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Damsel

1. A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, damsel Pepin; damsel richard, prince of wales.

2. A young unmarried woman; a gerl; a maiden. With her train of damsels she was gone, in shady walks the scorching heat to shum. (Dryden) Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, . . . Goes by to towered Cameleot. (Tennyson)

3. An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hoppe.

Origin: oe. Damosel, damesel, damisel, damsel, fr. OF. Damoisele, damisele, gentlewoman, f. Demoiselle young lady; cf. OF. Damoisel young nobleman, f. Damoiseau; fr. LL. Domicella, dominicella, fem, domicellus, dominicellus, masc, dim. Fr. L. Domina, dominus. See dame, and cf. Demoiselle, doncella.


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Geometric Progressions

Ok, so....Eat the poor, encourage wars, don't maintain the dams, and.....Don't treat diseases! And don't forget to use the death penalty very liberally as well!

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by alextemplet
Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:42 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Geometric Progressions
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Geometric Progressions

Ok, so....Eat the poor, encourage wars, don't maintain the dams, and.....Don't treat diseases!

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by flipper1067
Tue Aug 28, 2007 3:06 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Geometric Progressions
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Geometric Progressions

... can also slow geometric growth by lowering the initial amount of people you have. This can be easily accomplished by not paying to maintain the dams in certain hurricane susceptible states and by having wars.

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by mith
Tue Aug 28, 2007 2:45 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Geometric Progressions
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by SwampDonkey
Tue Nov 07, 2006 1:04 pm
 
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... primary cause of world-wide destruction, where else can blame be laid? How is the product of a man's labor any different than that of an animals (dams: humans vs beavers for example). The product can be differentiated by several variables: physical scale of effects length of time effects last ...

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by damien james
Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:24 am
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: Humans- Nature Vs Culture
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