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Fore
Fore ETHNONYMS: none Orientation Identification. The Fore people are subsistence-oriented swidden horticulturalists who live in the Okapa District of the Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. Although they shared a common language, they traditionally had no group name for... Read more |
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Coup detat
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brigantine
brigantine, a two-masted vessel square rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast. The name is thought to come from the sea brigands, particularly those operating in the Mediterranean, although the Barbary pirates favoured oared galleys. Brigantines are currently built for sail... Read more |
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hooker
hooker. 1. A fishing vessel which, as its name suggested, was probably used for line fishing. A development of the original ketch, it was a short, tubby little vessel with main- and mizzen-masts, originally square rigged on the main and with a small topsail above a fore-and-aft-rigged sail hoisted... Read more |
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Paper wasps
Vespidae (suborder Apocrita, superfamily Vespoidea) The principal family of social wasps, containing many common species, whose members are social, predatory, and more or less melliferous. Females can often inflict painful stings. The fore wings are usually folded longitudinally at rest. Mandibles... Read more |
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jib
jib, a triangular sail set by sailing vessels on the stays of the foremast. The largest square-rigged sailing vessels of the late 19th century and early 20th century carried as many as six jibs, named from aft to forward: storm, inner, outer, flying, spindle, and jib-of-jibs, the last being hoisted... Read more |
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FORE Systems Inc
FORE Systems, Inc. 1000 FORE DriveWarrendale, Pennsylvania 15086U.S.A.(724) 742-4444(800) 884-0040Fax: (724) 742-7777Web Site: http://www.fore.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1990Employees: 1,360Sales: $458.37 million (1998)Stock Exchanges: NASDAQTicker Symbol: FORESICs: 3577 Computer... Read more |
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Campanus of Novara
Campanus of Novara (b. [probably] Novara, Italy, first quarter of thirteenth century; d. Viterbo, Italy, 1296), mathematics, astronomy. Our scanty information on the life of Campanus is derived from a few references in contemporary documents and writers supplemented by inferences from his own... Read more |
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Big gamble pays off as Katie Lee fights to win.
...million 2000 Guineas at Riccarton yesterday. Bosson...at the barrier. COUP ALIGN outclassed...Stewards Handicap at Riccarton. Another Stewards...the home stretch. Coup Align has compiled...Carnival Familiar names to the fore in 2000 Guineas victory... |
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Golf: Millar aims to earn a mention in Dispatch.
...between two teams with punchy names, FORE, a side consisting of...members and, as a club, FORE has mushroomed more than...fairway! Riccarton, the 2005 winners, take...Watsonians have pulled off a coup by securing the services... |