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Career: Encyclopedia - Career
A career is traditionally seen as a waste of time. One can have a sporting career or a musical career, but most frequently "career" in th...
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Dissociative Identity Disorder: Encyclopedia - Dissociative Identity Disorder
In psychiatry, dissociative identity disorder (DID) is the current name of the condition formerly listed in the Diagnostic and Statistica...
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Multiple Personality:
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Multiple Personality:
A psychiatric condition in which the person manifests two or more distinct and separate personalities at differ...
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Burial: Encyclopedia - Burial
Burial, also called interment and (when applied to human burial) inhumation, is the act of placing a person or object into the ground. Us...
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Polygamy: Encyclopedia - Polygamy
The term polygamy (literally many marriages in late Greek) is used in related ways in social anthropology and sociobiology.
In social ant...
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Police: Encyclopedia - Police
Police forces are government organisations charged with the responsibility of maintaining law and order. The word comes from the French, ...
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Booth: Encyclopedia - Booth
Booth may mean various open types of cabins and similar light constructions, often temporary or inside a building:
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Did/mpd In Fiction: Encyclopedia - Did/mpd In Fiction
The idea of multiple personalities has been popularized by many types of media.
DID/MPD in fiction - Books movies television.
The first...
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Billy Milligan: Encyclopedia - Billy Milligan
William Stanley Milligan (born 1955) was the subject of a highly publicised court case in the state of Ohio in the late 1970s. After havi...
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Whore: Encyclopedia - Whore
The term whore can refer to several ideas or entities:
A prostitute.
A person with multiple sex partners.
A 1991 film by Ken Russell.
A ...
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Carpool: Encyclopedia - Carpool
Carpooling is shared use of a car, in particular for commuting to work, often by people who each have a car but travel together to save c...
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Pundit: Encyclopedia - Pundit
The term Pundit has multiple meanings:
A pundit or pandit, in the culture of India, is a master of traditional religious poetry and/or t...
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Charlie: Encyclopedia - Charlie
Charlie has multiple meanings:
It represents the letter C in the NATO phonetic alphabet and the FAA aviation phonetic letters.
It refers...
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V.i.p.: Encyclopedia - V.i.p.
VIP is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below:
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Dissociative Identity Disorder: Encyclopedia Ii - Dissociative Identity Disorder - Controversy
This diagnosis is controversial. The main points of disagreement are:
Whether MPD/DID is a real disorder, or just a fad.
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Polygamy: Encyclopedia Ii - Polygamy - Forms Of Polygamy
Polygamy exists in three specific forms, including polygyny (one man having multiple wives), polyandry (one woman having multiple husband...
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Juggling: Encyclopedia Ii - Juggling - Popular Forms Of Juggling
Juggling - Solo Juggling.
Most jugglers concentrate on three main props. These are balls, clubs and rings. Many of the same tricks and ...
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Juggling: Encyclopedia Ii - Juggling - Popular Forms Of Juggling
Juggling - Solo Juggling.
Most jugglers concentrate on three main props. These are balls, clubs and rings. Many of the same tricks and ...
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List Of Canadian Sports Personalities: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Canadian Sports Personalities - Baseball
List of Canadian sports personalities - current players.
Jason Bay - 2004 NL Rookie of the Year
Rheal Cormier
Jesse Crain
Ryan Dempste...
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Spanish Pronouns: Encyclopedia Ii - Spanish Pronouns - The Use Of Vosotros
The pronoun vosotros is completely absent in Latin America, however, it may be heard among speakers of Ladino in countries like Venezuel...
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Polygamy: Encyclopedia Ii - Polygamy - Related Terms
Polygamy - Bigamy.
Bigamy refers to someone who has two spouses at the same time. Many countries have specific statutes outlawing bigam...
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Polygamy: Encyclopedia Ii - Polygamy - Polygamy In Fiction
A number of writers have expressed their views on polygamy by writing about a fictional world in which it is the most common type of rela...
