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Malinda Williams Malinda Williams
Malinda Williams1975– Actress In the role of Tracy "Bird" Van Adams on the Showtime cable television program Soul Food from 2000 through 2004, actress Malinda Williams became famous as a cast member in the longest-running African-American television drama in history. The show marked a breakthrough... Read more
Military history Military history
military history. The study of war and its effects has a long and distinguished history, dating back to at least 2500 bc, when the Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu wrote his treatise on The Art of War. European theorists came later, but the tradition which began with Julius Caesar's Commentaries... Read more
Arthroscopy Arthroscopy
Arthroscopic surgery Definition Arthroscopic surgery is a procedure that allows surgeons to visualize, diagnose, and treat joint problems. The name is derived from the Greek words arthron, joint, and skopein, to look at. Arthroscopy is performed using an ... Read more
Doppler radar Doppler radar
DOPPLER RADAR The first weather radar units were taken from old aircraft and adapted for use in forecast offices across the United States. The old aviation radars were looking for other airplanes. The forecast offices were concerned with smaller targets: raindrops or... Read more
oral history oral history
oral history compilation of historical data through interviews, usually tape-recorded and sometimes videotaped, with participants in, or observers of, significant events or times. Primitive societies have long relied on oral tradition to preserve a record of the past in the absence of written... Read more
Critical theory Critical theory
CRITICAL THEORY. In the humanities, the term critical theory has had many meanings in different historical contexts. From the end of World War II through the 1960s, the term signified the use of critical and theoretical approaches within major disciplines of the humanities such as art history,... Read more
conscience conscience
conscience sense of moral awareness or of right and wrong. The concept has been variously explained by moralists and philosophers. In the history of ethics , the conscience has been looked upon as the will of a divine power expressing itself in man's judgments, an innate sense of right and wrong... Read more
John Lee Hooker John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker 1917-2001, American blues singer and guitarist, b. near Clarksdale, Miss. From a cotton-sharecropping family, he learned the blues from his stepfather and various visiting Delta bluesmen, constructing his first instrument from strings made of rubber inner tube nailed to a barn. He... Read more
Looking Backward Looking Backward
Looking Backward 2000–1887 (1888), a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy (1850–1898).Looking Backward is the story of a privileged but troubled nineteenth‐century Bostonian who awakens from a hypnotic sleep in the year 2000 to find a commonwealth of abundance and solidarity... Read more
Sextus Julius Africanus Sextus Julius Africanus
Sextus Julius Africanus , c.160-c.240, Christian historian. He wrote Chronologia, a history of the world from the creation to 221. Tying together the events of the Old Testament, the Greek world, and Christianity, this history helped to place the new religion in a historical context.... Read more

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GRAND HISTORY BEHIND THE `NEW' SCHENECTADY MUSEUM.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) ...to take a look. ``The...real earthy historical insight of...since the new look was unveiled...regarding historical scenes or...s played back. There is...warrant a return trip. A long reliable...project goes ...

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