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One day the Emperor Akbar startled his courtiers with a strange question. If somebody pulled my whiskers what sort of punishment should be given to him? he asked. He should be flogged! said one courtier. He should be hanged! said another. He should b

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Birbal arrived late for a function and the emperor was displeased. My child was crying and I had to placate him, explained the courtier. Does it take so long to calm down a child? asked the emperor. It appears you know nothing about child rearing. No

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One day Akbar and Birbal were riding through the countryside and they happened to pass by a cabbage patch. Cabbages are such delightful vegetables! said Akbar. I just love cabbage. The cabbage is king of vegetables! said Birbal. A few weeks later the

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One fine morning, a minister from Emperor Akbar's court had gathered in the assembly hall. He informed the Emperor that all his valuables had been stolen by a thief the previous night. Akbar was shocked to hear this because the place where that minis

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One day Akbar asked his courtiers if they could tell him the difference between truth and falsehood in three words or less. The courtiers looked at one another in bewilderment. What about you, Birbal? asked the emperor. I'm surprised that you too are

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Oum Sok began working as a cyclo driver when he was 18. He says the city has become very expensive over the years, making it much harder to earn a living. New York has its yellow cab. London has its red bus. But Phnom Penh has its cyclo - a three-whe

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ancistruss
apothecary's shop
asphalt macadam mix method
Asset-Backed Commercial Paper
audiometric
balanced reciprocity
Bernoulli equation
Blake jaw crusher
body-centered
Bording
bow to something
bucket paternoster
carlessness
cattle rest
ceilidh
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colozza
costumeries
counterfactualities
cries over spilt milk
curtain boom
cyaline
dacryuria
daily reports
decentralization of authority
deficiences
electric-field sensor
electron-neutrino
electrooptical ceramics
Ernestina, Reprêsa da
evictee
examination of invention
Ferihegyi
flavectomy
gas-insulated substation
good sound merchantable
gross lesion
ground levels
hircic acid
hosley
in your face
indented ring
inside-hexagonal spanner
isoselenocyanate
kalo vig
Kapton foil
labiomental
landi kotal
lateritic deposit
let-off stand
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microcrystal theory
milelong
near-drowning
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origin center
overeruption
panicum crus-galli l.
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pigmy sword fern
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pocketsize
pol sambol
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puncture weed
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reluctance-type synchronous motor
riftblock mountain
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semi-indirect fittings
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