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William Fox
FOX, William Producer. Nationality:American. Born:Wilhelm Fried in Tulchva, Hungary, 1 January 1879; family moved to New York when Fox was nine months old. Career:Peddler in the garment industry; 1904—went into the penny arcade business; bought cinemas in... Read more |
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Bruce Beresford
BERESFORD, Bruce Nationality:Australian. Born:1940. Education:Sydney University. Family:Married 1) Rhoisin Patricia Harrison; 2) Virginia Patricia Mary Dugan, 1985; has three children. Career:Worked in advertising and for ABC TV, late 1950s; moved ... Read more |
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radial velocity
radial velocity in astronomy, the speed with which a star moves toward or away from the sun. It is determined from the red or blue shift in the star's spectrum .... Read more |
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Escalator
Escalator Background An escalator is a power-driven, continuous moving stairway designed to transport passengers up and down short vertical distances. Escalators are used around the world to move pedestrian traffic in places where elevators would be impractical. Principal... Read more |
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Newtons laws of motion
LAWS OF MOTION CONCEPT In all the universe, there are few ideas more fundamental than those expressed in the three laws of motion. Together these explain why it is relatively difficult to start moving, and then to stop moving; how much force is needed to start or stop in a... Read more |
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Checkers
checkers game for two players, known in England as draughts. It is played on a square board, divided into 64 alternately colored—usually red and black or white and black—square spaces, identical with a chessboard. Each player is provided with 12 pieces (in the form of disks) of his own... Read more |
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Demographic transition
Demographic Transition HISTORY OF THE THEORY BIBLIOGRAPHY The term demographic transition originally described the major social shift that occurred in Western societies from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s. At that time, European societies, and their settler offshoots overseas, moved... Read more |
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Ralph Horace Metcalfe
Metcalfe, Ralph May 30, 1910October 10, 1978 The athlete and congressman Ralph Horace Metcalfe was born in Atlanta, Georgia, but moved to Chicago at an early age. While an undergraduate at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Metcalfe was the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)... Read more |
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Princeton University
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. Founded in 1746 by religious reformers, Princeton University is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the United States. The fourth oldest school in the nation, Princeton's founders decided to establish the school after Harvard and Yale... Read more |
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