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ENIAC
Early electronic digital computer built in the U.S. in 1945 by P. Eckert and J. Mauchly. The massive ENIAC, which weighed 30 tons and filled an entire room, used some 18,000 vacuum tubes, 70,000 resistors, and 10,000 capacitors. In December 1945 it solved its first problem, calculations for the hydrogen bomb. After its official unveiling in 1946, it was used to prepare artillery-shell trajectory tables and perform other military and scientific calculations.
erica
Any of the approximately 500 species of low evergreen shrubs that make up the genus Erica, in the heath family, most native to S. Africa. Some also occur in the Mediterranean and in N Europe, and species have been introduced to N. America. They have small, narrow leaves arranged in whorls set closely together on the shoots. Some African species are large bushes or trees. The white, or tree, heath (E. arborea) is also known as brier. Some S African species are cultivated in cool greenhouses and outdoors in SW N. America.
Mexicali
City (pop., 1990: 602,000), capital of Baja California (Norte) state, NW Mexico. It lies in the Mexicali Valley, an extension of the Imperial Valley of the U.S., in NE Baja California. It extends across the Mexico-U.S. border to Calexico, Cal. Its name, formed from the first two syllables of Mexico and California, was chosen as a gesture of international friendship. Its economy is chiefly based on tourism and the processing and distribution of cotton, fruits, vegetables, and cereals. It is the seat of the Autonomous Univ. of Baja California.
pelican
Any of about eight species constituting the genus Pelecanus (family Pelecanidae), white or brown birds distinguished by a large, elastic throat pouch. Some species are 70 in. (180 cm) long, have a wingspan of 10 ft (3 m), and weigh up to 30 lbs (13 kg). Most species drive fish into shallow water and, using the pouch as a dip net, scoop them up and immediately swallow them. Pelicans inhabit freshwaters and seacoasts in many parts of the world; they breed in colonies on islands, laying one to four eggs in a stick nest. Chicks thrust their bills down the parent's gullet to obtain regurgitated food.
Seneca
Roman philosopher, statesman, and playwright. Born in Spain, he was trained as an orator and began a career in politics and law in Rome c.AD 31. While banished to Corsica for adultery (41-49), he wrote the philosophical treatises Consolationes. He later became tutor to the future emperor Nero, and from 54 to 62 was a leading intellectual figure in Rome. An adherent of Stoicism, he wrote other philosophical works incl. the Epistilae morales, a collection of essays on moral problems. He also left a series of verse tragedies marked by violence and bloodshed, incl. Thyestes, Hercules, and Medea. His plays influenced the development of Elizabethan drama during the Renaissance, notably W. Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and J. ...
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