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  2. Grade II* listed buildings in Bath and North East Somerset

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    Bath and North East Somerset (commonly referred to as BANES or B&NES) is a unitary authority created on 1 April 1996, following the abolition of the County of Avon, which had existed since 1974. [1] Part of the ceremonial county of Somerset , Bath and North East Somerset occupies an area of 220 square miles (570 km 2 ), two-thirds of which is ...

  3. Bane (plant) - Wikipedia

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    Aconitum napellus, a member of the flowering genus Aconitum, sometimes called wolfsbane. The term bane (from Old English: bana, meaning "thing causing death, poison"), [1] in botany, is an archaic element in the common names of plants known to be toxic or poisonous.

  4. Banes - Wikipedia

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    Banes, Cuba, a municipality in Holguín Province, Cuba; Bath and North East Somerset (BANES), a local authority in England, United Kingdom; See also. Baines, a surname

  5. Banns of marriage - Wikipedia

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    The banns of marriage, commonly known simply as the "banns" or "bans" / ˈ b æ n z / (from a Middle English word meaning "proclamation", rooted in Frankish and thence in Old French), [1] are the public announcement in a Christian parish church, or in the town council, of an impending marriage between two specified persons.

  6. List of placeholder names - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes, Yamada will be replaced with the name of a company, place, or a related word; for example, 東芝 太郎 Tōshiba Tarō for Toshiba, 駒場 太郎 Komaba Tarō for Tokyo University (one of its three main campuses is located in Komaba), or 納税 太郎 Nōzei Tarō on tax return forms (nōzei means "to

  7. List of calques - Wikipedia

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    But not all of the coinages caught on and became permanent additions to the lexicon; for example, любомудрие (ljubomudrie) was promoted by 19th-century Russian intellectuals as a calque of "philosophy", but the word eventually fell out of fashion, and modern Russian instead uses the loanword философия (filosofija).

  8. Baines - Wikipedia

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    In Scotland and the north of England the Old English word bān ('bone') became Middle English bān and bain. ... Banes, Baynes and Bayns. [1] [2] Frequency of occurrence

  9. Bane - Wikipedia

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    Bane (DC Comics), an adversary of Batman Bane (Harry Potter), a centaur in the Harry Potter seriesBane (), a character in the Matrix film trilogyBane the Druid, a Guardian in the Legacy of Kain franchise