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Rocky Marciano
Rocky Marciano , 1924-69, American boxer, b. Brockton, Mass. His real name was Rocco Francis Marchegiano. Failing to become a professional baseball player, Marciano turned to boxing and won 27 of 30 amateur bouts before he turned professional in 1947. On his climb to the heavyweight title, Marciano... Read more |
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Jonathan Carver
Jonathan Carver 1710-80, American explorer, b. Weymouth, Mass. He served in the French and Indian War and in 1766 was hired by Robert Rogers to undertake a journey to some of the Western tribes. He journeyed to the Mississippi and up that river to a point several days' journey above the present... Read more |
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blackout
blackout was imposed in every belligerent country in 1939–40, as a necessary precaution to protect homes and factories from air attack. From a civilian's point of view, it was an infernal nuisance. It meant that several minutes had to be taken up, twice a day, with putting up and taking down... Read more |
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Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras , c.500-428 BC, Greek philosopher of Clazomenae. He is credited with having transferred the seat of philosophy to Athens. He was closely associated with many famous Athenians and is thought to have been the teacher of Socrates. His belief that the sun was a white-hot stone and that the... Read more |
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Joe Louis
Joe Louis (Joseph Louis Barrow) , 1914-81, American boxer, b. Lafayette, Ala. His father, a sharecropper, died when Louis was four years old, and in 1926 his stepfather took the family to Detroit, where Louis became interested in boxing. At 18 he began an amateur career in the ring. After winning... Read more |
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Tariff of Abominations
TARIFF OF ABOMINATIONS By the late 1820s the southeastern region of the United States was economically depressed. While the industrial northeast flourished, the agrarian south languished. Many historians now recognize that the soil of the older southern states was worn out and depleted, especially... Read more |
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diffusion
diffusion in chemistry, the spontaneous migration of substances from regions where their concentration is high to regions where their concentration is low. Diffusion is important in many life processes. It occurs, for example, across the alveolar membrane of the lung, which separates the... Read more |
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glacier
glacier moving mass of ice that survives year to year, formed by the compacting of snow into névé and then into granular ice and set in motion outward and downward by the force of gravity and the stress of its accumulated mass. Glaciers are usually found in high altitudes and... Read more |
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Middle East Combined Bureau
Combined Bureau, Middle East (CBME), British Army–RAF cryptanalytical organization, an outpost of the British government's Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, which was formed at Heliopolis, a Cairo suburb, in November 1940. Before that time work on Italian ciphers had been carried out... Read more |
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Bid Is as Audacious Now as in Fall 2002; After Rise From Obscurity and Loss...
...The Deans were out with other parents...asked him whether Wisconsin is his "do or...exuded a buoyant air. Now it feels...make a final fight for Wisconsin generated about...teller who spoke out first against...John F. Kerry ... |
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Amtrak's future riding on the Acela: Train answer to 'road and air rage';...
...Train answer to `road and air rage';Opponents vow to continue...aspeed that a person looking out a window can barely distinguish...run.The "poor stepchild"Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson, the chairman...and another $6 billion on mass transit,the paltry $500 ... |
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Wisconsin Briefs
...Officials issue air quality advisory...because a stagnant air mass over the upper...the ground. The air mass was expected...covering nine western Wisconsin counties. Road...taken steps to fight the flu after ... |
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Vote-count mishap in Wisconsin election raises eyebrows,...
...after a bitter fight, is currently...way up to the Wisconsin Supreme Court...IN PICTURES: Wisconsin protest signs...Democrats - in Wisconsin and beyond...s weapons of mass destruction...materialize out of thin ... |
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Wisconsin has re-energized unions, local members say
...supporters file out of the United...awakening. Sparked by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker...000 striking air traffic controllers in 1981. The mass dismissal weakened...members turned out in Pittsburgh...movement started in ... |
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...carrying U.S. Air Force troops at Frankfurt...the argument laid out by the German...that would help fight anti-Semitism today. 7. Wisconsin’s budget stalemate...and threats of mass layoffs, the state...the University of ... |
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MANY YEARS AND MILES LATER, JOE BEE FINDS A NEW FIGHT.(Front)
...not before the air was filled with...leg, exposing a mass of blood and muscle...as ``the big fight.'' The Hmong...the group that fights back and will...University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire...no future. We fight to save our ... |
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TOO FAT TO FIGHT? OBESITY TAKES A HEAVY TOLL ON THE MILITARY
...default.htm Air Force Shape Your...troops too fat to fight. Weight issues...have been booted out of the service...yet: Nearly 2 out of 10 men and 4 out of 10 women of...Medicine at Natick, Mass. USARIEM, as...Schoenherr, the ... |
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Military Worried Troops Not Fit to Fight; Overweight Soldiers Told to Lose...
...troops too fat to fight. Weight issues...Marines to the Air Force, often...have been booted out of the service...Nearly two out of 10 men and four out of 10 women of...Medicine at Natick, Mass. The institute...Schoenherr, ... |
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Too fat to fight? Obesity takes a heavy toll on the military
...troops too fat to fight.Weight issues...Marines to the Air Force, often...have been booted out of the service...yet: Nearly 2 out of 10 men and 4 out of 10 women of...chart for body-mass index _ a ratio...Schoenherr, the ... |
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