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Melbourne Melbourne
Melbourne city (1991 pop. 2,761,995), capital of Victoria, SE Australia, on Port Phillip Bay at the mouth of the Yarra River. Melbourne, Australia's second largest city, is a rail and air hub and financial and commercial center. Wool and raw and processed agricultural goods are exported. The city... Read more
mores mores
mores , concept developed by William Graham Sumner to designate those folkways that if violated, result in extreme punishment. The term comes from the Latin mos (customs), and although mores are fewer in number than folkways, they are more coercive. Negative mores are taboos, usually supported... Read more
Vatican Library Vatican Library
Vatican Library in Rome, founded in the 4th cent. but dormant until given new life in the 15th cent. by Pope Nicholas V. It is the oldest public library in Europe and one of the chief libraries of the world. It is constituted primarily as a manuscript library. The first major librarian, Platina... Read more
beachcomber beachcomber
beachcomber, originally a seaman who, not prepared to work, preferred to exist by hanging around ports and harbours and existing on the charity of others. It then became more generally accepted to describe any loafer around the waterfront, particularly in the Pacific Islands, who preferred a life... Read more
Frederick McCubbin Frederick McCubbin
McCubbin, Frederick (1855–1917). Australian painter, born in Melbourne, where he spent most of his life. In the 1890s he was a member of the Heidelberg School, and he is best known for the scenes of pioneer life he painted at this time (Bush Burial, Geelong Art Gallery, 1890). After a visit... Read more
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Virtual Private Networks Virtual private networks (VPNs) are systems that use public networks to carry private information and maintain privacy through the use of a tunneling protocol and security procedures. By using the shared public infrastructure, these virtual private networks are far more... Read more
John Charles Spencer Viscount Althorp 3rd Earl Spencer John Charles Spencer Viscount Althorp 3rd Earl Spencer
Althorp, John Charles Spencer, Viscount, 3rd Earl Spencer (1782–1845). By temperament Althorp preferred the pleasures of private life to the tribulations of politics. He was not an eloquent speaker but won the confidence of the Commons by his honesty and ability to convince backbenchers that... Read more
letter of marque letter of marque
letter of marque, a commission issued in Britain by the Lord High Admiral, or by commissioners executing his office, and by the equivalent authorities in other countries, licensing the master of a privately owned ship to cruise in search of enemy merchant vessels, either as reprisal for injuries... Read more
Sir Thomas More Sir Thomas More
Sir Thomas More (Saint Thomas More), 1478-1535, English statesman and author of Utopia, celebrated as a martyr in the Roman Catholic Church. He received a Latin education in the household of Cardinal Morton and at Oxford. Through his contact with the new learning and his friendships with Colet ,... Read more
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