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  • 21major — {{11}}major (adj.) c.1300, from L. maior (earlier *magjos), irregular comparative of magnus large, great (see MAGNATE (Cf. magnate)). Used in music (of modes, scales, or chords) since 1690s, on notion of an interval a half tone greater than the… …

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  • 22pranc´ing|ly — prance «prans, prahns», verb, pranced, pranc|ing, noun. –v.i. 1. to spring about as if dancing; move with high steps or with leaps from the hind to the front legs: »Horses prance when they feel lively. 2. to ride on a horse doing this: »The… …

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  • 23pranc´er — prance «prans, prahns», verb, pranced, pranc|ing, noun. –v.i. 1. to spring about as if dancing; move with high steps or with leaps from the hind to the front legs: »Horses prance when they feel lively. 2. to ride on a horse doing this: »The… …

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  • 24Pranced — Prance Prance (pr[.a]ns), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pranced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prancing}.] [OE. prauncen; probably akin to prank, v. t. See Prank.] 1. To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle. [1913 Webster] Now rule thy prancing steed. Gay.… …

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  • 25Prancing — Prance Prance (pr[.a]ns), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pranced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prancing}.] [OE. prauncen; probably akin to prank, v. t. See Prank.] 1. To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle. [1913 Webster] Now rule thy prancing steed. Gay.… …

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  • 26Edmund Berry Godfrey — Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (23 December,1621–12 October,1678) was an English magistrate whose mysterious death caused anti Catholic uproar in England. Contemporary documents also spell the name Edmundbury Godfrey.Early lifeEdmund Berry Godfrey was… …

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  • 27Kiwanis — Infobox Non profit Non profit name = Kiwanis International Non profit Non profit type = Service founded date = 1915 founders = Joseph C. Prance and Allen S. Browne location = Indianapolis, Indiana, USA origins = Detroit, Michigan, USA key people …

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  • 28Jimmy Page — Infobox musical artist Name = Jimmy Page Img capt = Jimmy Page in 1977 Img size = 250 Landscape = Yes Background = non vocal instrumentalist Birth name = James Patrick Page Alias = Born = birth date and age|1944|1|9|df=y Heston, Middlesex,… …

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  • 29List of Emily Dickinson poems — This is a list of Emily Dickinson poems. There are 1,775 known poems that have been written by Dickinson. The poems are alphabetized by their first line. Punctuation, capitalization and even in some cases wording of the first lines may vary… …

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  • 30Biosphere 2 — is a 3.14 acre (1.27 ha) [ [http://www.b2science.org/about facts.html Biosphere 2 Where science lives ] ] structure originally built to be an artificial closed ecological system in Oracle, Arizona (USA) by Space Biosphere Ventures, a company… …

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