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Jean Vigo Jean Vigo
Jean Vigo , 1905-34, French movie director, whose original name was Jean Almereyda. His reputation is based on two superb films: Zéro de Conduite (1933) and L'Atalante (1934, uncut release 1989). Zéro de Conduite is a surrealistic depiction of Vigo's years in boarding school and... Read more
Barrington Barrington
Barrington ♂ Transferred use of the surname, a local name from any of several places in England so named. The one in Gloucestershire is an Old English compound meaning ‘settlement of Beorn's people’. In the Somerset place name the first element is an unattested Old English... Read more
obelisk obelisk
obelisk , slender four-sided tapering monument, usually hewn of a single great piece of stone, terminating in a pointed or pyramidal top. Among the ancient Egyptians these monoliths were commonly of red granite from Syene and were dedicated to the sun god. They were placed in pairs before the... Read more
catalepsy catalepsy
catalepsy , pathological condition characterized by a loss of consciousness accompanied by rigidity of muscles that keeps limbs in any position in which they are placed. Attacks vary from several minutes to days and occur in a variety of clinical syndromes, most frequently in schizophrenia,... Read more
Sir George Rooke Sir George Rooke
Sir George Rooke , 1650-1709, English admiral. In the War of the Grand Alliance he defeated a French fleet under the comte de Tourville in the battle of La Hogue (1692) and by good judgment saved part of his convoy from Tourville's attack off Cape St. Vincent (1693). In the War of the Spanish... Read more
Colton Colton
Colton ♂ Mainly North American: transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from any of various places in England so called. The place name is of varied origin: in most cases it derives from the Old English personal name Cola, a byname for a swarthy person (from col... Read more
Delmar Delmar
Delmar ♀ Mainly U.S.: of uncertain derivation, possibly from Spanish del mar ‘of the sea’, which occurs in various place names as a distinguishing epithet and also in the Marian title Reina del Mar ‘Queen of the Sea’. It may alternatively have originated as an... Read more
Mass (Physics) Mass (Physics)
mass in physics, the quantity of matter in a body regardless of its volume or of any forces acting on it. The term should not be confused with weight , which is the measure of the force of gravity (see gravitation ) acting on a body. Under ordinary conditions the mass of a body can be considered... Read more
Wave motion Wave motion
WAVE MOTION CONCEPT Wave motion is activity that carries energy from one place to another without actually moving any matter. Studies of wave motion are most commonly associated with sound or radio transmissions, and, indeed, these are among the most common forms of wave... Read more
Biogeography Biogeography
Biogeography Why do different species occur in the places they do? Biogeography is the study of why animal species (and also plants) live in different regions on Earth. This includes both organisms alive today as well as those that have become extinct. Any particular animal... Read more

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