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woodpecker woodpecker
woodpecker common name for members of the Picidae, a large family of climbing birds found in most parts of the world. Woodpeckers typically have sharp, chisellike bills for pecking holes in tree trunks, and long, barbed, extensible tongues with which they impale their insect prey. Their spiny tail... Read more
Otto Stern Otto Stern
Otto Stern , 1888-1969, American physicist, b. Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Breslau, 1912. After resigning from his post at the Univ. of Hamburg in 1933, he became professor of physics at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and later professor emeritus at the Univ. of California, Berkeley. Stern was an... Read more
hobbit hobbit
hobbit a member of an imaginary race similar to humans, of small size and with hairy feet, in stories by J. R. R. Tolkien. The name was invented by Tolkien, and said by him to mean ‘hole-dweller’.In the autumn of 2004, the term was used in reports of the discovery on the... Read more
Deadwood Deadwood
Deadwood city (1990 pop. 1,830), seat of Lawrence co., W S.Dak.; settled 1876 after discovery of gold. A Black Hills tourist center, it is also a trade hub for a lumbering, stock-raising, and mining region. Built in a narrow canyon, with houses climbing the steep sides, Deadwood Gulch (so called... Read more
Discovery Discovery
DISCOVERY Each party initially learns the facts of the case through its personal knowledge and investigation. As the trial approaches, a set of procedures, commonly called discovery, permit each side to require disclosure of certain aspects of the opponent's evidence. Whether in civil or criminal... Read more
John Glenn John Glenn
Glenn, John American Astronaut and Senator 1921- Born in Cambridge, Ohio, on July 18, 1921, John Hershel Glenn, Jr., graduated with a bachelor of science degree in engineering from Muskigum College in 1942. Glenn has received nine honorary doctoral degrees from various colleges and universities.... Read more
discoverer discoverer
discoverer. An Irish act of 1709 created a legal procedure whereby a Protestant who filed a bill in chancery ‘discovering’ a property transaction prohibited under the penal laws thereby became entitled to the Catholic party's interest in that transaction. The complex prohibitions on... Read more
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Frame of Reference Frame of Reference
FRAME OF REFERENCE CONCEPT Among the many specific concepts the student of physics must learn, perhaps none is so deceptively simple as frame of reference. On the surface, it seems obvious that in order to make observations, one must do so from a certain point in space and... Read more
ET ET
ET Extraterrestrial—a hypothetical, imagined or alleged being from outer space. The concept of visiting extraterrestrials has grown and developed since the mid-nineteenth century. As early as June 1864, a French newspaper reported the discovery of a mummified humanoid body inside a hollow,... Read more

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