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  • 81Honey War — The Honey War was a bloodless territorial dispute in 1839 between Iowa (then a part of Wisconsin Territory) and Missouri over its border.The dispute over a convert|9.5|mi|km|sing=on wide strip running the entire length of the border, caused by… …

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  • 82Australia — /aw strayl yeuh/, n. 1. a continent SE of Asia, between the Indian and the Pacific oceans. 18,438,824; 2,948,366 sq. mi. (7,636,270 sq. km). 2. Commonwealth of, a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, consisting of the federated states and… …

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  • 83Kyrgyzstan — /kir gi stahn /, n. official name of Kirghizia. * * * Kyrgyzstan Introduction Kyrgyzstan Background: A Central Asian country of incredible natural beauty and proud nomadic traditions, Kyrgyzstan was annexed by Russia in 1864; it achieved… …

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  • 84metaphysics — /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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  • 85Emperor Henry II —     St. Henry II     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Henry II     German King and Holy Roman Emperor, son of Duke Henry II (the Quarrelsome) and of the Burgundian Princess Gisela; b. 972; d. in his palace of Grona, at Gottingen, 13 July, 1024.… …

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  • 86St. Henry II —     St. Henry II     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Henry II     German King and Holy Roman Emperor, son of Duke Henry II (the Quarrelsome) and of the Burgundian Princess Gisela; b. 972; d. in his palace of Grona, at Gottingen, 13 July, 1024.… …

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  • 87Winston Churchill in politics: 1900–1939 — Winston Churchill (third from right), as the British Colonial Secretary, in Ottoman Damascus, 1912 Winston Churchill in politics: 1900 to 1939 documents the career of Winston Churchill in Parliament from its beginning in 1900 to the start of his… …

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  • 88accord — ac·cord 1 /ə kȯrd/ vt 1: to bring into agreement 2: to grant or give esp. as appropriate, due, or earned vi: to be consistent or in harmony ◇ Accord in this sense is often used to introduce a case or an authority that accords with the case or… …

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  • 89ELIEZER BEN HYRCANUS — (end of the first and beginning of the second century C.E.), tanna. He is sometimes called Eliezer the Great (Sot. 9:15; Tosef., Or., end) and is the Eliezer mentioned without patronymic. R. Eliezer was one of the pillars of the early talmudic… …

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  • 90Accommodate — Ac*com mo*date, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accommodated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accommodating}.] [L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare; ad + commodare to make fit, help; con + modus measure, proportion. See {Mode}.] 1. To render fit, suitable, or… …

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