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SQL
SQL Databases are designed, built, and populated with data for a specific purpose and for an intended group of users. Databases are built for many different users, including banks, hospitals, high schools, government agencies, and manufacturing companies. The data ... Read more |
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Sholem Aleichem
Sholem Aleichem [Heb.=Peace be upon you!], pseud. of Sholem Rabinowitz , 1859-1916, Yiddish author, b. Russia. One of the great Yiddish writers, he is best known for his humorous tales of life among the poverty-ridden and oppressed Russian Jews of the late 19th and early 20th cent. His works... Read more |
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Clare Boothe Luce
Clare Boothe Luce 1903-87, American playwright and diplomat, whose name originally was Anne Clare Boothe, b. New York City. Witty, outspoken, and an articulate political conservative, Luce began her career writing for Vogue and Vanity Fair in 1930, soon becoming managing editor of the latter... Read more |
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Edward Durell Stone
Edward Durell Stone 1902-78, American architect, b. Fayetteville, Ark. Stone's first major work, designed in the starkly functional International style in collaboration with Philip L. Goodwin, was the Museum of Modern Art, New York City (1937-39). Stone, whose style became more ornate and... Read more |
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Australasia
Australasia , islands of the South Pacific, including Australia , New Zealand , New Guinea , and adjacent islands. The term is sometimes used to include all of Oceania.... Read more |
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Syracuse (United States)
Syracuse , city (1990 pop. 163,860), seat of Onondaga co., central N.Y., on Onondaga Lake and the Erie Canal; settled c.1788, inc. as a city 1848. It is a port of entry, and its many manufactures include electrical and electronic equipment, automobile and aircraft parts, chinaware, shoes,... Read more |
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Edie Brickell
Edie BrickellSinger, songwriter Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians can claim one of the most remarkable pop-rock success stories. In their early days in Dallas's downtown art scene they attracted a faithful core of local fans. That was 1985; one year later, word of their music had reached a few... Read more |
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Wallace Kirkman Harrison
Wallace Kirkman Harrison 1895-1981, American architect and city planner, b. Worcester, Mass. Harrison designed the Trylon and Perisphere, the structures that came to symbolize the 1939 New York World's Fair. In 1945 he entered into partnership with Max Abramowitz (1908-2004), who was later famed... Read more |
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Paul J Sachs
Paul J. Sachs , 1878-1965, American art teacher and collector, b. New York City. As professor of fine arts at Harvard, Sachs influenced and inspired many art historians and curators during the years of growth in the history of American art museums. His major publications include Drawings in the... Read more |
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Sunderland
Sunderland city (1991 pop. 195,064) and metropolitan district, NE England, at the mouth of the Wear River. The city was established as a shipbuilding center and a coal-shipping port in the 14th cent; shipbuilding ended in the 1980s, and coal mining in the 1990s. Sunderland exports metals and... Read more |
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