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  • from Cornish language bern, meaning 'a stack', 'a heap', or a variation of bourn ("limit")) Burrow – heap of (usually) mining related waste, but sometimes...
    62 KB (6,849 words) - 19:47, 4 August 2024
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    Marshall McLuhan (category Theorists on Western civilization)
    had become a cliché and welcomed the opportunity to throw it back on the compost heap of language to recycle and revitalize it. But the new title is more...
    106 KB (12,267 words) - 05:30, 19 October 2024
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    Billy Sunday (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    profanity....damned stinking something-or-other, 'To hell with' something or somebody.... We wish he were a gentleman....He is a harsh, unjust, bad-tempered...
    62 KB (8,154 words) - 23:28, 30 September 2024
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    Archilochus (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    fragments as examples of an author speaking in somebody else's voice: in one, an unnamed father commenting on a recent eclipse of the sun and, in the other...
    30 KB (3,644 words) - 18:43, 19 October 2024
  • Battle of Goose Green (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    us to the showers at night, forcing us to do push-ups or demand from us heaps of frog leaps and crawling. If someone took the wrong step, for example...
    108 KB (12,211 words) - 00:00, 14 October 2024
  • prime time television soap opera Falcon Crest, which aired for nine seasons on CBS from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. Total of 227 episodes. When this...
    263 KB (4,432 words) - 14:15, 13 July 2024
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    from the law. In the 19th century, Charles Dickens' books had heaped enough ridicule on the Victorian Chancery judges to impel reform. The court systems...
    157 KB (22,992 words) - 16:24, 16 April 2024