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academy
Society of learned individuals organized to advance art, science, literature, music, or some other cultural or intellectual area of endeavor. The word comes from the name of an olive grove outside ancient Athens, the site of Plato's famous school of philosophy in the 4th cent. BC. Academies appeared in Italy in the 15th cent. and reached their greatest influence in the 17th-18th cent. Most European countries now have at least one academy sponsored or otherwise connected with the state. See also Acad\u00e9 mie Fran\u00e7 aise.


arcade
Series of arches, supported by columns or piers, joined together end to end in a row. When supporting a roof, an arcade may function as a passageway adjacent to a solid wall, a covered walkway that provides access to adjacent shops, or a transitional element surrounding an open internal court. See also colonnade.


face
Front part of the head, extending from the forehead to the chin and housing the eyes, nose, mouth, and jaws. The receding of the jaw and the increasing size of the brain in human evolution has made the face essentially vertical, with two distinctively human features: a prominent, projecting nose and a clearly defined chin. The face and braincase follow different patterns of growth. While the face grows more slowly, it ends up much larger compared to the braincase in adults than at birth. The facial muscles move the features to express emotion.


macadam
Form of pavement invented by J. McAdam. McAdam's road cross-section consisted of a compacted subgrade of crushed granite or greenstone designed to support the load, covered by a surface of light stone to absorb wear and tear and shed water to the drainage ditches. In modern macadam construction, crushed stone or gravel is placed on the compacted base course and bound together with asphalt cement or hot tar. A third layer to fill the spaces is then added and rolled. Cement-sand slurry is sometimes used as the binder.


Pasadena
City (pop., 1996 est.: 132,000), SE Texas, east of Houston. Founded in 1895, it was incorporated in 1929. After World War II the city grew rapidly, stimulated by nearby industrial development, especially in petrochemicals and aerospace. Northeast of the city is the site of the 1836 capture of Mexican Gen. A. de Santa Anna after the Battle of San Jacinto.

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