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Earth was old English for an animal's underground lair or hole. The term first occurs in the Domesday book referring to the village in Essex of Focsearde (now Foxearth), though the Oxford English Dictionary erroneously claims the term to first occur in a book published in 1575.
The earth is the name for third planet from the sun.
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An earthquake is a movement of the earth, caused either by volcanic activity below the surface or by a large area of earth, weaker than that which surrounds it, slipping a little downwards.
Earthquakes need not be severe. In some parts of the Pacific they are a daily, and not especially frightening, occurrence.
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An easel is a stand or support for an artist's canvas.
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Eastenders is a successful BBC television soap-opera, first aired in 1985, about the everyday lives of a fictional community in 'Albert Square' in the East End of London. The show's relentless melancholy inspired viewers to joke that the only game never played by the residents of Albert Square is 'Happy Families'.
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Easter is an ancient religious festival occurring at or around the vernal equinox. It originally marked the end of the old year and the dawn of a new year and was celebrated by the Anglo-Saxons in honour of their goddess of the east who was called Easter. In Rome the sacred fire in the temple of Vesta was rekindled on the first of March each year marking the start of the Roman year.
The practice of giving easter eggs at spring time is widely spread through ancient traditions from the Persians, Jews, Egyptians and Hindus and universally symbolises creation or the hatching of a new year. The Christian faith adopted the tradition as a symbol of resurrection, which of course spring is after the 'death' that is winter, and originally coloured their easter eggs red in allusion to the blood of their saviour.
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Eau de Cologne is a perfume said to have been invented by the Italian chemist, Johann Maria Farina, who settled at Cologne in 1709. The original recipe is unknown, though several chemists in Cologne have long claimed to be the sole owners of it. The general principle of Eau de Cologne is alcoholic vegetable extracts, essential oils and rectified spirits. The usual recipe prescribes twelve drops of each of the essential oils, bergamot, citron, neroli, orange and rosemary, with one dram of Malabar cardamoms and a gallon of rectified spirits which are distilled together. Later recipes used highly purified spirits and made further distillation unnecessary.
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An eclipse is the passage of a celestial body through the shadow of another.
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Ecru is a name given to a creamy-yellow colour.
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The Edmunds Act was an American bill submitted by Senator Edmunds of Vermont, and passed by Congress in March 1882 to regulate and restrict the polygamous institutions of the Mormons in Utah. Under its provisions Mormons were in a great measure excluded from local offices, which they had hitherto wholly controlled. Many people were indicted and punished for polygamy also.
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The Edward Medal is a British award for heroism in civic life, especially in mines and quarries. The Edward Medal was instituted in 1907 by Edward VII and forms two classes: the Edward Medal and the Edward Medal in silver. It has a dark blue ribbon with yellow edges.
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The Efficiency League was founded in 1903 with the object of raising the standard of duty among public servants.
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Effort is strenuous exertion.
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Eisteddfod is a Bardic Congress held periodically in Wales for the encouragement and development of Welsh music and literature. Its origins date back to pre-Christian times, though the first recorded
Eisteddfod was held in the 6th century.
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Ejectment was a common law action, abolished in 1852, to recover possession of land and damages for the wrongful withholding of it.
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The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) were a British rock group formed in the 1970's. Members of the band included Jeff Lynne as guitarist, Roy Wood as guitarist and vocalist and Bev Bevan as drummer.
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Elegit is a legal writ ordering the seizure of a debtor's land so as to satisfy a judgement debt.
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Elegy is a form of poetry of a mournful and reflective character, particularly a mourning song for a departed friend.
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Elephant paper is a large-sized drawing paper measuring 20 inches by 23 inches (51 cm x 59 cm).
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The Eleusinian Mysteries were Greek initiation ceremonies connected with the worship of Demeter, believed to have been first performed at Eleusis.
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In technical drawing, elevation is a side or end view of the vertical surfaces of an object, wall or building, which may be sketched in perspective or drawn to scale without reference to perspective.
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Elf-bolt (also elf-arrow, elfer-stone and fairy-dart) was a name given to the flint arrow heads found in Britain. It was thought that these were fired by elves at domesticated animals.