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Polygamy: Encyclopedia Ii - Polygamy - Polygamy Worldwide
According to the Ethnographic Atlas Codebook derived from George P. Murdock’s Ethnographic Atlas recorded the marital composition of 12...
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Polygamy: Encyclopedia Ii - Polygamy - How Polygamists Find More Spouses
Those who live in their own communities tend to find their additional spouses from within their own communities or networks of like-commu...
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Polygamy: Encyclopedia Ii - Polygamy - Legal Situation
Secular law in most western countries with large Jewish and Christian populations does not recognise polygamous marriages. However, few s...
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List Of Canadian Sports Personalities: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Canadian Sports Personalities - Basketball
Current Players
Steve Nash 2005 NBA MVP
Jamaal MagloirePlayed in the All-Star Game 2003-04
Retired
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Police: Encyclopedia Ii - Police - Multiple Levels Of Police Agencies
In many countries, particularly those with a federal system of government, there may be several police or police-like organisations, each...
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Căile Ferate Române: Encyclopedia Ii - Căile Ferate Române - Passenger Services
CFR Călători, the passenger service division of CFR, operates seven types of passenger train, both on Romania's territory, with rolling...
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Trust Law Usa: Encyclopedia Ii - Trust Law Usa - Terminology With Multiple Meanings
The various names listed above for the creator of a trust are interchangeable -- with "settlor" preferred by the legal community and "gra...
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Multiplication Algorithm: Encyclopedia Ii - Multiplication Algorithm - Long Multiplication
If you use a positional numeral system, a natural way of multiplying numbers is taught in grade schools as long multiplication: multiply ...
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Juggling: Encyclopedia Ii - Juggling - Origins And History To 1947 A.d.
The act of juggling pre-dates any recorded history so the exact origins will never be known. The earliest known record of juggling, from ...
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Juggling: Encyclopedia Ii - Juggling - The Growth Of Juggling As A Hobby 1947 - Present
Until the early 1950s, juggling was only practiced by performers. Since then more and more people have begun juggling as a hobby. The Int...
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Juggling: Encyclopedia Ii - Juggling - Modern Juggling Culture
Since the late 1980s a large juggling subculture has developed, almost completely unknown and unrecognised by the general public. The sce...
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Juggling: Encyclopedia Ii - Juggling - Forms Of Juggling Performance
For the past hundred years, since the "Golden Age" of vaudeville, variety and circus to the present, a few methods of presenting juggling...
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Juggling: Encyclopedia Ii - Juggling - Professional Performers
It has been said that jugglers are quite low down in the hierarchy of entertainment and performers... just below magicians but slightly a...
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Juggling: Encyclopedia Ii - Juggling - Juggling World Records
Juggling - Solo Records.
Currently, juggling world records are tracked by the Juggling Information Service Committee on Numbers Jugglin...
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Juggling: Encyclopedia Ii - Juggling - Juggling World Records
Juggling - Solo Records.
Currently, juggling world records are tracked by the Juggling Information Service Committee on Numbers Jugglin...
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Juggling: Encyclopedia Ii - Juggling - Professional Performers
During the early growth of movies, radio and television, juggling, as a form of popular entertainment, suffered more than other variety a...
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Burial: Encyclopedia Ii - Burial - Reasons For Human Burial
Rotting corpses emit unpleasant odors (due to gases released by bacterial decomposition) and look gruesome. Burial prevents the living fr...
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Career: Encyclopedia Ii - Career - Labor And Employment Research
Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Institute for Women and Work at Cornell University
Labor and Worklife Progra...
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Multiple Sclerosis: Encyclopedia Ii - Multiple Sclerosis - History
A French neurologist named Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–93) was the first person to recognize multiple sclerosis as a distinct, separate d...
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Multiple Citizenship: Encyclopedia Ii - Multiple Citizenship - Issues
There are some legal issues about dual citizenship and government services. For example, an American citizen holding another nationality ...
