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21collation — col·la·tion /kə lā shən, kä , kō / n [French, from Latin collatio bonorum (in Roman law) contribution made by emancipated heirs to an estate under an intestate succession, literally, bringing together of goods] in the civil law of Louisiana: the… …
22comparison — com•par•i•son [[t]kəmˈpær ə sən[/t]] n. 1) the act of comparing 2) the state of being compared 3) a likening; comparative estimate or statement 4) capability of being compared or likened; similarity 5) gram. the inflection or other modification… …
23comparison — /kəmˈpærəsən / (say kuhm paruhsuhn) noun 1. the act of comparing. 2. the state of being compared. 3. a likening; an illustration by similitude; a comparative estimate or statement. 4. Rhetoric the considering of two things with regard to some… …
24Milman, Henry Hart — (1791 1868) Born in London, the son of a physician, and educated at Eton College, he graduated M.A. from Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1816. He was awarded a doctor of divinity degree in 1849 and was made a fellow of Brasenose. He won the… …
25ECONOMIC 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,… …
26accounting — /euh kown ting/, n. 1. the theory and system of setting up, maintaining, and auditing the books of a firm; art of analyzing the financial position and operating results of a business house from a study of its sales, purchases, overhead, etc.… …
27Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950) — Flight and expulsion of Germans during and after World War II (demographic estimates) Background …
28evolution — evolutional, adj. evolutionally, adv. /ev euh looh sheuhn/ or, esp. Brit., /ee veuh /, n. 1. any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane. 2. a product of such development; something… …
29Bahá'í statistics — Statistical estimates of the worldwide Bahá í population are difficult to judge. The religion is almost entirely contained in a single, organized, hierarchical community, but the Bahá í population is spread out into almost every country and… …
30Mass killings under Communist regimes — Part of the series on Communism …
