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  2. Trepanning - Wikipedia

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    Detail from The Extraction of the Stone of Madness, a painting by Hieronymus Bosch depicting trepanation (c. 1488–1516). Trepanning, also known as trepanation, trephination, trephining or making a burr hole (the verb trepan derives from Old French from Medieval Latin trepanum from Greek trúpanon, literally "borer, auger"), [1] [2] is a surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled or ...

  3. Trephination - Wikipedia

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  4. Truancy - Wikipedia

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    The police are not involved in truancy control, but teachers monitor the school and its surrounding area to avoid unauthorized absences. If a pupil is absent for a long period of time, the parents may be fined. [11] The child will not be escorted to school, but the government may remove the child from the household if truancy continues.

  5. Frontal sinus trephination - Wikipedia

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    A combination of external frontal sinus trephination and intranasal endoscopy is used to approach the frontal sinus. Frontal sinus trephination also enhances the visualization in anatomy. The incision is made in the medial aspect of the eyebrow above, parallel to the hair line. A 4–5mm diameter hole is drilled into the anterior table of the ...

  6. Asclepiades of Bithynia - Wikipedia

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    Bust of Asclepiades. Asclepiades (Greek: Ἀσκληπιάδης; c. 129/124 BC – 40 BC [1] [2]), sometimes called Asclepiades of Bithynia or Asclepiades of Prusa, was a Greek physician born at Prusias-on-Sea [3] in Bithynia in Anatolia and who flourished at Rome, where he practised and taught Greek medicine.

  7. Historiography of the Christianization of the Roman Empire ...

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    [92] [93] Yet other pagan practices were tolerated, Constantine did not stop the established state support of the traditional religious institutions, nor did society substantially change its pagan nature under his rule. [94] Constantine's policies were largely continued by his sons though not universally or continuously. [95]

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    For the treatment centers, the revolving door may be financially lucrative. “It’s a service that rewards the failure of the service,” Johnson said. “If you are going to a program, you don’t succeed and you pay X-thousand dollars. When you fail, you go back — another X-thousand dollars. Because it’s your fault.”

  9. School-leaving age - Wikipedia

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    The school leaving age varies from state to state with most having a leaving age of 18, but a handful having a leaving age of above that number. [8] Students who complete a certain level of secondary education ("high school") may take a standardized test and be graduated from compulsory education, the General Equivalency Degree. Gifted and ...