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51Australian Motor Racing Championships — The Australian Motor Racing Championships was a collection of national motor racing series travelling to a series of circuits across Australia under a single banner. These race meetings represent the banner race meetings for the Australian Auto… …
52Clara van Spaerwoude — Clara Jansdochter van Spaerwoude (sometimes written Sparwoude) (ca. 1530 – August 4, 1615) was a Dutch noblewoman of Delft who is chiefly remembered for her great wealth and various charitable funds from her estate. The most famous of these… …
53dwindle — /dwin dl/, v., dwindled, dwindling. v.i. 1. to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away: His vast fortune has dwindled away. 2. to fall away, as in quality; degenerate. v.t. 3. to make smaller and smaller; cause to shrink: Failing health… …
54Haiti — /hay tee/, n. 1. Formerly, Hayti. a republic in the West Indies occupying the W part of the island of Hispaniola. 6,611,407; 10,714 sq. mi. (27,750 sq. km). Cap.: Port au Prince. 2. Also, Hayti. a former name of Hispaniola. * * * Haiti… …
55India — /in dee euh/, n. 1. Hindi, Bharat. a republic in S Asia: a union comprising 25 states and 7 union territories; formerly a British colony; gained independence Aug. 15, 1947; became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations Jan. 26, 1950.… …
56koala — /koh ah leuh/, n. a sluggish, tailless, gray, furry, arboreal marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, of Australia. [1800 10; erroneous sp. for earlier koola(h) (now obs.) < Dharuk gú la] * * * Tree dwelling marsupial (Phascolarctos cinereus) of… …
57literature — /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.… …
58Mantineia — or Mantinea Ancient Greek city of Arcadia, situated north of modern Trípolis. At the first Battle of Mantineia in 418 BC, Sparta defeated the coalition of Mantineia, Elis, Argos, and Athens. In 362 the Theban army defeated Spartan troops in an… …
59Oligocene Epoch — Major division of the Tertiary Period, from с 33. 7 to 23.8 million years ago. It follows the Eocene Epoch and precedes the Miocene Epoch. The term (from the Greek for few recent forms ) refers to the small number of modern animals that… …
60Gupta, Modadugu — ▪ 2007 In 2006 Indian scientist Modadugu Gupta was at the forefront of what some in the scientific community had termed the Blue Revolution the dramatic expansion of fish farming, or aquaculture, in some of the most impoverished regions of… …
