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Split Personality
606. Split Personality Haller, Harry middle-aged man battles two selves. [Ger. Lit.: Steppenwolf ] Jekyll, Dr., and Mr . Hyde upright physician reduced to animality by potion. [Br. Lit.: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ] Three Faces of Eve, The story of woman with three distinct personalities.... Read more |
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cleavage
cleavage tendency of many minerals to split along definite smooth planar surfaces determined by their crystal structure. The directions of these surfaces are related to weaknesses in the atomic structure of the mineral and are always parallel to a possible crystal face. The property of cleavage is... Read more |
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Feuillants
Feuillants , political club of the French Revolution. It emerged in July, 1791, when those Jacobins who opposed a petition for the dethronement of the king split off and began to meet at the former Feuillant convent. Its chief member was Antoine Barnave . The Feuillants advocated a constitutional... Read more |
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National Government
National Government. The Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald in 1931 faced a severe economic crisis with more than 2 million unemployed and a run on the pound. It fell in August when the cabinet split on a proposal to cut unemployment benefit. MacDonald consulted Baldwin, leader of the... Read more |
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multiple personality
multiple personality a very rare psychological disorder in which a person has two or more distinct personalities, each with its own thoughts, feelings, and patterns of behavior. The personalities often are direct opposites and dominate at different times, with abrupt transitions triggered by... Read more |
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puncheon
puncheon , plank or board made by hewing instead of sawing. American pioneers who could not procure the products of sawmills made much use of puncheons in their log buildings. The puncheons used for floors were split logs hewn smooth on the split side only.... Read more |
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Ribonuclease
ribonuclease (ry-boh-new-kli-ayz) n. an enzyme, located in the lysosomes of cells, that splits RNA at specific places in the molecule.... Read more |
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slate
slate fine-grained rock formed when sedimentary rocks such as shale are metamorphosed by great pressure. Slate splits into perfectly cleaved, broad thin layers; this characteristically regular and planar cleavage is called slaty cleavage. In the formation of slate, pressure causes the flaky... Read more |
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S. Baptist Convention Faces Split
AP Online 06-24-2000 S. Baptist Convention Faces Split DALLAS (AP) -- Texas' largest...Dallas Morning News for Saturday's editions. The moderate Texas group...000 churches and is the nation's largest Protestant denomination... |
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Against all odds: the fire shut up in the bones of L. Venchael Booth, founder...
...National Baptist Convention of America...to be done if Baptists were ever to...come to Zion Baptist Church in Cincinnati...was made in the face of tremendous...luminaries swayed many Baptists against this...Survey of Black Baptist Church History...favored Booth's ... |
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Southern Baptists admit proslavery origins. (Southern Baptists Convention)
...Southern Baptist Convention appears ready...Northern and Southern Baptists split in 1845 because...meeting, Southern Baptist leaders are expected...denomination's Christian Life...repudiate the SBC's proslavery history...considers Southern Baptists' defense of ... |
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BAPTISTS MAY SPLIT.(NEWS)(Brief Article)
...congregations of the Baptist General Convention of Texas face a crucial choice today...break with the Southern Baptist Convention on grounds it is too...blow to the Southern Baptists, by far the nation's biggest Protestant body... |
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Moderate Baptists move into spotlight.(The Dallas Morning News)
...Southern Baptist Convention last year...and public face of the moderate Baptist organization...fellowship's coordinating...by Southern Baptists who were unhappy...individual Baptists a moderate...million. That's still the minor...the Southern Baptist ... |
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Chaplain to the Confederacy: Basil Manly and Baptist Life in the Old South
...Basil Manly and Baptist Life in the Old...history. Basil's older brother...in his father's footsteps as a...elder Manly's Charleston congregation...after the 1845 split in the Baptist convention, materialized...always puts a human face upon, much of... |
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HISPANIC BAPTIST LEADERS STRIVE FOR UNITY, GROWTH
...Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas...changing face of the Southwest...institution that's going to...asked Texas Baptists to think...the state convention's annual meeting...forming a "Baptist Convention...would bond Baptists throughout...Southern ... |
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Baptist churches are struggling in birthplace
...profile public face of the tradition...the church's roots in a...the first Baptist congregation...two or three Baptists are gathered...the First Baptist church historian...centuries, Baptists have split into three...the American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A., ... |
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Strife-Ridden Black Baptists Reconcile
...National Baptist Conventions during the...National Baptist Conventions in Nashville...leaders, but split partly over...National Baptist Convention USA, the...the National Baptist Convention...15 million Baptists nationwide...National Baptist ... |
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AP Top U.S. News Headlines At 3:28 p.m. EDT
...Online 06-24-2000 AP Top U.S. News Headlines At 3:28 p.m...Possible Nuke Lab Breaches Reported S. Baptist Convention Faces Split Castro Urges Fight Against U.S. Clinton Announces New Web site... |
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