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  • 51if you would be happy for a week take a wife; if you would be happy for a month kill a pig; but if you would be happy all your life plant a garden — There are almost endless possibilities for variation on this theme, but marriage is generally included as one of the more ephemeral sources of content. a 1661 T. FULLER Worthies Wales 6 I say the Italian humor, who have a merry Proverb, Let him… …

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  • 52Alkaline earths — Earth Earth ([ e]rth), n. [AS. eor[eth]e; akin to OS. ertha, OFries. irthe, D. aarde, OHG. erda, G. erde, Icel. j[ o]r[eth], Sw. & Dan. jord, Goth. a[=i]r[thorn]a, OHG. ero, Gr. ?, adv., to earth, and perh. to E. ear to plow.] 1. The globe or… …

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  • 53Chinese calendar correspondence table — Main article: Chinese calendar This table shows the stem/branch year names, correspondences to the Western (Gregorian) calendar, and other related information for the current, 79th sexagenary cycle of the Chinese calendar (or the 78th cycle if an …

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  • 54Aardvark — For other uses, see Aardvark (disambiguation). Aardvark Temporal range: Early Miocene–Recent …

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  • 55aardvark — (n.) 1833, from Afrikaans Du. aardvark, lit. earth pig (the animal burrows), from aard earth (see EARTH (Cf. earth)) + vark pig, cognate with O.H.G. farah (source of Ger. Ferkel young pig, sucking pig, a diminutive form), O.E. fearh (see FARROW… …

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  • 56Aliens of London — Doctorwhobox number=164a serial name= Aliens of London caption=First contact, or something more sinister? show=DW type=episode doctor=Christopher Eccleston (Ninth Doctor) companion=Billie Piper (Rose Tyler) guests= *Camille Coduri – Jackie Tyler… …

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  • 57General Dynamics F-111 — infobox Aircraft name= F 111 Aardvark caption= An F 111C of the Royal Australian Air Force with its wings unswept in 2006. type= Fighter bomber national origin = United States manufacturer= General Dynamics designer= first flight= 21 December… …

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  • 58aardvark — /ahrd vahrk /, n. a large, nocturnal, burrowing mammal, Orycteropus afer, of central and southern Africa, feeding on ants and termites and having a long, extensile tongue, strong claws, and long ears. [1825 35; < Afrik erdvark < D aardvarken,&#8230; …

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  • 59animal — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Any living thing not a plant Nouns 1. animal, beast, brute, creature, living thing, creeping thing, dumb animal; fauna, animal kingdom; buck, bull, bullock; doe; domestic animal, draft animal; wild&#8230; …

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  • 60farrow — [OE] Farrow, nowadays used mainly as a verb for ‘give birth to a litter of pigs’, originally meant ‘young pig’. Its ultimate source was Indo European *porkos (from which English also gets pork). The Germanic descendant of this was *farkhaz, which …

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