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Berain
French decorator and designer. Trained under C. Le Brun, he was appointed chief designer to the court of Louis XIV in 1674. He was skilled in designing tapestries, accessories, furniture, costumes, and elaborate stage settings for operas and extravagant theatrical productions, filled with fantastic iconography. He satisfied the king's appetite for splendor and inspired such other cabinetmakers as A.-C. Boulle.


brain
Concentration of nerve tissue in the front or upper end of an animal's body that handles sensory information, controls motion, is vital to instinctive acts, and in higher vertebrates is the center of learning. Vertebrate brains consist of the hindbrain (rhombencephalon), midbrain (mesencephalon), and forebrain (prosencephalon). The hindbrain comprises the medulla oblongata and the pons, which connects the spinal cord with higher brain levels and transfers information from the cerebral cortex to the cerebellum. The midbrain, a major sensory integration center in other vertebrates, serves primarily to link the hindbrain and forebrain in mammals. Large nerve bundles connect the cerebellum to the medulla, pons, and midbrain. In the forebrain, the two cerebral hemispheres are connected by a thick bundle of nerve fibers (corpus callosum) and are divided by two deep grooves into four lobes (frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital). The cerebrum, the largest part of the human brain, is involved with its more complex functions. Motor and sensory nerve fibers from each hemisphere cross over in the medulla to control the opposite side of the body.


Derain
French painter, graphic artist, and designer. He studied in Paris at the Acadé mie Carriè re and Acadé mie Julian. He developed his early style in association with his friends M. de Vlaminck and H. Matisse; the three were the principal exponents of Fauvism. Derain's landscapes and figure studies featured brilliant colors, broken brush strokes, and impulsive lines. By the 1920s, however, he had turned to the Neoclassical style. He produced numerous book illustrations and designs for stage sets, notably for S. Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.


moraine
Accumulation of rock debris (till) carried or deposited by a glacier. The material may range in size from blocks or boulders to sand and clay, is unstratified when dropped by the glacier, and shows no sorting or bedding. Several kinds of moraines are recognized, depending on how they are deposited by the glacier; these include lateral moraines along the margins of the glacier and terminal moraines at its leading edge.


rain
Precipitation of liquid water drops with diameters greater than 0.02 in. (0.5 mm). When the drops are smaller, the precipitation is usually called drizzle. Raindrops may form by the coalescence of colliding small water droplets or from the melting of snowflakes and other ice particles as they fall into warm air near the ground. ...

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