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halo
halo in meteorology, short-lived circles or arcs, and less commonly spikes and crosses, of colored or whitish light surrounding the moon or sun or in clouds as seen from above. A halo occurs when the light from the sun or the moon is refracted and reflected by ice crystals in the atmosphere,... Read more |
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Radovan Karadzic
Radovan Karadzic Radovan Karadzic (born 1945), the leader of the Bosnian Serbs, pursued a course of "ethnic cleansing" as he struggled to gain independence from the Muslim-controlled Bosnian government in the former Yugoslavia. He has been indicted by the World Court in The Hague for his actions.... Read more |
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soiling
soiling agricultural practice of feeding green fodder to livestock in the barn or dry lot. It is followed in the United States mostly in the dairy industry in seasons when pastures are short, but in Europe more generally. For best results the crop must be cut daily. Among the crops used for soiling... Read more |
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Grozny
Grozny or Groznyy , city (2006 est. pop. 230,000), capital of Chechnya , SE European Russia, in the northern foothills of the Greater Caucasus. It is the center of Chechnya's oil fields, linked by pipelines to Makhachkala on the Caspian Sea, to Tuapse on the Black Sea, and to Horlivka in... Read more |
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Movie production
cinematography and the body It is difficult today to imagine a world in which we could not record the human image in movement. Yet this was a goal which frustrated many inventors, until in the early 1890s Thomas Edison and others succeeded in devising a practical form of serial photography using... Read more |
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potato
potato or white potato, common name for a perennial plant ( Solanum tuberosum ) of the family Solanaceae ( nightshade family) and for its swollen underground stem, a tuber, which is one of the most widely used vegetables in Western temperate climates. The plant is probably native to the Andes,... Read more |
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Diego Armando Maradona
Diego Armando Maradona 1960-, Argentinian soccer star. A strong forward with spectacular abilities, superb dribbling skills, and great personal flair, he began his career as a teenager playing for the Argentinos (1976-80) and Boca juniors (1981). Moving (1982) to Europe, he joined the Barcelona... Read more |
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day
day period of time for the earth to rotate once on its axis. The ordinary day, or solar day, is measured relative to the sun, being the time between successive passages of the sun over a stationary observer's celestial meridian . The length of a solar day varies during the course of a year, so... Read more |
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World Cup Short-Course Swimming Results
AP Online 03-29-1998 PARIS (AP) _ Results Sunday of a World Cup short-course swimmeet (distances in meters):Men 50 Backstroke _ 1, Tomislav Karlo, Croatia, 24.73. 2, DariusGrigalionis, Lithuania... |
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FINA Swimming World Cup Short Course Results
AP Worldstream 02-05-2006 Dateline: EAST MEADOW, New YorkResults Saturday from the short-course World Cup at Nassau County Aquatic Center (race distances in meters):Men50 Backstroke1. Peter Marshall, United States, 23.39 seconds... |
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Short Course World Cup Results
...BERLINResults Saturday from a short course swimming World Cup meet:Men50 butterfly_1, Roland...Schoeman, South Africa, 46.25 (world record equaled). 2, Jasdon...Neethling, South Africa, 52.11 (world record). 2, Thomas Rupprath... |
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Swimming World Cup Results
...Texas (AP) _ Results Thursday of the FINASwimming World Cup Championships...2, Island Swimming, 7:24...79(world short-course record and...Weiss, Island Swimming,2:01...Petelski, Island Swimming,1:10... |
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Short course long on action and glamour
...third World Short-Course Championships...as a direct result of the glamorous...short-course swimming. In a pool...metre "long course" pool, the...year's World Cup circuit. Eight...professional swimming around the...Janeiro to watch swimming ... |
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Arena World Cup Swimming Results
Results Saturday from the Arena short course swimming World Cup (all distances in meters): Men 100 freestyle _ 1, Stefan Nystrand, Sweden, 45.83 seconds. 2, Eamon Sullivan, Australia... |
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World Cup Swimming Results
AP Worldstream 01-21-2004 Dateline: MOSCOWResults Wednesday from a FINA World Cup short course swimming meet (all distances are in meters):FinalsMen100 freestyle_1, Andrey Kapralov, Russia, 47.94 seconds. 2, Bartosz Kizierowski... |
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Melbourne World Cup swimming results
AP Worldstream 11-27-2004 Dateline: MELBOURNE, AustraliaLeading results of finals Saturday on the second day of a World Cup short-course swim meet at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Center (all distances in meters):Men50... |
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World Cup swimming results
AP Worldstream 11-20-2005 Dateline: SYDNEY, AustraliaLeading results Sunday on the final day of a two-day World Cup short-course (25-meter pool) meet at the Sydney International Aquatic Center: (all distances... |
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Swimming: AUSSIE QUEST; Parry to lead British squad down under.(Sport)
...s young swimming squad into...take on the world's number...as British Swimming asks its...way. The swimming world will...FINA World Cup, the highlight...the global short course tour, but...encouraging results from the... |
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