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book
Written (or printed) message of considerable length, meant for circulation and recorded on any of various materials that are durable and light enough to be easily portable. The papyrus roll of ancient Egypt is more nearly the direct ancestor of the modern book than is the clay tablet; examples of both date to c.3000 BC. Somewhat later, the Chinese independently created an extensive scholarship based on books, many made of wood or bamboo strips bound with cords. Lampblack ink was introduced in China c.AD 400 and printing from wooden blocks in the 6th cent. The Greeks adopted the papyrus roll and passed it on to the Romans. The parchment or vellum codex superseded the papyrus roll by AD 400. Medieval parchment or vellum leaves were prepared from the skins of animals. By the 15th cent., paper manuscripts were common. Printing spread rapidly in the late 15th cent. Subsequent technical achievements, such as the development of offset printing, improved many aspects of book culture.


cookie
File or part of a file put on a Web user's hard disk by a Web site (i.e., by the server that manages the Web site) that lets a Web server store on the user's own machine information about the user, retrievable whenever the user returns to that Web site. Cookies are used to store registration data, to make it possible to customize information for visitors to a Web site, to track which Web sites a user has visited, to target Web advertising, and to keep track or the products a user wishes to order on-line. Early cookies could retrieve data from other parts of the user's hard disk; current versions prevent this and permit a site to have access only to cookies written by that site.


Jooss
German dancer, teacher, and choreographer whose dance dramas combined modern dance with ballet technique. After studying dance with R. Laban (1920-24), he established a school and company. He became ballet master at the Essen Opera House in 1930, where he choreographed his signature ballet, The Green Table (1932). Forced to leave Germany, he moved his school and company to England in 1934, and his renamed Ballets Jooss toured worldwide until disbanding in 1947. He returned in 1949 to Essen, where he continued to choreograph works that combined ballet and modern dance in an Expressionist style.


rook
Most abundant Eurasian bird (Corvus frugilegus) of the crow family (Corvidae). Rooks, 18 in. (45 cm) long, are black and have shaggy thigh feathers and bare white skin at the base of the sharp bill. They are migratory and range discontinuously from Britain to Iran and Manchuria. They dig for larvae and worms in meadows and plowed fields. They nest in large colonies (rookeries) in tall trees, sometimes within towns; the nest, solidly constructed of twigs and soil, is used year after year.


booby
Any of six or seven species of large tropical seabirds (family Sulidae), named for their presumed lack ...

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