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Essex Junto
ESSEX JUNTO ESSEX JUNTO is a term coined by President John Adams in the late eighteenth century for a group of Federalists he deemed his adversaries. Jeffersonians then used the term to refer to Federalist opponents they believed to be advocating secession for New England during the War of 1812.... Read more |
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Hindu
Hindu ETHNONYMS: Hindoo, Gentoo (eighteenth-nineteenth centuries) While Hinduism is undoubtedly one of the world's major religions, whether gauged in terms of its ethical and metaphysical complexities or simply in terms of the numbers of adherents (estimated at 760 million in 1991), it defies... Read more |
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cabinet painting
cabinet painting. Term applied to fairly small easel paintings, especially ones intended for a domestic setting. The term has no precise limits in terms of dimensions, but is often applied, for example, to 17th-century Dutch genre paintings, which were usually painted to fit into unpretentious... Read more |
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Spiritism
Spiritism A general term for the belief that the spirits or souls of the dead communicate with the living through a medium or psychically sensitive individual. The term has been used with two quite different meanings in the twentieth century. In conservative Christian circles it is often used as a... Read more |
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Long-Term Care Insurance
LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE The feasibility of private long-term care insurance is central to the public policy debate over financing long-term care. The failure of the private market, even with public subsidies, to insure a substantial portion of the population has a bearing on the public... Read more |
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Clones
Clones A clone is an organism or cell derived asexually (through mitosis) from a single ancestor cell. The genetic content of the newer cell (or of any individual cell of the organism) is identical to that of the ancestor cell. In biochemistry a clone is a replica of all ... Read more |
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pterodactyl
pterodactyl , popular term for a pterosaur .... Read more |
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Reflexivity
REFLEXIVITY. Reflexivity first entered into anthropological discourse in the late 1970s in response to several problematics that had emerged in the previous decade, but its use in the humanities and in sociology has a longer history. In the words of Barbara Myerhoff and Jay Ruby, two of its... Read more |
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fallacy
fallacy in logic, a term used to characterize an invalid argument. Strictly speaking, it refers only to the transition from a set of premises to a conclusion, and is distinguished from falsity, a value attributed to a single statement. The laws of syllogisms were systematically elaborated by... Read more |
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