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51Southern Bulgaria — ( bg. Южна България, Yuzhna Balgariya ) is the southern half of the territory of Bulgaria, located to the south of the main ridge of the Balkan Mountains which conventionally separates the country into a northern and a southern part. Besides the… …
52scansion — /skan sheuhn/, n. Pros. the metrical analysis of verse. The usual marks for scansion are breve for a short or unaccented syllable, ¯ or for a long or accented syllable, ^ for a rest, | for a foot division, and || for a caesura or pause. [1645 55; …
53Romanian language — Romance language spoken mainly in Romania and Moldova. The name Romanian is usually identified with Daco Romanian, one of the four major dialects of Balkan Romance. Other dialects are Aromanian (Macedo Romanian), spoken in scattered communities… …
54rug and carpet — Any decorative textile normally made of a thick material and intended as a floor covering. Floor coverings made of plaited rushes date from the 5th or 4th millennium BC. Carpets were first made in central and western Asia as coverings for earthen …
55sword swallowing — ▪ magician’s trick a magician s (conjuring) trick dating back to ancient Greece and Rome, involving the swallowing of a sword without bodily injury. Capuleius, in his Metamorphoseon, tells of seeing the trick in Athens, performed by a… …
56False Decretals — • A name given to certain apocryphal papal letters contained in a collection of canon laws composed about the middle of the ninth century by an author who uses the pseudonym of Isidore Mercator, in the opening preface to the collection Catholic… …
57Ritual of Marriage — Ritual of Marriage † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ritual of Marriage The form for the celebration of the Sacrament of Matrimony, as it stands in the Rituale Romanum of the present day, is remarkably simple. It consists of the following… …
58Church of the Immaculate Conception (Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana) — Church of the Immaculate Conception …
59Mythology of Fringe — Fringe is an American science fiction drama television show from 2008 to the present. The show, created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci, is based on the Fringe subdivision of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, responsible for… …
60Usenet celebrity — A Usenet celebrity (or Usenet personality) is a particular kind of Internet celebrity, being an individual who has gained a certain level of notoriety from posting on Usenet, a global network of computer users with a vast array of topics for… …
