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berg
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n 1: a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of
a polar glacier [syn: iceberg, berg]
2: Austrian composer in Schoenberg's twelve-tone music system
(1885-1935) [syn: Berg, Alban Berg]
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burg
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n 1: colloquial American term for a town; "I've lived in this
burg all my life"
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erg
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n 1: a cgs unit of work or energy; the work done by a force of
one dyne acting over a distance of one centimeter
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homburg
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n 1: a hat made of felt with a creased crown [syn: fedora,
felt hat, homburg, Stetson, trilby]
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iceberg
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n 1: a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of
a polar glacier [syn: iceberg, berg]
2: lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a
firm head; "iceberg is still the most popular lettuce" [syn:
crisphead lettuce, iceberg lettuce, iceberg]
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strasbourg
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n 1: city on the Rhine in eastern France near the German border;
an inland port [syn: Strasbourg, Strassburg]
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luxembourg
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n 1: the capital and largest city of Luxembourg [syn:
Luxembourg-Ville, Luxembourg, Luxemburg, Luxembourg
City, capital of Luxembourg]
2: a grand duchy (a constitutional monarchy) landlocked in
northwestern Europe between France and Belgium and Germany;
an international financial center [syn: Luxembourg, Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg, Luxemburg]
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burgh
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n 1: a borough in Scotland
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gutenberg
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n 1: German printer who was the first in Europe to print using
movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468) [syn:
Gutenberg, Johann Gutenberg, Johannes Gutenberg]
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brandenburg
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n 1: the territory of an Elector (of the Holy Roman Empire) that
expanded to become the kingdom of Prussia in 1701
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gettysburg
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n 1: a small town in southern Pennsylvania; site of a national
cemetery
2: a battle of the American Civil War (1863); the defeat of
Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate Army was a major victory
for the Union [syn: Gettysburg, Battle of Gettysburg]
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harrisburg
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n 1: capital of Pennsylvania; located in southern part of state
[syn: Harrisburg, capital of Pennsylvania]
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heisenberg
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n 1: German mathematical physicist noted for stating the
uncertainty principle (1901-1976) [syn: Heisenberg,
Werner Karl Heisenberg]
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hindenburg
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n 1: German field marshal and statesman; as president of the
Weimar Republic he reluctantly appointed Hitler as
chancellor in 1933 (1847-1934) [syn: Hindenburg, Paul
von Hindenburg, Paul Ludwig von Beneckendorff und von
Hindenburg]
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luxemburg
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n 1: the capital and largest city of Luxembourg [syn:
Luxembourg-Ville, Luxembourg, Luxemburg, Luxembourg
City, capital of Luxembourg]
2: a grand duchy (a constitutional monarchy) landlocked in
northwestern Europe between France and Belgium and Germany;
an international financial center [syn: Luxembourg, Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg, Luxemburg]
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nuremberg
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n 1: a city in southeastern Germany; site of Allied trials of
Nazi war criminals (1945-46) [syn: Nuremberg, Nurnberg]
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petersburg
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n 1: a town in southeastern Virginia (south of Richmond); scene
of heavy fighting during the American Civil War
2: the final campaign of the American Civil War (1864-65); Union
forces under Grant besieged and finally defeated Confederate
forces under Lee [syn: Petersburg, Petersburg Campaign]
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johannesburg
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n 1: city in the northeastern part of South Africa near
Pretoria; commercial center for diamond and gold industries
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bromberg
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n 1: an industrial city and river port in northern Poland [syn:
Bydgoszcz, Bromberg]
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romberg
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n 1: United States composer (born in Hungary) who composed
operettas (1887-1951) [syn: Romberg, Sigmund Romberg]
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hamburg
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n 1: a port city in northern Germany on the Elbe River that was
founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century and is today the
largest port in Germany; in 1241 it formed an alliance with
Lubeck that became the basis for the Hanseatic League
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sandburg
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n 1: United States writer remembered for his poetry in free
verse and his six volume biography of Abraham Lincoln
(1878-1967) [syn: Sandburg, Carl Sandburg]
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strasberg
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n 1: United States actor and film director (born in Austria) who
was a leader in developing method acting in the United
States (1901-1982) [syn: Strasberg, Lee Strasberg,
Israel Strassberg]
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ginsberg
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n 1: United States poet of the beat generation (1926-1997) [syn:
Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg]
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goldberg
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n 1: United States cartoonist who drew intricate diagrams of
very complicated and impractical contraptions that
accomplished little or nothing (1883-1970) [syn:
Goldberg, Rube Goldberg, Reuben Lucius Goldberg]
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habsburg
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n 1: a royal German family that provided rulers for several
European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire
from 1440 to 1806 [syn: Habsburg, Hapsburg]
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hapsburg
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n 1: a royal German family that provided rulers for several
European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire
from 1440 to 1806 [syn: Habsburg, Hapsburg]
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pittsburgh
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n 1: a city in southwestern Pennsylvania where the confluence of
the Allegheny River and Monongahela River forms the Ohio
River; long an important urban industrial area; site of
Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh
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weinberg
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n 1: United States theoretical physicist (born in 1933) [syn:
Weinberg, Steven Weinberg]
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lindbergh
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n 1: United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo
nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974) [syn:
Lindbergh, Charles Lindbergh, Charles A. Lindbergh,
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Lucky Lindy]
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salzburg
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n 1: city in western Austria; a music center and birthplace of
Mozart
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schoenberg
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n 1: United States composer and musical theorist (born in
Austria) who developed atonal composition (1874-1951) [syn:
Schonberg, Arnold Schonberg, Schoenberg, Arnold
Schoenberg]
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schonberg
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n 1: United States composer and musical theorist (born in
Austria) who developed atonal composition (1874-1951) [syn:
Schonberg, Arnold Schonberg, Schoenberg, Arnold
Schoenberg]
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spielberg
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n 1: United States filmmaker (born in 1947) [syn: Spielberg,
Steven Spielberg]
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steinberg
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n 1: United States cartoonist (born in Romania) noted for his
caricatures of famous people (1914-1999) [syn: Steinberg,
Saul Steinberg]
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vicksburg
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n 1: a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the
Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an
important campaign during the American Civil War as the
Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut
the Confederacy into two halves
2: a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after
being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates
surrendered [syn: Vicksburg, siege of Vicksburg]
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warburg
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n 1: German biochemist who pioneered the use of chemical
techniques in biological investigations; noted for studies
of cellular respiration (1883-1970) [syn: Warburg, Otto
Heinrich Warburg]
2: German art historian (1866-1929) [syn: Warburg, Aby
Warburg, Aby Moritz Warburg]
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wurzburg
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n 1: a city of south central Germany [syn: Wurzburg,
Wuerzburg]
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bergh
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burge
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mcclurg
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drakensberg
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louisburg
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magdeburg
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mecklenburg
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orenburg
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rosenberg
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wurttemberg
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augsburg
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duisburg
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limburg
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coburg
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newburg
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schlossberg
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scholberg
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stenberg
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sternberg
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stolberg
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stoneberg
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stroudsburg
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sundberg
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swanberg
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swedberg
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thornberg
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thornburg
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thornburgh
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westberg
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wallenberg
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