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  • 121VENGEANCE — (Heb. nekamah, nekimah), inflicting punishment on another in return for an offense or injury, or the withholding of benefits and kindness from another for the same reason. The Bible distinguishes between vengeance that is proper and vengeance… …

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  • 122Xenocrates — Xenocratic /zen euh krat ik/, Xenocratean, adj. /zeuh nok reuh teez /, n. 396 314 B.C., Greek philosopher. * * * died 314 BC, Athens Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, he succeeded Speusippus (d. 339/338 BC) as head of Plato s Academy. His… …

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  • 123HOROWITZ, ISAIAH BEN ABRAHAM HA-LEVI — (called Ha Shelah ha Kadosh, the holy Shelah, from the initials of the title of his major work; 1565?–1630), rabbi, kabbalist, and communal leader. Horowitz was born in Prague, but as a youth he moved to Poland with his father, who was his first… …

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  • 124Four Times of the Day — is a series of four paintings by English artist William Hogarth. Completed in 1736, they were reproduced as a series of four engravings published in 1738. They are humorous depictions of life in the streets of London, the vagaries of fashion, and …

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  • 125sphinx — /sfingks/, n., pl. sphinxes, sphinges /sfin jeez/. 1. (in ancient Egypt) a. a figure of an imaginary creature having the head of a man or an animal and the body of a lion. b. (usually cap.) the colossal recumbent stone figure of this kind near… …

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  • 126Nemarluk — (1911? – August 1940) was a fierce warrior who lived around present day Darwin in the Northern Territory. He fought strongly against both white and Japanese intruders who had come, unasked, into his people s tribal lands. Reported to be 6 feet 2… …

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  • 127Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard — Infobox Play name = Le Jeu de l amour et du hasard image size = caption = Le Jeu de l amour et du hasard writer = Pierre de Marivaux chorus = characters = Silvia Dorante Monsieur Orgon Mario Arlequin Lisette mute = setting = Monsieur Orgon s home …

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  • 128startle — *scare, alarm, terrify, terrorize, *frighten, fright, affray, affright Analogous words: *surprise, astonish, astound: rouse, arouse, *stir: electrify, *thrill state n State, condition, mode, situation, posture, status can all mean the way in… …

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