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thunder
thunder sound produced along a path of a lightning flash, caused by the rapid heating and expansion of the adjacent air. Rolling thunder occurs either as a result of the time difference between sounds from the far and near end of a flash, or when mountains, layers of air, or other obstructions caus... Read more
acoustics
acoustics [Gr.,=the facts about hearing], the science of sound , including its production, propagation, and effects. Various branches of acoustics that deal with different aspects of sound and hearing include bioacoustics, physical acoustics, ultrasonics , and architectural acoustics. Unlike ele... Read more
David Colbreth Broderick
David Colbreth Broderick , 1820-59, American politician, b. Washington, D.C. Brought up in New York City, he was active in Tammany Hall before moving to California in 1849. He became equally active in politics there, being a member of the state constitutional convention of 1849. He was elected to th... Read more
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , 1925-, German baritone. Possessed of a sensitive voice capable of a wide variety of range and expression, Fischer-Dieskau is one of the foremost singers of German lieder, being particularly noted for his interpretations of the songs and song cycles of Brahms, Schubert, Sch... Read more
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan , 1941-, American singer and composer, b. Duluth, Minn., as Robert Zimmerman. Dylan learned guitar at the age of 10 and autoharp and harmonica at 15. After a rebellious youth, he moved to New York City in 1960 and in the early years of the decade began playing in a folk style in Greenwich ... Read more
electronic music
electronic music or electro-acoustic music, term for compositions that utilize the capacities of electronic media for creating and altering sounds. Initially, a distinction must be made between the technological development of electronic instruments and the music conceived to utilize the i... Read more
Charles Ginner
Charles Ginner , 1878-1952, English painter. After study in Paris, Ginner settled in London, becoming a founder of the neorealist school. During both world wars he was an official government artist. Among his World War II paintings are several scenes of air raids. ... Read more
Carlton Club
Carlton Club British political and social club (founded 1832). Located in London, it was long the center of the Conservative party organization. Since World War II the club has been primarily social. ... Read more
gremlin
gremlin in American folklore, malicious, airborne supernatural being. Gremlins were first heard of during World War II as creatures responsible for unexplainable mechanical failures and disruptions in aircraft. ... Read more
Isonzo
Isonzo , river, 87 mi (140 km) long, rising in the Julian Alps, NW Slovenia, and flowing S through Slovenia, where it is known as the Soča, then SW through NE Italy before emptying into the Gulf of Trieste. At the entrance to the Venetian plain, the Isonzo valley was the scene of many battles d... Read more

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Regional implications of the Iraq war.
Magazine article from: Foreign Policy in Focus; 3/27/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Bush's vision for the Iraq War was nothing if not expansive...the region. Democracy, the war party believed, would be contagious...until early 2005, when pro-war commentators convinced themselves...Strip. Suddenly, the Iraq War loomed even larger in the historical sweep of post-World ... Read more
Fighting world hunger: U.S. food aid policy and the food for peace program.
Magazine article from: AgExporter; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...acute hunger as a result of war, civil strife or natural...fight hunger throughout the world and significant success...particular country or region. The reverberations of food scarcity in one...food markets around the world. The U.S. government designates...needy countries around the world. ... Read more
Sidewalk Symphony.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: MBR Bookwatch; 9/1/2007; ; 111 words ; ...McLaughlin Xlibris Corporation International Plaza II, Suite 340, Philadelphia, PA 19113 9781425750183...com Sidewalk Symphony is a novel about the reverberations of forgiveness and love. In 1918, when World War One bloodies Europe, a twelve-year-old girl... Read more
IMF: Case of a Dead Theory Walking.
Magazine article from: Foreign Policy in Focus; 4/17/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...has eased, but its reverberations have enmeshed the...toward the end of WW II, the World Bank was to provide...first three post-war decades, the IMF...in the developing world and opening developing...throughout the developing world, thus moving from... Read more
Union station spiritual.(On Being Southern)
Magazine article from: Mississippi Magazine; 3/1/2005; ; 646 words ; ...evokes for many Mississippians reverberations of Meridian's old Union Station...with green, to New Orleans during World War II. It was packed with khaki-clad...poignant times came later, after the war, in lonely nocturnal intervals... Read more
Mixed messages on force abound during papal trip.
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 10/5/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...defense. As Pope John Paul II began a late September journey...front line of America's new war against terrorism, one towering...Perhaps the new kind of war American officials are now...what seemed a ringing anti-war plea. We must not let what...work together to build a world without ... Read more
The middle generation: the lives and poetry of Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, and Robert Lowell.
Magazine article from: National Review; 3/27/1987; ; 700+ words ; ...poets who began to publish during World War II and were erratic, driven to pathological...chicken can create the same emotional reverberations as the suicide of a father'); misses...observationson Jarrell's poems about a war he never saw and on Lowell's Mad... Read more
2008 Dance Magazine awards.
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 11/1/2008; 700+ words ; ...Her work has had profound reverberations throughout the art world. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Born...Folkwang School, a rare post-World War II link to Ausdruckstanz. At...Symposium. Now, since the world has so much violence in everything... Read more
La vanguardia teatral en Espana (1965-1975): del ritual al juego.(Discurso teorico y puesta en escena en los anos sesenta: la encrujada de los 'realismos')(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...performative modes in the post-World War II era. The scope is impressive...studies of post-Civil War Spanish theatre. Rather...out the international reverberations of the productions he...and its international reverberations--what Cornago Bernal... Read more
Oregon's Mr. Democrat.(Editorials)(Sweetland helped lead the party's resurgence)(Editorial)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 9/15/2006; 540 words ; ...veterans. He was a critic of Japanese internment during World War II, helped solidify Portland's growing African-American...Duncan. Sweetland's death ends an era, but many of its reverberations - including a political system in which both parties... Read more