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711890 in music — Events * September 9 Edward Elgar s concert overture Froissart is premiered at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester * George W. Johnson records phonograph cylinders * First full performance of Hector Berlioz s opera, Les Troyens , takes place… …
722005 in Iraq — EventsJanuary*January 4 Governor Ali Al Haidri, governor of Baghdad province, is assassinated along with two of his bodyguards. *January 21 A suicide car bomb blows up outside a Shi ite mosque in Baghdad killing 14 worshipers and wounding 40.… …
732007 in Indonesia — Events= January* January 1 Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Java Sea, Indonesia. * January 1 A speed boat capsized in the coastal area of Java Sea, Central Kalimantan. Fifteen people were killed in this accident. * January 1 Whirlwind and… …
74June 4 — Events*781 BC The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China. *1039 Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor. *1584 Sir Walter Raleigh establishes first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina). *1615 Siege of Osaka… …
75literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
76football — /foot bawl /, n. 1. a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent s goal line and by place… …
77United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… …
78Minkowski diagram — In the theory of relativity each observer assigns the event at A to a different time and location. The Minkowski diagram was developed in 1908 by Hermann Minkowski and provides an illustration of the properties of space and time in the special… …
79United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
80education — /ej oo kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of… …
