(Encyclopedia) smart card, small device that resembles a credit card but contains an embedded microprocessor to store and process information. Magnetic-stripe cards, which store a very small amount…
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Utah teenager, was reunited with her family in March, nine months after being kidnapped at knifepoint from her Salt Lake City bedroom by Brian Mitchell, a 49-year-old self-proclaimed prophet…
(Encyclopedia) Smart, Christopher, 1722–71, English poet. A graduate of Cambridge, he lived in London writing poems, editing a humorous magazine, and producing plays. His one great poem, Song to…
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