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noting or pertaining to the alphabetical script used for the writing of Hebrew mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries b.c.

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Did you ever collect all those state quarters? Put them to good use on this quiz about curious state monikers and the facts around them.

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Mississippi’s nickname comes from the magnificent trees that grow there. What is it?

When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.
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It’s cool because Trenchmouth opened for Green Day in the early ‘90s in Wisconsin.
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At first—it was the early stages of reporting—I was amused at having been so crassly underestimated.
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Early on, the sexual protagonist complains that her Molson-drinking husband is pretty much an incompetent Neanderthal.
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Detectives with a fugitive task force caught up with Polanco and a friend on a Bronx street in the early afternoon.
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He was converted and baptized, and was the first Hebrew instructor at Harvard college.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
The "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
When his lordship retired early, as was his custom, the other men adjourned once more to the billiard-room.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
In the early stages of chronic nephritis, when diagnosis is difficult, it is usually normal.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
He was in early life a shipcarpenter, and subsequently American consul at Antwerp.
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