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The Elgin marbles are a collection of ancient Greek sculptures assembled by the 7th earl of Elgin and brought to England in 1812
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The ell was a European unit of measurement. In England the ell was used as a measurement for cloth fixed at 45 inches by Henry I in 1101 and used until 1600. The French ell (or aune) was 46.79 inches in length. The Swiss aune is 47.25 inches, the Scottish ell 37 inches and the Flemish ell 27 inches.
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An ellipsis is a printing symbol consisting of three full stops in a row, indicating that a word or passage has been omitted from the printed matter.
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The em (em-quad) is a unit of horizontal length used in printing, based upon the width of the capital letter 'M' - hence the name. The 12-point em is a standard unit in typography, equal to 1/6 of an inch. An em rule is a horizontal line one em long (a hyphen or dash). In computing, an em is a length as wide as the font size is wide. The em is so named on account of it being equivalent to the width of the body of the letter 'M'.
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Emanation is a theological doctrine which regards individuals as outpourings of the divine essence. It denies the personality of both God and man.
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The Emancipation Act abolished slavery throughout the British colonies on August 28th 1833. 20 million pounds was paid as compensation to slave-owners.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was a proclamation reluctantly issued by President Abraham Lincoln in the US on January 1st 1863. During the first eighteen months of the Civil War President Abraham Lincoln had listened unmoved to the clamouring of abolitionists for an emancipation proclamation. He declared he would preserve the Union without freeing the slaves, if such a thing were possible. However, on September the 22nd 1862, he issued a preliminary proclamation that, unless the inhabitants of the revolted States returned to their allegiance by January 1, the slaves should be declared free. This had no effect. January 1, 1863, the proclamation was issued declaring the freedom of slaves in all the States which had seceded except forty-eight counties of West Virginia, seven counties in Virginia, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and thirteen parishes of Louisiana, including New Orleans. These districts were practically under the control of the Union army. Abraham Lincoln expected the proclamation to take effect gradually. Its legal effect has been disputed, its practical effect was enormous.
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An embassy is an ambassador's residence.
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Ember Days are the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday following September 14th, December 13th, the first Sunday of Lent and Whitsunday, set apart in the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England for prayer, especially for those about to be ordained.
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In law, embezzlement is the theft by a clerk or servant of money or goods received by him on behalf of his employer. It differs from larceny in that the original receiving of the property was lawful.
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Emblements is the right of an agricultural tenant, whose lease lapses before harvest, to enter the land and gather crops.
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Embossing is the art of producing a design on paper, cardboard, metal, leather etc, by forcing or stamping out appropriate portions of the under- side to give a raised effect.
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In law, embracery is the misdemeanour of attempting to influence a juryman to favour one side, otherwise than by evidence and argument given in open court. A juryman allowing himself to be corrupted is equally guilty of
embracery.
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Embroidery is the art of ornamenting woven fabric into designs in needle-work.
Embroidery differs from tapestry in that the design is stitched on the top of a woven material, whereas in tapestry the design is woven into it.
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The Emigrant Aid Company, Massachusetts, was the first organization formed for the purpose of settling Kansas with free-State emigrants. It was planned by Eli Thayer, and chartered by the Legislature of Massachusetts in April, 1854. But before the actual work of settlement began, the 'New England Immigrant Aid Society'' took its place, with a less ambitious design.
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Emigration is the departure from one's native country so as to take up permanent residence in another.
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Eminent Domain is the right of the State to use private property for public purposes, particularly in war-time.
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Emmerdale Farm is a British soap opera television show following the daily lives of a fictional rural farming family, the 'Sugdens'. Emmerdale Farm was created by Kevin Laffan and was first broadcast in 1972.
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Empannel means to put a pack-saddle on a donkey, mule or other beat of burden.
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An Empire is a large state or federation of states extending over a wide geographical area ruled by a single person - an emperor or empress. Empires are usually developed by the absorption of other peoples and countries. Empires are nearly always built up by the virile conquering and colonising expansion of a single State, but subsequently the individual provinces gradually attain independence.
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Empire Day (originally Victoria Day) was an annual festival inaugurated in 1902 to celebrate on May 24th the achievement of the British Empire and Queen Victoria's Birthday.
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Empiricism is the theory that personal experience is the source of all knowledge and that the mind was originally an absolute blank. The theory originated with Heraclitus and was characteristic of Greek speculative thought.
