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Fante
U.S. writer. Born in Colorado to Italian immigrant parents, he moved to Los Angeles in the early 1930s. His first novel, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), was followed by his best-known book, Ask the Dust (1939), the first of his novels set in Depression-era California. Other books included the story collection Dago Red (1940) and the novels Full of Life (1952) and Brotherhood of the Grape (1977). He also wrote numerous screenplays, incl. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Full of Life (1956), and A Walk on the Wild Side (1962). Long eclipsed, he began to be rediscovered in the 1990s.
Akan people of the S coast of Ghana who speak a language of the Kwa group. As intermediaries in colonial-era trade between the Ashanti to the north and the Europeans to the south, the Fante established several independent kingdoms that formed a confederacy in the late 17th cent. It aided the British in wars against the Ashanti in the 19th cent. but was disbanded in 1873 under British pressure. Today the Fante number about 250,000. A military organization called the asafo also serves political, social, and religious functions.
Nantes
City (metro. area pop., 1990: 492,000), NW France. Located on the Loire River, west of Tours, it derives its name from the Namnetes, a Gallic tribe settled there before the Romans conquered Gaul. The Huns, the Normans, and dukes of Brittany claimed it before it passed to France in 1499. It rallied to King Henry IV of France after he signed the Edict of Nantes in 1598. During the French Revolution its populace suffered many executions. Occupied by German troops in World War II, it was heavily damaged by Allied bombing; it was taken by U.S. troops in 1944. Rebuilt into a major economic center, it has important industrial plants and shipbuilding yards. It also boasts a castle, a cathedral, a university, and a fine art museum.
antenna
Component of radio, television, and radar systems that directs incoming and outgoing radio waves. Usually of metal, antennas range in shape and size from the mastlike devices used for radio and television broadcasting to the large parabolic reflectors used to focus satellite signals and the radio waves generated by distant astronomical objects and reflect them toward the centrally located receiver. Antennas were invented in the 1880s by H. Hertz; G. Marconi made many improvements.
In zoology, one of a pair of slender, segmented sensory organs on the head of insects, myriapods (e.g, centipedes, millipedes), and crustaceans. Antennae of insects, which are movable, are believed to serve as both tactual and smell receptors; in some species, the development of elaborate antennal plumes and brushlike terminations has led to the suggestion that they also serve for hearing. Evidence supports this idea only for the mosquito, whose antennae are attached to specialized structures stimulated by vibrations of the antennal shaft. In social insects (e.g., ...
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