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  2. Ancient Egyptian conception of the soul - Wikipedia

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    The kꜣ (ka), 𓂓, was the Egyptian concept of vital essence, which distinguishes the difference between a living and a dead person, with death occurring when the kꜣ left the body. The Egyptians believed that Khnum created the bodies of children on a potter's wheel and inserted them into their mothers' bodies.

  3. British Association screw threads - Wikipedia

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    This was simplified in the BA thread definition by defining the thread angle to be 47.5° exactly and the thread form to be symmetrical with a depth of ⁠ 3 / 5 ⁠ p. The British Standards Institution recommends the use of BA sizes in favour of the smaller British Standard Whitworth (BSW) and British Standard Fine (BSF) thread screws (those ...

  4. Dispute between a man and his Ba - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Egyptian concept of the soul consisted of nine separate parts. Among these is the Ba, which is commonly translated into English as "soul".The Ba soul was thought to represent one's psyche or personality and was thought to live on after one's death, possessing the ability to traverse between the physical and spiritual planes.

  5. Bachelor of Arts - Wikipedia

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    In Scotland, one can opt to take an ordinary degree, which ranks below a third class honours degree (for example, BA with distinction, merit or pass). A Bachelor of Arts is entitled to the post-nominal letters BA for an ordinary or pass degree and BA (Hons) for an honours degree. (However, graduates entitled to use the "Hons" post-nominal very ...

  6. British degree abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    The ancient universities of Scotland award an undergraduate MA (see Scottish MA) instead of a BA. For students to obtain a master's degree consistent with the framework in these ancient English universities, they have created the MSt (Master of Studies) to address this anomaly and differentiate between the degrees, both master's.

  7. Prefixes in Hebrew - Wikipedia

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    בַּאֲרִי ‎ ba'ari (in a lion) בֵּאלֹהִים ‎ belohim (in God) כ ‎ as, like כְּמֶלֶךְ ‎ k'melekh (as a king) כִּמְלָכִים ‎ kim'lokhim (as kings) כִּיהוּדָה ‎ kihudah (Like Judah) כַּאֲרִי ‎ ka'ari (Like a lion) כֵּאלֹהִים ‎ kelohim (Like Gods)

  8. Baka (Japanese word) - Wikipedia

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    In English, at one end of a scale are words like silly goose and at the other end are words like stupid asshole. And in Japanese, at one end are words like kamaboko baka 蒲鉾馬鹿 'silly chump' and at the other end are words like baka-yarō 馬鹿野郎 'damn fool'. The difference is in the degree of lexical diversification along the scales ...

  9. Help:IPA/English - Wikipedia

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    The difference between the phonetic realization of English sounds (mostly vowels) in various dialects. Let's pick some grapes for Betty should be transcribed /lɛts ˈpɪk səm ˈɡreɪps fər ˈbɛti/ regardless of the variety of English and everyone should interpret that transcription according to their own dialect.