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district within the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S., whose name is synonymous with the American film industry. Lying northwest of downtown Los Angeles, it is bounded by Hyperion Avenue and Riverside Drive (east), Beverly Boulevard (s...
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cultural movement that attained widespread popularity in the 1980s and '90s; also, the backing music for rap, the musical style incorporating rhythmic and/or rhyming speech that became the movement's most lasting and influential art form. ...
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Chuck Cooper may refer to: Chuck Cooper (actor) Chuck Cooper (athlete)...
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Bernard Barton, traditionally known as the "Quaker Poet," achieved popular recognition during the early 1820s through the publication of several volumes of moralistic verse. His literary output declined after 1828, but his popularity with ...
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William Bell may refer to: William Bell (bishop) (died 1343), Bishop of St Andrews William Bell (baseball player) (1897–1969) William Bell (tuba player) (1902-1971) William Bell (singer) (born 1937) Dr. William Bell (city founder), founde...
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European critical movement of the mid-20th century. It is based on the linguistic theories of Ferdinand de Saussure, which hold that language is a self-contained system of signs, and the cultural theories of Claude Lévi-Strauss, whi...
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Vaporization of a liquid and subsequent condensation of the resultant gas back to liquid form. It is used to separate liquids from nonvolatile solids or solutes (e.g., water from salt and other components of seawater) or to separate two or...
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"The most important things to me in my own life, as well as in my books, are human relationships of all kinds," Lois Lowry once told Author and Artists for Young Adults (AAYA) in an interview. "Although my books deal largely with families,...
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Legendary director/choreographer Bob Fosse (1927-1987) is known for hits such as Sweet Charity, with its trademark jazzy number, "Hey Big Spender," and Cabaret. Bob Fosse began his unusual career as a dancer in the late 1940s, touring with...
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SOURCE: “The Post-Liberal Mind/Body, Postmodern Fiction, and the Case of Cyberpunk SF,” in Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 19, No. 58, November, 1992, pp. 395-403. In the following essay, Fekete reviews the volume Storming the Reality Stu...
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Embryo space colonization is a theoretical interstellar space colonization concept that involves sending a robotic mission to a habitable terrestrial planet transporting frozen early-stage human embryos or the technological or biological me...
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Regeneration or regenerative may refer to: In biology:...
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Bulb-forming flowering plant (Narcissus pseudonarcissus), also called common daffodil or trumpet narcissus, native to northern Europe and widely cultivated there and in North America. It grows to about 16 in. (41 cm) and has five or six le...
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A cultural analyst and political activist, Barbara Ehrenreich is arguably one of the most astute, acerbic and witty critics in the United States. She belongs to the generation of feminists who came to maturity in the 1960s as student dissi...
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Buonaccorso Pitti was a prominent Florentine merchant in the 14th century. His family was very prestigious and his father very involved in politics. He was a gambler and often made unsafe investments, though he always seemed to come out all...
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Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a writer and lecturer who tried to create a cohesive body of historical and social thought that combined feminism and socialism. Charlotte Perkins was born on July 3, 1860, in Hartford, Connect...
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Food manufacture is the process by which food is manufactured....
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Solid or liquid chemical compound used to whiten or remove the natural colour of fibres, yarns, paper, and textile fabrics. Sunlight was the chief bleaching agent up to the discovery of chlorine in 1774 by Karl Wilhelm Scheele (b. 1742&mda...
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Save The Last Dance is a 2001 film that parallels Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet play, set in the suburbs of Chicago. Directed by Thomas Carter Contents 1 Sara Johnson 2 Derek Reynolds 3 Chenille Reynolds 4 Dialogue 5 Cast 6 External links...
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Lydia Korneievna Chukovskaya (Russian: Лидия Корнеевна Чуковская) (24 March [O.S. 11 March] 1907 – February 8, 1996) was a Russian writer and poet. Her deeply personal writings reflect the human cost of Soviet t...
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Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East and the second-most populous on the African continent. Nearly 100% of the country's 78,887,007 (2006 est.) people live in three major regions of the country: Cairo and Alexandria and els...
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Variety of a language spoken by a group of people and having features of vocabulary, grammar, and/or pronunciation that distinguish it from other varieties of the same language. Dialects usually develop as a result of geographic, social, p...
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Sleep debt is the cumulative effect of not getting enough sleep. A large sleep debt, for example, would suggest that a person is mentally or physically fatigued due to insufficient sleep. There is debate in the scientific community over the...
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Despite a publishing career that spanned three decades and a canon that ranges from lyrics to verse plays and political commentary, Edna St. Vincent Millay is probably best known for her early works, particularly "Renascence" (1912), A Few...
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Tom Stoppard, a leading figure of the British theater since the mid 1960s, ranks as a dramatist of brilliant and original comic genius. His first major success established him as a master of philosophical farce, combining dazzling theatric...
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Da Derrty Versions: The Reinvention is an album by Nelly, released in 2003. It is a remix album of all of his hits, and it contains a previously unreleased song "Iz U", which was also released as a single....
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(born June 6, 1944, Clarksville, Texas, U.S.) American sprinter who held the world record for the 200-metre dash with turn (1966–71), his best time being 19.83 sec—the first time that the distance was run in less than 20 sec. H...
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(born June 8, 1977, Atlanta, Ga.) At a time when hip-hop music sales were in decline, rapper and producer Kanye West continued to thrive in the upper echelons of the pop music industry in 2007. His newest album, Graduation, sold almost o...
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Brain freeze, cold headache, ice cream headache, shakeache, frigid face, freezie, Frozen Brain Syndrome, cold-stimulus headache, or its given scientific name sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia are terms used to describe a form of cranial pain ...
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second largest city of Pakistan and the capital of Punjab province. It lies 811 miles (1,305 km) northeast of Karāchi in the upper Indus plain on the Rāvi River, a tributary of the Indus. Little is known of the history of the s...
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Cleopatra (69-30 BC) was the last of the Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt. She was notorious in antiquity and has been romanticized in modern times as the lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Third daughter of Ptolemy XII Auletes, Cleopatra VI...
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Generally recognized as one of the best essayists of the twentieth century, E. B. White was also a major force in the success of The New Torker magazine, a writer of some of the best children's stories of our time, an inspiring advocate of...
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Versatility is the most salient characteristic of the life and career of James Weldon Johnson. Equipped with restless intelligence, abundant energy, and "an abhorrence of spare time," he crowded almost a dozen occupations into a busy lifet...
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Meramec Caverns is a 26 mile cavern system in the Ozarks of Missouri, USA. It was formed from large limestone deposits over millions of years. Pre-Columbian Native American artifacts have been found in the caverns. Currently the caverns are...
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Anne Frank and Me is a 2001 book by husband-wife team Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottsefeld. It follows the story of a teenage girl named Nicole Burns....
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The development of effective pharmacological treatments for alcohol and drug abuse depends on our understanding of the biological mechanisms that start and maintain these behaviors. Studies in animals and humans have confirmed that SEROTON...
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The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) is a United States federal law. It was passed as Title IV, sec. 40001-40703 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 HR 3355 and signed as Public Law 103-322 by President Bil...
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