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A. E. Housman: When I watch the living meet,

When I watch the living meet, And the moving pageant file Warm and breathing through the street Where I lodge a little while,If the heats of hate and lust In the house of flesh are strong…

Movies and Film: Some Soviet Movies Worth Watching

Some Soviet Movies Worth WatchingMovies and FilmEastern European Film HistoryVolga Displays: A Brief History of Russian FilmmakingOther Eastern European Cinemas: Czechoslovakia, Hungary, PolandAvant-…

International Campaign to Ban Landmines

(Encyclopedia) International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), global network of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working toward the eradication of antipersonnel land mines. Established in 1992…

metronome

(Encyclopedia) metronomemetronomemĕˈtrənōmˌ [key], in music, originally pyramid-shaped clockwork mechanism to indicate the exact tempo in which a work is to be performed. It has a double pendulum…

Waltham

(Encyclopedia) WalthamWalthamwôlˈthăm, –thəm [key], city (1990 pop. 57,878), Middlesex co., E Mass., a suburb of Boston, on the Charles River; settled c.1634, set off from Watertown 1738, inc. as a…

spring, in mechanics

(Encyclopedia) spring, in mechanics, any of several elastic devices used variously to store and to furnish energy, to absorb shock, to sustain the pressure between contacting surfaces, and to resist…

prefect

(Encyclopedia) prefect or praefectpraefectboth: prēˈfĕkt [key], in ancient Rome, various military and civil officers. Under the empire some prefects were very important. The Praetorian prefects (…