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nationalization

(Encyclopedia) nationalization, acquisition and operation by a country of business enterprises formerly owned and operated by private individuals or corporations. State or local authorities have…

Boone, Daniel

(Encyclopedia) Boone, Daniel, 1734–1820, American frontiersman, b. Oley (now Exeter) township, near Reading, Pa. The Boones, English Quakers, left Pennsylvania in 1750 and settled (1751 or 1752) in…

Volgograd

(Encyclopedia) VolgogradVolgogradvôlgəgrätˈ [key], formerly Stalingrad, city (1989 pop. 999,000), capital of Volgograd region, SE European Russia, a port on the Volga River and the eastern terminus…

translation

(Encyclopedia) translation [Lat.,=carrying across], the rendering of a text into another language. Applied to literature, the term connotes the art of recomposing a work in another language without…

Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3d Viscount

(Encyclopedia) Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3d Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman. His viscountcy, to which he succeeded in 1802, was in the Irish peerage and therefore did not prevent him from…

Detroit Red Wings

Top ScorersGmGAPts+/-PMPPSteve Yzerman752445693466Nicklas Lidstrom8017425922187Brendan Shanahan75282957615415Vyacheslav Kozlov8025275214466Larry Murphy8211415235372Igor…

Scientists: Physical Sciences

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