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United States Department of State
United States Department of State executive department of the federal government responsible, under the President's direction, for the making and execution of American foreign policy. Current Organization and Duties The secretary of state, who heads the department, is aided by a deputy secretary... Read more |
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Pan
Pan , in Greek religion and mythology, pastoral god of fertility. He was worshiped principally in Arcadia, and one legend states that he was the son of Hermes, another Arcadian god. Pan was supposed to make flocks fertile; when he did not, his image was flogged to stimulate him. He was depicted as a... Read more |
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Alfred Rosenberg
Alfred Rosenberg , 1893-1946, German Nazi leader. He was born in Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia), and studied architecture in Riga, and later in Moscow. Returning to Reval, he became active as a political ideologist until he fled (1919) to Germany to escape arrest for counterrevolutionary speeches.... Read more |
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Jabesh-gilead
Jabesh-gilead , in the Bible, city of Gilead. After the affair at Gibeah, wives were provided for the Benjamites by sacking Jabesh. Later, Saul saved Jabesh, and at his death the grateful city buried him.... Read more |
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Office of Consumer Affairs
Office of Consumer Affairs agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, established 1971. The office advises and represents the president on matters of consumer interest, and analyzes and coordinates activities of the federal government in the area of consumer protection. It conducts investigations... Read more |
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Frederick V
Frederick V 1723-66, king of Denmark and Norway (1746-66), son and successor of Christian VI. Frederick's reign was one of commercial expansion and prosperity. Loans, subsidies, and treaties aided industry, and a strong system of protection was introduced. The conditions of the peasantry,... Read more |
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Daniel Ken Inouye
Daniel Ken Inouye , 1924-, U.S. politician, b. Honolulu. A Democratic senator from Hawaii since 1963, he was a member of the committee that investigated the Watergate affair (1973-74) and served as chairman of the committee that investigated the Iran-contra affair (1987). He became chair of the... Read more |
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Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty (Henry Warren Beatty) , 1937-, motion picture actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, b. Richmond, Va. An eminently bankable star, the handsome, charismatic, yet oddly elusive leading man made his film debut in Splendor in the Grass (1961). His reputation as a Hollywood Don... Read more |
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Bureau of Indian Affairs
Bureau of Indian Affairs created (1824) in the U.S. War Dept. and transferred (1849) to the U.S. Dept. of the Interior. The War Dept. managed Native American affairs after 1789, but a separate bureau was not set up for many years. It had jurisdiction over trade with Native Americans, their removal... Read more |
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Arts: It's a hit and myth affair For some time now Mark Wallinger's works...
...spiritual body, its unseen reality - there lies a creature of myth. It's certainly a romantic vision, rather breathtaking...Sometimes it does here, even though you can see how it should hit. The sculpture Time and Relative Dimensions in Space is a Tardis... |
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Message of a hit and myth affair
...impossible quest, according to the Greek myth. Kenneth McLeish's brief introduction...figures makes no mention of the way a myth can be brilliantly recreated by the likes...exploring the cohesive social qualities of myths. "To put it grandly," writes McLeish...want to call her - has generated a new ... |
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BATTLE OF THE GODS TURNS OUT TO BE HIT AND MYTH AFFAIR; Clash Of The Titans...
...game, or makes it all the more important that it makes a suitably big impression. It proves to be a similarly hit and miss affair, as you hack and slash your way through the momentous Greek mythological events of Perseus's adventure. Yes... |
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Book Review: Girl Meets Boy: Sex is a hit and myth affair
...Smith is the latest author to participate in Canongate's Myths series. Unlike Margaret Atwood, who took on Penelope and...s account of the Biblical hero Samson, Smith's chosen myth is relatively obscure; the story of Iphis and Ianthe in Book...There is a certain element of beguiling cheek in Smith taking a ... |
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Sue Carroll column: Teen passion is a hit-and-myth affair.(Features)
...understanding of the facts of life. Schools do their best but only a mother can dispel some of the most incredible- sounding myths without embarrassment. The world is full of single mums because someone thought it "didn't count" if you kept one foot... |
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A hit and myth affair.
Well, one thing's definitely improved in the second of these grand Greek mythology mash-ups. Perseus now has a mullet _ yes, the hairstyle of the gods _ rather than the scalp-risking number two By Zeus, barber of Athens, can't you get that sword any sharper that Avatar star Sam Worthington sported |
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Hits and myths; LIFESTYLE Talking to Steve Coogan is an unsettling affair for...
...wants the challenge of the stage and, well, Hollywood isn't exactly all that much fun. He said: "There seems to be this myth about Hollywood, which I do not understand. Everyone drives everywhere, so no-one drinks. Everyone is health conscious... |
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Myth this at your peril.(Features)
...Byline: Pandora's Box MAC Another hit and myth affair from Mac productions, the team...around re-imaginings of three Greek myths featuring the famous box, high...which plays around with a modern myth - Kate and Leonardo doing that figurehead... |
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Myth & Muhammad al-Dura
...30-2008 Headline: Myth & Muhammad al-DuraEdition...on how both news and myths are made in this part...boy could not have been hit by Israeli bullets...media. The al-Dura affair, like the myth of a massacre in Jenin...conscience, for modern myths of Jewish evil. Keywords... |
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Paul Routledge's column: A hit and myth war; IT RAGES ON TO SAVE FACE.(Features)
...bombing and missile attacks has been shown to be a myth. And still we go on with the same strategy. It is...working, and it will not work. Remote control war is a hit-and-miss affair. Tony Blair and his ministers say there is no alternative... |