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Conglomerates
CONGLOMERATES CONGLOMERATES are corporations consisting of a number of different companies operating in diversified fields. In geology circles, the analogous definition of conglomerate is something consisting of loosely cemented heterogeneous material. Conglomerates in business are organizations... Read more |
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Bombast
Bombast Bombast was absolutely essential to the men's and women's clothing of the sixteenth century, yet it was never actually seen. Bombast was a form of stuffing made from cotton, wool, horsehair, or even sawdust. It was used to pad and add shape to a variety of garments, including the shoulders,... Read more |
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Jenny Craig Inc
Jenny Craig, Inc. 11355 North Torrey Pines RoadLa Jolla, California 92037U.S.A.(619) 812-7000(800) 388-6213Fax: (619) 812-2700Web site: http://www.jennycraig.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1983Employees: 4,100Sales: $352.24 million (1998)Stock Exchanges: New YorkTicker Symbol: JCNAIC:... Read more |
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Servants
SERVANTS SERVANTS. Domestic service, often ignored in the first decades of research into the social history of early modern Europe, has recently benefited from greater scholarly attention. Investigation has made it clear that a knowledge of master-servant relations provides essential insights... Read more |
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Colin Campbell Lord Lorne 1st earl of Argyll
Argyll, Colin Campbell, Lord Lorne, 1st earl of [S] (d. December 1492/January 1493). Colin Campbell was the grandson of Sir Duncan Campbell of Lochawe, 1st Lord Campbell [S] (1445), who died in 1453. Colin's elevation to earl (1458) was followed by a steady acquisition of lands and... Read more |
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Jean-Baptiste-Marie Saint Vianney
D'Ars, Curé (1786-1859) Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, a French minister of deep religious beliefs and fervent faith whose life was replete with extraordinary psychic manifestations. Vianney was born May 8, 1786, in Dardilly, a village near Lyons, France. Although a poor student, who found it... Read more |
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Galaxies
Galaxies Galaxies are collections of stars, gas, and dust, combined with some unknown form of dark matter, all bound together by gravity. The visible parts come in a variety of sizes, ranging from a few thousand light yearswith a billion stars, to 100,000 light-years... Read more |
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Yakut
Yakut ETHNONYMS: Sakha, Urangkhai Sakha, Yakutians Orientation Identification . The Yakut, who prefer to call themselves "Sakha," live in Yakutia, the Sovereign Sakha Republic of the Russian Federation formed in 1992. The Yakut are the farthest-north Turkic people, with a... Read more |
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Gases
GASES CONCEPT The number of elements that appear ordinarily in the form of a gas is relatively small: oxygen, hydrogen, fluorine, and chlorine in the halogen "family"; and a handful of others, most notably the noble gases in Group 8 of the periodic table. Yet many substances can exist in the form of... Read more |
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