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- Chambers, William.
- Chambers, William - biographie du peintre.
- Chambers, Paul - jazz.
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United States House of Representatives.
Because of the high cost of elections and the short two-year term of office, members of the House campaign almost constantly. They spend much of their time raisingcampaign funds, and they frequently return to their districts to keep in touch with voters. Because the elections are so frequent, House members tend to pay closeattention to how their votes in Congress will be seen in the short term. House members tend to come from wealthier family backgrounds than average Americans. Few working class...
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encyclopédie.
encyclopédiques modernes et les encyclopédies comme le Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle (1866-1876), de Pierre Larousse, illustrent le principe des petites rubriques. L’autre approche a conduit à des encyclopédies qui tiennent davantage de la compilation de monographies et d’articles de synthèse. 3. 2 Les dictionnaires encyclopédiques On peut considérer que la première encyclopédie de type « dictionnaire » est le Grand Dictionnaire historique, ou le Mélange curieux de l’histoire...
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Congress of the United States.
senator, a person must be at least 30 years old, a citizen for nine years, and a resident of the state from which he or she is elected. Most members of Congress haveserved in state legislatures, city councils, or other elected bodies. See United States Senate: Campaigning for the Senate ; United States House of Representatives: Campaigning for the House. The 435 House seats are divided among the states in proportion to each state’s population. Every state is guaranteed at least one seat. State...
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Heart.
situation. A Cardiac Cycle Although the right and left halves of the heart are separate, they both contract in unison, producing a single heartbeat. The sequence of events from the beginning ofone heartbeat to the beginning of the next is called the cardiac cycle. The cardiac cycle has two phases: diastole, when the heart’s chambers are relaxed, and systole,when the chambers contract to move blood. During the systolic phase, the atria contract first, followed by contraction of the ventricles. T...
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Ant - biology.
The workers of many ant species carry a stinger within the hind end of the gaster. These ants use the stinger to defend against their enemies. In some species, workerants lack a stinger but use the tip of their gaster to squirt or dab poison at other small animals and when fighting battles with other ants, fending off predators, or killinginsects or other animals that they use as food. III PHYSIOLOGY Ants have a rigid, external skeleton called an exoskeleton that gives the soft, inner body its...
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Automobile.
Electric motors have been used to power automobiles since the late 1800s. Electric power supplied by batteries runs the motor, which rotates a driveshaft, the shaftthat transmits engine power to the axles. Commercial electric car models for specialized purposes were available in the 1980s. General Motors Corporation introduced amass-production all-electric car in the mid-1990s. Automobiles that combine two or more types of engines are called hybrids. A typical hybrid is an electric motor with ba...
- Chambers (sir William), 1723-1796, né à Göteborg, architecte anglais.
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Sewage Disposal.
greater load on the piping system and the treatment plant. The amount of storm-water drainage to be carried away depends on the amount of rainfall as well as on the runoff or yield of the watershed ( see Drainage). A typical metropolitan area discharges a volume of wastewater equal to about 60 to 80 percent of its total daily water requirements, the rest being used for washingcars and watering lawns, and for manufacturing processes such as food canning and bottling. B Composition The composi...
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Turtle.
Turtles use their jaws to cut and handle food. Instead of teeth, a turtle’s upper and lower jaws are covered by horny ridges, similar to a bird’s beak. Meat-eating turtlescommonly have knife-sharp ridges for slicing through their prey. Plant-eating turtles often have ridges with serrated edges that help them cut through tough plants.Turtles use their tongues in swallowing food, but unlike many other reptiles, such as chameleons, they cannot stick out their tongues to capture food. C Limb Structu...
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Turtle - biology.
Turtles use their jaws to cut and handle food. Instead of teeth, a turtle’s upper and lower jaws are covered by horny ridges, similar to a bird’s beak. Meat-eating turtlescommonly have knife-sharp ridges for slicing through their prey. Plant-eating turtles often have ridges with serrated edges that help them cut through tough plants.Turtles use their tongues in swallowing food, but unlike many other reptiles, such as chameleons, they cannot stick out their tongues to capture food. C Limb Structu...
- labyrinth Greek The word labyrinth means any intricate building full of chambers and passages, or a maze of paths bordered by high hedges.
