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Mall

Mall

1. A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.

2. A heavy blow.

3. An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall.

4. A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: a public walk; a level shaded walk. Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City mall. (Southey)

Origin: oe. Malle, f. Mail, L. Malleus. Cf. Malleus.


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Re: two different color eyes

... colors?" or "hey, have your eyes always been like that?" or one tiem some girl that i have never met before came up to me in the mall and told me that i had put two differnt contacts in. that was actually kind of funny!!

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by junot10
Sat Jan 24, 2009 5:27 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: two different color eyes
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Brain size=IQ level theory (Blacks vs Whites & Asians)

... ethnic differences in intelligence in the United States on the Differential Ability Scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 20, 271-273. Mall, F. P. (1909). On several anatomical characters of the human brain, said to vary according to race and sex, with especial reference to the weight ...

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by TJJ
Fri May 16, 2008 12:14 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Brain size=IQ level theory (Blacks vs Whites & Asians)
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Re: Brain size=IQ level theory (Blacks vs Whites & Asians)

... reviewed a technical debate over Black/White brain-size differences between Robert Bennett Bean (1906), a Virginia physician, and Franklin P. Mall (1909), Beans mentor at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Bean (1906) published a study finding that the weight of 103 American Negro brains at autopsy ...

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by TJJ
Fri May 16, 2008 12:13 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Brain size=IQ level theory (Blacks vs Whites & Asians)
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What part of a dead tree doesn't biodegrade

... oxygen and release CO2, too. Possibly, by dieing the tree makes room for another individual who will photosynthesize more quickly. Or, a strip mall.

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by fscottdahlgren
Tue Jun 12, 2007 5:48 am
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: What part of a dead tree doesn't biodegrade
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Familial Action Tremors

... epilepsy. It was injury indused. It seems to be getting better though. She only seemed to have what i believe is called Partially complex petit mall seisures. She only rarely had grand mall seisures, usually caused by alcohol. Thanks for the info ~Ryan R.

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by Why,Why not
Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:46 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Familial Action Tremors
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