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  • 1bridge — bridge1 bridgeable, adj. bridgeless, adj. bridgelike, adj. /brij/, n., v., bridged, bridging, adj. n. 1. a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like. 2. a connecting, transitional, or intermediate route or… …

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  • 2Battle of Cannae — For the 11th century battle in the Byzantine conquest of the Mezzogiorno, see Battle of Cannae (1018). Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Cannae partof=the Second Punic War caption=Hannibal s route of invasion. date=August 2 216 BC… …

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  • 3Ultraman Cosmos — infobox television show name = Ultraman Cosmos format = Superhero, action/adventure runtime = 24 minutes country = Japan preceded by = followed by = network = TBS num episodes = 65 creator = Tsuburaya Productions starring = Sugiura Taiyou first… …

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  • 4Glossary of botanical terms — Many of the terms used in Wikipedia glossaries (often most) are already defined and explained within Wikipedia itself. However, lists like the following indicate where new articles need to be written and are also useful for looking up and… …

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  • 5percussion instrument — a musical instrument, as the drum, cymbal, triangle, xylophone, or piano, that is struck to produce a sound, as distinguished from string or wind instruments. [1870 75] * * * A musical instrument that is struck (or sometimes shaken or scraped) to …

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  • 6Oil lamp — Neolithic stone lamps in Thousand Lamp Museum in Qiandeng town of Kunshan …

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  • 7Western sculpture — ▪ art Introduction       three dimensional artistic forms produced in what is now Europe and later in non European areas dominated by European culture (such as North America) from the Metal Ages (Europe, history of) to the present.       Like… …

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  • 8Cigar — For other uses, see Cigar (disambiguation). From the Spanish cigarro cigar , which was perhaps derived from the Spanish cigarra cicada (OED) …

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  • 9Triple tibial osteotomy — The Triple Tibial Osteotomy is a surgical procedure used to treat dogs that have ruptured their cranial (anterior) [cruciate ligament [. The cranial cruciate ligament (CrCL) is a ligament connecting the femur with the tibia, which functions to… …

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  • 10meniscus — me•nis•cus [[t]mɪˈnɪs kəs[/t]] n. pl. nis•ci [[t] ˈnɪs aɪ, ˈnɪs kaɪ, ki[/t]] nis•cus•es 1) a crescent or a crescent shaped body 2) phs the convex or concave upper surface of a column of liquid, the curvature of which is caused by surface tension… …

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