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  • 21chronic — [[t]krɒ̱nɪk[/t]] 1) ADJ: usu ADJ n A chronic illness or disability lasts for a very long time. Compare acute. ...chronic back pain. Syn: persistent Derived words: chronically [[t]krɒ̱nɪkli[/t]] ADV ADV adj/ ed Most of them were chronically ill …

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  • 22Introduction —    Germany, during the years between 1933 and 1945, was a state organized around the principle of race. Rudolph Hess, Hitler’s confidant, was not being facetious when he defined National Socialism as applied biology. To the Nazis, paraphrasing… …

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  • 23Lidwina — Infobox Saint name= Saint Lidwina of Schiedam birth date= 18 March 1380 death date= 14 April 1433 feast day= April 14 venerated in= Roman Catholic Church imagesize= 250px caption= Lidwina s fall on the Ice , Wood drawing from the 1498 edition of… …

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  • 24Erik Enby — Erik Ossian Hugo Enby (born in 1937) is a former Swedish medical doctor and specialist in the field of geriatrics who has become known for his controversial research on the cause of diseases. Biography Enby was born 12 May 1937 in Karlskrona,… …

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  • 25social service — social service, adj. organized welfare efforts carried on under professional auspices by trained personnel. [1850 55] * * * Introduction also called  welfare service,  or  social work,         any of numerous publicly or privately provided… …

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  • 26chronic — chron|ic [ˈkrɔnık US ˈkra: ] adj [Date: 1400 1500; : French; Origin: chronique, from Greek chronikos of time , from chronos; CHRON ] 1.) a chronic disease or illness is one that continues for a long time and cannot be cured →↑acute ▪ chronic… …

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  • 27Life of Franz Liszt — Origin= Franz Liszt was born on October 22, 1811, in the village of Raiding (Lang hu|Doborján) in the Kingdom of Hungary, then part of the Habsburg Empire (and today also part of Austria), in the comitat Oedenburg ( hu. Sopron). The main language …

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  • 28Influenza — Flu redirects here. For other uses, see Flu (disambiguation). This article is about the disease influenza. For the family of viruses that cause the disease, see Orthomyxoviridae. Influenza Classification …

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  • 29Emily Dickinson — From the daguerreotype taken at Mount Holyoke, December 1846 or early 1847. The only authenticated portrait of Emily Dickinson later than childh …

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  • 30Oregon Death with Dignity Act — Measure 16 of 1994 established the U.S. state of Oregon s Death with Dignity Act (ORS 127.800 995[1]), which legalizes physician assisted dying with certain restrictions. Passage of this initiative made Oregon the first U.S. state and one of the… …

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