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Longevity

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Abie’s Irish Rose
comedy by Anne Nichols ran for 2327 performances on Broadway. [Am. Lit.: Benét, 3]
Back to Methuselah by
the end of the twenty-second century, mankind has extended the life span to nearly three hundred years. [Br. Drama: Shaw Back to Methuselah in Magill III, 82]
Iguarán, Úrsula
matriarch who holds the clan together and lives to be one hundred years old. [Lat. Am. Lit.: Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude in Weiss, 336]
Long Parliament
sat from outbreak of Civil War to Charles II’s accession (1640–1660). [Br. Hist.: EB, VI: 319–320]
Meet the Press
longest running television program; from 1947 to present. [Am. TV: McWhirter, 234]
Methuselah
son of Enoch; patriarch said to have lived 969 years. [O.T.: Genesis 5:21–27]
Mousetrap, The
London play by Agatha Christie, running since 1952. [Br. Lit.: McWhirter, 228]
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
(1882–1945) 32nd U.S. President; elected to four terms. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 726]
Shangri-La
hidden Tibetan lamasery where all enjoy long life provided they remain there. [Br. Lit.: Lost Horizon]
She
(Ayesha) beautiful African sorceress who has lived for 2000 years. [Br. Lit.: H. Rider Haggard She in Magill I, 886]
Victoria, Queen
(1819–1901) queen of Great Britain and Ireland (1837–1901). [Br. Hist.: NCE, 2886]
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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A low degree of fatty acid nnsaturation leads to lower lipid peroxidation and lipoxidation derived protein modification in heart mitochondria ofthe longevous pigeon than in the short-lived rat.
Resistencia a la peroxidacion lipidica en organelas de ovario e higado de gallinas ponedoras Brown Nick jovenes
It does not take a specialist to realize that a story set and developing in several alternative worlds, involving marvelous beings such as animal-shaped daemons, cold-resistant, longevous flying witches, talking armored bears, soul-eating specters, stinking cliff-ghasts, misery-lusting talking harpies, diminutive belligerent Gallivespians, angels of various potency, allegiance, and sexual orientation, miserable ghosts stuck in Hell, personal anthropomorphized Deaths, seed-pod riding mulefa, talking elementary particles, unexplainable objects such as the truth-telling device called the aletheiometer, or the subtle knife which can cut windows to alternative universes--in short, that these things are not quite popular in realist literature.
The marriage of heaven and hell? Philip Pullman, C.S. Lewis, and the fantasy tradition
The aerosol number concentration changes in Jonava were compared with those on a rural site (Preila) which is an international longevous monitoring post.
Investigation of aerosol number concentration in Jonava town/Aerozoliu skaitines koncentracijos tyrimai Jonavoje
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