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Amis
British writer and critic. The son of K. Amis, he graduated from Oxford Univ. in 1971. He worked for the Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman before becoming a full-time writer. His works--incl. the novels The Rachel Papers (1973), Money (1984), London Fields (1989), Time's Arrow (1991), The Information (1995), and Night Train (1998), and the short-story collection Heavy Water (1999)--feature inventive word play and often scabrous humor as they satirize the horrors of modern urban life.


Amos
Earliest Hebrew prophet (one of the 12 Minor Prophets) to have a biblical book named for him. Born in Tekoa in Judah, he was a shepherd. According to the Book of Amos, he traveled to the richer and more powerful kingdom of Israel to preach his visions of divine destruction and the message that God's absolute sovereignty required justice for rich and poor alike and that God's chosen people were not exempt from the moral order. He foretold the destruction of the N kingdom of Israel and anticipated the predictions of doom by later Old Testament prophets.


Bambara
People of the upper Niger region of Mali who speak a Mande language of the Niger-Congo family. Numbering 3.1 million, the Bambara have their own writing system and are noted for their sculpture in wood and metal. In the 17th-18th cent. the Bambara developed two separate empires, one based in S\u00e9 gou (and incl. Timbuktu) and the other in Kaarta.


bamboo
Any of the tall, treelike grasses found in tropical and subtropical to mild temperate regions that make up the subfamily Bambusoideae, family Poaceae (or Gramineae). Bamboos are giant, fast-growing grasses with woody stems. A few species of the genus Arundinaria are native to the S U.S., where they form dense canebrakes along riverbanks and in marshy areas. The woody, hollow aerial stems grow in branching clusters from a thick rhizome, often forming a dense undergrowth that excludes other plants. All parts of the bamboo are used, for purposes incl. food, livestock fodder, fine-quality paper, construction materials, and medicines, and as ornamentals in landscape gardens.


cambium
In plants, a layer of actively dividing cells between xylem (fluid-conducting) and phloem (food-conducting) tissues that is responsible for the secondary growth of stems and roots, resulting in an increase in thickness. A cambium may also form within callus tissues. See also bark, wood.


Cambon
French diplomat. He worked in the civil service (1870-82) before entering the diplomatic service, in which he served as ambassador to Spain and Turkey. Appointed ambassador to Britain (1898-1920), he spent his first years in smoothing over Anglo-French relations. His efforts were crowned by the signing of the Entente Cordiale in 1904. During World War I he continued to play a vital role in cooperation between the two allies.


Cambrai
Alliance of ...

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