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Weather: Playing the Odds

Playing the OddsWeatherWhat Should I Wear?Playing the OddsGetting Down to BasicsForecasting from the Beginning You can continue to narrow down the forecast still more by working with climatology.…

Language: Ask the Fact Monster Questions

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industrial management

(Encyclopedia) industrial management, term applied to highly organized modern methods of carrying on industrial, especially manufacturing, operations. Modern technological devices, particularly in…

scabies

(Encyclopedia) scabiesscabiesskāˈbēz [key], highly contagious parasitic skin disease caused by the itch mite (Sarcoptes scabiei). The disease is also known as itch. It is acquired through close…

control systems

(Encyclopedia) control systems, combinations of components (electrical, mechanical, thermal, or hydraulic) that act together to maintain actual system performance close to a desired set of…

Jansky, Karl Guthe

(Encyclopedia) Jansky, Karl Guthe, 1905–50, American radio engineer; b. Norman, Okla. After graduating (1927) from the Univ. of Wisconson, he joined the Bell Telephone Laboratories. While trying to…

Bonus Marchers

(Encyclopedia) Bonus Marchers, in U.S. history, more than 20,000 veterans, most of them unemployed and in desperate financial straits, who, in the spring of 1932, spontaneously made their way to…