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A mulard duck, the hybrid used most frequently for foie gras production. Foie gras (French for 'fat liver'); (French: [fwa ɡʁɑ] ⓘ, English: / ˌ f w ɑː ˈ ɡ r ɑː / ⓘ) is a specialty food product made of the liver of a duck or goose.
In statistics, an inference is drawn from a statistical model, which has been selected via some procedure. Burnham & Anderson, in their much-cited text on model selection, argue that to avoid overfitting, we should adhere to the "Principle of Parsimony". [3]
Azed is a crossword which appears every Sunday in The Observer newspaper. Since it first appeared in March 1972, every puzzle has been composed by Jonathan Crowther who also judges the monthly clue-writing competition. [1] The pseudonym Azed is a reversal of (Fray Diego de) Deza, a Spanish inquisitor general.
A suffragette is force-fed in HM Prison Holloway in the UK during hunger strikes for women's suffrage, approximately 1911. [1]Force-feeding is the practice of feeding a human or animal against their will.
Ancient gravity feed aqueduct. Gravity feed is the use of earth's gravity to move something (usually a liquid) from one place to another.It is a simple means of moving a liquid without the use of a pump.
Drawing up a comprehensive list of words in English is important as a reference when learning a language as it will show the equivalent words you need to learn in the other language to achieve fluency.
Nehemiah as cup-bearer to Artaxerxes I of Persia; Illuminated Bible from the 1220s, National Library of Portugal. Cup-bearers are mentioned several times in the Bible. The position is first mentioned in Genesis 40:1, although the Hebrew word (elsewhere translated as "cup-bearer") is here sometimes rendered as "butler".
The former French consulate and British embassy, called Höfði, was the site of the Reykjavík Summit in 1986.. The Reykjavík Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, held in Reykjavík, Iceland, on 11–12 October 1986. [1]