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Mayflower Compact
Mayflower Compact in U.S. colonial history, an agreement providing for the temporary government of Plymouth Colony . The compact was signed (1620) on board the Mayflower by the adult male passengers; it created the first American settlement that was based upon a social contract. In it, the... Read more |
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Chaos
Chaos , in Greek religion and mythology, vacant, unfathomable space. From it arose all things, earthly and divine. There are various legends explaining it. In one version, Eurynome rose out of Chaos and created all things. In another, Gaea sprang from Chaos and was the mother of all things.... Read more |
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Extrasensory perception
extrasensory perception The twentieth century witnessed the rise of parapsychology, which set out to prove the reality of extrasensory perception (ESP). Historically, widespread credence has been given to such phenomena in most if not all cultures, and this holds true today for large sectors of the... Read more |
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siege of Leningrad
Leningrad, siege of. In all likelihood, a million or more non-combatants died during the 900-day siege of this Soviet city, making it a frightful human disaster by any standard (see Map 63). The USSR's allies regarded the siege—which was actually not a siege but a blockade deliberately... Read more |
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Brainiac
Brainiac Rock group Storming out of a scene that spawned Guided by Voices and later the Breeders, Brainiac took a cue from dormant and nearby Ohioans Devo, and delivered three albums and two EPs of intensely quirky rock and pop that helped put their hometown of Dayton on the map. With... Read more |
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Hubert Howe Bancroft
Hubert Howe Bancroft 1832-1918, American publisher and historian, b. Granville, Ohio. Bancroft began his career as a bookseller in San Francisco in 1852. Soon he had his own firm, the largest book and stationery business W of Chicago. He also developed a passion for collecting materials on the... Read more |
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Red Guards
Red Guards in Chinese history, politically active students of the Cultural Revolution (1966-69), who organized units to carry out Mao Zedong 's aim of rerevolutionizing Chinese society. As their numbers grew, the units engaged in factional struggles, and in 1968 Mao suppressed the movement.... Read more |
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genetic map
genetic map The linear arrangement of mutable sites on a chromosome, deduced from genetic recombination experiments. The percentage of recombinants is used as a quantitative index of the distance between two gene pairs, and this distance, together with those between other gene pairs, provides a map... Read more |
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Syringes
Syringe The hypodermic syringe, also known as the hypodermic needle, is a device used by medical professionals to transfer liquids into or out of the body. It is made up of a hollow needle, which is attached to a tube and a plunger. When the plunger handle is pulled back,... Read more |
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Mobility
...and Virginia experienced net out‐migration of native‐born...in The Frontier in American History (1920). As explorers...The Lewis and Clark Expedition mapped a route for fur traders...the Oklahoma territory. Not all agreed on opening these lands... |
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Buddhism
...truth, with a long pre-history) in the 6th and 5th cents...them drastically: he saw all appearance as characterized...movement, but a drawing out of elements of practice...buddhas and bodhisattvas was mapped into its place. But even...is empty of self and of ... |
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History underfoot: secret World War II underground bunkers and tunnels...
...storage, to keep stores out of the weather and protected...difficulty was reducing all noise levels down to a...was a major issue with all on-pole RTK systems...more than three, and at all times more than eight...To date, Parkes has mapped ... |
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FLY TREE OF LIFE MAPPED, ADDS BIG BRANCH OF EVOLUTIONARY KNOWLEDGE.
...across the globe have mapped the evolutionary...than 10 percent of all life on Earth. The...scientists to tease out answers to other...Researchers have mapped the evolutionary...evolutionary success in all sorts of environments...and ... |
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A career mapped out
...adventures into the layers of history that create settlement...European towns have been mapped. The achievement of...Jacinta Prunty, now a history lecturer in Maynooth...Towns Atlas to urban history teaching; National Museum...Soviet confiscation of ... |
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'Fly tree of life' mapped, adds big branch of evolutionary knowledge.
...the globe have mapped the evolutionary...10 percent of all life on Earth...scientists to tease out answers to other...evolutionary success in all sorts of environments...and evolutionary history began in wet environments...flexible life ... |
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FLY TREE OF LIFE MAPPED, ADDS BIG BRANCH OF EVOLUTIONARY KNOWLEDGE
...the globe have mapped the evolutionary...10 percent of all life on Earth...scientists to tease out answers to other...evolutionary success in all sorts of environments...and evolutionary history began in wet environments...flexible life ... |
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Exhibition that's all mapped out
...2001 Exhibition that's all mapped outByline: Manveet KaurEdition...by the Portuguese to the history of geography and to the...which are still used all over the world, to areas...Europeans in those areas. History buff Surinder Singh, a... |
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Cartography to be mapped out on BBC Four.
...Cartography to be mapped out on BBC Four(C...a unique window on history and the beauty inherent...of what BBC Four is all about: offering real...the exploration of all things cultural...Communications disclaims all liability ... |
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HE HAS DIRT ON STATE'S SOIL; SCIENTIST HAS MAPPED CNY SOILS.(Local)
...he said, looking out his window. "It...scientist, is 91. He mapped the soils in Cayuga...about 14 miles and mapped between 300 and 400...treasure of living history. Hutton's detailed...surveys helped lay out the campus of Tompkins...the soil ... |
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Lewis & Clark Mapped It -- Then the Nation Remade the West [Correction...
...road trip in American history, Clark believed he...instead observed, mapped and painstakingly...what was actually out here, in all its punishing vastness...hardly changed at all. More than anything...Salmon, as it turns out, ... |
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A Genetics Pioneer Who Mapped the Inner World
...lineage, locality and history shaped people's...s walk of where all four of his great...grew up there. Like all dairy farmers, theirs...be attributable -- all or mostly -- by inheritance...the human genes be mapped to the individual...Today, ... |
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