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Airport, site and installation for the takeoff and landing of aircraft. An airport usually has paved runways and maintenance facilities and serves as a terminal for ...

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Airport - Airport - Passenger terminal layout and design: As passenger throughput at airports increases, the passenger terminal becomes a more important ...

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Venice, city, major seaport, and capital of both the province of Venezia and the region of Veneto, northern Italy. An island city, it was once the center of a ...

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Meme, unit of cultural information spread by imitation. ... to “selfish” genes, as being in control of their own reproduction and thus serving their own ends. ... …is to protect unions against free riding, a situation in which nonunion employees ...

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15 Jun 2020 ... Wicca, a predominantly Western movement whose followers practice witchcraft and nature worship and who see it as a religion based on ...

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Homosexuality, sexual interest in and attraction to members of one's own sex. ... The stereotypes of male homosexuals as weak and effeminate and lesbians as ...

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13 May 2020 ... Of mixed Arab, Spanish, and Amazigh (Berber) origins, the Moors ... of the country's population) and the small Arab-Amazigh minority in Mali.

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Freemasonry, the teachings and practices of the secret fraternal order of Free and Accepted Masons, the largest worldwide secret society. Spread by the ...

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23 Jun 2020 ... Witchcraft, traditionally, the exercise or invocation of alleged supernatural powers to control people or events, practices typically involving ...

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29 Jun 2020 ... Brazil, country of South America that occupies half the continent's landmass. ... Life expectancy at birth: Male: (2016) 72.9 years: Female: (2016) 79.4 ... The highest point in Brazil is Neblina Peak, which reaches 9,888 feet ...

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11 Jun 2020 ... Washington, constituent state of the U.S. Lying in the northwest corner of the 48 ... Washington has seven physiographic regions. ... Seattle has average January temperatures in the low 40s F (about 5 °C) and average July ...

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12 Aug 2014 ... Components of An Airport Layout 1. Runway 2. Terminal Building 3. Apron 4. Taxiway 5. Aircraft Stand 6. Hanger 7. Control Tower 8. Parking; 4 ...

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Airport - General Layout - An airport is mainly divided into two areas − ... Airside Area. It is the area beyond landside area inside the airport. It includes runways ...

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Jewelry - Jewelry - The history of jewelry design: The possibility of tracing jewelry's historic itinerary derives primarily from the custom, beginning with the most ...

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25 May 2020 ... Raven, any of several species of intelligent, heavy-billed, dark birds that are larger than crows and are capable of tool use.

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Married To. Jack Fisk (1974–present). Awards. Academy Award (1981): Actress in a Leading Role; Golden Globe Award (2002): Best Performance by an Actress ...

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Fred Karger (1961–1965); Fred Karger (1952–1954); Ronald Reagan (1940–1949); Myron Futterman (1937–1938); Ernest Eugene Wyman (1933–1935).

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The cell membrane is the barrier by which a cell's insides are kept in and the environment is kept out. It also performs several other functions to maintain the cell's ...

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Sir Walter Raleigh, English adventurer and writer, a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I, who knighted him in 1585. Accused of treason by Elizabeth's successor, James ...

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Julio Iglesias, in full Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva, (born September 23, 1943, Madrid, Spain), Spanish singer and songwriter whose romantic image, magnetic ...

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The scarlet macaw (Ara macao) is probably the best-known New World parrot. Its brilliant red, yellow, and blue plumage contrasts with a bare white face that ...

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Mike Krzyzewski, American college basketball coach who amassed the most ... in NCAA Division I men's basketball history while leading the Duke University ...

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Cronus, in ancient Greek religion, male deity who was worshipped by the ... When Zeus was born, however, Rhea hid him in Crete and tricked Cronus into ...

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James Comey, U.S. attorney and law enforcement official who served as director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017, when he was fired by President Donald Trump.

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Trojan horse, huge hollow wooden horse constructed by the Greeks to gain entrance into Troy during the Trojan War.

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James Brown, American singer, songwriter, and dancer who was one of the ... he was sent home from grade school for “insufficient clothes,” an experience that ...

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Gloria Swanson | American motion-picture, stage, and television actress who was known primarily as a glamorous Hollywood star during the 1920s and as the ...

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Beatles, British musical quartet of enduring popularity. ... Meanwhile, personal disagreements magnified by the stress of symbolizing the dreams of a generation ...

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Star of David, Jewish symbol composed of two overlaid equilateral triangles that ... fire, and earth—both of these ideas lending substance to the characteristically ...

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Barbara Stanwyck, American motion-picture and television actress who played a wide variety of roles in more than 80 films but was best in dramatic parts as a ...

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Mae West, American stage and film actress, a sex symbol whose frank sensuality, languid postures, ... history of the motion picture: The Hollywood studio system.

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The composition then proceeds through five waltz themes, linked as intricately as they would have been in the era's most-sophisticated concert music.

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Pride and Prejudice, romantic novel by Jane Austen, published anonymously in three volumes in 1813. A classic of English literature, written with incisive wit ...

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8 May 2020 ... Taino, Arawakan-speaking people who at the time of Columbus's exploration inhabited what are now Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, ...

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James Cagney, American actor noted for his versatility in musicals, comedies, ... racketeer Martin “The Gimp” Snyder, the man who obsessively controlled the ...

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9 Jun 2020 ... Carol Burnett, American comedian and actress who starred in a ... As a young girl growing up during the Great Depression, Burnett spent many hours in movie theatres, developing a love for motion pictures and a desire to act.

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Angel and demon, respectively, any benevolent or malevolent spiritual being that ... Because of the Western iconography (the system of image symbols) of angels, ... Thus, the usual classification that places demons among malevolent beings ...

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As a student at Boston University, he worked at the school's radio station; he graduated in 1976 with a degree in communications. After a series of unmemorable ...

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Forrest Gump, American film (1994) that starred Tom Hanks and won six ... He has an IQ of 75 and wears braces on his legs, but his mother has raised him to ... editing, original score, original song, costume design, makeup and hairstyling, ...

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A sometime model, she caught the eye of producer Dino De Laurentiis, who cast her in his big-budget remake of King Kong (1976). Lange's film debut was ...

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Highland Clearances, the forced eviction of inhabitants of the Highlands and western islands of Scotland, beginning in the mid-to-late 18th century and ...

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12 May 2020 ... Valentine's Day, holiday (February 14) when lovers express their affection with ... Valentine's Day cardAmerican Valentine's Day card, c. 1908.

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Ghana, country of western Africa, situated on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea. ... of population age 15 and over literate: Male: (2015) 81.5%: Female: (2015) 71% ... is determined largely by the interplay of two air masses: a hot, dry continental air ...

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12 May 2020 ... Alaska Purchase, acquisition in 1867 by the U.S. from Russia of 586412 ... Political forces in Russia increasingly looked instead toward Asian ...

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