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flora
All species of plants that are found in a particular region, period, or special environment. Six floral kingdoms are commonly distinguished: Boreal (Holarctic), Paleotropical, Neotropical, S. African (Capensic), Australian, and Antarctic. These kingdoms are further broken down into subkingdoms and regions, over which there is some dispute.
Roman goddess of flowering plants. Her cult was supposedly introduced into Rome during its earliest years by the Sabine king Titus Tatius. Her temple stood near Rome's Circus Maximus, and her festival, the Floralia, was instituted in 238 BC.
All species of plants that are found in a particular region, period, or special environment. Six floral kingdoms are commonly distinguished: Boreal (Holarctic), Paleotropical, Neotropical, S. African (Capensic), Australian, and Antarctic. These kingdoms are further broken down into subkingdoms and regions, over which there is some dispute.
Roman goddess of flowering plants. Her cult was supposedly introduced into Rome during its earliest years by the Sabine king Titus Tatius. Her temple stood near Rome's Circus Maximus, and her festival, the Floralia, was instituted in 238 BC.
Adorno
German philosopher. He was educated at Johann Wolfgang Goethe Univ. and taught briefly at the Univ. of Frankfurt before emigrating to England in 1934 to escape Nazism. He lived 10 years in the U.S. (1938-48) before returning to Frankfurt, where he taught and headed the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research (see Frankfurt school). He is notable for his books and essays on philosophy, literature, psychology, sociology, and music (which he studied with A. Berg). For Adorno, the great task of modernist music, literature, and art was to keep alive the possible social alternatives to capitalism, which philosophy and political theory could no longer imagine. His works include Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947; with M. Horkheimer), Minima Moralia (1951), and Notes to Literature (4 vols., 1958-74).
agora
In ancient Greek cities, an open space serving as an assembly area and backdrop for commercial, civic, social, and religious activities. Use of the agora varied in different periods. Located in the middle of the city or near the harbor, it was often enclosed by public buildings, colonnades containing shops, and stoas for protection from sun and bad weather. The highest honor for a citizen was to be granted a tomb in the agora. See photo above.
Aldrin
U.S. astronaut. Born in Montclair, N.J., he graduated from West Point and flew 66 combat missions in the Korean War. In 1963 he received a PhD from MIT and was chosen as an astronaut. In 1966 he joined James A. Lovell, Jr. (b.1928), on the four-day Gemini 12 flight. Aldrin's 51 / 2-hour walk in space proved that humans can function effectively in the vacuum of space. In July 1969, on the Apollo 11 mission, he became the second human on the ...
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