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  • Thumbnail for Because I could not stop for Death
    paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground — The Roof was scarcely visible — The Cornice — in the Ground — Since then — 'tis Centuries — and...
    9 KB (1,001 words) - 13:25, 28 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fart Proudly
    to the practical applications of this discussion, other sciences are "scarcely worth a FART-HING." Copies of the essay were privately printed by Franklin...
    5 KB (550 words) - 01:45, 28 April 2024
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    empires, nations, cities, towns, and villages. Martin Lings wrote: "There is scarcely a region in the empire of Islam which has not a Sufi for its Patron Saint...
    14 KB (1,502 words) - 02:07, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Afghanistan
    represents Sanskrit Asvaka in the sense of a cavalier, and this reappears scarcely modified in the Assakani or Assakeni of the historians of the expedition...
    316 KB (28,251 words) - 13:54, 19 May 2024
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    filthy receptacle of persons, crowded too with hordes of human beings, with scarcely space enough to contain the half of them—certainly not more than the quarter...
    374 KB (36,106 words) - 03:53, 29 May 2024
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    French occupation of the region licenses for fur trading had been issued scarcely and only to select groups of traders, whereas the British, in an effort...
    178 KB (14,832 words) - 20:05, 28 May 2024
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    Iberia and the middle Pyrenees the power of the Muslims in the south was scarcely felt. It was here that the foundations of the Christian kingdoms of Asturias...
    242 KB (22,187 words) - 13:04, 30 May 2024
  • (or those of...)? The strength of your signals (or those of...) is... scarcely perceptible weak fairly good good very good QRK What is the intelligibility...
    9 KB (769 words) - 21:25, 24 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Vladimir Lenin
    Volkogonov said, while renouncing Leninist ideology, that "there can scarcely have been another man in history who managed so profoundly to change so...
    198 KB (25,266 words) - 11:14, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nassau, Bahamas
    island. However, until the post-Second World War era, the outer suburbs scarcely existed. Most of New Providence was uncultivated bush until Loyalists were...
    46 KB (3,808 words) - 15:01, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anachronism
    and other facts of history. They vary from glaring inconsistencies to scarcely perceptible misrepresentation. Anachronisms may be the unintentional result...
    25 KB (2,665 words) - 06:37, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zhejiang
    drown their girls; but in practice the law is in both cases ignored, and scarcely ever enforced ; a fortiori the minor offence of selling children, even...
    88 KB (7,770 words) - 18:14, 28 May 2024
  • wishing to learn a topic in depth. However, libraries have found that it is scarcely used for this purpose, and reviewers have recommended that it be dropped...
    127 KB (11,539 words) - 23:07, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Auschwitz concentration camp
    Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The report said of the Jews in the camp that "scarcely any of them came out alive". According to Fleming, the booklet was "widely...
    185 KB (21,022 words) - 14:15, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 19th century
    social map of the new unified Italy to a people that until then had been scarcely aware of its ethnic and cultural diversity. There was a huge literary output...
    88 KB (9,207 words) - 16:11, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Green Bay, Wisconsin
    French occupation of the region licenses for fur trading had been issued scarcely and only to select groups of traders, whereas the British, in an effort...
    90 KB (7,210 words) - 19:33, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pashtuns
    represents Sanskrit Asvaka in the sense of a cavalier, and this reappears scarcely modified in the Assakani or Assakeni of the historians of the expedition...
    187 KB (20,000 words) - 00:39, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Irish Americans
    violent or criminal. Potter quotes contemporary newspaper images: You will scarcely ever find an Irishman dabbling in counterfeit money, or breaking into houses...
    250 KB (26,098 words) - 00:18, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gothic Revival architecture
    between the end of the Roman empire and the fifteenth century, they were scarcely spoken of except to be cited as the products of ignorance or barbarousness"...
    115 KB (12,530 words) - 20:19, 2 April 2024
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    that President Lincoln once remarked to an officer "Your department we scarcely hear of; it is like a well-regulated stomach, works so smoothly we are...
    145 KB (18,196 words) - 03:20, 15 May 2024
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