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ARCADIA
ARCADIA, codename for the first Washington conference ( 22 December 1941 to 14 January 1942) at which Churchill, Roosevelt, and their military advisers hammered out future strategy and the mechanisms to be used to co-ordinate their war effort (see Grand Alliance). At the suggestion of the Americans, General Wavell was appointed to command ABDA. Other discussion included the possibility of invading North Africa, MacArthur's urgent requests for action to stop the Japanese in the Philippines, and the crucial issue of Lend-Lease for the USSR (see Three-Power conference). The dispatch of US troops to Northern Ireland and Iceland was agreed upon, as was the wording of the United Nations Declaration issued on New Year's Day 1942. Beaverbrook, who flew to join Churchill in Washington, urged Roosevelt and Donald Nelson, the executive director of the newly-established War Production Board, to set US production targets higher. This was achieved with such alacrity that apart from aircraft (the deliveries of which had to be cut by half because of USAAF expansion) the UK, during the first six months of 1942, suffered no shortages through a shortfall of Lend-Lease. See alsodiplomacy.
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I. C. B. DEAR and M. R. D. FOOT. "ARCADIA." The Oxford Companion to World War II. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. I. C. B. DEAR and M. R. D. FOOT. "ARCADIA." The Oxford Companion to World War II. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O129-ARCADIA.html I. C. B. DEAR and M. R. D. FOOT. "ARCADIA." The Oxford Companion to World War II. 2001. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O129-ARCADIA.html |
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Arcadia
Arcadia , region of ancient Greece, in the middle of the Peloponnesus, without a seaboard, and surrounded and dissected by mountains. The Arcadians, relatively isolated from the rest of the world, lived a proverbially simple and natural life. By far the largest city was megalopolis , founded by Epaminondas. It had some political power, especially in the Arcadian League, but Arcadia as a whole was of little political significance. The independent mountaineers periodically fought against Spartan power, but did not cooperate well. Other cities were Mantinea, Tegea, Orchomenus, and Heraea. |
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"Arcadia." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Arcadia." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-ArcadiaGr.html "Arcadia." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-ArcadiaGr.html |
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Arcadia
Arcadia, California/USA Named after the historic region in the Peloponnese, Greece, today a department called Arkadhía. In Greek mythology, the name is said to come from Arcas, son of Zeus, who became King of Arcadia. Unknowingly, he shot at his mother, Callisto, who, when pregnant, had been turned into a bear by Zeus. She was then transformed into the constellation of the Great Bear and Arcas into the Little Bear.
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JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Arcadia." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Arcadia." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Arcadia.html JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Arcadia." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Arcadia.html |
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Arcadia
Arcadia a mountainous district in the Peloponnese of southern Greece. In poetic fantasy it represents a pastoral paradise the home of song-loving shepherds, and in Greek mythology it is the home of Pan.
Et in Arcadia ego a Latin phrase, meaning literally ‘And I too in Arcadia’; a tomb inscription, of disputed interpretation, often depicted in classical paintings, notably by Poussin in 1655. |
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Arcadia." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Arcadia." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Arcadia.html ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Arcadia." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Arcadia.html |
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Arcadia
Arcadia city (1990 pop. 48,290), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, at the foot of the San Gabriel Mts.; inc. 1903. Manufactures include electronic equipment, fabricated metal products, pharmaceuticals, furniture, motors, and machinery. The Santa Anita racetrack and an arboretum are there. |
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"Arcadia." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Arcadia." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-ArcadiaUS.html "Arcadia." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-ArcadiaUS.html |
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Arcadian
Ar·ca·di·an / ärˈkādēən/ • n. a native of Arcadia. ∎ poetic/lit. an idealized country dweller. • adj. of or relating to Arcadia. ∎ poetic/lit. of or relating to an ideal rustic paradise. |
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"Arcadian." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Arcadian." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-arcadian.html "Arcadian." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-arcadian.html |
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Arcadia." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Arcadia." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Arcadia.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Arcadia." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Arcadia.html |
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Arcadian
Arcadian XVI. f. L. Arcadius, f. Gr. Arkadíā, district in the Peloponnese; see -IAN.
