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Pre-algebra Pre-algebra is a common name for a course in elementary mathematics. In the United States, it is typically a one-year course taught to some students as early as sixth grade, but others may take it as late as university (though it would then ordinarily be taught in much less time).
Pre-Adamite The idea that humans existed before Adam, which is known as the Pre-Adamite hypothesis or Preadamism, has a long history, probably having its origins in early pagan responses to Jewish and Christian claims regarding the origins of the human race.
Pre-Budget Report In the United Kingdom, the Pre-Budget Report (PBR) is one of the two economic forecasts that HM Treasury is required to deliver to Parliament each year, the other being the annual Budget. The PBR has been announced in a speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in November or December each year since the Labour Party came to power in May 1997.
Pre-colombian engineering in americas Engineering in the Americas before the arrival of Christopher Columbus was advanced in agriculture, hydrology, irrigation systems, transportation, mechanical engineering, civil engineering and Astronomy. This page hopes to provide information and links regarding engineering accomplishments in the americas before the arrival of Christopher Colombus.
Pre-conception counseling Pre-conception counseling is based on the medical theory that all women of child-bearing years should be pre-screened for health and risk potentials before attempting to be pregnant. Physicians and baby experts recommend that a woman vist her physician as soon as the woman is contemplating having a child, and optimally around 3 to 6 months before actual attempts are made to conceive.
Pre-conditioning Pre-conditioning is a general concept in which an entity is exposed to a form of some stress or stimulus in order to prepare that entity to be more resilient against the stimulus when and if the stimulus is encountered in the future. For example, a human may be exposed to artificially weakened virus in order to stimulate an antibody production in the body against that virus, so that later when the live 'wild-type' virus is countered, the body is immune or at least mounts an immediate and vigorous defense against it by already possessing the relevant antibody: vaccination or pre-exposure prophylaxis.
Pre-cooled turbojet Pre-cooled turbojets feature a cryogenic fuel-cooled heat exchanger between the air intake and the (LP) compressor, to pre-cool the air entering the compressor. After gaining heat and vapourising in the heat exchanger, the fuel (e.
Pre-Cana Pre-Cana is a course or consultation Catholic couples must undergo before they can be married in a Catholic church. The name is derived from John 2:1-12, the wedding feast at Cana in Galilee, where Jesus performed the miracle of turning water into wine.
Pre-Code Pre-Code films were created before the Motion Picture Production Code or Hays Code was put into effect in mid-1934. Although an existing code of conduct for the film industry came into being in 1930, many ignored it and it was not enforced very enthusiastically.
Pre-Columbian The term pre-Columbian is used to refer to the cultures of the Americas in the era before significant European influence. While technically referring to the era before Christopher Columbus, in practice the term usually includes indigenous cultures as they continued to develop until they were conquered or significantly influenced by Europeans, even if this happened decades or even centuries after Columbus first landed in 1492.
Pre-Columbian Africa-Americas contact theories Pre-Columbian Africa-Americas contact theories are those which are concerned with the proposition that there has been direct contact (including actual migrations) by peoples from the continent of Africa with the indigenous peoples of the Americas at some stage during the pre-Columbian history of the Americas– that is, earlier than (in most cases well before) the late 15th century.
Pre-Columbian Islamic contact theories Pre-Columbian Islamic contact theories are those theories and speculations which contend (contrary to all mainstream historical interpretations) that there was contact between expeditions and individuals of the Islamic faith with the indigenous peoples of the Americas at some point during the pre-Columbian history of the Americas, i.e.
Pre-Columbian Maya music The Music that was central to pre-Columbian Maya culture still remains a bit of a mystery today. On the other hand, many aspects of Maya music have come to light from archaeological discoveries, ancient Maya murals, and ancient Maya texts.
Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact is interactions between the indigenous peoples of the Americas and peoples of other continents – Europe, Africa, Asia, or Oceania – before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492. Many such events have been proposed at various times, based on historical reports, archaeological finds, and cultural comparisons.
Pre-dawn raid A pre-dawn raid refers to a military tactic that involves a group of people, usually of military descent, raiding a location in order to gain an upper hand in combat, retreave an important document or file, or capture a specific person. The hostage is usually of high political influence or a leader of an oppossing military institution.
Pre-determined overhead rate A pre-determined overhead rate is the rate used to apply manufacturing overhead to work-in-process inventory. It is calculated as estimated manufacturing overhead cost divided by estimated amount of cost driver or activity base.
Pre-Delivery Inspection In Ontario, Canada the Tarion Warranty Corporation requires all new home builders to conduct a pre-delivery inspection with the buyer. The inspection is typically the first time the buyer gets to see the house from the inside.
