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Escape
ESCAPE The criminal offense of fleeing legal custody without authority or consent. In order for an individual who has been accused of escape to be convicted, all elements of the crime must be proved. Such elements are governed by the specific language of each state statute. The general common-law... Read more |
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Army Electronic Proving Ground
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Battle of Wandewash
Wandewash, battle of, 1760. On 22 January 1760 Sir Eyre Coote defeated the forces of the Count de Lally at Wandewash, in south India, to signal the dominance of the English East India Company over its French equivalent. After Wandewash, Coote went on to capture the French capital of Pondicherry.... Read more |
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Nikki McCray
Nikki McCray 1971- American basketball player Power guard and forward Nikki McCray has played basketball with the WNBA's Washington Mystics and Indiana Fever, and the ABL's Columbus Quest. Earning multiple MVP awards, starter for the WNBA East All-Star team, and gold medals in two Olympics with... Read more |
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Tea Act
Tea Act Source British Taxes on Tea.In 1721 Parliament had given the East India Company a virtual monopoly on the colonial tea market and had required a tea sold in the colonies to pass through England. The monopoly, however, was a paper one: in the late 1760s the... Read more |
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Way Down East
Way Down East (1898), a play by Lottie Blair Parker, revised by Joseph R. Grismer. [Manhattan Theatre, 152 perf.] After being seduced and losing the child of that liaison, Annie Moore ( Phoebe Davies) wanders aimlessly until she finds refuge as a servant in the New England farm of Squire... Read more |
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convoys
convoys. (See also Arctic convoys.) Though of ancient origin, convoys—defined by the British official naval historian as ‘one or more merchant ships sailing under the protection of one or more warships’—were reintroduced into modern maritime warfare by the British in ... Read more |
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Central limit theorem
Central Limit Theorem THE THEOREM APPLICATIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY The central limit theorem (CLT) is a fundamental result from statistics. It states that the sum of a large number of independent identically distributed (iid) random variables will tend to be distributed according to the normal... Read more |
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Darius I
Darius I (Darius the Great) , d. 486 BC, king of ancient Persia (521-486 BC), called also Dariavaush and Darius Hystaspis (after his father, Hystaspes or Vishtaspa). A distant cousin of Cambyses II (see under Cambyses ), he succeeded to the throne after the fall of the impostor claiming to be ... Read more |
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Frederick North 8th Baron North
Frederick North North, 8th Baron 1732-92, British statesman, best known as Lord North. He entered Parliament in 1754 and became a junior lord of the treasury (1759), privy councilor (1766), and chancellor of the exchequer (1767). In 1770, North, who had proved himself an able parliamentarian, was... Read more |
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