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Beyonce Knowles
Beyoncé Knowles 1981– Singer, actor, performer Driven to Pop Stardom Redoubled Their Efforts Debut Album Worth the Wait Controversy Drew Attention, Boosted Sates Hit Big Screen as Foxxy Cleopatra Selected works Sources Pop singer Beyonc Read more |
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Battle of Winceby
Winceby, battle of, 1643. Sir John Henderson, royalist governor of Newark, set out in October 1643 to relieve Bolingbroke castle, near Horncastle. His force was intercepted by parliamentary cavalry under Manchester, Fairfax, and Cromwell and badly cut up on the 11th. Though a small-scale action,... Read more |
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squash rackets
squash rackets derived from rackets and originated at Harrow. An Association was formed in 1928 and by 1939 more than 200 clubs were affiliated. The International Federation was set up in 1967. The sport was given a considerable boost by the Royal Air Force, which built courts at almost all... Read more |
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Demelza
Demelza ♀ Modern Cornish name, which has no history as a Celtic personal name but is derived from a place name in the parish of St Columb Major. The given name began to be used in the 1950s and was given a boost by the serialization on British television of the ‘Poldark’... Read more |
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operational amplifier
operational amplifier amplifier whose output voltage is proportional to the negative of its input voltage and that boosts the amplitude of an input signal many times, i.e., has a very high gain. It is usually connected so that part of the output is fed back to the input. Operational amplifiers... Read more |
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Press
press. Despite a shortage of newsprint, newspapers and magazines continued to be published in every country during the war years. The civilian press of the belligerents was part of the propaganda war; the armed forces newspapers boosted morale at the front; and the clandestine press of the various... Read more |
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Statues
Statuary Background Sculpture is three-dimensional art, and statuary is affordable sculpture for everyone. Statuary encompasses the sublime to the ridiculous it is as familiar as red- and-green lawn gnomes and as exotic the Winged Victory,an ancient Greek sculpture... Read more |
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Thomas Wentworth
Wentworth, Thomas (1593–1641), created 1st earl of Strafford in 1640, and appointed lord deputy by Charles I in 1632. Wentworth aimed at restoring church and king at the expense of Old English recalcitrance and New English corruption by an active policy, nicknamed ‘thorough’,... Read more |
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wardrobe
wardrobe. Financial institution. As its name suggests, the wardrobe was originally the place in which the king's robes were placed for safe keeping, and where cash was held from which the king's personal expenses might be paid. Under Henry III it developed its scope of action, having more moneys... Read more |
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