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  • 1The Cantos — by Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 120 sections, each of which is a canto . Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962, although much of the early work was abandoned and the early cantos, as finally published, date from 1922 onwards.… …

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  • 2pound — pound1 [pound] n. pl. pounds; sometimes, after a number, pound [ME < OE pund, akin to Ger pfund: WGmc loanword < L pondo, a pound, orig. abl. of pondus, weight (in libra pondo, a pound in weight), akin to pendere: see PENDANT] 1. a) the… …

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  • 3ear — noun 1 part of the body ADJECTIVE ▪ left, right ▪ inner, middle ▪ external, outer ▪ big …

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  • 4The opera corpus — is a list of nearly 2,500 works by more than 775 individual opera composers. Some of the works listed below are still being performed today   but many are not. The principal works of the major composers are given as well as those of historical… …

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  • 5The Lochmaben Harper (ballad) — The Lochmaben Harper or The Blind Harper is a traditional British Folk ballad ((Child # 192, Roud # 85) [http://library.efdss.org/cgi bin/query.cgi?index roud=on cross=off type=Song access=off op 9=or field 9= op 12=or field 12= op 13=or field 13 …

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  • 6The Food Defect Action Levels — The Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods that present no health hazards for humans is a publication of the United States Food and Drug Administration s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition[1]… …

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  • 7The Black Island — Graphicnovelbox| englishtitle=The Black Island foreigntitle=L Île Noire caption=Cover of the English edition publisher=Casterman date=1938 series= The Adventures of Tintin (Les aventures de Tintin) origlanguage=French origpublication= Le Petit… …

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  • 8pound — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 measure of weight 2 money {{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}} verb Pound is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑blood, ↑ear, ↑fist, ↑foot, ↑footstep, ↑head, ↑heart, ↑music, ↑rain, ↑ …

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  • 9pound one's ear — phrasal : sleep each trucker driving four hours, then pounding his ear in the vehicle s sleeper berth while his partner drove A.L.Davis …

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  • 10Origins of the Poor Law system — The origins of the Poor Law system in Britain can be traced as far back as the fifteenth century. Monasteries were in decline and their eventual dissolution during the Reformation caused poor relief to move from a largely voluntary basis to a… …

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