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  • 1astonished — adj. 1) greatly, very much astonished 2) astonished at, by (they were astonished at/by the news of his escape) 3) astonished + inf. (I was astonished to learn of his divorce) 4) astonished that + clause (she was astonished that he had survived) * …

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  • 2Astonished — Astonish As*ton ish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Astonished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Astonishing}.] [OE. astonien, astunian, astonen, OF. estoner, F. [ e]tonner, fr. L. ex out + tonare to thunder, but perhaps influenced by E. stun. See {Thunder}, {Astound},… …

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  • 3astonished — astonish ► VERB ▪ surprise or impress greatly. DERIVATIVES astonished adjective astonishing adjective astonishment noun. ORIGIN Old French estoner «stun, stupefy», from Latin tonare to thunder …

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  • 4Nat Turner: Confession (1831) — ▪ Primary Source       Nat Turner led the best known of all Southern slave revolts, which occurred on August 21, 1831, and climaxed a three year period of unrest among the slaves during which time Turner had been successful in convincing his… …

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  • 5Laurent Clerc — Infobox Person name=Laurent Clerc caption=Teacher, co founder of the first permanent school for the deaf in North America. birth date=birth date|1785|12|26|mf=y birth place=La Balme, France dead=dead death date=death date and… …

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  • 6Galla Placidia — Aelia Galla Placidia (392 – November 27, 450) was the Empress consort of Constantius III, Western Roman Emperor.FamilyPlacidia was the daughter of Roman Emperor Theodosius I and his second wife Galla. [… …

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  • 7Bilocation — Bilocation, or sometimes multilocation, is a term used to describe the ability/instances in which an individual or object is said to be, or appears to be, located in two distinct places at the same instant in time.[1][2][3][4] The term has been… …

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  • 9Thomism — St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225 1274), the eponym of Thomism. Picture by Fra Angelico (c. 1395 1455) …

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  • 10Donnacona — Meeting of Jacques Cartier and Donnacona. Postcard of butter sculpture tableau, Franco British Exhibition, London, 1908 …

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