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V. by Thomas Pynchon
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V for Vendetta is about a man and his quest for revenge and to right the wrongs in his society. The story takes place in England and starts in 1997. It is a world changed by war, famine and disease. In response to these changes, the governm...
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(The following essay discusses Marshall Field III with his son, Marshall Field IV and his grandson, Marshall Field V.) Marshall Field III, IV, and V, heirs to the fortune of the first Marshall Field, a retailing magnate, were important fig...
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Vishwanath Pratap Singh (born 1931) became India's eighth prime minister on December 2, 1989, heading a minority National Front coalition government that ended a decade of continuous Congress Party rule. However, he was ousted less than a ...
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"Half the writer's work . . . is the discovery of his subject." With this statement V. S. Naipaul declares his purpose as a writer and the object of his craft—the imaginative shaping of experience into an affecting and intelligent na...
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V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997) was an English short story writer, novelist, literary critic, journalist, travel writer, biographer, and autobiographer. Though not an innovator in terms of style, he was nevertheless an interesting and highly c...
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Singapore's first Chinese-language daily was Lat Pau, which went into circulation in 1881. Modeled on Chinese newspapers in Hong Kong and Shanghai, its coverage aimed to satisfy the interests of the immigrant population by focusing ...
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Aimé Pelletier, who has written all of his works under the pseudonym Bertrand Vac, is a Montreal surgeon. Vac's literary career, which has spanned several decades, is marked by his constant attempt at various writing styles and diff...
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Vaccination is the use of vaccines to prevent specific diseases. Many diseases that once caused widespread illness, disability, and death now can be prevented through the use of vaccines. Vaccines are medicines that contain weakened or dea...
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They have made a vaccine that would target heart disease. It raises high-density lipoprotein, which is (HDL) by 40%. That would lower the risk of cardiovascular disease. It changes the treatment for heart disease because it lowers arteries ...
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Viewpoint: Yes, a properly run voluntary system could produce higher vaccination rates while also protecting parents' rights. Viewpoint: No, mandatory vaccinations have greatly reduced the incidence of many diseases and should be ma...
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Vachel Lindsay's considerable loss of reputation in American letters is a continuing theme in critical evaluations published during the 1970s and 1980s. Ironically, the theme is illustrated, in part, not only by the meager number of articl...
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Ojars Vacietis is generally considered one of Latvia's most talented poets of the second half of the twentieth century. He almost single-handedly revived interest in poetry in Latvia following World War II and played a key role in maintain...
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The theater of the absurd, in my view, has two genetic components which determine its life as long as it persists in the way we know it from Beckett and Ionesco. One is its innovative dynamism which opposes it to the theater of the naturali...
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Ludvík Vaculík played a major role in the life of postwar Czechoslovakia as a journalist and a writer. Starting out as an idealistic communist, he helped to promote socialism in his country in the 1950s. As an energetic and a...
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Vacuoles are organelles of plant, fungal, and algal cells. They are part of the internal membrane system and are separated from the rest of the cytoplasm by a membrane called the tonoplast. A single large vacuole occupies more than 80 perc...
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Vacuum is a term that describes conditions where the pressure is lower than that of the atmosphere. A sealed container is said to be "under vacuum" in this case whereas it is "pressurized" when the pressure is higher than atmosphere. In a ...
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Housework continued to become easier in the 1910s, thanks to the continuing spread of electricity and running water, to the invention of new appliances, and to the availability of pre-prepared food and drink. Vacuum cleaners, invented in 1...
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In 1917, just one year after the publication of his general theory of relativity, German American physicist Albert Einstein wrote a short paper titled Cosmological Considerations on the General Theory of Relativity. For the first time the ...
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The vacuum bottle was one of those devices that had applications far beyond what its inventor had envisioned. Scottish chemist and physicist James Dewar was interested in studying the nature of liquid gases. The biggest hurdle in his work ...
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A vacuum is a space completely devoid of matter. A pure vacuum does not exist--even outer space has many particles per cubic meter. In practice one uses a vacuum pump to partially exhaust a space to the highest degree possible, and this pa...
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A vacuum tube is an electronic device used for the processing of electrical signals. It consists of two or more electrodes inside a metal or glass tube which has been evacuated, hence the name. In the mid-1800s Sir William Crookes (1832&#x...