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Encaustic is a term used to describe a picture painted by means of heated wax. Encaustic painting is an ancient technique that was practised by the Greeks and Romans using melted beeswax. At the close of the 18th century experiments were made by Emma J Greenland to ascertain the ancient methods; but the process, in which gum mastic and wax were the principle vehicles used, produced neither so brilliant a tint nor so durable a texture as oil painting.
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From about 1760 onwards, the normal method of enclosing commons or open fields in Britain was by private Act of Parliament. The Act authorised the appointment of commissioners to survey the lands to be enclosed. A large- scale plan of the lands was prepared, to assist the commissioners to draw up an award allocating the land to individuals. These awards, with their plans, record the boundaries of the fields and the courses and widths of the roads and trackways as laid out afresh by the enclosure commissioners. Occasionally this is accompanied by a map showing the pre-enclosure picture of open-field farming, with much land remaining as commons.
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An encyclical is a circular letter on ecclesiastic affairs written in Latin and addressed by the Pope to all the clergy and faithful of the Roman Catholic Church. The first was issued by Benedict XIV in 1740, but
encyclicals only became common in the 19th century.
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The word Encyclopaedia (Encyclopedia) was first defined in Sir Thomas Elyot's Latin Dictionary (1538) as 'that lernynge whiche comprehendeth all lyberall science and studies.' It was first used as the title of a book by Johann Heinrich Alsted in 1608, by which time it had acquired its modern meaning of a book covering every branch of human knowledge. The term is also, however, applied to a work confined to some particular branch of knowledge. The distinction between an encyclopaedia and a dictionary is that the former explains subjects and the latter explains words. And the distinction between a glossary and an encyclopaedia is one of depth, the glossary being much more concise and often restricted to a particular subject, for example horticulture.
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica was first published as a series which could be bound into three volumes between 1668 and 1771 - a subscription costing twelve pounds. A second enlarged edition was published in 1778, and the Encyclopaedia Britannica has been republished ever since to become one of the most famous encyclopaedias of all time.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica was the idea of Andrew Bell, an engraver and Colin MacFarquhar a printer who wanted to produce a work that was simple and entertaining, unlike the existing tedious encyclopaedias available. They employed a third man to edit the work, William Smellie, a renowned scholar and editor of literary works. Smellie copied existing, published works - from such authors as Bacon, Locke, Hume and Voltaire - as well as adding his own definitions and essays to the encyclopaedia - most controversially criticising Dr Johnson in his production of his dictionary; Bell provided engravings and MacFarquhar published and sold the work.
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End grain is the pattern seen when a piece of wood has been cut across the grain.
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End paper is the term given to the blank fly-leaves of a book.
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English is a term used to denote someone or something from England.
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Engraving is the art of cutting a design on a hard substance, such as wood or metal.
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Enigmarelle was the first robot. It was an automaton constructed of 365 different parts, and actuated by electricity. The figure rode a bicycle, wrote its name on a blackboard and performed other tasks similar to a human being. Enigmarelle was exhibited at the London Hippodrome in June 1905.
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Enjambement is the arranging of sentences and clauses in verse so that their ends do not coincide with the ends of the lines. It was introduced in order to give fluency and ease to verses.
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An ensign is a flag or banner used in the Army and Navy. The British naval ensign is red, white or blue, with a small Union Jack in the upper corner. The red ensign is flown by the Merchant fleet, the blue by the Royal Navy Reserve and the white, which includes a red St George's cross by the Royal Navy.
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The Entente Cordiale was the semi-formal alliance between England and France before the Great War. The alliance was first sought by France in 1903 seeking that in the event of a conflict with Germany, England would be at least neutral. In 1904 an agreement was signed whereby France had a free hand in Morocco and England a free hand in Egypt.
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Entomophilia is the sexual arousal by insects.
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Envelopes for letters were first mentioned by Jonathan Swift in 1726, and came into general use with the introduction of the penny post in 1840.
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Epeolatry is the worship of words.
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Ephebophilia is being sexually attracted by adolescents.
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Ephod was a term applied to some part of the dress of Jewish high-priests, and used in the Old Testament where it appears to have several meanings.
