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habitat
Place where an organism or a community of organisms lives, incl. all living and nonliving factors or conditions of the surrounding environment. A host organism inhabited by parasites is as much a habitat as a place on land such as a grove of trees or an aquatic locality such as a small pond. "Microhabitat" refers to the conditions and organisms in the immediate vicinity of a plant or animal.


Rabelais
French writer and priest. After apparently studying law, he took holy orders as a Franciscan, but later, because of a dispute, removed to a Benedictine house. In 1530 he left the Benedictines to study medicine, a profession he would follow the rest of his life. He became a significant humanist scholar, publishing translations of Hippocrates and Galen. His fame rests on the five comic novels (one of doubtful authenticity) known collectively as Gargantua and Pantagruel, incl. the masterpieces Pantagruel (1532) and Gargantua (1534) as well as Le tiers livre (1546; "The Third Book"), his most profound work. These works display a delight in words, a mastery of storytelling, and deep humanist learning in a mosaic of scholarly, literary, and scientific parody that is unlike any previous work in French. They were banned by civil and church authorities for their satirical content and earthy humor, but were nevertheless read throughout Europe. Throughout his career, Rabelais owed his freedom to the protection of powerful patrons.


Zapata
Mexican revolutionary and champion of the rural poor. A mestizo peasant, he was orphaned at 17 and took responsibility for his brothers and sisters. He led his neighbors in protests against the hacienda that had appropriated their land, and eventually led them in taking the land by force. He organized a small force to help F. Madero unseat P. D\u00ed az. Dissatisfied with the pace of land reform under Madero, Zapata led a guerrilla campaign that took land back from the haciendas and returned it to the communal Indian ejidos. He was instrumental in the defeat of Gen. V. Huerta after Huerta deposed and assassinated Madero. With P. Villa he occupied Mexico City and began to implement land reform, but was tricked, ambushed, and killed by the forces of V. Carranza, whom the U.S. had recognized as president.

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