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The unsaturated zone is that portion of the subsurface in which the intergranular openings of the geologic medium contain both water and air. The unsaturated zone, also known as the vadose zone or the zone of aeration, extends downward fro...
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Ekman was a member of a consortium of Scandinavian scientists who transformed the study of oceanography and meteorology at the turn of the twentieth century. Ekman's father, Fredrik Laurentz Ekman, was an oceanographer, but Vagn Ekman's gr...
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Vagueness A term is vague if, and only if, it is capable of having borderline cases. All borderline cases are inquiry-resistant: Senator Hillary Clinton is a borderline case of "chubby" because, given her constitution, no amo...
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Antanas Vaiciulaitis is one of the outstanding masters of prose style in Lithuanian literature. Some critics consider him "the Lithuanian Flaubert" because of his care in choosing the most elegant and accurate word and in calibrating a sen...
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Judita Vaiciunaite emerged in the latter half of the twentieth century as one of Lithuania's most prominent women poets. Filled with vibrant personal reflections, her poetry expresses the complicated structure and evolution of human emotio...
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Laurence Vail, novelist, poet, painter, and sculptor, was born in Paris on 28 January 1891 and died in Cannes on 16 April 1968. Known variously as the King of Montparnasse or the King of Bohemia, he is important for his Surrealist prose an...
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Petr Vail' and Aleksandr Genis, who started out as journalists in their native Latvia, pioneered a brand of writing that came to be known as "essayism," a specific genre combining a lyrical style with methods used in cultural studies. The ...
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Vaira Vike-FreibergaPresident (pronounced "VAHY-rah VEE-ke FRAY-behr-guh") "We are the inheritors of our past, but we are not slaves who should live in the shadow of our past. We are the builders of our own future...
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VAIŚEṢIKA. The Vaiśeṣika school of Indian philosophy, founded by Kaṇāda (sixth century BCE?), has concentrated mostly on issues and themes of ontology and has closely cooperated with the Nyā...
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Hinduism: Vaishnavism FOUNDED: c. 500 B.C.E. RELIGION AS A PERCENTAGE OF WORLD POPULATION: 9.5 percent Overview Vaishnavism is the name given to the faith and practices of those Hindus who hold Vishnu ("the all pervasive one"...
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One of the most influential Lithuanian literary figures in the first decades of the twentieth century, the Roman Catholic priest Vaizgantas was a prolific author, journalist, and political activist. Productive during the years of the natio...
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VAJRASATTVA (Tibetan, Rdo rje sems dpa' [Dorjé Sempa]; Chinese, Jingang sadou; Japanese, Kongōsatta), the "Adamantine Being," is a bodhisattva affiliated primarily with the Buddha Akṣobhya (Unshake...
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VAJRADHARA (Tib., Rdo rje chang [Dorje chang]; Mongolian, Ochirdana) is, in the last stages of Indian Tantric Buddhism and in the continuing Tibetan traditions, the distinct embodiment of the highest state of being, the primordial Ā...
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VAJRAPĀṆI. "As for Vajrapāṇi … I confess to finding him by far the most interesting divine being throughout the whole history of Buddhism, for he has a personal history and considerable personal ch...
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A major Central Asian river also known as the Kunduz in its lower course, the Surkhob is one of the major tributaries of the Amu Dar'ya (Oxus). The river rises in Afghanistan in the Baba Range of the Hindu Kush and flows for 420 kil...
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SOURCE: Classics of the Horror Film, The Citadel Press, 1974, pp. 179-87. Everson was an eminent film historian, collector, and educator. In addition to the work excerpted here, his other scrupulously researched and enthusiastically written...
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Val Logsdon Fitch was born to Fred B. and Frances M. (Logsdon) Fitch on March 10, 1923, on a cattle ranch near Merriman, Nebraska, a short distance from the South Dakota border. After an injury to the elder Fitch on the ranch, the family m...
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Waldemar IV (ca. 1320-1375) reunited the kingdom of Denmark under his rule, presenting a strong, nationalistic challenge to the mercantile Hanseatic League. Waldemar IV was born to a bankrupt crown. In 1320, the year he was born, his fathe...
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Valdemar Poulsen was a Danish engineer who invented the magnetic recorder in 1898. His ideas were the basis of magnetic recording and led to crucial developments in communications and computer technology. Born in Copenhagen on November 23,...
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