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record player
record player or phonograph, device for reproducing sound that has been recorded as a spiral, undulating groove on a disk. This disk is known as a phonograph record, or simply a record (see sound recording ). In using a record player, a record is placed on the player's motor-driven turntable, ...
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Nimrod
Nimrod in the Bible, descendant of Cush who is recorded as a mighty hunter.
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Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Gretzky 1961-, Canadian ice hockey player, b. Brantford, Ont. He played with the Edmonton Oilers (1978-88), Los Angeles Kings (1988-96), St. Louis Blues (1996), and New York Rangers (1997-99). Gretzky is considered the most influential player in professional hockey history; when he retired, h...
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Antal Dorati
Antal Dorati , 1906-88, Hungarian-American conductor, b. Budapest. Dorati studied with Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók. He made his conducting debut at 18 at the Budapest Opera. His first appearance in the United States was with the National Symphony in 1937. Dorati was the...
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tape recorder
tape recorder device for recording information on strips of plastic tape (usually polyester) that are coated with fine particles of a magnetic substance, usually an oxide of iron, cobalt, or chromium. The coating is normally held on the tape with a special binder. Tape recorders can store many diff...
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stereophonic sound
stereophonic sound sound recorded simultaneously through two or more electronic channels. For live recordings, microphones are placed in different positions relative to the sound source. The recorded sound is played back through loudspeakers placed more or less as the recording microphones were pla...
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Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods (Eldrick Woods), 1975-, American golfer, b. Cypress, Calif. The son of a African-American father and a Thai mother, he was a college star at Stanford and became the only three-time (1994-96) U.S. amateur champion before turning professional in 1997. Seeming to justify publicity promotin...
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bookkeeping
bookkeeping maintenance of systematic and convenient records of money transactions in order to show the condition of a business enterprise. The essential purpose of bookkeeping is to reveal the amounts and sources of the losses and profits for any given period. Proper bookkeeping should also reveal...
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B. B. King
B. B. King 1925-, African-American blues singer and guitarist, b. near Indianola, Miss., as Riley B. King. He grew up poor in the Mississippi Delta region, began playing the guitar at 12, was a street corner performer as a teenager, and as a young man worked as a singing, guitar-playing radio disk ...
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Jahaz
Jahaz , Jahaza, Jahazah , or Jahzah , in the Bible, unidentified town, E of the Dead Sea. Israel's defeat there of the Amorites is recorded on the Moabite stone.
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