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landsmen, or landmen, a rate given in the British Navy during the days of sail to men without any naval training who served on board warships. In theory they were volunteers since, because they did not use the sea as a profession, they enjoyed immunity from impressment. But during the 18th century... Read more
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FLUID BALANCE A large part of an individual's body weight is made up of water and chemicals (e.g., sodium, potassium, and chloride), which are called electrolytes. Although the proportions of these electrolytes are tightly regulated throughout life, as people age the relative amount of body weight... Read more
Amalie Skram Amalie Skram
Amalie Skram Norwegian author Amalie Skram (1846-1905) was one of the key Scandinavian writers in the Naturalist school, which flourished in late nineteenth-century Europe. This literary movement emphasized the mundane ordinariness of everyday life, and was marked by a deeply pessimistic streak... Read more
Jon Hassler Jon Hassler
Hassler, Jon 1933–2008(Jon Francis Hassler) OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for SATA sketch: Born March 30, 1933, in Minneapolis, MN; died of complications from progressive supranuclear palsy, March 20, 2008, in St. Louis Park, MN. Educator and novelist. For almost forty years Hassler lived a quiet,... Read more
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George Peele George Peele
George Peele 1558?-1597?, English playwright, educated at Oxford. He experimented in a variety of forms, including the pageant, history, pastoral, comedy, and melodrama, but his best-known work is The Old Wives Tale (1595), a frolicsome piece that infuses a depiction of ordinary English life with... Read more
Anne Tyler Anne Tyler
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