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  • 51Edicts of Ashoka — The Edicts of Ashoka are a collection of 33 inscriptions on the Pillars of Ashoka, as well as boulders and cave walls, made by the Emperor Ashoka of the Mauryan dynasty during his reign from 272 to 231 BC. These inscriptions are dispersed… …

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  • 52Advocatus — An advocatus was an attorney at law in the Middle Ages. It was used in Continental Europe as the title of the lay lord charged with the protection and representation in secular matters of an abbey. The office is traceable as early as the… …

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  • 53Vadavannur — is a predominantly agricultural village in Chittur Taluk in the Palakkad District of Kerala, India. Vadavannur is also a Panchayat . Neighbouring Panchayats of Vadavannur are Kollengode, Puthunagaram, and Pallasena. Government Vadavannur is… …

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  • 54district — /dis trikt/, n. 1. a division of territory, as of a country, state, or county, marked off for administrative, electoral, or other purposes. 2. a region or locality: the theater district; the Lake District. 3. Brit. a subdivision of a county or a… …

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  • 55cachet, lettre de — ▪ French history       (French: “letter of the sign [or signet]”), a letter signed by the king and countersigned by a secretary of state and used primarily to authorize someone s imprisonment. It was an important instrument of administration… …

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  • 56Consecration — • An act by which a thing is separated from a common and profane to a sacred use, or by which a person or thing is dedicated to the service and worship of God by prayers, rites, and ceremonies Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006.… …

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  • 57desert — The term denotes the idea that how a person ought to be treated depends on a fact about their actions, or their character: a proportioning of happiness to virtue, or unhappiness to vice. Treating persons as they deserve is then the exercise of… …

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  • 58district — dis•trict [[t]ˈdɪs trɪkt[/t]] n. 1) gov a division of territory, as of a country, state, or county, marked off for administrative, electoral, or other purposes 2) a region or locality 3) to divide into districts • Etymology: 1605–15; (< F)… …

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  • 59framework — Sir Ernest Gowers (1965) was greatly offended by what he saw as the overuse of the expression within (or in) the framework of, meaning broadly ‘in the context of’. Presumably he grew tired of reading it in successions of official Civil Service… …

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  • 60Radhabinod Pal — Justice Radhabinod Pal (27 January 1886 ndash; 10 January 1967) was an Indian jurist. He was the Indian member appointed to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East s trials of Japanese war crimes committed during the second World War …

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