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  • 101Museo de Arte Popular, Mexico City — Museum of Popular Art Museo de Arte Popular Courtyard of the MAP Director Walther Boelsterly Urrutia Website …

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  • 102Nature fakers controversy — Illustration from William J. Long s School of the Woods (1902), showing an otter teaching her young to swim The nature fakers controversy was an early 20th century American literary debate highlighting the conflict between science and sentiment… …

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  • 103Nikmis — Origin Calgary, Canada Genres Electronic/Baroque Years active 2007 present Associated acts Maggie s Wagon The Spambots The Lean Years Tradition W …

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  • 104De Maupassant, Guy —    (1850 1893)    A French writer considered one of the fathers of the short story who described various types of hallucination in his literary works. It is known that de Maupassant used hallucinogens throughout his adult life, that he suffered… …

    Dictionary of Hallucinations

  • 105fabulous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. legendary, mythical; incredible, stupendous, prodigious. See description, exaggeration, doubt, nonexistence. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Suggestive of a fable] Syn. fabled, apocryphal, mythical; see… …

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  • 106marvelous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. wonderful, prodigious, surprising, extraordinary. See wonder. Ant., commonplace. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Wonderful] Syn. fabulous, astonishing, spectacular; see unusual 1 . 2. [So unusual as to… …

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  • 107whimsical — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. curious, odd, peculiar, freakish; humorous, waggish, droll; crotchety, capricious, queer, quaint. See changeableness, wit. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. playful, capricious, comical; see funny 1 . III …

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  • 108wonderful — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. miraculous, marvelous, amazing, astounding;. great, swell, dandy; colossal, terrific (all inf.). See wonder, goodness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Exciting wonder] Syn. amazing, astonishing,… …

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  • 109Munchausen Syndrome —    Deliberately simulating medical or surgical illness in order to be admitted to hospital for an operation is a form of malingering, unlike involuntary addiction to surgery. (See HYSTERIA: Karl Menninger describes polysurgical addiction [1934].) …

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  • 110TOLEDOT HA-ARI — (Heb. תּוֹלְדוֹת הָאֲרִ״י), a legendary biography of isaac luria of safed . It is one of the most detailed and richest hagiographies written in Hebrew. Found in many manuscripts, it seems to have been a popular work, was translated into Ladino… …

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