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Life Sciences
Life Sciences The life sciences, defined as biology and related subjects, encompass the detailed study of living organisms, which are broadly distinguished from inorganic matter through the capacity for growth, function, and change preceding death. Biology is not limited to physiology, the study... Read more |
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Farms
Farming Farming, or agriculture, is the science or art of cultivating the soil, growing and harvesting crops, and the raising of animals. Beginning some 10,000 years ago, people in various places around the world began to grow plants and domesticate animals. Slowly and over ... Read more |
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Supersede
SUPERSEDE To obliterate, replace, make void, or useless. Supersede means to take the place of, as by reason of superior worth or right. A recently enacted statute that repeals an older law is said to supersede the prior legislation. A superseding cause is an act of a third person or some... Read more |
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Berezina
Berezina , river, c.380 mi (610 km) long, rising in Belarus. It flows generally S past Borisov and Bobruysk into the Dnieper River. It is navigable for most of its length. The heroic retreat across the Berezina of the remnants of Napoleon's Grand Army took place near Borisov from Nov. 26 to Nov. 29,... Read more |
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Hermitage Museum
Hermitage, St Petersburg. Russia's pre-eminent collection of art and antiquities, one of the world's greatest museums. It takes its name from a pleasure pavilion (now known as the Little Hermitage) created in the late 1760s for the Empress Catherine II ( Catherine the Great) (1729–96;... Read more |
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Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday in the Western Church, the first day of Lent , being the seventh Wednesday before Easter. On this day ashes are placed on the foreheads of the faithful to remind them of death, of the sorrow they should feel for their sins, and of the necessity of changing their lives. The practice,... Read more |
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Residence
RESIDENCE Personal presence at some place of abode. Although the domicile and residence of a person are usually in the same place, and the two terms are frequently used as if they have the same meaning, they are not synonymous. A person can have two places of residence, such as one in the city... Read more |
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sea level
sea level the level of the sea, which serves as the datum used for measurement of land elevations and ocean depths. Theoretically, one would expect sea level to be a fixed and permanent horizontal surface on the face of the earth, and as a starting approximation, this is true. However, a number of... Read more |
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Deal
Deal town (1991 pop. 26,311), Kent, SE England, on the Downs, an important passage for Channel shipping. It is a popular holiday resort. There is some boat building. Other industries include brush making, the production of plastics, and precision engineering. Deal is the reputed landing place of... Read more |
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smog
smog [ sm oke+f og ], dense, visible air pollution . Smog is commonly of two types. The gray smog of older industrial cities like London and New York derives from the massive combustion of coal and fuel oil in or near the city, releasing tons of ashes, soot, and sulfur compounds into the air. The... Read more |
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Mers-el-Kébir
...several other ships were seriously damaged, and 1,297 lives were lost. Dunkerque was only slightly damaged, but was crippled by torpedo aircraft...aircraft from the carrier Hermes and damaged, but at Alexandria the British C-in... |
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microorganisms
...These are microscopic forms of life which are ubiquitous in the environment...more may do so in patients with damaged immune systems). Thus it may...are also essential to human life. Every square inch of our body...this normal ‘flora’ is damaged, for ... |
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amino acids
...this provides passive immunity for the first year or so of life. The digestive processes break down dietary protein to amino...transamination reactions are common in tissues that have been damaged, as repair and resynthesis take place. Thus after a myocardial... |
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Baltic Sea operations
...minefields into the Baltic and sank 23 German or Finnish ships, and damaged others. Though ten were lost this was a great improvement...largest evacuation in maritime history, during which 15,000 lives were lost. Most of the deaths were caused by the sinking of... |
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Bradford, Gamaliel
...continuous texture of a man's entire life. Applying this subjective, analytical...1916); American Portraits (1922); Damaged Souls (1923), perhaps his best‐known...include A Naturalist of Souls (1917), Life and I (1928), and his Journal (1933... |
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Ford, Gerald
...mission succeeded, but at a cost of forty‐one Marines’ lives. More broadly, he worked to maintain the policy of détente begun...won.Gerald Ford restored confidence and integrity to a badly damaged presidential office. In addition, his domestic policies laid... |
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Grenville, Sir Richard
...Sir Walter Raleigh's cousin. Little is known of his early life except that he killed a man in a duel, was admitted a student...close quarters. However, he did sink one ship and heavily damaged another, but the odds against the Revenge were too great and... |
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hypoxia
...body can compensate to some extent for a decreased level, but life depends on maintainence of the supply of oxygen. Different...lengths of time: the brain is the most rapidly and irrevocably damaged. Because the brain regulates breathing and the circulation... |
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Mackay, Shena
...accidents, and where beneath the offhand ironies one can detect Mackay's profound sympathy for her characters' damaged lives. A long literary silence was broken by a story collection, Babies in Rhinestones (1983), then the novels A Bowl... |
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skeleton
...skeletos meaning ‘dried up’. However quite the opposite is true in life, as bone is unquestionably a dynamic tissue that will bleed if it is cut, hurt if it is damaged, and mend itself if it is broken. Furthermore, it will be resorbed if... |
