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Old Man
Old Man Old Man, also known as Napi, is a creator god and tricksterfigure in the mythology of the Blackfoot Indians of North America. He is said to have created the world and all the creatures in it. To make humans, Old Man fashioned figures out of clay and breathed ... Read more |
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Spiritualism
S PIRITUALISM M odern Spiritualism began in the late winter months of 1847 with the mysterious knocking and window rattling at the John Fox residence in Hydesville, New York. Fox spent an entire day securing everything that looked as if it might shake or... Read more |
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Old Sarum
Old Sarum , site of a former city, Wiltshire, S England, just N of Salisbury (New Sarum). Excavations in the old settlement's mound have revealed remains of an ancient British camp, the Roman station Sorbiodunum, and a later Saxon then Norman town. The bishopric, moved to Old Sarum from Sherborne... Read more |
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Old Kent Financial Corp
Old Kent Financial Corp. One Vandenberg CenterGrand Rapids, Michigan 49506-0321U.S.A.(616) 771-5000Fax: (616) 771-4698 Public CompanyIncorporated: 1971Employees: 5,130Total Assets: $10.1 billionStock Index: NASDAQSICs: 6712 Bank Holding Companies; 6022 StateCommercial Banks; 6021 National... Read more |
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venison
venison [O.Fr.,=hunting], term formerly applied to the flesh of any wild beast or game hunted and used for food but now restricted to the flesh of members of the deer family. The meat is best if the animal is plump, forest fed, and at least five years old; it is improved by hanging in a cool, airy... Read more |
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Heliand
Heliand [Old Saxon,=Savior], Old Saxon poem of 5,983 lines, a narrative of the life of Jesus in alliterative verse, written c.825.... Read more |
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John Augustus Stone
Stone, John Augustus (1800–34), playwright and actor. This once admired dramatist was born in Concord, Massachusetts, and made his debut as an actor in Boston in 1821 as Old Norval in Douglas. Despite his youth, Stone specialized thereafter in old men's parts. Without ever becoming a star he... Read more |
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synonym
synonym [Gr.,=having the same name], word having a meaning that is the same as or very similar to the meaning of another word of the same language. Some are alike in some meanings only, as live and dwell. As a language develops, words that once were synonyms tend to become restricted so that... Read more |
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Wilberforce
Wilberforce ♂ Transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from Wilberfoss in North Yorkshire, so called from the Old English female personal name Wilburg (see Wilbur) + Old English foss ‘ditch’ (Latin fossa). It was taken up as a given name in honour of the... Read more |
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Victoriapithecus
Victoriapithecus The earliest known member of the Cercopithecoidea. Together with a related, more poorly known genus, Prohylobates, it is now placed in a family, Victoriapithecidae, separate from advanced Old World monkeys. So far, the family is known only from E. and N. Africa. The biphilodonty... Read more |
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