Word: kingdome
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...applied for this to gain an opportunity to study at one of the premier universities in the United Kingdom," he said...
After the spectacular failure of Margaret Thatcher's poll tax in the United Kingdom, you wouldn't think that anyone would seriously discuss its equally evil twin, the flat tax, in this country. After all, we split with that now-defunct empire because we knew how to do all the taxation and representation stuff much better. But the flat tax, most recently championed by Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes, has returned to the spotlight...
...span of no more than 10 million years, creatures with teeth and tentacles and claws and jaws materialized with the suddenness of apparitions. In a burst of creativity like nothing before or since, nature appears to have sketched out the blueprints for virtually the whole of the animal kingdom. This explosion of biological diversity is described by scientists as biology's Big Bang...
...Cambrian oceans 525 million years ago. From its flexible but sturdy spinal rod, the scientists deduced that this animal - dubbed Yunnanozoon lividum, after the Chinese province in which it was found - was a primitive chordate, the oldest ancestor yet discovered of the vertebrate branch of the animal kingdom, which includes Homo sapiens...
...Harvard-Yale competition is undoubtedly unique. Since the founding of Yale ended Harvard's "only child" status centuries ago, the two schools have waged a rather intense competition for the crown of the Ivy kingdom. The Game is merely an attempt to express this deep competition in a typical collegiate manner: an athletic rivalry, like that between Army and Navy or between national powerhouses Florida and Florida State...