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Peggy Terry
Peggy Terry Born c. 1922 Factory worker "The first work I had after the Depression was at a shell-loading plant in Viola, Kentucky. My mother, my sister, and myself worked there." Prior to World War II (1939–45), women usually only worked outside of the home following the completion... Read more |
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Antiasthmatic agents
Antiasthmatic drugs Definition Antiasthmatic drugs are medicines that treat or prevent asthmaattacks. Description Three types of drugs are used in treating and preventing asthma attacks: Bronchodilators relax the smooth muscles that line the airway. This makes the... Read more |
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Kazoos
Kazoo A kazoo is a type of instrument known as a mirliton, which uses a resonating membrane to amplify sound. It belongs in the percussion family of instruments and can be made in a number of ways. Derived from the ancient African mirliton, the kazoo was first manufactured... Read more |
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intestine
intestine muscular hoselike portion of the gastrointestinal tract extending from the lower end of the stomach (pylorus) to the anal opening. In humans this fairly narrow (about 1 in./2.5 cm) tubelike structure winds compactly back and forth within the abdominal cavity for about 23 ft (7 m), and is... Read more |
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secret police
secret police policing organization operating in secrecy for the political purposes of its government, often with terroristic procedures. The Nature of a Secret Police Enforcement of the law has required, in nearly all societies, a certain amount of secrecy, particularly in the investigation of... Read more |
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Dutch Wars
Dutch Wars series of conflicts between the English and Dutch during the mid to late 17th cent. The wars had their roots in the Anglo-Dutch commercial rivalry, although the last of the three wars was a wider conflict in which French interests played a primary role. War of 1652-54 The 1652-54 war... Read more |
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crevasse
crevasse , large crack in the upper surface of a glacier , formed by tension acting upon the brittle ice. Transverse crevasses occur where the grade of the glacier bed becomes suddenly steeper; longitudinal crevasses, where the glacier spreads over a wider valley or plain. Marginal crevasses are... Read more |
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Loridae
Loridae (formerly Lorisidae; lorises; order Primates, suborder Strepsirrhini) A family that includes the lorises, pottos, and galagos (bush-babies). They are related to Malagasy lemurs (Lemuriformes), compared with which they have on average shorter muzzles, higher brain cases, and eyes that are... Read more |
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kingdom of Seisyllwg
Seisyllwg, kingdom of. An early Welsh kingdom of obscure origin, though it may have been established by Seisyll ap Clydog, king of Ceredigion, by extending his dominion south to the Tywi valley (c.730). His descendant Angharad married Rhodri Mawr, who temporarily combined it with Gwynedd (871).... Read more |
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Urban Studies
Urban Studies APPROACHES, CONCERNS, AND DISCIPLINES DIFFERENTIATION, DISPLACEMENT, EXCLUSION, AND GLOBALIZATION BIBLIOGRAPHY Urban studies is the umbrella for several disciplines engaged in studies of the city, including sociology, geography, economics, political science, anthropology, urban... Read more |
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OPENING DOORS; Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center welcomed the public in an...
...Leaders of one the largest mosques in the Twin Cities swung the doors of their mosque wide-open Wednesday in...dispel rumors that the mosque is linked to recruiting...Mideastern food in the mosque's elegant wedding...who ... |
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Comfort Food Moroccan native opens carryout restaurant Fatima's Baraka in Orono
...inlaid tile surrounds a mosque door that looks like a golden...from this region boast a wide range of spices, but they...apartment. Fatima opened the door, and it was love at first...School part time before opening the restaurant. There... |
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At Melody Box: music wherever customers go.
...bestsellers and so are a wide selection of musical...tables, and even musical mosques. The doors open as the tune is played...in. tall and 9-in. wide containing two birds...who are talking about opening a third store--also... |
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Minister of Culture & Information depicts Custodian of the Two Holy...
...Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin...Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques on dialogue among...Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques has consolidated...mechanism and means for opening doors of dialogue and knowledge...fields and ... |
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Off the promenade
...boasted large columns and a wide, impressive stairway...the Rulers - once an opening in the back wall of the Mahmudiya Mosque where Hassan Bek prayed...the intricate wooden doors of the Mahmudiya Mosque. The mosque was named ... |
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Poor Neighborhood in Durham, N.C., Finally Bags a Grocery as Food Lion Opens.
...full-service grocery store with wide aisles and weekly specials rivaling...worked to renovate the space, next door to a mosque and across the street from a wig...public support. Within an hour of opening, the grocery store was embraced... |
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Eyes wide shut
...Jerusalem Post 02-28-2011 Eyes wide shutByline: BARRY RUBINEdition...revolution. * The beginning of the opening the border with the Gaza Strip...that would give them control of mosques, religious education and lots...like saying that when next-door Germany ... |
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Celebrating Rumi, Islam's poet of peace.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
...visitors, he sheds his shoes at the door as he would outside a mosque. He's grown up with Rumi...own lifetime, Rumi attracted a wide following outside his own sect...his call to the world. He's opening his arms to the whole world... |
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MASS. STRICT ON FAITH-BASED FUNDING RELIGIOUS FACTOR GETS TONING-DOWN
...transform the relationship between religious organizations and government agencies, opening the door for churches, synagogues, and mosques to compete for a wide variety of government social-services contracts without eliminating their religious... |
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Survival guide for the souks; TRAVEL.
...my plane) was a mere opening gambit. Time to respond...Three cups of tea and a wide-ranging discussion...rises up from hidden mosques. The workers response...residential quarter, with mosques and houses hidden behind...forbiddingly padlocked ... |
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