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Flaming Lips
Flaming Lips Rock group The odd band known as the Flaming Lips languished on the edges of alternative rock obscurity for more than a decade, known only to fellow fringe-music aficionados who appreciated the band's unique, distorted sound. Music writer Jim DeRogatis has called them "one of the... Read more |
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Cora
Cora ETHNONYMS: Coras-nayaritas, Nayares, Nayaritas Orientation Identification. The Cora are an ethnic group who live almost exclusively in the state of Nayarit, Mexico. The terms "Nayares," "Nayaritas," and "Coras-nayaritas" are derived from the name of an ancient political-religious... Read more |
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Atomic emission spectroscopy
Flame Analysis Some forensic analytical determinations rely on the separation of the various components in a mixture of compounds. One means of accomplishing this separation is to heat the sample using a flame. The separated compounds can then be analyzed and identified. For example, when metals are... Read more |
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Ruth Crawford
Ruth Crawford 1901-53, American composer, b. East Liverpool, Ohio. Crawford attended music schools in Jacksonville, Fla., and Chicago. Her most frequently performed composition is a string quartet (1931). She also collected and published American folk music with her husband, the musicologist and... Read more |
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flame
flame phenomenon associated with the chemical reaction of a gas that has been heated above its kindling temperature with some other gas, usually atmospheric oxygen (see combustion ). The heat and light given off are characteristic of the specific chemical reaction (or reactions) going on; the... Read more |
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The Male Animal
Male Animal, The (1940), a comedy by James Thurber and Elliot Nugent. [Cort Theatre, 243 perf.] Tommy Turner (Nugent), a professor of English, suddenly finds himself confronted by two problems: the return to campus of Joe Ferguson ( Leon Ames), a former college football star and old flame of... Read more |
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Jan Hus
Jan Hus Jan Hus (1369-1415), a fifteenth-century religious reformer, was (along with John Wycliffe) one of the most important forerunners of the 16th-century Reformation. Among the many, no doubt apocryphal, stories of Jan Hus's life is one that relates an incident in his youth, which... Read more |
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Hero and Leander
Hero and Leander Hero and Leander were famous lovers in Greek mythology. Hero, who lived in the town of Sestos, served as a priestess of the goddess Aphrodite* (Venus). Leander was a youth from the nearby town of Abydos, located across a narrow strip of water called the... Read more |
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John Held Jr
HELD, JOHN, JR. 1889-1958 I LLUSTRATOR Illustrator of the Jazz Age The work of John Held Jr. so accurately delineated and parodied the new fashions of the 1920s that his illustrations became guides for the conduct and costume of flaming youth. He was the most popular and ... Read more |
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flame test
flame test test used in the identification of certain metals. It is based on the observation that light emitted by any element gives a unique spectrum when passed through a spectroscope. When a salt of the metal is introduced into a Bunsen burner flame, the metallic ion produces characteristic... Read more |
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