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• Viking
  ...erce]]. The derived Old Norse masculine noun ''víkingr'' appears in Viking Age [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skaldic_poetry skaldic poetry] and on severa ...n of any [[negative]] connotation in the term before the end of the Viking Age. Regardless of its possible origins, the word was used to indicate an [[act
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• 61:2 The Recent Flood Stage-The Age of Advanced Mammals
  61:2.3 35,000,000 years ago marks the beginning of the age of [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutheria placental-mammalian] world [[do 61:2.5 On [[land]] this was pre-eminently the age of mammalian renovation and expansion. Of the earlier and more [[primitive]
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• Vertigo
  ...rg/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [[Latin]] ''vertigin''-, ''vertigo'', from ''vertere'' to tu ...y be present in patients of all ages. The prevalence of vertigo rises with age and is about two to three times higher in [[women]] than in [[men]]. It acc
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• The Enlightenment
  The Age of '''Enlightenment''', or simply The Enlightenment, is a term used to desc ...ivalent of a term then in use by German writers, Zeitalter der Aufklärung (Age of the clarification), signifying generally the philosophical outlook of th
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• Cancer
  ...rg/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [[Latin]] (genitive ''Cancri''), literally, crab; akin to [[ ...in developed countries. Rates are increasing as more people live to an old age and as lifestyle changes occur in the developing world. The financial costs
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• Warrior
  ...rg/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] werreour, from Anglo-French *werreier, guerreier, from warreier, g ...warriors, for example in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Age Iron Age] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_tribe Germanic tribes] or the Medi
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• Suffrage
  ...rg/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin suffragium, from [[Latin]] Typically [[citizens]] become eligible to vote after reaching the age of legal adulthood. Most [[democracies]] no longer extend [[different]] vot
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• Change
  ...rg/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French ''changer'', from Latin ''cambiare'' to exchang ...in later imitators). By the late 20th century much [[business]] and [[New Age]] thought focused enthusiastically on [[transformation]] in [[management]],
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• Odor
  ...rg/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] odour, from Anglo-French odur, from [[Latin]] odor; akin to Latin ...] [[perceptions]], [[individual]] [[reactions]] are related to [[gender]], age, state of [[health]], and private affectations. Common odors that people ar
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• Hatred
  ...rg/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] enmite, from Anglo-French enemité, enemisté, from enemi enemy ...gion]], [[sexual]] orientation, disability, class, ethnicity, nationality, age, [[gender]] [[identity]], or political affiliation.[6]
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• Burial
  ...rg/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] burien, from [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Engli ...of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Bronze_Age European Bronze Age].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burial]
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• Stars
  ...rg/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] sterre, from [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Engli ...ung-Russell_diagram Hertzsprung-Russell diagram] (H–R diagram), allows the age and evolutionary state of a star to be determined.
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• Byzantine
  ...defeat of [[Iconoclasm]] and the Triumph of Orthodoxy). For the end of the middle Byzantine period scholars have usually chosen either 1071 (battle of Mantzi ==Age of Recovery and Consolidation (ca.800/850–1000)==
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• Curfew
  ...rg/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French ''coverfeu'', [[signal]] given to bank the [[he ...ia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws Jim Crow laws], or people younger than a certain age (usually within a few years either side of 18) in many towns of the United
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• Childhood
  ==Age definition of a child== ...ajority when childhood ends and a [[person]] legally becomes an adult. The age can range anywhere from 13 to 21, with 18 being the most common.
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• Vocabulary
  Middle French vocabulaire, probably from Medieval Latin vocabularium, from neuter ...ar with in a [[language]]. A vocabulary usually [[grows]] and evolves with age, and serves as a useful and [[fundamental]] [[tool]] for [[communication]]
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• Veil
  ...rg/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] from Anglo-Norman French ''veil''(''e''), from Latin ''vela'', plu ...y event, it is a firmly established tradition. Men begin wearing a veil at age 25 which [[conceals]] their entire face excluding their eyes. This veil is
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• Bastion
  Middle French, from Old Italian ''bastione'', augmentative of ''bastia'' [[fortres ...ree of [[passive]] [[resistance]] and more scope for ranged defense in the age of gunpowder artillery compared with the medieval fortifications they repla
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• Idiot
  ...rg/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French ''ydiote'', from [[Latin]] ''idiota'' [[ignoran ...r [[ignorant]] person". Its [[modern]] [[meaning]] and form dates back to Middle English around the year 1300, from the Old French ''idiote'' ("uneducated o
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• Virgin
  ...rg/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French virgine, from [[Latin]] virgin-, virgo young [[ ...nglish]] word is also often used with wider [[reference]], by relaxing the age, [[gender]] or sexual criteria. Hence, more [[mature]] women can be virgins
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