Pre-echo Pre-echo is a psychoacoustic phenomenon where an unusually noticeable artifact is heard in a sound recording from the energy of time domain transients smeared backwards in time after processing in the frequency domain due to the Gibbs phenomenon. Because forward temporal masking is so much stronger than backwards temporal masking, the Gibbs phenomenon can give rise to this audible distortion which sounds like an echo which comes before the actual sound.
Pre-ejaculate Pre-ejaculate (also known as pre-ejaculatory fluid or Cowper's fluid, and colloquially as precum) is the clear fluid that is issued from a man's penis when he is sexually aroused. The fluid is usually secreted by Cowper's glands during masturbation, foreplay or at an early stage during sex, some time before the man fully reaches orgasm and semen is ejaculated.
Pre-election day events of the United Kingdom general election, 2005 The Pre-election day events of the United Kingdom general election, 2005 are the activities that were undertaken by the candidates and their political parties in the lead up to the United Kingdom general election, 2005.
Pre-established harmony Gottfried Leibniz's theory of pre-established harmony is a philosophical theory about causation under which every "substance" only affects itself, but all the substances (both bodies and minds) in the world nevertheless seem to causally interact with each other because they have been programmed by God in advance to "harmonize" with each other. Leibniz's term for these substances was "windowless monads".
Pre-existence In Abrahamic religions, pre-existence or Beforelife is the belief that each individual human soul existed before conception, and at conception (or later, depending on when it is believed that the soul enters the body) God places one of these pre-existent souls in the body. In Christianity, pre-existence contrasts with traducianism and the more widely accepted version of creationism which both hold that the individual human soul does not come into existence until conception or later.
Pre-exponential factor In chemical kinetics, the preexponential factor or A factor is the pre-exponential constant in the Arrhenius equation, an empirical relationship between temperature and rate coefficient. It is usually designated by A when determined from experiment, while Z is usually left for collision frequency.
Pre-exposure prophylaxis Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is the long-term use of a prophylactic treatment for a disease prior to exposure to the cause of that disease, so that the prophylactic treatment will already be in place when exposure occurs, and may either be able to prevent the disease from being contracted, or at least ensure that the resulting disease is treated from its outset, whether or not the patient is aware that infection has occurred.
Pre-Electric Wizard 1989-1994 Pre-Electric Wizard 1989-1994 is a compliation of rare tracks by doom metal band Electric Wizard. The first four tracks are by Eternal (Electric Funeral is a Black Sabbath cover)and are from the 1993 "Lucifer's Children" demo, 5-7 are by Thy Grief Eternal and are from the 1992 "On Blackened wings" demo.
Pre-flashing In cinematography and photography, pre-flashing is the exposure of the film or other photosensor to uniform light prior to exposing it to the scene to be imaged. This adds a bias to the overall light input recorded by the sensor.
Pre-flight Pre-flighting is a term used in the printing industry to describe the process of confirming that the digital files required for the printing process are all present, valid, correctly formatted, and of the desired type. The term originates from the pre-flight checklists used by pilots.
Pre-Greek substrate The term Pre-Greek substrate refers to an unknown language that is conjectured to have been spoken in prehistoric Greece before the settlement of Greek-speakers in the area. It is believed by some linguists that Greek took over a large number of words and proper names from such a language (its substrate), because a large proportion of the vocabulary of Greek does not have demonstrable Indo-European roots.
Pre-health sciences Pre-health sciences refers to the undergraduate focus of college majors on courses preparing them for admission in veterinary, medical, optometry, dentistry, pharmacy, and physical therapy schools, and for training as a physician's assistant. In the United States, schools have moved away from the impractical designation of students as "Pre-med" majors, as so few a percentage of students actually achieve admission into medical schools.
Pre-historic Irish battles This page provides a list of battles mentioned in the Annals of the Four Masters, which chronicles early Irish history. The Annals were written in the early 17th cenury and some of the battles listed here may have been mythological.
Pre-Hysterical Hare Pre-Hysterical Hare is a 1958 Looney Tunes cartoon featuring early versions of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd (known in this cartoon as Elmer Fuddstone). These two are in their usual hunter-and-bunny antics, but with different stuff used in the Stone Age.
Pre-charge Pre-charge of the powerline voltages in a high voltage DC application is a preliminary mode which current-limits the power source such that a controlled rise time of the system voltage during power up is achieved.
Pre-Christmas 2004 snowstorm An historic snowstorm struck the Ohio Valley of the United States, as well as Ontario in Canada, on December 22 and December 23 and is not the same storm that led to snow in Texas on Christmas Eve. It lasted roughly 30 hours, and brought snowfall amounts up to 29 inches (73.
