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61Novgorod case — The Novgorod Case is the conventional term used in the Russian blogosphere and mass media for the controversial criminal case against Mrs. Antonina Martynova (formerly Fyodorova, née Stepanova). She is facing charges of attempted murder of her… …
62Admiralty of Friesland — The Admiralty of Friesland or Frisian Admiralty (Dutch Admiraliteit van Friesland or Friese Admiraliteit ; Frisian Fryske Admiraliteit ) was one of the five admiralties of the Dutch Republic. Set up on 6 March 1596, it was dissolved in 1795… …
63World War II — the war between the Axis and the Allies, beginning on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and ending with the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, and of Japan on August 14, 1945. Abbr.: WWII * * * or Second World War (1939–45)… …
64List of Disney's Fantasia characters — The following are fictional characters from Disney s 1940 film Fantasia and its 1999 sequel Fantasia 2000. Characters in this list are sorted by the film and segment in which they appear. The names of some characters including the original ones… …
65Thermal equator — The thermal equator (also known as the heat equator ) is a belt encircling the Earth, defined by the set of locations having the highest mean annual temperature at each longitude around the globe. Because local temperatures are sensitive to the… …
66USS Ulysses (ARB-9) — The USS Ulysses (ARB 9) was one of 12 Aristaeus class battle damage repair ships built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for Ulysses (a character in Greek mythology and the protagonist of Homer s epic poem, the Odyssey , which …
67Sundial — A sundial is a device that measures time by the position of the Sun. In common designs such as the horizontal sundial, the sun casts a shadow from its style (a thin rod or a sharp, straight edge) onto a flat surface marked with lines indicating… …
68GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY — Names The name Ereẓ Israel (the Land of Israel) designates the land which, according to the Bible was promised as an inheritance to the Israelite tribes. In the course of time it came to be regarded first by the Jews and then also by the… …
69List of Emily Dickinson poems — This is a list of Emily Dickinson poems. There are 1,775 known poems that have been written by Dickinson. The poems are alphabetized by their first line. Punctuation, capitalization and even in some cases wording of the first lines may vary… …
70animal learning — ▪ zoology Introduction the alternation of behaviour as a result of individual experience. When an organism can perceive and change its behaviour, it is said to learn. That animals can learn seems to go without saying. The cat that… …
