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  2. Excelsior (Longfellow) - Wikipedia

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    The poem describes a young man passing through a mountain village at dusk. He bears the banner "Excelsior" (translated from Latin as "higher", also loosely but more widely as "onward and upward"). The traveller disregards warnings from villagers of fearful dangers above, and an offer of rest from a local maiden.

  3. Suspension of disbelief - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a philosopher and poet known for his influence on English literature, coined the turn-of-phrase and elaborated upon it.. Suspension of disbelief is the avoidance—often described as willing—of critical thinking and logic in understanding something that is unreal (or impossible) in reality, such as something in a work of speculative fiction, in order to believe it ...

  4. List of Brooklyn Nine-Nine characters - Wikipedia

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    Charles disregards his presence out of jealousy, and he ends up finding out Schillens is a dirty cop after catching him plant evidence. Brad Hall as John William Weichselbraun, a classical oboist who claims his instrument was stolen; also one of Holt's heroes. Kate Flannery as "Mean" Marge Bronigan, the precinct's ill-tempered custodian.

  5. Disregard for the Constitution? That’s on Us. - AOL

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    From the Electoral College to the Senate, reforms to our founding charters are possible without amendments.

  6. The Doings of Raffles Haw - Wikipedia

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    Prior to his arrival, locals gossip about him. As his house is being constructed, people wonder at the number of workers, their speed, and the complete disregard for the amount of money spent. When Haw arrives, he acquaints himself with the McIntyre family, which consists of Robert, his sister Laura, and their father.

  7. Freedom Riders - Wikipedia

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    They called national attention to the disregard for the federal law and the local violence used to enforce segregation in the southern United States. Police arrested riders for trespassing, unlawful assembly, violating state and local Jim Crow laws, and other alleged offenses, but often they first let white mobs attack them without intervention.

  8. Wikipedia:Language learning centre/Word list - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Preternatural - Wikipedia

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    Medieval theologians made a clear distinction between the natural, the preternatural and the supernatural. Thomas Aquinas argued that the supernatural consists in "God’s unmediated actions"; the natural is "what happens always or most of the time"; and the preternatural is "what happens rarely, but nonetheless by the agency of created beings...Marvels belong, properly speaking, to the realm ...