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  • 1arts, East Asian — Introduction       music and visual and performing arts of China, Korea, and Japan. The literatures of these countries are covered in the articles Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature.       Some studies of East Asia… …

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  • 2mood — The pervasive feeling, tone, and internal emotional state of an individual which, when impaired, can markedly influence virtually all aspects of a person s behavior or his or her perception of external events. * * * mood müd n a conscious state… …

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  • 3Ghost sickness — is a culture bound syndrome which some American Indian tribes believe to be caused by association with the dead or dying and is sometimes associated with witchcraft. It is considered to be a psychotic disorder of Navajo origin. Its symptoms… …

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  • 4expression — n. 1. Squeezing out, pressing out. 2. Utterance, declaration, assertion, statement. 3. Phrase, term, form of words, mode of speech. 4. Look, cast of countenance, play of features. 5. General tone, pervading effect, pervasive feeling. 6. Lively… …

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  • 5Jonathan Lethem — Infobox Writer name = Jonathan Lethem imagesize = 200px caption = Lethem in 2008 at the Brooklyn Book Festival. pseudonym = birthname = Jonathan Allen Lethem birthdate = birth date and age|mf=yes|1964|2|19 birthplace = Brooklyn, New York… …

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  • 6Rose Nader — (February 7, 1906 January 20, 2006, born Rose Bouziane) was the mother of U.S. activist, consumer advocate, and frequent third party candidate, Ralph Nader. She was a well known activist in her hometown of Winsted, Connecticut, where she famously …

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  • 7That Lucky Old Sun (album) — That Lucky Old Sun Studio album by Brian Wilson Released 2 September 2008 …

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  • 8Wiles, Andrew John — ▪ 1994       In June 1993, at a small conference of mathematicians at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, Andrew Wiles dropped a historic bombshell. He had solved one of mathematics oldest mysteries, Fermat s last theorem. The Princeton… …

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  • 9literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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  • 10United 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… …

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