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Milan Ryzl
ESP R ESEARCHERS I n their biennial report on the state of science understanding released in April 2002, the National Science Foundation found that 60 percent of adults in the United States agreed or strongly agreed that some people possess psychic powers... Read more |
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Paige Rowland
ROWLAND, Paige 1967– PERSONAL Born May 27, 1967, in Greenwood, SC; married Michael Dietz (an actor), April 6, 2002; children: Madison Michaela. Education: Attended Ohio State University, Emory University, Tel Aviv U... Read more |
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Rowan Douglas Williams
Rowan Douglas Williams archbishop of Canterbury (2002-), b. Swansea, Wales; grad. Christ's College, Cambridge (B.A., 1971; M.A., 1975), Wadham College, Oxford (D.Phil., 1975). Ordained a priest in 1978, he was a teacher, dean, and chaplain at Cambridge (1977-86) and a professor of theology at... Read more |
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Daniel Toroitich arap Moi
Daniel Toroitich arap Moi , 1924-, president of Kenya (1978-2002). First named to the legislature in 1955, he opposed Kikuyu and Luo dominance until he joined Kenya's first independent government (1963) and the majority party, the Kenya African National Union (KANU). Moi became vice president in... Read more |
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Seiji Ozawa
Seiji Ozawa , 1935-, Japanese conductor, b. Manchuria. A graduate of the Toho School of Music, Ozawa won competitions in Europe and the United States and was hired (1961) by the New York Philharmonic as an assistant conductor. He was director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (1965-70) and the San... Read more |
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Cleveland Orchestra
Cleveland Orchestra one of the foremost orchestras in the United States. It gave its first performance in 1918 under Nikolai Sokoloff , who was conductor until 1933. In 1931, the orchestra moved from the Cleveland Masonic Temple into Severance Hall. (The hall was restored and renovated in 1999... Read more |
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Supervalu Inc
Supervalu Inc. 11840 Valley View Road Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55344-3691 U.S.A. Telephone: (952) 828-4000 Fax: (952) 828-8998 Web site: http://www.supervalu.com Public Company Incorporated: 1926 as Winston & Newell CompanyEmployees: 57,800 (2002)Sales: $20.98 billion (2002)Stock... Read more |
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Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard 1943-, American playwright and actor, b. Fort Sheridan, Ill., as Samuel Shepard Rogers 7th. A product of the 1960s counterculture, Shepard combines wild humor, grotesque satire, myth, and a sparse, haunting language evocative of Western movies to create a subversive pop art vision of... Read more |
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Feeling of Inferiority
INFERIORITY, FEELING OF (INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY) As early as 1907 Alfred Adler considered the state of organic inferiority as a factor in neurosis before linking it to the newborn child's state of physiological immaturity. This state of inferiority is the source of the feeling of inferiority that... Read more |
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Brotherhood of Ruralists
Brotherhood of Ruralists. A group of seven British painters formed in 1975 when all the members were living in the predominantly rural west of England (their definition of ‘ruralist’ being ‘someone who is from the city who moves to the country'). They were Ann Arnold... Read more |
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