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Meat is animal tissue (mainly muscle) used as food. The common definition of meat is dependent on culture. Many Americans would exclude organ meat, fish, and other seafood from their definition of meat. Originally, the word meat meant simply "food." It is also used as a vulgar way to refer to the human body (see meat market). For the most part, meat for human consumption comes from domesticated animals bred specifically for th ... Including:

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The word Panther has several meanings: Any big cat with the condition known as melanism (causing black fur), see: Black panther Leopard Puma Jaguar Any big cat from the genus Panthera, see: Lion Tiger Leopard Jaguar Codename for Mac OS X v10.3 (operating system) Panther tank (tank of Nazi Germany in WWII) F9F Panther, a jet fighter used by the US Navy in the Korean War. The Bl

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Genie is the English term for the Arabic "jinni | جن". In pre-Islamic Arabian mythology and in Islam, a jinni (also "djinni" or "djini") is a member of the jinn (or "djinn"), a race of spirits. Genie - Etymology. Genie is an Anglicization of the original Arabic term jinn. However, it may not have come directly into English language but rather through sources in Latin or French or even Spanish. It may have first been used in English as geny to mean a guardian spirit, with the first rec ... Including:

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• Genie - Jinn in Islam
• Genie - Jinn in the Occult
• Genie - Genies in Western culture
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Dan Dare first appeared on the cover of the first issue of the weekly comic strip magazine The Eagle, on 14th April 1950. There were two large colour pages of this story per issue. The artwork was of a very high quality, being the product of a team of artists working in a studio system that included scale models of spaceships being made, and people posing in costume, as points of reference for the artists. Sometimes there were "centerfolds" of the fictional spaceships quite reminiscent of the cutaway drawings of aircraft in aviation magazines, or even Eagle itself. The storylines were long and compl ...

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Britannia remained the Latin name for Great Britain, but after the fall of the Roman Empire it had lost most symbolic meaning until the rise of British influence and later, the British Empire, which at the height of its power ruled a quarter of the world's people and a third of the world's landmass. As British power and influence rose in the 1700s, and after the unification of the Kingdoms of England (which included Wales) and Scotland in 1603 upon the death of Queen Elizabeth I and succession of her Scottish cousin, James VI of Scotland (or James I of England), Britannia became a more and more important symb ...

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Traditionally, Muslims believe that djinn are real beings. The jinn are said to be creatures with free will, made of smokeless fire by God, much in the same way humans were made of clay. In the Qur'an, the jinn are frequently mentioned and even Surat 72: Al-Jinn is entirely about them. In fact, the prophet Muhammad was said to have been sent as a prophet to both "humans and the jinn." The jinn have communities much like human societies, they eat, marry, die etc. They are invisible to humans, but they can see humans. Sometimes they accidentally or deliberately come ...

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For the ancient Semites, jinn were spirits of vanished ancient peoples who acted during the night and disappeared with the first light of dawn; they could make themselves invisible or change shape into animals at will; these spirits were commonly believed to be responsible for diseases and for the manias of some lunatics. Types of jinn include the ghul (night shade, which can change shape), the sila (which cannot change shape) and the ifrit. The Arabs believed that the jinn were spirits of fire, although sometimes they associated them ...

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In 1989, Dan Dare was re-launched in a deliberate return to the original character, with the first story drawn by Keith Watson and later ones by a variety of other artists. The strip initially kept to the look of the original, but was once again updated in 1990. It ran until the last issue of Eagle in January 1994. In 1990, a strip titled Dare, written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Rian Hughes was serialized in the comic magazine Revolver. It presented a very bleak and cynical reimagining of the characters, and was a not-too-su ...

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Genie is an Anglicization of the original Arabic term jinn. However, it may not have come directly into English language but rather through sources in Latin or French or even Spanish. It may have first been used in English as geny to mean a guardian spirit, with the first recorded use in 1655. The word came from the French genie, which in turn came from the original Latin word genius, for a spirit. The extension of meaning to the powerful spirit of Muslim mythology appeared in 1748 by French translators using the French term genie. The definition referring to the powerful mythologica ...

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In Western fiction, after the Aladdin tale in the Western version of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, genies live in small oil lamps and grant three wishes to the person who rubbed the lamp to release the genie while more mischievous ones take advantage of poorly worded wishes. Alternately, they may grant a single wish per day.

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