n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility. His principal qualification is a degree of plausible inveracity next below that of an ambassador.
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(n.) a monstrous bird-beast that ruled the earth in a simpler, less hectic time before the hustle and bustle of urban living. also that which is antiquated or obsolete.
God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
(n.) a particularly seditious form of vegetable; unlike corn, which is dutifully regimented in rows of stalks, potatoes tend to dwell underground, where they might be up to any kind of subversive activity
still, they can be served a lot of ways and most of them taste pretty good.
still, they can be served a lot of ways and most of them taste pretty good.
common three-leaved plant famous for sometimes having four leaves
a method of poverty reduction in which poverty is located and bombed to oblivion
Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.
n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.
The bones of Agamemnon are a show,
And ruined is his royal monument,
but Agamemnon's fame suffers no diminution in consequence. The monument custom has its reductiones ad absurdum in monuments "to the unknown dead" — that is to say, monuments to perpetuate the memory of those who have left no memory.
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The bones of Agamemnon are a show,
And ruined is his royal monument,
but Agamemnon's fame suffers no diminution in consequence. The monument custom has its reductiones ad absurdum in monuments "to the unknown dead" — that is to say, monuments to perpetuate the memory of those who have left no memory.
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A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Among the Jews observance of the day was enforced by a Commandment of which this is the Christian version: "Remember the seventh day to make thy neighbor keep it wholly." To the Creator it seemed fit and expedient that the Sabbath should be the last day of the week, but the Early Fathers of the Church held other views. So great is the sanctity of the day that even where the Lord holds a doubtful and precarious jurisdiction over those who go down to (and down into) the sea it is reverently recognized, as is manifest in the following deep-water version of the Fourth Commandment:
Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able,
And on the seventh holystone the deck and scrape the cable.
Decks are no longer holystoned, but the cable still supplies the captain with opportunity to attest a pious respect for the divine ordinance.
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Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able,
And on the seventh holystone the deck and scrape the cable.
Decks are no longer holystoned, but the cable still supplies the captain with opportunity to attest a pious respect for the divine ordinance.
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Orville (1871 – 1948) – Wilbur (1867 – 1912) – Created and flew the first aeroplane.
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: orville and wilbur wright quotes)
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: orville and wilbur wright quotes)
n. One who worships at the shrine of his ancestral cell
(also: list of all isms)
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(also: list of all isms)
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A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
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seafaring gentlemen of the nordic persuasion circa the ninth and tenth centuries, who made their living pillaging and raiding and reaving and so on
today remembered either as savage unwashed brutes or as admirable noble savage types (mostly by fans of heavy metal)
today remembered either as savage unwashed brutes or as admirable noble savage types (mostly by fans of heavy metal)
Place where you dont have to cover yourself, place of understanding, place of an agreement, certainty. In this regard, there are a lot of homeless people and a lot that ypu can do for them
(also: friendship)
(also: friendship)
(n.) as in, a win from many, many sides.
this is not a zero-sum world, despite pessimists and "realists" who might try to tell you otherwise.
(no, I won't get perfectionist on you and insist on positioning the win so that it's on literally *all* sides; but you know, getting as close to that as we possibly can)
(also: positive-sum)
(also: empathy)
(also: clarity)
not (also: zero-sum)
this is not a zero-sum world, despite pessimists and "realists" who might try to tell you otherwise.
(no, I won't get perfectionist on you and insist on positioning the win so that it's on literally *all* sides; but you know, getting as close to that as we possibly can)
(also: positive-sum)
(also: empathy)
(also: clarity)
not (also: zero-sum)
different question, please
A series of sound that makes sense.
The classical prototype of the modern "small hot bird."
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sign-up or face the consequences!
“"observers" must obey the call.”
join