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Great Leap Forward
Great Leap Forward 1957-60, Chinese economic plan aimed at revitalizing all sectors of the economy. Initiated by Mao Zedong , the plan emphasized decentralized, labor-intensive industrialization, typified by the construction of thousands of backyard steel furnaces in place of large steel mills.... Read more |
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jumping mouse
jumping mouse rodent slightly larger than the common mouse, found in North America and N Asia, also called the kangaroo mouse. Its long hind legs and tail enable it to leap distances up to 12 ft (3.7 m). Jumping mice have gray to brown fur and are white underneath. They can scurry as well as leap... Read more |
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Springtails
Collembola (springtails; subphylum Uniramia, class Insecta) Subclass and order of primitive, eyeless, wingless, small insects, exhibiting simple metamorphosis, which have entognathous, biting mouth-parts, short antennae, six-segmented abdomens (sometimes fused), and legs which lack tarsi (see... Read more |
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Jewish
Jewish Jewish calendar a complex ancient calendar in use among Jewish people. It is a lunar calendar adapted to the solar year, normally consisting of twelve months but having thirteen months in leap years, which occur seven times in every cycle of nineteen years. The years are reckoned from the... Read more |
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child
child a child on a boar is the emblem of St Cyricus.the child is the father of the man asserting the unity of character from childhood to adult life. The saying comes originally from a line in Wordsworth's ‘My heart leaps up when I behold’ (1807), ‘the Child is father of the... Read more |
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flying squirrel
flying squirrel name for certain nocturnal tree squirrels adapted for gliding; they do not actually fly. Most are found in Asia, but one species of the genus Pteromys extends into SE Europe and the two species of Glaucomys are found in North America. The gliding mechanism is a fold of furry... Read more |
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squirrel
squirrel name for small or medium-sized rodents of the family Sciuridae, found throughout the world except in Australia, Madagascar, and the polar regions; it is applied especially to the tree-living species. Tree squirrels range from the size of a mouse to the size of a house cat and vary... Read more |
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Wittmann talks sales growth, China plans.(News)(Wittmann Kunststoffgerate GmbH )
...Sales in Asia will leap by 50 percent, driven...as the firm gears up to begin production...lines: two types of robots; its basic mold...general trend for robots,'' Wittmann said...axis, linear servo robot with a payload of...industry. "We're ... |
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Director James Cameron Guest Edits WIRED Magazine, Unveils the New Age of...
...Space and the Sea From robot subs and nuclear rockets...Michael Menduno -- Gearing Up to Go Deep by Robert...The Next Giant Leap Q&A with Buzz Aldrin...Pohl -- Human vs. Robot by Andrew Chaikin...once again rounded up 129 of ... |
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Puyallup, Wash., Specialist in Marine Salvage Says Navy Stealing...
...That's what I've been gearing up for for five years...the service. "I woke up one day and found I was...seen a lot of technical leaps and bounds," said Walt...replacing human divers with robots) will happen in my lifetime... |