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Little Office of Our Lady
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pronoun
pronoun in English, the part of speech used as a substitute for an antecedent noun that is clearly understood, and with which it agrees in person, number , and gender . In English the pronouns are classified as personal ( I, we, you, thou, he, she, it, they ), demonstrative ( this, these, that,... Read more |
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Gettysburg Address
Gettysburg Address speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln on Nov. 19, 1863, at the dedication of the national cemetery on the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa. It is one of the most famous and most quoted of modern speeches. The final version of the address prepared by Lincoln, differing in... Read more |
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Aves
Aves Eggs and poultry make up a significant part of peoples' diets. Similarly, products made from feathers such as pillows, comforters, or down-lined coats are widely used. There is an increasing awareness and heightened passion for our feathered friends sweeping the nation.... Read more |
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Anglo-Saxon art and architecture
Anglo-Saxon art and architecture now only survives fragmentarily and even what remains is not necessarily representative of what once existed. Our view of architecture, for example, is distorted by the near-total loss of all wooden buildings and by the Norman destruction of all pre-Conquest... Read more |
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Sodality
Sodality a fellowship or fraternity. Examples : military sodality of musketeers, crossbowmen, archers, swordsmen in every town, 1855; the sodality of the Chaplet of Our Lady, 1628; the sodality with the Jesuits to overthrow our country, 1600; the seraphick sodality (seraphim collectively ), 1737.... Read more |
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Intrinsic value
INTRINSIC VALUE A thing's intrinsic value is the value it has in itself as opposed to the instrumental value it derives from causally producing something else. Such value is important for the theory of the right, since on most views at least one moral duty is to promote intrinsic goods and prevent... Read more |
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Soils
SOIL CONCEPT If there is anything on Earth that seems simple and ordinary, it is the soil beneath our feet. Other than farmers, people hardly think of it except when tending to their lawns, and even when we do turn our attention to the soil, we tend to view it as little more... Read more |
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Moon (satellite)
Moon The Moon is a familiar object in our sky because it is our nearest neighbour and is the only natural object to orbit the Earth. It is smaller than the Earth, but has all the important attributes of a terrestrial planet except that of being in independent orbit about the Sun. Some basic data... Read more |
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body weight
body weight Weight is probably the most-measured body parameter in Western society — a standard ritual in any medical examination and an obsessive benchmark for those concerned to lose or not to gain it. This is a bizarre reversal: our ancestors were, and multitudes of our contemporaries... Read more |
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Honey, beer, bourbon and root beer give ribs winning flavors: Sweet with a...
...another of Milwaukee's favorite local beverages...meatier and usually cost less and deliver more meat...And then there's the sauce, which...of country-style ribs also caught Skaggs' attention...the years, she's made changes ... |