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  • 1winnow — v. a. 1. Fan, clear of chaff. 2. Separate, part, divide, sift …

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  • 2agriculture, origins of — Introduction  the active production of useful plants or animals in ecosystems that have been created by people. Agriculture has often been conceptualized narrowly, in terms of specific combinations of activities and organisms wet rice production… …

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  • 3Matthew 3:12 — Jean François Millet s depiction of winnowing Matthew 3:12 is the twelfth verse of the third chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. The verse occurs in the section relating the preachings of John the Baptist. In this he uses the… …

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  • 4GADA 601 — Infobox Military Unit unit name=GADA 601 caption= Demobilisation ceremony of GADA 601 veterans (1983) dates=1939 present country= República Argentina allegiance= branch= Argentine Army type=Battalion size group role=Air Defence size=Around 1,000+ …

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  • 5AGRICULTURAL LAND-MANAGEMENT METHODS AND IMPLEMENTS IN ANCIENT EREẒ ISRAEL — Ereẓ Israel is a small country with a topographically fragmented territory, each geographical region having a distinctive character of its own. These regions include: the coastal plain, the lowlands, the hilly country, the inland valleys, the… …

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  • 6Chaffing and winnowing — is a cryptographic technique to achieve confidentiality without using encryption when sending data over an insecure channel. The name is derived from agriculture: after grain has been harvested and threshed, it remains mixed together with… …

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  • 7POETRY — This article is arranged according to the following outline (for modern poetry, see hebrew literature , Modern; see also prosody ): biblical poetry introduction the search for identifiable indicators of biblical poetry the presence of poetry in… …

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  • 8Iowa class battleship — The Iowa class battleships were a class of six fast battleships ordered by the United States Navy in 1939 and 1940 to escort the Fast Carrier Task Forces that would operate in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Four were completed in the early… …

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  • 9radar — /ray dahr/, n. 1. Electronics. a device for determining the presence and location of an object by measuring the time for the echo of a radio wave to return from it and the direction from which it returns. 2. a means or sense of awareness or… …

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  • 10Cessationism versus Continuationism — is a Christian theological dispute concerned with the question whether the charismatic gifts are currently in operation. Contents 1 Problems in the dispute 2 Restrictions on the topics 3 Cessationist U …

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