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  • 101near-death experience — /near deth / any experience involving a vision, as of the afterlife, reported by a resuscitated person. * * * Mystical or transcendent experience reported by people who have been on the threshold of death. The near death experience varies with… …

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  • 102Conspiracy theories about the death of Zia-ul-Haq — The President of Pakistan, General Zia ul Haq died in a plane crash on August 17 1988, about which several conspiracy theories exist. CrashOn 17 August 1988, General Zia and five of his generals had visited a test site to observe a demonstration… …

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  • 103Nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll — Main article: Nuclear and radiation accidents There have been more than 20 nuclear and radiation accidents involving fatalities. These involved nuclear power plant accidents, nuclear submarine accidents, radiotherapy accidents, and other mishaps …

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  • 104life-and-death — life′ and death′ also life or death adj. involving possible loss of life; mortal; crucially important: a life and death struggle[/ex] • Etymology: 1680–90 …

    From formal English to slang

  • 105Civil death — Civil Civ il, a. [L. civilis, fr. civis citizen: cf. F. civil. See {City}.] 1. Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state. [1913 Webster] 2. Subject to… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 106A Presumption of Death — infobox Book | name = A Presumption of Death title orig = translator = image caption = Early paperback edition cover author = Jill Paton Walsh cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = English series = Lord Peter Wimsey genre = Mystery… …

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  • 107List of United Kingdom rail accidents by death toll — This lists railway accidents in the UK sorted by death toll. It is complete for accidents causing 25 or more deaths and selective for those causing fewer. For a list sorted chronologically see List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom. TOC… …

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  • 108Political unions involving Sweden — Sweden has for political and dynastic reasons been in union with other kingdoms and princely states, ostensibly personal unions. Norway (I) and Terra Scania In 1319 the infant Magnus Eriksson was crowned as king of both Sweden and Norway. In 1332 …

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  • 109“Winged Death“ —    Novelette (10,070 words); ghostwritten for Hazel Heald, probably in the summer of 1932. First published in WT(March 1934); first collected in Marginalia;corrected text in HM.    A scientist, Thomas Slauenwite, discovers a rare insect in South… …

    An H.P.Lovecraft encyclopedia

  • 110near-death experience — near′ death expe′rience n. par any experience involving a vision, as of the afterlife, reported by a resuscitated person …

    From formal English to slang