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repetitive stress injury

(Encyclopedia)repetitive stress injury or repetitive strain injury (RSI), injury caused by repeated movement of a particular part of the body. Often seen in workers whose physical routine is unvaried, RSI has becom...

Blakelock, Ralph Albert

(Encyclopedia)Blakelock, Ralph Albert, 1847–1919, American landscape painter, b. New York City. The son of a doctor, he was educated for a medical career but abandoned it for painting, in which he was largely sel...

assembly line

(Encyclopedia)assembly line, manufacturing technique in which a product is carried by some form of mechanized conveyor among stations at which the various operations necessary to its assembly are performed. It is u...

Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park

(Encyclopedia)Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

National Parks and Monuments (table)

(Encyclopedia)National Parks and Monuments 1 National Parks and Monuments National Monuments National and International Historic Sites and Historical Parks National Memorials National Battlef...

Pompidou, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges

(Encyclopedia)Pompidou, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges: see Beaubourg. ...

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States

(Encyclopedia)National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States: see under 9/11. ...

Schreckhörner

(Encyclopedia)Schreckhörner klīn [key] reaches a height of 11,473 ft (3,497 m). ...

Bülow, Friedrich Wilhelm, Freiherr von

(Encyclopedia)Bülow, Friedrich Wilhelm, Freiherr von fən büˈlō [key], 1755–1816, Prussian general in the Napoleonic Wars. After his victories (1813) over the French at Gross Beeren and at Dennewitz he was c...

Bremerton

(Encyclopedia)Bremerton brĕmˈərtən [key], city (2020 pop. 43,505), Kitsap co., NW Wash., a harbor on an arm ...