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  • 1trivially — triv·i·al (trĭv’ē əl) adj. 1) Of little significance or value. 2) Concerned with or involving unimportant matters; superficial: »a trivial colleague; a trivial remark. 3) Mathematics a) Of, relating to, or being the solution of an equation in… …

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  • 2Bible — For other uses, see Bible (disambiguation). The Gutenberg Bible, the first printed Bible …

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  • 3petty — petty, puny, trivial, trifling, paltry, measly, picayunish, picayune mean little and insignificant, often contemptibly so. Something is petty which by comparison with other things the same in kind but different in size, importance, gravity, or… …

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  • 4Harmonium (poetry collection) — Harmonium is a book of poetry by U.S. poet Wallace Stevens. His first book, it was published in 1923 by Knopf in an edition of 1500 copies. He was in middle age at that time, forty four years old. The collection comprises 85 poems, ranging in… …

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  • 5small — small, little, diminutive, petite, wee, tiny, teeny, weeny, minute, microscopic, miniature can all mean conspicuously below the average in magnitude, especially physical magnitude. Small (opposed to large) and little (opposed to big, great) are… …

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  • 6Sailing to Byzantium — is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in the 1928 collection The Tower . It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight ten syllable lines. It depicts a portion of an old man’s journey to Constantinople. Through this …

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  • 7United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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  • 8Days of our Lives storylines — This is an overview of major historical storylines from the daytime drama Days of our Lives .1960sThe HortonsWhen the show debuted in 1965, it centered around the Horton family. Dr Tom Horton and his wife Alice had five children: Tom Jr., who had …

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  • 9petty — pettily, adv. pettiness, n. /pet ee/, adj., pettier, pettiest. 1. of little or no importance or consequence: petty grievances. 2. of lesser or secondary importance, merit, etc.; minor: petty considerations. 3. having or showing narrow ideas,… …

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  • 10Mulla Sadra — (c. 979–1050/1571–1640)    Sadr al Din Muhammad al Shirazi, more commonly known by his honorific title Mulla (‘Master’) Sadra, is without doubt the most important and influential of the modern Islamic philosophers. He studied with the great… …

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