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Gröte Reber
Gröte Reber 1911-2002, American radio engineer, b. Chicago, Ill. After graduating from the Armour Institute of Technology (now the Illinois Institute of Technology) in 1933, Reber worked for several radio manufacturers and radio stations. Intrigued by Karl Jansky's discovery of cosmic radio ...
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European Southern Observatory
European Southern Observatory (ESO), an intergovernmental organization for astronomical research with headquarters in Garching, near Munich, Germany. The ESO began in 1962 as a consortium among Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Great Britain, Italy, Portugal, and Swede...
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bore
bore inrush of water that advances upstream with a wavelike front, caused by the progress of incoming tide from a wide-mouthed bay into its narrower portion. The tidal movement tends to be retarded by friction as it reaches the shallower water and meets the river current; it therefore piles up and ...
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Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory , astronomical observatory located on Cerro Tololo peak, Chile, with offices in La Serena, about 40 mi (64 km) to the west. Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), it is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AUR...
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Avebury
Avebury , village, Wiltshire, S central England. The village, with a medieval church and Elizabethan manor house, lies within Avebury Circle, a Neolithic circular group of upright stones that is older and larger than Stonehenge but not so well preserved. The village and the circle have belonged ...
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Great Wall of China
Great Wall of China Defensive frontier and world heritage site, c.2400km (1500mi) long, extending from the Huang Hai (Yellow Sea) to the Central Asian Desert, n China. It is an amalgamation of fortifications constructed by various dynasties. The Warring States built the first sections of the wall. ...
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Antares
Antares , brightest star in the constellation Scorpius ; Bayer designation Alpha Scorpii; 1992 position R.A. 16 h 27.6 m , Dec. -26°22′. A red supergiant of spectral class M1, Antares has an apparent magnitude of about 0.9, making it one of the 20 brightest stars in the sky. Its name ...
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gavial
gavial , large reptile of the crocodile order, found in rivers from Pakistan to Myanmar. Also called gharial, the gavial ( Gavialis gangeticus ) is distinguished from the crocodiles and alligators by its extremely long, slender, parallel-sided snout. It feeds chiefly on fish, which it catches wi...
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Irkutsk
Irkutsk , city (1989 pop. 626,000), capital of Irkutsk region, S Siberian Russia, at the confluence of the Angara and Irkut rivers. It is an industrial center, a port, the site of a hydroelectric dam, and a major stop on the Trans-Siberian RR. Manufactures include aircraft, automobiles, machine tool...
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racquetball
racquetball sport played indoors by two or four players, combining elements of court handball and such racket games as squash racquets . It is played on a standard handball court 40 ft (12.2 m) long, 20 ft (6.1 m) wide, and 20 ft high, with a back wall at least 12 ft (3.6 m) high. The fiber-stru...
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