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Splendid isolation is a term used to describe the 19th-century British diplomatic practice of avoiding permanent alliances from 1815 to 1902. The concept developed as early as 1822, when Britain left the post-1815 Concert of Europe , and continued until the 1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance and the 1904 Entente Cordiale with France.
Splenda. Splenda / ˈsplɛndə / is a global brand of sugar substitutes and reduced-calorie food products. While the company is known for its original formulation containing sucralose, it also manufactures items using natural sweeteners such as stevia, monk fruit and allulose. It is owned by the American company Heartland Food Products Group.
San Francisco de Macoris. The Spanish–American War[ b ] (April 21 – December 10, 1898) began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. The war led to the United States emerging predominant in the Caribbean region, [ 16 ] and ...
Lines. 32. Full text. Clancy of the Overflow at Wikisource. " Clancy of the Overflow " is a famous Australian poem written by Banjo Paterson and first published in The Bulletin, an Australian news magazine, on 21 December 1889. [ 1 ] The poem is typical of Paterson, offering a romantic view of rural life, and is one of his best-known works.
Crib – a mid-morning break for a snack (see below also) [35] Croust (or Crowst) – a mid-morning break for a snack (usually west Cornwall) [36] (from Cornish language croust) Cummas 'zon – come on, hurry up. Cundard – a drain. Cuss – curse [37] Cutting of it up – speaking in a fake posh accent.
Happy Tree Friends. Happy Tree Friends (commonly abbreviated as HTF) is an adult animated web series created by Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo, and Kenn Navarro, and developed by Montijo, Navarro, and Warren Graff for Mondo Media. Disguised as a kids' cartoon, the show follows the misadventures of cute anthropomorphic forest animals, whose ...
Chorus: Hi ho, the rattlin' bog, The bog down in the valley-o, Hi ho, the rattlin' bog, The bog down in the valley-o. Now in the bog there was a tree,
Not to be confused with Pantheon, Rome. The Parthenon (/ ˈpɑːrθəˌnɒn, - nən /; Ancient Greek: Παρθενών, romanized: Parthenōn [par.tʰe.nɔ̌ːn]; Greek: Παρθενώνας, romanized:Parthenónas [parθeˈnonas]) is a former temple [ 6 ][ 7 ] on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena.