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  • 111de La Mare, Walter John — (1873 1956)    Born at Charlton, Kent, the son of an official in the Bank of England, he was educated at St. Paul s Cathedral Choristers School. On leaving school at fifteen he worked in the London office of the AngloAmerican Oil Company until… …

    British and Irish poets

  • 112Берман (Behrman), Сэмюел Натаниел — (9.VI. 1893, Вустер, Массачусетс 9.IX.1973, Нью Йорк)  драматург, сценарист, эссеист.    Родился в семье выходцев из Литвы. Обучался в Кларк колледже, Гарвардском и Колумбийском университетах. Посещал гарвардский семинар Дж. П. Бейкера… …

    Писатели США. Краткие творческие биографии

  • 113sunglass — [sun′glas΄, sun′gläs΄] n. 1. BURNING GLASS 2. [pl.] eyeglasses with special lenses, usually tinted, to protect the eyes from the sun s glare …

    English World dictionary

  • 114BEHRMAN, SAMUEL NATHANIEL — (1893–1973), U.S. playwright. Behrman was born in Worcester, Mass. His parents had emigrated from Lithuania, and his father often devoted himself to Hebrew Scripture. Behrman graduated from Harvard, where he joined G.P. Baker s Drama Workshop,… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 115Misrephoth-maim —    Burning of waters, supposed to be salt pans, or lime kilns, or glass factories, a place to which Joshua pursued a party of Canaanites after the defeat of Jabin (Josh. 11:8). It is identified with the ruin Musheirifeh, at the promontory of en… …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 116literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

    Universalium

  • 117environmental works — ▪ civil engineering Introduction       infrastructure that provides cities and towns with water supply, waste disposal, and pollution control services. They include extensive networks of reservoirs, pipelines, treatment systems, pumping stations …

    Universalium

  • 118Fire extinguisher — Extinguisher redirects here. Extinguisher may also refer to a candle snuffer. A stored pressure fire extinguisher …

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  • 119technology, history of — Introduction       the development over time of systematic techniques for making and doing things. The term technology, a combination of the Greek technē, “art, craft,” with logos, “word, speech,” meant in Greece a discourse on the arts, both… …

    Universalium

  • 120List of Itchy & Scratchy cartoons — This is a list of the Itchy Scratchy cartoons shown on The Simpsons. There are currently 71 of them. Contents 1 100 Yard Gash 2 500 Yard Gash …

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