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Margaret Lucas Cavendish
CAVENDISH, MARGARET(1623?–1673) Margaret Cavendish was born into the Lucasses, a family of English gentry. She does not seem to have had an education that was in any way remarkable for a young woman of her time. Indeed, she reports that while she had the usual tutors, her mother "cared not... Read more |
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Septennial Act
Septennial Act, 1716. This Act prolonged the life of Parliament from a maximum of three years (as the 1694 Triennial Act required) to seven years. Its pretext was the Jacobite uprising in 1715. But by delaying the next election until 1722 the new Whig ministers succeeded in evading electoral... Read more |
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Peripatetics
Peripatetics [Gr.,=walking about; from Aristotle's manner in teaching], the followers of Aristotle. Theophrastus , friend of Aristotle and cofounder with him of the Peripatetic school of philosophy, succeeded him as its head (323 BC) and did much to bring it into favor. Strato of Lampsacus was the... Read more |
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Moldovans
Moldovans ETHNONYM: Moldavians Orientation Identification. Moldova, covering about 32,500 square kilometers, was geographically the next to the smallest of the fifteen republics of the former USSR. In this article, "Moldavia," the former name of the republic, will be used when... Read more |
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Reason
REASON REASON. For many in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, reason was understood as "right reason." It was a human faculty, divinely founded, that uncovered the world by revealing it, because it was part of the world. Reason was an ontological property of a divinely ordered... Read more |
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Thyroiditis
Thyroiditis Definition Thyroiditis is inflammation of the thyroid gland, a butterfly-shaped organ next to the windpipe. Description The thyroid is the largest gland in the neck. It produces, secretes, and stores thyroxine (T4), a hormone that influences the metabolism of just about every body... Read more |
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Richard Hughes
Richard Hughes 1900-1976, English novelist. After graduating from Oxford in 1922, he helped found the Portmadoc Players and was for a time vice president of the Welsh National Theatre. In addition, he wrote several plays, notably The Sisters' Tragedy (1922). Hughes was best known for his first... Read more |
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Francis Drake
Drake, Sir Francis (c.1543–96), born at Crowndale, near Tavistock, Devon, though the date of his birth is uncertain. Nor is anything known about his early years beyond the assumption that, after his father became a preacher at Chatham, he served his apprenticeship in the Thames coastal... Read more |
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring In 1955 Rachel Carson was at the peak of her profession as a popular writer of science books about the sea. Under the Sea Wind(published in 1941), The Sea Around Us(1951), and The Edge of the Sea(1955) were all best-sellers, and they catapulted... Read more |
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Grace Murray Hopper
HOPPER, GRACE MURRAY(b. New York, New York, 9 December 1906, d. Washington, D.C., 1 January 1992),computer sciences, programming languages, COBOL.An admiral who never went to sea, Hopper owed her success in the U.S. Navy, as in civilian life, to her mastery of computers and computing. Entering the... Read more |
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Porter, Katherine Anne
...about a girl's love for a soldier...about the voyage of life and, according to the author, the way in which “evil is...eve of Hitler's accession—as...days of 1931. Her life work as a creator...Wrong, about her protests ... |
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Styron, William (Clark)
...revealing the tragic life and suicide of...finally violent, lives of some drifting...relations. Styron's next novel, The Confessions...stirring strong protests, mainly from black critics, of the way in which he ... |
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Boulez, Pierre
...them to N. and S. Amer. and European cities during next 10 years. In 1953, with Barrault's help, founded...connection with Paris life as a protest over a ministerial...Fr. Govt.'s research institute...declaimed in many ... |
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Postmodern protests: why modern marches matter only to those who march.
...for women's suffrage, a...of a public protest was enough to...granddaddy of all protests, the March...Act of 1965. Protests and marches...and into the next few decades...the use of protest marches as ... |
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Do Street Protests Still Work?
...Do Street Protests Still Work...Soundbite of protest) Unidentified...of the U.S.-led invasion...there were protests twice the...the power of protests past, like...serve? Our next guest is currently...the state of ... |
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Why protests are among the trickiest things to cover, or not.(News)(DuPage...
...a very public way? Heck, all you...talking about the protests that have gone...t seem there's a lot new to report...object of the protests. Several years...abortion/pro-life group. Sometime...there was a protest in which the ... |
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Beirutis put little faith in protest as means of ending Israeli war on Gaza.
...beyond 900 lives, many of them...there been protests? Protests of 1.5 million...and let him protest." Regarding global protests, he said...like Gaza's situation is...focus on the next ... |
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They protest too much Strong-arm tactics make martyrs of activists
...projects under way in Scotland...legitimacy to the protest. Construction...popular focus for protest on the part of...legitimate, peaceful protest is one of the...legitimacy of the M77 protests. Such protests...against ... |
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American U. students protest to support uprising in Tibet
...violence in any way, and the Chinese...most of the protests in Tibet are not...said.Recent protests are connected...The goal of the protests is to increase...Tibet plan to protest the passage of...rejects China's ... |
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SHAKESPEARE WINTER OF DISCONTENT; Bard themed protest planned for...
...live in. "Life was never meant...created that way by the greed of others." The protest follows on from an Occupy protest camp at the...in Spain as protests against evictions...homes. Other protests have been held in New ... |
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Protest culture different today than in past at U. Nebraska
...bringing their protests to the University...controversial protests on campus, one...students during a protest at Kent State...published the next day.At 10 p...place, and by the next morning, the...Council on Student Life and ... |
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If I was inventing a protest movement, I wouldn't start here
...change. Student protests have been core...Wednesday's march can be considered...of that day's political discourse...focused on Labour's pre-election...reintroducing fees as a way of resuscitating...the time they next cast ... |
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Mini-Protest of Robb Seen as Hurting Wilder
...the effect of the protest on the former governor's support from black...Douglas Wilder's hopes to become the nation's first elected black governor next year. Wilder supported...they worked their way to the podium in...but ... |
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