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111The General Is Up — is a novel set in modern Africa by Peter Nazareth. Its story seems, at first glance, to be a fictionalised version of the expulsion of Asians from Idi Amin s Uganda in the seventies. But its writer sees it as being something more than this. The… …
112The Order of Christ Sophia — (OCS) is a Christian organization that was founded in 1999. The OCS describes itself as a holy order and spiritual school that offers training in the doctrines of Christian mysticism.[1] The OCS shares beliefs with two very distinct movements,… …
113The Nigger Bible — is a book by Robert H. deCoy, published by Holloway House in 1967. It is a social and linguistic analysis of the word nigger and of the origins and contemporary circumstances of the black peoples of America. The form is varied and might be… …
114The Fox and the Grapes — is a fable attributed to Aesop. The protagonist, a fox, upon failing to find a way to reach grapes hanging high up on a vine, retreated and said: The grapes are sour anyway! The moral is stated at the end of the fable as:: It is easy to despise… …
115Word guessing — refers to a method of reading where a beginner reader doesn t know what a word is in a sentence, so he/she guesses what the word is and reads the rest of the sentence to confirm their guess, e.g. The fox jumped over the dog. If you didn t know… …
116The No Game — is a party game with only one real rule. Sid Sackson wrote about it in A Gamut of Games , but it undoubtedly existed beforehand.Play is as follows: *Locate a nice prize. *As everyone enters the party, pin a small ribbon on their clothes, one per… …
117The Devil's Coach Horses — is a 1925 essay by J. R. R. Tolkien ( Devil s coach horse is a British expression for a particular kind of rove beetle).Tolkien draws attention to the devil s steeds called eaueres in Hali Meidhad , translated boar in the Early English Text… …
118Word problem — The term word problem has several meanings: * word problem (mathematics education) is a type of textbook problem designed to help students apply abstract mathematical concepts to real world situations * word problem (mathematics) is the word… …
119The Hunting of the Snark — (An Agony in 8 Fits) is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) in 1874, when he was 42 years old. [ [http://www.literature.org/authors/carroll lewis/the hunting of the snark/ Poem as presented by Literature.org]… …
120The High Priestess — (II) is the second trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks. This card is used in game playing as well as in divination.In the first tarots with inscriptions, the 18th century woodcut Marseille Tarot, this figure is crowned with …
