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  • 11crumb — noun 1》 a small fragment of bread, cake, or biscuit.     ↘the soft inner part of a loaf of bread. 2》 a very small amount: the Budget provided few crumbs of comfort. 3》 N. Amer. informal an objectionable or contemptible person. verb [often as… …

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  • 12crum — Crumb Crumb (kr[u^]m), n. [AS. cruma, akin to D. kruim, G. krume; cf. G. krauen to scratch, claw.] [Written also {crum}.] 1. A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off. [1913 Webster] Desiring… …

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  • 13To a crum — Crumb Crumb (kr[u^]m), n. [AS. cruma, akin to D. kruim, G. krume; cf. G. krauen to scratch, claw.] [Written also {crum}.] 1. A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off. [1913 Webster] Desiring… …

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  • 14Relief — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Relief >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 relief relief Sgm: N 1 deliverance deliverance Sgm: N 1 refreshment refreshment &c. 689 Sgm: N 1 easement easement softening alleviation mitigation p …

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  • 16Chris Paterson — For those of a similar name, see Chris Patterson. Chris Paterson Full name Christopher Douglas Paterson Date of birth 30 March 1978 (1978 03 30) …

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  • 17Basketball Skegness — Skegness Basketball, formerly known as the Skegness Sealions, are an English basketball team playing in the British Pro Amateur League Upper Division, Lincolnshire Section. The team play at the Skegness Sports Centre, and are coached by local… …

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  • 18Cuban intervention in Angola — Location of Cuba (red), Angola (green) and South Africa (blue) In November 1975, on the eve of Angola s independence, Cuba launched a large scale military intervention in support of the leftist liberation movement MPLA against United States… …

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  • 19Minor characters of Days of our Lives — The following are minor but notable fictional characters on the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives, whose connections to the major families are either weak or non existent. Contents 1 Recent/current minor characters 1.1 Dr. Richard Baker 1.2… …

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  • 20List of Emily Dickinson poems — This is a list of Emily Dickinson poems. There are 1,775 known poems that have been written by Dickinson. The poems are alphabetized by their first line. Punctuation, capitalization and even in some cases wording of the first lines may vary… …

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