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Coldstream
Coldstream small town, Scottish Borders, SE Scotland, on the English border. General Monck raised troops there in 1660 for his march into England that resulted in the restoration of Charles II to the throne. The regiment became known as the Coldstream Guards, one of the regiments of guards of the r...
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Annapolis
Annapolis , city (1990 pop. 33,187), state capital and seat of Anne Arundel co., central Md., on the south bank of the Severn River. Annapolis is a port of entry on Chesapeake Bay and the business and shipping center for the fruit and vegetable farmers of E Maryland. Local industries include the pac...
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ergot
ergot , disease of rye and other cereals caused by the fungus Claviceps purpurea. The cottony, matlike body, or mycelium, of the fungus develops in the ovaries of the host plant; it eventually turns into a hard pink or purple body, the sclerotium, or ergot, that resembles a grain of rye in shape. ...
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Sir John Denham
Sir John Denham , 1615-69, English poet and dramatist. His fame rests largely on two works: Cooper's Hill (1642), a topographical poem, combining descriptions of scenery with moral reflections, and The Sophy, a historical tragedy of the Turkish court, acted in 1641. He served the royalists durin...
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inbreeding
inbreeding mating of closely related organisms. Inbreeding is chiefly used as a means of insuring the preservation of specific desired traits among the offspring of purebred animals (see breeding ). Continued inbreeding through many generations reduces the chances for diversity of characteristics ...
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Black Panthers
Black Panthers U.S. African-American militant party, founded (1966) in Oakland, Calif., by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Originally espousing violent revolution as the only means of achieving black liberation, the Black Panthers called on African Americans to arm themselves for the liberation str...
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Prince Souphanouvong
Prince Souphanouvong , 1909-95, Laotian government official; half brother of Prince Souvanna Phouma . Although a member of Laos's royal family, he was an active nationalist and fought the French as a member of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao . After Laos gained independence, he joined (1958) a coalit...
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Peter Victor Ueberroth
Peter Victor Ueberroth 1937-, American business and sports executive, b. Evanston, Ill. As president of the organizing committee for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Ueberroth created a financially successful competition that reversed a trend of heavy deficit spending by host cities and resulted in a...
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hookworm
hookworm any of a number of bloodsucking nematodes in the phylum Nematoda , order Strongiloidae that live as parasites in humans and other mammals and attach themselves to the host's intestines by means of hooks. Hookworm infection in humans is caused by infestation with Ancylostoma duodenale (t...
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antidiuretic hormone
antidiuretic hormone , polypeptide hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland . Its principal action is to regulate the amount of water excreted by the kidneys. Antidiuretic hormone (ADH), known also as vasopressin, causes the kidneys to resorb water directly from the renal tubules, thus con...
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