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  • 1place — 1 (C) PLACE, POSITION, OR AREA 1 POINT/POSITION a) any area, point, or position in space: This is the place where the accident happened. | Make sure you keep it in a safe place. | We kept moving from place to place. | The whole place was covered… …

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  • 2place — place1 W1S1 [pleıs] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(area/space/building etc)¦ 2¦(home )¦ 3 take place 4¦(space to sit or put something)¦ 5¦(point in book/speech)¦ 6¦(opportunity to do something)¦ 7¦(role/position)¦ 8 in place 9 in place o …

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  • 3United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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  • 4metaphysics — /met euh fiz iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. the branch of philosophy that treats of first principles, includes ontology and cosmology, and is intimately connected with epistemology. 2. philosophy, esp. in its more abstruse branches. 3. the… …

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  • 5pigsty — /ˈpɪgstaɪ / (say pigstuy) noun (plural pigsties) 1. a sty or pen for pigs. 2. any dirty, messy or untidy place: this room is a real pigsty. 3. Railways the crisscrossed sleepers beneath the rails replacing temporarily the earthworks which have… …

  • 6Europe, 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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  • 7List of experiments from Lilo & Stitch — Kixx redirects here. For the soccer team, see Philadelphia Kixx. Image of experiment 626, also known as Stitch. The most popular of the experiments. This is a list of experiments from the Disney animated Lilo Stitch franchise, a series of… …

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  • 8English language — Language belonging to the Germanic languages branch of the Indo European language family, widely spoken on six continents. The primary language of the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and various Caribbean and Pacific… …

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  • 9Esan — (pronounced / aysan /) is one of the major ethnic groups in Edo State, South south geopolitical zone of Nigeria. It is believed by many historians that the name Esan (originally, E san fia ) owes its origin to Bini (meaning, they have fled or… …

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  • 10Western 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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