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An epic is a poetical narrative of heroic achievements. It is largely dramatic in character, but embraces a greater area and admits many incidents, each of which might serve as a dramatic plot. In an epic the personality of the narrator is made much more obvious than is that of the author of a drama.
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An epigram is a short witty or poignant poem used as an inscription on a tomb, monument or altar.
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An epigraph is an inscription carved on a stone, statue or coin.
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Epigraphy is the study of ancient inscriptions incised on some hard material, such as wood, stone or metal, as distinct from palaeography which is the study of ancient manuscripts written on papyrus, parchment or a similar material.
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Epilogue is a term usually applied in English literature to a speech or short poem addressed to the spectators by one of the actors at the close of a play. It may also be the additional chapter of a book, after the tale proper has finished.
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Episcopacy is a form of Church government whereby churches are grouped together in dioceses under the authority of a bishop.
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The Episcopal Church is what may be called the Church of England in America. Its history begins with the settlement at Jamestown in 1607, among whose settlers was a clergyman, Reverend R Hunt, who laboured zealously in the colony throughout his life. The clergy were supported by grants from the Legislature, and afterward by tithes, and the interests of the church were carefully fostered by the Virginia Company and by the successive royal governors. William and Mary College was chartered in 1693 in order to educate the clergy for the colonial churches.
By 1701 Maryland for the most part had become Episcopal and attempts were soon made to establish the church in the more southern colonies, but with poor success. In New York City Trinity Church was founded 1696, and generally throughout the Middle States the church was spread through the agency of the Society for Propagating the Gospel, chartered in 1701. By the time of the American Revolution there had been established in New England thirty-six churches. The American War of Independence greatly lessened the influence of the church, which naturally was English in sympathy, but in 1785 the first general convention was held and remodelled the organization to suit the new political condition.
Two years later American bishops were consecrated in London (Seabury in Scotland in 1784), and thus the formal organization of the American church was completed. During the next twenty years the church lost almost all its power through dissension and the withdrawal of State aid, but from that time on a steady growth has been manifest.
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An epitaph is a short composition in verse or prose, nominally for the tomb of a deceased person and generally setting forth his or her virtues and the survivors' regrets.
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An epithalamium is a nuptial song sung at marriages in honour of the newly- wedded pair.
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Epithany is a church festival held on January 6th. It was originally held to commemorate the baptism of Jesus, but now some churches celebrate it as the visit of the three wise men to Jesus.
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The Equal Rights Party was an American women's suffrage organisation of 1884 headed by Belva Lockwood who was its self-nominated Presidential candidate, her platform advocating woman suffrage.
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The Era of Good Feeling was a name applied in the US to the period between 1817 and 1823, during James Monroe's administration, when national political contests were suspended, the Democrats having a triumphant majority and the Federalist party being almost extinct. The War of 1813 was ended and the new issues of tariff and internal improvement had not arisen. James Monroe's inaugural address soothed the few Federalists and the leaders of both parties joined in receiving the President and announcing the 'era of good feeling'.
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Ergonomics is a discipline treating the consideration of human factors in design of the working environment and its components; intended to promote productivity and safety in the tools people work with.
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In geography, erosion is the wearing away of the land by sun, wind, rain, frost, running water, moving ice and the sea.
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Erse is a variant of the word Irish and is a designation given to the ancient Celtic languages of the Scottish Highlands and Ireland, but more usually confined to that of Ireland.
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An escalator is a moving stairway used to transport passengers between two different levels, such as floors of a building or the street and the platforms of an underground station. The first escalator was designed and patented by Seeburger and subsequently developed by the Otis Elevator Company in the USA and by Waygood-Otis Ltd in Britain. The escalator was first demonstrated to the public at the Paris Exhibition in 1900.
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Eschatology is a term used primarily in Christian and Jewish theology to refer to the 'last things', including the ultimate fate of the world and the individual soul. However, almost all religions of the world have eschatological features, which may be divided into those based on mythological explanations of the origins and end of the world and those based on historical explanations. The biblical accounts of the history of the Jewish people and the teaching and parables of Jesus are examples of historical eschatology, leading to millenarian expectations of the coming of the Messiah among Jews, and of the Second Coming among Christians. Contrasting with such views is the expectation of the apocalyptic or cataclysmic intervention of God in history. In both Hinduism and Buddhism, eschatological beliefs focus on the longing for release from the cycle of birth and rebirth.
