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harmattan
harmattan, an easterly wind which occasionally blows during the dry season (December, January, February) on the west coast of Africa, coming off the land, instead of the more normal wind which blows off the sea. It is a very dry wind, usually accompanied by dust storms the wind has picked up from... Read more |
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Leuctra
Leuctra , village of ancient Greece, in Boeotia, 7 mi (11.3 km) SW of Thebes. There the Spartans were defeated (371 BC) by the Thebans under Epaminondas . A brilliant tactical success, the battle also dealt a severe blow to Spartan hegemony.... Read more |
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Land and Sea Breezes
Land and sea breezes Land and sea breezes are wind and weather phenomena associated with coastal areas. A land breeze is a breeze blowing from land out toward a body of water . A sea breeze is a wind blowing from the water onto the land. Land breezes and sea breezes arise because of... Read more |
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karate
karate Martial art popularized in Japan in the 1920s. It involves a method of physical and mental training, includes a variety of blows using the hand, legs, elbows and head. In competition, scoring depends on the finality of the blow.... Read more |
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Felice Orsini
Orsini, Felice (1819–58) Italian revolutionary. After being implicated in revolutionary plots, he was condemned in 1844 to life imprisonment. He was later pardoned by Pius IX but took part in Italy in the REVOLUTIONS OF 1848. In 1849 he joined MAZZINI in Rome and then went to Hungary, where... Read more |
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John Blow
John Blow 1649-1708, English composer. He was organist and choirmaster at Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal and the teacher of Henry Purcell. He wrote more than 100 anthems and 10 sacred services, mostly unpublished, and a masque, Venus and Adonis.... Read more |
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lollardy
lollardy. Described recently as ‘the premature reformation’, lollardy developed originally from Wyclif's teaching. Lollards (from middle Dutch lollaerd—a mumbler) were a motley group lacking theological coherence. Few lollards emulated Wyclif's intellectualism, but Oxford... Read more |
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Judas Maccabeus
Judas Maccabeus Judas Maccabeus (died 160 B.C.) was the leader of a Jewish revolt against the repressive policies of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the king of Syria. Third son of Mattathias, the Hasmonean priest of Modin, Judas received the added name Maccabeus, generally believed to mean... Read more |
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NSW: Arnhem Land fishing ban attempt dealt blow
...General News (Australia) 02-23-2001 NSW: Arnhem Land fishing ban attempt dealt blow SYDNEY, Feb 23 AAP - A bid by Aborigines to ban commercial fishing in ... |