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  • 51Scaturient — Sca*tu ri*ent, a.[L. scaturiens, p. pr. of scaturire gush out, from scatere to bubble, gush.] Gushing forth; full to overflowing; effusive. [R.] [1913 Webster] A pen so scaturient and unretentive. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 52David Holmgren — (born 1955) is an ecologist, ecological design engineer and writer. He is known as one of the co originators of the permaculture concept with Bill Mollison. Contents 1 Life and work 2 Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability …

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  • 53Paris Commune (French Revolution) — This article is about the Paris Commune of 1792. For the Paris Commune of 1871, see Paris Commune. Hôtel de Ville, Paris during the French Revolution The Paris Commune during the French Revolution was the government of Paris from 1789 until 1795 …

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  • 54Chinese water torture — at Sing Sing Prison circa 1860 …

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  • 55Parish register — Church register at Os Parish in Hordaland, Norway, of March 1822. A parish register is a book, normally kept in a parish church, in which details of baptisms, marriages and burials are recorded. Contents …

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  • 56John Boys (Dean) — BOYS, JOHN (1571 1625), dean of Canterbury,Dictionary of National Biography. Leslie Stephen, Ed. 1886. Vol. VI:128 129.] was descended from an old Kentish family who boasted that their ancestor came into England with the Conqueror, and who at the …

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  • 57brim — 1. noun /brɪm/ a) an edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water) The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals. b) the topmost rim or lip of a container …

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  • 58Privy midden — Diagram of an improved midden closet in Nottingham The privy midden (also midden closet) was a toilet system that consisted of a privy associated with a midden (or middenstead). They were widely used in rapidly expanding industrial cities such as …

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  • 59choc-a-block — Kiwi (New Zealand Slang) full to overflowing …

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  • 60low — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. deep (see lowness, depth); moderate, simple; inferior, lowdown, base, mean, coarse; soft, feeble; dejected, depressed. See moderation, inferiority, softness, depression.Ant., high, superior. II… …

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