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Ruth Sager devoted her career to the study and teaching of genetics. She conducted groundbreaking research in chromosomal theory, disproving nineteenth-century Austrian botanist Gregor Johann Mendel's once-prevalent law of inheritance --a ...
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With a writing career that began in the mid 1950s, Carlos Sahagún belongs to the second generation of post-civil-war poets, the so-called children of the war. Although his subject matter is largely drawn from his experiences, his po...
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The basic definition of geography is the study of the earth and everything living on it. Geography also consists of the environment of the earth's surface and the relationship of humans to this environment, or in other words physical and hu...
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Israeli mathematician whose work in mathematical logic and the mathematics of semantics has contributed greatly to the fields of logic and metalogic (logical systems that encompass other, lower-level logical systems). Shelah's most ...
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A 3,000-mile (5,000 km) band of semi-arid country extending across Africa south of the Sahara desert, the Sahel zone ("the shore" in Arabic) passes through Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, and the Cape ...
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Hans Sahl--poet, novelist, critic, and translator--is one of the many writers who had to wrest their works from the devastating experience of persecution, exile, and isolation. Though his career did not flourish in America as it might have...
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Saicho (767-822) was a Japanese Buddhist monk who bore the posthumous title Dengyo daishi. He was the founder in Japan of the Tendai sect, which he imported after a period of study in China. In 783 the emperor Kammu decided to remove his c...
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Said MusaPrime Minister (pronounced "sa-EED MOO-sa") "Our new economic initiatives are designed to inject substantial long-term capital into export industries and tourism while ensuring that the environment is pro...
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Seyyid Said (1790-1856) was the energetic and resourceful sultan of Oman who transferred his capital from Arabia to Zanzibar, where he initiated clove production and greatly expanded the East African slave trade. Seyyid Said became sultan ...
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The Japanese rebel and statesman Takamori Saigo (1827-1877) was the military leader of the Meiji restoration. His eventual revolt against the Meiji government in 1877 represented the resistance of the old warrior class to the swift and oft...
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The man known as Saigy (also called En'i late in life) was born the son of the samurai Sat Yasukiyo in 1118, at a time when government was in the hands of Retired Emperor Shirakawa and the imperial court was still relatively strong and pro...
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George Saiko's two novels and short stories contain a complex literary world in which examination of recent history is combined with exploration of the unconscious. Like Robert Musil, Hermann Broch, and Heimito von Doderer, Saiko deals wit...
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A sail catches the power of the wind and uses it to propel a boat or ship across the water. The earliest boats were simple rafts made of logs or reeds lashed together, and it was to these that the first sails were added by the ancient Egyp...
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A powerful ancient dynasty in maritime Southeast Asia, especially in Java and Sumatra, Sailendra dominated Java from about 760 to 860 CE. This dynasty was credited with building a large Buddhist stupa, Borobudur, in the Kedu plain of prese...
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SOURCE: “Yeats's Byzantium Poems and the Critics, Reconsidered,” in Colby Library Quarterly, Vol. X, No. 2, June, 1973, pp. 57-71. In the following essay, Allen surveys the critical analyses of “Sailing to Byzantium.” In 1962, A. No...
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The main themes in Sailing to Byzantium is the contacts between Yeats' ageing body and youthful mind, and his desire to achieve a permanence not possible in reality. Yeats is seeking escape from the human body into the world of Byzantium...
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[The theme of] The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea [Gogo no Eikō] is at once special in character and an outgrowth of motifs developed in earlier books…. Inherent in this story are two artistic difficulties which the author does ...
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SAINTHOOD. Saint is a designation that Christianity has used to recognize individuals deemed to have lived lives of heroic virtue and who, as a result, dwell eternally with God. They therefore may be venerated in a public cult. Historians ...
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Anthony of Padua (1195-1231), a Franciscan friar, was a remarkable theologian and preacher. He became the first theology teacher in the Franciscan order and is referred to as "Doctor of the Church." Anthony was canonized less than a year a...
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The Christian philosopher and theologian St. Augustine (354-430) is best known for "The Confessions" and "The City of God." After the authors of the New Testament, he has probably been the most influential Christian writer. The greatest of...
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The English monk St. Boniface (ca. 672-754) is known as the Apostle of Germany because he organized the Church there in the 8th century. Named Winfrith by his well-to-do English parents, Boniface was born probably near Exeter, Devon. As a ...
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SOURCE: An introduction to The Revelations of Saint Birgitta, edited by W. P. Cumming, Oxford University Press, 1929, pp. xxiii-xxix. In the following excerpt, Cumming summarizes St. Birgitta's life and the literary merit of her Revelations...
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St. Cajetan (1480-1547), who was born Gaetano da Thiene, was one of the earliest Italian Catholic reformers of the 16th century. He was a cofounder of the Clerks Regular, a religious order popularly known as the Theatines. Cajetan was born...
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St. Cyril (died 444) was bishop of Alexandria. A Doctor of the Church, he played a leading role in the controversies over the correct understanding of the person of Jesus Christ. Nothing certain is known concerning Cyril's early years exce...
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Saint David (c. 520-c. 601) is the patron saint of doves, poets, and Wales. One source calls him "perhaps the most celebrated of British saints." Another gives him credit for evangelizing much of Wales. The body of information available ab...
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The Spanish churchman St. Dominic (ca. 1170-1221) founded the Dominican order, a religious community officially called the Order of Preachers. Dominic was born to the well-to-do Guzmán family in the town of Caleruega in northern Spa...
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SOURCE: Natella, Arthur A., Jr. “Saint Theresa and Unamuno's San Manuel Bueno, mártir.” Papers on Language and Literature 5, no. 4 (fall 1969): 458-64. In the following essay, Natella finds parallels between St. Theresa and the charact...
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SOURCE: Natella, Arthur A., Jr. “Saint Theresa and Unamuno's San Manuel Bueno, mártir.” Papers on Language and Literature 5, no. 4 (fall 1969): 458-64. In the following essay, Natella finds parallels between St. Theresa and the charact...
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At about the same time that Gerbert d'Aurillac, the future Pope Sylvester II, was working through Boethius's Consolatio with the young emperor Otto III, Notker III was laboring over the same text across the Alps in Saint Gall, providing hi...
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The legends of King Arthur and Joan of Arc are stories which, throughout history, have been presented in numerous different ways, influenced and shaped by the culture and values of the times in which the texts were produced. Two such versio...
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Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis CAPITAL: Basseterre FLAG: Two thin diagonal yellow bands flanking a wide black diagonal band separate a green triangle at the hoist from a red triangle at the fly. On the black band are two white five-poin...
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The St. Lawrence Seaway is a series of canals, locks, and lakes giving ocean-going ships of the Atlantic access to the Great Lakes and dozens of inland ports, including Toronto, Cleveland, Chicago, and Duluth. A herculean engineering pro...
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CAPITAL: Castries FLAG: On a blue background is a yellow triangle surmounted by a black arrowhead whose outer edges are bordered in white. ANTHEM: Sons and Daughters of St. Lucia. MONETARY UNIT: The East Caribbean dollar (EC$) of 100 cents...
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St. Margaret of Scotland (1045-1093), wife of the Scottish king Malcolm III, introduced important religious reforms into Scotland and was a civilizing agent in the social life of that country. Information about the early life of Margaret i...
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