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11Naum Gabo — Kinetic sculpture/fountain by Naum Gabo at Guy s and St Thomas s Hospital, London, U.K. Birth name Naum Neemia Pevsner Born …
12Aegis Students — is a UK based student coalition affiliated to Aegis Trust, committed to campaigning against genocide and ethnic cleansing. It currently lobbies the UK government to act decisively to stop the crisis in Darfur and is soon to embark on a divestment …
13Sridhar Rangayan — Infobox Person name = Sridhar Rangayan image size = 150px caption = birth date = April 2, 1962 birth place = Bangalore India death date = death place = occupation = Film Director, Scriptwriter, Film Producer spouse = parents = M.R.Thirunarayanan …
14Peacebuild — Peacebuild, the Canadian Peacebuilding Network, is a non governmental, not for profit organization aimed at promoting and further developing a vibrant and robust Canadian peacebuilding constituency to advance just and lasting peace… …
15County of Dassel — Coat of arms of the counts of Dassel The County of Dassel (German: Grafschaft Dassel) emerged shortly after the turn of the 11th and 12th centuries when, after the extinction of the male line of the Billungs, its seat in Suilbergau, north of the… …
16Dementia — Dementia, in the sense of a temporary or permanent loss of brain function that could affect people of all ages, has always been familiar to physicians. The elderly in particular have often been implicated in global deficits in personality,… …
17bounce — [bouns] vt. bounced, bouncing [ME bounsen, to thump; ? akin to Du bonzen & LowG bunsen, to thump, strike] 1. Archaic to bump or thump 2. to cause to hit against a surface so as to spring back [to bounce a ball ] ☆ 3. Slang to put (an undesirable… …
18United 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… …
19tragedy — /traj i dee/, n., pl. tragedies. 1. a dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or society …
20literature — /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.… …
