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Valentine

Director: Jamie Blanks Writers: Gretchen Berg, Aaron Harbart, Donna Powers, Wayne Powers Warner Bros.; R; 105 minutes Release: 2/01 Cast: Denise Richards, Jessica Capshaw,…

copaiba

(Encyclopedia) copaibacopaibakōpāˈbə, –pīˈ– [key], oleoresin (see resin) obtained from several species of tropical South American trees of the genus Copaifera. The thick, transparent exudate varies…

Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich

(Encyclopedia) Glinka, Mikhail IvanovichGlinka, Mikhail Ivanovichmēkhəyēlˈ ēväˈnəvĭch glēnˈkä [key], 1804–57, first of the nationalist school of Russian composers. His two operas, A Life for the Czar…

Arsonval, Arsène d'

(Encyclopedia) Arsonval, Arsène d'Arsonval, Arsène d'ärsĕnˈ därsôNvälˈ [key], 1851–1940, French physicist and physician. He worked under Claude Bernard and under C. E. Brown-Séquard (whom he…

Champion

(Encyclopedia) Champion, uninc. community in the town of Green Bay, Brown co., NE Wis., NE of the city of Green Bay. It is noted for the Shrine of Our…

delftware

(Encyclopedia) delftware. The earliest delftware was a faience, a heavy, brown earthenware with opaque white glaze and polychrome decoration, made in the late 16th cent. Some of the earliest…

Tappan, Lewis

(Encyclopedia) Tappan, Lewis, 1788–1873, American abolitionist, b. Northampton, Mass. He became a partner in his brother Arthur's New York mercantile house in 1828 and in 1841 founded the first…

Slye, Maud

(Encyclopedia) Slye, MaudSlye, Maudslī [key], 1879–1954, American pathologist, b. Minneapolis, grad. Brown, 1899. At the Univ. of Chicago she taught pathology, becoming professor emeritus in 1945,…