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Elmyr de Hory Elmyr de Hory
Hory, Elmyr de (1911–1976). Hungarian painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, notorious as a forger of the work of leading 20th-century artists. He came from a wealthy family and studied art in Budapest, Munich, and Paris (where Léger was one of his teachers), and according to his own... Read more
Carlsbad Carlsbad
Carlsbad . 1 City (1990 pop. 63,126), San Diego co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast; settled in the 1880s, inc. 1952. Carlsbad is a booming San Diego suburb; its population more than tripled from 1970 to 1990. It has electronic and aircraft industries, machine shops, and a silica quarry. Major... Read more
Summer Summer
summer the warmest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from June to August and in the southern hemisphere from December to February. Recorded from Old English (in form sumor), the word is of Germanic origin, and is ultimately related to Sanskrit samā ‘year’.Summer... Read more
Gerald Scarfe Gerald Scarfe
Scarfe, Gerald (1936– ). British caricaturist, designer, sculptor, printmaker, painter, film-maker, and writer, born in London. He suffered from severe asthma throughout most of his childhood and took up drawing during long periods of confinement in bed. After a brief period working for an... Read more
daylight saving time daylight saving time
daylight saving time (DST), time observed when clocks and other timepieces are set ahead so that the sun will rise and set later in the day as measured by civil time . The amount of daylight on a given day of the year at a given latitude is fixed, but over the year the hours of sunrise and... Read more
clepsydra clepsydra
clepsydra or water clock, ancient device for measuring time by means of the flow of water from a container. A simple form of clepsydra was an earthenware vessel with a small opening through which the water dripped; as the water level dropped, it exposed marks on the walls of the vessel that... Read more
End of the universe (Cosmology) End of the universe (Cosmology)
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Motorcycle Dealership and Racetrack Zoom Motors 34 Badger Blvd. Waukesha, WI 53186 Patrick J. Kuyath Zoom Motors will be a totally new kind of motorcycle and ATV dealership that many riders have been waiting to come along. In its current state, Zoom... Read more
Pyatigorsk Pyatigorsk
Pyatigorsk , city (1989 pop. 129,500), Stavropol Territory, SE European Russia, on the Podkumok River in the N Caucasus. It is a rail terminus and a health resort. The city has an electrotechnical industry, shops for the repair of agricultural equipment, and factories that produce food, clothing,... Read more
Fish and Chips Fish and Chips
FISH AND CHIPS FISH AND CHIPS. Fish and chips has a strong historic claim to the status of the national dish of industrial Britain. Perhaps fittingly, in postindustrial and postcolonial times it has been hit hard by competition from a proliferating variety of ethnic restaurants and takeout... Read more

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