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stall

(Encyclopedia) stall, small division of a larger space, sometimes partly partitioned. The term is used for a booth for display and selling at an exhibition, for a compartment in a stable or kennel,…

Minnesota Vikings 1999 Roster By Statistics

Passing (5 Att)AttCmpPctYdsTDRateRandall Cunningham42525960.9370434106.0Brad Johnson1016564.4747789.0Jay Fiedler7342.941022.6Interceptions: Cunningham 10, Johnson 5, Fiedler 1.Signed:…

Dante Alighieri

(Encyclopedia) Dante AlighieriDante Alighieridănˈtē, Ital. dänˈtā älēgyĕˈrē [key], 1265–1321, Italian poet, b. Florence. Dante was the author of the Divine Comedy, one of the greatest of literary…

short story

(Encyclopedia) short story, brief prose fiction. The term covers a wide variety of narratives—from stories in which the main focus is on the course of events to studies of character, from the “short…

cribbage

(Encyclopedia) cribbagecribbagekrĭbˈĭj [key], card game played by two persons with a deck of 52 cards and a scoring (pegging) device known as a cribbage board. The board contains four rows of 30…

Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice

(Encyclopedia) Dirac, Paul Adrien MauriceDirac, Paul Adrien Mauricedĭrăkˈ [key], 1902–84, English physicist. He was educated at the Univ. of Bristol and St. John's College, Cambridge, and became…

Kafka, Franz

(Encyclopedia) Kafka, FranzKafka, Franzfränts käfˈkä [key], 1883–1924, German-language novelist, b. Prague. Along with Joyce, Kafka is perhaps the most influential of 20th-century writers. From a…