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  • 121touch# — touch vb 1 Touch, feel, palpate, handle, paw can all mean to lay the hand or fingers or an equally sensitive part of the body upon so as to get or produce a sensation often in examination or exploration. Touch usually stresses the act which leads …

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  • 122shadower — shad·ow (shăd’ō) n. 1. a. A dark area or shape made by an object blocking rays of light. b. The darkness or diminished light caused by the blocking of a light source: »The back yard is in shadow all day long. c. A darker area in a picture or… …

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  • 123Cyanide — This article is about the class of chemical compounds. For other uses, see Cyanide (disambiguation). The cyanide ion, CN−. From the top: 1. Valence bond structure 2. Space filling model 3. Electrostatic potential surface 4. Carbon lone pair… …

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  • 124Flag of Iraq — Infobox flag Name = Iraq Use = 111111 Symbol = Proportion = 2:3 Adoption = 22 January 2008 Design = A horizontal tricolour of red, white, and black charged with the takbir [ Allahu Akbar (God is great) in Kufic script] in green centered on the… …

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  • 125Doublet (linguistics) — For other uses, see Doublet (disambiguation). In etymology, two or more words in the same language are called doublets or etymological twins (or possibly triplets, etc.) when they have different phonological forms but the same etymological root.… …

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  • 126Cloud Cult — Background information Origin Minneapolis, Minnesota Genres Art rock Expe …

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  • 127Thematic development of Italian Renaissance painting — This article about the development of themes in Italian Renaissance painting is an extension to the article Italian Renaissance painting, for which it provides additional pictures with commentary. The works encompassed are from Giotto in the… …

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  • 128Absalom (name) — Absalom (pronEng|ˈæbsələm) comes from the Old Testament Hebrew given name Avshalom (אַבְשָׁלוֹם), meaning my father is peace . It is common as a given name and a surname. There are alternate spellings, including the Scandinavian Axel . [cite web… …

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