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motel
motel public lodging establishment for automobile travelers. Motels have traditionally differed from hotels in that the former have facilities for free parking on the premises, are seldom more than three stories high, and offer occupants direct access to rooms without having to pass through a... Read more |
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nudism
nudism or naturism, practice of going without clothing in social settings, generally in mixed gender groups and for purposes of good health or personal comfort. Governed by a strict set of rules, the practice of nudism is purposely nonerotic and nonsexual. As a social and philosophical... Read more |
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Camden
Camden city (1990 pop. 87,492), seat of Camden co., W N.J., a port on the Delaware River opposite Philadelphia, settled 1681, inc. 1828. The opening of the Camden and Amboy RR to New York in 1834 spurred the city's growth as a commercial, shipbuilding, and manufacturing center. In 1858, Richard... Read more |
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Perth
Perth city (1991 pop. 1,018,702), capital of Western Australia, SW Australia, on the Swan River estuary. Fremantle is Perth's port. Perth is a communications and transportation center and the state's financial, commercial, and cultural hub. The suburbs of Fremantle, Kwinana, and Welshpool have... Read more |
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goes
goes he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing involving oneself in debt is likely to lead to unhappiness; proverbial saying, late 15th century.what goes around, comes around often used as a comment on someone becoming subject to what they have visited on others. This modern saying (of US origin)... Read more |
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luge
luge , a type of small sled on which one or two persons, lying face up, slide feet first down snowy hillsides or down steeply banked, curving, iced chutes similar to those used in bobsledding . Steering is accomplished by shifting weight, pulling straps attached to the runners, or using the feet.... Read more |
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J B Priestley
J. B. Priestley (John Boynton Priestley), 1894-1984, English author. An extraordinarily prolific writer, Priestley worked in a variety of genres. He first wrote literary criticism as a student at Cambridge, thereafter producing such celebrated volumes as The English Novel (1927) and Literature... Read more |
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Olathe
Olathe , city (1990 pop. 63,352), seat of Johnson co., NE Kans., suburb of Kansas City; inc. 1858. In an area of livestock farms, Olathe grew markedly in the late 20th cent. Kansas State School for the Deaf and MidAmerica Nazarene Univ. are located there. The city's name is derived from the Shawnee... Read more |
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Jos
Jos , city (1991 est. pop. 182,000), central Nigeria, on the Jos Plateau. It is a mining center for tin ore, which is processed in the city, and a collection point for hides and skins and for market-garden produce to be sent to Lagos. It is also a resort. Jos was developed in the early 20th cent. by... Read more |
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Ernst Juenger
Ernst Jünger The German author Ernst Jünger (born 1895) was one of the most original and influential German writers and intellectuals of the 20th century. Ernst Jünger was born on March 29, 1895, in Heidelberg, the son of a druggist. At the age of 16 he ran away from school... Read more |
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Mercury rising The top 20
The 20th Mercury Prize...week. To celebrate, Simmy Richman...WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? In 2003...Blur's Parklife...ever walked away with the...Barclaycard. 6. GO AND BUSK...left the event shortly after...celebrating the 20th anniversary...Grosvenor House ... |
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Something new under the sun: Seville - the city that launched Columbus - is...
...of Spain's Expo '92...their Big Event might be among the war's first casualties...exposition of the 20th century...In Expo's case, 111...everyone to celebrate." Months...eight years away." The century...anniversary of America's discovery...Celebrated here ... |
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Iraqi Crisis Adds A Somber Note To Celebration
...send U.S. troops...Buddendeck's two sons...coming to celebrate the festive...latest U.S. military...stuff will go away," said...who came here to party...from Latin America, where she...International Hotel downtown...until the 20th of January... |