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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

year time required for the earth to complete one orbit about the sun. The solar or tropical year is measured relative to the sun and is equal to 365 days, 5 hr, 48 min, 46 sec of mean solar time (see solar time ). The sidereal year , measured relative to the stars, is longer than the tropical year by about 20 min. The calendar year is used for practical purposes and always contains a whole number of days, the ordinary year being 365 days and the leap year 366 days. Author not available, YEAR. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

Monroe, Marilyn 1926-1962
American Decades ... stood over a subway grate in The Seven Year Itch (1955), her white pleated dress billowing ... marrying James Dougherty, a twenty-one-year-old aircraft-plant worker, when she was ... of the top ten box-office draws for that year. In 1954 she became an even bigger celebrity ... Read more

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Cities of the United States ... County) Total number: 8,900 Deaths (2003; Davidson County) Total number: 5,187 (of which, 69 were infants under the age of 1 year) Money income (1999) Per capita income: $22,018 Median household income: $39,232 Total households: 227,559 Number of households ... Read more

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