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  • 31extricate — transitive verb ( cated; cating) Etymology: Latin extricatus, past participle of extricare, from ex + tricae trifles, perplexities Date: 1601 1. a. archaic unravel b. to distinguish from a related thing 2. to free or remove from an entanglement… …

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  • 32raw material — noun Date: 1796 crude or processed material that can be converted by manufacture, processing, or combination into a new and useful product < wheat…is raw material for the flour mill C. A. Koepke >; broadly something with a potential for&#8230; …

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  • 33James Thurber — Infobox Writer name = James Thurber birthname = James Grover Thurber birthdate = birth date|1894|12|8 birthplace = Columbus, Ohio deathdate = death date and age|1961|11|2|1894|12|8 deathplace = New York, New York occupation = Humorist nationality …

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  • 34Tunguska event — The Tunguska Event, or Tunguska explosion, was a powerful explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya (Lower Stony) Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, at around 7:14 a.m. [P. Farinella, L. Foschini, Ch. Froeschl eacute;,&#8230; …

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  • 35Joseph Priestley — (13 March 1733 (Old Style) – 6 February 1804) was an 18th century British theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works. He is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen,&#8230; …

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  • 36Domesday Book — Domesday redirects here. For other uses, see Domesday (disambiguation). Domesday Book The National Archives, Kew, London Domesday Book , from Historic Byways and High …

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  • 37Pyrrho — Infobox Philosopher region = Western Philosophy era = Ancient philosophy color = #B0C4DE name = Pyrrho birth = ca. 360 BC, Elis (Greece) death = ca. 270 BC school tradition = Skepticism influences = Democritus influenced = Timon of Phlius,&#8230; …

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  • 38Thomas Churchyard — (c. 1520 ndash; 1604), English author, was born at Shrewsbury, the son of a farmer.LifeHe received a good education, and, having speedily dissipated at court the money with which his father provided him, he entered the household of Henry Howard,&#8230; …

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  • 39Modal logic — is a type of formal logic that extends classical propositional and predicate logic to include operators expressing modality. Modals words that express modalities qualify a statement. For example, the statement John is happy might be qualified by&#8230; …

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  • 40Judaism's view of Jesus — While Judaism has no special or particular view of Jesus, and very few texts in Judaism directly refer to or take note of Jesus, Judaism takes a strong stand against many views expressed by Christian theology. One of the most important Jewish&#8230; …

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