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Baring
Baring , British family of bankers. Sir Francis Baring (1740-1810) founded (1763) the John and Francis Baring Company, which he renamed Baring Brothers and Company in 1806. At first the firm acted as import and export agents for others, but it soon became an independent merchant bank. Sir Francis, a... Read more |
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Coir
Coir Background What is commonly called a coconut, as found in grocery stores, is actually only the single seed of a fruit of the coconut palm tree (Cocos nucifera).Before being shipped to market, the seed is stripped of an external leathery skin and a 2-3 in (5-8 cm)... Read more |
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Bay of Fundy
Bay of Fundy large inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, c.170 mi (270 km) long and 30 to 50 mi (50-80 km) wide, between New Brunswick and SW Nova Scotia, Canada. It is famous for its tide and tidal bore ; in its upper arms, Chignecto Bay and the Mínas Basin, tides reach 40 to 50 ft (12-15 m) in... Read more |
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debauchery
debauchery A formula for debauchery may be reduced to the single-minded pursuit of flagons, feasts, and fornication. Traditionally one who over-indulgences in the sensual appetites, particularly eating and drinking, the debauchee is laid bare in Thomas Warton the Elder's poem The Glutton... Read more |
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murre
murre , common name for a group of diving birds of the same family as the auk and the puffin (family Alcidae) and including the guillemots. There are three species of murres, all about 18 in. (45 cm) long, brownish black above and white below. The common murre, Uria aalge, and the Brunnich's... Read more |
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Nemean lion
Nemean lion , in Greek mythology, an enormous lion, said to be the offspring of Echidna and Typhon. It was invulnerable to all weapons until Hercules, in his first labor, strangled it with his bare hands. He then wore its pelt.... Read more |
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Overgrazing
overgrazing Pressure by grazing animals, either domestic or wild, which results in the degradation of pasture, leading to exposure of the bare soil surface and ultimately erosion and even desertification of the area.... Read more |
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Evelyn Baring Earl of Cromer
1st Earl of Cromer The English statesman Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841-1917), ruled Egypt from 1883 to 1907. Evelyn Baring was born on Feb. 26, 1841, at Cromer Hall in Norfolk. He entered Woolwich in 1855 to train for the Royal Artillery and in 1858 went with his battery to the... Read more |
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TRAGIC STORY OF CASEMENT BONES LAID BARE AT LAST; Jail quicklime 'didn't...
...CARTON THE riddle of Roger Casement's bones has at last been solved by the discovery...and, contrary to popular belief, the bones handed back to Ireland in 1965 were those...the grave was opened and Casement's bones were removed from beneath the skeletons... |
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Spotify's bones laid bare.(ONLINE MUSIC SERVICES)(Brief article)
The technical works behind the magic of Spotify's streaming service have been exposed by the service's Gunnar Kreitz and Fredrik Niemela. According to the report from Kreitz and Niemela, which analyzed data from a week in early 2010, Spotify's service doesn't work quite as most would expect. Only |
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Inside job: below the high altar of St. Peter's, investigators have found...
...epigraphist Margherita Guarducci over the identity of bones found in Peter's supposed tomb. According to many...slender column of" white marble could be seen, like a bone laid bare. "This is the tomb of the Apostle Peter" the guide... |
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Football: Paul McCarthy column: HONEST KEV FACES THE NAKED TRUTH; He only has...
...a case in point where he refused to whitewash. He laid himself bare with the promise that England would never perform so...Europe, he knows that at his disposal are merely the bare bones of a truly outstanding side. And he has done little... |
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Lions' frailties laid bare by 'dismal' Boks; The home side were there for the...
...squad. Once the Lions lost both their props plus centres Brian O'Driscoll and Jamie Roberts, they were down to the bare bones, and the match turned decisively. In the end, it was two crucial mistakes in the final six minutes of the game by... |
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Theatre is reduced to the bare bones.(News)
BIT by bit, the skeleton of the former Coventry Theatre is being laid bare. By June, the old Hippodrome will just be a memory. Demolition of the city centre landmark started last year but was delayed... |
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Forensic experts continue excavating largest mass grave, plan to begin...
...Bosnia-Herzegovina Experts on Tuesday carefully shifted bones laid bare at what they believe may be Bosnia's largest mass grave...have been forced to temporarily move and then replace bones while excavating underneath," Hurtic said. Experts... |
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Darktown Strutters.
...facts, which gives his story the aura of an alternate or parallel racial history, this time with (as it were) the bones laid bare. The novel opens with minstrelsy's primal scene: the appropriation of black dance, song, and style from a slave... |
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Let's see the naked truth.(Column)
...5,000 years it will be inviolate to the normal processes of decay. Stripped of skin, their muscles, tendons, bones laid bare, cavities open to the prying view, these bodies he exhibits in the nightmare poses and conjunctions of the horror... |
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Poets' corner.(Letters)
...Blissful, yet incomprehensibly reeling, the snagged skein we both hold tearing at our fingers. Until finally, bones laid-bare, the ocean heaves its guts onto my plate, And I reflect upon the food I have eaten with you, Then understand that... |
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