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detriment
det·ri·ment / ˈdetrəmənt/ • n. the state of being harmed or damaged: he is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life. ∎ a cause of harm or damage: such tests are a detriment to good education. |
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France, Christianity in
...Gaul by Arian Visigoths does not seem to have disrupted the lives of the Catholic bishops, the conversion of the Frankish king...successors, there was legislation touching all aspects of Church life. The Frankish Church was notable for its regularization of the...Philip IV (reigned ... |
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slice
...Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, 1592), meaning that if something has already been diminished or damaged, further damage may go unnoticed.a slice of life a realistic representation of everyday experience in a film, play, or book.See also a slice... |
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Greene, Samuel Dana
...guns, assumed command when the captain was wounded. When the damaged Virginia turned away, rather than pursue her, Greene reverted...heaped on him for this decision affected him for the rest of his life, much of which he spent in attempts to justify it. Eventually... |
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Nkrumah, Kwame
...He declared Ghana a republic in 1960 and proclaimed himself President for life in 1964, banning all opposition parties; Nkrumah's dictatorial methods seriously damaged Ghana's economy and eventually led to his overthrow in a military coup. |
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short
...debt between friends ensures that their friendship will not be damaged.short, sharp shock a brief but harsh custodial sentence handed...condemnation and execution or punishment.See also art is long and life is short, draw the short straw. |
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stunt
...often as adj.] (stunted) retard the growth or development of: trees damaged by acid rain had stunted branches. ∎ frustrate and spoil: she was concerned at the stunted lives of those around her. DERIVATIVES: stunt·ed·ness n. stunt2 • n... |
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Pillow, Gideon Johnson
...Gen. Winfield Scott when he corresponded directly with President Polk, which damaged his prospects and his reputation, and after the war he returned to private life, becoming a prosperous planter. He was named commander of the Provisional Army... |
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rebuild
...built / -ˈbilt/ ) [tr.] build (something) again after it has been damaged or destroyed: he rebuilt the cathedral church | fig. we try to help them rebuild their lives. • n. / ˈrēˌbild/ an instance or rebuilding something, esp. a... |
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malign
...defame, libel, slander, vilify Do you want to ruin someone's life? You can malign the person, which is to say or write something...about someone; the word often implies that you have seriously damaged that person's good name (after leaving his job, he spent... |
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Analytical method for ultimate strength calculations of intact and damaged...
...damaged ship hulls. Key words: Damaged ship hulls, initial imperfections...protection and ship structures being damaged by contact and noncontact explosions...structures, to ensure safety of life at sea and to increase survivability...the capacity of intact ... |
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Bacterial amylase lessens effects of damaged starch on tortilla quality.
...containing 9.7% or 12.6% damaged starch had significantly higher...contained 9.7% or 12.6% damaged starch. Tortillas prepared using damaged starch and bacterial amylase...despite improving tortilla shelf life. The research is continuing... |
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Money magician: ripped a $10 bill? No problem! Sharon Williams puts damaged...
...refund $45 million! HOW DAMAGED IS THE CURRENCY YOU WORK...came in that was very damaged by flooding. Many people...They thought their life savings were gone, but...place for a person's life savings would be...Learn more about how damaged ... |
 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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Female Times: Justice for jab-damaged kids.(Features)
...compensation to children who had been damaged by vaccinations. A compensation...figures of the numbers of children damaged in this way, but it is believed...totally inadequate to look after a damaged child for life. Most of the payments have been... |
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Very slowly, Palestinians return to repair their damaged homes
...homes and plan for a better life."I can build, I can do...Many other Palestinians in damaged areas, often slums or refugee...whose homes were demolished or damaged during the fighting. Those...officials said. People with damaged homes will likely get ... |
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Researchers To Test Skeletal Muscle As Replacement For Damaged Human Heart...
...left with areas of severely damaged heart muscle, which leaves...for further heart attacks. Damaged muscle can also progress to...cells would be delivered to damaged areas of the heart with a catheter...the quality and quantity of life. Now, only the sickest ... |
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Researchers To Test Skeletal Muscle As Replacement For Damaged Human Heart...
...left with areas of severely damaged heart muscle, which leaves...for further heart attacks. Damaged muscle can also progress to...cells would be delivered to damaged areas of the heart with a catheter...the quality and quantity of life. Now, only the sickest ... |
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Quake damaged 200 houses in Pakistan town
...not want to return to their damaged homes due to fears of aftershocks...feel bad that my home has been damaged. But I am happy that we did not suffer any loss of life". Some houses in Kalat and Surab were also damaged. However, the situation ... |
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Enzyme appears to correctly reproduce UV-damaged DNA
...correctly read and replicated the damaged DNA. The UV "wounds" within...soup, newly formed multicellular life could withstand ultraviolet...recognize the difference between damaged and non-damaged DNA," Dr. Prakash said... |
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Damaged but not defeated: Gary Sanders uses recovery time to develop new album.
...is ready to release Standing Damaged's third album, "Solitude...The new CD follows Standing Damaged's 2002 album ". . . for...introspective and revolve around life's struggles. His fast...it wouldn't be Standing Damaged," he said. Last fall, he... |
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