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Forget-me-not
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touch-me-not
touch-me-not common name for any plant of the genus Impatiens of the jewelweed family. I. balsamina is also called balsam.... Read more |
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Faith Hill
Faith Hill Singer, songwriter With her impressive soprano, engaging charm, and a streak of independence running through her hit songs, Faith Hill developed into a "Young Country" superstar seemingly overnight. When her debut, Take Me as I Am, hit the stores in 1993, she became an immediate... Read more |
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people
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asperges
asperges , ceremonial sprinkling of the people with holy water by the priest before the Sunday High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church. The accompanying antiphon begins, Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor [Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, O Lord, and I shall be cleansed]. At Easter time... Read more |
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colour blindness
colour blindness Some 8% of men exhibit a hereditary deficiency of colour perception, but so imprecise is our common coinage of words about colour that it was not until the eighteenth century that the existence of colour blindness was generally known — and only rather recently was it... Read more |
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Environmental engineering
HUMAN FACTORS Although most older people live active and relatively healthy lives, increased age is associated with changes in certain abilities, such as vision, hearing, and memory, that make it difficult for some older people to perform tasks such as driving, using equipment such as computers, or... Read more |
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Deion Sanders
Deion Sanders 1967– Professional football and baseball player A Cocky Freshman Proved Baseball and Football Prowess in College Offered Highest Salary for a Defensive Player Left Atlanta to Pursue Super Bowl Dream Returned to Baseball New Wife, New Life Sources Deion Sanders has been a... Read more |
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Alfred Brendel
Alfred Brendel 1931-, Austrian pianist. He debuted publicly in 1948 and, after winning a prize at the Busoni competition in Bolzano, Italy, in 1949, embarked upon a distinguished career as a soloist, ultimately performing with most of the world's major orchestras and conductors. Brendel, who has... Read more |
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Loving people is loving god: an autistic man talks about...
...needs to be facilitated. His other...through facilitated communication, which involves...spiritual people, so it rubs...with all the people, but I get...sometimes touch me, but sometimes I don't ... |