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progeria
Disorder with characteristics of premature aging. Affected persons have thin skin, go bald or gray early, and develop diseases of aging decades earlier than normal individuals. Not all systems are affected; there is no senility and no aging in the central nervous system. There are two major types. In the extremely rare Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome, children look 60 years old by age 10 and die at an average age of 13. The unrelated Werner's syndrome is a recessive hereditary disease that begins in young adulthood and makes patients look 30 years older than they are; their average lifespan is 47 years.


property
In law, something that is owned or possessed. Concepts of property vary widely among cultures. In Western society, it is generally regarded as either tangible (e.g., land or goods) or intangible (e.g., stocks and bonds or a patent). Individual ownership of property is emphasized in the West, whereas in many non-Western societies property ownership is de-emphasized or conceived on a more strictly communal basis. The use of property is extensively regulated throughout the West. Landowners injured by adjoining land uses may sue in nuisance in the Anglo-Amer. countries; similar actions exist in civil-law countries. Throughout the West, property may be acquired in various ways. "Occupancy" allows one to become the owner of property formerly not owned by anyone. A far more common means of acquiring property is by transfer from the previous owner or owners. Such transfers include sales, donations, and inheritance. See also adverse possession, community property, easement, intellectual property, prescription, real and personal property.


proverb
Succinct and pithy saying that is in general use and expresses commonly held ideas and beliefs. Proverbs are part of every spoken language and folk literature, originating in oral tradition. Often the same proverb is found in many variants in different parts of the world. Literate societies from the ancient Egyptians on have collected their proverbs. One of the earliest English proverb collections, The Proverbs of Alfred, dates from c.1150-80. In N. America the best-known collection is probably that of Poor Richard's, an almanac published 1732-57 by B. Franklin.


Thonet
German-Austrian pioneer in the industrialization of furniture manufacture. He developed a system of steam-bent veneers c.1830 and created light, curvilinear chairs. By 1856 he had perfected the bending of solid beechwood with heat and began mass production of bentwood furniture. He set up factories in Hungary and Moravia and opened salons from Moscow to Chicago. By 1870 he was producing furniture in hitherto unheard-of quantities. His furniture is still being manufactured today.


throne
Chair of state set on a dais and often surmounted by a canopy, representing the power of the dignitary who sits on it and sometimes conferring that power. In ...

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