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T. F. HOAD. "Arcadian." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "Arcadian." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-Arcadian.html T. F. HOAD. "Arcadian." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-Arcadian.html |
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Arcadia
Arcadia, a series of verse eclogues connected by prose narrative, published 1504 by Sannazar.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Arcadia." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Arcadia." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Arcadia1.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Arcadia." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Arcadia1.html |
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Arcadia
•Gambia, Zambia
•Arabia, labia, Swabia
•Libya, Namibia, tibia
•euphorbia
•agoraphobia, claustrophobia, homophobia, hydrophobia, phobia, technophobia, xenophobia, Zenobia
•Nubia • rootbeer • cumbia
•Colombia, Columbia
•exurbia, Serbia, suburbia
•Wiltshire • Flintshire
•gaillardia, Nadia, tachycardia
•steadier • compendia
•Acadia, Arcadia, nadir, stadia
•reindeer
•acedia, encyclopedia, media, multimedia
•Lydia, Numidia
•India • belvedere • Claudia
•Cambodia, odea, plasmodia, podia, roe-deer
•Mafia, raffia, tafia
•Philadelphia • hemisphere
•planisphere • Montgolfier • Sofia
•ecosphere • biosphere • atmosphere
•thermosphere • ionosphere
•stratosphere • headgear • switchgear
•logia • nemesia • menhir
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"Arcadia." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Arcadia." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Arcadia.html "Arcadia." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Arcadia.html |
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Arcadian
Arcadian
•antipodean, Crimean, Judaean, Korean
•Albion
•Gambian, Zambian
•lesbian
•Arabian, Bessarabian, Fabian, gabion, Sabian, Swabian
•amphibian, Libyan, Namibian
•Sorbian
•Danubian, Nubian
•Colombian • Serbian • Nietzschean
•Chadian, Trinidadian
•Andean, Kandyan
•guardian
•Acadian, Akkadian, Arcadian, Barbadian, Canadian, circadian, Grenadian, Hadean, Orcadian, Palladian, radian, steradian
•Archimedean, comedian, epicedian, median, tragedian
•ascidian, Derridean, Dravidian, enchiridion, Euclidean, Floridian, Gideon, Lydian, meridian, Numidian, obsidian, Pisidian, quotidian, viridian
•Amerindian, Indian
•accordion, Edwardian
•Cambodian, collodion, custodian, melodeon, nickelodeon, Odeon
•Freudian • Bermudian • Burundian
•Burgundian
•Falstaffian, Halafian
•Christadelphian, Delphian, Philadelphian
•nymphean • ruffian • Brobdingnagian
•Carolingian • Swedenborgian
•logion, Muskogean
•Jungian
•magian, Pelagian
•collegian
•callipygian, Cantabrigian, Phrygian, Stygian
•Merovingian • philologian • Fujian
•Czechoslovakian • Pickwickian
•Algonquian • Chomskian
•Kentuckian
•battalion, galleon, medallion, rapscallion, scallion
•Anglian, ganglion
•Heraklion
•Dalian, Malian, Somalian
•Chellean, Machiavellian, Orwellian, Sabellian, Trevelyan, triskelion
•Wesleyan
•alien, Australian, bacchanalian, Castalian, Deucalion, episcopalian, Hegelian, madrigalian, mammalian, Pygmalion, Salian, saturnalian, sesquipedalian, tatterdemalion, Thessalian, Westphalian
•anthelion, Aristotelian, Aurelian, carnelian, chameleon, Karelian, Mendelian, Mephistophelian, Pelion, Sahelian
•Abbevillian, Azilian, Brazilian, caecilian, Castilian, Chilean, Churchillian, civilian, cotillion, crocodilian, epyllion, Gillian, Lilian, Maximilian, Pamphylian, pavilion, postilion, Quintilian, reptilian, Sicilian, Tamilian, vaudevillian, vermilion, Virgilian
•Aeolian, Anatolian, Eolian, Jolyon, Mongolian, napoleon, simoleon
•Acheulian, Boolean, cerulean, Friulian, Julian, Julien
•bullion
•mullion, scullion, Tertullian
•Liverpudlian
•Bahamian, Bamian, Damian, Mesopotamian, Samian
•anthemion, Bohemian
•Endymion, prosimian, Simeon, simian
•isthmian • antinomian
•Permian, vermian
•Oceanian
