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Hole Hole
Hole Rock band For the Record… Read more
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ocarina ocarina
ocarina , musical wind instrument with eight finger holes and two thumb holes, rather egg-shaped, and made of metal, terra-cotta or plastic. Unlike other wind instuments, it produces pure tones that lack overtones. It was invented in the late 19th cent. in Italy and is popular with amateurs for its... Read more
Black Hole of Calcutta Black Hole of Calcutta
Black Hole of Calcutta Prison in Calcutta, India, where 64 or more British soldiers were placed by the Nawab Siraj-ad-Dawlah of Bengal in June 1756. The cell was 5.5 × 4.5m (18 × 15ft) and most of the soldiers died of suffocation.... Read more
groundhog groundhog
groundhog Another name for the woodchuck (see SCIURIDAE). In the USA, ‘Groundhog Day’ (2 February) is popularly supposed to be the day the groundhog emerges from his hole. If he sees his shadow he considers this an omen of more bad weather and returns to his hole for a further six... Read more
deadeye deadeye
deadeye, orig. dead-man's-eye, a circular block, usually of lignum vitae, though sometimes of elm, grooved around the circumference and pierced with three holes. In the days of the square-rigger they were used in pairs to secure the end of a shroud to the chain-plate. A lanyard was threaded through... Read more
foramen foramen
foramen (fo-ray-men) n. (pl. foramina) an opening or hole, particularly in a bone. apical f. the small opening at the apex of a tooth. f. magnum a large hole in the occipital bone through which the spinal cord passes. f. ovale the opening between the two atria of the fetal heart, which allows blood... Read more
Robert Duane Ballard Robert Duane Ballard
Robert Duane Ballard , 1942-, American marine geologist, b. Wichita, Kans.; Ph.D. Univ. of Rhode Island, 1974. In 1969, he began an association with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, where he eventually became the head of the Deep Submergence Laboratory. He combined interests in plate tectonics... Read more
William Maurice Ewing William Maurice Ewing
William Maurice Ewing 1906-74, American oceanographer and geologist, b. Lackney, Tex., grad. Rice Institute, now Rice Univ. (B.S., 1926; M.A., 1927; Ph.D., 1931). He taught physics and geology at the Univ. of Pittsburgh and Lehigh Univ. and was a research associate at Woods Hole Oceanographic... Read more
Stephen William Hawking Stephen William Hawking
Stephen William Hawking 1942-, British theoretical physicist, b. Oxford, England, grad. University College, Oxford, 1962, Ph.D. Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1966. In 1962 Hawking was diagnosed as having an incurable muscular disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Although the disease... Read more

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