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• Flashback
  *2a : [[interruption]] of [[chronological]] [[sequence]] (as in a [[film]] or [[literary]] work) by [[interjection]] of [[events]] of earlier occurr :b : a [[past]] incident recurring vividly in the [[mind]]
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• Ebullition
  *2 : the [[act]], [[process]], or [[state]] of boiling or bubbling up ...urs in three characteristic [[stages]], which are nucleate, transition and film boiling. These stages generally take place from low to high surface tempera
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• Exposure
  *1 : the [[fact]] or condition of being exposed: as a : the condition of [[being]] presented to [[view]] or made known <a [[politician] :b : the condition of [[being]] unprotected especially from severe [[weather]] <died
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• Retrospective
  ...to take a look back at events that already have taken place. For example, the term is used in [[medicine]], describing a look back at a patient's medical <center>For lessons on the related topic of the '''''[[Past]]''''', follow '''''[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?t
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• Perspective
  ...ion of the eye [[relative]] to the objects. There are two main meanings of the term: ''linear perspective'' and ''aerial perspective''. <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Perspective''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/
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• Melodrama
  ...ilm|movie]] or [[play]]) characterized by extravagant theatricality and by the predominance of plot and [[physical]] [[action]] over characterization :b : the genre of dramatic [[literature]] constituted by such works
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• Arts & Humanities Citation Index
  ...ion, & Film, [[Religion]], [[Theater]]. One of five databases that make up the Web of Science. [[Category: The Arts]]
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• Pathos
  ...plot are not to be confused with [[tragic]] occurrences. In a [[tragedy]], the character brings about his or her own demise, whereas those invoking pathos ...livery and an overall [[number]] of [[emotional]] items in the [[text]] of the [[speech]], or in [[writing]].
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• Stargate
  ...by generating an artificial and stable [[wormhole]] between them, allowing one-way travel through. <center>For lessons on the related [[topic]] of '''''[[Portals]]''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.o
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• Ad lib
  *1: in accordance with one's [[wishes]] ...When the entire [[performance]] is predicated on [[spontaneous]] creation, the process is called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvisational_theatre im
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• Actors
  *1 : one that acts : doer *2 a : one who [[represents]] a character in a [[dramatic]] production
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• Deliberation
  ..."), legal deliberation is a [[form]] of [[communication]] which emphasizes the use of [[logic]] and [[reasoning]] (as opposed to [[power]], [[coercion]] o ...plaintiff or the defendant and the amount and [[nature]] of the results of the trial.
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• Horror
  ...s such as "horrific" or "horror"; it means "to stand on end" and refers to the standing hairs of goose bumps, otherwise known as 'horripilation' ...r]], dread, or dismay <astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me — H. G. Wells>
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• Deliberations
  ...cy]]"), legal deliberation is a form of [[communication]] which emphasizes the use of [[logic]] and [[reasoning]] (as opposed to [[power]], [[coercion]] o ...plaintiff or the defendant and the amount and [[nature]] of the results of the [[trial]].
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• Fiction
  ...orks is considered to be a fundamental aspect of human [[culture]], one of the defining characteristics of [[humanity]]. ...ere appears to be little consensus regarding the number and composition of the fundamental elements of fiction. For example:
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• Spectacle
  ...he term "spectacle" has also been a term of art in [[theater]] dating from the 17th century in [[English language|English]] [[drama]]. ...[Rome|Roman]] elite of "Bread and Circuses" to maintain civil order due to the an inability to solve underlying social and economic problems.[https://www.
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• Farce
  ...comic interludes ‘stuffed’ into the texts of religious plays, which led to the current usage. *3: the broad [[humor]] characteristic of ''farce''
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• Law of Attraction
  ...at thoughts (both conscious and unconscious) can affect [[things]] outside the head, not just through [[motivation]], but by other means. Essentially, "if ...er Rhonda Byrne. Byrne followed up the film with a bestselling [[book]] of the same title and appeared on a series of talk shows in 2007.
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• James Agee
  ...e U.S. His autobiographical novel, ''[[A Death in the Family]]'' 1957, won the author a posthumous [[Pulitzer Prize]]. ...de. When Agee was six, his father died in an automobile accident, and from the age of seven he and his younger sister, Emma, were educated in boarding sch
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• EFTS (Electronic Full Text Sources)
  ...''Diderot's Encyclopédie'', ''English Poetry'', ''Italian Women Writers'', the ''Patrologia Latina Database'', ''North American Women's Letters and Diarie ...Library's Research Guides] for more subject specific information or visit the [https://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/scrc Special Collections Research Center]
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• Derivative
  #[[Imitative]] of the work of someone else #A word that derives from another one.
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• Lubrication
  ...e]] generated) between the [[opposing]] surfaces. The interposed lubricant film can be a solid, (e.g. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite graphite], Mo ...]]al viscous [[resistance]] to [[motion]] of the lubricating fluid between the surfaces.
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• Oxford Companion to American Military History
  ...ordreference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t126 '''''The Oxford Companion to American Military History'''''] ...lt is the widest ranging account compiled in one volume of war, peace, and the U.S. military.
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• Panorama
  ...awing, photography, film/video, or a three-dimensional [[model]]. Further, the motion-picture term, pan or panning, is derived from "panorama". ...face and viewed from the inside, they were exhibited in London in 1792 as "The Panorama".
