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Voskhod Voskhod
Voskhod Soviet engineers designed the Voskhod ("Dawn") spacecraft to keep the Soviet Union ahead in the space race of the 1960s while they developed their advanced Soyuz spacecraft. They modified the single-seat Vostok spacecraft to produce Voskhod. Voskhod's improvised ... Read more
sonic boom sonic boom
sonic boom shock wave produced by an object moving through the air at supersonic speed, i.e., faster than the speed of sound. Since sound is a mechanical disturbance that propagates through the air, there is a limit to its speed. An object such as an airplane, moving through the air, generates... Read more
avalanche avalanche
avalanche rapidly descending large mass of snow, ice, soil, rock, or mixtures of these materials, sliding or falling in response to the force of gravity. Avalanches, which are natural forms of erosion and often seasonal, are usually classified by their content such as a debris or snow avalanche.... Read more
Battle of Anzio Battle of Anzio
Anzio, Battle of (1944). In the skillfully defended terrain of southern Italy, the Allies in November 1943 during World War II were advancing so slowly that they decided to go around the German defenses by sea, hoping to speed progress to Rome. In December, they canceled the planned amphibious... Read more
Jean Baptiste Say Jean Baptiste Say
Jean Baptiste Say , 1767-1832, French economist. In A Treatise on Political Economy (1803, tr. from the 4th ed. 1821) he effectively reorganized and popularized the theories of Adam Smith. Say also developed a noted theory of markets and the concept of the entrepreneur. Say's law of markets holds... Read more
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Jane Jacobs Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs 1916-2006, American-Canadian urbanologist, b. Scranton, Pa., as Jane Butzner. In the 1930s she moved to New York City, where she was (1952-64) an editor of Architectural Forum magazine. Living in Greenwich Village, she became active in efforts to preserve the neighborhood. Her first... Read more
clipper clipper
clipper type of sailing ship, designed for speed. Long and narrow, the clipper had the greatest beam aft of the center; the bow cleaved the waves; and the ship carried, besides topgallant and royal sails, skysails and moonrakers—a veritable cloud of sails. The type originated in the United... Read more
Face to Face Face to Face
Face to Face Rock group Bad boy rockers Face to Face made a name for themselves as a punk band, but they weren't entirely comfortable with that label. The group combined pop influences with classic punk sounds for a crowd-pleasing blend that owed as much to the Police as it did to the Sex... Read more

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