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  • 51Montes Pietatis — • Charitable institutions of credit that lend money at low rates of interest, or without interest at all, upon the security of objects left in pawn, with a view to protecting persons in want from usurers Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006 …

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  • 52famine — fam•ine [[t]ˈfæm ɪn[/t]] n. 1) extreme and general scarcity of food, esp. within a large geographical area 2) any extreme scarcity 3) archaic starvation • Etymology: 1325–75; ME < MF, der. of faim hunger (< L famēs) …

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  • 53famine — /ˈfæmən / (say famuhn) noun 1. extreme and general scarcity of food. 2. any extreme and general scarcity: *The famine of females in the interior was remarked even more widely, and deplored more deeply, than that of clergymen. –russel ward, 1966.… …

  • 54dearth — [dʉrth] n. [ME derth < dere: see DEAR & TH1] 1. Obs. costliness; dearness 2. scarcity of food 3. any scarcity or lack …

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  • 55History of Hungary — This article is part of a series Prehistory …

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  • 56Rome, Georgia — The Worst Place in the World   City   City of Rome …

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  • 57War of the Triple Alliance — Infobox Military Conflict conflict= War of the Triple Alliance partof= caption=Colonel Faria da Rocha reviewing Brazilian troops in front of the Tayi market, 1868. date= 1864 1870 place= South America casus= territory= result= Allied victory… …

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  • 58Kaiapoi — Infobox Settlement name = Kaiapoi area total km2 = 5.3098 population as of = 2006 population total = 7410 population density km2 = auto Kaiapoi is a town in the Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand, located close to the mouth of… …

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  • 59Chandogya Upanishad — The Chandogya Upanishad is one of the primary ( mukhya ) Upanishads. Together with the Jaiminiya Upanishad Brahmana and the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad it ranks among the oldest Upanishads, dating to the Vedic Brahmana period (probably before mid… …

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  • 60Dominostein — This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia. Dominostein, milk chocolate coating …

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