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Douala
Douala , city (1991 est. pop. 1,604,500), Cameroon, on the Wuori River estuary. Cameroon's largest city and major port, it is a commercial and transportation center handling most of the country's exports (chiefly cocoa and coffee) as well as transit trade from Chad. Douala developed as a center of... Read more |
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Rudy Galindo
Rudy Galindo 1969- American figure skater Rudy Galindo's story is in many ways the classic American rags-to-riches tale of overcoming adversity to triumph in the end. Again and again, Galindo has over-come personal tragedies and professional setbacks that would have defeated many other athletes.... Read more |
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Cameroon
Cameroon , Fr. Cameroun, officially Republic of Cameroon, republic (2005 est. pop. 16,380,000), 183,568 sq mi (475,442 sq km), W central Africa. It is bordered on the southwest by the Gulf of Guinea, on the northwest by Nigeria, on the northeast by Chad, on the southeast by the Central African... Read more |
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Rudi Gernreich
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Colin Campbell 6th earl of Argyll
Argyll, Colin Campbell, 6th earl of [S] (c.1542–84). Campbell succeeded his half-brother in the earldom in 1573. After a quarrel with Regent Morton over certain crown jewels, brought to Argyll by his second wife, the widow of Regent Moray, he seized the young king James at Stirling in 1578... Read more |
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Battle of Inverlochy
Inverlochy, battle of, 1645. Montrose's victory at Aberdeen in September 1644 was but a raid and he was soon on the move again, pursued by superior forces under Argyll himself. When the covenanters retired for the winter, Montrose was persuaded to an insolent incursion into the heart of Campbell... Read more |
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martingale
martingale. 1. The stays, usually of chain, which hold down the ends of the jib-boom and the flying jib-boom against the loading of the head stays just as the bobstay does with the bowsprit. They are taken from the end of each spar down to the cap of the dolphin striker which is supported by... Read more |
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general strike
general strike sympathetic cessation of work by a majority of the workers in all industries of a locality or nation. Such a stoppage is economic if it is for the purpose of redressing some grievance or pressing upon the employer a series of economic demands. It is political if called for the... Read more |
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Raincoat
Raincoat Background Raincoats are jackets made of fabric that is specially treated to repel water. In 1836, Charles Macintosh invented a method for combining rubber with fabric, which was used in the first modern raincoats. Because of his inventions, all raincoats are called... Read more |
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Seventh Heaven
Seventh Heaven (1922), a play by Austin Strong. [Booth Theatre, 704 perf.] Diane ( Helen Menken) is saved from her brutal sister Nana ( Marian Kerby), who would force her into prostitution, by the sympathetic sewer cleaner Chico ( George Gaul). He takes her to his shabby seventh‐floor... Read more |
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