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Arbuckle and Keaton The Original Compartment Shorts 19171920review or Arbuckle and Keaton The Original Comparando Shorts 19171920review ?
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Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton (Joseph Francis Keaton), 1895-1966, American movie actor, b. Piqua, Kans. Considered one of the greatest comic actors in film history, Keaton used his considerable acrobatic skills, which he had developed as a child in vaudeville, in many silent comedies in which he portrayed a... Read more |
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Michael Keaton
Keaton, Michael 1951–PERSONALOriginal name, Michael John Douglas; born September 9, 1951, in Coraopolis, PA; father, a civil engineer and surveyor; mother's name Leona Douglas (a homemaker); married Caroline McWilliams (an actress), 1982 (divorced, 1990); children: Sean Willie. Education: Studied... Read more |
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Neckties
Neckties A decorative piece of fabric knotted around the neck has been a part of the clothing of Western men since the seventeenth century, though the exact nature of the necktie has changed frequently over that time. Neckties have been wide or narrow, brightly patterned or somber, depending on the... Read more |
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Ardmore
Ardmore city (1990 pop. 23,079), seat of Carter co., S Okla.; inc. 1898. It is the commercial center of an oil and farm area. Its industries include oil refining, tourism, and the manufacture of electronic equipment, plastics, fabricated metal products, and feeds. Adjacent Lake Murray State Park... Read more |
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Ned
Ned ♂ Short form of Edward, originating in the misdivision of phrases such as mine Ed (compare Nan). It was common in the Middle Ages and up to the 18th century, but in the 19th was almost entirely superseded in the role of short form by Ted. It is now, however, enjoying a modest revival,... Read more |
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Lynn
Lynn ♀ Of uncertain origin: possibly an altered short form of Linda, or a derivative of the French name Line, which originated as a short form of various girls' names ending in this syllable, for example Caroline. The element -lyn(n) has been a productive suffix of English girls' names since... Read more |
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Earth scientists
Berner, Robert A. (1935- ) American geochemist Robert A. Berner's research in sedimentary geochemistry led to the application of mathematical models to describe the physical, chemical, and biological changes that occur in ocean sediment. Berner, a professor of geology and geophysics at Yale... Read more |
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bumpkin
bumpkin, or bumkin, originally a short boom projecting forward one either side of the bows of a square-rigged sailing ship, used to extend the clew of the foresail to windward. It had a block fixed to the outer end through which the tack was rove and hauled aboard. Similarly, it was the name of a... Read more |
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