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  • 21Tax protester Sixteenth Amendment arguments — UStaxationTax protester Sixteenth Amendment arguments are assertions that the imposition of the federal income tax is illegal because the Sixteenth Amendment was never properly ratified, [Christopher S. Jackson, The Inane Gospel of Tax Protest:… …

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  • 22gazar — /geuh zahr /, n. a silk fabric of loose construction with a stiff hand. * * * …

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  • 23Cattle Raid of Cooley, The — Irish Táin Bó Cúailgne Irish narrative, the longest of the Ulster cycle. It was composed in prose with verse passages in the 7th–8th century, probably by an author acquainted with such epics as the Aeneid. Its hero is Cú Chulainn, who… …

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  • 24Holtei, Karl von — ▪ German author born Jan. 24, 1798, Breslau, Silesia died Feb. 12, 1880, Breslau       author who achieved success by his “vaudevilles,” or ballad operas, and by his recitations.       Holtei led a varied and unsettled life, travelling between… …

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  • 25presidency of the United States of America — ▪ United States government Introduction  chief executive office of the United States. In contrast to many countries with parliamentary forms of government, where the office of president, or head of state, is mainly ceremonial, in the United… …

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  • 26Virtue of Religion —     Virtue of Religion     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Virtue of Religion     Of the three proposed derivations of the word religion , that suggested by Lactantius and endorsed by St. Augustine seems perhaps to accord better with the idea than the… …

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  • 27verbose — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. wordy, prolix, repetitive, talkative. See diffuseness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. wordy, prolix, tedious, tautologous, redundant, repetitious, circumlocutory, repetitive, periphrastic, abounding in …

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  • 28Whig — /wɪg/ (say wig) noun 1. a member of one of the two major political parties in England in the 18th and early 19th centuries, associated at first with the Hanoverians, then with attempts to limit royal authority and increase parliamentary power,… …

  • 29конструкция с ненапряженным волокном — — [Л.Г.Суменко. Англо русский словарь по информационным технологиям. М.: ГП ЦНИИС, 2003.] Тематики информационные технологии в целом EN loose construction …

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  • 30wordy — [wʉr′dē] adj. wordier, wordiest 1. of words; verbal 2. containing or using many or too many words; verbose wordily adv. wordiness n. SYN. WORDY is the general word implying the use of more words in speaking or writing than are necessary for… …

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