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• Sculpture
  ...English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [[Latin]] ''sculptura'', from ''sculptus'', past participle of ''sculpere'' to carv ...es of the Ancient Mediterranean, India and China, as well as many in South America and Africa.
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• Change
  ...MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French ''changer'', from Latin ''cambiare'' to exchange, probably of Celtic origin; akin to Old Irish ''ca ...pressures]] often forced change by [[violent]] [[revolution]] (as in North America in the late 18th century and in later imitators). By the late 20th century
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• Orient
  ...rkle of the eyes (1573), lustre of a pearl (1742) and its etymon classical Latin orient-, the eastern part of the world, the part of the sky in which the su ...East Asia, or occas. Europe or the Eastern hemisphere, as opposed to North America.
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• Leisure
  ...sh] leiser, from Anglo-French leisir, from leisir to be permitted, from [[Latin]] licēre. ...wiki/Europe Europe] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America North America]. As workers [[channeled]] their wages into leisure [[activities]], the mod
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• Duel
  ..._ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Medieval Latin ''duellum'', from Old Latin, [[war]] ...nited_States Colonial United States] until it fell out of favor in Eastern America in the 18th century. It was retained however in the [https://en.wikipedia.o
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• Autumn
  ...modern French), and was later [[Normal|normalised]] to the [[original]] [[Latin]] word autumnus. There are rare examples of its use as early as the [https: ...ally]] became obsolete in Britain, it became the more common term in North America, where autumn is nonetheless preferred in [[scientific]] and often in [[lit
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• Tangent
  The word "tangent" comes from the Latin tangere, meaning "to [[touch]]". ...Descartes". The American Mathematical Monthly (Mathematical Association of America) 44 (8): 495–512. doi:10.2307/2301226.
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• Corporations
  The [[word]] "corporation" derives from corpus, the [[Latin]] word for body, or a "body of people." ...t [[events]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_America corporate America] may serve to reinforce Smith's [[warnings]] about the dangers of legally p
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• Custody
  ...a._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] custodie, from [[Latin]] custodia guarding, from custod-, custos guardian ...on The Hague Convention] seeks to avoid this, also in the United States of America, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Child_Custody_Jurisdiction_and_
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• New Year
  ...ebrate New Year at the times determined by these other calendars. In Latin America the [[observation]] of [[traditions]] belonging to various [[native]] cultu
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• Tribe
  ...English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [[Latin]] tribus, a division of the [[Roman]] people, tribe ...Twelve Tribes of Israel]. The word is from Old French tribu, in turn from Latin tribus, referring to the original tripartite [[ethnic]] division of the Rom
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• Normal distribution
  ...ty]] similar to that in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America Latin America].
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• Cannabis
  1798, "common [[hemp]]," from ''Cannabis'', Modern Latin plant genus named (1728), from [[Greek]] ''kannabis'' "hemp," a [https://en ...sphere where Spaniards imported it to Chile for its use as fiber. In North America cannabis, in the form of hemp, was grown for use in rope, clothing and pape
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• Topography
  ...0-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] topographie, from Late Latin topographia, from [[Greek]], from topographein to describe a place, from t ...even local [[history]] and [[culture]]. This [[meaning]] is less common in America, where topographic maps with elevation contours have made "topography" syno
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• Slavery
  <blockquote>In the West Indies in particular, but also in North and South America, slavery was the engine that drove the mercantile empires of Europe. The in The [[English]] [[word]] slave derives - through Old French and Medieval [[Latin]] - from the medieval word for Slavic people of Central and Eastern Europe,
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• 2015-02-04-We Are Many
  ...My regular continent is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America South America], and parts of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil Brazil], too, are incl
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• Pedagogy
  The [[Latin]]-derived word for pedagogy, means good learning styles. Education,[4] is n #Greenberg, D. (1992), Education in America, A View from Sudbury Valley, "Special Education" -- A noble Cause Sacrifice
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• Honor
  '''Honor''' (from the [[Latin]] [[word]] honos, honoris) is the evaluation of a [[person]]'s [[trust|trus * [https://www.jottings.ca/john/ATH.html America, Truth, and Honor][
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• Empire
  The term '''empire''' derives from the [[Latin]] imperium. [[Politically]], an empire is a geographically extensive [[grou ...ines; the British Empire established itself with English in northern North America; elsewhere, despite Russian not supplanting the indigenous tongues of the C
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• Prostitution
  "To prostitute" is derived from a composition of two [[Latin]] words: (preposition) pro and (verb) statuere. A [[literal]] [[translation The customers of prostitutes are known as ''johns'' or ''tricks'' in North America and ''punters'' in the British Isles. These slang terms are used among both
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