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Amicus Curiae Amicus Curiae
AMICUS CURIAE Literally, friend of the court. A person with strong interest in or views on the subject matter of an action, but not a party to the action, may petition the court for permission to file a brief, ostensibly on behalf of a party but actually to suggest a rationale consistent with its... Read more
Olin Levi Warner Olin Levi Warner
Olin Levi Warner 1844-96, American sculptor, b. Suffield, Conn. He studied art in Paris, working for a time as an assistant to J.-B. Carpeaux . He served in the Franco-Prussian War (1870) and returned to the United States in 1892, setting up a studio in New York City. Warner's realistic sculptures... Read more
Nematomorpha Nematomorpha
Nematomorpha , small (about 230 species) phylum of pseudocoelomates ; the horsehair worms . Most are very slender, elongated creatures found in ponds and streams, whose larvae live as parasites in arthropods. They emerge as adults for a brief time, then mate and die. A small number are planktonic... Read more
Christopher Jencks Christopher Jencks
Jencks, Christopher 1936- BIBLIOGRAPHY Christopher Jencks is among the most widely respected and influential social scientists in the United States. His career has been driven by an interest in economic opportunity and the welfare of individuals at the bottom of the income distribution.... Read more
etude etude
étude , a brief musical composition, usually for piano, fashioned to instruct an instrumentalist in a particular technical problem, such as scales or trills. Succeeding the toccata, popular in the baroque period, the étude was developed into a compactly crafted musical form by... Read more
Morning Sickness Morning Sickness
Morning sickness Definition Morning sickness is the nausea and vomiting experienced during pregnancy , particularly in the first trimester. Although it is called morning sickness, it can and usually does occur at any time of the day or night. Description Morning sickness is characterized by... Read more
regium donum regium donum
regium donum, a state grant towards the payment of Presbyterian ministers, initiated, at £600 a year, in 1672 during Charles II's brief experiment with religious toleration (see restoration). Payments were suspended under James II, but resumed, at £1,200 per annum, under William III. In... Read more
John Opie John Opie
John Opie 1761-1807, English portrait and historical painter. Opie showed a remarkable talent as a young man. He became the protégé of the poet John Wolcot, and enjoyed a brief popularity as a fashionable portrait painter in the Reynolds tradition. In 1786 he began a series of seven... Read more
Menshevik Menshevik
Menshevik a member of the non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party, which proposed moderate reforms and opposed the Bolsheviks' advocacy of revolutionary action by a small political elite. They were defeated by the Bolsheviks after the overthrow of the tsar in 1917.The name... Read more
Green Book Green Book
GREEN BOOK The governing philosophy of Libya's ruler, Muammar al-Qaddafi. The Green Book contains the brief, three-part statement of the Third International Theory, the governing philosophy of Muammar al-Qaddafi, ruler of Libya. Designed to be an alternative to both capitalism and... Read more

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