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101maintain — transitive verb Etymology: Middle English mainteinen, from Anglo French maintenir, maynteiner, from Medieval Latin manutenēre, from Latin manu tenēre to hold in the hand Date: 14th century 1. to keep in an existing state (as of repair, efficiency …
102Jury nullification — means making a law void by jury decision; in other words, the process whereby a jury in a criminal case effectively nullifies a law by acquitting a defendant regardless of the weight of evidence against him or her. [… …
103Michael Stone (murderer) — Michael Stone (born Michael John Goodban in 1960) is a British criminal who was convicted of a notorious double murder in 1998. He has continued to assert his innocence. His original conviction was overturned on appeal but a second trial resulted …
104Rhys Michael Haldane (Gwynedd) — Rhys Michael Haldane of Gwynedd is a fictional character in the Deryni series of historical fantasy novels by Katherine Kurtz.Character introductionRhys Michael Alister Haldane is the fifteenth King of Gwynedd. He is the tenth member of the House …
105Military tribunal — A military tribunal is a kind of military court designed to try members of enemy forces during wartime, operating outside the scope of conventional criminal and civil proceedings. The judges are military officers and fulfill the role of jurors.… …
106The Cameo Murder — On the evening of 19 March, 1949, the Cameo cinema in Liverpool, England, was the scene of a brutual double murder which led, eventually to a miscarriage of justice. The cinema manager, Leonard Thomas was counting the day s takings assisted by… …
107affirm — affirmable, adj. affirmably, adv. affirmer, n. affirmingly, adv. /euh ferrm /, v.t. 1. to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one s loyalty to one s country; He affirmed that all was well. 2. to confirm or ratify: The… …
108Swissair — Infobox Airline airline = Swissair logo size = 175 destinations = 157 headquarters = Kloten, Switzerland IATA = SR ICAO = SWR callsign = SWISSAIR founded = 1931 ceased = March 31, 2002 key people = Mario Corti, CEO hubs = Flughafen Zürich Geneva… …
109Daimonic — The idea of the daimonic typically means quite a few things: from befitting a demon and fiendish, to motivated by a spiritual force or genius and inspired. As a psychological term, it has come to represent an elemental force which contains an… …
110cricket — cricket1 cricketlike, adj. /krik it/, n. 1. any of several jumping, orthopterous insects of the family Gryllidae, characterized by long antennae and stridulating organs on the forewings of the male, as one of the species commonly found in… …
