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  • 21precipitancy — noun Date: 1540 undue hastiness or suddenness …

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  • 22precipitation — noun Date: 1502 1. the quality or state of being precipitate ; hastiness 2. an act, process, or instance of precipitating; especially the process of forming a precipitate 3. something precipitated: as a. a deposit on the earth of hail, mist, rain …

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  • 23quick — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English quik, from Old English cwic; akin to Old Norse kvikr living, Latin vivus living, vivere to live, Greek bios, zōē life Date: before 12th century 1. not dead ; living, alive 2. acting or capable of acting with …

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  • 24Michael Wittmann — Black Baron redirects here. For other uses, see Black Baron (disambiguation). Michael Wittmann Michael Wittmann …

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  • 25Irish bull — An Irish bull is a ludicrous, incongruent or logically absurd statement, generally unrecognized as such by its author. Irish bull originated in this use because such expressions often fall between two different statements, as between the horns of …

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  • 26Chancellor Williams — Chancellor James Williams (December 22, 1898, Bennettsville, South Carolina – December 7, 1992, Washington, DC) was an African American sociologist, historian and writer. He was the author of The Destruction of Black Civilization (1971), a work… …

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  • 28Konstantin Balmont — Valentin Serov: Portrait of Konstantin Balmont. 1905. Born Konstanti′n Dmi′trievich Balmo′nt 15 June 1867(1867 06 15) Shuya, Russian Empire Died 23 September 1 …

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  • 29Battle of Gumbinnen — The Battle of Gumbinnen, initiated by the Germany on August 20, 1914, was the first major German offensive on the Eastern Front during the First World War. Due to the hastiness of the German attack, however, the Russian army emerged victorious.… …

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  • 30Germanophile — A Germanophile is a person who is fond of German culture, and Germany in general, exhibiting as it were German nationalism in spite of not being an ethnic German. The term was especially in use in the 19th to 20th centuries after the creation of… …

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