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John Somers Somers, Baron
John Somers Somers, Baron , 1651-1716, English jurist and statesman. In the Glorious Revolution he secured Parliament's acceptance of the official statement that James II had "abdicated" the throne, and he presided over the framing of the Bill of Rights (1689). William III rewarded him with th...
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Joses
Joses [Gr. form of Heb. Joseph ], in the Bible. 1 Kinsman of Jesus. 2 Brother of St. James (the Less); same as 1, if the traditional interpretation is accepted. 3 See Barnabas, Saint .
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smart card
smart card small device that resembles a credit card but contains an embedded microprocessor to store and process information. Magnetic-stripe cards, which store a very small amount of information (most typically used to identify the owner) and have no processing capability of their own, can be t...
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draft
draft in banking, order by one party to another party to pay a stated sum to the person or firm in whose favor the draft is made. It is similar in form to the ordinary bank check . Often the drawer and the drawee of a draft are the same person. A sight draft is payable immediately on presentation ...
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Martin Chemnitz
Martin Chemnitz , 1522-86, German Lutheran theologian. Under the tutelage of Phillip Melanchthon , he accepted and defended Lutheran doctrine, both in lecturing and in writing. Largely through his endeavors the Formula of Concord, one of the nine creeds of the Book of Concord, was adopted by the Lu...
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Frederick III
Frederick III (Frederick the Pious), 1515-76, elector palatine (1559-76). The first German prince to accept Calvinism, he ordered the Heidelberg Catechism (1563) drawn up (see under Heidelberg ). He aided the Calvinists in the Netherlands and in France.
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multiculturalism
multiculturalism or cultural pluralism, a term describing the coexistence of many cultures in a locality, without any one culture dominating the region. By making the broadest range of human differences acceptable to the largest number of people, multiculturalism seeks to overcome racism, sexis...
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Runnymede
Runnymede or Runnimede , meadow, in Egham, Surrey, S England, on the south bank of the Thames River, W of London. Either on this meadow or on nearby Charter Island, King John accepted the Magna Carta (1215), which is commemorated by a memorial. There is also a memorial to John F. Kennedy on ...
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transducer
transducer device that accepts an input of energy in one form and produces an output of energy in some other form, with a known, fixed relationship between the input and output. One widely used class of transducers consists of devices that produce an electric output signal, e.g., microphones an...
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amateur
amateur in sports, one who engages in athletic competition without material recompense. Upper-class Englishmen in the 19th cent. used the concept to help define their social status, first applying the term to sportsmen who did not need to work with their hands as livelihood, later using it to descr...
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