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Gog
Gog in the Bible. In the Book of Ezekiel, Gog is a leader, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal who will attack Israel and be defeated in the last days. Magog is his country. The same theme surfaces in the Book of Revelation, where the assailants are Gog and Magog. They represent the nations of... Read more |
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Last Judgement
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lochia
lochia (lok-iă) n. the material eliminated from the uterus through the vagina after the completion of labour. The first discharge consists largely of blood (l. rubra). This is followed by a brownish mixture of blood and mucus (l. serosa), and finally a yellowish or whitish discharge... Read more |
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Hiccups
Hiccups Definition Hiccups are the result of an involuntary, spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm followed by the closing of the throat. Description Virtually everyone experiences hiccups, but they rarely last long or require a doctor's care. Occasionally, a bout of hiccups will last longer... Read more |
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John Wexley
Wexley, John (1907–85), New York dramatist, whose plays include The Last Mile (1930), dealing with the last days of a condemned prisoner; Steel (1931); They Shall Not Die (1934), concerned with the Scottsboro case; and Running Dogs (1938), dealing with the struggle between Chinese... Read more |
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Battle of Medway
Medway, battle of, ad 43. A major battle of the Roman invasion campaign, it is identified only as having taken place at a river between the beachhead and the Thames, almost certainly the Medway. Unusually for the ancient world, it lasted two days. On the first day auxiliary troops swam across and... Read more |
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Malachi
Malachi , book of the Bible, the last book in the order of the Authorized Version and 12th of the books of the Minor Prophets. Its title Malachi is taken from the opening verse of chapter 3 and means "my messenger." On internal evidence the book, a collection of prophetic oracles, is usually... Read more |
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Andrea del Castagno
Andrea del Castagno , c.1423-1457, major Florentine painter of the early Renaissance. His first recorded painting (1440; now destroyed), effigies of hanged men, enemies to the Florentine regime, brought him fame in spite of its disconcerting subject. Two years later he was in Venice, frescoing the... Read more |
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Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras , last day before the fasting season of Lent. It is the French name for Shrove Tuesday . Literally translated, the term means "fat Tuesday" and was so called because it represented the last opportunity for merrymaking and excessive indulgence in food and drink before the solemn... Read more |
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Last Glacial Maximum
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Major Barbara
Major Barbara, a play by Bernard Shaw, performed 1905...spiritual and worldly power embodied in Barbara, a major in the Salvation Army, and her...gunpowder become Professors of Greek.’ Barbara, recovering her spirits, embraces this... |
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Cook, Barbara (Nell)
Cook, Barbara [Nell] (b. 1927), singer and actress. A native of Atlanta, the doll...toured as Ado Annie in a revival of Oklahoma! (1953). Cook scored a major success in Plain and Fancy (1955), followed by important assignments... |
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Bel Geddes, Barbara
Bel Geddes, Barbara (1922–2005), actress. She was born in New York, the daughter of...sympathetic younger daughter, in Deep Are the Roots (1945), then scored a major success as the naive actress Patty O'Neill in The Moon Is Blue (1951... |
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George, Grace
...particularly admired as Lady Teazle in Sheridan's The School for Scandal (1909), Barbara Undershaft in the first American production of Shaw's Major Barbara (1915), and the title-role in St John Ervine's The First Mrs Fraser (1929... |
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SHAW, George Bernard
...the film 1945), The Devil's Disciple (1905), Major Barbara (1905, the film 1941), Pygmalion (1913, the film...Nathink less than a anderd pahnd for you’ (from Major Barbara) [maw my, grandorter grand-daughter, nathink nothing... |
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Shaw, George Bernard
...Times in its review of the first major American production of Arms and the...Heggie as Androcles. The major American revivals occurred in 1925...1915 American premiere of Major Barbara, the play about big business and warmongering...in 2001 with Cherry Jones ... |
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Thorndike, Dame (Agnes) Sybil
...1924) in the first London production of Shaw's play; she portrayed another Shaw heroine, Barbara Undershaft, in a revival of Major Barbara in 1929. She appeared in Van Druten's The Distaff Side in 1933, repeating the role a year later... |
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Daly, (Peter Christopher) Arnold
