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  • Prosaic is a 2023 studio album by American heavy metal act Mizmor. Writing for Metal Injection, Max Heilman gave this album an 8 out of 10, calling it...
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  • The Swedish Chronicle (Vetus chronicon sveciae prosaicum or Prosaiska krönikan) is a mid-15th century chronicle on a nation called Getae (gethe), Goths...
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    ISBN 0070797293, p. 512. "The Cuban revolution at 50: Heroic myth and prosaic failure". The Economist. December 30, 2008. Servando Gonzalez. The Secret...
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    gift for creating a comic effect by the contrast between poetic form and prosaic thought and wording.... How deliciously [his lines] prick the bubble of...
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    wonder' because what was once truly confined to 'wonder' has now become prosaic and mundane. The study of science fiction, or science fiction studies,...
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    Original Free, prosaic translation Du har tappat ditt ord och din papperslapp, "You have lost your word and your paper note, du barfotabarn i livet. you...
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    *sōwelan, which gave rise to Gothic sauil (alongside sunnō) and Old Norse prosaic sól (alongside poetic sunna), and through it the words for sun in the modern...
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    George was given a separate establishment, and in dramatic contrast to his prosaic, scandal-free father, threw himself with zest into a life of dissipation...
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    January 7, 2024. "In 1935, the first public housing complex in New York, prosaically christened First Houses, (landmarked since 1974) on the Lower East Side...
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  • Vineta (sometimes Wineta) is the name of a legendary city at the southern coast of the Baltic Sea. The legend evolved around traditions about the Medieval...
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    harmonious sounds and poetical expressions, whereas a false quantity or a prosaic phrase excite their violent indignation." With the adoption of the Latin...
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    and villainy on every side. However, the truth turns out to be much more prosaic. This novel is also noted for including a list of early Gothic works known...
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  • organizations such as the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry have provided prosaic explanations for UFOs, namely that they are caused by natural phenomena...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A platitude is a trite, meaningless, or prosaic statement, often used as a thought-terminating cliché, aimed at quelling...
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    written in the Linear B syllabary on clay tablets. These documents contain prosaic records largely concerned with trade (lists, inventories, receipts, etc...
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    ostensibly in retaliation for allowing Senggum, Toghrul's son, refuge. More prosaic explanations include rejuvenating the depleted Mongol economy with an influx...
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    country. The small number of subsequent news stories offered mundane and prosaic accounts of the crash. On July 9, the Roswell Daily Record highlighted...
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    people viewed the Shah at the time (the original British title was the more prosaic Shah-Mak). The great wealth generated by Iran's oil encouraged a sense...
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    their shortcomings. Calvin's friends urged him to marry. Calvin took a prosaic view, writing to one correspondent: I, who have the air of being so hostile...
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    originally a battle spell that had, over time, been reduced to evoke "a prosaic stitch in the side". Towards the end of For a Swarm of Bees, the swarming...
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