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sweepstakes
sweepstakes contest or race, usually a horse race, on which a lottery is run. Prizes are awarded to the holders of winning tickets. In the case of a horse race, the draw is made from the names of all the horses entered in the race and vast numbers of blanks. Thus most ticket holders draw blanks,... Read more |
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lottery
lottery scheme for distributing prizes by lot or other method of chance selection to persons who have paid for the opportunity to win. The term is not applicable when lots are drawn without payment by the interested parties to determine some matter, e.g., the distribution of property among heirs.... Read more |
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horse racing
horse racing trials of speed involving two or more horses. It includes races among harnessed horses with one of two particular gaits, among saddled Thoroughbreds (or, less frequently, quarterhorses) on a flat track, or among saddled horses over a turf course with obstacles to be jumped... Read more |
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sweepstakes dispersal route
sweepstakes dispersal route A term coined by G. G. Simpson in 1940 to describe a possible route of faunal interchange which is unlikely to be used by most animals, but which will, by chance, be used by some. It requires a major barrier that is occasionally crossed. Which groups cross and when they... Read more |
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vicariance biogeography
vicariance biogeography A school of biogeographical thought, derived from Croizat's panbiogeography. Supporters of this school maintain that the distribution of organisms depends on their normal means of dispersal; e.g., disjunctions are explicable in terms of new barriers (rivers, rises in... Read more |
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Jackie Gleason
GLEASON, JACKIE 1916-1987 C OMEDIAN ANDACTOR Meteoric Rise Jackie Gleason enjoyed a meteoric rise in television during the early 1950s. From humble beginnings in Brooklyn, New York, Gleason worked his way to success through all kinds of show business jobs—at... Read more |
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Winter
winter the coldest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from December to February and in the southern hemisphere from June to August. In figurative and allusive usage, winter can stand for old age, or a time or state of affliction or distress. The word is recorded from Old English, and is... Read more |
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Linkin Park
Linkin Park Rock group For the Record… Began as Xero Stayed Determined Found Huge Success with Hybrid Theory Released Remix Album Measured Up with Meteora Selected discography Sources Within one year Linkin Park went from a little-known Los Angeles group with no respect and no... Read more |
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Bette Midler
Bette Midler Singer In her early years she was known as "The Divine Miss M.," a campy, raucous vocalist at home in many forms of jazz, swing, and pop. Since then Bette Midler has become a respected film star and a spokesperson for research into acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), an illness... Read more |
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oenach
óenach, a periodic assembly of the population of a tuath, or group of tuatha, for horse racing and athletic contests. Óenaig apparently originated as funeral games, a number of the traditional sites being associated with mythical burials. In Old Irish law tracts the presiding king uses... Read more |
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