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Kidderminster Kidderminster
Kidderminster city (1991 pop. 50,385), Worcestershire, W central England. The city had a prosperous cloth trade from the 14th to 18th cent. Kidderminster carpets have been produced since 1735. Associated industries include spinning, dyeing, and metal forging.... Read more
forging forging
forging shaping metal by heating it and then hammering or rolling it. Forging is the method by which metal was first worked when it came into use about 4000 BC in Egypt and Asia. Modern forging is done with a power-driven hammer; Dies are usually used. These are steel blocks hollowed out or... Read more
Yemen Arab Republic Yemen Arab Republic
YEMEN ARAB REPUBLIC The official name of North Yemen from 1962 until its 1990 merger with South Yemen. The emergence of North Yemen as a single political unit in modern times was largely a function of both the reoccupation of the country by the Ottomans in 1849 and the Yemeni resistance... Read more
Adolf Bastian Adolf Bastian
BASTIAN, ADOLF(b. Bremen, 26 June 1826; d. Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, 3 February 1905)ethnography, cultural anthropology, comparative psychology, museums.Though rarely mentioned in the early twenty-first century, Bastian was undoubtedly one of the preeminent German scientists of the nineteenth century... Read more
Marie Le Jars de Gournay Marie Le Jars de Gournay
Marie le Jars de Gournay Marie le Jars de Gournay (1565-1645) was one of Renaissance France's most active literary figures. She served as the posthumous editor for the works of famed essayist Michel de Montaigne, and in her own writings espoused a strongly feminist point of view that made her a... Read more
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Trinovantes Trinovantes
Trinovantes. A British tribe and civitas. The Trinovantes are the first British tribe to be mentioned by a Roman author, appearing in Caesar's account of his invasion of 54 bc. Already at this early date, they seem to have been engaged in a power struggle with the neighbouring tribes to the west who... Read more
Spaniards Spaniards
Spaniards PRONUNCIATION:SPAN-yurds LOCATION:Spain POPULATION:40 million LANGUAGE:Castilian Spanish; Catalan; Galician; Basque RELIGION:Roman Catholicism 1 • INTRODUCTION Spain is the second-largest nation in Europe, after France. It is a land of contrasts and... Read more
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Pet Shop BoysPop group The Pet Shop Boys became world-recognized pop stars in 1986 with the huge success of their debut album Please, which featured the chart-topping dance hits "West End Girls" and "(Opportunities) Let's Make Lots of Money." Since then vocalist Neil Tennant and keyboardist Chris... Read more
William Dodd William Dodd
William Dodd 1729-77, English author. At one time king's chaplain, he ran heavily into debt, forged a bond, and was sentenced to death. Dr. Johnson led a movement to obtain clemency, but Dodd was executed. His best-known work is The Beauties of Shakespeare (1752).... Read more

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