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(Encyclopedia) youth-and-old-age: see zinnia.

(Encyclopedia) Mason and Slidell Affair: see Trent Affair. ...

(Encyclopedia) Central Provinces and Berar: see Madhya Pradesh. ...

(Encyclopedia) Rhoden, Ausser and Inner: see Appenzell, Switzerland. ...

(Encyclopedia) Wages and Hours Act: see Fair Labor Standards Act. ...

(Encyclopedia) Franklin and Marshall College, at Lancaster, Pa.; United Church of Christ (Evangelical-Reformed); coeducational; est. 1787 as Franklin College, reorganized 1853 when it merged with Marshall College (c...

(Encyclopedia) language, systematic communication by vocal symbols. It is a universal characteristic of the human species. Nothing is known of its origin, although scientists have identified a gene that clearly cont...

(Encyclopedia) sporting dog, classification used by breeders and kennel clubs to designate dogs bred for pointing, flushing, and retrieving game. These dogs hunt by air scent—as opposed to most hounds, which are g...

(Encyclopedia) working dog, classification used by breeders and kennel clubs to designate dogs raised by humans to herd cattle and sheep, as draft animals, as message dispatchers in wartime, in police and rescue wor...

(Encyclopedia) Charles III, 1716–88, king of Spain (1759–88) and of Naples and Sicily (1735–59), son of Philip V and Elizabeth Farnese. Recognized as duke of Parma and Piacenza in 1731, he relinquished the duc...