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• Grotesque
  ...], the unfinished palace complex started by Nero after the great fire from AD 64, which had become overgrown and buried, until they were broken into agai
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• Allocation
  ...val Latin ''allocatus'', past participle of ''allocare'', from [[Latin]] ''ad''- + ''locare'' to place, from locus place
  2 KB (311 words) - 23:42, 12 December 2020
• Marathon
  .../en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_of_Samosata Lucian of Samosata] (2nd century AD) also gives the story but names the runner Philippides (not Pheidippides).
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• Easter
  ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea Council of Nicaea] (AD 325). In the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter#Eastern_Christianity Eas
  2 KB (342 words) - 00:21, 13 December 2020
• Loyalty
  *Adjective. French. loyal, Old French. loial, leial, semi-popular ad. L. lgl-em
  2 KB (210 words) - 22:21, 12 December 2020
• Aggression
  [[Latin]] aggression-, aggressio attack, from aggredi to attack, from ad- + gradi to step, go
  2 KB (265 words) - 23:47, 12 December 2020
• Abdication
  ...r [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_Augustulus Romulus Augustulus] in AD 476.
  5 KB (712 words) - 23:37, 12 December 2020
• Accommodate
  [[Latin]] accommodatus, past participle of accommodare, from ad- + commodare to make fit, from commodus suitable
  2 KB (283 words) - 23:32, 12 December 2020
• Acquittal
  ...'acuiter'' (Provençal ''aquitar'') < late [[Latin]] ''acquitāre'', < ac- = ad- to + *quitāre, = [[Latin]] quiētare to settle; see quit n.1 As in quit,
  2 KB (304 words) - 23:36, 12 December 2020
• Adjustment
  '''Adjustment''' (from late [[Latin]] ad-juxtare, derived from juxta, near, but early confounded with a supposed der
  2 KB (303 words) - 23:38, 12 December 2020
• Safety
  a. F. sauveté (11th c. salvetet), ad. med.L. salvitt-em, f. salv-us SAFE. Cf. Pr. salvetat, saubetat, Sp. salved
  2 KB (272 words) - 02:37, 13 December 2020
• 2012-09-08-Stefan's Story-A Roman Soldier Finds Jesus
  ...a.org/wiki/Nero Nero], in the year [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/54_AD 54 AD], in what was known at the time as the Italian province of [https://en.wiki When I turned 18 years old, in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/72_AD 72 AD], I joined the legions, during the reign of emperor [https://en.wikipedia.o
  8 KB (1,400 words) - 23:32, 12 December 2020
• Rome
  ...e East for four hundred years from the 1st Century BC till the 4th Century AD. Rome has a significant place in [[Christianity]] and is the present day ho
  2 KB (255 words) - 02:32, 13 December 2020
• Homeless
  ...ss [[shelter]], a warming center, a domestic [[violence]] shelter or other ad hoc housing situation. [[Government]] homeless enumeration [[studies]] also
  2 KB (263 words) - 01:09, 13 December 2020
• Acceleration
  [[Latin]] acceleratus, past participle of accelerare, from ad- + celer swift
  2 KB (344 words) - 23:36, 12 December 2020
• Adult
  Latin adultus, past participle of adolescere to [[grow]] up, from ad- + -olescere (from alescere to grow)
  2 KB (284 words) - 23:45, 12 December 2020
• Niche
  ...r an apse. Nero's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domus_Aurea Domus Aurea] (AD 64–69) was the first semi-private dwelling that possessed rooms that were
  2 KB (301 words) - 01:27, 13 December 2020
• Aggrandize
  French agrandiss-, stem of agrandir, from a- (from [[Latin]] ad-) + grandir to increase, from Latin grandire, from grandis great
  2 KB (331 words) - 23:43, 12 December 2020
• Allegation
  ..., to send as a [[representative]], adduce in support of a [[plea]] (from ''ad''- + ''legare'' to depute), in part from Anglo-French ''aleger'' to lighten
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• Synoptic Gospels
  ...le|Paul]] and before the gospel according to John, thus between 60 and 115 AD. As to the specific dates for each [[book]], this largely depends on (or su
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