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  2. Mortal coil - Wikipedia

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    Accordingly, the meaning might be: 'when we have unwound and worked off this coil of mortality.' In this way, the length of our life is metaphorically the length of thread that is coiled on a spool, a metaphor related to the ancient Greek mythological figures of the Fates. As humans live, the thread is unwound from the coil by the shuttle of ...

  3. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    Other Arab people, mainly Palestinian, use the expression لما ينور الملح lemma ynawwar il-malḥ, which roughly translates into "when salt blossoms" or "when salt flowers" Breton - Pa nijo ar moc'h ("when pigs fly") [18] Chinese – 太陽從西邊升起 ("when the sun rises in the West")

  4. 250 Best Quotes About Kids for Universal Children's Day - AOL

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    1. “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” – Dr. Seuss 2. “A child is an uncut diamond.” – Austin O’Malley 3. “Always kiss your children goodnight—even if they’re already ...

  5. Unwind (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Unwind is a dystopian novel by Neal Shusterman.It takes place in the United States in the near future. After the Second Civil War ("The Heartland War") was fought over abortion, a compromise was reached, allowing parents to sign an order for their children between the ages of 13 and 18 to be "unwound" — taken to "harvest camps" and dissected into their body parts for later use.

  6. 36 quotes for Women's History Month to share with your kids - AOL

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    Related: From Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King Jr., get your kids inspired with these powerful quotes. 36 Women’s History Month Quotes To Share With Kids “This new sport is comparable to no other.

  7. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  8. 75 powerful LGBTQ quotes for Pride Month and every month - AOL

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    Short LGBTQ quotes “You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.” — Marsha P. Johnson “We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.”

  9. File:Dreadlocks of an African-American person, after being ...

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    English: Twist-started dreadlocks of an African-American person, immediately after being unwound from the Bantu knots they were 'trained' in for a month; the locks subsequently thickened as matting progressed