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In feudal tenure, escheat is a reversion of land to the lord, for want of a tenant qualified to perform the services.
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An escrow is a deed that has been signed and sealed but is delivered on the condition that it will not become operative until some stated event happens. It will become effective as soon as that event occurs and it cannot be revoked in the meantime.
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An espalier is a wooden framework on which fruit-trees or creepers are trained.
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The Essaie du Michigan was the first newspaper issued in Michigan. It was published by Father Gabriel Richard in English and French, the first edition appearing at Detroit on August the 31st 1809. The Essaie du Michigan soon ceased publication before even ten editions had been published.
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Essay is a literary term which was originally applied to a draft or rough copy, and hence, by the modesty of the author, to an unpretentious but complete composition. It is now used to mean a prose composition of moderate length, limited to a single subject.
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In geography, an estuary is the broad mouth of a river which is affected by the tides, or more strictly, the region where sea and fresh water meet.
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An etagere is a piece of furniture comprising a number of open shelves on which to display ornaments.
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Etching is a process of putting a drawing or design onto a surface, usually metal, by corroding or scratching away the top surface so as to form the lines of the design.
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In philosophy, ethical intuitionists deny that moral judgements are merely expressions of emotion or approval. They argue that there is a special faculty of moral intuition which gives us access to moral truths, to facts about what we ought and ought not to do. This intuitive faculty may render certain rules of conduct self- evidently correct and then moral conduct will be a matter of following those rules. Ethical knowledge, so conceived, has been compared to mathematical knowledge, where the latter consists of knowing the consequences of certain self-evident axioms, axioms grasped by some form of mathematical intuition. On the other hand, the faculty of moral intuition may be more like our sensory organs. It may enable me to see the good in my brother helping an old person across the road, just as we can see that the road is wide.
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In philosophy, ethical relativism is the view that ethical judgements are true or false only relative to a particular context. So if I say that eating people is wrong, while you say it is right, we may both be speaking the truth. For cannibalism may be wrong in my context and right in yours. Relativists disagree about what the relevant context for us is. Some would say it is a particular cultural or historical setting, so cannibalism may be permissible among ' primitive' natives of a Pacific Island but not in a modern European city. Other relativists claim that the relevant context is that of a specific individual, so that cannibalism may be right for you and wrong for me simply because we are different people with different inclinations. But all relativists deny that there is any way of formulating moral claims that will make them true in all conceivable contexts. In this they depart for the common-sense view that we can reasonably make moral assessments of the behaviour of other people, even when they come from a
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Ethics (from the Greek ethikos, 'dealing with nature'), in philosophy, can roughly be characterised as dividing into three parts: normative ethics; practical ethics; and meta-ethics. Normative ethics is the study of general normative principles or virtues. There are various doctrines concerning general normative principles. Altruists hold that when deciding how to act one ought to take the interests of others into account, as well as one's own. Hedonists hold that one ought to pursue only pleasure or happiness for oneself and others. The Golden Rule states that one should act towards others-as one wants them to act towards oneself. Consequentialists believe that one ought to do whatever will have the best consequences. (Utilitarianism, the doctrine that one ought to do whatever will maximise well-being or happiness is one version of consequentialism). Deontologists hold that the rightness or wrongness of actions is a matter of how they accord with moral rules, not of their consequences. One must obey the rule
that one ought to tell the truth, even if the consequences of breaking the rule would be better. Others hold that rightness or wrongness cannot be captured by a set of moral rules at all, and that it is not simply the consequences of an action which determine its moral status. Rather, one ought to be a virtuous person, one who has certain emotional reactions to various situations, reactions which lead one to behave in ways which are virtuous, honest, generous or kind. Practical ethics is the study of specific, practical ethical problems such as abortion, euthanasia, war and out treatment of animals. Clearly, the study of practical ethical issues is not independent of the study of general normative principles. General normative principles have implications for specific practical ethical problems, so acceptance of a general normative principle may lead one to change one's opinions about a specific practical issue, and one's firm conviction concerning a specific practical issue may lead one to see the failing of a general normative principle. Meta-ethics is not concerned with
which moral principles which we should follow, or how they relate to specific practical problems, but investigates abstract conceptual and metaphysical issues which arise for any moral principle. One meta-ethical claim is that any moral judgement concerning a particular is universal to all similar particulars. Emotivism claims that moral judgements are simply expressions of emotions. Descriptivism claims that moral terms are purely descriptive. Prescriptivism claims that moral terms have two independent components of meaning: descriptive and evaluative. Ethical relativism is the doctrine that moral judgements are true or false only relative to a particular context. Some hold that murder is wrong because God has commanded us not to commit murder. Ethical Intuitionism is the doctrine that there is a special faculty of moral intuition which gives us access to moral facts, to facts about how we ought to behave. The naturalistic fallacy is the supposed fallacy of inferring an 'ought' from an 'is': the issue
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Etiquette (or manners) are the conventional rules governing personal behaviour in polite society. During the Victorian and Edwardian eras in Britain the rules and rituals of etiquette became so complex and sophisticated that a general revolt against them took place. Today the rules are less laws than guidelines, the most reliable being contained in ' Debrett's' which offers advice on the correct terms of address for royalty and other members of the aristocracy.
