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Private Property
Property, Private BIBLIOGRAPHY The institution of private property is one of humankind’s principal social arrangements. By defining and assigning legal ownership, property tends to promote the production, exchange, and accumulation of wealth. Property is especially lauded for the... Read more |
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Pillory
PILLORY PILLORY, a device for publicly punishing petty offenders. The pillory consisted of a frame with holes in which the head and hands of the standing prisoner were locked. This device was not as common in the American colonies as were the more merciful stocks, in which the prisoner sat,... Read more |
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Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia Definition Fibromyalgia is described as inflammation of the fibrous or connective tissue of the body. Widespread muscle pain, fatigue, and multiple tender points characterize these conditions. Fibrositis, fibromyalgia, and fibromyositis are names given to a set of symptoms believed... Read more |
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Liberal Imperialists
Liberal Imperialists were a faction of the Liberal Party around 1900, who disagreed with their leaders' lukewarm line over the Boer War. Their leaders were Rosebery, Grey, and Haldane. At one time they threatened to secede formally, but did not, partly because of Rosebery's dithering. That was... Read more |
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coracle
coracle, from the Welsh corwgl, carcass, or Irish curach, meaning boat. It is a small boat, occasionally circular but more often rectangular with rounded corners, constructed of wicker work. It was originally made watertight with animal hides but in more recent times pitch or some other watertight... Read more |
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Neo-Plasticism
Neo-Plasticism. Term coined by Piet Mondrian for his style of austerely geometrical abstract painting and more broadly for the philosophical ideas about art that his work embodied. He claimed that art should be ‘denaturized', by which he meant that it must be purely abstract, with no... Read more |
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Placebo effect
Placebo Effect Although the term placebo effect might appear logically to refer to "the effect produced by a placebo," that definition is not in fact the one most commonly used. It would be more accurate to define the placebo effect as "the mind-body interaction triggered by medical treatment,... Read more |
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schizophrenia
schizophrenia , group of severe mental disorders characterized by reality distortions resulting in unusual thought patterns and behaviors. Because there is often little or no logical relationship between the thoughts and feelings of a person with schizophrenia, the disorder has often been called ... Read more |
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Indian floral region
Indian floral region Part of R. Good's (The Geography of the Flowering Plants, 1974) Indo-Malaysian subkingdom within his palaeotropical kingdom, and more a region of floral mixing than a distinct entity, notwithstanding the extent of the subcontinent. There are only about 150 endemic genera (see... Read more |
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AB
AB, the abbreviated title for the rating of able seaman, indicating someone able to perform all the duties of a seaman on board ship. In the days of sail it was someone who could hand, reef, and steer, but today he or she must have many more maritime skills than that. The initials have been thought... Read more |
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Scientists witness apparent black hole birth
...might be thought of as a kitchen...seeing a black hole came from...suggested that a black hole had been...of black holes exist in...Stellar black holes such ... |
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Cambridge scientist hears black hole's voice.
...s largest black holes, massive...Matteo were thought to be inactive...giant black holes, lurking at...supermassive black holes are common in the universe...universe. Black ... |
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Galactic black hole: X marks the spot? (research of spiral galaxy M51)
...treasure map than a picture...location of a black hole believed to...proving far more than a pictorial...share a common lineage with...small black holes fuel the energetic...differences ... |
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The Chancellor is overplaying the scale of the black hole to shift blame for...
...deeper spending cuts than previously expected...quite as bad as they might have been - or perhaps...Chancellor telling the Commons: "It is indeed worse than we thought". It seems he...the size of the black ... |
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Some can climb out of the black hole
...out of the black holeByline...far higher than his mother...the black hole. Since depression...hospitalisation might be needed...stay in their black hole. Obviously...sacrifices for the ... |
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BLACK HOLES THE STUFF OF SCIENCE FICTION WITHOUT PROOF, SCIENTISTS RELY ON...
...to a giant black hole in the...times more common than in the region...more massive than the sun...into the hole's dreaded...of black holes - objects...previously thought ... |
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The hunt for intermediate-mass black holes.(Astronomy)
All known black holes fall into...Stellar black holes are born in...Supermassive black holes such as quasars...stellar black holes and a nuclear supermassive black ... |
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Dust disks and black holes swell the cosmic census. (Meeting: American...
...middleweight black holes and...supermassive black holes thought to inhabit...galaxy. Black holes once seemed...supermassive black holes were common in ... |
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Chandra examines black holes large and small in nearby galaxy.
...Chandra examines black holes large and small...supermassive black hole and a host of...smaller black holes sprinkled throughout...detection of a black hole's periodic...appear to be ... |
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BLACK HOLES: GIVING LIFE AS WELL AS DEALING DEATH.
...College London: Black holes had been thought to hinder...Black holes may have a...the universe than scientists...produced by black holes could remove...host a black ... |
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