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• Noise
  ...ever, noise is still considered to be [[information]]. In a broader sense, film grain or even advertisements encountered while looking for something else c Noise can block, distort, change or interfere with the [[meaning]] of a message in both [[human]] and electronic [[communication]]
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• Property
  ...other individuals or groups, assuring the owner the right to dispense with the property in a [[manner]] he or she sees fit. Some [[philosophers]] assert t ...is any property that is not public property. Private property may be under the control of a single individual or by a group of individuals [[collective]]l
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• Editor
  :'''One who edits''' ...mity]] to a standard or to suit a particular [[purpose]] <carefully edited the [[speech]]> <edit a data file>
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• Bathos
  *1a : the sudden appearance of the commonplace in otherwise elevated matter or [[style]] : The serious [[message]] of the [[film]] is ruined by the ''bathos'' of its ridiculous ending.
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• Biography
  *3: an account of the life of something (as an [[animal]], a coin, or a building) ...ing [[intimate]] details of experience, and may include an [[analysis]] of the subject's [[personality]].
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• Support
  *I. The action of supporting. :1. a. The [[action]], or an act, of preventing a [[person]] from giving way, backing
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• Fine art
  ...]] (as [[painting]], [[sculpture]], or [[music]]) concerned primarily with the creation of [[beautiful]] objects —usually used in plural '''Fine art''' or the fine arts, from the 17th century on, denote art forms developed primarily for [[aesthetics]] an
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• Chants
  ...e_Ages Middle Ages] some religious chant evolved into song (forming one of the roots of later Western music).[2] Chanting (e.g., [[mantra]], sacred [[text]], the name of [[God]]/Spirit, etc.) is a commonly used [[spiritual]] [[practice]]
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• Crop Circles
  ..., rye, or corn, and the term itself Crop circle is a new term that entered the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] in 1990. ...uch as the circlemakers arts [[collective]][2] founded by John Lundberg in the early 1990s.
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• Mime
  :b : one that practices mime *4: pantomime - the art or [[genre]] of conveying a [[story]] by bodily movements only
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• Naked
  ...ng or subtending parts d : lacking foliage or vegetation e of an animal or one of its parts : lacking an external covering (as of hair, feathers, or shell *7 : unaided by any optical device or instrument <the naked eye>
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• Laboratory
  ...a laboratory for testing, experimentation, or practice <the laboratory of the [[mind]]> .... The title of laboratory is also used for certain other facilities where the [[processes]] or equipment used are similar to those in scientific laborato
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• Image
  ...ic as to suggest a mental image or give an accurate [[idea]] of something <the book gives a detailed picture of what is happening> *3 : image, [[copy]] <he was the picture of his [[father]]> <she was the very picture of [[health]]>
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• Genre
  ..."sort" is a loose set of criteria for a category of literary composition; the term is also used for any other [[Art#Art forms|form of art]] or [[utteranc ...ther, all works are recognized as either reflecting on or participating in the conventions of genre.
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• Teleportation
  ...terial objects between one place and another without physically traversing the [[distance]] between them has been documented as early as 1878. ...(meaning "to carry"). Fort's first formal use of the [[word]] occurred in the second chapter of his 1931 book [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo! ''Lo!'']
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• Speed
  <center>For lessons on the related [[topic]] of '''''[[Acceleration]]''''', follow [https://nordan.day ...m_Earth_to_Moon.gif‎|center|frame|<center>Speed of light from [[Earth]] to the Moon.</center>]]
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• Conspicuous
  ...cial status]]. A very similar but more colloquial term is "keeping up with the Joneses". Invidious consumption, a more specialized term, refers to consump ...odernism] and [[discussions]] around taste offer alternative views, whilst the [[ideas]] of sociologist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bourdieu#Bou
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• Vignette
  ...ine leaves, tendrils, and grapes) put on or just before a title page or at the beginning or end of a chapter; also : a small decorative [[design]] or [[pi ...picture (as an engraving or photograph) that shades off [[gradually]] into the [[surrounding]] paper
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• Epic
  *1 : of, relating to, or having the characteristics of an epic <an epic poem> *2 a : extending beyond the usual or ordinary especially in size or scope <his genius was epic — Time
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• Evaporation
  :b : to deposit (as a metal) in the [[form]] of a film by sublimation ...curs on the entire [[mass]] of the [[liquid]]. Evaporation is also part of the [[water]] [[cycle]].
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• Projection
  ...urface]] upon which features from a curved surface (as of the [[earth]] or the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_sphere celestial sphere]) may be m :b : the [[process]] or [[technique]] of reproducing a spatial object upon a plane o
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• Ten
  *1 : the 10th in a set or [[series]] <wears a ten> *4 : one deserving the highest rating; specifically : an exceptionally [[attractive]] [[person]]
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• Multimedia
  *2: a [[technique]] (as the combining of [[sound]], video, and [[text]]) for [[expressing]] [[ideas]] ( ...a. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermedia Hypermedia] can be considered one particular multimedia application.
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• Disguise
  *1 a : to change the customary dress or appearance of b : to furnish with a false appearance or *3 : to obscure the existence or true state or character of : conceal <unable to disguise his t
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• 1999-05-04-Weaving the Tapestry
  ===Topic: '''''Weaving the Tapestry'''''=== ...wn to business here and get something done -- because we are eager to feed the Supreme!
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• Joan of Arc
  ...nis, St. Martin of Tours, St. Louis IX, and St. Theresa of Lisieux, one of the patron saints of France. ...o Charles VII's coronation at Reims and settled the disputed succession to the throne.
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