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lost tribes
lost tribes 10 Israelite tribes that, according to the Bible, were transported to Assyria by Tiglathpileser III or Shalmaneser after the conquest of Israel in 722 BC Numerous conjectures have been advanced as to the fate of these tribes: they have been identified with the people of Arabia, India,... Read more |
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Paradise Lost
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Berezina
Berezina , river, c.380 mi (610 km) long, rising in Belarus. It flows generally S past Borisov and Bobruysk into the Dnieper River. It is navigable for most of its length. The heroic retreat across the Berezina of the remnants of Napoleon's Grand Army took place near Borisov from Nov. 26 to Nov. 29,... Read more |
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Almohads
Almohads , Berber Muslim dynasty that ruled Morocco and Spain in the 12th and 13th cent. It had its origins in the puritanical sect founded by Ibn Tumart , who stirred up (c.1120) the tribes of the Atlas Mts. area to purify Islam and oust the Almoravids . His successors, Abd al-Mumin , Yusuf II,... Read more |
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Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart , 1897-1937, American aviator, b. Atchison, Kans. She was the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane (1928) and the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic (1932). She was the first person to fly alone from Honolulu to California (1935). In 1937, she attempted... Read more |
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Jewish Sabbath
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Apalachee
Apalachee , tribe of Native North Americans once centered about Apalachee Bay, NW Florida, belonging to the Muskogean branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). Prosperous agriculturalists, they fought off the raids of the Creek until early in the 18th cent.... Read more |
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Mahican
Mahican , confederacy of Native North Americans of the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). The Mahican were of the Eastern Woodlands culture area. In the early 17th cent. they occupied both banks of the upper Hudson River extending north... Read more |
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Saint Bernard
Saint Bernard two Alpine passes, both used since antiquity. The Great Saint Bernard (alt. 8,110 ft/2,472 m), on the Italian-Swiss border, links Valais canton, Switzerland, with Valle d'Aosta, Italy. Frequented by the Gauls and Romans, the pass also was crossed by Charlemagne, Emperor Henry IV,... Read more |
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Battle of Ulundi
Ulundi, battle of, 1879. Last battle of the Zulu–British War of 1879. A force of 10,000 men under General Chelmsford headed for Ulundi, 115 miles north-east of Durban, the seat of Zulu chief Cetewayo. On 4 July 1879 they engaged a Zulu force of 20,000 men. Chelmsford's army marched forward... Read more |
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Fifteenth Amendment
...several northern states blacks lost the right to vote as more whites...black voter, Grant would have lost the popular, though not the...years earlier, so now Congress found it expedient to inaugurate African...the 1870s and later gradually lost the vote by ... |
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deforestation and landscape
...gained 8.8 million ha and lost 65.1 million ha. The area...million ha of tropical forest are lost annually. About 50 per cent of...slopes in the Tatra Mountains found that for each cubic metre of...equivalent volume of forest soil was lost. Sensitive forest ... |
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Admirals Men
...except for those of Marlowe, have been lost or forgotten. The retirement of Alleyn...Fortune. On the death of Elizabeth I they lost Alleyn for good and were renamed Prince...and all the wardrobe and playbooks were lost. Two years later a new Fortune Theatre... |
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gastropods
...nudibranchs the shell has been lost. Although gastropods are at...terrestrial gastropods the gill is lost and the mantle cavity has evolved...forms such as slugs, which have lost their shells and reverted to...shells coiled in one plane are found. ... |
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Chapman, George
...original of Shakespeare's Holofernes in Love's Labour's Lost and Thersites in Troilus and Cressida. Little is known of his...dramatist to the Admiral's Men. Most of these early plays are lost, but enough remains of his later works, given mainly by the... |
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hypothermia
...the rate of cooling. Also fluid is lost through increased urine output, and...death. This is the type most commonly found in mountaineers or hill walkers.(iii...mixture which he is breathing. A swimmer lost overboard in relatively warm water is... |
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Smith, Richard Penn
...was possibly Forrest's aversion to the printing of plays in which he appeared that caused it to be lost. Another interesting play, also lost, was The Actress of Padua (1836), based on Victor Hugo's Angelo, which marks the first appearance... |
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body fluids
...is a liquid at the ordinary temperatures found on the earth. Compared with other liquids...surfaces during exhalation, but much of it is lost. In hot, dry environments, or in sub-zero...exceptionally reach up to 5 litres hour. The fluid lost in faeces, normally 100 ml per ... |
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Comédie-Française, La
...was renamed the Théâtre de la Nation. The second group soon lost the favour of the public, who considered them ‘aristos...reconstituted in the theatre occupied by Talma, though in the process it lost the monopoly it had enjoyed for so long.The organization by... |
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Wallace, Nellie Jane
...ambiguity of her remarks, until a sudden sideways leer proved the contrary. Her bestknown song was ‘I lost Georgie in Trafalgar Square / Lost ‘im on me’ oneymoon, but I don't care’, in which she was the epitome of the rapacious female... |
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lost
...whereabouts: Help! We're lost! they got lost in the fog. ∎ unable to be found: he turned up with my lost golf clubs. ∎ (of a person) very...expecting that a missing person will be found alive. make up for lost time do ... |
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Lost City meteorite
Lost City meteorite The second meteorite fall to be photographed...the H5 ordinary chondrite meteorite were subsequently found near the predicted impact site, about 4.5 km east of Lost City, Oklahoma. Its orbit had an aphelion in the asteroid... |
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Staffordshire
