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Am (americium)
Am symbol for the element americium .... Read more |
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Wild West
697. Wild West Apache North American Indians of Southwest who fought against frontiersmen. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 123] Arapaho North American Plains Indians living along the Platte and Arkansas rivers. [Am. Hist.: EB, I: 477–478] Bass, Sam (1851–1878) desperado whose career... 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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Substitution
616. Substitution Arsinoë put her own son in place of Orestes; her son was killed and Orestes was saved. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 32] Barabbas robber freed in Christ’s stead. [N.T.: Matthew 27:15–18; Swed. Lit.: Barabbas ] Canty, Tom young beggar takes to throne in... Read more |
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Walter Clark
Walter Clark 1846-1924, American jurist, b. Halifax co., N.C., grad. Univ. of North Carolina (A.B., 1864; A.M., 1867). He entered the Confederate army at 15 and was commended for gallantry in action at Antietam and Fredericksburg. Clark was appointed (1885) judge of the superior court and elected... Read more |
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Sir William Herschel
Sir William Herschel The German-born English astronomer Sir William Herschel (1738-1822) discovered the planet Uranus, the intrinsic motion of the sun in space, and the form of the Milky Way. William (originally Friedrich Wilhelm) Herschel was born in Hanover on Nov. 15, 1738. His father was... Read more |
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Pan American World Airways Inc
Pan American World Airways, Inc. Pan Am BuildingNew York, New York 10017U.S.A. Incorporated: 1927Dissolved: December 1991 Over the course of its over six decades in operation, Pan American World Airways, Inc. was one of America Read more |
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Gentleness
297. Gentleness Brown, Matilda meek, mild heroine. [Br. Lit.: Cranford ] Casper the Friendly Ghost meek little ghost who desires only to make friends. [Comics: Horn, 162] Cordelia gentle daughter of Lear. [Br. Lit.: King Lear ] Eliante her kind heart contrasted with Celimene’s... Read more |
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equinoctial
equinoctial, from the Latin aequus, equal, and nox, night, the great circle on the celestial sphere in the plane of the earth's equator, sometimes called the celestial equator. The sun is on the equinoctial on two occasions each year, these occurring on 21 March and 23 September, days known as the... Read more |
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Barrenness
59. Barrenness Andermatt, Christiane takes series of baths hoping to cure childlessness. [Fr. Lit.: Mont-Oriol, Magill I, 618–620] Barren Ground novel portraying a woman’s emotional sterility and her harsh labor on a farm. [Am. Lit.: Barren Ground ] brown symbol of... Read more |
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