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  • 21Mwanawasa, Levy Patrick — ▪ 2009       Zambian attorney and politician born Sept. 3, 1948, Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia [now Zambia] died Aug. 19, 2008, Paris, France as the third president (2002–08) of Zambia, launched an anticorruption campaign that included stripping… …

    Universalium

  • 22Germany — • History divided by time periods, beginning with before 1556 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Germany     Germany     † …

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  • 23Hegel, spirit, and politics — Leo Rauch Hegel’s impact on political thought has been immense giving shape to the major political movements of the modern world. Yet the person of average education is hardly familiar with the name, which is usually identified with a small… …

    History of philosophy

  • 24myth — n. 1) to create a myth 2) to debunk, dispel; explode a myth 3) a myth that + clause (we dispelled the myth that their army was invincible) * * * [mɪθ] dispel explode a myth to create a myth to debunk a myth that + clause (we dispelled the myth… …

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  • 25scatter — 1 Scatter, disperse, dissipate, dispel can mean to cause a group, mass, or assemblage to separate or break up. Scatter may imply the use or operation of force which drives the persons or things in different directions {the hurricane scattered the …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 26dispel — UK [dɪˈspel] / US verb [transitive] Word forms dispel : present tense I/you/we/they dispel he/she/it dispels present participle dispelling past tense dispelled past participle dispelled to get rid of unpleasant feelings or false beliefs He was… …

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  • 27dispel — v.tr. (dispelled, dispelling) dissipate; disperse; scatter (the dawn dispelled their fears). Derivatives: dispeller n. Etymology: L dispellere (as DIS , pellere drive) …

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  • 28condensation cloud — A mist or fog of minute water droplets that temporarily surrounds the fireball following a nuclear (or atomic) detonation in a comparatively humid atmosphere. The expansion of the air in the negative phase of the blast wave from the explosion… …

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  • 29dispel — transitive verb (dispelled; dispelling) Etymology: Middle English, from Latin dispellere, from dis + pellere to drive, beat more at felt Date: 15th century to drive away by or as if by scattering ; dissipate < dispel a rumor > Synonyms: see&#8230; …

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  • 30scatter — I. verb Etymology: Middle English scateren, schateren to disperse, break up, destroy; akin to Middle Dutch schaderen to scatter Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to cause to separate widely b. to cause to vanish 2. archaic to fling away&#8230; …

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