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• Latin America Data Base
  '''''[https://ladb.unm.edu/ Latin America Data Base]''''' Index and collection of news and other information on Latin America.
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• Latin America Data Base
  '''''[https://ladb.unm.edu/ Latin America Data Base]''''' Index and collection of news and other information on Latin America.
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• ClasePeriodica
  Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities ...rief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American
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• Candy
  ...n turn from Persian Qand (=قند) and Qandi (=قندی), "cane sugar". In North America, candy is a broad category that includes candy bars, chocolates, licorice, Outside North America, the generic [[English]]-language name for candy is sweets or [https://en.w
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• Continent
  ...ciple of continēre, to hold [[together]], contain; in senses 3 & 4, from [[Latin]] continent-, continens continuous mass of [[land]], mainland, from contine ...America North America], [https://www.wikpedia.org/wiki/South_America South America], [https://www.wikpedia.org/wiki/Antarctica Antarctica], [https://www.wikpe
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• Prominence
  ...._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] promynent, from [[Latin]] prominent-, prominens, from present participle of prominēre to jut forwa ...also known as autonomous height, relative height, shoulder drop (in North America), or prime factor (in Europe), is a [[concept]] used in the categorization
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• Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
  ...anges in the church. It includes increased coverage of the church in Latin America, Eastern Churches, issues on moral theology, and developments stemming from
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• Manifesto
  Italian, denunciation, manifest, from manifestare to [[manifest]], [[from]] Latin, from manifestus ...is derived from the Italian [[word]] manifesto, itself derived from the [[Latin]] manifestum, meaning [[clear]] or conspicuous. Its first recorded use in [
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• Occident
  ...Western world'', also known as ''the West'' and the '''Occident''' (from [[Latin]]: occidens "sunset, west"; as contrasted with the [[Orient]]), is a term t ...] and most countries in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America South America]. There is debate among some as to whether Eastern Europe is in a category
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• Clerk
  ...LISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] cleric, clerc, both from Late [[Latin]] clericus, from Late [[Greek]] klērikos, from Greek klēros lot, inherit ...pronunciation is different: /ˈklɑrk/ klark in most dialects outside North America, but /ˈklɜrk/ "klerk" in North American dialects.
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• Belligerent
  modification of [[Latin]] belligerant-, belligerans, present participle of belligerare to wage [[wa ...a hostile [[manner]], such as engaging in combat. Belligerent comes from [[Latin]], literally meaning "to wage [[war]]". Unlike the colloquial use of bellig
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• Cave
  ...00_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] cava, from cavus hollow; akin to [[Greek]] koilos hollow, and probably t ...and Antarctica. This is a great generalization, as large expanses of North America and Asia contain no documented caves, whereas areas such as the Madagascar
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• Modern
  Late Latin modernus, from Latin modo just now, from modus [[measure]] ...kipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Spain Muslim Spain] and the [[discovery]] of the [[America]]s in 1492, and Martin Luther's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_R
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• Medicine
  ...pedia.org/wiki/Therapy therapy]. The [[word]] medicine is derived from the Latin ars medicina, meaning the art of healing.[1][2] ...ly used for this [[purpose]], though this practice is mainly seen in North America.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine]
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• Neutral
  ...middle ground, from Latin ''neutralis'' neuter, from ''neutr''-, classical Latin ''neutrālis'' neither [[masculine]] nor [[feminine]] ..." ''neutrality is a [[negative]] [[word]]. It does not [[express]] what [[America]] ought to [[feel]]. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are tryin
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• Liberalism
  ...1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from Latin liberalis suitable for a freeman, generous, from liber free; perhaps akin '''Liberalism''' (from the Latin liberalis, "of [[freedom]]") is the [[belief]] in the importance of liberty
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• Infrastructure
  ...eath a constructed pavement or railway. The word is a combination of the [[Latin]] prefix "infra", [[meaning]] "below" and "[[structure]]". The military sen ...rominence in the United States in the 1980s following the publication of ''America in Ruins''ISBN 0822305542 (Choate and Walter, 1981)[1] , which initiated a
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• Emigration
  [[Latin]] emigratus, past participle of emigrare, from e- + migrare to [[migrate]] ...Europe for the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, the rest of Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand.
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• Cornucopia
  Late Latin, from [[Latin]] ''cornu copiae'' horn of plenty ...] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_art Western art], and in North America is particularly associated with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgi
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• Tutor
  ...Middle English] tutour, from Anglo-French & [[Latin]]; Anglo-French, from Latin tutor, from tueri ...a tutorial. The equivalent of this kind of "tutor" in the United States of America (U.S.) and the rest of Canada is known as a teaching assistant. In the [htt
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• Transmigration
  [[Latin]] transmigratus, past participle of transmigrare to [[migrate]] to another ...ocieties]] around the world, in places such as Siberia, West Africa, North America, and Australia.[2]
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