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11Great Books — refers to a curriculum and a book list. Mortimer Adler lists three criteria for including a book on the list:* the book has contemporary significance; that is, it has relevance to the problems and issues of our times; * the book is inexhaustible; …
12place — place1 W1S1 [pleıs] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(area/space/building etc)¦ 2¦(home )¦ 3 take place 4¦(space to sit or put something)¦ 5¦(point in book/speech)¦ 6¦(opportunity to do something)¦ 7¦(role/position)¦ 8 in place 9 in place o …
13Place name origins — The study of place names is called toponymy and is distinct from (but often confused with) etymology, the study of the origins of words. Rather than describing toponymy (as an academic discipline) itself, this article examines the origins of… …
14Great Sphinx of Giza — The Great Sphinx of Giza ( ar. أبو الهول The Father of Fear ) is a half human, half lion Sphinx statue in Egypt, on the Giza Plateau at the west bank of the Nile River, near modern day Cairo. The largest monolith statue in the world, it stands 73 …
15Great Plains — a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada. * * * Continental slope of central North America. It stretches from the Rio Grande at the U.S. Mexico border in the south to the Mackenzie River delta along the Arctic Ocean in… …
16great — [[t]gre͟ɪt[/t]] ♦ greater, greatest, greats 1) ADJ GRADED: ADJ n You use great to describe something that is very large. Great is more formal than big. The room had a great bay window. ...a great hall as long and high as a church. 2) ADJ GRADED… …
17Great Depression in the United Kingdom — This article deals with the effects of the Great Depression of the 1930s also known as the Great Slump on the United Kingdom.BackgroundThe Great Depression of 1919 ndash;22 broke out at a time when Britain was still far from having recovered from …
18Great Allentown Fair — Infobox festival festival name = The Great Allentown Fair caption = location = Allentown, Pennsylvania years active = 156 dates = August 26 September 1 genre = Agricultural website = http://www.allentownfairpa.org/The Great Allentown Fair is an… …
19great — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} adj. 1 large in amount, degree, size, etc. VERBS ▪ be ▪ become ADVERB ▪ very ▪ The play was a very great success …
20place — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 particular position/area ADJECTIVE ▪ convenient, good, great, ideal, perfect ▪ horrible, terrible ▪ It …
