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Isandhlwana
Isandhlwana. Hill, located 75 miles north of Pietermaritzburg (South Africa), site of an important battle in the Zulu War. Part of the centre column of a three-pronged British invasion of Zululand, having underestimated its opponents, was surprised by a Zulu army on 22 January 1879. Disciplined... Read more |
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vertebral column
vertebral column (backbone; spinal column; spine) A flexible bony column in vertebrates that extends down the long axis of the body and provides the main skeletal support. It also encloses and protects the spinal cord and provides attachment for the muscles of the back. The vertebral column consists... Read more |
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porch
porch. 1. Covered place of entrance and exit attached to a building and projecting in front of its main mass, such as the south porch of a medieval church, often with a room over it. 2. Interior volume serving as a vestibule. 3. Transept or side-chapel in a church. 4. Cloister, colonnade, Galilee,... Read more |
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entasis
entasis [Gr.,=stretching], the slight convex curvature of a classical column that diminishes in diameter as it rises. This device, as used by Greek builders, was of extreme subtlety, the freehand curvature being merely sufficient to guard the contours of the column from any appearance of inward... Read more |
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column
column vertical architectural support, circular or polygonal in plan. A column is generally at least four or five times as high as its diameter or width; stubbier freestanding masses of masonry are usually called piers or pillars, particularly those with a rectangular plan. In fully developed... Read more |
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John Gibbon
John Gibbon 1827-96, Union general in the Civil War, b. near Holmesburg (now part of Philadelphia), Pa., grad. West Point, 1847. Made a brigadier general of volunteers (1862), he fought in the second battle of Bull Run, at South Mt., at Antietam, and in the Wilderness campaign (1864). After the war... Read more |
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Erechtheum
Erechtheum [for Erechtheus ], Gr. Erechtheion, temple in Pentelic marble, on the Acropolis at Athens. One of the masterpieces of Greek architecture, it was constructed between c.421 BC and 405 BC to replace an earlier temple to Athena destroyed by the Persians. Its design is sometimes ascribed... Read more |
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periodic table
periodic table chart of the elements arranged according to the periodic law discovered by Dmitri I. Mendeleev and revised by Henry G. J. Moseley . In the periodic table the elements are arranged in columns and rows according to increasing atomic number (see the table entitled Periodic Table... Read more |
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chromatography
chromatography , resolution of a chemical mixture into its component compounds by passing it through a system that retards each compound to a varying degree; a system capable of accomplishing this is called a chromatograph. The retarding system can be a surface adsorbant, such as silica, alumina,... Read more |
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Who would you put money on in a financial World Cup? AND WE CAN ELIMINATE...
...eliminate some countries straight away. North Korea, for example, as no...funds. The same goes for South American nations such...an important factor in getting the economy back on an...views expressed in this column are personal and do not... |
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Why Rome's Olympic offer ignores the grim reality.(Column)
...convinced they will go straight to heaven for massacring...Barcelona and even Seoul, South Korea. Sport should take a...of fortune CAPTION:Getting the message: the 200mph...paragraphs from it in this column. Matthew was incande |
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NO REASON TO BEWARE OF THIS DOG.(CNY)(Column)
...She came here from Korea, where she served...on Cheju Island, South Korea. Soon after, she...while she lived in Korea, and Sandy wound...the suggestion of getting close to animals...They have short, straight hair that's ... |
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GIBSON WASN'T ABLE TO UNLOCK HIS POTENTIAL WITH THE ROCKIES.(Sports)(Column)
...have a scout in Korea. They hired Sang...to come out of Korea because their pro...a diesel, but getting nowhere fast...1985, made the South Atlantic League...see him diving straight toward the wall, straight over the ... |
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The Chicago Tribune Philip Hersh Olympic Sports column: Meissner repeat won't...
...who tosses off triple axels. And South Korea's Kim Yu-Na, upset winner of...after Reggie, who was very slow getting his lines," Meissner said...minute practice session doing seven straight lutzes, all successful. "She... |
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The Boston Globe Upgrade Column.
...SPAMMER HOPES TO GO STRAIGHT -- BUT PLY TRADE LEGALLY...But he'll gladly go straight, he insists, as soon...Scelson's views are getting a sympathetic hearing...companies in China, South America, South Korea, and Russia. ... |
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There's nothing in view but a net loss.(Column)
...EDWARDS THE SANDRA cut a straight line through flat sea...whole stretch of the south coast . Now they were...whelks. The whelks go to Korea. Some days, the skipper...problem,' Paul said getting a piece of paper to write...read is about farmers ... |
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Smoothing Out The Bumps: Master moguls and you will master the universe.(From...
...page 119). Their advice is straight-forward and based on years...141), a lighthearted take on getting the most out of any ski lesson...this story. We also drop in on South Korea ("Let's Ski Korea!" page 176) for an amusing... |
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Column: Liu vs. Robles, the rematch. Mouthwatering
DAEGU, South Korea (AP) — Whatever plans you had for...and just as the kid from Shanghai was getting his nose ahead.The Cuban seemed, just...biggest track and field star seemed to know straight away that something was amiss. Robles... |
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Alan Green column: Don't make me laugh Sir Bobby; Green on Monday.(Sport)
...17 Championship with stop-offs in South Korea and Japan for the 2002 World Cup draw...to laugh the other day when Sir Bobby, straight-faced, said how much he was looking forward to getting through the next six months (the decision... |
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