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VELUM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
VELUM, also soft palate . The soft part of the roof of the mouth, behind the hard palate . There are two adjectives: velar , for the velum itself and sounds made by raising the back of the tongue towards the velum; velaric , referring to a stream of air. See ARTICULATION SPEECH.
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Blasco Núñez Vela
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Blasco Núñez Vela see Núñez Vela, Blasco .
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SPEECH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...raising the back of the tongue towards the VELUM . It is thus both bilabial and velar...are several types of approximant. The velum is normally raised to prevent air from...the nose: a NASAL is produced with the velum lowered. The airstream normally passes...
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Gamma ray Burst
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...the atmosphere of Earth or in space. The Vela satellites (from the Spanish verb velar...come from the detection of neutrons. The Vela designers knew that detonating a nuclear...view as it rapidly expanded outward. The Vela satellites could easily detect these gamma...
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gamma-ray astronomy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...gamma rays. Cygnus X-3 and the Crab and Vela pulsars are well known gamma-ray sources...gamma-ray experiments flew on the OGO, Vela, and Russian Cosmos series of satellites...Explorer, launched in 2004. In 1967 a Vela military satellite designed to detect nuclear...
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Ndembo (or Kita)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...he was carried off to an enclosure outside the village called vela and pronounced to have died a ndembo. Perhaps 20, 30, or even...neophytes were designated vanga. During their occupation of the vela they learned an esoteric language, which they constantly employed...
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NASAL
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...through the nose. When a nasal consonant is produced, the velum is lowered to allow air to pass out through nose as well as...of LONDON English. It is the consequence of a setting of the VELUM which causes a degree of nasal resonance greater than the user...
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Pizarro Brothers
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...Orellana continued down the Amazon to the Atlantic. In 1544 Gonzalo led a rebellion when Blasco N ú ñ ez de Vela, the first viceroy of Peru, attempted to enforce the New Laws of 1542, which would have stripped the conquerors of their encomiendas...
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Dominicans
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...house, and offer things to the images in the hope that their wishes will be fulfilled. On the "Night of the Saints" (Noche Vela), the saints are believed to be called to earth. 5 • RELIGION Reverence for religion in the Dominican Republic is...
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Juan de Garay
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...refounder of Buenos Aires. He went to Peru (1544) in the train of the first viceroy, Blasco Núñez Vela, and was active against Gonzalo Pizarro in the civil war. From 1548 to 1568 his activity, as a soldier and colonizer, was...
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