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Marie Antoine Careme
CARÊME, MARIE ANTOINE CARÊME, MARIE ANTOINE. Marie Antoine Carême was born into a working class family in Paris in.... Read more |
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Diana
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–97) Former wife of the heir to the British throne. The daughter of Earl Spencer, Diana married Charles, Prince of Wales in 1981, and they had two sons, William and Harry. A popular, glamorous figure, she worked for many charities. Their marriage fell apart... Read more |
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motion sickness
motion sickness waves of nausea and vomiting experienced by some people, resulting from the sudden changes in movement of a vehicle. The ailment is also known as seasickness, car sickness, train sickness, airsickness, and swing sickness. The principal cause of the disturbance is the effect of... Read more |
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Mario Andretti
Mario Andretti 1940- American race car driver Mario Andretti was named Driver of the Century for his distinguished racing career that spanned five decades. Andretti earned his reputation with Championship cars. He won a total of 52 Championship car races, including the prestigious... Read more |
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National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing 1801 W. International Speedway BoulevardDaytona Beach, Florida 32115U.S.A.Telephone: (904) 253-0611Fax: (904) 252-8804Web site: http://www.nascar.com Private Company Incorporated: 1948Sales: $2 billion (1999 est.)NAIC: 71132 Promoters of Performing... Read more |
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George Antheil
George Antheil , 1900-1959, American composer, b. Trenton, N.J. He went to Europe in 1920 and became known for his iconoclastic approach to music. In 1927 a performance of his Ballet mécanique, scored for player piano, car horns, airplane propellers, and the like, caused a great stir among... Read more |
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diner
diner restaurant resembling the railroad dining car. In the mid-19th cent., the first dining cars that appeared on trains were nothing more than an empty car with a fastened-down table. George M. Pullman, who had begun producing sleeping cars in 1858, soon began designing a dining car. By 1868,... Read more |
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Martyrs in the cause of the car.(Column)
...shopping. How can we shop without a car? And if we could, what possible conclusions...If we are to learn anything by banning cars from the streets for 24 hours, the prohibition...toll for entering central London in a car, and his new bus lanes, chicanes, narrowings and other ... |
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Palestinian leaders let youths become martyrs for the cause.(Knight Ridder...
...forth on a deadly mission. Then gory pictures of the young martyrs run on the front pages of Palestinian newspapers and are posted...was written "Mahmoud Aurasi Brigade (named after another martyr). They were one of the new armed militias formed in recent...The youths move forward, with ... |
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Impending Florida execution piques abortion debate; Groups on both sides...
...fears it will make Hill a martyr for the antiabortion cause. They are particularly...into Dr. Britton's car that day, he committed...He will become a martyr," says Joe Scheidler...Paul Hill did our cause no favors. You don... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Caught on camera: the creation of two martyrs for the Albanian cause
...Macedonia has become, while helping to create two more martyrs for the Albanian cause. At noon police stopped a hatchback at a fortified...several more times as he tries to shelter behind the car, and sinks to the ground. A senior policeman with... |
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How Mohammed, 12, became martyr to the cause
...Jemal, 36, had been returning from Gaza's popular used-car market and were trying to get home to the Buriej refugee camp...position. What is clear, though, is that the boy has become a martyr in Palestinian eyes, who will be remembered in a way the others... |
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Martyr for an unjust cause.(Column)
...for more than his own. From his hospital deathbed, Horne, a martyr in waiting, issued a message to the animal liberation fanatics...Blakemore, an Oxford scientist, has - over the years - had his cars vandalised and his house windows smashed. A few Christmases... |
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Book reviews: Masterminds of Terror: Martyrs to a deadly cause
...Center, with a massive truck bomb parked in one of the tower's car parks by his nephew, Ramzi Yousef. He is also described as...to meet the Prophet, the beautiful dreams that attended the martyrs-to- be. On one level the plot comes over as amateurish and... |
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Martyrs of 1945.(Opinion & Editorial)
...to get off the family car. Instead, she nervously...got to the part about cause of death, I wrote...contact, Your father was a martyr. He did not die of malaria...the Japanese. He was a martyr. She must have made...I already knew about ... |
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The Making of a `Martyr'; Vision of Paradise Propels Islamic Bombers
...after the attack as a "martyr," entitled, according...last Palestinian suicide car bomber, but the story...the last two years, car bombs launched by Hamas...give up his life for the cause of the war against Israel...no end to the queue of ... |
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The Welsh martyr whose path to sainthood reads like a spy thriller; A...
...witty and popular. The martyr is not a popular figure...lives for the sake of a cause - the lives of those who...but are caught up in the car-bomb, the ambush or...re at it. But the true martyr does not seek death...always insisted that a true ... |
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