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Elizabethan

from the period when Queen Elizabeth I was the ruler of England (1558-1603)

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Meerkat meme
Meerkat meme
by Colin McIntosh,
September 03, 2015
Meerkats are not new to popular culture (they appear in the folk tales of the San people of the Kalahari), but their arrival in the public’s consciousness, at least in the UK and the US, is a relatively recent phenomenon. Meerkats are small, sociable Southern African mammals that live in large family

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HEN noun
HEN noun
September 07, 2015
a happy empty nester: a mother who is enjoying the freedom of having had children leave home Having the house to themselves was another reason to celebrate being a HEN – a third said their home was now a ‘calmer place’.

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