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  • 121Museums —    Perhaps the clearest testimony to Austria’s Habsburg past is the country’s museums. Their number alone is strikingly disproportionate to the size of the population. Even more noteworthy is the quality of their holdings, which bear the stamp of …

    Historical dictionary of Austria

  • 122dural headaches —    Perhaps the most common type; those resulting from autotoxicity or an excess of blood metabolites, such as from liver dysfunction or hangovers …

    Herbal-medical glossary

  • 123Agriculture —    Perhaps no area was affected by the changing trends of the decades of the 1930s and 1940s as much as agriculture. Although for much of its history the United States was a predominantly agrarian economy, by the end of the 19th century, farmers… …

    Historical Dictionary of the Roosevelt–Truman Era

  • 124truth makes the devil blush — Perhaps a variant of tell the truth and shame the devil. 1944 ‘A. GILBERT’ Death at Door (1945) viii. 81 Crook caught back a quick exclamation. Truth may make the devil blush but that doesn’t mean the devil doesn’t frequently get the best of it.… …

    Proverbs new dictionary

  • 125renkv —  perhaps RANKY, from rank, as applied to weeds, &c …

    A glossary of provincial and local words used in England

  • 126ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction       the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… …

    Universalium

  • 127literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

    Universalium

  • 128United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

    Universalium