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me, pro. The objectionable ca...

me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.

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critic, n. A person who boast...

critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

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A rabbit's foot may bring goo...

A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.

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Kindness n: A brief preface t...

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

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ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward ...

ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.

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RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy vi...

RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries . .

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When lost in a forest go alwa...

When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.

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PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an exp...

PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation. . . . Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.

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EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of t...

EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.

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RICE-WATER, n. A mystic bever...

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

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CUI BONO? [Latin] What good w...

CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"?

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PRESIDENT, n. The leading fig...

PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.

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YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of ...

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

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HYDRA, n. A kind of animal th...

HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

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NIRVANA- In the Buddhist reli...

NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.

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RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter,...

RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

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EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast ...

EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.

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KING, n. A male person common...

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.

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REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of ...

REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

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TELESCOPE, n. A device having...

TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....