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41Titan Dome — (coord|88|30|S|165|0|E|) is a large ice dome on the polar plateau, trending east west and rising to 3,100 m between Queen Maud Mountains and the South Pole. The dome was first crossed by the sledge parties of Shackleton, Amundsen, and Scott on… …
42Central Pennsylvania accent — Central Pennsylvania speech is closely related to Western Pennsylvania speech, which is generally referred to as Pittsburgh English, although the speech extends beyond just the city of Pittsburgh. It bears little resemblance to the Southeastern… …
43The Polar Express (film) — The Polar Express Theatrical release poster Directed by Robert Zemeckis Produced by R …
44Scottish National Antarctic Expedition — The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (SNAE), 1902–04, was organised and led by William Speirs Bruce, a natural scientist and former medical student from the University of Edinburgh. Bruce had spent most of the 1890s engaged on expeditions… …
45Mars Express — Vue d artiste de la sonde Mars Express Caractéristiques Organisation …
46Russia — /rush euh/, n. 1. Also called Russian Empire. Russian, Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Cap.: St. Petersburg (1703 1917). 2. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 3. See Russian… …
47Code-excited linear prediction — (CELP) is a speech coding algorithm originally proposed by M.R. Schroeder and B.S. Atal in 1985. At the time, it provided significantly better quality than existing low bit rate algorithms, such as residual excited linear prediction and linear… …
48Timeline of Russian inventions and technology records — The Hall of Space Technology in the Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics, Kaluga, Russia. The exhibition includes the models and replicas of the following Russian inventions: the first satellite, Sputnik 1 (a ball under the… …
49UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, country in N. America. This article is arranged according to the following outline: introduction Colonial Era, 1654–1776 Early National Period, 1776–1820 German Jewish Period, 1820–1880 East European Jewish Period,… …
50List of Polish Americans — This is an incomplete list of notable Polish Americans.ListArts and EntertainmentActors* Nick Adams (1931 1968) film actor [http://crimemagazine.com/03/nickadams,0815.htm] * Grant Aleksander (1959 ) film and daytime actor Guiding Light * Stanley… …
