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Kia Motors Corp
Kia Motors Corporation 15-21 Yoido-dongYoungdeungpo-kuSeoul 150-706South Korea82 2 7881114Fax:2 7840746Web site: http://www.kia.co.kr 51 % Owned by HyundaiGroup Founded: 1944Employees: 18,098Sales: $3.9 billion (1997)NAIC: 336111 Automobile Manufacturing Until its merger with Hyundai in 1998,... Read more |
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Syngman Rhee
Syngman Rhee , 1875-1965, Korean statesman, president of the Republic of Korea (1948-60). Early an advocate of Korean independence, he led a demonstration against the Japanese in 1897 and was condemned to life imprisonment but was released (1904) under an amnesty. Rhee went to the United States,... Read more |
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November Group
Novembergruppe. A group of radical left-wing artists formed in Berlin in December 1918; it took its name from after the revolution that had broken out in Germany the previous month, at the end of the First World War, and the professed aim of the Novembergruppe was to help national renewal by means... Read more |
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Diego de Almagro
Diego de Almagro , c.1475-1538, Spanish conquistador, a leader in the conquest of Peru. A partner of Francisco Pizarro , he took part in the first (1524) and second (1526-28) expeditions and in the bloody subjugation of the Incas after 1532. He aided (1534) Benalcázar in thwarting Pedro de... Read more |
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Jedediah Strong Smith
Jedediah Strong Smith 1799-1831, American explorer, one of the greatest of the mountain men , b. near Binghamton, N.Y. Early in 1824, Smith took a party through South Pass , beginning the regular use of that route. He and a few men headed north and into present-day Montana and as far north as the... Read more |
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pirogue
pirogue, or piragua, a seagoing canoe formed out of the trunks of two trees, hollowed out and fastened together, usually of cedar or balsa wood. It was a common form of coastal transport in the Gulf of Mexico and on the west coast of South America during the 16th and 17th centuries and is... Read more |
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AElle
Ælle (d. c.514), founder of the South Saxon kingdom, is said to have landed near Selsey Bill in 477, traditionally with three sons and three ships, driving the Britons back into Andredesweald, a great wood across south-eastern Britain. His next recorded battle, in 485, took place near an... Read more |
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scalawags
scalawags , derogatory term used in the South after the Civil War to describe native white Southerners who joined the Republican party and aided in carrying out the congressional Reconstruction program. A Republican who came from the north was called a carpetbagger .... Read more |
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The Origin of Species
Origin of Species, The. Charles Darwin's book of 1859 setting out the development of new kinds of creatures through natural selection, and inheritance with variability. After 20 years' work on a great tome, Natural Selection, he received in 1858 a letter from A. R. Wallace in Malaysia setting... Read more |
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