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Astronomy and Astrophysics (abbreviated as A&A in the astronomical literature, or else Astron. Astrophys.) is a European Journal, publishing papers on theoretical, observational and instrumental astronomy and astrophysics. It was publis...
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The Actinopterygii (the plural form of Actinopterygius) comprise the class of the ray-finned fishes. The ray-finned fishes are so called because they possess lepidotrichia or "fin rays", their fins being webs of skin supported by bony or ho...
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Afghanistan has had problems since the 1979 Soviet invasion years ago. This war stricken country always seems to be in constant turmoil. One of the major contributors was the rein of the Taliban. The unethical practices of this extremist g...
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Republic of Albania Republika é Shqipërisë CAPITAL: Tiranë FLAG: The flag consists of a red background at the center of which is a black double-headed eagle. ANTHEM: Hymni i Flamúrit (Anthem of the Flag) ...
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Allah (Arabic: الله, Allāh, IPA: [ʔalˤːɑːh]) is the standard Arabic word for " God ", used by Arabic-speakers of all Abrahamic faiths, including Christians and Jews, as well as Muslims. The term is most likely derived from a c...
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The word Argentina is derived from the Latin word "argentum," which in English means silver. For this reason Argentina is sometimes called "The Land of Silver." The official name of the country is Republic of A...
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(2002 pop. of Republic 8.1 million), (2002 pop. of East Azerbaijan, Iran, 3.4 million), (2002 pop. of West Azerbaijan, Iran, 2.8 million). Azerbaijan is a mountainous region in West Asia, bounded by the eastern Caucasus, northwestern Zagro...
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Amateur astronomy, a subset of astronomy, is a hobby whose participants enjoy studying celestial objects. The amateur astronomer is one who does not depend on the field of astronomy as a primary source of income or support, and does not hav...
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Aikido is a Japanese martial art that takes several different modern forms. The sport was founded by Ueshiba Morihei (1883–1969) who in the 1920s and 1930s combined techniques from Daito-ryu jujutsu with ancient Japanese philosophic...
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An actor, actress or player (see terminology) is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity. The ancient Greek word for an actor, hypokrites, when rendered as a verb mean...
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Agnostida (the agnostids) is an order of trilobite. These small trilobites first appeared toward the end of the Early Cambrian and thrived in the Middle Cambrian. They are present in the lower Cambrian fossil record along with trilobites fr...
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Abortion is when a pregnancy is terminated. This could happen naturally or on purpose. Natural abortions are caused for a variety of reasons, some in which the fetus does not develop normally, or if the mother has an injury or disorder tha...
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In law, an abstract is a brief statement that contains the most important points of a long legal document or of several related legal papers....
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Although his prolific and extremely successful career evolved from acting on stage to writing, directing, and acting in his own films, Alan Alda will forever be best remembered for his inimitable portrayal of Captain Benjamin Franklin ...
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The ampere, in practice often shortened to amp, (symbol: A) is a unit of electric current, or amount of electric charge per second. The ampere is an SI base unit, and is named after André-Marie Ampère, one of the main discoverers of elect...
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The following terms are used in American football and Canadian football, but see also the glossary of Canadian football....
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The word "algorithm" comes from the name of the ninth-century Persian mathematician Mohammed al-Khowarizmi. He wrote a widely read book entitled Kitab al jabr w'al-muqabala (Rules of Restoration and Reduction). This bo...
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Botanically, an annual plant is a plant that usually germinates, flowers and dies in one year. True annuals will only live longer than a year if they are prevented from setting seed. Some seedless plants can also be considered annuals even ...
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Atlas, in modern usage, most commonly refers to a collection of maps, traditionally bound into book form. Atlas may also refer to:...
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Mouthwash is an oral care product primarily designed to freshen breath and remove food debris. Certain brands are also formulated to aid in the prevention of cavities, decrease buildup of plaque and reduce gum disease. The first references...
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Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) was the king of Macedon, the leader of the Corinthian League, and the conqueror of Persia. He succeeded in forging the largest Western empire of the ancient world. With his Macedonian forces Alexander subdu...
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SOURCE: "The Science of Social Engineering," in The Yale Review, Vol. XI, No. 2, January, 1922, pp. 431-33. In the following essay, Petrunkevitch praises Korzybski's theory of "time-binding" as discussed in The Manhood of Humanity. Unlike p...
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Asteroids is a video arcade game released in 1979 by Atari Inc. It was one of the most popular and influential games of the Golden Age of Arcade Games. Asteroids uses vector graphics and a two-dimensional view that wraps around in both scre...
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Asparagales is an order of flowering plants. The order must include the family Asparagaceae, but other families included in the order have varied markedly between different classifications. if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "sho...
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Alismatales is an order of flowering plants. The order will of necessity contain the family Alismataceae. Taxonomy The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998) assigns the order to the clade monocots and uses this cir...
