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• Oath
  ...LO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] āth; akin to Old High German eid oath, Middle Irish oeth. The spec. sense in Germanic and Celtic may perhaps have arisen from t
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• Change
  ...rom Latin ''cambiare'' to exchange, probably of Celtic origin; akin to Old Irish ''camm'' crooked
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• Frown
  ...' to snort, frown, of Celtic origin; akin to Welsh ''ffroen'' nostril, Old Irish ''srón'' nose
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• Police
  ...re numerous. Many slang terms for police officers are decades or centuries old with lost etymology.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police]
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• Autumn
  ...r. However, according to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Calendar Irish Calendar] which is based on ancient [[Celtic]] [[traditions]], autumn lasts The [[word]] autumn comes from the Old French word autompne (automne in modern French), and was later [[Normal|nor
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• Winter
  ..._Ireland Ireland] (using the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_calendar Irish calendar]) and in Scandinavia, the winter solstice is traditionally conside ...as the first calendar day of winter. The day falls at midpoint between the old Julian [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox equinox] and [https://en.wiki
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• Lament
  ...ian city laments such as the Lament for Ur and the Jewish [[Tanakh]] (or [[Old Testament]]). [[The Book of Lamentations]] or Lamentations of Jeremiah figures in the Old Testament. In art the Lamentation of Christ (under many closely variant ter
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• Womanhood
  ...rom Proto-Indo-European *mánu- 'man, human', cognate to [[Sanskrit]] manu, Old Church Slavonic mǫžĭ, 'man', 'husband'. ...male human". ("Wif" also evolved into the word "wife".) "Man" carries this old sense of "Human" however, resulting in an [[asymmetry]] criticized as sexis
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• Michael Marlow
  ...ronx and Yonkers]], the first-born in a [[Roman Catholic]], three-quarters Irish, one-quarter Italian family. ...worked in a restaurant at night and played tennis during the day, which an old girl friend and a hippie ex-touring pro had introduced him to a few years e
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• Self Governance
  ...lling them, e.g., the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army Irish Republican Army], mafia or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tong Tong] groups ...ctions (or, in religions, "[[heresies]]") from competing directly with the old group.
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• Wake
  ....php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English]. (? wæcnan), wóc, wócon, *wacen. (The present-stem is wanting, ....php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English]. wacian, corresponding to OFris. wakia, waka (mod. WFris. weitsje,
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• Surfing
  ...], where he had heavily invested in real estate, he hired a young Hawaiian-Irish [[athlete]], George Freeth, to [[demonstrate]] the art of surfing. As a child in Hawai’i, Freeth had seen an old Polynesian painting that depicted his mother’s [[ancestors]] riding surfb
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• English
  ...aw--and the Norman Conquest. These events resulted in the assimiliation of Old Norse and French vocabulary and other linguistic features. ===ca. 600-1100 THE OLD ENGLISH, OR ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD===
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• 2002-03-17-Welcome to New Teacher Base
  Q: Is Tomas a little bit Irish? ...mas' because of the spelling but it's spelled that way in German, Spanish, Irish, and in Slavic languages, so it's very cosmopolitan.
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• Books
  * 1517: Psalter, first book printed in the Old Belarusian language by Francysk Skaryna on 6 August 1517 * 1564: the first book in Irish was printed in Edinburgh, a translation of John Knox's 'Liturgy' by John Ca
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• Amen
  ===Old Testament=== ...f the [[Great Vowel Shift]] dating to the 15th century, is associated with Irish Protestantism and conservative evangelical Christian denominations generall
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• Tycho Brahe
  ...they moved, and where Tycho began a Latin education until he was 12 years old. ...f [[1566]], after a fair amount of drinking, while the just turned 20-year-old Tycho was studying at the [[University of Rostock]] in [[Germany]]. Attendi
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• Ancient Arrow Book, chapter 6
  ...my dear boy. He's also half-Irish." McGavin twinkled his eyes and used his Irish accent like a child wearing his father's shoes for the first time. ...he waved it underneath Samantha's nostrils, she coughed and sputtered like old farm machinery in the early spring.
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• Medieval Philosophy
  ...877), successor of [[Alcuin of York]] as head of the Palace School was an Irish theologian and Neoplatonist philosopher. He is notable for having translate ...riod, writers such as Peter Abelard wrote commentaries on the works of the Old logic (Aristotle's Categories (Aristotle), On interpretation and the Isagog
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• 1987-11-12-Thoughts, Feelings, Actions, Use Stillness
  ...hem better than I do. Like I watched a news item this week. With the young Irish girl that was killed, and I was just sobbing here watching the news. Tms You said once, that most of us here, our [[souls]] are very old, from the beginning....
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