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121transplant — transplantable, adj. transplantation, n. transplanter, n. v. /trans plant , plahnt /; n. /trans plant , plahnt /, v.t. 1. to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another. 2. Surg. to transfer (an organ, tissue, etc.) from one part of… …
122Flaubert, Gustave — born Dec. 12, 1821, Rouen, France died May 8, 1880, Croisset French novelist. Flaubert abandoned law studies at age 22 for a life of writing. His masterpiece, Madame Bovary (1857), a sharply realistic portrayal of provincial bourgeois boredom and …
123Vauban, Sébastien Le Prestre de — born May 15, 1633, Saint Léger de Foucherest, France died March 30, 1707, Paris French military engineer. After fighting with the forces of the Condé family (1651–53), he switched to the royalist side and joined the newly formed engineer corps,… …
124Health and Disease — ▪ 2009 Introduction Food and Drug Safety. In 2008 the contamination of infant formula and related dairy products with melamine in China led to widespread health problems in children, including urinary problems and possible renal tube… …
125arts, East Asian — Introduction music and visual and performing arts of China, Korea, and Japan. The literatures of these countries are covered in the articles Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature. Some studies of East Asia… …
126Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: Mount Olympus Meets the Middle Kingdom — Introduction officially Games of the XXIX Olympiad The Games of the XXIX Olympiad, involving some 200 Olympic committees and as many as 13,000 accredited athletes competing in 28 different sports, were auspiciously scheduled to begin at 8 …
127Stein, Karl, Reichsfreiherr vom und zum — ▪ prime minister of Prussia Introduction (imperial baron of) born Oct. 26, 1757, Nassau an der Lahn, Nassau [Germany] died June 29, 1831, Schloss Cappenberg, Westphalia [Germany] Rhinelander born Prussian statesman, chief minister of Prussia… …
128Humanism — • The name given to the intellectual, literary, and scientific movement of the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, which aimed at basing every branch of learning on the literature and culture of classical antiquity Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin …