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Spanish Pronouns: Encyclopedia Ii - Spanish Pronouns - The Use Of Vusted
The variant vusted/vustedes is mostly a regionalism of some South American countries. It is common to hear it in isolated areas of Colom...
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Theory Of Multiple Intelligences: Encyclopedia Ii - Theory Of Multiple Intelligences - Opposing Views
As one would expect from a theory that redefines intelligence, one of the major criticisms of the theory is that it is ad hoc. The critic...
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Spanish Pronouns: Encyclopedia Ii - Spanish Pronouns - Table Of Personal Pronouns
Subject ("Nominative case")
yo, tú, vos, usted/vusted, él/ella, nosotros/nosotras, vosotros/vosotras, ustedes/vustedes, ellos/ellas...
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Spanish Pronouns: Encyclopedia Ii - Spanish Pronouns - Voseo
The pronoun "vos" is used by some Latin Americans, particularly in Central America, Argentina, Uruaguay, Paraguay, the state of Zulia in...
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Spanish Pronouns: Encyclopedia Ii - Spanish Pronouns - Demonstrative Pronouns
N.B.: According to a decision of the Real Academia from the 1960s, the accents on these forms are only to be used when necessary to avoid...
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Spanish Pronouns: Encyclopedia Ii - Spanish Pronouns - Relative Pronouns
The main relative pronoun in Spanish que, from the Latin QVID. Others include el cual, quien and donde.
Spanish pronouns - Que.
Que cov...
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Multiple Citizenship: Encyclopedia Ii - Multiple Citizenship - Examples
Example 1: A person born in Canada, to a Canadian citizen and an American citizen would have Canadian citizenship by birth, and may also ...
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Burial: Encyclopedia Ii - Burial - Alternatives To Burial
Not all cultures bury their dead, and many of those that do bury their dead do not do so in all cases. Alternatives include:
Burial at s...
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Burial: Encyclopedia Ii - Burial - Exhumation
The digging up of a buried body is called exhumation, and is considered sacrilege by most cultures that bury their dead. However, there i...
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Polygamy: Encyclopedia Ii - Polygamy - Current Proponents And Opponents
David Friedman and Steve Sailer have argued that polygamy tends to benefit most women and disadvantage most men. Friedman uses this obser...
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Burial: Encyclopedia Ii - Burial - Alternatives To Burial
Human bodies are not always buried, and many cultures may not bury their dead in every case. Alternatives to burial include the following...
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Burial: Encyclopedia Ii - Burial - Reasons For Human Burial
After death, the corpse will start to decay and emit unpleasant odors due to the gases released by bacterial decomposition. Burial preven...
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Multiple Citizenship: Encyclopedia Ii - Multiple Citizenship - Issues
There are some legal issues about dual citizenship and government services. For example, an American citizen holding another nationality ...
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Police: Encyclopedia Ii - Police - History
In ancient times, the military was mostly responsible for maintaining law and order in cities. The Roman Empire had a reasonably effectiv...
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Police: Encyclopedia Ii - Police - Restrictions Upon The Power Of The Police
In order for police officers to do their job well, they are vested by the state with a monopoly in the use of certain powers. These inclu...
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Police: Encyclopedia Ii - Police - Policing Structures
Most police forces contain subgroups whose job it is to investigate particular types of crime.
In most Western police forces, perhaps the...
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Universal Personal Telecommunications: Encyclopedia Ii - Universal Personal Telecommunications - Upt Number
The UPT number uniquely identifies a UPT user and that is used to place a call to, or to forward a call to, that user.
A user may have mu...
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Dissociative Identity Disorder: Encyclopedia Ii - Dissociative Identity Disorder - Controversy
This diagnosis is controversial. The main points of disagreement are:
Whether MPD/DID is a real disorder, or just a fad.
If it is real, ...
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Police: Encyclopedia Ii - Police - Police Armament And Equipment
In many jurisdictions, police officers carry firearms in the normal course of their duties.
