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watch
watch small, portable timepiece usually designed to be worn on the person. Other kinds of timepieces are generally referred to as clocks . At one time it was generally believed that the first watches were made in Nuremburg, Germany, c.1500. However, there is now evidence that watches may have... Read more |
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Hanover Direct Inc
Hanover Direct, Inc. 1500 Harbor BoulevardWeehawken, New Jersey 07087U.S.A.Telephone: (201) 863-7300Fax: (201) 392-5009Web site: http://www.hanoverdirect.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1898 as Horn & Hardart Baking Co.Employees: 3,000Sales: $549.85 million (1999)Stock Exchanges:... Read more |
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watch and ward
watch and ward was an attempt at a more effective policing system, which started in 1233 with a specific incident and became firmly established. After disturbances, Henry III ordered all vills (townships) to arrange guards at night and apprehend suspicious persons. The instructions were repeated... Read more |
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The Sharper Image Corp
The Sharper Image Corporation 650 Davis StreetSan Francisco, California 94111U.S.A.Telephone: (415) 445-6000Toll Free: (800) 344-5555Fax: (415) 445-1588Web site: http://www.sharperimage.com Public Company Incorporated: 1978Employees: 1,600Sales: $523.3 million (2003)Stock Exchanges: NASDAQTicker... Read more |
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Collecting
Collections and Hobbies In almost all cultures and societies, children have collected a broad spectrum of items. Although the activity seems to be universal, very little has been written on this subject. And even though collecting has played an important part in many individuals' lives, it is... Read more |
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Tradition
TRADITION. The basic sense of the term tradition remains quite close to its etymological roots. The Latin noun traditio describes the handing over of an item or an idea, while the English tradition refers to a social or cultural institution that is handed down from the past. This much seems... Read more |
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Reticule
Reticule By the last decade of the eighteenth century, women's dresses had changed from heavy, multilayered gowns made of thick fabric to flimsy, lightweight dresses too delicate to hold pockets. At this time reticules, or handbags, became essential for carrying necessities. The first bags were... Read more |
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Vatican Library
Vatican Library in Rome, founded in the 4th cent. but dormant until given new life in the 15th cent. by Pope Nicholas V. It is the oldest public library in Europe and one of the chief libraries of the world. It is constituted primarily as a manuscript library. The first major librarian, Platina... Read more |
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Samuel Houston
Samuel Houston 1793-1863, American frontier hero and statesman of Texas, b. near Lexington, Va. Early Life He moved (c.1806) with his family to Tennessee and lived much of his youth with the Cherokee , by whom he was adopted. Serving (1814) in the Creek campaign under Andrew Jackson, he was... Read more |
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Topical antibiotics
Antibiotics, topical Definition Topical antibiotics are medicines applied to the skin to kill bacteria. Description Some topical antibiotics are available without a prescription and are sold in many forms, including creams, ointments, powders, and sprays. Some widely used topical antibiotics are... Read more |
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murder
...food, and may fight, wound, or very occasionally kill...the biggest question of all — who did it? Murder...malice aforethought. All legal codes classify...sequence of events leading up to death, while forensic...fibres, hairs, weapons, ... |
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collagen
...tendons; the skin; and all the sheaths, partitions...frameworks which abound in all organs and tissues. The...illustrated if you pinch up the skin on the back...living cells present in all connective tissue, so named...separately assembled, and then ... |
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hernia
...far more common and making up 98% of all groin hernias. Inguinal...lump in the groin, felt all the time or only when straining...disappear with lying down. Not all hernias are easily felt, however...14 bc) showed a large wound in the groin, ... |
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Prisoners of War
...both sides were swamped with POWs.In all, there were some 220,000 Confederate POWs...the war, just 4,120 American soldiers wound up in German POW camps. U.S. diplomats...German camps, most of them from previous wounds.By contrast, Wor |
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medicine
...A striking feature of warfare up to 1939 is that, with the exception...malaria) and 45 per thousand from wounds. But in all theatres the incidence of most diseases...service personnel died as a result of wounds sustained in battle than from sickness... |
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genetics, human
...Proteins are made up of 20 different amino...four bases that make up each strand of the DNA...throughout almost all of the animal kingdom...pairs become closely wound round each other...complete sequence of all the bases that make ... |
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Patton, General George S.
