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  • 31sconce — Effectively, English now only has one word sconce in general use, although others have come and gone in the past. That is the noun meaning ‘candlestick’ or ‘wall bracket for a light’ [14]. It originally denoted a ‘lantern’ or ‘covered… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 32enforce rules — effectively carry out regulations or laws, compel obedience to rules by force …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 33Paraguay —    Effectively an independent state in South America as of 1811. Spanish explorers established a settlement in Asunción, on the eastern bank of the Paraguay River, in 1537. Its isolation and conflicts with Native Americans, Portuguese raiders,… …

    Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1914

  • 34Uses — ♦ Effectively a form of trust whereby land or income from land was held by a number of trustees for the use of another person. (Heath, Peter. Church and Realm, 1272 1461, 369) …

    Medieval glossary

  • 35World War II —    Effectively incorporated into Adolf Hitler’s Germany following the Anschluss of 1938, Austria in fact did not exist as a state when the German dictator set off a pan European conflict with the invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. For the… …

    Historical dictionary of Austria

  • 36down — Effectively, English now has three distinct words down, but two of them are intimately related: for down ‘to or at a lower place’ [11] originally meant ‘from the hill’ – and the Old English word for hill in this instance was dūn. This may have… …

    Word origins

  • 37sconce — Effectively, English now only has one word sconce in general use, although others have come and gone in the past. That is the noun meaning ‘candlestick’ or ‘wall bracket for a light’ [14]. It originally denoted a ‘lantern’ or ‘covered… …

    Word origins

  • 38ECONOMIC AFFAIRS — THE PRE MANDATE (LATE OTTOMAN) PERIOD Geography and Borders In September 1923 a new political entity was formally recognized by the international community. Palestine, or Ereẓ Israel as Jews have continued to refer to it for 2,000 years,… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 39United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

    Universalium

  • 40History of the Church–Turing thesis — This article is an extension of the history of the Church–Turing thesis. The debate and discovery of the meaning of computation and recursion has been long and contentious. This article provides detail of that debate and discovery from Peano s… …

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