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Mudbloods Muggles dash around the pitch (sadly, they haven’t yet worked out how to fly but give them time) in a real-life version of the fantasy game. We are so sad that this didn’t exist while we were at uni – running around with a pretend broomstick and slamming balls through Q...
I can’t help but think about how freeing it will be to finish exams and be done with my first year of uni. But I dread the long vacation. I dread not being able to see my friends. I dread the sheer amount of work I’ll have to do just so I can afford to pay my rent ...
Internally at least, the dates in the term are often referred to by a number in reference to the start of each full term, thus the first week of any full term is called "1st week" and the last is "8th week". The numbering of the weeks continues up to the end of the term, and...
For the sake of comparison with a hydrostatic value, the most suitable J2|obs - corr (see Table 1) is the observed value J2|obs, excluding both the atmosphere contribution J2|atm and the permanent direct, ΔJ2, and indirect, kΔJ2, luni-solar tide effects: 32 for a permanent tide,...
Medievalthinkersapplythe term‘true’to quitedifferentkindsof things. Thereforewemustconsiderthepossibilitythatthedebateover theunicity of truthis intendedto con-cernonlythe truthof some,butnotall truethings. Nowthemostimportantdistinc-tionamongtruethingsisbetweenpropositionsor proposition-likeitemsin the soul...