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Vince Carter
Vince Carter 1977- American basketball player One of the brightest young stars in professional basketball, Vince Carter has helped to popularize basketball in a country that long has focused the bulk of its sports interests on hockey during the fall and winter months. In only his second season... Read more |
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Kevin Garnett
Kevin Garnett 1976- American basketball player In 1995, Kevin Garnett became famous as one of the first high school basketball players to be drafted directly into the National Basketball Association (NBA). Despite many people's concerns about how a teenager would fare in that setting, Garnett did... Read more |
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A1
A1 Pop group For the Record… International Success Won BRIT Award in 2001 Took a Break in 2002 Selected discography Source Part of a wave of youth-oriented pop acts in the late 1990s, A1 won over many critics who at first dismissed the group as yet another manufactured |
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Cape Horn
Cape Horn headland, 1,391 ft (424 m) high, S Chile, southernmost point of South America, in the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego. It was discovered and first rounded by Willem Schouten, the Dutch navigator, on Jan. 29, 1616, and named for Hoorn in the Netherlands. Lashing storms and strong currents... Read more |
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Lough Derg
Lough Derg , in Ireland. 1 Expansion of the Shannon River, 23 mi (37 km) long and 1 to 5 mi (1.6-8 km) wide, W central Republic of Ireland. On the lake is the republic's first (1927) major hydroelectric power plant, with an 85,000-kW capacity. On Holy Island or Iniscaltra are ruins of churches and... Read more |
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The Manhattan Transfer
The Manhattan Transfer Jazz group For the Record… Rounded Out the Quartet A Smash in Europe Solid Backgrounds Bridged the Jazz/Pop Gap Off to Brazil New Stylistic Direction with Swing Selected discography Sources The Manhattan Transfer sing everything from 1940s swing to... Read more |
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Olga Tanon
Olga Tañón Singer For the Record… Selected discography Sources A beautiful face, a husky alto, and an energetic rapport with her audiences characterize only part of Olga Tañón’s appeal. Since she first started performing solo in 1992, Tañón has... Read more |
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Fernando Yanez
Yáñez, Fernando (active 1506–31). Spanish painter. He is first certainly documented in 1506 in Valencia, where he collaborated with Fernando Llanos (active 1506–16) in painting twelve large panels of the life of the Virgin for the main altarpiece of the cathedral... Read more |
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Berea
Berea or Beroea . 1 Town near Jerusalem, mentioned in First Maccabees. It is probably identical with Beeroth 1. 2 See Véroia , Macedonia. 3 See Aleppo , Syria.... Read more |
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Abinadab
Abinadab 1. Man at whose house on a hill in Kiriath-jearim the ark of the covenant was lodged after its return to Israel by the Philistines; it remained there for twenty years (1 Sam. 7: 2) until David brought it first to the house of Obededom (1 Chr. 13: 13) and later into Jerusalem itself. 2. The... Read more |
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