Police often have specialist units for handli...
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Police: Encyclopedia Ii - Police - Difficult Issues
Police organizations must sometimes deal with the issue of police corruption, which is often abetted by a code of silence that encourages...
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Trust Law Usa: Encyclopedia Ii - Trust Law Usa - Inadvertent Termination Of Trust: The Merger Of Legal And Equitable Title
The trustee is said to hold legal title to the corpus, while the beneficiary holds equitable or beneficial title. Generally, a trust cann...
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Trust Law Usa: Encyclopedia Ii - Trust Law Usa - Unit Trusts And Protective Trusts
A unit trust is a trust where the beneficiaries (called unitholders) each possess a certain share (called a unitholding) and can direct t...
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Trust Law Usa: Encyclopedia Ii - Trust Law Usa - Express And Implied Trusts
Trusts can be classified in a number of ways. One of these ways is by how the trust was created. Most commonly, a classification of trust...
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Căile Ferate Române: Encyclopedia Ii - Căile Ferate Române - History
Căile Ferate Române - Railways in the 19th century.
The first railway line on Romania's present-day territory was opened on August 20...
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Căile Ferate Române: Encyclopedia Ii - Căile Ferate Române - Freight Services
Freight services in Romania are operated mostly by CFR Marfă, the freight division of CFR, as well as by 28 other private companies who ...
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Căile Ferate Române: Encyclopedia Ii - Căile Ferate Române - Locomotives And Stock
CFR Călători (passenger services) and CFR Marfă (freight services) use a range of electric (known as LE), diesel electric (LDE), diese...
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Dissociative Identity Disorder: Encyclopedia Ii - Dissociative Identity Disorder - Contemporary Views
There are numerous points of view on this issue. Notable positions include:
Dissociative identity disorder - Believers.
The basic premi...
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Trust Law Usa: Encyclopedia Ii - Trust Law Usa - The Trust Document
Typically a trust is created by (1) written instrument (the trust document) signed by both the settlor (who may be the only beneficiary) ...
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Trust Law Usa: Encyclopedia Ii - Trust Law Usa - Purposes Of Trusts
Any competent individual may create a trust for any legal purpose. The most common usages are:
(1) as an investment account with the adde...
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Trust Law Usa: Encyclopedia Ii - Trust Law Usa - Constructive Trust: An Equitable Remedy
Unlike an express or implied trust, a constructive trust is not created by an agreement between a settlor and the trustee. A constructive...
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Trust Law Usa: Encyclopedia Ii - Trust Law Usa - Simple Or Bare Trusts Versus Special Trusts
In a simple trust (also called a bare trust) the trustee has no active duty beyond conveying the property to the beneficiary at some futu...
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Trust Law Usa: Encyclopedia Ii - Trust Law Usa - Some Federal Income Tax Implications
For Federal income tax purposes in the United States, there are several kinds of trusts: grantor trusts whose tax consequences flow direc...
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Trust Law Usa: Encyclopedia Ii - Trust Law Usa - Kinds Of Trustees
Trustees may be competent individuals and/or state or federally chartered corporate, i.e. professional, trustees, typically that have int...
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Trust Law Usa: Encyclopedia Ii - Trust Law Usa - The Law Of Trusts
The fifty states harbor rich differences in fiduciary law despite on-going efforts to reduce disparities through the Uniform Principal an...
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Trust Law Usa: Encyclopedia Ii - Trust Law Usa - Creation Of A Trust
In general, a trust is not established until the document is (1) signed AND (2) money or something of value is transferred from the settl...
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Multiple Line Policy:
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Definition
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Multiple Line Policy :
Multiple Line Policy: A policy that includes several different coverages suc...
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Multiple Line Policy:
Insurance Terms Dictionary - Multiple Line Policy
Definition
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Multiple Line Policy :
Multiple Line Policy: A policy that includes several different coverages suc...
