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Loch Awe
Loch Awe , lake, 25 mi (40 km) long, Argyll and Bute, W Scotland; 118 ft (36 m) above sea level. The hydroelectric power facility at Cruachan (completed 1967) has a 400,000-kW capacity.... Read more |
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European Coal and Steel Community
European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), 1st treaty organization of what has become the European Union ; established by the Treaty of Paris (1952). It is also known as the Schuman Plan, after the French foreign minister, Robert Schuman , who proposed it in 1950. Member nations of ECSC pledged to... Read more |
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dung beetle
dung beetle Small to medium-sized scarab beetle. Some species form balls of dung as food for their larvae, and may roll the balls some distance before burying them. Family Scarabaeidae; species Geotrupus stercorarius.... Read more |
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British Cameroons
British Cameroons, southern part of the German colony of Cameroon which became a British mandate after the First World War and was administered by the neighbouring British colony of Nigeria. The other part became French Cameroons. German residents outnumbered the British and nearly all were Nazi... Read more |
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Peshtigo
Peshtigo , city (1990 pop. 3,154), Marinette co., NE Wis., on the Peshtigo River 6 mi (9.7 km) inland from its mouth on Green Bay; inc. 1903. Located in a dairying and lumbering region, the city is a resort town that also produces paper, transportation equipment, laminated lumber, and tools. A... Read more |
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Komi
Komi , Finnic people of the northeastern part of European Russia. There are two traditional branches of the Komi—Zyrians and Permyaks. The Zyrians are now officially called Komi and make up over half of the population. The Permyaks are now called Komi-Permyaks. Both speak a Finno-Permian... Read more |
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Charles Atlas
Charles Atlas Charles Atlas (1893-1972) embodied the nineteenth-century ideal of the self-made man—a dream of self-improvement and rapid transformation that began with a strengthened, healthy body. By 1942, more than 400,000 copies of the Atlas program of self-development had been sold. ... Read more |
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Knights
knight in ancient and medieval history, a noble who did military service as a mounted warrior. The Knight in Ancient History In ancient history, as in Athens and Rome, the knight was a noble of the second class who in military service had to furnish his own mount and equipment. In Roman... Read more |
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Confederate Army
Confederate Army. On 19 February 1861, President Jefferson Davis appointed Leroy P. Walker of Alabama secretary of war of the newly formed Confederate States of America—the first of the five men to serve in that troubled office—and on 6 March, the Confederate Congress authorized an... Read more |
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Becky Sharp
BECKY SHARP USA, 1935 Director:Rouben Mamoulian Production:Pioneer Films (RKO); Technicolor, 35mm; running time: 83 minutes (1943 reissue, 67 minutes). Released 13 June 1935; reissued in 1943 as Lady of Fortune; restored at UCLA film archive and... Read more |
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