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  2. The Old Man and his Sons - Wikipedia

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    The moral drawn from the fable by Babrius was that "Brotherly love is the greatest good in life and often lifts the humble higher". In his emblem book Hecatomgraphie (1540), Gilles Corrozet reflected on it that if there can be friendship among strangers, it is even more of a necessity among family members. [4]

  3. Faggot (unit) - Wikipedia

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    A faggot, in the meaning of "bundle", is an archaic English unit applied to bundles of certain items. Alternate spellings in Early Modern English include fagate, faget, fagett, faggott, fagot, fagatt, fagott, ffagott, and faggat. A similar term is found in other languages (e.g. Latin: fascis).

  4. IPA vowel chart with audio - Wikipedia

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    This chart provides audio examples for phonetic vowel symbols. The symbols shown include those in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and added material. The chart is based on the official IPA vowel chart. [1] The International Phonetic Alphabet is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet.

  5. Forvo - Wikipedia

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    Many users have complained of restrictions to download audio. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Forvo tried to revoke the rights of users and impede them from downloading their own voices. More than 5 million audios were recorded under a Creative Commons License that grants irrevocable rights to users to obtain a copy, modify and redistribute the data. [ 15 ]

  6. IPA consonant chart with audio - Wikipedia

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    The following are the non-pulmonic consonants.They are sounds whose airflow is not dependent on the lungs. These include clicks (found in the Khoisan languages and some neighboring Bantu languages of Africa), implosives (found in languages such as Sindhi, Hausa, Swahili and Vietnamese), and ejectives (found in many Amerindian and Caucasian languages).

  7. The F Word (South Park) - Wikipedia

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    However, this action leads to negative publicity as the rest of the nation refuses to acknowledge the change, and further angers the displaced bikers who refuse to be labeled as "fags". They look up the word in the dictionary and learn its definition has adapted over the years: it previously meant "an unpleasant old woman" and a bundle of sticks.

  8. Wikipedia:List of sound files - Wikipedia

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    Thanks to MusikAnimal, we can now check Wikimedia Commons to find ogg, midi, and flac files that are not yet listed in these sound lists, in connection with composers who are listed at list of composers by name. The bot's output for October 2015 is in its userspace, and all of the new files have been added to the sound lists, as of October 2015.

  9. Pick-up sticks - Wikipedia

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    Pick-up sticks, pick-a-stick, jackstraws, jack straws, spillikins, spellicans, or fiddlesticks is a game of physical and mental skill in which a bundle of sticks, between 8 and 20 centimeters long, is dropped as a loose bunch onto a table top into a random pile. Each player, in turn, tries to remove a stick from the pile without disturbing any ...