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Gail Borden
Gail Borden A pioneer in Texas, Gail Borden (1801-1874) became an inventor whose most notable contributions lay in condensing and preserving foods, particularly milk. Gail Borden was born in Norwich, N.Y., on Nov. 9, 1801. His family moved to Kentucky in 1814. Taught surveying by his father,... Read more |
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev
Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev , 1857-1918, Russian general, chief of staff (1915-17) of Czar Nicholas II . With other officers he urged the czar to abdicate in favor of the czarevich in order to save the dynasty prior to the Russian Revolution. Alekseyev was briefly chief of staff in the... Read more |
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Didymus of Alexandria
Didymus of Alexandria d. c.396, Greek grammarian and theologian, also called Didymus the Blind. His treatise On the Holy Ghost was translated by St. Jerome, who studied briefly with him. Although Didymus had been trusted with teaching theology by St. Athanasius, he was condemned for Origenism by... Read more |
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Aleksey Alekseyevich Brusilov
Aleksey Alekseyevich Brusilov , 1853-1926, Russian general. As a commander in World War I, he won victories in Galicia. In 1916 he organized the Russian offensive against Austria, which relieved the pressure on the Allies. The offensive, successful at first, cost Russia at least a million lives.... Read more |
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encaustic
encaustic painting medium in which the binder for the pigment is wax or wax and resin. Examples of encaustic tomb portraits from Roman Egypt bear witness to the durability of the medium, which is thought to have been widely used in ancient times. Pliny describes the process in which hot liquid... Read more |
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Thomas Fuller
Thomas Fuller 1608-61, English clergyman and author. He was an able preacher and a noted wit. He adhered to the royalist cause during the civil war and the Commonwealth and served briefly as a royal chaplain. He is best known for his posthumously published Worthies of England (1662), an... Read more |
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Libby Prison
Libby Prison a notorious prison of the Civil War in Richmond, Virginia. It was in three relatively new buildings, formerly a chandlery, that were commandeered for prison use following the first battle of Bull Run (1861), owing to the stream of prisoners entering Richmond. More than 50,000 men... Read more |
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Flora Macdonald
Flora Macdonald 1722-90, Scottish Jacobite heroine. She aided Charles Edward Stuart , known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, to escape to France after the defeat of the Jacobites at Culloden Moor in 1746. For smuggling the prince, disguised as a woman, to the Isle of Skye, she was imprisoned briefly in... Read more |
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Giovanni Paisiello
Giovanni Paisiello , 1740-1816, Italian composer. Paisiello served in St. Petersburg at the court of Catherine II from 1776 to 1784. He was also briefly Napoleon's maître de chapelle. Paisiello composed some 100 operas, church music, keyboard concertos, string quartets, and other works. His... Read more |
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Eric Honeybrook Partridge
Eric Honeybrook Partridge 1894-1979, British lexicographer; b. New Zealand. He studied in Australia and at Oxford, taught briefly in England, and founded a small publishing company. For 50 years he devoted himself to the study of English and its correct usage, compiling 16 lexicons on such subjects... Read more |
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briefly
briefly • adverb 1. Henry paused briefly synonyms: momentarily, temporarily, for a moment, fleetingly. 2. briefly, the plot is as follows synonyms: in short, in brief, to make/cut a long story short, in a word, in sum, in a nutshell, in essence. |
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word
...watchword, password, catchword.phrases: in a word in a word, he is madsynonyms: in short, in a nutshell, briefly, to put it briefly, succinctly, concisely.word for word synonyms: verbatim, literal, exact, precise, accurate, close... |
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pop
...stop by; inf. drop in/by.pop out/off just popping out to get a newspapersynonyms: go out quickly/briefly, leave quickly/briefly.pop up snowdrops popping up all over the yard | a new case popped up every few weekssynonyms: appear... |
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short
...inadequate, disappoint, fail, not fulfill expectations; inf. not come up to scratch.in short synonyms: briefly, to put it briefly, in a word, in a nutshell, in essence, to cut a long story short, to come to the point.sell short always... |
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glance
glance • verb 1. glance at the strangersynonyms: look quickly/briefly, take a quick look, cast a brief look, look hurriedly, glimpse, peek, peep; inf. sneak a look. 2. glance through the papersynonyms... |
