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  • 81Reverse (cricket) — In the sport of cricket, making the ball move in the air with the older ball is called reverse swing. Conventional swingThe cricket ball often moves in the air towards or away from a batsman when a pace bowler is bowling. It is this deviation… …

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  • 82Gregory of Nin — ( hr. Grgur Ninski) was a 10th century bishop that strongly opposed the Pope and official circles of the Church and introduced the Croatian language in the religious services after the Great Assembly in 926. Until that time, services were held… …

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  • 83sculpture — sculptural, adj. sculpturally, adv. /skulp cheuhr/, n., v., sculptured, sculpturing. n. 1. the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the… …

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  • 84tool — tooler, n. toolless, adj. /toohl/, n. 1. an implement, esp. one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations. 2. any instrument of manual operation. 3. the cutting or machining part of a lathe …

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  • 85Maurice Russell, knight — Sir Maurice Russell, a typecast not a portrait, displays the serious and dignified mien expected of the mediaeval knight, as for example portrayed in Chaucer s Canterbury Tales. Detail from Dyrham brass …

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  • 86Murder of Zoe Nelson — Zoe Nelson Born August 13, 1992(1992 08 13) Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland Died 22 May 2010(2010 05 22) (aged 17) Wishaw Cause of death Unascertained …

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  • 87Ometepe (archaeological site) — Ometepe Island is an important archaeological site, located in the Lake Nicaragua in the Republic of Nicaragua, administratively belongs to the Rivas Department. Its name derives from the Nahuatl words ome (two) and tepetl (mountain), meaning two …

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  • 88rub off — be removed by rubbing (as of color); take off by rubbing; be worn out …

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  • 89erase — erase, expunge, cancel, efface, obliterate, blot out, delete mean to strike out something so that it no longer has effect or existence. Erase basically implies a scraping or rubbing out of something that is written, engraved, or painted {erase a… …

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  • 90abrasion — n. 1) a graze: a minor wound in which the surface of the skin or a mucous membrane is worn away by rubbing or scraping. 2) the wearing of the teeth, particularly at the necks by overvigorous brushing. It is frequently enhanced by erosion. 3) any… …

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