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21periphrasis — /peuh rif reuh sis/, n., pl. periphrases / seez /. 1. the use of an unnecessarily long or roundabout form of expression; circumlocution. 2. an expression phrased in such fashion. Also, periphrase /per euh frayz /. [1525 35; < L < Gk períphrasis.… …
22Europe, history of — Introduction history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …
23Le Livre des snobs — The Book of Snobs Le Livre des snobs (W. M. Thackeray, The Book of Snobs) Première de couverture de l édition originale …
24Cul-de-sac — For other uses, see Cul de sac (disambiguation). Blind alley redirects here. For other uses, see Blind Alley (disambiguation). Dead End Street redirects here. For the song by The Kinks, see Dead End Street (song). A cul de sac in Sacramento,… …
25Leonardo da Vinci — /lee euh nahr doh deuh vin chee, lay /; It. /le aw nahrdd daw dah veen chee/. 1452 1519, Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, mathematician, and scientist. * * * born April 15, 1452, Anchiano, Republic of Florence died May 2 …
26Musica — For other uses, see Musica (disambiguation). Musica is a bronze statue unveiled in 2003 that sits in a grassy knoll at the center of a traffic rotary where Division Street meets 17th Avenue South (known as the Music Row Roundabout or Buddy Killen …
27Risinghurst — is a quiet outlying residential area of Oxford, England, situated just outside the Eastern Bypass road which forms part of the Oxford ring road. It is around a mile from the centre of Headington and convert|3|mi|km from Oxford city centre. It is… …
28folk art — folk art, adj. folk artist. artistic works, as paintings, sculpture, basketry, and utensils, produced typically in cultural isolation by untrained often anonymous artists or by artisans of varying degrees of skill and marked by such attributes as …
29Death of Ali Abdulhadi Mushaima — Ali Abdulhadi Mushaima Born علي عبدالهادي مشيمع Al Daih, Bahrain Died 14 February 2011 Al Daih, Bahrain Cause of death bird pellet gunshots Resting place Al Daih, Bahrain …
30Truth — For other uses, see Truth (disambiguation). Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy, François Lemoyne, 1737 Truth has a variety of meanings, such as the state of being in accord with fact or reality …
