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Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey 1954-, African-American television host, actress, and media magnate, b. Kosciusko, Miss., as Orpah Gail Winfrey, grad. Tennessee State Univ. (1976). She began her career as a Nashville radio reporter at age 17, worked in television news at 19, and moved (1976) to Baltimore to coanchor...
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journalism
journalism the collection and periodic publication or transmission of news through media such as newspaper , periodical , television , and radio .
Schools
The importance of journalism in modern society has been testified to by the establishment of schools of journalism at most of the ...
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Hamadan
Hamadan , city (1991 pop. 349,653), capital of Hamadan prov., W Iran, at the foot of Mt. Alwand. Located at an altitude of 6,000 ft (1,829 m), it is the trade center for a fertile farm region where fruit and grain are grown. The city is noted for its rugs, leatherwork, textiles, chemicals, and wood ...
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inoculation
inoculation in medicine, introduction of a preparation into the tissues or fluids of the body for the purpose of preventing or curing certain diseases. The preparation is usually a weakened culture of the agent causing the disease, as in vaccination against smallpox; however, it may also be compo...
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art
art The major general surveys on topics in the fine arts are painting ; sculpture ; drawing ; photography , and architecture .
Bibliography: See also articles on specific artists, periods, styles, regions, genres, and graphic media.
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blog
blog short for web log, an online, regularly updated journal or newsletter that is readily accessible to the general public by virtue of being posted on a website. Blogs typically report and comment on topics of interest to the author, and are usually written and posted using software specifically ...
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Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan , Iran. Azarbayejan, region, c.34,280 sq mi (88,785 sq km), NW Iran, divided into the provinces of East Azerbaijan (1996 pop. 3,325,540), West Azerbaijan (1996 pop. 2,496,320), and Ardabil (1996 pop. 1,168,011). The chief cities include Tabriz (the capital of East Azerbaijan), ...
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Media
Media , ancient country of W Asia whose actual boundaries cannot be defined, occupying generally what is now W Iran and S Azerbaijan. It extended from the Caspian Sea to the Zagros Mts. The Medes were an Indo-European people who spoke an Iranian language closely akin to old Persian. Some scholars cl...
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Richard Meier
Richard Meier , 1934-, American architect, b. Newark, N.J., educated at Cornell Univ. During the 1960s, he was a member of the New York "Five" or "white" architects, a group that emulated the early International style . In such projects as the Smith House in Darien, Conn. (1965-67), Meier p...
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Robert Morris
Robert Morris 1931-, American artist, b. Kansas City, Mo. He settled in New York City in 1960 and was allied in his early work with the simple, impersonal forms of minimalism , e.g., an untitled 1965 work consisting of four blocks of gray fiberglass. He also often used mirrored surfaces in his scu...
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