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  • 21William Dandridge Peck — (May 8 1763 Boston October 8 1822 Cambridge, Mass.) was America ’s first native entomologist. He was a professor at Harvard College. His pioneering entomological article was The Description and History of the Canker Worm Mass. Mag. Vol.7 (1795),… …

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  • 22Fenn, George Manville — Fenn, George Manville, engl. Schriftsteller, geb. 3. Jan. 1831 in London, wandte sich nach sorgfältiger Erziehung dem Journalismus zu, wurde Mitarbeiter, dann (1871) Herausgeber von »Cassell s Magazine« und der Wochenschrift »Once a Week«. 1866… …

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  • 23cankerworm — /kang keuhr werrm /, n. the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm). See illus. under… …

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  • 24Civil Authority — • The moral power of command, supported by physical coercion, which the State exercises over its members Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Civil Authority     Civil Authority …

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  • 25Classical Latin Literature in the Church — • This article deals only with the relations of the classical literature, chiefly Latin, to the Catholic Church Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Classical Latin Literature in the Church     Classic …

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  • 26Spanish Language and Literature — • As a medium of literary expression Spanish asserted itself first in the twelfth century: it had been six or seven centuries in the process of evolution out of Latin Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Spanish Language and Literature      …

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  • 27Cankerworm —    (Heb. yelek), the licking locust, which licks up the grass of the field; probably the locust at a certain stage of its growth, just as it emerges from the caterpillar state (Joel 1:4; 2:25). The word is rendered caterpillar in Ps. 105:34; Jer …

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  • 28spanworm — n. Geometer, looper, green looper, canker worm (Anisopteryx) …

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  • 29fungus — fungic /fun jik/, adj. funguslike, adj. /fung geuhs/, n., pl. fungi /fun juy, fung guy/, funguses, adj. n. 1. any of a diverse group of eukaryotic single celled or multinucleate organisms that live by decomposing and absorbing the organic… …

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  • 30Pignut Hickory — Taxobox name = Pignut Hickory image width = 240px image caption = regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Magnoliopsida ordo = Fagales familia = Juglandaceae genus = Carya species = C. glabra binomial = Carya glabra Pignut hickory (… …

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