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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is a self-supporting, interstate, corporate organization of New York and New Jersey. It was created in 1921 to protect and promote the commerce of New York Harbor and... Read more |
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Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett JohanssonNovember 22, 1984 • New York, New YorkActressWith her tousled blonde hair, full lips, and porcelain complexion, twenty-year-old Scarlett Johansson has become one of the hottest talents in Hollywood. In the mid-2000s her luminous features graced the cover of every fashion magazine,... Read more |
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New Age
New Age a term popularized in the 1980s to describe a wide-ranging set of beliefs and practices that are an outgrowth of the counterculture of the 1960s and 70s in the United States. Adherents of the New Age movement believe that a spiritual era is dawning in which individuals and society will be... Read more |
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Icelandic literature
Icelandic literature the literature of Iceland. For the earliest literature of Iceland, see Old Norse literature . Early Writings With Iceland's loss of political independence (1261-64) came a decline in literature, although the linguistic tradition continued and the old writings were still... Read more |
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New Age Journal
New Age Journal Journal of New Age and holistic topics published by New Age Publishing and concerned mainly with achievement, commitment, health, creative living, and holistic nutrition. It includes a calendar of a wide range of New Age seminars, lectures, training courses, and symposia. Since... Read more |
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New Years Day
New Year's Day among ancient peoples the first day of the year frequently corresponded to the vernal or autumnal equinox, or to the summer or winter solstice. In the Middle Ages it was celebrated among Christians usually on Mar. 25. After the adoption of the Gregorian calendar that began in 1582,... Read more |
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chrysoprase
chrysoprase a golden-green precious stone, mentioned in the New Testament (Revelation 21:20) as one of the precious stones in the wall of the New Jerusalem, perhaps a variety of beryl; in the Middle Ages, believed to have the faculty of shining in the dark. Now, an apple-green variety of chalcedony... Read more |
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New York Review of Books
NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Starting Up First published in February 1963 during a New York newspaper strike, the New York Review of Bookswas intended to fill the void left by the absence of the reviews usually published by The New York Timesand the New York... Read more |
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Andreas Vollenweider
Andreas VollenweiderHarpist, composer, arranger, producer Swiss harpist Andreas Vollenweider became a pioneering force in the New Age or New Music movement, achieving fame throughout the world long before the genre became trendy. Prior to the late 1980s New Age artists were usually produced by... Read more |
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Henry Sweet
Henry Sweet 1845-1912, English philologist and phonetician. An authority on Anglo-Saxon and the history of the English language, Sweet was also a pioneer in modern scientific phonetics. His History of English Sounds (1874) was a landmark in that study. In 1901 he was made a reader in phonetics at... Read more |
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