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Hopi
Hopi Shoshonean-speaking tribe of Native Americans. They are famous for having retained the purest form of pre-Columbian life to have survived in the USA today. Today, c.6000 Hopi live in Arizona.... Read more |
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Arnon
Arnon , river of Jordan, entering the east side of the Dead Sea, called today Wadi Mojib.... Read more |
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Risk assessment
Risk analysis Risk is the chance that something undesirable will happen. Everyone faces personal risks daily; we all have a chance of being struck by a car or by lightning or of catching a cold. None of these are certain to happen today, but they all can and do happen occasionally, some more... Read more |
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Scotia
Scotia , originally the Latin name for Ireland. In the Middle Ages, it was used to refer to Scotland, to which the Scots had migrated from Ireland. Today it is used poetically.... Read more |
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quadrant (technology)
quadrant in technology, angle-measuring device based on a scale of 90°. It is sometimes confused with the sextant , a similar instrument based on a scale of 60°. The quadrant is rarely used today.... Read more |
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Herrnhut
Herrnhut , town, Saxony, SE Germany. It was founded (1722) by Graf von Zinzendorf as a colony of Moravian Brethren (see Moravian Church ), and is today a Moravian center with archives, a publishing house, and a museum.... Read more |
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Today
TODAY. In 1952, no network television programming was scheduled earlier than 10:00 a.m. (EST). NBC president Sylvester "Pat" Weaver created Today with the idea that people might watch TV early in the morning before going to work and sending their children off to school. The two-hour show,... Read more |
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Anthropology and Ethnology
ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY. The history of the terms "anthropology" and "ethnology" tells much about the changing scope of the field and central debates within it. Today we assume that they are closely related—<... Read more |
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iconography
iconography [Gr.,=image-drawing] or iconology [Gr.,=image-study], in art history, the study and interpretation of figural representations, either individual or symbolic, religious or secular; more broadly, the art of representation by pictures or images, which may or may not have a symbolic as... Read more |
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Broadhurst, George (Howells)
...better luck, notably The Wrong Mr. Wright (1897), What Happened to Jones (1897), and Why Smith Left Home (1899), although...Bought and Paid For (1911). Other works of note include Today (1913), in which a husband discovers his wife in a brothel... |
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Broadhurst, George Howells
...manager. His early plays were farcical comedies such as What Happened to Jones (1897) and Why Smith Left Home (1899), but The...vein, in which he continued in Bought and Paid For (1911), Today (1913), and The Law of the Land (1914). In 1917 he opened... |
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parish churches
...played a much more important role than it does for the majority today. The rights and wrongs of how God should be worshipped aroused...to the rebuilding of the whole or a part of the fabric, as happened at Bodmin (Corn.), but generally additions were made by... |
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Herbert, Victor
...in Toyland. Also well received were It Happened in Nordland (1904), Mlle. Modiste...his operettas, his richly lyrical music today is perceived as almost wholly operetta...often agreed with him, but, again, today his influences are seen largely as French... |
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philosophy and geology
...human observers to make records even in principle. Whatever happened in the past was not directly observable in the present. But there...that they were put there to test our faith is not unheard even today.From the point of view of scientific method we could look... |
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Marx, Karl
...Rheinische Zeitung. Rather unluckily, Tsar Nicholas I of Russia happened to read an attack on himself that Marx had penned, and prevailed...Poverty of Philosophy. Very likely, as would still be the case today, this was because these two were studies of better-known... |
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invoke
...argument: the antiquated defense of insanity is rarely invoked today. ∎ call on (a deity or spirit) in prayer, as a witness...give rise to; evoke: how could she explain how the accident happened without invoking his wrath? ∎ Comput. cause (a procedure... |
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Mill, John Stuart
...society were the ‘concrete deductive method’ (which today would be termed the ‘hypothetico-deductive method’) and the...satisfactorily explain generalizations about events that have already happened, and in this way arrive at causal explanations of social processes... |
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stratagem
...spellings diverged merely as a matter of long-standing convention. What happened is that the Latin strategema became stratagema in Romance languages...originally a Greek term) from Latin. Hence our incongruous spellings today. —BG |
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thing
...utensils; accoutrements. 4. I've got several things to do today synonyms: activity, act, action, deed, undertaking, exploit...declaration, pronouncement. 7. quite a few odd things happened synonyms: incident, episode, event, happening, occurrence... |
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Michael Winter. This All Happened.(Book review)
...that the Gabriel of This All Happened is the literary alter-ego...quotidian into art. This All Happened abounds in idle wordplay...new experiences. This All Happened is about a man who seems to...Tom: So what'd you do today. I walked around the town... |
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It has never happened. Should not have happened. Cannot happen.'(HL)
...Sembilan, Malacca and Johor for nearly three hours today. "What happened today puzzled us," Hadi told a nationally televised Press conference. "It has never happened. Should not have happened. Cannot happen." Although... |
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What happened in Lalgarh should not have happened : Buddhadeb.
What happened in Lalgarh should not have happened : Buddhadeb Canning (WB), January...Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today strongly disapproved of the firing...cadres, saying it should not have happened and asked all political parties... |
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Anguish over loss of tiny Matthew; PARENTS DESPERATE TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO...
...Chandler still do not know what happened to their son, Matthew, almost...couple say someone must know what happened to their son and today offered them amnesty in exchange...the truth. If you know what happened please write a letter to Mr... |
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This is Anthony, my first son, my only son. He is the love of my life... I...
...in Nigeria need to know what happened to Anthony. His friends surrounding...here need to know what has happened to Anthony. I need to know...he is a world citizen. Here today we have Christians, Muslims...humanity. I need to know what happened to my Anthony. ... |
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Whatever happened to imperialism?
...aside just because no Vietnam has happened in the last 15 years. Moreover...nothing on the scale of Vietnam has happened since then, plenty has happened and is happening to belie the proposition that the world today is in any way fundamentally different... |
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What happened?
...NJ) 08-29-2008 What happened? -- Father demands answers...I have to know exactly what happened," said Adan Morales.His...examiner. He was to be buried today.In addition, a senior in...When I had asked them what happened, they said, 'It's just... |
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Football: What happened to John is horrendous his injury casts a huge shadow...
...for us as a club because what happened to John came about in a Scotland...emerged unscathed. 'What has happened to John is horrendous and words...studied the video tape of what happened when he went in to tackle Ganea...celebrate a goal against Hearts today. ... |
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'A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Moon' Top Selling Video On Amazon.com.
...Fox special [A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Moon] and...video/DVD "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Moon...World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection...information about "A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE ... |
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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO CENTENNIAL AG MURAL?(Today's Business)
...Milwaukee. My question is: Whatever happened to the mural, the statue and the film...thousands of people. My question: Whatever happened to this ``one time ever'' painting...life. It was quite a job . . . whatever happened to them?'' Hodgell had trained with... |
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