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Haymarket Square riot
Haymarket Square riot outbreak of violence in Chicago on May 4, 1886. Demands for an eight-hour working day became increasingly widespread among American laborers in the 1880s. A demonstration, largely staged by a small group of anarchists, caused a crowd of some 1,500 people to gather at Haymarket... Read more |
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Isaiah Bowman
Bowman, Isaiah (b. Waterloo, Ontario, 26 December 1878; d. Baltimore, Maryland, 6 January 1950) geography. Bowman was the third of eight children of Samuel Cressman Bowman, a farmer of moderate means, whose father had been a schoolteacher and farmer. The family moved to Michigan eight weeks after... Read more |
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Nereid
Nereid , in astronomy, one of the eight known moons, or natural satellites, of Neptune .... Read more |
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Pieces of Eight
PIECES OF EIGHT PIECES OF EIGHT, Spanish silver coins of eight reals (eight bits), first authorized in 1497. Also known as pesos and Spanish dollars, they were minted in enormous quantities and soon became recognized as a reliable medium of exchange in the European colonies of North America.... Read more |
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Mormoopidae
Mormoopidae (ghost-faced bats, moustached bats, chin-leafed bats; order Chiroptera, suborder Microchiroptera) A family of insectivorous bats in which there is no nose leaf, but the nostrils form part of a fleshy pad extending on to both lips and, in Mormoops species, continuing in foliar outgrowths... Read more |
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Alfonso Ribeiro
Alfonso Ribeiro 1971– Actor Adolescent Talent Sitcom Fame Giving Back to the Future Sources The hot-spotlight life of an actor began at the early age of eight for Alfonso Ribeiro when he landed a part in the PBS series, Oye Willie. With a few lulls between projects, he has been on... Read more |
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Triton
Triton , in astronomy, innermost and largest of the eight known moons, or natural satellites, of Neptune .... Read more |
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The Eight
Eight, The. A name of three groups of artists, respectively (1) American, (2) Czech, and (3) Hungarian; they were not connected in any way, but they all originally consisted of eight members, and they were all active in the first decade of the 20th century. (1) A group of eight American painters who... Read more |
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