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121Leningrad, Siege of — (Sept. 8, 1941–Jan. 27, 1944) Prolonged siege of the city of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) by German forces in World War II. German forces invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 and approached Leningrad from the west and south while Germany s… …
122plant disease — ▪ plant pathology Introduction an impairment of the normal state of a plant that interrupts or modifies its vital functions. All species of plants, wild and cultivated alike, are subject to disease. Although each species is… …
123Foreign policy of the Bill Clinton administration — Clinton embraces British Prime Minister Tony Blair …
124AUSCHWITZ — (Oświęcim), Nazi Germany s largest concentration and extermination camp. The word Auschwitz has become a metaphor for the Holocaust in general, and the phrase after Auschwitz has come to signify the great historical rupture wrought by the murder… …
125Honghu — is a city in Hubei province in central China. As of 2000, it had a population of 335,618 or more people. [ [http://www.citypopulation.de/China Hubei.html City Data for Hubei Province in China] ] It is a small city west of Wuhan on the Yangtze… …
126environment — environmental, adj. environmentally, adv. /en vuy reuhn meuhnt, vuy euhrn /, n. 1. the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu. 2. Ecol. the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors… …
127Effects of 2000s energy crisis — There is debate over what the effects of the 2000s energy crisis will be over the long term. Some speculate that an oil price spike could create a recession comparable to those that followed the 1973 and 1979 energy crises or a potentially worse… …
128RP-1 — (alternately, Rocket Propellant 1 or Refined Petroleum 1) is a highly refined form of kerosene outwardly similar to jet fuel, used as a rocket fuel. Although having a lower specific impulse than liquid hydrogen (LH2) and thus less thrust per unit …
