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local government
local government political administration of the smallest subdivisions of a country's territory and population. Characteristics and Types Although there are special-purpose local government bodies (e.g., school boards in the United States), more important are those that carry out a broad ... Read more
local group
LOCAL GROUP [local group] in astronomy, loose cluster of at least 19 nearby galaxies , including our own Milky Way galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy , and the Magellanic Clouds . The local group is spread over an ellipsoidal region of space with a major axis of approximately 3 million light-ye... Read more
local group
LOCAL GROUP [local group] in astronomy, loose cluster of at least 19 nearby galaxies , including our own Milky Way galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy , and the Magellanic Clouds . The local group is spread over an ellipsoidal region of space with a major axis of approximately 3 million light-ye... Read more
Ashtaroth
Ashtaroth , Hebrew plural form of Ashtoreth, the name of the Canaanite fertility goddess and consort of Baal . Her name is vocalized in Greek as Astarte . She was worshiped at various local shrines. There are several references to her in the Bible. ... Read more
Barnsley
Barnsley , city (1991 pop. 76,783) and metropolitan district, N England. Coal mining, engineering, and clothing industries dominate the local economy. A mining and technical college is in Barnsley. ... Read more
Camperdown
Camperdown , Du. Kamperduin [the dune of Kamp], locality near the village of Kamp, North Holland prov., NW Netherlands, on the North Sea. In 1797 the British defeated the Dutch in a naval battle off Camperdown. ... Read more
Franz Gruber
Franz Gruber , 1787-1863, Austrian organist. On Christmas Eve in 1818 he composed his one published work, the music for the poem Silent Night by the local curate, Josef Mohr. ... Read more
Kirkcudbrightshire
Kirkcudbrightshire or Kirkcudbright, former county, SW Scotland. Under the Local Government Act of 1973, Kirkcudbrightshire became (1975) part of the new Dumfries and Galloway region (now a council area). ... Read more
Montgomery
Montgomery town (1981 pop. 1,036), Powys, E Wales. Montgomery is locally important as a sheep and cattle market. Nearby Offa's Dyke is very well preserved. ... Read more
procaine
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Notifications of Death
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying ...biographical summary similar to an obituary and notice of the time...are usually supported by local funeral establishments. While one might consider the obituary that appears in newspapers...least the Middle Ages. The obituary is a published announcement...
Leo Burnett
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...school, Burnett worked as a reporter for local, rural newspapers during the summer...Burnett stayed. In 1919, he was hired by a local advertising agency, the Homer McGee Company...many advertising agency owners. In his obituary in Time, the unnamed author wrote...
Peck, Annie Smith
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...her to 'go home where you belong,'" her New York Times obituary reported. "Peck was as stubborn as she was intrepid." Competitive...professor she had invited to come along, and she hired some local guides. The Bolivians proved untrustworthy, however, and...
McLaren, Norman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...year at the college and so impressed the local newspapers with his work that he was called...he later remarked, as quoted in his obituary in the Los Angeles Times. The technique...produced a series of advertising films for a local meat store which were shown in the company...
Gilberto Freyre
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...he felt, by taking advantage of rich local traditions (from architecture to culinary...1925 and encouraged the development of local novelists, poets, and artists. On a...in Patricia Burgess, ed., The Annual Obituary 1987 (1990). □
Harold Macmillan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...first, and most successfully, as minister of housing and local government (1951-1954). He was then minister of defense...1969). "Earl of Stockton: British Politician," Annual Obituary 1986, New York: St. Martins Press, c1986, p. 736-739...
Pridi Phanomyong
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...prosperous Chinese farmer and merchant by his Thai wife. From local Buddhist schools he went to Bangkok to attend secondary...Pridi. Also see (Devine, Elizabeth, ed.) The Annual Obituary 1983, St. James Press, 1984. □
Alice Evans
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...grandparents had immigrated from Wales in 1831. She attended local elementary schools with her brother, Morgan, and graduated...Infectious Diseases the following year. The author of Evans' obituary in the Washington Post called the discovery "one of the most...
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Provinces, and in 1937 became minister of local self-government and public health...she resumed her portfolio as minister of local self-government and public health in...biographies of her brother, Jawaharlal Nehru. Obituaries for Pandit appear in the Chicago Tribune...
Chocho
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...that are further divided into barrios named after saints or local geographic features. Some barrios have elected officials who...wake is held the first night. The next day, the handwritten obituary is distributed. Many mourners attend the wake on the second...

