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Isandhlwana
Isandhlwana. Hill, located 75 miles north of Pietermaritzburg (South Africa), site of an important battle in the Zulu War. Part of the centre column of a three-pronged British invasion of Zululand, having underestimated its opponents, was surprised by a Zulu army on 22 January 1879. Disciplined... Read more |
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John Gibbon
John Gibbon 1827-96, Union general in the Civil War, b. near Holmesburg (now part of Philadelphia), Pa., grad. West Point, 1847. Made a brigadier general of volunteers (1862), he fought in the second battle of Bull Run, at South Mt., at Antietam, and in the Wilderness campaign (1864). After the war... Read more |
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Ernie Pyle
Ernie Pyle (Ernest Taylor Pyle), 1900-1945, American journalist, b. Dana, Ind. After working (1923-32) as a reporter, an editor, and an aviation writer, he became managing editor of the Washington Daily News. In 1935 he began writing a column syndicated by the Scripps-Howard chain to about 200... Read more |
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vertebral column
vertebral column (backbone; spinal column; spine) A flexible bony column in vertebrates that extends down the long axis of the body and provides the main skeletal support. It also encloses and protects the spinal cord and provides attachment for the muscles of the back. The vertebral column consists... Read more |
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Cynthia Tucker
Tucker, Cynthia1955— Journalist Cynthia Tucker forged a name for herself as a fearless social and political commentator. Her "courageous and clear-headed columns," according to the Prize committee, won Tucker a Pulitzer Prize in 2007. Tucker, whose syndicated column appears in nearly 50 newspapers... Read more |
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porch
porch. 1. Covered place of entrance and exit attached to a building and projecting in front of its main mass, such as the south porch of a medieval church, often with a room over it. 2. Interior volume serving as a vestibule. 3. Transept or side-chapel in a church. 4. Cloister, colonnade, Galilee,... Read more |
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Ionic order
Ionic order , one of the early orders of architecture . The spreading scroll-shaped capital is the distinctive feature of the Ionic order; it was primarily a product of Asia Minor, where early embryonic forms of this capital have been found. In the Ionian colonies of Greece on the southwestern... Read more |
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Andrea Palladio
Andrea Palladio , 1508-80, Italian architect of the Renaissance. He studied in Vicenza, and later in Rome he examined the remains of Roman architecture. The measured drawings he made of these were published with compositions of his own and, based on the treatise of Vitruvius , a description of... Read more |
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entasis
entasis [Gr.,=stretching], the slight convex curvature of a classical column that diminishes in diameter as it rises. This device, as used by Greek builders, was of extreme subtlety, the freehand curvature being merely sufficient to guard the contours of the column from any appearance of inward... Read more |
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Zimbabwe
...with both sides of Africa; but after Portuguese...country from the south. He created a kingdom...Matabeleland, which for the next 50 years was to be...1889 the British South Africa Company of Cecil...1890 his Pioneer Column ... |
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ANC assures world 'everything is fine'; Zuma's election has drawn warnings of...
...anxious investors that South Africa will remain open...president early next year. We are confident...Everything is fine in South Africa. But back home...political turmoil in South Africa. The ANC has ... |
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Women united; Zimbabwean rights organization for women to get Kennedy...
...countries such as South Africa. Zimbabwe made headlines...food security in Africa. The Kennedy award...perhaps with their next scheduled appearance...the breadbasket of Africa, the country has...U.S. dollar or South African ... |
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GARDEN PLOTS; Urban farmers in Liberia battle hunger.(WORLD)(BRIEFING:...
...Mrs. Johnson- Sirleaf, Africa's first democratically elected...collards popular in the Deep South of the United States. Potato...Rodham Clinton will visit Liberia next week as part of an 11-day...trip by a secretary of state to Africa of any administration, ... |
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Illegals living in limbo; Africans who slipped into Promised Land after...
...Saharan African population, next to the 115,000 Ethiopian...neighborhoods on the city's south side are teaming with thousands...language spoken in the Horn of Africa, said she spent several months trekking across East Africa en route to Israel. I left... |
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Not now, not next season, not ever; The Grand Slam-winning captain on why...
...best three nations from the South annually - and, no doubt...Australia, New Zealand and South Africa on successive Saturday's next month at Twickenham, but what...as opposed to those for the South Africa and Australia games. ... |
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Bird's book profits to help rising stars; SPORTS AGENDA CHARLES SALE SPORTS...
...The foundation have a meeting next week to decide where their next grants should be distributed...Western Cape, as a guest of South African cricket chief Sonn...are being made about former South Africa captain Hansie Cronje, who... |
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Celebrating life in Southern Africa.(LIFE)(Column)
...countries of Southern Africa proved the ideal...inland from George, South Africa, and in-between...passed the test. The next thing I knew Alma...caught in traps in Africa. The cubs cuddled...outside of Durban, South ... |
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SAMPLES OF GOOD JOURNALISM IN AFRICA.(Editorial)(Column)
...fifth-generation South African, Woods...we have to turn next door to Zimbabwe...a decade before South Africa, to see President...years as he faces next year's elections...mouthpiece. Like South Africa's ... |
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NEW HEAD OF BANK SIGNALS GOOD CHANGE IN SOUTH AFRICA.(Editorial)(Column)
...Congress politician to run South Africa's central bank signals...after elections expected next May, has stated his...defines present-day South Africa,'' Mbeki told The...realpolitik'' in South Africa. ``It ... |
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Jailed Virani is backing Africa; financial mail.(Column)
...150 million people, and Africa is a buzzword at the moment...the sound of music over the next two weeks. He left yesterday for South Africa as a member of the 150...travel. `Last time I was in South Africa someone arranged ... |
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