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  • 31bet — n Bet, wager, stake, pot, ante denote in common something of value, usually money, risked in the confidence or hope that something is true or will turn out in a certain way, something else of value being risked by at least one other party in… …

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  • 32risk life and limb — risk/sacrifice/life and limb phrase to be put, or to put yourself, in physical danger He has risked life and limb to bring us these news reports. Thesaurus: to take riskssynonym Main entry …

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  • 33RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS — (Heb. חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם, ḥasidei ummot ha olam), term applied to non Jews who saved Jews from their Nazi persecutors by endangering their own lives. (For earlier use of the term see Ḥasidei Ummot ha Olam. ) In 1953 the Israeli parliament… …

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  • 34risk — I. noun Etymology: French risque, from Italian risco Date: circa 1661 1. possibility of loss or injury ; peril 2. someone or something that creates or suggests a hazard 3. a. the chance of loss or the perils to the subject matter of an insurance… …

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  • 35Proximate cause — For the notion of proximate cause in other disciplines, see Proximate and ultimate causation. For causation in English law, see Causation in English law …

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  • 36Michel Foucault — Full name Michel Foucault Born 15 October 1926 Poitiers, France Died 25 June 1984(1984 06 25) (aged 57) Paris, France …

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  • 37Derwent Valley Mills — Derwent Valley Mills * UNESCO World Heritage Site Country Unit …

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  • 38Yad Vashem — ( he. יד ושם also spelled Yad VaShem; Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority ) is Israel s official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust established in 1953 through the Yad Vashem Law passed by the Knesset, Israel s… …

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  • 39Oswald Boelcke — in 1916 with the Pour le Mérite at his neck. Born 19 May 1891 Giebichenstein; near Hall …

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  • 40Richard Stockton (1730–1781) — Richard Stockton (October 1, 1730 ndash; February 28, 1781) was an American lawyer, jurist, legislator, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Early lifeA son of John Stockton, he was born near Princeton, New Jersey attended Samuel… …

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