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  • 111Gallant, Mavis — orig. Mavis de Trafford Young born Aug. 11, 1922, Montreal, Que., Can. Canadian born French writer. She moved to Europe in 1950 and settled in Paris. Her essays, novels, plays, and especially short stories delineate in unsentimental prose and… …

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  • 112animal disease — ▪ non human Introduction       an impairment of the normal state of an animal that interrupts or modifies its vital functions.       Concern with diseases that afflict animals dates from the earliest human contacts with animals and is reflected… …

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  • 113ear disease — ▪ human Introduction       any of the diseases or disorders that affect the human ear and hearing.       Impaired hearing (deafness) is, with rare exception, the result of disease or abnormality of the outer, middle, or inner ear. Serious… …

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  • 114infectious disease — Introduction       in medicine, a process caused by a microorganism that impairs a person s health. An infection, by contrast, is the invasion of and replication in the body by any of various microbial agents including bacteria, viruses (virus),… …

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  • 115Franciscus Quaresmius —     Franciscus Quaresmius     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Franciscus Quaresmius     A writer and Orientalist of the seventeenth century, born at Lodi (Lombardy), 4 April, 1583; died at Milan, 25 Oct., 1650. His father was the noble Alberto Quaresmi …

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  • 116persecute — verb a) To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death for ones race, sexual identity, adherence to a particular religious creed, or mode …

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  • 117Mercy (Vertigo) — Mercy (1993) is a graphic novel, written by J. M. DeMatteis, and illustrated by Paul Johnson, published by DC Comics Vertigo imprint. It tells the tale of a bitter cynical Joshua Rose, who while in a coma after a stroke, finds himself drifting… …

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  • 118Sarah Bibber — 1692 deposition of Sarah Bibber (Viber) against Susannah Martin Sarah Bibber (or Vibber) (born c. 1658 ?) was involved in the infamous Salem witch trials in 1692, both as an accuser of witchcraft, as well as being accused of being a witch herself …

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  • 119Exodus 22 — 1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. 2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. 3 If the sun …

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  • 120Leviticus 16 — 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died; 2 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail …

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