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11Universal lever — Lever Le ver (l[=e] v[ e]r or l[e^]v [ e]r; 277), n. [OE. levour, OF. leveor, prop., a lifter, fr. F. lever to raise, L. levare; akin to levis light in weight, E. levity, and perh. to E. light not heavy: cf. F. levier. Cf. {Alleviate}, {Elevate} …
12Electoral fraud — Articleissues|article=y cleanup=January 2008 wikify=January 2008Electoral fraud is illegal interference with the process of an election. Acts of fraud tend to involve affecting vote counts to bring about a desired election outcome, whether by… …
13Ibn al-Rawandi — 9th century C.E.) was an early skeptic of Islam and religion in general within the Muslim world, became one of Islam s most notorious heretics for his denial of the phenomenon of prophecy. His most famous book to have survived from that time is… …
14No Love for Johnnie (book) — No Love for Johnnie by Wilfred Fienburgh, was first published in 1959 by Huchinson. Essentially a political novel it deals with the life of Johnny Byrne, a cynical and burnt out politician whose career has ostensibly stalled due to his leftist… …
15Seybert Commission — The Seybert Commission was a group of faculty at the University of Pennsylvania who in 1884 1887 investigated a number of respected spiritualist mediums, uncovering fraud or suspected fraud in every case that they examined.Establishment of the… …
16magic — /maj ik/, n. 1. the art of producing illusions as entertainment by the use of sleight of hand, deceptive devices, etc.; legerdemain; conjuring: to pull a rabbit out of a hat by magic. 2. the art of producing a desired effect or result through the …
17No Love for Johnnie (novel) — No Love for Johnnie by Wilfred Fienburgh, was first published in 1959 by Hutchinson. Essentially a political novel it deals with the life of Johnny Byrne, a cynical and burnt out politician whose career has ostensibly stalled due to his leftist… …
18mumbo jumbo — Synonyms and related words: Mumbo Jumbo, abracadabra, absurdity, amorphousness, amphigory, amulet, anagoge, anagogics, anthroposophy, argot, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble babble, blabber, blather, bogey, bogeyman, boggart, bogle, bombast …
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