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apella
Ancient Spartan assembly, similar to the ecclesia of other Greek states. The apella, whose monthly meetings were open to citizens over 30, did not initiate proposals, and could only consider matters submitted by the ephors or the gerousia; voting was by shouts. Its business included treaties, wars, and succession; it named commanders, elected elders and ephors, and voted on changes in the laws.


Cabell
U.S. writer. Born in Richmond, Va. to a distinguished family, he attacked Amer. orthodoxies and institutions in his best-known novel, Jurgen (1919), a story replete with sexual symbolism. His other works, many of them allegories set in an imaginary medieval province, include The Cream of the Jest (1917), Beyond Life (1919), and The High Place (1923). Though much praised in the 1920s, his mannered style and skeptical view of human experience soon lost favor.


Magellan
Portuguese navigator and explorer. Born to the nobility, from 1505 Magellan served in expeditions to the E. Indies and Africa. Having twice asked King Manuel I for a higher rank and been refused, he went to Spain in 1517 and offered his services to King Charles I (later Emperor Charles V), proposing to sail west to the Moluccas (Spice Islands) to prove that they lay in Spanish rather than Portuguese territory. In 1519 he left Seville with five ships and 270 men. He sailed around S. America, quelling a mutiny on the way, and discovered the Strait of Magellan. With three ships left, he crossed the "Sea of the South," which he later called the Pacific Ocean because of their calm crossing. He was killed by natives in the Philippines, but two of his ships reached the Moluccas, and one, the Victoria, commanded by Juan de Elcano (1476?-1526), continued west to Spain, accomplishing the first circumnavigation of the world in 1522.


rubella
Viral disease with a usually mild course, except in women in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy, in whom it can cause fetal birth defects (of eyes, heart, brain, and large arteries) or death. Sore throat and fever are followed by swollen glands and a rash. Up to 30% of infections may have no symptoms. Lifelong immunity follows infection. Encephalitis is a rare complication. Rubella was not distinguished from measles (rubeola) until the early 19th cent. and was not known to be dangerous until 1941. The virus was isolated in 1962, and a vaccine became available in 1969.


tabla
Pair of small drums, the principal percussion in the chamber music of N India. The higher-pitched dahina is a roughly cylindrical one-skinned drum, usually wooden, normally tuned to the raga's tonic. The bahina is a deep kettledrum usually of copper; its pitch varies with pressure from the heel of the player's hand. A disk of black tuning paste on the membrane of each drum gives it harmonic overtones.


Tarbell
U.S. investigative journalist, lecturer, and chronicler of Amer. ...

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