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  • 121Hotel World — Infobox Book | name = Hotel World image caption = author = Ali Smith cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = English genre = Modernist novel publisher = Anchor Books pub date = 15 January 2002 media type = Print (Paperback pages = 256… …

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  • 122death — /deth/, n. 1. the act of dying; the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism. Cf. brain death. 2. an instance of this: a death in the family; letters published after his death. 3. the state of being …

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  • 123ethics — /eth iks/, n.pl. 1. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) a system of moral principles: the ethics of a culture. 2. the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.: medical ethics;… …

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  • 124Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …

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  • 125community ecology — Introduction       study of the organization and functioning of communities (community), which are assemblages of interacting populations of the species living within a particular area or habitat.       As populations of species interact with one …

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  • 126Fagales — ▪ plant order Introduction   beech order of dicotyledonous woody flowering plants, comprising nearly 1,900 species in 55 genera. Members of Fagales represent some of the most important temperate deciduous or evergreen trees of both hemispheres,… …

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  • 127pre-Columbian civilizations — Introduction       the aboriginal American Indian (Mesoamerican Indian) cultures that evolved in Meso America (part of Mexico and Central America) and the Andean region (western South America) prior to Spanish exploration and conquest in the 16th …

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  • 128Stahl, Georg Ernst — ▪ German chemist and physician Introduction born Oct. 21, 1660, Ansbach, Franconia [Ger.] died May 14, 1734, Berlin, Prussia [Ger.]  German educator, chemist, and esteemed medical theorist and practitioner. His chemical theory of phlogiston… …

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