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Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout , 1621-74, Dutch painter and etcher. He was a pupil and close follower of Rembrandt, especially in his religious works. A fine draftsman, he easily assimilated the styles of artists around him, including those of Flinck and Fabritius. His Isaac Blessing Jacob is in the... Read more |
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Dirk Bogarde
Sir Dirk Bogarde , 1921-99, English film actor, b. Hampstead as Derek Niven Van den Bogaerde. In his early career Bogarde played romantic leads in such films as So Long at the Fair (1950) and A Tale of Two Cities (1958). He later showed great versatility playing character parts, including a... Read more |
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Joost van den Vondel
Joost van den Vondel , 1587-1679, Dutch poet and dramatist, b. Cologne. He is generally considered the greatest Dutch writer. During the emergence of the Dutch nation Vondel was the national poet; his occasional verse celebrated the triumphs of the United Provinces in a vigorous oratorical style. In... Read more |
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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van (b. Delft, Netherlands, 24 October 1632;b. Delft, 26 August 1723), natural sciences, microscopy. Leeuwenhoek was the son of Philips Thoniszoon, a basket-maker, and Margriet Jacobsdochter van den Berch. He took his surname ( Read more |
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cognitive psychology
cognitive psychology school of psychology that examines internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language. It had its foundations in the Gestalt psychology of Max Wertheimer , Wolfgang Köhler , and Kurt Koffka , and in the work of Jean Piaget , who studied... Read more |
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Cardiovascular Disease
C ARDIOVASCULARD ISEASE The American Heart Association (AHA) uses the term cardiovascular disease (CVD) to describe various diseases that affect the heart and circulatory system. These diseases include coronary artery (heart) disease, hypertension, congestive... Read more |
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Ernest O. Lawrence
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The Hague
The Hague hāg , Du. 's Gravenhage or Den Haag, Fr. La Haye, city (1994 pop. 445,279), administrative and governmental seat of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, capital of South Holland prov., W Netherlands, on the North Sea. Economy Although it has some industries (the manufacture of... Read more |
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Death and Dying
Death and Dying. Starting in the 1980s, social historians began to trace the history of death in America, a subject once considered outside...as Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death (1963)—of Americans as a death‐denying... |
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death
death Reports of the first human heart transplants...1967 made controversy over the definition of death seem as unprecedented as heart transplantation...technology. But disagreements over the meaning of death long predated the 1960s, and such debates... |
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death's head
death's head The figure of the death's head has been a prominent symbol of human mortality and the...emblem for a 1980's heavy metal band, the human skull brings death to mind; as a well-known and popular image, its primary purpose... |
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near-death experiences
near-death experiences People who come close to death and survive often report remarkable experiences. Feelings...underground cave. In one study, about a third of near-death survivors reported out of body experiences, in which they... |
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cot death
...Sudden unexpected death, with no cause...and one-half of deaths occurring in babies between...causes of Sudden Deaths in Infants, that cot death was defined as...as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS...The rate of cot deaths ... |
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Race Discrimination and the Death Penalty
Race Discrimination and the Death Penalty The Supreme Court did not directly address a constitutional claim that the death penalty is administered in a racially discriminatory...Maxwell, a black male, received a death sentence from an Arkansas jury for the... |
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brain death
brain death applies to the situation when the heart continues...its own independently of the brain. That death is a process rather than a sudden event is now...that function, strictly ‘brain stem death’, is commonly referred to as brain death... |
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death duties
death duties. Death is considered to be a ‘taxable event’. The taxation of inheritance...has died) provided a source of government revenue in Roman times. A death tax was introduced in Britain in 1694 but the modern framework dates from... |
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death rattle
death rattle the gurgling sound produced by air passing through...lungs of a dying person. It is said to indicate approaching death, or sometimes to be the sign of the arrival of death itself; the last sound a dying person makes. Gustave Flaubert... |
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Masque of the Red Death, The
Masque of the Red Death, The, story by Poe, published in Graham...devastated by a horrible plague, the “Red Death,” Prince Prospero determines to preserve...like figure joins them, garbed as the Red Death. Attempting to stab him, the Prince dies... |
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death
death often (as Death) represented in art and literature as a skeleton or an old man holding a scythe, the personification of the power that destroys life.death in the pot a biblical phrase, from the story of a famine during which... |
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Death
Death. The human and religious imagination of the nature and meaning of death has been prolific: virtually everything that can be imagined about death has been imagined. Yet almost universally the major religious traditions did not in origin... |
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death coach
death coach. Spectral vehicle in Irish folklore whose stopping at the door announced the death of a resident the next day. As the driver...horses are either black or headless, the death coach is sometimes called the headless coach... |
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Death of God
Death of God. Nietzsche proclaimed that the death of God was ‘a recent event’ in 1887. Belief in God had...seemed to have become incredible. In the 20th cent., ‘Death of God’ theology (the view that theology is at best anthropology... |
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cot death
cot death (sudden infant death syndrome, SIDS) (kot) n. the sudden unexpected death of an infant less than two years old (peak occurrence between two and six months) from an unidentifiable cause. There appear to be many factors involved... |
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death duties
death duties The taxation of inheritance provided...of government revenue in Roman times. A death tax was introduced in Britain in 1694 but the...system in the teeth of fierce opposition, death duties have mainly been in the form of estate... |
