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Communication with the Dead
Communication (Between Living and Dead) The possibility of communication between the living and the world of the dead (spirits and nonhuman intelligences) was the dominant issue raised by Spiritualism in the mid-nineteenth century, and the verification of Spiritualist claims dominated psychical... Read more |
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Medium
Medium Throughout the history of Spiritualism, a special place has been occupied by the medium as an individual qualified in some special manner to form a link between the living and the dead. Most Spiritualists would agree with the definition adopted by the National Spiritualist Association of... Read more |
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League of Nations
League of Nations former international organization, established by the peace treaties that ended World War I. Like its successor, the United Nations , its purpose was the promotion of international peace and security. The League was a product of World War I in the sense that that conflict... Read more |
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Worlds Columbian Exposition
World's Columbian Exposition. See World's Fairs and Expositions.... Read more |
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Columbian Exchange
COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE. The title of this article refers to the interchange of plants and food products that took place between America and Europe after Columbus's voyages to the New World. Although the exchange was carried out in both directions, the article places greater... Read more |
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World Fellowship of Buddhists
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Albert Tucker
Tucker, Albert (1914–99). Australian painter and printmaker, born in Melbourne. Because he could not afford full-time training, he was mainly self-taught as an artist. In the 1930s and 1940s he took a vigorous part in controversies about modern art in Australia, contributing several articles... Read more |
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro 1954-, English novelist, b. Nagasaki. His family left Japan in 1960 and immigrated to England, where he attended the universities of Kent (B.A., 1978) and East Anglia (M.A., 1980). Ishiguro, who began his literary career writing short stories, creates subtle, finely crafted fiction... Read more |
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SEMANTICS
...the meaning of English colour words like red and blue, which can be stated in terms of...pairs allow for intermediate stages (neither wide nor narrow) and are ANTONYMS proper. Male/female and alive/dead are not usually gradable and allow for...stage, except in expressions ... |
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Russia
...Party and those of the constituent republics. Although the Red Army changed its official name to Soviet Army in 1944, it...imprecisions. For example, the phrase ‘20 million Russian war dead’ has become very widespread in western literature. It conceals...majority of Soviet civilians who ... |
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Chief Joseph
...of a band living in the Wallowa Valley of eastern Oregon.Neither father nor son had subscribed to the treaties that established...Mountain, Montana (5 October 1877), with other leading chiefs dead or escaping to Canada, Joseph surrendered with the famous speech...Thus in white perceptions, ... |
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Joseph, Chief
...of a band living in the Wallowa Valley of eastern Oregon.Neither father nor son had subscribed to the treaties that established...final battle at Bear Paw Mountain, with other leading chiefs dead or escaping to Canada, Chief Joseph surrendered with the famous...Thus in white perceptions ... |
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blood groups
...their own proteins and since all red cells have H substance, no naturally...and/or B antigens on their red cells. Thus, individuals who...transfused cells will contain neither A nor B substance, but only...Wiener in 1940 that injection of red cells from a ... |
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NKVD
...arresting deserters. When the Red Army took the offensive they were...continued their functions with the Red Army in eastern Europe and Germany...were successful and enabled the Red Army to move rapidly against...terror unleashed by the NKVD was neither the ... |
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Baltic Sea operations
...Soviet war, the Soviet Baltic Red Banner fleet blockaded Finnish...battleships were nearby, but neither interfered. Instead, they...operations in which the Baltic Red Banner Fleet was involved during...Baltic to delay the advancing Red Army. Mines dropped by ... |
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mine warfare
...reversed but in early 1941 the Red Army had only one million anti...German armour. But once the Red Army had more mines of different...that by the end of the war the Red Army had laid 200 million mines...mines had to be dug in by hand as neither side managed ... |
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USSR
...German invasion. Also, the Red Army was heavily engaged against...the western powers possessed neither the means nor the will to oppose...countries recently liberated by the Red Army. Most of the new frontiers...June 1941 in the wake of the Red Army purges; ... |
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German–Soviet war
...Soviet military and civilian dead, which together represent about...which was an integral part of the Red Army, flew 93% of its missions...over from the tsarist army, the Red Army had divided the western...precluded a blitzkrieg against the Red Army; and ... |
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red
...pigment: colors range from yellow to deep red their work is marked in red by the teacher | the reds and browns of wood. ∎ red clothes or material: she could not...000 in the red. PHRASES: better dead than ... |
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dead
...her judgment was dead on. dead on arrival used to describe a person who is declared dead immediately upon arrival at a...having been put into effect. dead on one's feet inf. extremely...of doing something wrong; red-handed: he had me ... |
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Red Hats
Red Hats. A Chinese term used indiscriminately...on account of their ceremonial red caps, in contrast to those of the Gelukpas which are yellow. Neither term is used by the Tibetans who only apply ‘Red Hat’ to the leader and adherents... |
