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  • 11Aunt Em — Infobox character colour = grey name = Aunt Em caption = first = The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) last = arguable cause = nickname = alias = species = human gender = female age = unknown born = unknown death = probably inapplicable so long as… …

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  • 12California Proposition 36 (2000) — California Proposition 36, the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000, also known as Prop 36, was an initiative statute that permanently changed state law to allow qualifying defendants convicted of non violent drug possession offenses… …

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  • 13Symphony No. 1 (Tchaikovsky) — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote his Symphony No.1 in G minor, Winter Daydreams ( ru. Зимние грёзы) , Op. 13, in 1866, just after he accepted a professorship at the Moscow Conservatory. The composer s brother Modest claimed this work cost… …

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  • 14Belgium — /bel jeuhm/, n. a kingdom in W Europe, bordering the North Sea, N of France. 10,203,683; 11,779 sq. mi. (30,508 sq. km). Cap.: Brussels. French, Belgique /bel zheek /; Flemish, België /bel khee euh/. * * * Belgium Introduction Belgium Background …

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  • 15Marcel, Gabriel (-Honoré) — born Dec. 7, 1889, Paris, France died Oct. 8, 1973, Paris French philosopher, dramatist, and critic. His philosophical works explore aspects of human existence (e.g., trust, fidelity, hope, and despair) which had traditionally been dismissed as… …

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  • 16Orange River — River, southern Africa. It rises in the Lesotho Highlands as the Sinqu River and flows west as the Orange across South Africa. It passes the southern edge of the Kalahari Desert and winds through the Namib Desert before draining into the Atlantic …

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  • 17physical science, principles of — Introduction       the procedures and concepts employed by those who study the inorganic world.        physical science, like all the natural sciences, is concerned with describing and relating to one another those experiences of the surrounding… …

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  • 18amenable — adjective /əˈmiːnəbl/ a) Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions. b) Willing to comply with; agreeable. Ant: unamenable …

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  • 19History of psychiatric institutions — Social alienation was one of the main themes in Francisco Goya s masterpieces, such as The Madhouse (above). The story of the rise of the lunatic asylum and its gradual transformation into, and eventual replacement by, the modern psychiatric… …

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  • 20pleasure — A surprisingly complex concept, although central to any account of human and animal motivation. Perhaps the simplest theory of pleasure treats it as being on the same dimension as pain: a bodily sensation, but of a positive kind, where pain is of …

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