•Albanian, Azanian, Iranian, Jordanian, Lithuanian, Mauritanian, Mediterranean, Panamanian, Pennsylvanian, Pomeranian, Romanian, Ruritanian, Sassanian, subterranean, Tasmanian, Transylvanian, Tripolitanian, Turanian, Ukrainian, Vulcanian
•Armenian, Athenian, Fenian, Magdalenian, Mycenaean (US Mycenean), Slovenian, Tyrrhenian
•Argentinian, Arminian, Augustinian, Carthaginian, Darwinian, dominion, Guinean, Justinian, Ninian, Palestinian, Sardinian, Virginian
•epilimnion, hypolimnion
•Bosnian
•Bornean, Californian, Capricornian
•Aberdonian, Amazonian, Apollonian, Babylonian, Baconian, Bostonian, Caledonian, Catalonian, Chalcedonian, Ciceronian, Devonian, draconian, Estonian, Etonian, gorgonian, Ionian, Johnsonian, Laconian, Macedonian, Miltonian, Newtonian, Oregonian, Oxonian, Patagonian, Plutonian, Tennysonian, Tobagonian, Washingtonian
•Cameroonian, communion, Mancunian, Neptunian, Réunion, union
•Hibernian, Saturnian
•Campion, champion, Grampian, rampion, tampion
•thespian • Mississippian • Olympian
•Crispian
•Scorpian, scorpion
•cornucopian, dystopian, Ethiopian, Salopian, subtopian, Utopian
•Guadeloupian
•Carian, carrion, clarion, Marian
•Calabrian, Cantabrian
•Cambrian • Bactrian
•Lancastrian, Zoroastrian
•Alexandrian • Maharashtrian
•equestrian, pedestrian
•agrarian, antiquarian, apiarian, Aquarian, Arian, Aryan, authoritarian, barbarian, Bavarian, Bulgarian, Caesarean (US Cesarean), centenarian, communitarian, contrarian, Darien, disciplinarian, egalitarian, equalitarian, establishmentarian, fruitarian, Gibraltarian, grammarian, Hanoverian, humanitarian, Hungarian, latitudinarian, libertarian, librarian, majoritarian, millenarian, necessarian, necessitarian, nonagenarian, octogenarian, ovarian, Parian, parliamentarian, planarian, predestinarian, prelapsarian, proletarian, quadragenarian, quinquagenarian, quodlibetarian, Rastafarian, riparian, rosarian, Rotarian, sabbatarian, Sagittarian, sanitarian, Sauveterrian, sectarian, seminarian, septuagenarian, sexagenarian, topiarian, totalitarian, Trinitarian, ubiquitarian, Unitarian, utilitarian, valetudinarian, vegetarian, veterinarian, vulgarian
•Adrian, Hadrian
•Assyrian, Illyrian, Syrian, Tyrian
•morion • Austrian
•Dorian, Ecuadorean, historian, Hyperborean, Nestorian, oratorian, praetorian (US pretorian), salutatorian, Salvadorean, Singaporean, stentorian, Taurean, valedictorian, Victorian
•Ugrian • Zarathustrian
•Cumbrian, Northumbrian, Umbrian
•Algerian, Cancerian, Chaucerian, Cimmerian, criterion, Hesperian, Hitlerian, Hyperion, Iberian, Liberian, Nigerian, Presbyterian, Shakespearean, Siberian, Spenserian, Sumerian, valerian, Wagnerian, Zairean
•Arthurian, Ben-Gurion, centurion, durian, holothurian, Khachaturian, Ligurian, Missourian, Silurian, tellurian
•Circassian, Parnassian
•halcyon • Capsian • Hessian
•Albigensian, Waldensian
•Dacian • Keatsian
•Cilician, Galician, Lycian, Mysian, Odyssean
•Leibnizian • Piscean • Ossian
•Gaussian • Joycean • Andalusian
•Mercian • Appalachian • Decian
•Ordovician, Priscian
•Lucian
•himation, Montserratian
•Atlantean, Dantean, Kantian
•bastion, Erastian, Sebastian
•Mozartian • Brechtian • Thyestean
•Fortean • Faustian • protean
•Djiboutian
•fustian, Procrustean
•Gilbertian, Goethean, nemertean
•pantheon
•Hogarthian, Parthian
•Lethean, Promethean
•Pythian • Corinthian • Scythian
•Lothian, Midlothian
•Latvian • Yugoslavian
•avian, Batavian, Flavian, Moldavian, Moravian, Octavian, Scandinavian, Shavian
•Bolivian, Maldivian, oblivion, Vivian
•Chekhovian, Harrovian, Jovian, Pavlovian
•alluvion, antediluvian, diluvian, Peruvian
•Servian • Malawian • Zimbabwean
•Abkhazian • Dickensian
•Caucasian, Malaysian, Rabelaisian
•Keynesian
•Belizean, Cartesian, Indonesian, Milesian, Salesian, Silesian
•Elysian, Frisian, Parisian, Tunisian
•Holmesian
•Carthusian, Malthusian, Venusian
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"Arcadian." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Arcadian." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Arcadian.html "Arcadian." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Arcadian.html |
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