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direct current
direct current abbr. DC, a movement of electric charge across an arbitrarily defined surface in one direction only. See electricity ; generator .
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Charon
Charon in Greek mythology, an old man who ferried the souls of the dead across the Rivers Styx and Acheron to Hades; he received a fee of one obol for each soul....
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Cher
Cher river, c.200 mi (320 km) long, rising in the Massif Central and flowing generally NW across central France to join the Loire below Tours. The Berry Canal parallels part of the river.
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Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford 1757-1834, Scottish civil engineer. He greatly improved road building in England and Scotland. He introduced the use of a base of large stones surfaced with compacted layers of small stones. His engineering works include harbors and docks at Aberdeen, Dundee, and London, many notable...
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Ingushetia
Ingushetia or Ingush Republic , republic, c.1,240 sq mi (3,210 sq km), Russian Federation, in the N Caucasus. The capital (since 2003) is Magas, a new city in the suburbs of Nazran, the former capital. Ingushetia comprises roughly the western fifth of the former Chechen-Ingush Republic (see Che...
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Bowles, Samuel
Bowles, Samuel (1826–78), son of Samuel Bowles (1797–1851), founder of The Springfield Republican, a spearhead of liberal Republicans. Incisive letters on his travels were reprinted from his paper as Across the Continent (1865) and The Switzerland of America (1869)....
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Charybdis
Charybdis , in Greek mythology, a female monster. Because she stole Hercules' cattle, Zeus hurled her into the sea. There she lay under rocks across from Scylla and sucked in and spewed out huge amounts of water, creating a whirlpool.
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Fort Meigs
Fort Meigs , American fortification on the Maumee River, near Perrysburg, N central Ohio; est. Feb., 1813, by Gen. William Henry Harrison across the river from British Fort Miami (see Maumee , Ohio). Through the spring and summer of 1813, the Americans there held off British attacks.
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Exe
Exe , river, c.55 mi (90 km) long, rising in the Exmoor, Somerset, SW England, and flowing S across the Cornwall peninsula, past Exeter to the English Channel at Exmouth. Salmon and shellfish are taken from the river; many waterfowl are found along its narrow estuary.
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Flodden
Flodden field, Northumberland, N England, just across the border from Coldstream, Scotland. It was the scene of the battle of Flodden Field (1513), in which the English under Thomas Howard, 2d duke of Norfolk, defeated the Scots under James IV, who was killed.
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