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‘Death of God’ Theology
‘Death of God’ Theology. A movement in vogue in the...Friday hymn by M. Luther in reference to the death of Christ. G. W. F. Hegel used it to mean...differences of meaning are reflected in the ‘death of God’ theologies. G. Vanhanian in a... |
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death march
death march any forced march under conditions likely to result in the death of some of the participants, especially a march of prisoners of war...surrendered to the Japanese on Bataan Peninsula in April 1942 (the Bataan Death March). |
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Dance of Death
Dance of Death or Danse Macabre or Totentanz. A defiant...unpredictable but inevitable occurrence of death. It was evoked especially by the spread of...known. This deliberate confronting of death has a remote parallel in the Buddhist contemplation... |
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death wish
death wish • n. a desire for someone's death, esp. an unconscious desire for one's own death. |
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death
...eradication, annihilation, obliteration, extirpation. 3. death came in the nightsynonyms: angel of death, grim reaper. 4. their deaths were on his conscience | horrified by the death on the battlefieldsynonyms: killing, slaying, murder... |
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life-and-death
life-and-death • adjective a life-and-death decisionsynonyms: vital, of vital importance, crucial, critical, urgent, momentous, important, serious. |
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kill
...slay, murder, do away with, do to death, slaughter, butcher, massacre, assassinate...exterminate, eliminate, dispatch, put to death, execute, hang, behead, guillotine...most general term, meaning to cause the death of a person, animal, or plant, with... |
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dying
...his dying aunt synonyms: terminally ill, at death's door, on one's deathbed, near death, fading fast, expiring, moribund, not long...noun he took her dying very hard synonyms: death, demise, passing, loss of life, quietus... |
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knell
knell • noun literary 1. the knell of the ship's bell synonyms: toll, tolling, dong, resounding, reverberation; death knell; archaic tocsin. 2. this sounded the knell for the project synonyms: end, beginning of the end, death knell, death warrant. |
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morbid
...gruesome, grisly, macabre, hideous, dreadful, horrible, unwholesome. 2. a morbid personsynonyms: death-orientated, death-obsessed, death-fixated. 3. don't be so morbidsynonyms: gloomy, glum, dejected, melancholy, lugubrious... |
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execute
...verb 1. execute a murderersynonyms: put to death, carry out a sentence of death, kill; hang, send to the gallows, behead, guillotine...give a lethal injection to, crucify, stone to death; inf. string up, fry. 2. execute a plan of... |
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pallid
...ashy, waxen, sickly, ghostly, ghastly, lurid, green, as white as a sheet/ghost, deathly pale, like death; inf. like death warmed over. 2. a pallid performancesynonyms: colorless, uninteresting, dull, boring, tedious, unimaginative... |
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terminal
...mortal, lethal, killing, incurable. 2. a terminal patientsynonyms: dying, on one's deathbed, near death, in the throes of death, incurable. 3. terminal markerssynonyms: boundary, bounding, limiting, confining, end, ending.antonyms... |
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dispatch
...hurry on; inf. make short work of. 3. a flurry of bullets dispatched the terroristssynonyms: kill, put to death, slay, do to death, put an end to, finish off, take the life of, slaughter, murder, assassinate, execute; inf. bump off... |
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Deaths in custody in Australia : 1990-2004.
...there have been 772 deaths in adult correctional...Since 1999 the rates of death for both Indigenous...downward trend. Hanging deaths and natural causes have...most common causes of death in prison since 1990. Deaths in police custody have... |
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Deaths due to unknown foodborne agents.(Perspectives)
...hospital discharge and death certificate data on deaths attributed to gastroenteritis...certificates. The death estimate consequently omitted deaths from unknown foodborne...hospital discharge and death certificate data on ... |
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Deaths from opioid use have doubled, 5-fold increase in oxycodone...
...In 3406 of these deaths - 61.9% - opioids...implicated as cause of death. The median age of death was 40 years and...in 23.6% of deaths. "The rise in...opioid-related deaths in 2004 (27...the incidence of death from HIV ... |
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Deaths in custody rates -- Lock-up deaths down, police pursuit deaths up.
...females. CAPTION: All custodial deaths 2000 and 2001 Jurisdiction...CAPTION: Trends in all custodial deaths in Australia by Indigenous status Year of death Indigenous Non-Indigenous...References * Report details: Deaths in custody in Australia: 2001... |
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Maternal deaths in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2000-2003.
...of causes of death in death certificates. As a strategy...registration of maternal deaths, starting in 1994, the...categories of maternal deaths based on cause of death, which were termed 'direct obstetric deaths' and ... |
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Death certificates.(Medicolegal Issues)
...any legal proceeding that involves the death of an individual, regardless of whether...information documented on the decedent's death certificate cannot be overstated. For...lightly. The cause of an individual's death is of paramount importance in both criminal... |
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Life before death.
People are generally afraid of death arid perceive death as the end of the life journey. Yet, there is no one who can escape death. I would like to take a look at death like this: D definite E equality A afraid T time H how Death is definite... |
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Deaths Resulting from Residential Fires and the Prevalence of Smoke Alarms -...
...the United States. Deaths from residential fires...as residence on the death certificate. The 1995...of fire-related deaths occur in the home...reduction in fire-related deaths. To reduce the risk for death or injury resulting... |
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DEATH PENALTY AND POLITICAL DYNAMICS.(MAIN)
...George W. Bush are strong supporters of the death penalty, the related controversies could...could truly determine whether inmates on death row were guilty or innocent of the crime...the political dynamics linked to the death penalty could create meaningful differences... |
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Death - in - action
Sri Lanka, Jan. 2 -- Death comes incognito Death lies underneath your feet Death flies over your head Death walks over the sea and land Death sleeps with you on the bed Death drinks with you in the bar Death ... |
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