apodixis
(rhetoric) Supporting a proposition by reference to common knowledge.

By Greg Flakus Houston 02 August 2007 Officials in Minneapolis are preparing for more sad news as recovery efforts go forward on the Mississippi River, where a major bridge collapsed Wednesday. There are only four confirmed deaths from the incident,

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By Daniel Schearf Singapore 20 September 2006 World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz speaks during annual meetings in Singapore The annual meeting of the World Bank andInternational Monetary Fund has ended after two days of discussions in Singapore, wi

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By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 19 July 2007 Kenya's attorney general acknowledged Thursday that his country has seen what he called an astronomical proliferation of light weapons such as assault rifles and pistols. As Nick Wadhams reports from Nairobi, the

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Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithful during his weekly general audience at St. Peter's square at The Vatican, 17 Mar 2010 Pope Benedict has written to Catholics in Ireland to apologize for the sexual abuses carried out by the clergy in that country ov

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The first man to set foot on the moon has hailed the space race of the 1950s and '60s as an example of peaceful competition between rival superpowers. Legendary U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong spoke at Washington's Air and Space Museum Sunday on the e

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Tekapo is a special place. This small town has a big observatory at Mount John, 1000m above the town. It has six telescopes including New Zealands biggest telescope with a diameter of 1.8m, built with Japanese money. The observatory is operated by th

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In April 1970, Apollo 13 was scheduled to land on the moon in NASA's bid to further explore the lunar surface. Instead, an in-flight explosion rocked the spacecraft, preventing astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise from landing on the m

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ROME, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Napoli proved unstoppable at home in the Champions League when they beat Chelsea 3-1 at home in the first leg of the final 16 tie on Tuesday. Chelsea took the lead in the 27th minute through Juan Mata, and then Napoli respon

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U.S. authorities have charged a Pakistani-born U.S. citizen with terrorism related charges in connection to the failed Times Square bombing. Thirty-year-old Faisal Shahzad was charged Tuesday in a five-count complaint, one day after he was arrested w

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active inductor
analog-to-digital recorder
anchor shackle pin
anti-intellectuals
archegonial chamber
battened down the hatches
battery brooder
boomlike
Boswellizer
bourlet
bridging time
brier-rose
caching controller
calusterone
cancelled ballot ticket
castrel
channellers
chewing tablets
cldy.
cloud the brain
Colonospasm
confecture
control rod block actuation
creative intelligence
DC system panel
detarnish
detentions
digit rearrangement
direct services
double diameter piston
eastern kingbird
extradyadic
ez-fit
finiteless
formate gear
fusogenicities
gear parts
genus Myrmecobius
glutathionreductase
gracilaria bursa-pastoris
grain oriented
granular skin grafting
ground attack (ga)
high explosive incendiary tracer
identification by palm print
joint brazing
Karimunjawa, Pulau-pulau
kuala (koeala)
lactonic ring
leimbach
lick my lips
linear sensing array
Los-Alamos meson physics factory linac
low-nitrate
lube oil hydrotreating process
malignant tumor
malt charge
mothies
mutual fund corporation
mythopoetics
night driverscope
non-deformability
operational program
pacific polar front
paclitexal
Parasenecio taliensis
Peristrophe japonica
phase-delay distortion
phonophoretic
pittancer
pro-actinium
quinquesyllable
Rae L.
remasterers
reproducing frequency response
retender
rubidate
rumbaut
scleroblast
shock-wave initiation
silicone waterproofing
simultaneous use
sliding stay
sound and light
squirreltail barleys
steam flooding
subfamily Gerbillinae
subjective aspects of crime
sucipto
suprasellar meningioma
telemetering reception
thermoregulatory center
tim burton
tree tobaccoes
triplette
tumor of ureter
turbine flow
unaccultured
vernunft
with a blow
work-holder
X-ray halo