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Joule
English physicist. After studying under J. Dalton, in 1840 he described "Joule's law," which stated that the heat produced in a wire by an electric current is proportional to the product of the resistance of the wire and the square of the current. In 1843 he published his value for the amount of work required to produce a unit of heat, called the mechanical equivalent of heat, and established that heat is a form of energy. He established that the various forms of energy are basically the same and can be changed from one into another, a discovery that formed the basis of the law of conservation of energy, the first law of thermodynamics. In his honor, the value of the mechanical equivalent of heat is usually represented by the letter J, and a standard unit of work is called the joule.


bongo
Large, brightly colored antelope (Boocercus, or Taurotragus, euryceros) found in dense forests of central Africa. Shy, swift, and elusive, the bongo lives in small groups or in pairs. It stands about 51 in. (1.3 m) at the shoulder and has an erect mane running the length of the back. Both sexes bear heavy, spirally twisted horns. The male is reddish brown to dark mahogany with black underparts, black-and-white legs, white head markings, and narrow, vertical white stripes on the body. The female is similarly marked but usually a brighter reddish brown.


Borge
Danish-U.S. comedian and pianist. He made his concert stage debut in 1922, first appeared in a musical revue in 1934, then began writing and directing shows, developing a style that combined humor with music. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1940. Though he performed as soloist and guest conductor with many of the world's leading orchestras, his significant pianistic talent was often overshadowed by his highly popular humor.


Borges
Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer. Educated in Switzerland, he recognized early that he would have a literary career. From the 1920s on he was afflicted by a growing hereditary blindness. In 1938 a severe head wound seemed to free his deepest creative forces. His blindness was total by the mid-1950s and forced him to abandon the writing of long texts and begin dictating his works. From 1955 he held the honorary post of director of Argentina's national library. Much of his work is rich in fantasy and metaphorical allegory, incl. the story collections Ficciones (1944), which won him an international following, and The Aleph (1949). Dreamtigers (1960) and The Book of Imaginary Beings (1967) almost erase the distinctions between prose and poetry. Though he later repudiated it, he is credited with establishing in S. America the modernist Ultraist movement, a rebellion against the decadence of the established writers of the Generation of '98.


Borgia
Italian military leader and illegitimate son of the later Pope Alexander VI and brother of L. Borgia. He was made archbishop of ...

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