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The eugubine or Iguvine tables are seven tablets of brass engraved with inscriptions of ancient Umbrian, discovered in 1444 in a ruined theatre near Gubbio in Central Italy.
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Euphuism is an affected style of language which was prevalent during the time of Elizabeth I and arose from 'Euphues; the Anatomy of Wit' by John Lyly published in 1581.
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Eurhythmics is a system of mental and physical culture invented by Jacques Dalcroze, based on the interpretation of music by means of rhythmical movements of the body and limbs. A carefully graded series of exercises aims at producing an intellectual appreciation of rhythm, combined with perfect physical control, enabling the head and limbs to be moved independently of one another, and so to express several separate rhythms simultaneously.
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Evil May Day was the 1st of May, 1517 when apprentices rioted in London, directing their aggression against foreigners, particularly the French. At one point the Constable of the Tower of London discharged his cannon on the mob. The rioters were headed by Lincoln, who, with fifteen others was hanged. 400 more rioters were bound with ropes and halters around their necks and carried to Westminster, where they cried 'mercy mercy' and were all pardoned by the king, Henry VIII.
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A ewer is a tall, slim, vessel with a spout and a handle and a base.
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The Examiner was a liberal weekly journal established in January 1808, it's last issue was in February 1881.
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Excellency is a title of honour. It was first assumed by Charlemagne in the 9th century. Today it is applied to all ambassadors.
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The Exclusion Bill was passed by the house of commons, but rejected by the house of lords in 1681. The bill sought to exclude the duke of York, afterwards James II, from the throne. the revival of the question led to the dissolution of parliament in 1681.
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An exequatur is a document issued by the Head of a State, granting recognition to a foreign consul appointed thereto.
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The Exeter Book or Codex Exoniensis is a folio given by Bishop Leofric to the library of his cathedral between 1046 and 1073, and dating probably from the first half of the same century. It contains some thirty-three poems including: Cynewulf's poems Crist and Juliana, Guthlac, Azarias, Widsith.
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Express was the American name for a system of railway transportation which was begun on March the 4th, 1839, by William F Harnden, who established express (railway) communication between New York and Boston. Alvan Adams and P B Burke started the Adams Express Company in 1840. The Wells Fargo Company was started in 1845, the United States Express Company in 1853.
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The Expunging Resolution was a political event which happened in the USA during the 1830's. In 1834 a resolution of censure had been adopted by Congress against President Jackson for removing certain money deposits from the Bank of the United States. This resolution was expunged by the 'Expunging Resolution' of January the 16th, 1837, Senator Benton being the prime mover toward its adoption. Clay, Webster and Calhoun opposed it with vehemence. A black line was drawn in the Journal around the resolution of censure and the words 'Expunged by order of the Senate this sixteenth day of January 1837' inserted.
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An extended elevation is an elevation of the several wall surfaces of a room arranged so as to read as a long continuous strip. Extended elevations are useful in preparing working drawings for decorators.
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An extension ladder is a ladder consisting of two or more sections, each of the standing ladder type, made so that the height can be adjusted by telescoping the sections, each section being capable of being used on its own if desired.
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Extradition is the delivery of a person accused or convicted of a crime to the State on whose territory the crime was committed, by the State on whose territory the criminal happens to be.
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