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hawse
hawse, strictly, that part of a ship's bow where the hawseholes and hawsepipes are situated through which the anchor cables pass. But it is by extension, and in its most generally accepted meaning, also the distance between the ship's head and its anchor as it lies on the bottom. Thus another... Read more |
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Foulness
Foulness, England/UK Fughelnesse An island with a name meaning ‘Promontory frequented by Birds’ from the Old English fugol ‘bird’ and næss ‘promontory’. The use of the word ‘promontory’ indicates that Foulness was at one time joined to... Read more |
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James Douglas 4th duke of Hamilton
James Douglas Hamilton, 4th duke of 1658-1712, Scottish nobleman. He served at the courts of Charles II and James II and remained, after his grudging acceptance of William III, a sympathizer with the Jacobites. He became duke of Hamilton in 1698 and, although he had opposed the union of Scotland... Read more |
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Waterborne infections
WATER POLLUTION WATER POLLUTION. Extensive water pollution in the United States began in the nineteenth century as a result of urbanization, industrial development, and modern agricultural practices. Although lumbering and mining despoiled individual lakes and rivers, the nation's cities were the... Read more |
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Sceva
Sceva An otherwise unknown and possibly self-styled Jewish high priest whose seven sons fell foul of Paul at Ephesus (Acts 19: 14) when they attempted unsuccessfully to imitate Paul's power of exorcism.... Read more |
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warning coloration
warning coloration (aposematic coloration) The conspicuous markings of an animal that make it easily recognizable and warn would-be predators that it is a poisonous, foul-tasting, or dangerous species. For example, the yellow-and-black striped abdomen of the wasp warns of its sting. See also... Read more |
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Missing children
Missing Children Children can disappear inadvertently or as a result of deliberate abduction, or murder . Typically, an investigation will assume that the child is still alive, and so will be geared to locating the child. While much of this effort involves police work that is not... Read more |
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cockroach
cockroach or roach, name applied to approximately 3,500 species of flat-bodied, oval insects forming the order Blattodea. Cockroaches have long antennae, long legs adapted to running, and a flat extension of the upper body wall that conceals the head. They range from 1/4 in. to 3 in.... Read more |
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walking stick
walking stick or stick insect, names applied to extremely longbodied, slow-moving, herbivorous insects , forming a single family in the order Phasmatodea. Walking sticks have green, gray, or brown bodies that closely resemble twigs or grass stems. Most are wingless and have long antennae. They... Read more |
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Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich
...author of three romantic plays, most of whose work fell foul of the censor. His first play...less stress on the family and more on the struggles of the rebellious...confronting a hostile world. His most important play and the only one...depicts the tragedy ... |
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Mary Celeste
...assessor at Gibraltar to prove foul play. He tried to make much out of the discovery of an...the theories of mutiny and murder occasioned by its discovery...another theory, while the most popular suggestion for a long...concentrated on this theory for ... |
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Men without Women
...Andreson, whom they have been paid to murder. He fails to arrive, and they finally...suddenly ends the matter by an obvious foul on Walcott. “‘It's funny how fast you can think when it means that much money,’” he says. |
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Robert I
...his recognition by other rulers. He fell foul of the papacy by his refusal to comply...earlier excommunication for the sacrilegious murder of John Comyn may have been lifted in 1308...proper title. English recognition was more difficult. Edward II would not concede... |
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foul
foul / foul/ • adj. 1...wicked or immoral: murder most foul. ∎ (of language...sure that your pet never fouls the sidewalk. ∎ (foul oneself) (of a person...the permitted number of fouls. ∎ ... |
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Matteotti Crisis
...1924 he exposed and denounced Fascist foul play in the recent parliamentary elections...Mussolini himself, were implicated in the murder. There resulted a public outcry which extended even into Fascist ranks. Most of Italy's non-Fascist parliamentarians... |
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Murder most foul.
...Shahzad, whom I had met many years back through Kamal...death. His terrible murder was followed by the...Rangers. What was even more appalling was, that...It seems that these Murders Most Foul (extra judicial ... |
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Even more foul than murder
Most of us can imagine being driven...greater evils go unpunished Murder is not the worst crime, nor...By this I mean the average murder and the average murderer, so to speak. Some murders are so savage, so brutal...murderers do not. In fact, ... |
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MURDER MOST FOUL: THE KILLER AND THE AMERICAN GOTHIC IMAGINATION.(Review)
MURDER MOST FOUL: THE KILLER AND THE AMERICAN...takes as her subject in Murder Most Foul: The Killer and...the eighteenth century to more secular, urban characteristics...attempts to explain the crime of ... |
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Murder most foul...
...general public. Murder most foul, in the Israeli context...of the aforementioned murder syndrome is assured...memory and that the murder brought Jews closer...the case of a lesser murder situation - that of...girlfriend, as ... |
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Murder most foul
film Murder most foul PHILIP KERR is horrified...similarities to King Lear. More black comedy than tragedy...obliged to show bloody murder and execution on the...Witness the unconvincing murders and joke corpses that...et al ... |
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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple Movies Collection Debuts on DVD March 14 --...
...Murder Ahoy" and "Murder Most Foul" -- all starring Academy...international importance. "Murder She Said" Ms. Rutherford...from Paddington." "Murder at the Gallop" Margaret...droll Robert Morley. "Murder ... |
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Murder most foul. (Rajiv Gandhi possibly implicated in attempted murder of...
Murder most foul POOR Rajiv Gandhi. It is not enough...are trying to implicate him in a murder plot. To begin, more or less, at the beginning, on August...of being involved in an attempt to murder Mr Nueli Wadla, the chairman ... |
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A murder most foul that haunts Long-ago crime lingers for family
...Tribune 02-03-2009 A murder most foul that haunts Long-ago...County. Although most murders fade quickly from collective...So it was with the murder of Ellen Smith, which...Finally, there is the murder ballad ... |
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MURDER MOST FOUL
...Bergen County, NJ) 06-27-1997 MURDER MOST FOUL -- AND A WITNESS RUNS FOR HIS LIFE...in 1982. Was it suicide -- or murder? And if he was murdered, who killed...homeless man who has witnessed the murder of a financier.Keywords: MOVIE... |
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Murder most foul ...that's no bull; WRITE ON.(Features)
...truth behind the brutal murder of Spain's most beloved torero, who...through the engaging murder plots, her realism works...Poirot. It opens with the murder of Dr Suresh Jha, who...to prove that there is more to Dr Jha's death than...serious ... |
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