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Biloxi
Biloxi: Economy Major Industries and Commercial Activity Gaming and tourism is Biloxi's most important industry. By the end of the twentieth century, there were 12 Las Vegas-style casinos in the region, nine of which were in the city of Biloxi. The casinos feature ... Read more |
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Round House
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World Trade Organization
World Trade Organization (WTO), international organization established in 1995 as a result of the final round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations, called the Uruguay Round. The WTO is responsible for monitoring national trading policies, handling trade disputes, and... Read more |
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Round Table
Round Table in Arthurian legend , the table at which King Arthur and his knights held court. It was allegedly fashioned at the behest of Arthur to prevent quarrels among the knights over precedence. According to one version it was given to Arthur as a wedding gift by his father-in-law. A round... Read more |
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partners
partners, a framework, consisting of stout planks. It was secured to the decks of wooden ships round the holes though which passed the masts or the spindle of the capstan. This strengthened the deck in these places and assisted in taking the strain when the masts carried a press of sail or the... Read more |
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Round Table Conferences
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kingdom of Rheged
Rheged, kingdom of. A 6th-cent. British kingdom round the Solway Firth and southern Galloway, its capital was possibly Carlisle. In Roman times the inhabitants of the area had been the Novantae. Its best-known ruler, Urien, much praised by Taliesin, was said to have attacked the Bernicians c.580 and... Read more |
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Mortimer J. Adler
Mortimer Jerome Adler American philosopher-educator Mortimer J. Adler (1902-2001) raised a stir in public schools, colleges, and universities over the place of classic works in the curriculum. For more than sixty years, his writings exposed to public scrutiny radical ideas about how to enlighten... Read more |
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round
round in music, a perpetual canon on a tune that returns to its beginning in which all the voices enter at the unison or the octave. An example is Sumer Is Icumen In . Rounds were popular in 17th-century England when the catch reached its height. The catch was originally just a simple round,... Read more |
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