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UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power...

UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

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OLD, adj. In that stage of use...

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an 'old man'. Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an 'old' book.

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IMPENITENCE, n. A state of min...

IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

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EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of th...

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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CLOCK, n. A machine of great m...

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.

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PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously ap...

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.

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SATIETY, n. The feeling that o...

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

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PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind ...

PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.

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GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies...

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an 'author,' there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.

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The quality that distinguishes...

The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

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A system of pitfalls thoughtfu...

A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

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Epitaph: An inscription on a t...

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

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Cribbage, n. A substitute for ...

Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.

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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum ...

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;' as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.

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Mad; adj. Affected with a high...

Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.

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PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrin...

PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore.

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OWE, v. To have (and to hold) ...

OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant 'own,' and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.

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Clarinet n. An instrument of t...

Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet Ђ' two clarinets.

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NIHILIST, n. A Russian who den...

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

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A chop is a piece of leather s...

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....