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Laconia
Laconia city (1990 pop. 15,743), seat of Belknap co., central N.H., near lakes Winnisquam and Winnipesaukee and on the Winnipesaukee River; settled c.1761, inc. as a city 1893. It is a popular summer and winter resort and the industrial and trade center of a lake resort and farming region. Among... Read more |
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Sparti
Spárti, Greece Sparta, Lacedaemon An ancient and powerful city‐state founded, according to tradition, by Lacedaemon, who named it after his wife, Sparta, the daughter of Evrótas, one of the first Kings of Laconia. Spárti lies on the Evrótas River. When the Byzantines... Read more |
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Sparta
Sparta , city of ancient Greece, capital of Laconia, on the Eurotas (Evrótas) River in the Peloponnesus. Spartan Society Sparta's government was headed by two hereditary kings furnished by two families; they were titular leaders in battle and in religion. Some of these kings were able (e.g.,... Read more |
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stabilizers
stabilizers are used to minimize the rolling of a ship. They are normally fitted to cruise ships and ferries, where passenger comfort is essential, and to large container ships, where it is necessary to minimize the rolling forces on the containers stacked on deck. They should not be confused with... Read more |
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Calder Willingham
WILLINGHAM, Calder Writer. Nationality:American. Born:Atlanta, Georgia, 23 December 1922. Education: Attended The Citadel and The University of Virginia. Family: Married 1) Helen Rothenberg (divorced), son Paul; 2) Jane Marie Bennett, five children. ... Read more |
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Henry Miller
Henry Miller 1891-1980, American author, b. New York City. Miller sought to reestablish the freedom to live without the conventional restraints of civilization. His books are potpourris of sexual description, quasi-philosophical speculation, reflection on literature and society, surrealistic... Read more |
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Marilyn Miller
Miller, Marilyn [née Marilynn Reynolds] (1898–1936), actress, singer, and dancer. The unquestioned queen of Broadway musical comedy in the 1920s, the tiny, delicate‐featured blonde beauty was only five years old when she became a member of her family's vaudeville act. She toured... Read more |
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Social Learning
Social Learning Perspective BIBLIOGRAPHY From the 1930s through the 1950s the behavioral theory of operant conditioning, with its emphasis on the application of consequences to influence behavioral change, was the dominant perspective in U.S. psychology. With the reintroduction of a cognitive... Read more |
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Peter Pan
Peter Pan (1905). James M. Barrie's whimsical tale of a boy who refuses to grow up and who takes other children to his special never‐land was first offered to American playgoers in 1905 with Maude Adams, for whom it was written, in the title role. To no small extent because it is a play to... Read more |
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