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Cyperus
Cyperus Description Cyperus refers to a family of marsh-dwelling grass-like plants known as sedges. Perhaps the best known member of this family is the reed, which ancient Egyptians used to make papyrus. However, many other members of this family have proved useful as food and medicine. Cyperus... Read more |
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Furniture stores
FURNITURE INDUSTRY The furniture industry has a long history. From the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians through the Middle Ages, the craft of furniture making has evolved with technology. Where once furniture was necessarily crafted by hand, the twentieth century has seen technological... Read more |
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Hydatidiform Mole
Hydatidiform Mole Definition A hydatidiform mole is a relatively rare condition in which tissue around a fertilized egg that normally would have developed into the placenta instead develops as an abnormal cluster of cells. (This is also called a molar pregnancy.) This grapelike mass forms inside... Read more |
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Copt
Copt a native Egyptian in the Hellenistic and Roman periods; a member of the Coptic Church. Coptic, the language of the Copts, represents the final stage of ancient Egyptian. It now survives only as the liturgical language of the Coptic Church, the native Christian Church in Egypt, traditionally... Read more |
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Modernist
Modernist. 1. Architectural style of the 1920s and 1930s incorporating decorative devices that owed not a little to Art Deco, Aztec, and Ancient Egyptian styles, prompted by the 1925 Paris Exhibition. Among the commoner motifs were chevrons, canted and corbelled ‘arches’, medallions,... Read more |
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A1
A1 Pop group For the Record… International Success Won BRIT Award in 2001 Took a Break in 2002 Selected discography Source Part of a wave of youth-oriented pop acts in the late 1990s, A1 won over many critics who at first dismissed the group as yet another manufactured |
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Jan Kadar
Ján Kadár Czech director Ján Kadár (1918 Read more |
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numeral
numeral symbol denoting a number . The symbol is a member of a family of marks, such as letters, figures, or words, which alone or in a group represent the members of a numeration system. The earliest numerals were undoubtedly marks used to make a tally of a count of a number of acts or objects,... Read more |
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Witwatersrand
Witwatersrand [Afrik.,=white water ridge] or the Rand, region, Gauteng (formerly a part of Transvaal ), South Africa. The area, which forms the watershed between the Vaal and Olifants rivers, is c.25 mi (40 km) wide and extends more than 60 mi (100 km) from west to east in a series of parallel... Read more |
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pharaoh
pharaoh [Heb., from Egyptian,=the great house], title of the kings of ancient Egypt. Of the pharaohs in the Bible, Shishak is Sheshonk I , Neco or Necoh is Necho , and Hophra is Apries . Many scholars believe that the pharaoh who oppressed the Jews in chapters 1-14 of the Book of Exodus was ... Read more |
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Steelcase Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from The Brooklyn Museum.
...Century of Style and Design...research and development process...architecture, furniture and technology...innovative furniture design that...designed furniture and photography...range from ancient Egyptian ... |