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61security — /si kyoor i tee/, n., pl. securities, adj. n. 1. freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety. 2. freedom from care, anxiety, or doubt; well founded confidence. 3. something that secures or makes safe; protection; defense. 4. freedom from financial… …
62Syria — /sear ee euh/, n. 1. Official name, Syrian Arab Republic. a republic in SW Asia at the E end of the Mediterranean. 16,137,899; 71,227 sq. mi. (184,478 sq. km). Cap.: Damascus. 2. a territory mandated to France in 1922, including the present… …
63Texas Ranger — 1. a member of the Texas state police force or, esp. formerly, of the mounted state police. 2. a member of a semiofficial group of settlers organized to fight Indians and maintain order. * * * …
64Boxer Rebellion — Officially supported peasant uprising in 1900 in China that attempted to drive all foreigners from the country. Boxer was the English name given to a Chinese secret society that practiced boxing and calisthenic rituals in the belief that it would …
65Great Game — Rivalry between Britain and Russia in Central Asia in the late 19th century. The term was used by Rudyard Kipling in his novel Kim (1901). British attitudes were influenced by the reports of official, semiofficial, and private adventurers… …
66Rousseau, Henri — known as Le Douanier Rousseau born May 21, 1844, Laval, Fr. died Sept. 2, 1910, Paris French painter. After service in the army, he began working as a toll collector (not as a douanier, or customs officer, the epithet his friends later used) but… …
67Taylor, John — known as John Taylor of Caroline born Dec. 19?, 1753, Caroline county, Va. died Aug. 21, 1824, Caroline county, Va., U.S. U.S. politician. He served in the Continental Army (1775–79) and the Virginia militia (1781) in the American Revolution. A… …
68Villa-Lobos, Heitor — born March 5, 1887, Rio de Janeiro, Braz. died Nov. 17, 1959, Rio de Janeiro Brazilian composer. He was exposed to folk music as a child, and his later extensive ethnomusicological studies (1905–12) had great influence on his own works. Self… …
69law report — In common law, a published record of a judicial decision that is cited by lawyers and judges as legal precedent in arguing and deciding cases. The report contains the title of the case, a statement of the facts, a brief case history, the opinion… …
70PRESIDENT CLINTON'S AFRICA TRIP: SEEING THINGS AS THEY ARE — ▪ 1999 by Kenneth Ingham On March 23, 1998, U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton arrived in Accra, Ghana, to begin a six country, 12 day visit to Africa, the most extensive journey to that continent ever undertaken by a U.S. leader. He went with high… …