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The Apiales are an order of flowering plants. The families given at right are typical of newer classifications, though there is some slight variation, and in particular the Torriceliaceae may be divided. These families are placed within the...
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The Asterales are an order of dicotyledonous flowering plants which include the composite family Asteraceae (sunflowers, daisies, thistles etc.) and its related families. The order is cosmopolitic, and includes mostly herbaceous species, al...
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Asteroids are small bodies in space—the numerous leftover planetesimals from which the planets were made nearly 4.6 billion years ago. Most are in the "main belt," which is a doughnut-like volume of space between Mars ...
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Generally, to allocute in law means "to speak out formally." In the field of apologetics, allocution is generally done in defense of a belief. In politics, one may allocute before a legislative body in an effort to influence their position ...
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An affidavit is a formal sworn statement of fact, signed by the declarant (who is called the affiant or deponent) and witnessed (as to the veracity of the affiant's signature) by a taker of oaths, such as a notary public. The name is Mediev...
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Anime, the Japanese term for animated films, refers to Japanese animation. Since the early 1950s, when the father of anime, Tezuka Osamu (1928–1989), created such famous series as Jungle taitei (known in the United States as "...
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Asterism may refer to: Asterism (astronomy), a pattern of stars Asterism (gemmology), an optical phenomenon Asterism (typography), a rarely used symbol...
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(1997 pop. 3.7 million). Ankara (formerly Angora) is the capital and second-largest city of the Republic of Turkey. Located on the Central Anatolian plateau, Ankara is approximately 355 kilometers southeast of Istanbul, Turkey's lar...
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Arabic, al-ʿArabiyya, or lisan al-ʿArab, is the language spoken by 200 million people in twenty-one countries from the Arabian Gulf to the Atlantic. As the liturgical language of Muslims, it is the medium for a billion people...
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Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and the movie "Apocalypse Now" are both stories about a man's exploration of his own self and what he finds there. Both Marlow and Willard are forewarned about the dangers that await them on their journe...
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Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), was a film director famous for skillfully wrought suspense thrillers. He was essentially concerned with depicting the tenuous relations between people and objects and rendering the terror inherent in commonpla...
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The Altaic languages are a group of languages and language families, widespread in and dominating parts of Central and Northern Asia. The name Altaic alludes to the Altai mountain range in southern Siberia, where nineteenth-century scholar...
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Austrian German (Österreichisches Deutsch) is the national standard variety of the German language spoken in Austria and South Tyrol. As German is a Pluricentric language, Austrian German is another standard variety in addition to the Germ...
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In mathematics, the axiom of choice, or AC, is an axiom of set theory. Intuitively speaking, the axiom of choice says that given any collection of bins, each containing at least one object, exactly one object can be selected from each bin, ...
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Attila (died 453) was a chieftain who brought the Huns to their greatest strength and who posed a grave threat to the Roman Empire. The Huns first appear in European records at the end of the 4th century A.D., when they descended from the ...
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The Aegean Sea is located between the coasts of Greece and Turkey and the islands of Crete and Rhodes. Its covers an area of 210 square kilometers; its maximum depth is 3,543 meters, found to the east of Crete. More than two thousand islan...
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An exploration of how Anthony Burgess uses style, structure and language to reveal the characteristics of the protagonist, Alex, in "A Clockwork Orange."
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The Museum of Work, or Arbetets museum, is a museum located in Norrköping, Sweden. The museum can be found in the 19th century building The Iron in the Motala ström river in central Norrköping. See also: List of museums in Sweden, Cultur...
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Audi AG is a German automobile manufacturer with headquarters in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, and has been an almost wholly owned (99.7%) subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group since 1964. The company evolved from Auto Union, NSU, Horch and DKW, the fo...
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The human fascination with flight is older than recorded history. An ancient Chinese legend tells of a prince who builds a wind-powered flying chariot, and in the famed Greek myth, Daedalus devises wings of feathers and wax so he and his s...
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Aphex Twin (born Richard David James on August 18, 1971 in Limerick, Ireland) is a Cornish electronic music artist, credited with innovations in the genres of techno, ambient, acid and drum and bass....
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The Swedish chemist Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896) invented dynamite and other explosives, but he is best remembered for the Nobel Prizes, which he endowed with the bulk of his personal fortune. Alfred Nobel was born Oct. 21, 1833, in S...
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Amhrán na bhFiann (pronounced /ˈəuɾˠaːn̪ˠ nˠə ˈvʲiːən̪ˠ/) is the national anthem of the Republic of Ireland. The song is also known by its English language title, The Soldier's Song, and as The National Anthem of Ireland (Ir...
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(1997 est. pop. 54 million). Anatolia, also called Anadolu or Asia Minor, is Turkey's Asiatic region, a mountainous peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea on the north and the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas on the south and west. To t...
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