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artificial life support artificial life support
artificial life support systems that use medical technology to aid, support, or replace a vital function of the body that has been seriously damaged. Such techniques include artificial pacemakers , internal defibrillators , dialysis machines (see kidney, artificial ), and respirators. The use of... Read more
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Dorothy Osborne , later Lady Temple, 1627-95, English letter writer. The daughter of a royalist, she became engaged to Sir William Temple against the wishes of her family. Her letters to Temple, both through their long engagement and after their marriage in 1655, show her as a woman of wit,... Read more
George Calvert 1st Baron Baltimore George Calvert 1st Baron Baltimore
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The Darling of the Gods The Darling of the Gods
Darling of the Gods, The (1902), a play by David Belasco, John Luther Long. [Belasco Theatre, 182 perf.] Prince Saigon of Tosan ( Charles Walcot) has invited the outlawed Prince Kara ( Robert T. Haines) to a banquet because Kara saved Saigon's daughter, Princess Yo‐San ( Blanche Bates),... Read more
Coronations Coronations
coronations. Though the monarch succeeds automatically on the death of his predecessor, the coronation is a public avowal of his new position. Indeed, earlier tradition held that he was not really king until he had been crowned. Consequently, coronations followed accessions very swiftly,... Read more
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Hermann Staudinger Hermann Staudinger
STAUDINGER, HERMANN(b. Worms, Germany, 23 March 1881; d. Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 8 September 1965), organic and macromolecular chemistry.Staudinger studied at the Gymnasium in Worms. Then, after a brief period at the University of Halle, he transferred to the technical university at Darmstadt... Read more
Edmund Ironside Edmund Ironside
Edmund Ironside d. 1016, king of the English (1016), son of Æthelred the Unready. Contrary to the wishes of his father, he married (1015) the widow of Siferth, a Danish thane, and was accepted as ruler of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw . When Canute invaded England in 1015, Emund led the... Read more

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