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...rage for dinosaurs is hardly new. The British anatomist Richard Owen first coined the term dinosaur (from the ancient Greek deinos, "terrible," and sauros, "lizard") in 1841 to characterize gigantic fossilized bones found several decades earlier. Dinosaur bones and footprints had actually been known for centuries, but were ascribed to dragons or extinct lizards or even giant ravens. Owen realized that these enormous bones belonged to a previously unknown and long-extinct group of animals related to but different from lizards. Dinosaurs became an immediate rage in London. An 1854 exhibition at Hyde Park's Crystal Palace featured a number...
EALC Chair Stephen Owen said Rubin's addition will increase the number of professors in the Japanese literature specialty to four. Rubin received the tenure offer in late January, Owen said...
...There has been a tremendous upsurge in interest in Japanese...enrollments have been huge," Owen said...
...hour journey to Tuzla. Horrified U.N. officials, already smarting under accusations of abetting the Serb aim of ethnic cleansing by evacuating Muslims, temporarily called off further convoys. There was nothing to dissuade them from their pessimism in the rejection by the Serb nationalist parliament in Bosnia of the Vance-Owen peace plan, approved not only by other factions but, conditionally, by their own leader...
...easy it is to depict baseball as a simpleminded rogues' gallery of ego- driven owners and selfish superstars. In fact, Bonds' salary is not out of whack, especially compared with that of a journeyman shortstop like Spike Owen (lifetime batting average .243), who signed a three-year, $7 million contract with the Yankees...