What is avian influenza? Avian influenza, or “bird flu”, is a contagious disease of animals caused by viruses that normally infect only birds and, less commonly, pigs. Avian influenza viruses…
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Director:Michael AptedFirst Run Features; NR; 130 minutesRelease:11/99 42 Up began 35 years ago, when British director Michael Apted released his landmark documentary 7 Up. In it he…
Magnitude is the degree of brightness of a star. In 1856, British astronomer Norman Pogson proposed a quantitative scale of stellar magnitudes, which was adopted by the astronomical…
Author:Lydia MinatoyaPublisher:Simon & Schuster The Strangeness of Beauty begins as a quietly self-reflective 'autobiography' of an Japanese expatriate living in 1920s Seattle, and…
The Celestial LoveBut God said,
'I will have a purer gift;
There is smoke in the flame;
New flowerets bring, new prayers uplift,
And love without a name.
Fond children, ye desire
To please…
(Encyclopedia) GnosticismGnosticismnŏsˈtĭsĭzəm [key], dualistic religious and philosophical movement of the late Hellenistic and early Christian eras. The term designates a wide assortment of sects,…
The physicians observe these accidents to have fallen upon the critical daysIdque Notant Criticis Medici Evenisse DiebusMeditationJohn Donne I WOULD not make man worse than he is, nor his…
I'scaped a scouring—a disease. Scouring is a sort of flux in horses and cattle. (Latin, Malum proetervehi, French, L'échapper belle.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…
Full of money. Similarly A flush of water means a sudden and full flow of water. (Latin, flux-us.) “Strut was not very flush in [the] ready.” —Dr.Arbuthnot. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…
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