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• Tribe
  ...English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [[Latin]] tribus, a division of the [[Roman]] people, tribe ...Twelve Tribes of Israel]. The word is from Old French tribu, in turn from Latin tribus, referring to the original tripartite [[ethnic]] division of the Rom
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• Normal distribution
  ...ty]] similar to that in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America Latin America].
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• Cannabis
  1798, "common [[hemp]]," from ''Cannabis'', Modern Latin plant genus named (1728), from [[Greek]] ''kannabis'' "hemp," a [https://en ...sphere where Spaniards imported it to Chile for its use as fiber. In North America cannabis, in the form of hemp, was grown for use in rope, clothing and pape
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• Topography
  ...0-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] topographie, from Late Latin topographia, from [[Greek]], from topographein to describe a place, from t ...even local [[history]] and [[culture]]. This [[meaning]] is less common in America, where topographic maps with elevation contours have made "topography" syno
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• Slavery
  <blockquote>In the West Indies in particular, but also in North and South America, slavery was the engine that drove the mercantile empires of Europe. The in The [[English]] [[word]] slave derives - through Old French and Medieval [[Latin]] - from the medieval word for Slavic people of Central and Eastern Europe,
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• 2015-02-04-We Are Many
  ...My regular continent is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America South America], and parts of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil Brazil], too, are incl
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• Pedagogy
  The [[Latin]]-derived word for pedagogy, means good learning styles. Education,[4] is n #Greenberg, D. (1992), Education in America, A View from Sudbury Valley, "Special Education" -- A noble Cause Sacrifice
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• Honor
  '''Honor''' (from the [[Latin]] [[word]] honos, honoris) is the evaluation of a [[person]]'s [[trust|trus * [https://www.jottings.ca/john/ATH.html America, Truth, and Honor][
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• Empire
  The term '''empire''' derives from the [[Latin]] imperium. [[Politically]], an empire is a geographically extensive [[grou ...ines; the British Empire established itself with English in northern North America; elsewhere, despite Russian not supplanting the indigenous tongues of the C
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• Prostitution
  "To prostitute" is derived from a composition of two [[Latin]] words: (preposition) pro and (verb) statuere. A [[literal]] [[translation The customers of prostitutes are known as ''johns'' or ''tricks'' in North America and ''punters'' in the British Isles. These slang terms are used among both
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• Rest
  The [[word]] leisure comes from the [[Latin]] word licere, meaning “to be permitted” or “to be free,” via Old F ...the 1870s, a trend which spread to industrial nations in Europe and North America. As workers channeled their wages into leisure activities, the modern enter
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• 2011-03-04-Conversations with Monjoronson 28
  ...ew Zealand in 1987 and spread to North America, and to Europe and to South America, and to the rest of the world. This comes after the publication of The Ura ...istics in all human cultures, whether in China or the United States, South America, or any other human social group, that are identical within the first two y
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• Womanhood
  ...man (from Irish bean woman, sí fairy) and zenana (from Persian zan). The [[Latin]] fēmina, whence female, is likely from the root in fellāre (to suck), re ...as a deliberate archaism; "muliebrity" is a neologism (derived from the [[Latin]]) meant to provide a female counterpart of "virility", but used very loose
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• 2009-03-31-Confusing Magisterial Mission w Antichrist
  ...uestion comes from our brethren in Latin America and reads as follows: Our Latin countries were conquered by the Spanish, a conquest that was harsh and whic
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• Imperium
  ...ates|U.S. President]], was the commander of the armed forces. In fact, the Latin word, imperator, gives us the English word emperor. In monotheistic religions such as Christianity (where the official language, Latin, used terms as ''Imperium Dei/Domini'') the Divine is held to have a superi
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• Counsel
  ...e meaning a deliberating body are now written COUNCIL, by confusion with [[Latin]] concilium. In the United States of America, the term counselor-at-law designates, specifically, an attorney admitted t
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• World Government
  ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri Dante Alighieri], titled in Latin, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Monarchia De Monarchia], which in Englis De jure belli ac pacis (On the Law of War and Peace) is a 1625 [[book]] in [[Latin]], written by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Grotius Hugo Grotius] and
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• Transcendental
  ...[[meaning]]s, all of them derived from the word's literal meaning (from [[Latin]]), of climbing or going beyond: one sense that originated in [[Ancient Phi ...u.hk/~ppp/ksp1 Kant's System of Perspectives] (Lanham: University Press of America, 1993). See especially Part Two.
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• Illustration
  A [[movement]] was started in Latin America by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Martinez_Delgado Santiago Martin
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• The Enlightenment
  ...e Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Russia and Scandinavia, along with Latin America and instigating the Haitian Revolution. It has been argued that the signato
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