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  • 121turbine — /terr bin, buyn/, n. any of various machines having a rotor, usually with vanes or blades, driven by the pressure, momentum, or reactive thrust of a moving fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air, either occurring in the form of free jets or as …

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  • 122The Historica Dominion Institute — is a national charitable organization in Canada dedicated to creating active and informed citizens through greater knowledge and appreciation of Canadian history. The Historia Dominion Institute was formed on September 1, 2009, as a result of a… …

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  • 123BAHIR, SEFER HA– — (Heb. סֵפֶר הַבָּהִיר; Book of Brightness ), kabbalistic, pseudoepigraphic and midrashic anthology which enigmatically depicts a sexualized, divine theosophy considered by scholarship to mark the literary emergence of Kabbalah at the beginning of …

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  • 124MISHNAH — (Heb. מִשְׁנָה). The term mishnah is used in a number of different ways (see below), but when used as a proper noun ( the Mishnah ) it designates the collection of rabbinic traditions redacted by Rabbi judah ha nasi (usually called simply Rabbi ) …

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  • 125PHILOSOPHY, JEWISH — This article is arranged according to the following outline: WHAT IS JEWISH PHILOSOPHY? recent histories of jewish philosophy biblical and rabbinic antecedents bible rabbinic literature hellenistic jewish philosophy philo of alexandria biblical… …

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  • 126Mammoth Cave National Park — Mammoth Cave redirects here. For other uses, see Mammoth Cave (disambiguation). Mammoth Cave National Park IUCN Category II (National Park) The Rotund …

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  • 127Yeshu — This article is about an individual or individuals found in Jewish literature. For the similar sounding Hebrew or Aramaic name, see Yeshua (name). Yeshu (ישו in Hebrew and Aramaic) is the name of an individual or individuals mentioned in Rabbinic …

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  • 128Kaavya Viswanathan — (born January 16, 1987) is an Indian American woman who came to public attention in 2006 when portions of her debut novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life , were revealed to have been plagiarized from several sources.Book… …

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