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Gerald Scarfe Gerald Scarfe
Scarfe, Gerald (1936– ). British caricaturist, designer, sculptor, printmaker, painter, film-maker, and writer, born in London. He suffered from severe asthma throughout most of his childhood and took up drawing during long periods of confinement in bed. After a brief period working for an... Read more
nursery rhymes nursery rhymes
nursery rhymes verses, generally brief and usually anonymous, for children. The best-known examples are in English and date mostly from the 17th cent. A popular type of rhyme is used in "counting-out" games, e.g., "Eenie, meenie, minie, mo." The subject matter of the rhymes has been linked... Read more
Morse code Morse code
Morse code [for S. F. B. Morse ], the arbitrary set of signals used on the telegraph (see code ). It may also be used with a flash lamp for visible signaling . The international (or continental) Morse code is a simplified form generally used in radio telegraphy. The American Morse differs from... Read more
genetics genetics
genetics scientific study of the mechanism of heredity. While Gregor Mendel first presented his findings on the statistical laws governing the transmission of certain traits from generation to generation in 1856, it was not until the discovery and detailed study of the chromosome and the gene ... Read more
Montmorency Montmorency
Montmorency ♂ Transferred use of the surname, originally a Norman baronial name from a place in Seine-et-Oise. The place name is derived from Old French mont ‘hill’ + the Gallo-Roman personal name Maurentius. The given name enjoyed a brief vogue in the 19th century, but is now... Read more
Kalmar Union Kalmar Union
Kalmar Union combination of the three crowns of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, effected at Kalmar, Sweden, by Queen Margaret I in 1397. Because the kingship was elective in all three countries, the union could not be maintained by inheritance. Nationalist forces used the election procedure to... Read more
nervous breakdown nervous breakdown
nervous breakdown (ner-vŭs brayk-down) n. a lay term applied to a range of emotional crises varying from a brief attack of ‘hysterical’ behaviour to a major mental illness with severe long-term effects on the life of the sufferer. The term is also sometimes used as a euphemism... Read more
Per Curiam Per Curiam
PER CURIAM [ Latin, By the court.] A phrase used to distinguish an opinion of the whole court from an opinion written by any one judge. Sometimes per curiam signifies an opinion written by the chief justice or presiding judge; it can also refer to a brief oral announcement of the disposition of a... Read more
fable fable
fable brief allegorical narrative, in verse or prose, illustrating a moral thesis or satirizing human beings. The characters of a fable are usually animals who talk and act like people while retaining their animal traits. The oldest known fables are those in the Panchatantra, a collection of... Read more
Logan Pearsall Smith Logan Pearsall Smith
Logan Pearsall Smith 1865-1946, Anglo-American author, b. Millville, N.J. After 1888 he lived in England, studied at Oxford, and became a man of letters. His brief and exquisite essays were collected as All Trivia (1933). Other works include writings on the English language, a biography of Sir... Read more

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