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Enzyklopädie (Sprache & Litteratur).
sein Lexicon Universale (4 Bde., 1677-1683). 1704 erschien Johann Hübners Reales Staats-, Zeitungs- und Conversationslexikon (35. Auflage, 1825). Bereits der Titel verweist auf die neue Zielsetzung des Unternehmens, die darin bestand, eine gepflegte Unterhaltung über Wissenswertes (Konversation) zu ermöglichen. Die originärdeutsche Form des Konversations-Lexikons wurde für das 19. Jahrhundert bestimmend (siehe unten). Die erste moderne deutsche Enzyklopädie war Johann HeinrichZedlers 64-bänd...
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Legislative Branch.
popularly elected parliament, composed of one or two chambers. The majority party, or a coalition of parties, agree to form a government, known as the government of the day . Executive power is exercised by a cabinet headed by a chief minister—usually called prime minister, premier, or chancellor—who is typically drawn from the membership of the legislature. Such systems are found throughout western Europe and in countries such as India that were once part of the British Empire. In systems base...
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ENCYCLOPÉDIE (l') (Histoire de la littérature)
l'abbé Gua de .Yfalves, membre de l'Académie des scien ces, qui est chargé de diriger les travaux. A ses côtés, on trouve d'Alembert, lui aussi membre de l'Académie des sciences, qui contrôlera les articles scientifiques, et Diderot, engagé comme traducteur. Mais très vite Gua de Malves se révèle incapable de mener à bien sa tâche et doit s'effacer. Le 16 octobre 1747, un nouveau contrat est signé, Diderot et d'Alembert deviennent responsables de la...
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Pyramids (Egypt) - history.
out, to the king’s burial chamber, which ideally was located directly underneath the pyramid’s center point. Sometimes, in addition to the burial chamber, there werestorage chambers within the pyramid. These chambers held objects used in burial rituals as well as items for the deceased to use in the afterlife. Some of these items werevaluable, and in later years people robbed many of the pyramids and stole the objects. Pyramid of Khafre at GizaThe pyramids at Giza in Egypt are among the best-kno...
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Air - chemistry.
lighting systems, fertilizers, and semiconductors (substances used to make the chips in computers, calculators, televisions, microwave ovens, and many other electronicdevices). A Oxygen More than half of the oxygen produced in the United States is used by the steel industry, which injects the gas into basic oxygen furnaces to heat and produce steel(see Iron and Steel Manufacture: Basic Oxygen Process ). Metalworkers also combine oxygen with acetylene to produce high-temperature torch flames th...
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Roman Art and Architecture - History.
Racecourses or circuses were also built in many cities for holding chariot races and horse races. Rome’s circus-shaped Piazza Navona occupies the site of one that wasbuilt during the reign ( AD 81-96) of the emperor Domitian. The largest circus in Rome, the Circus Maximus, held about 200,000 spectators. E Public Baths Large cities and small towns alike also had public baths ( thermae ); under the Republic they were generally made up of a suite of dressing rooms and bathing chambers with hot- ,...
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Frog (animal).
which means that their body temperature depends on the temperature of the surrounding environment. Few species can tolerate temperatures below 4°C (40°F) orabove 40°C (104°F), and many species can survive only within a narrower range of temperatures. In addition, frogs’ thin, moist skin offers little protection againstwater loss, and when on land the animals must guard against drying out. Many frogs are active at night because temperatures are cooler and humidity is higher thanduring the day. In...
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Frog (animal) - biology.
which means that their body temperature depends on the temperature of the surrounding environment. Few species can tolerate temperatures below 4°C (40°F) orabove 40°C (104°F), and many species can survive only within a narrower range of temperatures. In addition, frogs’ thin, moist skin offers little protection againstwater loss, and when on land the animals must guard against drying out. Many frogs are active at night because temperatures are cooler and humidity is higher thanduring the day. In...
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encyclopédie, n.
poussée font apparaître un nouveau type d'ouvrage destiné au grand public : l'encyclopédie condensée, riche en illustrations explicatives, de publication et de mise à jour plus rapides, accompagnée de suppléments spécialisés et de nouveaux supports comme le CD-ROM et la vidéo. Complétez votre recherche en consultant : Les corrélats Alembert (Jean Le Rond d') Bayle Pierre CD-ROM (Compact Disc Read Only Memory) et CDI (Compact Disc Interactif) Chambers Ephraïm Cochin Charles Nicolas...