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Rank Organisation PLC
Rank Organisation PLC 6 Connaught PlaceLondon W2 2EZUnited Kingdom(01) 629-7454 Public Company Incorporated: 1937 as Odeon Theatres Holdings Ltd.Employees: 20,000Sales: Read more |
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead 1861-1947, English mathematician and philosopher, grad. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1884. There he was a lecturer in mathematics until 1911. At the Univ. of London he was a lecturer in applied mathematics and mechanics (1911-14) and professor of mathematics (1914-24). From... Read more |
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CERN
CERN ¦ LARRY GILMAN CERN, located along the French-Swiss border near the Swiss capital Geneva, is the world's largest particle-physics laboratory. (The acronym stands for Conseil Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire, French for CERN's original name, the European... Read more |
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Muir Mathieson
MATHIESON, Muir Music Director and actor. Nationality:British. Born:Stirling, Scotland, 24 January 1911. Education:Attended Stirling High School (conductor of the boys orchestra at age 13); Royal College of Music, London. Career:1931—music director for... Read more |
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Albert Speer
Albert Speer , 1905-81, German architect and National Socialist (Nazi) leader. A member of the Nazi party from 1931, he became its official architect after Hitler came to power. His grandiose but coldly eclectic designs include the stadium at Nuremberg (1934). A highly efficient organizer, Speer... Read more |
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telecommuting
telecommuting an arrangement by which people work at home using a computer and telephone, transmitting work material to a business office by means of a modem and telephone lines; it is also known as telework. Although the term "telecommuting" was coined in the early 1970s, the practice became... Read more |
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Louis Blanc
Louis Blanc , 1811-82, French socialist politician and journalist and historian. In his noted Organisation du travail (1840, tr. Organization of Work, 1911), he outlined his ideal of a new social order based on the principle "Let each produce according to his... Read more |
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sunbittern
sunbittern common name for a graceful, stout-bodied, bitternlike bird, Eurypyga helias. It is named for its wing markings, an orange-chestnut shield set in an orange-buff circle, which looks like a setting sun. The rest of its plumage is intricately barred, striped, and mottled in black, white,... Read more |
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Russell Hoban
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Philosophy of mind
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND The mind seems to occupy a special place in the world. It is the seat of thought and feeling, of rationality and moral concern. Is it fundamentally different from the other things we find in the natural world? Is it possible for the mind to be investigated scientifically? Can one... Read more |
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