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feast
feast commemorative banquet symbolizing communal unity. Generally associated with primitive rituals and later with religious practices, feasts may also commemorate such events as births, marriages, harvests, and deaths. The principal Christian feasts of the Western Church are Easter , Pentecost ,...
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local government
local government political administration of the smallest subdivisions of a country's territory and population.
Characteristics and Types
Although there are special-purpose local government bodies (e.g., school boards in the United States), more important are those that carry out a broad ...
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Saint Oliver Plunket
Saint Oliver Plunket 1629-81, Irish Roman Catholic churchman and martyr, b. Co. Meath. He was educated at Rome and named Roman Catholic archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland in 1669. He was on good terms with local Protestants and worked with much success. After the Test Act (1673) he kep...
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local group
LOCAL GROUP
[local group]
in astronomy, loose cluster of at least 19 nearby galaxies , including our own Milky Way galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy , and the Magellanic Clouds . The local group is spread over an ellipsoidal region of space with a major axis of approximately 3 million light-ye...
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local group
LOCAL GROUP
[local group]
in astronomy, loose cluster of at least 19 nearby galaxies , including our own Milky Way galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy , and the Magellanic Clouds . The local group is spread over an ellipsoidal region of space with a major axis of approximately 3 million light-ye...
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Ashtaroth
Ashtaroth , Hebrew plural form of Ashtoreth, the name of the Canaanite fertility goddess and consort of Baal . Her name is vocalized in Greek as Astarte . She was worshiped at various local shrines. There are several references to her in the Bible.
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Barnsley
Barnsley , city (1991 pop. 76,783) and metropolitan district, N England. Coal mining, engineering, and clothing industries dominate the local economy. A mining and technical college is in Barnsley.
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Camperdown
Camperdown , Du. Kamperduin [the dune of Kamp], locality near the village of Kamp, North Holland prov., NW Netherlands, on the North Sea. In 1797 the British defeated the Dutch in a naval battle off Camperdown.
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Franz Gruber
Franz Gruber , 1787-1863, Austrian organist. On Christmas Eve in 1818 he composed his one published work, the music for the poem Silent Night by the local curate, Josef Mohr.
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Kirkcudbrightshire
Kirkcudbrightshire or Kirkcudbright, former county, SW Scotland. Under the Local Government Act of 1973, Kirkcudbrightshire became (1975) part of the new Dumfries and Galloway region (now a council area).
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