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61Aristotle — For other uses, see Aristotle (disambiguation). Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs Marble bust of Aristotle. Roman copy after a Gree …
62deconstruction — deconstructionist, adj., n. deconstructive, adj. /dee keuhn struk sheuhn/, n. a philosophical and critical movement, starting in the 1960s and esp. applied to the study of literature, that questions all traditional assumptions about the ability… …
63Chess opening book — refers either to a book on chess openings, or to a database of chess openings used by chess programs. Contents 1 Literature 2 Computers 3 …
64The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics — (2008), 2nd Edition, is an eight volume reference work, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. It contains 5.8 million words and spans 7,680 pages with 1,872 articles. Included are 1057 new articles and, from earlier, 80 essays that… …
65Stone Age — the period in the history of humankind, preceding the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, and marked by the use of stone implements and weapons: subdivided into the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods. [1860 65] * * * First known period of… …
66Michael Crichton — at Harvard University (April 18, 2002) Born John Michael Crichton October 23, 1942(1942 10 23) Chicago, Illinois, U.S …
67History of African Civilization — E. Jefferson Murphy, Ph.D., wrote History of African Civilization for the general reader as an overview of the African continent. It was published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company in 1972, and later that same year in paperback by Dell Books. Hollis… …
68Copernicus, Nicolaus — Polish Mikołaj Kopernik born Feb. 19, 1473, Toruń, Pol. died May 24, 1543, Frauenburg, East Prussia Polish astronomer. He was educated at Kraków, Bologna, and Padua, where he mastered all the knowledge of the day in mathematics, astronomy,… …
69animal disease — ▪ non human Introduction an impairment of the normal state of an animal that interrupts or modifies its vital functions. Concern with diseases that afflict animals dates from the earliest human contacts with animals and is reflected… …
70America — • Consists of three main divisions: North America, Central America, and South America Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. America America …
