Adolf Eichmann
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~ Austrian who became the Nazi official who administered the concentration camps where millions of Jews were murdered during World War II (1906-1962)
Albert Einstein
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~ physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity; Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy (later called photons) (1879-1955)
Alfred Eisenstaedt
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~ United States photographer (born in Germany) whose unposed documentary photographs created photojournalism (born in 1898)
Aralia elata
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~ deciduous clump-forming Asian shrub or small tree; adventive in the eastern United States
Aspidistra elatio
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~ evergreen perennial with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant
Arrhenatherum elatius
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~ coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage
American elder
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~ common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies
alternating electric current
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~ an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally; "In the US most household current is AC at 60 cycles per second"