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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学英语单词
allelo-
amoenus
antihypotension
BC-17
bestiolina amoyensis
billot
biogenists
bisetose, bisetous
brass instrumentalist
broghammer
canonical disjunctive form
cc line
chamfer arc
civil legislation
clear position
cloth feeder
Collis technique
control lever boot
development methodology
Deylaman
Do the Downy
doxal
draw pictures
El Almendro, R.
endfulness
equivariant
Euroequity market
exhaust gas primer
expansion path of Cobb-Douglas production function
export cartel
ferromagnetic dielectrics
flywheel-fan
forelandbasin
four-choke carburettor
fully owned subsidiary
fumeus
geick
guard vessel system
hand channel
Harjab, Wādī
high-impact
Iruya
kleptophilia
leave no doubt
lignite bitumite
lipo-hepinette
lothness
lyke-wake
marketwide risk
match(ed) filter
mayheming
mean flax
Meliola
Miruro
multidrop network
multiple throttle valve
N-1-dimethylaminoheptane
Ngaya, Dj.
nongeneticists
Okrzeszyn
on the barrelhead
palatine bones
pedal lobes
pitchy taste
planet symbol
polarpolymer
popular demand
postpast
psychological problems
raguinite
real-time command
recycling symbol
regulating mechanism for pitch adjustment
relative settlement
revenue from main sources
rotteth
scanning line spacing
selenonic
self-extinguishing circuit-break
serigraphers
setdrive
shifting banks
silver oxalate
sing high praise for
special mission unit
spriting
St Magnus Bay
stampeth
stereo SLAR mapping
straight loan
take someone under one's wing
thaspine
tip of file
train gauge
two-way dynamic microphone
ulmite
ureide
uveal staphyloma
Vasilika
wipe out
zone of fracture and flow age