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101New Zealand — New Zealander. /zee leuhnd/ a country in the S Pacific, SE of Australia, consisting of North Island, South Island, and adjacent small islands: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 3,587,275; 103,416 sq. mi. (267,845 sq. km). Cap.: Wellington …
102Billiard Games — ▪ 2006 Introduction Carom Billiards. In January 2005 Sonny Cho of Flushing, N.Y., won his first U.S. championship in three cushion (carom) billiards by beating defending champion Pedro Piedrabuena 50–45 in the deciding game. Piedrabuena… …
103drug use — Introduction use of drugs for psychotropic rather than medical purposes. Among the most common psychotropic drugs are opiates ( opium, morphine, heroin), hallucinogens (LSD, mescaline, psilocybin), barbiturates, cocaine, amphetamines,… …
104TAKKANOT — (Heb. תַּקָּנוֹת pl.; sing. תַּקָּנָה). This article is arranged according to the following outline: definition and substance legislation in the halakhah nature of halakhic legislation rules of legislation role of the public annulment of takkanot …
105Brill Tramway — Manning Wardle engine Huddersfield at Quainton Road in the late 1890s with the Wotton Tramway s passenger coach of the mid 1870s, an 1895 Oxford Aylesbury Tramroad passenger coach, and a goods wagon loaded with milk cans Locale Aylesbury Va …
106Phan Dinh Phung — Infobox revolution biography name=Phan Đình Phùng lived=1847 ndash; January 21 1896 caption=Phan Đình Phùng, 19th century Vietnamese scholar and anti colonial revolutionary alternate name=Phan Dinh Phung dateofbirth= 1847 placeofbirth=Dong Thai,… …
107Bulgaria — /bul gair ee euh, bool /, n. a republic in SE Europe. 8,652,745; 42,800 sq. mi. (110,850 sq. km). Cap.: Sofia. * * * Bulgaria Introduction Bulgaria Background: The Bulgars, a Central Asian Turkic tribe, merged with the local Slavic inhabitants in …
108Russia — • Geography and history Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Russia Russia † Catholic E …
109University of Cambridge — University of Cambridge † Catholic Encyclopedia ► University of Cambridge I. ORIGIN AND HISTORY The obscurity which surrounds the ancient history of Cambridge makes it impossible to fix with any certainty the date of the… …
110LOTS — Biblical Data The Bible records the practice of casting lots as a means of arriving at decisions on a variety of problems. These may be grouped into two main categories: (a) the selection of one or more members from a group; the division of goods …