...Bennett could describe his county as ‘lost in the midst of England’.In Roman times...in Stafford—‘we thought to have found something more worth going so much...reorganization of 1972, Staffordshire lost Walsall and Wolverhampton to the new West... |
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Sullivan, (Sir) Arthur (Seymour)
...such as My dearest heart and The Lost Chord (written in 1877 on the death of...Durante in his song ‘The guy who found the Lost Chord’). But in the Savoy operettas...the compliment of witty imitation) found their proper outlet and gave England... |
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Peter
...nursery to Never Never Land where he and the Lost Boys struggle against the pirates and Captain...spring-clean the house which he and the Lost Boys had built around her.Peter Pan's name...Peter the Wild Boy (1712–85), found living wild in the woods of Hanover in... |
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supernova
...among old stars of Population II, as are found in elliptical galaxies and the halos of...of the cores of massive stars which have lost their hydrogen envelopes, either through...to result from massive stars that have lost most, but not all, of their hydrogen... |
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Elijah Muhammad
...American Black Muslim movement, called more fully ‘The Lost-Found Nation of Islam’, or, from 1976, ‘The World Community...Secret Ritual of the Nation of Islam and Teaching for the Lost Found Nation of Islam ... He became the chief aide of Fard... |
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hydrogen ion
...ion A hydrogen atom that has gained or lost an electron, and thus has an electric charge. The positive hydrogen ion, H+, has lost its only electron and therefore consists of...gained a second electron. H− ions are found in the outer layers of stars such as the... |
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Baile In Scáil
...out, but were soon surrounded by a great mist so that they lost their way. A horseman approached them, inviting Conn to his...of white gold. In the house, in a room full of gold, they found a damsel seated in a chair of crystal and wearing a crown of... |
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Black Muslims
...and the Saviour. The movement was called originally The Lost-Found Nation of Islam, subsequently The World Community of Islam...Muhammad's chief aide in 1963 before breaking away to found the Muslim Mosque, Inc., and the Organization of Afro... |
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lost
lost • adjective 1. her lost keys synonyms: missing, mislaid, misplaced...gone astray, forgotten, nowhere to be found; absent, not present, strayed; irretrievable...unrecoverable. 2. I think we're lost synonyms: off course, off track, disorientated... |
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missing
missing • adjective synonyms: lost, mislaid, misplaced, nowhere to be found, absent, not present, gone, gone astray, unaccounted for. |
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mate
mate • noun 1. she's finally found her ideal mate synonyms: partner, life partner, husband, wife...hubby, missus, missis, old lady, old man. 2. this sock has lost its mate synonyms: match, fellow, twin, companion, other half... |
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repose
...rest, relaxation, inactivity; sleep, slumber. 2. they found true repose synonyms: peace, peace and quiet, peacefulness, quiet, quietness, calm, tranquility. 3. he lost his repose synonyms: composure, serenity, equanimity, poise... |
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LOST, RARELY FOUND: Good clothing piles up as elementary schools try to...
...contents of Lakemont Elementary's lost-and-found. It is as if the entire fourth...as at so many others, the lost-and-found could easily be renamed the Department...of year, many schools have a lost-and-found mound. "There's ... |
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Lost Highway Proudly Presents 'Lost & Found - Vol. I' a Collection of...
...the September 23rd release of "Lost & Found - Vol. I," the first installment...unreleased music collections. "Lost & Found - Vol. I "features 15 tracks from...Eyes, recorded specifically for "Lost & Found - Vol. I." Along ... |
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Lost your laptop full of state secrets? Find it fast with Yellowtag.com.
...email address. So, when a lost Yellowtagged article is found the owner can be informed immediately...devastating." Yellowtag.com lost and found fascinating facts Most frequently...is on for the most bizarre lost and found ... |
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'Lost'and found
...now entering its second season without "Lost," but reminders of the ABC drama about...12 season leads over and over again to "Lost" alumni: They are starring in new series...complicated flow charts to keep track of "Lost's" tangle of narrative threads, let... |
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Lost and Found.(tips for lost hunters)
...rarely admit to getting lost (a dangerous blend of...so that if they become lost, they are vulnerable...strategy is to "stay found" in the first place...early stages of being lost, fear of ridicule and...the importance of being found--of ... |
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`Lost' continues to stretch boundaries
...is limited. Q. When `'Lost" is over, I won't feel like...I will miss the writers of "Lost" most of all. Those folks...imaginations, and they've found a way to do whatever they want...After a couple months of "Lost," ABC will bring back "FlashForward... |
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The lost children.
...their power to help find the lost children," says Ali. More will be found "After Ali was found I thought that one of our...was important was that a lost child from Halabja had returned...hope that many more will be found," she adds. Araz ... |
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LOST LOST PROPERTY; Scandal of 'found' wallets that vanish into thin...
...after pounds 6,000 could not be found in a lost property store at Colchester police...who checked on the computer and found the wallet, with everything still...TRAIN STN ABERDEEN: Woman at the lost property found the owner's details and ... |
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Losers: Recovering Lost Property in Japan and the United States
...United States. Folk legend attributes Japanese lost-and-found success to honesty and other-regarding preferences...four-fifths received calls from strangers or found the item at lost-and-found stations (Shohisha Ishiki Chosa 2000). All... |
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Lenovo Lost & Found with Absolute's Computrace Simplifies Returning Lost...
...management solutions announces Lenovo Lost & Found, a new service that makes it easy...laptop to return it to its owner. Lost & Found is available from Lenovo exclusively...no additional charge.(1) The Lost & Found service ... |
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