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  • 41skin — skinlike, adj. /skin/, n., v., skinned, skinning, adj. n. 1. the external covering or integument of an animal body, esp. when soft and flexible. 2. such an integument stripped from the body of an animal, esp. a small animal; pelt: a beaver skin.… …

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  • 42Constantine I — Infobox Roman emperor title = Emperor of the Roman Empire name=Constantine I full name =Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus caption =Head of Constantine s colossal statue at the Capitoline Museums reign =25 July 306 ndash; 29 October 312… …

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  • 43HUMINT — HUMINT, a syllabic abbreviation of the words HUMan INTelligence, refers to intelligence gathering by means of interpersonal contact, as opposed to the more technical intelligence gathering disciplines such as SIGINT, IMINT, and MASINT. NATO… …

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  • 44Price skimming — is a pricing strategy in which a marketer sets a relatively high price for a product or service at first, then lowers the price over time. It is a temporal version of price discrimination/yield management. It allows the firm to recover its sunk… …

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  • 45Central Plains Water — is the name given to the Central Plains Water Enhancement Scheme, the Central Plains Water Trust and a company, Central Plains Water Limited, involved with the promotion of a water diversion, damming and water reticulation and irrigation scheme… …

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  • 46harden — verb 1 (I, T) to become firm or stiff, or to make something firm or stiff: Make sure you give the paint enough time to dry and harden. 2 (I) to become more strict and determined and less sympathetic: Opposition to the military regime has hardened …

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  • 47Greece — • History of the country and church Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Greece     Greece     † …

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  • 48Continuous track — A closeup of continuous tracks on a bulldozer …

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  • 49Nathaniel Hitch — Nationality English Field Sculpture Training Was sent by Farmer and Brindley to evening classes at Borough Polytechnic before setting out as a journeyman sculptor …

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  • 50James Harris Simons — James Harris Jim Simons (b. 1938) is an American mathematician, academic, trader, and philanthropist. In 1982, Simons founded Renaissance Technologies Corporation, a private investment firm based in New York with over $30 billion under… …

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