...offensive spirit was summed up in his method of attack...armoured thrust and then wound the campaign up by arriving in...strapped to his hips were all part of this posturing, as was...perfectionist. Most remarkable of all, he achieved his ... |
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Ukraine
...Russian Glory” has been, in all truth and in many costly ways, first of all a Ukrainian war...No single...European country has suffered deeper wounds to its cities, its industry...Government which had been set up by the Germans to control what... |
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Connolly, James
...was invited to Dublin to set up the Irish Socialist Republican...unsuccessful strike of 1911, he set up the Irish Textile Workers' Union...war, in which the workers on all sides would be the losers, Connolly...Connolly sustained leg wounds in the fighting ... |
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East India Company
...profit from them, but from 1612 onwards all voyages were made by the company...administration, and in 1873 the company was wound up. See also Adams, William.Dutch...in 1602 to regulate and amalgamate all the various Dutch trading ventures... |
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wind
...wind·ed / ˈwīndid/ or wound / wound/ ) poetic/lit...or the four winds) in all directions: my little flock...key or handle: he wound up the clock every Saturday...saying wind something up (sense 2): he wound ... |
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shoot
...1. [tr.] kill or wound (a person or animal...the portages that skirt all nine shoots of whitewater...t pay the rent. shoot up 1. (esp. of a child...she hit thirteen she shot up to a startling 5 foot 9...shoot someone/something up (sense 2) ... |
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magnetic tape cartridge
...the file reel on which the tape is wound and the take-up reel, and some the file reel only...cartridges are similar but smaller. All these cartridges are used mainly on...that it gives full protection when wound onto the reel. |
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skin
...reviews, and attitude all wrapped up in the skin of a catalog...archaic cover with skin: the wound was skinned, but the strength...intr.] (of a wound) form new skin: the hole in...he still believes that all women are goddesses under... |
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Cornwall
...the Lizard. Back home, it had taken all Brunel's genius to bridge the Tamar at Saltash...the court itself was only formally wound up in the mid‐19th cent. By the...of 1832 which disfranchised almost all of them. But great houses, Lanhydrock... |
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Jesuits
...Jesuits were accused of undue pliability in their zeal to proselytize and the order was wound up by Pope Clement XIV in 1773 after France, Spain, and Portugal had all moved against it. Though reconstituted in 1814 by Pope Pius VII, the circumstances... |
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Somalia
...trust territory. In the run-up to independence, elections...Ethiopia instead. Nursing its wounds from military defeat, it improved...economic planning, in which all land had been nationalized...humanitarian organizations or the UN) all but impossible. |
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vitamin C
...deficiency results in impaired healing of wounds. The requirement to prevent scurvy is...45 mg/d (EU); 90 mg/d (USA). All these differing figures can be justified...evidence of any adverse effects at intakes up to 4000 mg/d.Losses from foods can... |
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pump
...should bring the level up. ∎ [intr.] move in...blood was pumping from a wound in his shoulder. ∎ fill...something): he pumped all his savings into building...something) vigorously up and down: we had to pump...intr.] move vigorously up and ... |
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DNA
...deoxyribonucleic acid) n. the genetic material of nearly all living organisms, which controls heredity and is...DNA is a nucleic acid composed of two strands made up of units called nucleotides, wound around each other into a double helix. The DNA molecule... |
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cut
...pierce, penetrate, wound, injure; scratch, graze...synonyms: chop, cut up, slice, dice, cube...with the unkindest cut of all synonyms: insult, slight...informal die, give up the ghost, conk out. 2. cut out all the diseased wood synonyms... |
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scratch
...lacerate, bark, chafe; wound; Medicine excoriate. 3...line, score. phrase: up to scratch my housekeeper's work is nearly always up to scratchsynonyms: good enough, up to the mark, up to standard...passable, sufficient, all ... |
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clean
...adjective 1. keep the wound clean synonyms: washed...they're going to pin all of this on Kerrysynonyms: tell the truth, tell all, make a clean breast of it; confess, own up, admit guilt, admit...sins; informal fess up. |
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add
...reckon, tally; dated cast up.antonym: subtract. 3. the subsidies added up to $1,700 synonyms: amount...equal, number. 4. it all adds up to a deepening crisis synonyms...flames of, rub salt on the wound of. 6. she added that she... |
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burn
...6. the energy they burn up synonyms: consume, use up, expend, go/get through, eat up; dissipate.antonym: conserve...even singe your eyebrows. All of these verbs mean to injure...the doctor cauterized the wound to ward off infection). |
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Borders Group Issues Further Detail On All Wound Up Business.
...the attached historical data on its All Wound Up interactive toy stores. The data...s business segments, excluding All Wound Up, is solid. All Wound Up...06 $0.08 ... |
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Borders(R) Gets 'All Wound Up'.
...BGP) today announced it will "crank up" its mall-based retail business with the acquisition of All Wound Up, a high-growth seasonal retailer...novelty merchandise with 90 locations. All Wound Up will be ... |
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All wound up: mechanical watches are enjoying a tremendous resurgence and, as...
...and come back later to a fully wound timepiece and the correct time...and even requiring servicing. All watches are not the same, however...winder. Some watches can only be wound in one direction, so the winder...Watches should also never be over wound, and ... |
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Director has three separate companies wound-up in less than 12 months.
...and Co Ltd, which was wound up last year after an...and OPINW Limited were wound up in the High Court on...2009. The companies were wound up on 14 October 2009...S2 4LT. It was wound up on ... |
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Borders Group Inc. (NYSE: BGP).(planning for its All Wound Up stores)(Brief...
...Group Inc. executives warned Friday they will re-evaluate the future of the company's All Wound Up toy chain after Christmas. Poor earnings at All Wound Up's 162 stores, on top of losses at the 890-store Waldenbooks chain ... |
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Julia's wound up by her work; CAREER: Artist surrounds herself in blood,...
...bullet and knife wounds, together with...gruesome injuries are all Julia's own work...School, uses make-up to create the wound illusions for trainee...camouflage make-up artist. And her...people will find it all very ... |
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International property company wound up.
...International property company wound up(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...property market has been wound up following a DTI investigation...that investors could build up a multi-million pound international...Lincolnshire, PE9 1PG. ... |
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Julia's wound up by her work ; CAREER: Artist surrounds herself in blood,...
...bullet and knife wounds, together with...gruesome injuries are all Julia's own...uses make-up to create the wound illusions for...camouflage make-up artist. And her...people will find it all very strange...I recreate ... |
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Public awareness magazine publishers wound up.
...awareness magazine publishers wound up(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...that claimed to have signed up businesses to advertisements...the home have been wound up in the High Court following...Starlight Media (UK) Ltd all ... |
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Holiday company wound up after DTI investigation.
...Government: Holiday company wound up after DTI investigation...exclusive holidays has been wound up following a DTI investigation...Somerville Leisure plc was wound up by the High Court on 19 September...director at the ... |
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