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Internet Tracking and Tracing
Internet Tracking and Tracing ¦ BRIAN HOYLE Electronic passage through the Internet leaves a trail that can be traced. Tracing is a process that follows the Internet activity backwards, from the recipient to the user. As well, a user's Internet activity on web sites can... Read more |
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bird flu
bird flu • n. an often fatal flu virus of birds, esp. poultry, that is transmissible from them to humans, in whom it may also prove fatal.... Read more |
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson 1836-1917, English physician. A sister of Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Elizabeth also worked for woman suffrage. With difficulty she obtained a private medical education under accredited physicians and in London hospitals; in 1865 she was licensed to practice by the... Read more |
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Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott 1832-88, American author, b. Germantown, Pa.; daughter of Bronson Alcott . Mostly educated by her father, she was a friend of Emerson and Thoreau , and her first book, Flower Fables (1854), was a collection of tales originally created to amuse Emerson's daughter. Alcott was... Read more |
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bedlam
bedlam a scene of uproar or confusion, deriving ultimately from Bedlam, a corruption of Bethlehem, in the name of the ‘Hospital of St Mary of Bethlehem’, founded by the Sheriff of London in Bishopsgate in 1247 for the housing of the clergy of St Mary of Bethlehem when they visited... Read more |
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Gander
Gander town (1991 pop. 10,339), NE Newfoundland, N.L., Canada. Gander's airport, an important base in World War II, is a hub for international flights; it also attracts many refugees. It was the site of a Dec., 1985, plane crash that killed 256 passengers, 248 of them U.S. soldiers returning from... Read more |
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Baucis
Baucis in a story told by Ovid, the wife of a good old countryman Philemon. They entertained the gods Zeus and Hermes as hospitably as their poverty allowed when the gods, who had visited the earth in disguise, were rejected by the rich. For this, the couple were saved from a flood which covered... Read more |
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William Marlow
Marlow, William (b London, 1740; d Twickenham, Middlesex [now Greater London], ?14 Jan. 1813). English landscape and marine painter, a pupil of Samuel Scott and possibly also of Richard Wilson. His early landscapes were topographical views, including pictures of country houses, but after a visit... Read more |
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paternoster
paternoster (in the Roman Catholic Church) the Lord's Prayer, especially in Latin. Also, any of a number of special beads occurring at regular intervals in a rosary, indicating that the Lord's Prayer is to be recited. The name comes from Latin ‘Pater noster [our Father]’, the first... Read more |
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Respiratory syncytial virus infection
Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection Definition Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a virus that can cause severe lower respiratory infections in children under the age of two, and milder upper respiratory infections in older children and adults. RSV infection is also called bronchiolitis, ... Read more |
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UK Probe of Diana's Death in Paris
...Paris car crash that killed...deaths of Diana, her boyfriend...from where Diana and Fayed...on their fatal journey...two-day visit to Paris, the jury will also see the crash site in the ... |
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UK Probe of Diana's Death Moves to Paris
...Paris car crash that killed...deaths of Diana, her boyfriend...from where Diana and Fayed...on their fatal journey...The juror's bus entered...jurors' also peered into...two-day visit to Paris...the ... |
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Festivity turns to farce and fiasco in the saga of Diana memorial fountain
...BRITAIN: The Diana Memorial...her death, Diana, Princess...led to the fatal car crash in Paris...this? It's just too...the people also wanted a...building a children's ... |