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buried soil
buried soil Soil covered by an alluvial, colluvial (see COLLUVIUM), aeolian, glacial, or organic deposit, and being a product of a former period of pedogenesis. In US usage a buried soil is defined as lying beneath 30–50 cm if the covering layer is more than half the thickness of the buried... Read more |
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Charley Pride
Charley Pride Singer For the Record… Selected discography Sources Charley Pride, hailed as “the Jackie Robinson of the Rhinestone Cowboys” by Dolly Carlisle in People because blacks are rare in the field of country music, has gone way beyond being a novelty to rank as one of... Read more |
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Holly Near
Holly Near Singer, songwriter Holly Near has built a distinctive career by using music to champion deeply felt political causes, often before anyone else had dared to do so. Although her musical career took flight in the early 1970s, her commitment to the topical song recalled the political folk... Read more |
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vault
vault ceiling over a room, formed in any one of a variety of curved shapes. Nature of Vaults A vault is generally composed of separate units of material, such as bricks, tiles, or blocks of stone, so shaped or cut that when assembled they form a tightly wedged and stable construction whose weight... Read more |
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First Chicago Corp
First Chicago Corporation One First National PlazaChicago, Illinois 60670U.S.A.(312) 732-4000 Public Company Incorporated: 1863 Employees: 16,069 Assets: $44.43 billion Stock Index: Midwest New York Pacific London Tokyo First Chicago Corporation is a multibank holding company whose... Read more |
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Popular music
Popular Music Sources A Question of Taste.The distinction between “popular” and “serious” music—a distinction that Americans take for granted today—originated in the late nineteenth century. While it is impossible to pinpoint an exact moment at which... Read more |
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Fanny
Fanny (1954), a musical play by S. N. Behrman, Joshua Logan (book), Harold Rome (music, lyrics). [Majestic Theatre, 888 perf.] César ( Ezio Pinza), owner of a small Marseilles café, hopes his son Marius ( William Tabbert) will marry their young neighbor Fanny ( Florence Henderson) and... Read more |
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Stockholm syndrome
Stockholm Syndrome Definition Stockholm syndrome refers to a group of psychological symptoms that occur in some persons in a captive or hostage situation. It has received considerable media publicity in recent years because it has been used to explain the behavior of such well-known kidnapping... Read more |
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Milice
Milice, or more properly Milice Française, was a 30,000-strong Vichy French paramilitary police force. It collaborated with the Germans in rooting out Jews for deportation and hunting down the maquis and other French resistance groups, and became notorious for its brutality. It was founded in ... Read more |
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