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Lacuna (manuscripts)

Summary: {{Template}} A '''lacuna''' is a gap in a [[manuscript]], [[inscription]], text, painting, or a musical work. A manuscript, text, or section suffering from gaps is said to be '''lacunose'''...

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Art and revolution

Summary: {{Template}} *[[Art and Revolution (Viennese Actionism)]] *[[Art and Revolution]] , Wagner *[[The Revolution of Modern Art and the Modern Art of Revolution]] (1967) {{GFDL}}

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Packing (phallus)

Summary: {{Template}} '''Packing''' refers to the wearing of padding or a [[phallic]] object in the front of a person's pants or underwear, to give the appearance of having a [[penis]]. Packing is...

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Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940)

Summary: {{Template}} The '''1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge''' was a [[suspension bridge]] in the [[United States|U.S.]] state of [[Washington (U.S. state)|Washington]]. Construction on the bridge began in...

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Aeroelasticity

Summary: {{Template}} '''Aeroelasticity''' is the science which studies the interactions among [[inertial force|inertial]], [[elasticity (physics)|elastic]], and [[aerodynamic force|aerodynamic]]...

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Mechanical resonance

Summary: {{Template}} '''Mechanical resonance''' is the tendency of a [[mechanics|mechanical system]] to respond at greater amplitude when the [[frequency]] of its oscillations matches the system's...

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December 10, 2012

Summary: {{Template}} [[Anonymous Woodcut of Jesus' feet]][http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/images/print/almanac/prjx069.jpg]. Illustration to [[Alfred Jarry]]'s article "[[La Passion: Les Clous du...

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The Balloon-Hoax

Summary: {{Template}}"'''The Balloon-Hoax'''" is the title used in collections and [[anthology|anthologies]] of a newspaper article written by [[Edgar Allan Poe]], first published in 1844. Originally...

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The Dark Domain

Summary: {{Template}}"[[The Dark Domain]]" by [[Stefan Grabiński]]. {{GFDL}}

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The Blind Owl

Summary: {{Template}} '''The Blind Owl''' (1937) (in [[Persian language|Persian]]: بوف کور ''Boof-e koor'') is [[Sadegh Hedayat]]'s most enduring work of prose and one of literature's greatest...

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Gut feeling

Summary: {{Template}} # an [[instinct]] or [[intuition]]; an [[immediate]] or [[basic]] feeling or [[reaction]] without a logical rationale #: ''Don't think too hard about the answers to a personality...

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Gut reaction

Summary: {{Template}} # An [[instantaneous]] reaction made without [[thought]] #: ''When he saw that [[lion]] leaping towards him, his '''gut reaction''' was to run.'' ====Related terms==== * [[gut]] *...

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Gut (anatomy)

Summary: {{Template}} In [[zoology]], the '''gut''', also known as the '''alimentary canal''' or '''[[alimentary tract]]''', is a tube by which [[bilateria]]n [[animal]]s transfer food to the...

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Flying polyp

Summary: {{Template}} A '''flying polyp''' is a member of a fictional [[Extraterrestrial life in popular culture|alien race]] (also called ''Elder Beings'' or ''Polypous Race'') in the [[Cthulhu...

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Great Race of Yith

Summary: {{Template}} The '''Great Race of Yith''' are [[Extraterrestrial life|alien]]s in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] of [[H. P. Lovecraft]]. They first appeared in Lovecraft's [[short story]] "[[The...

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Topiary

Summary: {{Template}} '''Topiary''' is the [[horticultural]] practice of training live [[perennial plant]]s by clipping the [[foliage]] and [[twig]]s of [[tree]]s, [[shrub]]s and [[subshrub]]s to...

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Overgrowth

Summary: [[Image:Roots.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Roots of a ''[[Tetrameles nudiflora]]'' [[tree]] at an abandoned [[temple]] in [[Cambodia]]]] {{Template}} # A usually [[abundant]], [[luxuriant]]...

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Some unusual uses of fictional characters

Summary: {{Template}} [[postmodern literature|Postmodern fiction]] frequently incorporates real characters into fictional and even realistic surroundings. In film, the appearance of a real person as...

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Saint Lucy

Summary: {{Template}} : ''This article is about the Christian saint. For other meanings, see [[Saint Lucia (disambiguation)]] '''Saint Lucy''' (283–304), also known as ''Saint Lucia'' or ''Santa...

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List of Catholic saints

Summary: {{Template}} This table provides an incomplete '''list of Catholic [[saint]]s'''. The [[Catholic Church]] recognizes thousands of saints by name. Anyone in heaven is a saint, including many...

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