ο (Α κάναβος και κάνναβος) νεοελλ. (τοπογρ.) γεωμετρικό σχήμα ενός δικτύου τετραγώνων πάνω σε χάρτη που η σχεδίασή του αποτελεί ακριβή τρόπο καθορισμού τών κορυφών μιας πολυγωνικής οδεύσεως πάνω σε χάρτη με βάση τις ορθογώνιες συντεταγμένες τους…

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In 1999, a panel for The Blood Horse magazine made up of distinguished horse racing people: Howard Battle, Lenny Hale, Jay Hovdey, William Nack, Pete Pedersen, Jennie Rees and Tommy Trotter. These experts compiled a list of what they considered…

GERMANY (see also List of Individuals) 20.5.1890 Mittwaida/D 18.11.1980 Gainesville FL/USA Karl Pohlhausen was educated as a mathematician at the Universities of Jena and Göttingen, there being attached to Ludwig Prandtl (1875 1953). In 1919,…

Metabolic encephalopathy is a transient or permanent impairment of brain function resulting from physiological insufficiency or aberrant metabolic processes accompanying certain systemic illness such as diabetes or liver disease. Timely recognition and treatment…

verni/ce (1) s. f. 1. (est.) smalto, tinta, copale 2. (fig.) apparenza, infarinatura, verniciatura, lustro, patina CONTR. sostanza, realtà. SFUMATURE ► tinta. verni/ce (2) s. f. (

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/juˈraɪə hip/ (say yooh ruyuh heep) noun 1. a character in Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield (1850), noted for his hypocritical humility. 2. someone who is hypocritically humble

ές ελλιπής κατά το βάρος, αυτός που το βάρος του είναι μικρότερο τού κανονικού. [ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < λιπ(ο) * + βαρής (< βαρύς), πρβλ. γυιο βαρής, ισο βαρής. Η λ. μαρτυρείται από το 1891 στην εφημερίδα Εφημερίς]

This is a list of colonial administrators in the Gold Coast (modern Ghana) from the start of English presence in 1621 until Ghana s independence from the United Kingdom in 1957. Contents 1 Governors of the Gold Coast (1621–1751) 2 Governors of…

   DALLAS, a parish, in the county of Elgin; including the hamlet of Edinville, and containing 1179 inhabitants, of whom 187 are in the village of Dallas, 8 miles (S. E.) from Forres. This place takes its name from the two Gaelic words dale, a…

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[TA] gastric pits: the numerous pits in the gastric mucosa marking the openings of the gastric glands. Foveolae gastricae (gastric pits) in the pyloric stomach

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