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- noun metrology Symbol for the
attolumen , anSI unit ofluminous flux equal to 10−18lumens .
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The Norse word alm means elm, the resilient wood from which the Scandinavians made bows and arrows.
Eaters Of The Dead Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1976
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RE: GERMANY: Auto Windscreens acquired by Arques alm, that is the best post I have seen on this forum.
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People have called me "alm" as in "alms for the poor" in the past, and I thought it was funny how I read it in my head one way and everyone else had it differently. honeychild because honey is natural, durable and versatile. and we are all children -- that child in us never leaves -- the outer casing just grows up and gets older looking. lol
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Can this equipped light attract more tourists to Angkor Wat and Cambodia as a whole while a leader of a country is incompetent to lead a country with transparency, security, stability, human right respect, and yet committing corruption and dependent on alm and submitting to neigboring countries?
Global Voices in English » Cambodia: Controversial Angkor Wat lighting project 2009
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Hymowitz writing in the Winter 2011 issue of City Journal: "[C]alm and collected" are not the words that come to mind to describe the feminist response to the governor from Alaska [Sarah Palin].
Notable & Quotable 2011
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"Una limosnita por el amor de Dios," she supposedly said -- "An alm, for the love of God."
Archive 2009-04-01 Steve Perry 2009
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Even when he noted that Ms R's dinner was alm almost gone and said, "And soon you will go and how will I find you?"
Archive 2008-06-01 Ms Robinson 2008
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Even when he noted that Ms R's dinner was alm almost gone and said, "And soon you will go and how will I find you?"
Je fait 'un mini break' Ms Robinson 2008
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She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when Kamar al-Zaman, son of King Shahriman, went to the Hammam, his father in his joy at this event freed the prisoners, and presented splendid dresses to his grandees and bestowed large alm-gifts upon the poor and bade decorate the city seven days.
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In this election, the average cost of a House seat (in campaign cash) was alm ost a million dollars ($960,000 to be more exact).
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