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firing line
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fire-blight
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firing
firing n. 1. the action of setting fire to something: the deliberate firing of 600 oil wells. 2. the discharging of a gun or other weapon: the prolonged firing caused heavy losses | no missile firings were planned.... Read more |
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Battle of Homildon Hill
Homildon Hill, battle of, 1402. The clash at Otterburn in 1388 was followed by a ten-year truce on the Anglo-Scottish border. In June 1402 Hotspur and March got the better of a small skirmish at Nisbet Moor, in Berwickshire. Glyndŵr's rising in Wales gave the Scots a chance of revenge and in... Read more |
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Fire-bellied toad
Bombina bombina (fire-bellied toad) See DISCOGLOSSIDAE.... Read more |
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Hell Fire Club
Hell-Fire Club An eighteenth-century British Satanist society of rich men, politicians, and eccentrics based at Medmenham Abbey in Buckinghamshire and later in caves at High Wycombe. The founder was the notorious profligate Sir Francis Dashwood (1708-1781), a member of parliament who was appointed... Read more |
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Craig Cameron Mello
Craig Cameron Mello American molecular biologist Craig C. Mello (born 1961) shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Andrew Fire for their discovery of RNAi. As a result of their co-research, the two men shared numerous other awards that underscored the impact, both immediate and potential, of... Read more |
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fire
fire the phenomenon of combustion as seen in light, flame , and heat; it is one of the basic tools of human culture. In ancient Greece and later, fire was considered one of the four basic elements, a substance from which all things were composed. Its great importance to humans, the mystery of... Read more |
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Hammerfest
Hammerfest , town (1995 pop. 9,561), Finnmark co., N Norway, on Kvaløy island. It is the northernmost town of Europe, but its harbor is always ice-free. Tourists are attracted by its uninterrupted daylight from May 17 to July 29. There are fish-processing plants. Chartered c.1795, Hammerfest... Read more |
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Fire Engine
Fire Engine Background The term "fire truck" is commonly used as a generic expression to describe a fire-fighting vehicle. Technically, a "fire truck" is a vehicle equipped with ladders and is used mainly to gain access to elevated portions of a structure or to provide a... Read more |
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