Search results for "University of Wisconsin-Madison" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • World monkeys comprising the genus Ateles of the primate family Atelidae ... Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison ...
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  • The Great Lakes region includes much of the Canadian province of Ontario ... power, recreation, and a host of other uses. The Great Lakes ...
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  • still very young. In 1450 he entered the University of Vienna, where he became ... Regiomontanus made a number of important observations, including eclipses ...
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  • as the Prime Minister and de facto dictator of Portugal from 1932 to 1968 ... Franco, some regard him as champion of traditional values, including ...
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  • often called "The Dean of Western Writers". Stegner ... As a historian, Stegner concerned himself with the issues of community ...
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  • from the crops are shared in a variety of ways, depending on the agreement ... Types of tenant farming include sharecropping, some forms of peonage ...
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  • The Song of Solomon (Hebrew title שיר השירים, Shir ha-Shirim ... a religious framework. The book consists of a cycle of poems about erotic ...
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  • neuroanatomist and physiologist, the father of phrenology. He was also one ... Gall's work pioneered our understanding of the function of the ...
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  • 6, 1903) is a key figure in the development of library science. Cutter's ... Cutter was the editor of Library Journal from 1891-1893. One of the ...
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  • networks. A digital library is a type of information retrieval system. A digital library has a number of advantages and problems not found ...
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  • An ILS is usually comprised of a relational database, software to ... the 1970s and early 1980s. Before the advent of computers, libraries usually ...
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  • and activist during the Joseon Dynasty of Korea. He served in the national ... Kim Ok-gyun, in another time, would likely have been the founder of ...
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  • perhaps the best known representative of nineteenth century child advocacy ... whose best known works were The Best Method of Disposing of Our Pauper and ...
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  • Lake Superior, bounded by Ontario, Canada, and the U.S. state of Minnesota ... deepest (1,332 feet at its deepest point) of the Great Lakes. Its drainage ...
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  • having taken inspiration from early works of Andrei Tarkovsky and Pier Paolo ... film-making in 1954, he later disowned all of his pre-1964 works as "garbage ...
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  • including those belonging to public and university library systems. Carnegie ... The first of Carnegie's public libraries opened in his hometown ...
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  • Environmental ethics is a branch of applied ethics and a part of environmental ... ethics often contains criticisms of man's abusive or exploitative ...
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  • 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was one of the most prominent social reformers ... Mary Thompson Hill Willard. She spent most of her childhood on a farm in ...
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  • East Indies and styled the "father of Chinese Malay literature" ... spent three years working in various lines of employment until he found stability ...
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  • leaves with five leaflets, clusters of small flowers, and red to brown ... Magnetic Resonance Data Bank, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved January ...
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