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snoring
snoring rough, vibratory sounds made in breathing during sleep or coma. The noisy breathing is the result of an open mouth and a relaxation of the palate; it is frequently induced by lying on one's back. Snoring may indicate some obstruction to nasal breathing such as enlarged adenoids; this is... Read more |
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spasm
spasm involuntary rigid muscle contraction, often persistent and often accompanied by pain. It usually has some underlying physical cause such as disease, strain, or injury to the muscle or nearby tissues, impairment of circulation, or a disturbance of body chemistry. The spasm may be confined to... Read more |
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rundale
rundale, regionally varied forms of infield‐outfield agriculture widespread in the later 18th and early 19th centuries in the north and west of Ireland, but largely disappearing after the Famine. Practised as a form of collective farming by extended families holding land on a joint tenancy... Read more |
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wart
wart circumscribed outgrowth of the skin caused by a filterable virus that is readily transmitted. Warts may appear anywhere on the skin but are most common on the hands. Sexually transmitted diseases and human papillomavirus produce warts in the genital area; these are often precancerous... Read more |
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birthmark
birthmark pigmented maldevelopment of the skin that varies in size, either present at birth or developing later. Birthmarks may appear as moles (melanocytic nevi) that vary in color from light brown to blue, and are either flat or raised above the surface of the skin. They are usually benign, but... Read more |
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Martin Bormann
Martin Bormann , 1900-1945, German National Socialist (Nazi) leader. He met Adolf Hitler in 1924 and soon became an important figure in the Nazi party hierarchy. He succeeded Rudolf Hess in Hitler's inner circle in 1941 after Hess's flight to Scotland. In 1942 he became Hitler's personal secretary.... Read more |
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Invisibility
Invisibility The belief in invisibility is an ancient one in religion, folklore, and superstition. The soul or vital principle in human beings could not be established visibly, and after death was presumed to inhabit an invisible realm, also peopled by angelic and demonic entities not visible to... Read more |
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Heart Murmur
Heart Murmur Is a Heart Murmur Always a Problem? What Does the Doctor Hear and Do? Resources A heart murmur is an extra sound heard during a heartbeat that is caused by turbulence in blood flow through the heart. Most heart murmurs are innocent,... Read more |
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Eastern Bulgars
Eastern Bulgars , Turkic-speaking people, who possessed a powerful state (10th-14th cent.) at the confluence of the Volga and the Kama, E European Russia. The Bulgars appeared on the Middle Volga by the 8th cent. and became known as the Eastern, Volga, or Kama Bulgars. Another branch of the same... Read more |
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Exposed peat does disappear
...around us. Roads across the moor become distorted, houses develop...be demolished, Cradlebridge Farm House had to be rebuilt on firmer...ground level. So yes, peat does disappear and in so doing releases an...peat. Finally, Mr Bennett may not want to take gardening advice... |
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The silence is deafening as ducks disappear; FEATHERS FLY AFTER NOISY...
...the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors, was refurbished. So angry...ducks in the village duckpond may be wondering why so many have...Kate Till, who lives at Pond Farm, was told that numbers would...her husband Steven - a retired farm worker who has the official task... |
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Uphill strugGLE; DAILY MAIL BOOK CLUB WINTER SELECTION.(Book review)
...and spied not only the farm where he and his younger...hopeless the marriage may have been, nor how remote...father's rear lights disappear down the farm track back to his new...on to her few acres of moor and mountain - a mulish... |
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This Wildlife Act is flawed; ROD & GUN.(News)
...Owners of fish farms and anyone who has...this week I walked a moor in North Antrim which...year and right up to May of this year. I...hour search of the moor with the assistance...those parts of the moor where I wrote last...despoliation of their moors.. Later that evening...birds ... |
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WAITING FOR THE WAR TO END.(a woman remembers World War II)
...countries. Culham Home Farm, amid river meadows...at the edge of a moor and the foot of a...Hurricanes and Spitfires may have cracked the...good walk across the moor from the nearest...their herds on the moors. I can see the cottage...beyond that only moor and mountain, ... |
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Let the ancient meadows flourish again with flowers threatened by modern...
...bought a 70-acre farm in the second year...longest border of my farm. After spending most...Molinia, or purple moor grass. It is waterlogged...flowers from mid-May to mid-September...The birdsong in late May and June is a joyful...the fen and heath disappear in scrub or woodland... |
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Monstrous threat to the countryside
...view over Eaglesham Moor, and a delightful...the Whitelee wind farm, is a plumber and...the proposed wind farm. This property which...but such argument may not be inclusive...although the earth may be warming, solar...of that snow could disappear, and some has already... |
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COUNTRY RAMBLE
...be sunny and warm. You may mend your old mittens...on his poor Argyllshire farm, getting young heifers...calving at the beginning of May." This was serious news...he knew the sheep and moor well. Most lambers are...In late autumn they disappear south with the swallows... |
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Dreams are made of this
...children a free rein. They could disappear till Christmas. So it could...Cathy, running over windswept moors when instead of Heathcliff there...viaduct, the gas house, the home farm, the pagoda - was the perfect...enough to sail to Spain. I may not have trodden every mile... |
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Global warming could obliterate Highlands Communities may be wiped out,...
...obliterated. Those communities will disappear because of global warming...landscape, but evidence that we may be able to keep civilisation...scenery, to wild land, peat moors, birds and all the rest, it...one mile of the 234- turbine farm proposed for Lewis by Amec... |
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