{{11}}leaven (n.) mid 14c., from O.Fr. levain leaven, sourdough (12c.), from L. levamen alleviation, mitigation, but used in V.L. in its literal sense of a means of lifting, something that raises, from levare to raise (see LEVER (Cf. lever)).…

(formerly Wei yang), city in Kiangsu province, China. It had connections with the Jewish community of kaifeng . A few scattered references to Jewish and Chinese individuals from Yang chou are found in the Chinese stele inscriptions of the Kaifeng

The fix and/or waypoint located on the final approach course of an instrument approach procedure prior to the point of the glide path intercept on a precision approach procedure; prior to the final approach fix on a nonprecision approach…

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Guy David Greville, 9th Earl of Warwick and 9th Earl Brooke was born on 30 June 1957. He is the son of David Robin Francis Guy Greville, 8th Earl of Warwick and Sarah Anne Beatty. He was educated at Eton College, Eton, Berkshire, England. He was…

Latin term for estate or *manor. Those who worked on the land were known as mansus serviles = serfs of the manor or mansus liberi = freemen of the manor. From mansus derives manse