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door
Movable barrier installed in the entry of a room or building to restrict access or provide visual privacy. Early doors were hides or textiles. With monumental architecture came pivoting doors of rigid, permanent materials; important chambers often had stone or bronze doors. Pompeiian doors looked much like modern wooden doors; they were constructed of stiles (vertical planks) and rails (horizontal planks) fastened together to support panels and occasionally equipped with locks and hinges. The typical Western medieval door was of vertical planks backed with horizontal or diagonal bracing. In the 20th cent., a single, hollow-core panel door became most common. Other types include the revolving door, folding door, sliding door (inspired by the Japanese shoji), rolling door, and Dutch door (divided horizontally so that the lower or upper part can be opened separately).


Moors
Muslim population of Spain, of mixed Arab, Spanish, and Berber origins. N. African Muslims (called in Latin Mauri, i.e., natives of Roman Mauretania) invaded Spain in the 8th cent. and, under the Umayyad and Almoravid dynasties, created the great Arab Andalusian civilization in such cities as Có rdoba, Toledo, Granada, and Seville. The Christian reconquest of Spain under Alfonso VI began in the 11th cent.; from then until the Moors' final defeat in 1492, and for another century thereafter, many Moors settled as refugees in N. Africa. See also Mudejars.


Nyoro
Bantu-speaking people of W central Uganda. Until the 18th cent. the Bunyoro kingdom included present-day Uganda. It declined in the 18th and 19th cent., surrendering its preeminence to the Buganda kingdom. It was brought into the Uganda Protectorate by the British. Today the Nyoro, numbering about 600,000, live in scattered settlements and cultivate millet, sorghum, and plantains.


Azores
Archipelago (pop., 1992 est.: 237,000), N Atlantic Ocean, constituting an autonomous region of Portugal. Its islands are Flores, Corvo, Terceira, Sã o Jorge, Pico, Faial, Graciosa, Sã o Miguel, and Santa Maria; the capital is Ponta Delgada (on Sã o Miguel). It covers an area of 868 sq mi (2,247 sq km). Subject to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, the islands lie some 1,000 mi (1,600 km) west of mainland Europe. The uninhabited Azores were reputedly discovered c.1427 by Portuguese pilot Diogo de Sevilha. Settlement began c.1432; by the end of the 15th cent., all the islands were inhabited and trade with Portugal was well established. They were subject to Spain in 1580-1640, and a famous sea battle between the British and Spanish occurred off Flores in 1591. The Portuguese installed a governor and captain general for the whole group in 1766; the islands were given limited autonomy in 1895. Important air and naval bases were set up there during World War II; in 1951 the U.S. established a NATO base on Lajes.


boar
Any wild member of the pig ...

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