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Chrystal, George
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Aberdeenshire. Chrystal attended the local parish school and later Aberdeen Grammar...x2019; s publications is appended to the obituary notice in Proceedings of the Royal Society...II. Secondary Literature. Besides the obituary notice referred to above, there is an...
Newall, Hugh Frank
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...astronomical community was felt mainly through his local, national, and international organizational...between 1892 and 1927. There is a detailed obituary of Newall by E. A. Milne in Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society of London...
Oppel, Albert
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...deposits of these countries had been subdivided according to local, and frequently lithological, features. Oppel showed, however...Fossilium caialogus, 2, pt. 72 (1938), 320; and the obituaries by K. F. P. von Martius, in Sitzungsherichte der Bayerischen...
Payen, Anselme
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...large number of papers, mostly on technological matters of local and temporary concern. The subjects included manures (some...1843). II. Secondary Literature. The most informative obituary of Payen is by J.-A. Barral, in M é moires publies...
Fairweather, Ian
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...softwood and petrol drums. He was presumed lost at sea and an obituary appeared in the Melbourne Herald on 13 May 1952, but thirteen...work was so exemplary in its integrity that it has formed a local reference-point for Australian abstract painting ever since...
Ivanov-Vano, Ivan
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Film en Televisie + Video (Brussels), December 1986. Obituary, in Iskusstvo Kino (Moscow), July 1987. * * * Ivan Ivanov...traditional Russian tales, using an extremely rich supply of local poetry, folk tales, embroideries, carvings, and architecture...
Black, James
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...published a number of papers on these subjects: they were mostly local and descriptive, but they also dealt with such topics as submerged...Secondary Literature. There is an anonymous “ Obituary ” in British Medical Journal , 1 (25 May 1867...
Britten, James
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...medical profession. During that period he was secretary to the local natural history society and editor of its magazine. But he...literary, and biographical aspects of the subject; and his long obituary notices, notes, and anecdotal comments, occasionally caustic...
Goodrich, Edwin Stephen
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...live with her mother at Pau, France, where he attended the local English school and a French lyc é e. In 1888 he entered...complete bibliography of Goodrich ’ s writings is in the obituary by de Beer (see below). His books include Cyclostomes and...
Gore, George
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...There he was employed as a chemist by a local firm that manufactured phosphorus. Satisfactory...acquired a reputation as a consultant for local manufacturers. Of particular interest...Basis of Morality (London, 1899). Obituary notices appeared in Nature , 79 (1909...

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obituary
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus obituary • noun  the local paper ran a full-page obituary synonyms : death notice, eulogy; informal obit; rare necrology.

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Obituary photos suggest growing bias against aging faces.(Obituary)
Magazine article from: Women's Health Weekly; 6/11/2009; 700+ words ; ...researchers looked at obituary photos in The Plain...changed the format of its obituary pages, making it impossible...copies of the first 100 obituaries of local residents that had photos, for a total of 400 obituaries in the study. He separated...death as listed in the obituary. If ...
Obituary Photos Suggest Growing Bias Against Aging Faces.(Obituary)
News Wire article from: AScribe Medicine News Service; 5/13/2009; 700+ words ; ...researchers looked at obituary photos in The Plain...changed the format of its obituary pages, making it impossible...copies of the first 100 obituaries of local residents that had photos, for a total of 400 obituaries in the study. He separated...death as listed in the obituary. If ...
Obituaries --the long and the short of them
Newspaper article from: Winnipeg Free Press; 2/8/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...Neil Bardal said Vic was a local embalmer who told him before...years ago that he wanted his obituary to be just those two words...around the time Vic died that obituary writing changed in the country...afternoons because that was obituary day when I was expected to...coverage area. I enjoyed ...
Obituary policy a mistake we've learned from.(Columns)(Obituary)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 5/14/2006; 700+ words ; ...Last month we changed our obituary policy, scaling back and...appearing again with news obituaries on Tuesday. We also will...incensed that we would reduce a local person's obituary to a few short paragraphs...potential for sales of paid obituaries. But it would have been...
Bringing obituaries back to life.(COMMENTARY)(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 8/9/2007; 700+ words ; ...it in the number of lines the obituary has taken to include the funeral...Families are paying a premium for the obituary in the local newspaper to "respectfully remember...their departed loved one. The obituary is a tribute to the life that...
Obituaries for Dec 21, 2007
Newspaper article from: Herald News, The (Joliet, IL); 12/21/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...deadline for faxed or e-mailed obituaries is 6:30 p.m. the day...Cards of Thanks, call the obituary department at (630) 844...deadline of 6:00 p.m. Obituaries, In Memoriams and Cards...and sign a guest book. The Obituary Dept. is open on Christmas...a teamster truck driver, local #179 of ...
Obituaries for Dec 23, 2007
Newspaper article from: Herald News, The (Joliet, IL); 12/23/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...deadline for faxed or e-mailed obituaries is 6:30 p.m. the day...Cards of Thanks, call the obituary department at (630) 844...deadline of 6:00 p.m. Obituaries, In Memoriams and Cards...and sign a guest book. The Obituary Dept. is open on Christmas...over 50 years. Member of Local #150 ...
Obituaries for Dec 20, 2007
Newspaper article from: Naperville Sun, The (IL); 12/20/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...deadline for faxed or e-mailed obituaries is 6:30 p.m. the day...Thanks, please call the obituary department at (630) 844...deadline of 6:00 p.m. Obituaries, In Memoriams and Cards...and sign a guest book. The Obituary Dept. is open on Christmas...the Will County Carpenters Local #174 after ...
Obituaries for Dec 25, 2007
Newspaper article from: Herald News, The (Joliet, IL); 12/25/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...deadline for faxed or e-mailed obituaries is 6:30 p.m. the day...Cards of Thanks, call the obituary department at (630) 844...deadline of 6:00 p.m. Obituaries, In Memoriams and Cards...and sign a guest book. The Obituary Dept. is open on Christmas...Retired carpenter from Local 174. ...
Obituaries for Dec 28, 2007
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL); 12/28/2007; 700+ words ; ...deadline for faxed or emailed obituaries is 6:30 p.m. the day...of Thanks ads, call the obituary department at 630-844...a deadline of 6:00pm. Obituaries, In Memoriams and Cards...and sign a guest book. The Obituary Dept. is open on New Year...He strongly supported his local Aurora West ...