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61Aleksandr Kamensky — Aleksander Abramovich Kamensky (Александр Абрамович Каменский) (1922 – 1992) was a prominent Russian art critic and art historian who coined the term tough style. Aleksander was the son of Abram Kamensky, a temperamental party functionary who… …
62Battle of the Basque Roads — The Battle of the Basque Roads was a naval battle during the Napoleonic Wars. On the night of April 11 1809 Captain Thomas Cochrane led a British fireship attack against a powerful squadron of French ships anchored in the Basque Roads. In the… …
63Terror management theory — (TMT) is a developing area of study within the academic study of psychology. It looks at what researchers claim to be the implicit emotional reactions of people when confronted with the psychological terror of knowing we will eventually die (it… …
64Opportunism — Opportunity Seized, Opportunity Missed. Engraving by Theodoor Galle, 1605. Contents 1 General definition …
65Bartolomé de Torres Naharro — (c. 1485, Torres, near Badajoz ndash; c. 1530) was a Spanish dramatist of Jewish converso descent. (William Byron, Cervantes. A Biography, Doubleday: New York, 1978, p. 19.)After some years of soldiering and of captivity in Algiers, Torres… …
66Design Science — The term design science was introduced in 1963 by R Buckminster Fuller (Fuller and McHale 1963) who defined it as a systematic form of designing. Design science was taken up in Gregory’s 1966 book of the 1965 Design Methods conference (Gregory… …
67Poverty of the stimulus — The poverty of the stimulus (POTS) argument is a variant of the epistemological problem of the indeterminacy of data to theory that claims that grammar is unlearnable given the linguistic data available to children. As such, the argument strikes… …
68Horace Maynard — 28th United States Postmaster General In office June 2, 1880 – March 4, 1881 Preceded by …
69Cethegus — For the spider genus , see Cethegus (spider). Cethegus is the name of a Roman patrician family of the Cornelian gens. Like the younger Cato its members kept up the old Roman fashion of dispensing with the tunic and leaving the arms bare (Horace,… …
70Federal Farmer — The Federal Farmer was an Anti Federalist who wrote a methodical assessment of the proposed United States Constitution that was among the more important documents of the constitutional ratification debate. The assessment appeared in the form of… …
