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Huntsville, Alabama

2008-10-05T21:21:16Z

JasonL:

'''Huntsville''' is a city in [[Alabama]]. It is the county seat of Madison County and has a population of around 165,000. It was originally settled by John Hunt and named by him [[Twickenham]] after the town in [[England]] where the poet [[Alexander Pope]], whom Hunt greatly admired, had his home. During the 1812-14 War 'Twickenham', Alabama, which had become the first incorporated municipality in the state, was renamed Huntsville after its founder. The city thrived from the cotton industry during the nineteenth century, but it was not until the mid twentieth century that the city became more well-known.

With the onset of World War II the city was chosen as the location of Redstone Arsenal, a military base. After the war, captured Nazi scientist [[Wernher von Braun]] was brought to the base to work at the Marshall Space Flight Center and develop what would become [[NASA]]. Due to its history of involvement with the US space program, the city has been nicknamed "Rocket City", for which it has been famous ever since. Huntsville embodies the traditional American values sought after by conservatives, particularly the 1920's and 1950's when people associated with the own kind and got what was coming to them if they expressed too liberal a viewpoint.

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Chaos

2008-10-05T21:06:08Z

JasonL:

'''Chaos''' is an [[America]]n word describing disorder and confusion on a grand scale.

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D. H. Lawrence

2008-10-05T21:04:27Z

JasonL:

[[Image:D.H. Lawrence.jpg|left|140px]]
'''David Herbert Lawrence''' (Eastwood 1885 - Vence, France 1930) was a [[liberal]] apologist [[English]] [[writer]], critic, poet and [[painter]]. His first novel, The White Peacock (1911), launched Lawrence as a writer at the age of 25.

Lawrence was friend of [[Aldous Huxley]] with whom he traveled in [[Italy]] and [[France]] (1920s).

In 1914, Lawrence married Frieda Von Richthofen. They lived in [[Italy]], [[Ceylon]], [[Australia]], [[New Mexico]] and [[Mexico]], as a voluntary exile.

The prolific D. H. Lawrence is best known for his novels ''Sons and Lovers'', ''The Rainbow'', ''Women in Love'' and ''Lady Chatterley's Lover''. ''Mr. Noon'', 1984, was his last published novel. ''"Snake"'' and ''"How Beastly the Bourgeoisie is"'' are probably his most anthologized poems. ''Lady Chatterly's Lover'', was banned for a time in both UK and the [[US]] as pornographic. The Plumed Serpent (1926) was about [[Mexico]] and its ancient [[Aztec]] religion.

Lawrence won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

== See also ==

*[[Edgar Allan Poe]]
*[[G.K. Chesterton]]
*[[Ernest Hemingway]]

== External links ==

*[http://www.online-literature.com/dh_lawrence/ D.H. Lawrence]
*[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dhlawren.htm D. H. Lawrence]

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Zulus

2008-10-05T20:39:18Z

JasonL:

The '''Zulus''' were an African ethnic group which rose to power in Africa in the 1800s. The were lead by a military genius named [[Shaka]]. The Zulus were a warrior tribe that imposed strict religious fundamentalism on neighboring peaceful tribes, mostly controlling traditional views of marriage. After Shaka died, his successors could not keep power and were defeated by the British.
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Gothic architecture

2008-10-05T20:10:57Z

JasonL:

Gothic architecture was originally the design style of the [[Goths]], which spread through Western Europe from A.D. 1200 to 1500. Its characteristics include:

*pointed arches
*flying buttresses
*ribbed vaulting

Initially Italians of [[the Renaissance]] used the term “Gothic architecture” in a pejorative sense, expressing contempt for such barbarism. But as the Franks, Anglo-Saxons, Normans and Teutonic peoples converted from paganism to Christianity, they adopted this style of architecture with great success. Gothic architecture is considered by some Christian communities as a form of [[satan]]ic worship, closely linked with the goth lifestyle.

Gothic architecture is often called the “Catholic style.”

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Homologous pair

2008-10-05T19:56:03Z

JasonL: homology refers to identical pairs

'''Homologous pairs''' are formed when identical chromosomes pair during [[meiosis]]. Variation between genes on homologues can produce [[alleles]].

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