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Barcelona
Barcelona , city (1990 pop. 4,738,354), capital of Barcelona prov. and chief city of Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea. Economy Situated on a plain between the Llobregat and Besós rivers and lying between mountains and the sea, Barcelona is the second largest city of Spain, its... Read more |
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Montserrat Caballe
Montserrat Caballé , 1933-, Spanish soprano, b. Barcelona. After voice study with Eugenia Kemeny and Conchita Badia in Barcelona, she made her operatic debut in Basel, Switzerland, in 1956, singing Mimi in Puccini's La Bohème. She became an overnight success with American audiences... Read more |
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Common Ground
Common Ground (San Francisco) Common Ground (San Francisco) is the original New Age networking magazine founded in 1976 to provide contact between the groups and leaders in the then-emerging New Age community and the growing community of people who identified with the New Age vision of... Read more |
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Croydon
Croydon outer borough (1991 pop. 299,600) of Greater London, SE England. It is London's second largest shopping and cultural center after West End. London's first airport, the Croydon Aerodrome, was constructed there in 1915 but closed in 1959 after Heathrow was built. Scientific instruments,... Read more |
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Nestor Almendros
ALMENDROS, Nestor Cinematographer and Director. Nationality:Spanish. Born:Barcelona, 30 October 1930. Education:Attended University of Havana, Cuba, Ph.D.; Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Rome, 1956–57; studied with Hans Richter, City College of... Read more |
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Beatific vision
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Millennialism
Millennialism Millennialism constitutes the belief that at some point in the future the social world will be transformed into a utopian world of peace, justice, prosperity, and fellowship. The revolutionary quality of the idea derives from the focus on this "worldly" transformation (as opposed... Read more |
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Night vision
Night Scope Background Night scopes, or night vision devices, are used to intensify human sight under very low light conditions. There are several types of night vision scopes. Infrared imaging systems, also referred to as "active" night vision devices, focus infrared light... Read more |
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transform fault
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Richard G(ustave) Stern
Stern, Richard G[ustave] (1928– ),born in New York City, a professor of English at the University of Chicago, whose novels include Golk (1960), a satire on television production; Europe; or Up and Down with Baggish and Schreiber (1961), about U.S. civil service men in postwar Germany; In Any... Read more |
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