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  • 111AUSCHWITZ — (Oświęcim), Nazi Germany s largest concentration and extermination camp. The word Auschwitz has become a metaphor for the Holocaust in general, and the phrase after Auschwitz has come to signify the great historical rupture wrought by the murder… …

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  • 112MIRACLE — Biblical Hebrew has no word corresponding to the English miracle. Occasionally, the Bible mentions wonders (peleʾ, niflaʾot) meaning miracles (Ex. 3:20; Josh. 3:5; Ps. 78:11; etc.), but the meaning of wonder is much broader than miracle. A… …

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  • 113bowel — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French buel, boel, from Medieval Latin botellus, from Latin, diminutive of botulus sausage Date: 14th century 1. intestine, gut; also one of the divisions of the intestines usually used in plural except… …

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  • 114bowel — bow|el [ bauəl ] noun count the part of your body where FECES (=solid waste) are formed. This word is usually used in the plural, except in medical language: INTESTINE: cancer of the bowel the bowels of something the deepest inner part of… …

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  • 115bow|els — «BOW uhlz, bowlz», noun (plural). 1. the tube in the body into which food passes from the stomach; intestines. 2. Informal. = colon. (Cf. ↑colon) 3. Figurative. the inner part of anything; depths: »Miners dig for coal in the bowels of the earth.… …

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  • 116Judas Iscariot — Judas Iscariot, , , , ), implying that it was not Judas, but his father, who came from here. [Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony , Eerdmans (2006), page 106.] Some speculate that Kerioth refers to a… …

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  • 117Quiet, Please — For the Tom and Jerry cartoon, see Quiet Please! Quiet, Please! was an old time radio fantasy and horror program created by Wyllis Cooper, also known for creating Lights Out . Ernest Chappell was the show s announcer and lead actor. Quiet,… …

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  • 118Chicago Tunnel Company — Under the streets of Chicago, pre 1906. Locale Illinois Dates of operation 1906–1959 T …

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  • 119Opal Koboi — Artemis Fowl character First appearance Book 2: Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident Created by Eoin Colfer Information Species …

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  • 120Secret City Saga — is a concept and collection of various comic book titles created by influential writer artist Jack Kirby, and published by the short lived Topps Comics, an off shoot of the popular Topps Trading Card company. Beginning in April 1993, the Secret… …

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