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fish
...always stinks from the head downwards as the freshness of a dead fish can be judged from the condition of its head, any corruption...fry have other (or more important) matters to attend to.neither fish nor fowl nor good red herring of indefinite character and difficult to ... |
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Red heifer
Red heifer (Heb., parah adummah). The animal used in Jewish ritual purification of persons or objects defiled by contact with a dead body (Numbers 19. 1–22). The tractate Parah in the Talmud discusses the laws of the red heifer. |
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Ulster Cycle
...residences, so called for the large red roof beam or ‘branch’ visible...to contain the element ruad [red]. The confusion existed only...Cycle were more widely known. Neither do the narratives present an idealized...came to be known as the ‘Red Branch ... |
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Part 1 Animal science.(Part 2: D-G)(Definition)
...Brown Swiss, Dutch Belted, or Red Dane. See Dairy Type. Dairy...200 to 1,350 pounds and is red, white, or roan. It is the...veal calf less than a week old. Dead Mouth--Describing a horse...to direction by rein and bit. Dead Weight--The weight of an animal... |
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Mabinogi
...in the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest, while fragments survive...down a stag; they are snow white with red ears, colours indicating otherworldliness...mounted on a majestic pale white horse. Neither he nor any of his men can determine her... |
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma, USA A state with a name meaning ‘Red People’ from a combination of the two Choctaw words okla ‘people’ and humma ‘red’. Neither the French nor the Spanish were able to gain full control until... |
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blood group
...inherited antigens on the surface of the red blood cells. Blood of one group contains...AB contains both antigens and group O neither. Blood of group A contains antibodies...antibodies or isoagglutinins; group AB has neither antibody and group O has both. The table... |
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live
...breathe, draw breath, walk the earth.antonyms: die, be dead. 2. I live in Arkansas synonyms: reside in, have one's...a good time, go on a spree; informal party, paint the town red, have a ball, live high on/off the hog; archaic wassail... |
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deep
...resonant, booming, sonorous.antonym: high. 9. a deep red synonyms: dark, intense, rich, strong, bold, warm.antonym...2. the deep of night synonyms: middle, midst; depths, dead, thick. • adverb 1. I dug deep synonyms: far down, way... |
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MEET EUROPE'S OTHER DYSFUNCTIONAL ROYAL FAMILY GRACE IS DEAD, ALBERT IS...
...gliding. He and Stephanie share matching tattoos. According to the Los Angeles Times, he showed off his latest tattoo - a red, yellow and blue winged dragon emblazoned on his chest - in a recent photo spread for Paris Match, the slick French photo journal... |
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Red Alert No more fashion blues. No more black looks for wackily dressed...
...of successful British label Red or Dead, who cheerily admit that neither of them possess any great designing...any amount of design talent. Red or Dead, which opens it own...which is now an integral part of Red Or ... |
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Grateful Dead Songs Inspire Celtic Celebration on Wake The Dead.
...Take eight classic Grateful Dead tunes, add seven seasoned musicians...and Paul Kotapish had found Dead tunes making their way into...harbored ideas for a Celtic Dead CD, neither had approached the other with...Cut and Run," in 1994 on Red ... |
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Life among the dead: Award-winning stories dig up buried emotion
...characters - which include a dead Vietnam veteran whose spirit...Two selections, "Eulogy for Red" and "Modern Taxidermy...other stories. "Eulogy for Red" is the story of a newspaperman...wakes to find that the color red has disappeared. "Modern ... |
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Red Hands catch ride on Coney express.(Sport)
...as an inspired call that could help the Red Hands return to the top of Gaelic football...full back Martin McKeown had done his Red Hand prospects no harm at all by the time...game was finished with the ball going dead, and in neither half did that actually ... |
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Profile: Jordan and Israel trying to attract interest in a project to help...
...project to help replenish the Dead Sea Host: RENEE MONTAGNE Time...than a hundred miles from the Red Sea to replenish the Dead Sea...Despite its name, the Dead Sea is neither. It's actually a large lake...to build a pipeline from the ... |
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"One of the red-winged blackbirds at my feeder [Derived Headline]
...though -- all of them. A red-winged blackbird has between...hair and fingernails. It is dead. That means neither feathers nor hair can heal...job of growing feathers. The red-wing's follicles set deep...These grew into a flame-red patch ... |
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Bowden: Larkin trade a dead issue for now
...CINCINNATI (AP) _ Cincinnati Reds captain Barry Larkin met with...about two weeks ago because the Reds are rebuilding, according to Bowden. The Reds talked to four clubs but could...After their meeting Friday, neither Larkin nor Bowden gave any ... |
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The Razz: videos and dvd reviews: RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS HHHII U; Best...
...rick fulton WHEN bands release their greatest hits it usually means they're on their way out or dead but the Chilis are neither. They could be dead with the amount of pharmaceuticals they've pumped into their bodies, but they are among rock... |
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Black and White and Red all over. (Targeting Youth).(tabloids in Chicago, IL)
...business until the day they're dead," Cruickshank taunts. "We...also a quarter, was christened Red Streak, an old newspaper term...planned. On October 30 RedEye met Red Streak on the street. Tribune...passed out freebies and set up Red Streak newspaper boxes ... |
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