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Boudiaf
Algerian political leader. With A. Ben Bella, he cofounded the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), which led the fight for Algerian independence from France (1954-62). He was imprisoned from 1956 until Algerian independence in 1962, whereupon he became deputy premier under Ben Bella. His opposition to Ben Bella's autocratic style led to a 27-year exile. In 1992 he was invited back to head the government and to deal with rising religious influence in political affairs. He was assassinated by a bodyguard shortly thereafter. See also Islamic Salvation Front.
molding
In architecture and the decorative arts, a defining, transitional, or terminal element that serves to contour or outline edges and surfaces. The surface of a molding may be plain or modeled with recesses and reliefs, which either maintain a constant profile along its length or are set in rhythmically repeated patterns. Types of flat or angular moldings are the fascia, chamfer (or bevel), and fillet (narrow band). Single curved moldings include the cavetto (concave, with a quarter-circle profile), scotia (deep concave), flute (grooved), ovolo (convex, with a quarter-circle profile), torus (semicircular convex), roll (rounded convex), and astragal (narrow semicircular convex). Among the most common compound moldings are the projecting, double-curved cyma recta or ogee, often used as a crown molding, and the cyma reversa, used for crown or base. The profiles of moldings are traditionally enhanced by flower or leaf forms, geometric motifs, or spirals.
Olbia
Town (pop., 1991: 41,000), NE Sardinia, Italy. Originally a Greek colony, it passed to the Romans and was the site of a Roman victory over the Carthaginian general Hanno in 259 BC. It was rebuilt by Pisan colonists in 1198 and named Terranova Pausania. Renamed Olbia in 1939, it is the main passenger port for connections with the Italian mainland. It has Phoenician and Roman ruins.
Sogdiana
Province of the ancient Persian empire. It was centered in the fertile valley of the Zeravshan River, in modern Uzbekistan. It became a satrapy under Darius I in the 6th cent. BC, and was conquered by Alexander the Great in the 4th cent. It asserted its independence from the Seleucid empire c.250 BC as part of the Bactrian kingdom, and fell to invading N tribes in the 2nd cent. BC. It prospered until the Mongol invasions. Under the Samanid dynasty (9th-10th cent. AD), it was a focal point of Islamic civilization. See also Bukhara.
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