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Fen
Fen , river, 375 mi (604 km) long, rising in the Wutai Mts. and flowing southwest, through a narrow valley, to the Huang He, Shanxi prov., N central China; navigable for small junks only in its lower course. The wide and fertile lower Fen valley has been irrigated since ancient times; wheat, millet,... Read more |
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Jolly Roger
Jolly Roger, the name popularly given to a flag flown by pirate ships as seen through the eyes of writers of piracy stories. It was supposed to be a white skull on a black ground, sometimes with crossed bones below the skull. There is, however, no evidence that such a flag was ever flown by a... Read more |
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George White
White, George [né Weitz] (1890–1968), dancer, producer, and director. A New York native, he ran away from home to become a dancer, appearing in vaudeville and, between 1910 and 1918, in several Broadway musicals, including two editions of the Ziegfeld Follies. In 1919 White launched his... Read more |
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colours
colours, the name by which the national flag flown by a ship at sea is known. ‘What colours does it fly?’ means what is its nationality? In British naval ships the colours are the jack flown on the jackstaff in the bows and the white ensign flown at the gaff when at sea or from an... Read more |
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Flags
FLAGS FLAGS. Flags are the most pervasive symbol of allegiance in American society. While the American Stars and Stripes is the most ubiquitous symbol of loyalty, flags exist for every state in the union, each branch of the federal government and military, and for corporations, ethnic groups,... Read more |
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tense
tense [O.Fr., from Lat.,=time], in the grammar of many languages, a category of time distinctions expressed by any conjugated form of a verb. In Latin inflection the tense of a verb is indicated by a suffix that also indicates the verb's voice , mood , person, and number. Tense specifies... Read more |
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Newmarket
Newmarket town (1991 pop. 15,861), Suffolk, E England. It has been a horse-racing center since early in the 17th cent. There are four principal races: the One Thousand Guineas, the Two Thousand Guineas, the Cambridgeshire, and the Cesarewitch. One of the courses on Newmarket Heath is crossed by the... Read more |
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Flag Day
Flag Day anniversary of the adoption of the American flag in 1777. It is celebrated on June 14 but is not a legal holiday.... Read more |
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Professional employees
BASEBALL Survival Perhaps the best thing that can be said about Major League Baseball in the 1980s is that it survived. Although the decade witnessed superb individual and team performances on the field, it was probably more notable for its labor disputes, strikes, threats of... Read more |
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