...Among his important early roles were the rejected Jack Negly in Barbara Frietchie (1899), the drunken, brutal husband in Hearts Aflame (1902), and the hero's Irish servant in Major André (1903). Daly's family back in Ireland had connections... |
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Fitch, (William) Clyde
...made him a loner at school, but the same effeminacy won him major women's roles in the dramatic club at Amherst College...and the Flame (1898), The Cowboy and the Lady (1899), Barbara Frietchie (1899), The Climbers (1901), Captain Jinks of... |
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Jones, Cherry
...Pride's Crossing (1997), a small but hardened Josie Hogan in A Moon for the Misbegotten (2000), the idealistic Major Barbara (2001), and the bitchy writer Mary McCarthy in Imaginary Friends (2002). Clive Barnes in the New York Post described... |
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Shaw, George Bernard
...Fair Lady (1956). Composers of music for films based on Shaw plays incl. Honegger (Pygmalion, 1938), Walton (Major Barbara, 1941), Auric (Caesar and Cleopatra, 1945), and Richard Rodney Bennett (The Devil's Disciple, 1959). |
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contradictory class location
...likes of Nicos Poulantzas, Guglielmo Carchedi, and John and Barbara Ehrenreich, is cogently summarized in Nicholas Abercrombie and John Urry...course both of several lengthy theoretical exegeses, and a major empirical programme of class analysis, involving research teams... |
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Walton, (Sir) William (Turner)
...by Heifetz, 1939. Wrote mus. for film of Shaw's Major Barbara, 1940, followed by several other wartime film scores...fighter aircraft, and Olivier's Henry V (1944). Next major work was str. qt., 1947. From 1948 to 1954 was engaged... |
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Barbara Barbara: beating the contemporary crunch. (women's contemporary...
BARBARA BARBARA Beating the Contemporary Crunch LOS ANGELES -- Barbara Barbara, Inc., sees itself as a thriving survivor of the...purge of contemporary dress departments among many major retailers. Stores began abandoning the classification... |
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Santa Barbara's Spanish culture dazzles: famed scenery, history and Jewish...
...attraction is the Old Mission Santa Barbara, founded in 1786. It has...book on architecture. Other major attractions are the Museum...spectacular beaches. Santa Barbara also offers a plethora of cultural...including the famed Santa Barbara International Film ... |
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BARBARA WALTERS SPECIAL
...Boy didn't have the stuff! BARBARA WALTERS: (voice-over...afford to waste good liquor! BARBARA WALTERS: (voice-over...the woman. She has not had a major acting role for over a decade...ELIZABETH TAYLOR: I feel great. BARBARA WALTERS: (voice-over... |
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Barbara's Celebrates 'Almost 40' Birthday With a Natural Makeover; Pioneering...
...natural foods sections of major grocery stores as early...Consumer Contest Celebrates Barbara's Makeover To celebrate the brand's new design, Barbara's invites families across...in 2010 by entering the Barbara's Natural Makeover Contest... |
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Barbara's Bakery Products Now Available Online.
...Consumers can now purchase a variety of Barbara's Bakery popular products with any major credit card, 24 hours a day via...addition to the wide variety of Barbara's Bakery food products made available, Barbara's Bakery Puffins[R]-brand... |
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Santa Barbara News-Press, Calif., Dan Logan Column.
...meeting of the newly formed Santa Barbara chapter of Women in Technology...milestone. WITI chapters become major career development and networking...East Cabrillo Blvd., Santa Barbara, 5:30 p.m. Dr. Kevin...Followed by presentation by Santa Barbara start-up ... |
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Remembering Barbara Coon Naprstek Latham.(In memoriam)
...we received word that Barbara had passed away just a few days before we called. Barbara seemed almost like several...husband, Dick, said, "Barbara stretched uniqueness to...was a political science major at the University of Wisconsin... |
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Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange(R) Forms Non-Profit Corporation;...
...healthcare organizations in Santa Barbara so that they can collaborate...consumers in the county. The Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange was...Foundation, which also provided major funding for development of...transitioning of the Santa Barbara County ... |
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BARBARA'S MERCY DASH TO SAVE HER SICK CHILD.(News)
...he can get." He added: "Barbara's first reaction was worry...Any intrusive surgery is a major operation for a child so young." Last night, a friend said Barbara had probably saved Gabriel...everything to aid his recovery." Barbara and Oliver have three ... |
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Barbara's Celebrates 'Almost 40' Birthday With a Natural Makeover.
...natural foods sections of major grocery stores as early...Consumer Contest Celebrates Barbara's Makeover To celebrate the brand's new design, Barbara's invites families across...in 2010 by entering the Barbara's Natural Makeover Contest... |
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