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Godzilla
Godzilla a Jurassic dinosaur which has survived by living in the depths of the ocean, and which has been disturbed and mutated by atom bomb tests into a dragonlike monster capable of devastating Tokyo. Godzilla (originally called Gojira) appeared in 1955, in the first of a series of Japanese films.... Read more |
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Monkwearmouth
Monkwearmouth, at the mouth of the Wear, was founded in 674 by a Northumbrian nobleman, Benedict Biscop. All that now remains above ground of his monastery is the west wall of St Peter's church, begun with the aid of Gallic masons in 675, to which the surviving porch was added before 716. These... Read more |
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Bangor (Ireland)
Bangor, founded as a monastery on the south shore of Belfast Lough by St Comgall in the middle of the 6th century and presided over by him for 50 years. Among his monks were two who established a name for themselves elsewhere, St Moluag of Lismore, prominent in the west of Scotland, and the... Read more |
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Paulicians
Paulicians , Christian heretical sect. The sect developed in Armenia from obscure origins and is first mentioned in the middle of the 6th cent., where it is associated with Nestorianism . The teachings of the Paulicians seem to show some gnostic influence, possibly that of Marcion or Paul of... Read more |
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Ferrer Bassa
Bassa, Ferrer (active 1324–48). Spanish painter and miniaturist who worked for the Aragon court in Barcelona. He is considered the founder of the Catalan School, but the only certain surviving work by his hand is a series of murals (in oil rather than fresco) in the chapel of S. Miguel at... Read more |
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Fire ecology
Fire Ecology Fire is one of the leading natural forces that has shaped nearly all land-based ecosystems for several thousand years. Fire is especially important in regulating the species composition of vegetation. Fire is particularly important in forests of cold northern regions, such as Canada... Read more |
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Parisi
Parisi. British tribe and civitas. The Parisi as their name suggests seem to have ancestral links, betrayed in particular by their unusual ‘chariot-burials’, to a Gallic tribe of the same name. Overshadowed by their far more powerful neighbours, the Brigantes, it is possible that they... Read more |
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Isocrates
Isocrates , 436-338 BC, one of the Ten Attic Orators. He was a pupil of Socrates and of the Sophists. Perhaps the greatest teacher in Greek history, he taught every younger orator of his time. He did not deliver his speeches, but either wrote for litigants (six such speeches survive) or wrote... Read more |
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Corrientes
Corrientes , city (1991 pop. 257,766), capital of Corrientes prov., NE Argentina, a port on the Paraná River. It is the commercial center of a rich pastoral and agricultural region. The city exports the timber and agricultural products of the province. An important cultural center, it has... Read more |
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William II (England)
William II ( Rufus) (1056–1100) King of England (1087–1100). He was the second surviving son of William I (the Conqueror). His elder brother, Robert Curthose ( Robert II), was Duke of Normandy, and William had to crush revolts by Anglo-Norman lords in Robert's favour. He invaded... Read more |
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