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gift in law, voluntary transfer of property from one person to another without any compensation for it and without any obligation of an agreement or contract. The one who gives is the donor; the one who receives the gift, the donee. There are two main classes of gifts, gifts inter vivos and gifts... Read more
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Pavlodar Pavlodar
Pavlodar, Kazakhstan Koryakovsky Forpost A province and a city founded as a military post on the Irtysh Line in 1720, it was renamed ‘Paul's Gift’ in 1861 from Pavel ‘Paul’ and dar ‘gift’. The Paul in question is probably Emperor Paul I† and the... Read more
Underachiever Underachiever
Underachievers IDENTIFICATION PROCESS GIFTED UNDERACHIEVERS’ TRAITS UNDERACHIEVEMENT CAUSES INTERVENTION APPROACHES BIBLIOGRAPHY In general underachievement is defined as a discrepancy between potential (what a student ought to be able to do) and actual performance (what a student... Read more
Boston Public Library Boston Public Library
Boston Public Library founded in 1848, chiefly through the gift of Joshua Bates, and opened to the public in 1854. It is the oldest free public city library supported by taxation in the world and the first to allow its patrons to borrow books and other materials. Its present building on Copley... Read more
Round Table Round Table
Round Table in Arthurian legend , the table at which King Arthur and his knights held court. It was allegedly fashioned at the behest of Arthur to prevent quarrels among the knights over precedence. According to one version it was given to Arthur as a wedding gift by his father-in-law. A round... Read more
Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, a private, non-sectarian institution of higher learning, opened on 22 February 1876 in Baltimore, Maryland, as the country's first research-based, graduate-level university. Funded by the Baltimore Quaker merchant Johns Hopkins with a bequest of... Read more
Balthasar Balthasar
Balthasar ♂ Name ascribed in medieval Christian tradition to one of the three wise men of the Orient who brought gifts to the infant Jesus. The name is a variant of that of the biblical king Belshazzar and means ‘Baal protect the king’. It has never been a common given name in... Read more
Order of Merit Order of Merit
Merit, Order of. The order was established by Edward VII in June 1902, limited to 24 persons in the armed forces or of distinction in art, science, or literature. It was based upon Frederick the Great's Pour la mérite and is in the personal gift of the sovereign. The founding members... Read more
Dedication Dedication
DEDICATION In copyright law the first publication of a work that does not comply with the requirements relating to copyright notice and which therefore permits anyone to legally republish it. The gift of land— Read more

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