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Udaipur
Udaipur or Mewar , city and former princely state, now part of Rajasthan state, NW India. The Udaipur region, thickly wooded in the south and west, is mostly an alluvial plain watered by many intermittent streams. Grains, sugarcane, corn, and oilseed are grown. There are also extensive mineral d...
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pericardium
pericardium (pe-ri-kar-diŭm) n. the membrane surrounding the heart. fibrous p. the outer portion of the pericardium, which completely encloses the heart and is attached to the large blood vessels emerging from the heart. serous p. the internal portion of the pericardium: a closed sac of serou...
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Baghdad Railway
Baghdad Railway railroad of international importance linking Europe with Asia Minor and the Middle East. The line runs from Istanbul, Turkey, to Basra, Iraq; it connected what were distant regions of the Ottoman Empire . The railroad was initially financed chiefly by German capital; its Anatolian ...
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Raymond Mathewson Hood
Raymond Mathewson Hood 1881-1934, American architect, b. Pawtucket, R.I. He studied at Brown Univ., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. In 1922 he was the winner, with John Mead Howells, of the international competition for the design of the Tribune To...
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Franz Lehár
Franz Lehár , 1870-1948, Hungarian composer of operettas. After completing studies at the Prague Conservatory (1882-88), he began a career as a conductor of military bands and settled in Vienna. There, following the success of his first operetta, Wiener Frauen (1902), he devoted himself to ...
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Port Sudan
Port Sudan , city (1993 pop. 308,195), NE Sudan, on the Red Sea. The country's major seaport, it handles the bulk of Sudan's foreign trade. The city is also a rail terminus that serves a rich, cotton-growing area of the Nile Valley. Port Sudan has an oil refinery and a pipeline to carry oil to Khart...
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Eero Saarinen
Eero Saarinen , 1910-61, Finnish-American architect, grad. Yale (B.A., 1934), became an American citizen in 1940; son of Eliel Saarinen . Saarinen's reputation was established with his design of the General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Mich. (1951-55). His architectural innovations are signific...
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bourse
bourse , term applied to a European stock exchange . The first international bourse was established in Antwerp in the 16th cent. The Paris bourse, dating from 1720 but completely reorganized in 1999, consists of the main exchange, equivalent to the New York Stock Exchange, plus the Matif (the deriv...
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Erne
Erne , river, 72 mi (116 km) long, rising in Lough Gowna, Co. Longford, N Republic of Ireland. It flows NW through SW Northern Ireland, then back through the Republic before entering the Atlantic Ocean at Donegal Bay. Grazing predominates in the Erne basin; Enniskillen is the chief town. In Northe...
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soliloquy
soliloquy the speech by a character in a literary composition, usually a play, delivered while the speaker is either alone addressing the audience directly or the other actors are silent. It is most commonly used to reveal the innermost concerns or thoughts of the speaker, thus pointing up the dram...
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