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spontaneous human combustion
S PONTANEOUSH UMANC OMBUSTION(SHC) T he enigma of spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is considered the most bizarre and frightening of all the phenomena in the world of the unexplained and the unknown. Some believe that stories of SHC are only ... Read more |
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Enigma
Enigma Contemporary dance entity MCMXC a.D. Conceived as One Song Marquis de Sadeness Single Created Controversy Sued by a Gregorian Choir Selected discography Sources Michael Cretu, the man who is Enigma, declared his creative philosophy in a Virgin Records press release: |
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Typex
Typex Typex was the name for the principal encryption device, or cipher machine, used by the military, intelligence, and diplomatic services of the British Empire during World War II. In the 1920s, the British were still using book cipher systems, and became aware of the... Read more |
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Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Carlos Drummond de Andrade , 1902-87, Brazilian poet. The son of landowners, he worked as a journalist before earning (1925) a degree in pharmacology. In 1928 Andrade became a civil servant while working as a newspaper editor. His first volume of poems, Alguma poesia [some poetry] (1930),... Read more |
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Bay Psalm Book
Bay Psalm Book common hymnal of the Massachusetts Bay colony. Written by Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld, it was published in 1640 at Cambridge as The Whole Book of Psalms Faithfully Translated into English Metre. The announced effort of the authors to make a literal rendering at the... Read more |
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Ultra
ULTRA. Section 1 deals with the intelligence derived from decrypts of signals enciphered on the German ENIGMA and Geheimschreiber cipher machines; section 2 covers the intelligence gleaned from the codes of the Japanese armed forces. The former therefore describes the influence of ULTRA intelligence... Read more |
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MI6
MI6, placed under the British foreign office and officially known as the Secret Intelligence Service from 1921, had the responsibility of gathering foreign intelligence relating to national security (see MI5 for definition). ‘C’, the chief of MI6, was also responsible for the... Read more |
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Bombe
Bombe ¦ ADRIENNE WILMOTH LERNER A bombe was a mechanical device used for the rapid decryption and transcription of complex ciphers. Developed during World War II, the multiple bombes employed by British and United States military intelligence code breakers aided the allied... Read more |
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stigmata
stigmata [plural of stigma, from Gr.,=brand], wounds or marks on a person resembling the five wounds received by Jesus at the crucifixion. Some 300 cases of stigmatization have been attested, nearly all of them being women. St. Francis of Assisi was the first known stigmatic. According to... Read more |
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Edward Elgar
Elgar, Edward (1857–1934). Though Elgar was not greatly interested in the revival of English folk-song which gathered pace in his lifetime, his music is soaked in the scenery of his native Worcestershire. He was born at Broadheath, just west of Worcester, where his father kept a music shop,... Read more |
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modesty
...Charles Darwin conceived a theory of female modesty to resolve an enigma left unsolved by his work on natural selection. Long puzzled...prompt the female to reproduce. Drawing an analogy between human morality and animal behaviour, Darwin concluded that since... |
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riddle
...problem, question, poser, enigma, mystery, quandary; informal...SYNONYMS riddle, conundrum, enigma, mystery, paradox, puzzle...that is incomprehensible to human reason, particularly if it...sudden disappearance). An enigma is a statement whose meaning... |
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Fragile Genius of 'A Beautiful Mind'; The Human Enigma Within the Known...
...drawing formulas on the windows with soap while treating fellow humans like shrubbery, when he noticed them at all. This much is...great ambition. He knew he could make a difference in the way humans understand the universe, and only achievement at the Newtonian... |
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QUANTUM PHYSICS ENCOUNTERS HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS AT 'QUANTUM ENIGMA' LECTURE,...
...How quantum mechanics and human consciousness may interact is...discusses his new book "Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness...questions that arise as it connects human consciousness with the physical...Bruce Rosenblum, "Quantum Enigma" explores ... |
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Six critics review Walter Wink's The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the...
...That volume is entitled, The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man. (1...Jesus, and our yearning for "The Human Being" that we see in Jesus...with a passion for becoming truly human. There is good reason for Borg... |
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The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man
The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man by Walter Wink Fortress...phrase comes from Ezekiel, where God appears in human form and calls Ezekiel "the son of the human," that is, the son of God (Ezek 1:26; 2... |
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The Three-Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries
The Three-Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries...medical student Shannon Moffett held a human brain in her hands for the first time...to understand the mysteries of the human brain led to a series of writings that... |
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The Three-Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock its Mysteries
SCIENCE The Three-Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock its...could be more fascinating than the human brain? In the tradition of Oliver...through the modern science of the human brain. Rather than describing the... |
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'THE ENIGMA OF HUMAN LIFE IS REFLECTED IN MODERN DAY THEATRE'
...aloofness and ennui in man. The gradual degradation of human civilization may be attributed to several causes, but...man hailing from a highly troubled State said that the enigma of the human life was reflected in the modern day theatre which has... |
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The Starchild Skull.(The Starchild Skull: Genetic Enigma or Human-Alien...
...belllapbooks.com The Starchild Skull: Genetic Enigma or Human-Alien Hybrid? explores amazing possible evidence that humans are not alone in the universe. Author...testing. Could the Starchild have been a human-alien hybrid? Black-and-white... |
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The Three-Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its...
THE THREE-POUND ENIGMA: The Human Brain and the Quest to unlock Its Mysteries SHANNON MOFFETT The human brain is a fragile, watery mass that is nevertheless more powerful and complex than any computer and that houses the very essence of a person... |
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The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man.(Book Review)
...extends his explication into the realm of the human psyche and spirit. The focus is on Jesus...Ezekiel's throne-chariot vision as having human form. After a survey of other references...of Jesus' incarnating God as the truly Human One. Without denying that the classic... |
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