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ileum
ileum In Mammalia, the final part of the small intestine.... Read more |
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George Burns
George Burns Comedian and actor George Burns (1896-1996) is a show business legend. When he died at the age of 100 in 1996, he had spent 90 years as a comic entertainer, making numerous television and film appearances and earning an enduring popularity with his obligatory-cigar-in-hand comedy... Read more |
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Wannsee conference
Wannsee conference, held in the offices of Interpol, of which Reinhard Heydrich was the current chairman, in the Berlin suburb of Grossen-Wannsee on 20 January 1942. It was conducted in great secrecy to settle the concluding programme for the Final Solution which was already under way, Heydrich,... Read more |
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Gastrulation
gastrulation In the embryogenesis of a vertebrate, the next stage after the blastula, in which the three germ layers differentiate to form the triploblastic embryo and the basic body plan of the vertebrate is laid down. During this stage there is a complicated movement of cells from various... Read more |
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climax community
climax community (climax vegetation) The final stage of a plant succession, in which vegetation reaches a state of equilibrium with the environment. The community is self-perpetuating, except that changes may occur very slowly and over a time-scale that is extensive compared with the rapid and... Read more |
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exopterygote
exopterygote Any winged insect showing hemimetabolous development, i.e. the eggs hatch into young (called nymphs) that resemble the adults but lack wings; these develop gradually and externally in a series of stages (instars) until the final moult produces the adult insect. There is no pupal stage... Read more |
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Civitavecchia
Civitavecchia , city (1991 pop. 51,201), in Latium, W central Italy, on the Tyrrhenian Sea. The harbor, favored by Trajan (early 2d cent. AD), is still the chief port of Rome. It also handles traffic for the Terni industrial area and is the main maritime link with Sardinia. Industries produce... Read more |
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lochia
lochia (lok-iă) n. the material eliminated from the uterus through the vagina after the completion of labour. The first discharge consists largely of blood (l. rubra). This is followed by a brownish mixture of blood and mucus (l. serosa), and finally a yellowish or whitish discharge... Read more |
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The Heiress
Heiress, The (1947), a play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz. [Biltmore Theatre, 410 perf.] Dominated by her unloving father, Dr. Austin Sloper ( Basil Rathbone), Catherine Sloper ( Wendy Hiller) is receptive to the courtship of Morris Townsend ( Peter Cookson). But Townsend is a... Read more |
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A lad called Aled; Everyone remembers ALED JONES as the angelic choirboy -...
...When I came off stage, Rory Bremner...and ran off stage.' This summer...at Westminster Abbey. The Queen said...Welsh language TV or squint at...Paula Yates's wedding. He provided the finale for the Hollywood...watched ... |
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The second coming of David Icke; Claiming he's the Son of God (and the...
...being greeted at the gates of Westminster Abbey for the royal wedding flashed up on the giant TV screen on the stage behind him. 'He's got the inverted...of dates across the U.S. and a grand finale at Wembley Arena next October -- to ... |