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Jean Paul Getty
Jean Paul Getty 1892-1976, American business executive, one of the richest men in the world during his life, b. Minneapolis, Minn. He inherited his father's oil business, George F. Getty, Inc., becoming its president and general manager in 1930. When it was reorganized (1956) as the Getty Oil Compa...
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Salisbury
Salisbury 1 City (1990 pop. 20,592), seat of Wicomico co., Md., on the Eastern Shore, at the head of the Wicomico River; settled 1732, inc. 1872. Poultry raising and processing is the major industry. Clothing, machinery, and boats are manufactured. The city is also a trade center for the Eastern ...
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guide dog
guide dog a dog trained to lead a blind person. The first school for training such dogs was established by the German government after World War I for the benefit of blinded veterans. Schools now exist in several European countries and the United States, where the pioneer Seeing Eye, Inc., founded ...
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atomic mass unit
atomic mass unit or amu, in chemistry and physics, unit defined as exactly 1/12 the mass of an atom of carbon-12, the isotope of carbon with six protons and six neutrons in its nucleus. One amu is equal to approximately 1.66 × 10 -24 grams.
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Buchenwald
Buchenwald , village, Thuringia, S central Germany, in the Buchenwald forest, near Weimar. It was the site of a large concentration camp established by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime in 1937. It held approximately 20,000 prisoners during World War II.
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centimeter
centimeter , abbr. cm, unit of length equal to 0.01 meter , the basic unit of length in the metric system . The centimeter is the unit of length in the cgs system . It is approximately equal to 0.39 inch, or 1 inch equals about 2.54 centimeters. See weights and measures .
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milk of magnesia
milk of magnesia common name for the chemical compound magnesium hydroxide, Mg(OH) 2 . The viscous, white, mildly alkaline mixture that is used medicinally as an antacid and laxative is a suspension of approximately 8% magnesium hydroxide in water.
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heart disease
heart disease any of several abnormalities of the heart and its function in maintaining blood circulation. Heart disease is the cause of approximately half the deaths in the United States each year. Among the most common causes of heart disease are degenerative changes in the coronary blood vessels...
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Geologic Timescale
Geologic Timescale
Geologic Timescale
Era
Period
Epoch
Approximate duration (millions of years)
Approximate number of years ago (millions of years)
Not an era but the time preceding the Cambrian.
Cenozoic
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Angus
Angus , council area (1993 est. pop. 111,020), 842 sq mi (2,181 sq km), and former county, NE Scotland. Under the Local Government Act of 1973, the county of Angus became part of the Tayside region in 1975. In the local government reorganization of 1996, Tayside was dissolved and the council area of...
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