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  • 1store — [[t]stɔ͟ː(r)[/t]] ♦♦ stores, storing, stored 1) N COUNT A store is a building or part of a building where things are sold. In British English, store is used mainly to refer to a large shop selling a variety of goods, but in American English a… …

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  • 2MOSES HA-DARSHAN — (11th century), scholar and aggadist of Narbonne. Moses was the teacher of nathan b. jehiel of rome , who quotes him in the Arukh, sometimes anonymously.   jacob tam in Sefer ha Yashar (part of responsa ed. by F. Rosenthal (1898), 189f. no. 46:4) …

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  • 3Western architecture — Introduction       history of Western architecture from prehistoric Mediterranean cultures to the present.       The history of Western architecture is marked by a series of new solutions to structural problems. During the period from the… …

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  • 4BIBLE — THE CANON, TEXT, AND EDITIONS canon general titles the canon the significance of the canon the process of canonization contents and titles of the books the tripartite canon …

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  • 5NEW YORK CITY — NEW YORK CITY, foremost city of the Western Hemisphere and largest urban Jewish community in history; pop. 7,771,730 (1970), est. Jewish pop. 1,836,000 (1968); metropolitan area 11,448,480 (1970), metropolitan area Jewish (1968), 2,381,000… …

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  • 6Australian Aborigine — aborigine (def. 2). * * * ▪ people Introduction  any of the indigenous people of Australia.       Australia is the only continent where the entire indigenous population maintained a single kind of adaptation hunting and gathering (hunting and… …

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  • 7Middle East Media Research Institute — Founder(s) Yigal Carmon Type 501(c)(3) non profit Founded 1998 Location Washington, D …

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  • 8Europe, history of — Introduction       history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …

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  • 9United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… …

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  • 10literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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