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Tower of Babel

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Babel

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Akkadian (language)

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divine will; providence

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historic; historical; traditional

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bronze

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Perseus

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Danae

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Rapunzel

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confinement; imprisonment; incarceration

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Tower of London

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prison

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fortress; stronghold; citadel

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essential part; indispensable part; unavoidable part; front and back matter (of a book, magazine, etc.)

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Bastille

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fort; stronghold; fortification

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debt trap; debt hell; being in debt up to one's ears

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debt; loan; liabilities; borrowing money

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idiomatic expression; idiom; fixed expression

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(large) compilation; culmination (of hard work)

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to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)

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frequent appearance; frequent occurrence

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dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology; promoted rook

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Tristan and Iseult (ger: Tristan und Isolde)

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third party; third person; outsider; disinterested person

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Konjaku Monogatarishū (abbr) (31-volume collection of stories written during the late Heian period); The Tale of Konjaku

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Lotus Sutra

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white (bleached) bone; skeleton

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tale; narrative

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false evidence; perjury; false testimony

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Yama; judge of the afterlife

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Word of God; God's Word; sword of the Spirit; Logos (i.e. the Trinity incarnate in Jesus Christ)

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Saint Dominic

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emblem

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monk; friar

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God's word; word of God

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for now; for the time being; for the present; though not quite satisfactorily; after a fashion

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ancient Egypt

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court (of law); courtroom

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Osiris

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to appear in court

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measuring; weighing; metric; distance function

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historic ruins (remains, relics); archeological site

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scarab (Egyptian gemstone); scarabeid (any of a group of beetles including the scarab beetle, Scarabeus sacer)

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as if (something untrue were actually true); like hell (e.g. "like hell I will")

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Metal Monkey (57th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1920, 1980, 2040)

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(Buddhist) lecture meeting; religious association; mutual assistance association (i.e. for financial assistance)

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the three worms (in Taoism); worms that inhabit the human gut and, on the eve of the 57th day of the sexagenary cycle, ascend to heaven during one's sleep to report on one's wrongdoings

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Shangdi (supreme deity in ancient Chinese religion); God; Shakra (king of heaven in Hindu mythology); Indra

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(parasitic) host; landlord; innkeeper

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