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Europa
Europa yoorō´pe , in astronomy, one of the 39 known moons, or natural satellites, of Jupiter . Magnetic-field data collected by the space probe Galileo in 2002 strongly indicates a liquid-water ocean—similar to oceans found on Earth and possibly capable of supporting simple life... Read more |
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Claudia
Claudia (1941), a comedy by Rose Franken. [Booth Theatre, 453 perf.] David Naughton ( Donald Cook) is a successful architect living on a colonial farm he has lovingly restored. He is more or less happily married, although he is not certain about this matter since his beautiful wife Claudia (... Read more |
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William of Auvergne
WILLIAM OF AUVERGNEalso known as Guilielmus Arvernus or Alvernus (b. Aurillac, Auvergne[now Cantal], France, between 1180 and 1190; d. Paris, France, 30 March 1249), philosophy, theology.After a brief teaching career at Paris, where he was made a master of theology in 1223, William was named... Read more |
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Maya Deren
Maya Deren Maya Deren (1917-1961) wore many hats in her brief lifetime: avant-garde filmmaker, documentarian, author, and Voudoun priestess, to name a few. Her influence, especially in independent film, has not only endured but also increased in the decades following her death. Deren was a... Read more |
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Nematomorpha
Nematomorpha , small (about 230 species) phylum of pseudocoelomates ; the horsehair worms . Most are very slender, elongated creatures found in ponds and streams, whose larvae live as parasites in arthropods. They emerge as adults for a brief time, then mate and die. A small number are planktonic... Read more |
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Hellenistic civilization
Hellenistic civilization The conquests of Alexander the Great spread Hellenism immediately over the Middle East and far into Asia. After his death in 323 BC, the influence of Greek civilization continued to expand over the Mediterranean world and W Asia. The wars of the Diadochi marked, it is... Read more |
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Mopti
Mopti, Mali Lying on three islands at the confluence of the Niger and Bani Rivers, the name means ‘Little Contact’ from the Mande mi ‘contact’ and piti ‘little’ or ‘unimportant’. Originally a small fishing village, it was usually no more than... Read more |
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impressionism
impressionism in painting, late-19th-century French school that was generally characterized by the attempt to depict transitory visual impressions, often painted directly from nature, and by the use of pure, broken color to achieve brilliance and luminosity. It was loosely structured in that many... Read more |
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Jean Nicolet
NICOLET, EXPLORATIONS OF NICOLET, EXPLORATIONS OF. Jean Nicolet de Belleborne became an interpreter, clerk, and trader in New France, as well as an explorer. The son of a royal postal messenger, he was born about 1598 near Cherbourg, Normandy. His colonial career seems to have begun in earnest in... Read more |
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Fyodor Tyutchev
TYUTCHEV, FYODOR IVANOVICH (1803–1873), Russian poet. Widely considered one of the greatest poets in world literature, Tyutchev can be classified as a late romantic, but, like other persons of surpassing genius, he was strikingly unique. Tyutchev's literary legacy consists of some three... Read more |
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Germophobic NASA to smash Galileo probe into Jupiter for fear of...
...spacecraft into Jupiter next weekend...its enormous oceans. Europa...toehold on Europa, perhaps...promise of Europa convinced...it to hit Europa or another...orbiter into the moon. In 1994...as ... |
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Promises lie under the sea
...the world's high seas...the world's oceans and...re also learning that our planet...there are oceans. The National...only in the ocean's deeper realms...the planet Jupiter's ... |
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Search for Alien Life
...bottom of the ocean, near high...for example on Jupiter's moon Europa. We'll talk...meteorite, and how learning more about the...planets and other moons where we might...much, it's very good ... |
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To preserve a moon, orbiter will hit Jupiter
...spacecraft into Jupiter to make sure...the planet's moon Europa with bacteria...After Galileo's orbit carries...doesn't hit Europa and spill bacteria...its enormous oceans. Europa, a...but ... |
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NASA fears contamination, to plunge probe into Jupiter
...spacecraft into Jupiter next weekend...its enormous oceans. Europa...toehold on Europa, perhaps...promise of Europa convinced...it to hit Europa or another...orbiter into the moon. In 1994...as ... |
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Jupiter's Two-Faced Moon, Ganymede, Falling Into Line.(impact of water on its...
...ocean within Jupiter's giant moon Ganymede was...they were learning about how...Callisto and Europa, probably...Ganymede's is far below...life than Europa's, however...of a ... |
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NASA Robot Completes Test Drive of Exploration Capabilities
...future mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, believed to contain a liquid water ocean. The Deep Phreatic...depths of Mexico's mysterious Sistema...resemble those on Europa," said John Rummel...Washington. "We're ... |
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SCIENCE BEAT
...of an ice-covered ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa, NASA is planning...for water and life. Europa Orbiter, scheduled...the composition of Europa's wrinkled surface...guessed it) Iceland. ... |
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Living large in microscopic nooks: newly discovered deep-sea microbes...
...microbes, it's the place to...altering Earth's crust? * Were...more, we are learning how life on...near Earth's surface, so...influence on ocean chemistry over...seawater help the oceans absorb carbon...covered ... |
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Life on other planets? You bet, says SETI pioneer.(Local)
...extraterrestrial oceans, far away...galaxy, it's being taken...at Seattle's Science Fiction...man on the moon. "While there...what we're learning through telescopes...said. "It's a heyday for...of oceans on ... |