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the Bowery
the Bowery [Dutch Bouwerie =farm], section of lower Manhattan, New York City. The Bowery, the street that gives the area its name, was once a road to the farm of New Amsterdam Governor Peter Stuyvesant, who is buried at St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, an Episcopal church. The mail route (est. 1673) to...
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Paul Dessau
Paul Dessau , 1894-1979, German conductor and composer. As a conductor he worked (1919-23) in Cologne before moving to Berlin from 1925 until 1933. A fervent socialist, he left Germany for the United States where he collaborated with Bertolt Brecht on such works as Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder ...
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Weber and Fields
Weber and Fields , American comedy team. The partners were Joe Weber (Joseph Maurice Weber), 1867-1942, and Lew Fields (Lewis Maurice Schanfield), 1867-1941, both born in New York City. At the age of eight they were performing together on the Bowery, and shortly afterward they began their profession...
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Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht , 1898-1956, German dramatist and poet, b. Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht. His brilliant wit, his outspoken Marxism, and his revolutionary experiments in the theater have made Brecht a vital and controversial force in modern drama. His early plays, such as Baal (1919) and Drums in...
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Himalayas
Himalayas [Sanskrit,=abode of snow], great Asian mountain system, extending c.1,500 mi (2,410 km) E from the Indus River in Pakistan through India, the Tibet region of China, Nepal, E India, and Bhutan to the southern bend of the Brahmaputra River in SE Tibet. For most of its length, the Himalayas ...
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Western drama
Western drama plays produced in the Western world. This article discusses the development of Western drama in general; for further information see the various national literature articles.
Greek Drama
The Western dramatic tradition has its origins in ancient Greece. The precise evolution ...
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MV
MV, a prefix placed before the name of a ship to indicate that it is a motor (diesel) vessel....
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cairn
cairn pile of stones, usually conical in shape, raised as a landmark or a memorial. In prehistoric times it was usually erected over a burial. A barrow is sometimes called a cairn.
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pinocytosis
pinocytosis A form of endocytosis in which the material enclosed is a liquid and there is no fusion with a lysosome. Pinocytosis may be a means by which macromolecules (e.g. hormones and proteins) are taken into a cell....
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factor
factor in arithmetic, any number that divides a given number evenly, i.e., without any remainder. The factors of 12 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12. Similarly in algebra, any one of the algebraic expressions multiplied by another to form a product is a factor of that product, e.g., a + b and a - b ar...
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