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mention
mention • verb 1. he only mentioned itsynonyms: allude to, refer to, touch on, speak briefly of, hint at. 2. he mentioned your namesynonyms: say, state, name, cite, quote, call attention to, adduce. 3. don't... |
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obliterate
obliterate • verb 1. I briefly contemplated trying to obliterate the logo with nail polish remover synonyms: erase, eradicate, expunge, efface, wipe out, blot out... |
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temporarily
...meantime, in the meanwhile; provisionally, pro tem; informal for the minute.antonym: permanently. 2. he was temporarily blinded by the light synonyms: briefly, for a short time, momentarily, fleetingly.antonym: permanently. |
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time
...the moment, for the present, in the interim, for the nonce, in/for the meantime, in the meanwhile, for a short time, briefly; temporarily, provisionally, pro tem. from time to time See at times (above). in no time I'll be dressed in no timesynonyms... |
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burn
...the sauce). Sear is also a term used in cooking, where it means to brown the outside of a piece of meat by subjecting it briefly to intense heat to seal in the juices. When it's human flesh that's being seared in surgery, the correct verb is cauterize... |
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Russians briefly leave Georgian village BRIEFLY: TBILISI, Georgia
...International Herald Tribune 12-13-2008 Russians briefly leave Georgian village BRIEFLY: TBILISI, GeorgiaByline: The New York Times Media GroupEdition: 4Section: NEWSRussian forces briefly withdrew from the Georgian village of Perevi near... |
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2 journalists 'very briefly' entered North Korea, one told relatives; Freed...
...Tribune 08-08-2009 2 journalists 'very briefly' entered North Korea, one told relatives...after her release that she had "very briefly" crossed into the Communist country...after her release that she had "very briefly" crossed into the Communist country... |
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Briefly: Science
...International Herald Tribune 04-14-2010 Briefly: ScienceByline: Henry FountainSection: Briefly: ScienceType: NewsThe number of lizard...found on Luzon island in the Philippines. Briefly Science Scientists add huge lizard to list... |
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Briefly: The Metro Area.(METRO)(BRIEFLY: THE METRO AREA)(Bob...
...until she completed a driver-improvement course. - Meredith Somers DISTRICT Public school briefly evacuated A public school in Northwest was briefly evacuated Wednesday after a suspicious white powder was discovered in a letter, but police... |
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Briefly: Middle East
...International Herald Tribune 05-05-2009 Briefly: Middle EastByline: The New York Times...CAIRO: Journalist on hunger strike briefly hospitalized in Iran The American journalist...to protest her imprisonment in Iran was briefly hospitalized after she intensified her... |
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Anti-Koran film posted on Internet briefly BRIEFLY: AMSTERDAM
...03-28-2008 Anti-Koran film posted on Internet briefly BRIEFLY: AMSTERDAMByline: ReutersEdition: 4Section: NEWSThe...Freedom Party's Web site but could be watched only briefly before the Web site said it was not available for technical... |
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Nusseibeh held briefly after police ban Id al-Fitr reception
...18-2001 Headline: Nusseibeh held briefly after police ban Id al-Fitr receptionByline...Authority representative in Jerusalem, was briefly detained by the police yesterday morning...reporters after his release. Among those briefly detained were Jawad Boulous, the attorney... |
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Bedouins briefly abduct 10 peacekeepers in Egypt.
...tribesmen in the Sinai peninsula on Monday briefly detained 10 Fijians from the Multinational...tribesmen in the Sinai peninsula on Monday briefly detained 10 Fijians from the Multinational...Israel peace treaty. In March, Bedouins briefly abducted two Brazilian women tourists... |
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People: New reports say doctors briefly revived Michael Jackson the day he died
Michael Jackson's heart was briefly resuscitated twice by doctors the day...Times reported that Jackson's heart beat briefly when he was taken from his rented Holmby...able to restart Michael Jackson's heart briefly. TMZ also reported that Murray was able... |
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THIEVES BRIEFLY STEAL CAR HOLDING 9-YEAR-OLD BOY AUTHORITIES DO NOT BELIEVE...
...year-old boy was in the car when it was briefly stolen. During the incident at about...incident Monday, the man whose car was briefly stolen left his keys in the car 's ignition...Darbo Drive, so he called police and briefly tried to follow them in his car, police... |
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