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National Power PLC
National Power PLC Windmill Hill Business ParkWhitehill WaySwindonWiltshire SN5 6PBUnited Kingdom(01793) 877777Fax: (01793) 892781 Public CompanyIncorporated: 1989Employees: 5,097Sales: |
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Sputnik
Sputnik World's first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. Weighing 83.5kg (184lb) and with a radio transmitter, Sputnik 1 circled the Earth for several months.http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/sputnik... Read more |
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Sir Richard Owen
Sir Richard Owen 1804-92, English zoologist and comparative anatomist. He studied medicine in Edinburgh and in 1827 joined the staff of the Hunterian museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, where he was first Hunterian professor of comparative anatomy and physiology (1836-56) and also conservator.... Read more |
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Cayuga Lake
Cayuga Lake , 38 mi (61 km) long and 1 to 3.5 mi (1.6-5.6 km) wide, W central N.Y.; longest of the Finger Lakes. It is connected by the Seneca-Cayuga Canal to the New York State Canal System . Cornell Univ. and Wells College overlook Cayuga's clifflike banks. Near the southern end of the lake are... Read more |
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Emma Thompson
Thompson, Emma 1959-PERSONALBorn April 15, 1959, in London, England; daughter of Eric (a director) and Phyllida (an actress) Thompson; sister of Sophie Thompson (an actress); married Kenneth Branagh (an actor, producer, and director), August 20, 1989 (divorced, 1995); married Greg Wise, July 29, ... Read more |
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Robert Cooper Grier
Grier, Robert Cooper (b. Cumberland County, Pa., 5 Mar. 1794; d. Philadelphia, Pa., 25 Sep. 1870; interred West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala‐Cynwyd, Pa.), associate justice, 1846–1870. The eldest of the eleven children of the Rev. Isaac Grier and Elizabeth Cooper, Grier grew up in... Read more |
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Periodic Table of the Elements Bismuth
Periodic Table of the Elements: Bismuth Periodic Table of the Elements: Bismuth Atomic Number: 83 Atomic Symbol: Bi Bismuth Atomic Weight: 208.9804 Electron Configuration: 2 · 8 · 18 32 · 18 · 5... Read more |
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Gangtok
Gangtok, Sikkim/India Situated at a height of 5 600 ft (1 700m), the name means ‘Top of the Hill’ from the Tibetan gang ‘hill’ and tok ‘top’ or ‘peak’. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Sikkim until the monarchy was... Read more |
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Timothy Dwight
Timothy Dwight 1752-1817, American clergyman, author, educator, b. Northampton, Mass., grad. Yale, 1769. He renounced legal for theological studies and after 1783 was pastor for 12 years of a Congregational church at Greenfield Hill, Conn. During his pastorate he became famous throughout New... Read more |
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Elmira
Elmira , city (1990 pop. 33,724), seat of Chemung co., extreme S central N.Y., on the Chemung River; settled 1788, inc. 1864. It is a distribution and manufacturing center with plants that make electronic and fire-fighting equipment, automobile parts, and iron and steel products. The Treaty of... Read more |
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