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  • 101-gry — The Gry Puzzle is a popular puzzle that asks for the third English word, other than angry and hungry, that ends with the letters gry. Aside from words derived from angry and hungry, there is no stand alone word ending in gry that is in current… …

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  • 102West Germanic languages — Introduction   group of Germanic languages that developed in the region of the North Sea, Rhine Weser, and Elbe. Out of the many local West Germanic dialects the following six modern standard languages have arisen: English (English language),… …

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  • 103get — [c]/gɛt / (say get) verb (got, got or, Chiefly US, gotten, Archaic, gat, getting) –verb (t) 1. to obtain, gain, or acquire by any means: to get favour by service; get a good price. 2. to fetch or bring: I w …

  • 104ride — [c]/raɪd / (say ruyd) verb (rode or, Archaic, rid, ridden or, Archaic, rid, riding) – …

  • 105DEAD SEA SCROLLS — DEAD SEA SCROLLS, the popular designation given to collections of manuscript material found in 1947 and the following years in various caves west of the Dead Sea, notably at qumran , Murabbaʿāt , Khirbat Mird, together with en gedi and masada .… …

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  • 106Mumbai — Bombay redirects here. For other uses, see Bombay (disambiguation) …

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  • 107Shamanism — Shaman redirects here. For other uses, see Shaman (disambiguation). Russian postcard based on a photo taken in 1908 by S. I. Borisov, showing a female shaman, of probable Khakas ethnicity.[1] Shamanism is an anthropological term referencing a… …

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  • 108Arcadia — Infobox Pref GR name = Arcadia name local = Νομός Αρκαδίας periph = Peloponnese capital = Tripoli population = 100,611 population as of = 2005 pop rank = 38th pop dens = 22.8 popdens rank = 52nd area = 4,419 area rank = 5th postal code = 22x xx… …

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  • 109Japanese grammar — The Japanese language has a highly regular agglutinative verb morphology, with both productive and fixed elements. Typologically, its most prominent feature is topic creation: Japanese has prominent topics (although it is possible for topics and… …

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  • 110Gift economy — Watercolor by James G. Swan depicting the Klallam people of chief Chetzemoka at Port Townsend, with one of Chetzemoka s wives distributing potlatch …

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