for 10,000 years, the current era of human history continues to be the age of mappo.


nappe
In geology, a large body or sheet of rock that has been moved by faulting or folding a distance of about 1 mi (1.5 km) or more from its original position. A nappe may be the hanging wall of a low-angle thrust fault (a fracture in the rocks of the earth's crust caused by contraction), or it may be a large recumbent fold (i.e., an undulation in the stratified rocks that have an essentially horizontal axial plane); both processes position older rocks over younger rocks.


APL
Computer programming language based on (and named with the initials of) the book A Programming Language, by Kenneth E. Iverson of IBM (1962). It has been adapted for use in many different computers and fields because of its concise syntax. Statements are expressed with simple notations that have powerful built-in operational functions such as looping, sorting, and selection. Once a popular language, it is not used often today for new programs.


Apo
Active volcano, Mindanao, Philippines. Located west of Davao City, it is the highest point in the Philippines, at 9,690 ft (2,954 m). In 1939 its slopes and immediate vicinity were incorporated into Mt. Apo National Park, which includes numerous peaks and valleys as well as Malasita Falls and Sibulao Lake.


appeal
Resort to a higher court to review the decision of a lower court, or to any court to review the order of an administrative agency. Its scope is usually limited. In the U.S., the higher court will review only matters in the record of the original trial; no new evidence can be presented. The U.S. Supreme Court hears some appellate cases, but unless cases have an important effect on the public interest, appeal stops with the U.S. Courts of Appeals. See also certiorari.


Appel
Dutch painter, sculptor, and graphic artist. He attended Amsterdam's Royal Academy of Fine Arts (1940-43) and was cofounder of the Cobra group of N European Expressionists. In 1950 he moved to Paris; by the 1960s he had settled in New York. An exponent of expressive abstraction, he developed a painting style characterized by thick layering of pigment, violent color and brushwork, and crude, reductive figures. His figurative sculptures are executed in metal and wood. He painted portraits of jazz musicians and a number of public works, incl. a mural in the Paris UNESCO ...

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