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Iteration Mark: Encyclopedia Ii - Iteration Mark - Kanji
While Japanese does not have a grammatical plural form per se, some kanji can be reduplicated to indicate plurality. This differs for Chi...
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Burial: Encyclopedia Ii - Burial - Burial Practices
In many human cultures throughout history, human corpses were usually buried in soil. Burial grounds have been uncovered all over the wor...
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C. Kyle Ranson: Encyclopedia Ii - C. Kyle Ranson - Personal Life
Kyle was born in Newcastle, United Kingdom and graduated from Brunel University in 1985 with a major in design engineering and a minor in...
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Psychic Force:
New Age
Spiritual Dictionary On Psychic Force
psychic force An energy emanating from, or about, a medium, a sensitive, or any person possible in lesser amounts. This force may dem...
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Exorcism:
Alternative
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exorcism: Any act or method whose purpose is to expel a spirit (particularly Satan, some other demon, or an offensive ghost) or multip...
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Current Population Survey: Encyclopedia Ii - Current Population Survey - Data Available
The CPS reports:
Employment status of the civilian noninstitutional population 16 years and over by age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, mar...
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Multiple Location Policy:
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Multiple Location Policy: Protection of property in more than one locati...
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Financial Adviser: Encyclopedia Ii - Financial Adviser - Multiple Titles
Financial Advisers have be known by many names! It is a seemingly endless task for marketing departments to come up with new titles to ad...
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Seal Musician: Encyclopedia Ii - Seal Musician - Personal Life
On January 4, 2005 Seal announced his engagement to German supermodel and actress Heidi Klum. [2] The couple married in May of that year,...
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Tuberculosis Diagnosis: Encyclopedia Ii - Tuberculosis Diagnosis - Tuberculin Skin Test
Two tests are available: the Mantoux and Heaf tests.
Tuberculosis diagnosis - Mantoux skin test.
The Mantoux skin test is used in the U...
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Emotional Intelligence: Encyclopedia Ii - Emotional Intelligence - Criticisms
A significant criticism is that emotional intelligence has no "benchmark" to set itself against. While IQ tests are designed to correlate...
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Badger Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Badger Comics - Characters
The lead character was Norbert Sykes, a Vietnam war veteran suffering from multiple personality disorder. One of his personalities was ma...
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Emotional Intelligence: Encyclopedia Ii - Emotional Intelligence - Measures Of Emotional Intelligence
Some researchers believe EI is a cognitive ability just as is IQ (eg, Mayer & Salovey, 2000), while others believe it is a combinatio...
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Emotional Intelligence: Encyclopedia Ii - Emotional Intelligence - Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence - Mayer and Salovey and emotional intelligence.
In the early 1990s, John D. Mayer and Peter Salovey published a ...
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Court: Encyclopedia Ii - Court - Operations
Most courts conduct their official business in a courtroom, a physical space designed to accommodate the purposes of having arguments and...
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Publius Enigma: Encyclopedia Ii - Publius Enigma - Publius
The Publius Enigma is named after a messenger calling himself Publius who posted clues on a Pink Floyd internet newsgroup, news://alt.mus...
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Court: Encyclopedia Ii - Court - Operations
Most courts conduct their official business in a courtroom, a physical space designed to accommodate the purposes of having arguments and...
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Doctor Alchemy: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctor Alchemy - History
Albert Desmond suffered from multiple personality disorder where, like Two-Face, one side was a harmless citizen, the other personality w...
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Herbert Garrison: Encyclopedia Ii - Herbert Garrison - Personality And Sexual Identity
Although acknowledged only sparingly in the series, Mr. Garrison suffers from a wide variety of social problems, the most noticeable of w...
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Stacking Of Limits:
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Stacking Of Limits
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Stacking of Limits: The application of more than one policy limit to the...
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Invisible Disability: Encyclopedia Ii - Invisible Disability - Discrimination
Whereas with a visible disability, people may be too willing to "help" or interfere, those with invisible disabilities must seek out any ...
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