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Fort Walton Beach Fort Walton Beach
Fort Walton Beach city (1990 pop. 21,471), Okaloosa co., NW Fla., on the Gulf of Mexico; inc. 1941. It is a year-round beach and fishing resort east of Pensacola. Electronic equipment and small boats are made, and military aircraft are modified here. Nearby Eglin Air Force Base contributes... Read more
jejunum jejunum
jejunum The part of the small intestine next beyond the duodenum, and leading to the ileum. Its lining has an enormous surface area, by virtue of folds, projections (villi), and microvilli on the villi. Enzyme secretion and digestion, started in the stomach, continue here, and absorption of the... Read more
mass flow mass flow
mass flow (pressure flow) A hypothesis to explain the movement of sugars in the phloem tissue of plants. At a source (site of production) sugars are actively secreted from phloem companion cells into the sieve elements, causing water to follow by osmosis. The pressure of water in the tubes (the... Read more
Holyhead Holyhead
Holyhead (Caergybi) Wales/UK Haliheved, Holyhede ‘Holy Headland’ from the Old English hālig and hēafod ‘headland’. On Holy Island off the coast of the Isle of Anglesey, the name refers to a headland to the west. The Welsh name means ‘Cybi's... Read more
Alfred Uhry Alfred Uhry
Uhry, Alfred (b. 1936), playwright. He was born in Atlanta and educated at Brown University before making his Manhattan playwriting debut as co‐author of the libretto for the short‐lived musical Here's Where I Belong (1968). Uhry's libret‐to for The Robber Bridegroom (1974) was... Read more
Chelsea Chelsea
Chelsea city (1990 pop. 28,710), Suffolk co., E Mass., an industrial suburb of Boston; settled 1624, inc. as a town 1739, as a city 1857. It has made printed goods, rubber, plastics, electrical machinery, shoes, and paint. Oil storage tanks line Chelsea Creek and the Mystic River. At the battle of... Read more
Milvian Bridge Milvian Bridge
Milvian Bridge or Mulvian Bridge, Latin Pons Milvius or Pons Mulvius. It was built by Marcus Aemilius Scaurus in 109 BC over the Tiber near Rome as part of the Flaminian Way . By defeating Maxentius here in AD 312, Constantine I became the unchallenged ruler of the West. It was here that... Read more
Taanach Taanach
Taanach , in the Bible, royal city of Canaan, central ancient Palestine, the modern Tell Ti'innik, West Bank, SE of Megiddo. Sisera was defeated here by Deborah and Barak. It is also spelled Tanach. Remains dating from about the 26th cent. BC were excavated (1901-4) here.... Read more
Cana Cana
Cana , ancient town of Galilee. According to the Gospel of St. John it was here that Jesus performed his first miracle by turning water into wine at a wedding.... Read more
Bradley Bradley
Bradley, a common name, usually ‘broad wood or clearing’, OE brād + lēah; examples include: Bradley Derbys. Braidelei 1086 (DB). Bradley, Maiden Wilts. Bradelie 1086 (DB), Maydene Bradelega early 13th cent. Affix means ‘of the maidens’ and refers to the nuns... Read more

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