Pre-industrial armoured ships Armoured warships were wooden ships or ships of composite construction (wooden planking on iron frames) armored with thick metal plates. The first uses of iron for naval protection occurred in the Far East in the 16th century, but the heyday of the ironclad came in the mid-19th century, when ironclads supplanted wooden ships, and then were themselves replaced by ships made of steel.
Pre-Indo-European Old Europe is a term coined by archaeologist Marija Gimbutas to describe what she perceives as a relatively homogeneous and widespread pre-Indo-European Neolithic culture in Europe. In her major work, The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe: 6500–3500 B.
Pre-Islamic Arabia Pre-Islamic Arabia is studied by Islamic scholars because it is the context in which Islam, as practiced today, was formed. However, there is little consensus on many matters relating to the history and ethnography of pre-Islamic Arabia.
Pre-Joycean Fellowship Several writers known for fantasy and science fiction have semi-seriously called themselves the Pre-Joycean Fellowship to indicate that they value 19th-century values of storytelling, including clarity, called by Jane Yolen the "lovely limpid quality" of writing. Steven Brust has said that "it is in large part a joke, and in another large part a way to start literary arguments.
Pre-Kindergarten Pre-kindergarten (also called Pre-K) refers to the first formal academic classroom-based learning environment that a child customarily attends in the United States. It begins around the age of four in order to prepare for the more didactic and academically intensive kindergarten, the traditional "first" class that school children participate in.
Pre-Lenten Season The Pre-Lenten Season (see also Septuagesima) is the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran liturgical season lasting from Septuagesima Sunday until Shrove Tuesday. In some texts it is said to extend until the Saturday following Ash Wednesday.
Pre-math skills Prior to learning mathematics, preschoolers and Kindergarden students learn pre-math skills. They include learning to count numbers, learning the proper sequencing of numbers (1 comes before 2 and so on), learning to determine which shapes are bigger or smaller, and learning to count objects on a screen or book.
Pre-Marx socialists While Marxism is generally considered to be the brainchild of Karl Marx, on careful perusal of the socialist literature, at least the following can be credited with socialist principles very similar to Marxism much before Marx.
Pre-Modern Japanese Studies Mailing List The Pre-modern Japanese Studies Mailing List is an online forum focused on early periods of Japanese art, culture, history, literature and religion. PMJS, the mailing list's commonly used acronym, is currently maintained by Michael Watson, professor of Japanese Studies and Comparative Literature at Meiji Gakuin University in Yokohama, Japan.
Pre-Motional Songs Pre-Motional Songs is VoKEE's debut CD, a promotional EP released at the band's shows in 2005. The CD was also sent out to "Street Brigade" members (or anyone else who e-mailed the band and asked) for free.
Pre-nominal letters Pre-nominal letters are a title which is placed before the name of a person as distinct from a post-nominal title which is placed after the name. Examples of pre-nominal titles, for instance professional titles include: Doctor, Eur Ing, Ir (Ingenieur) and Professor; whilst other common social titles are Mr.
Pre-Nectarian The Pre-Nectarian Period of the lunar geologic timescale runs from 4550 million years ago (the time of the initial formation of the Moon) to 3920 million years ago, when the Nectaris Basin was formed by a large impact. It is followed by the Nectarian period.
Pre-order A pre-order is an order placed for an item which has not yet been released. The idea for pre-orders came when people found it hard to get popular electronics in stores due to their popularity, companies were given the idea to allow people to reserve their own personal copy, which has been a huge success.
Pre-paid legal services Pre-paid legal services refers to individual or group employee benefit legal plans in which members pay a monthly fee in exchange for access to a range of legal services on-call. Pre-paid legal plans typically offer certain services for a fixed monthly charge such as legal advice and consultation, review of contracts, having a lawyer write a letter on a client's behalf or the drafting of wills and other legal documents.
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (short PPNA, around 9000 BC) represents the early neolithic in the Levantine and upper Mesopotamian region of the Fertile Crescent. It succeeds the Natufian culture of the Epipaleolithic (Mesolithic) as the domestication of plants and animals was in its beginnings and triggered by the Younger Dras.
Pre-registration house officer Pre-registration house officer (PRHO) is the title given to medical graduates in the UK who have passed their final year exams at medical school and have received their medical degrees but are not fully registered with the General Medical Council. PRHO is the lowest grade in the medical hierarchy in the National Health Service.
Pre-rendered Pre-rendered graphics, in computer graphics, is a video footage which is not being rendered in real-time by the hardware that is outputing or playing back the video. Instead, the video is a recording of a footage that was previously rendered on a different equipment (typically one that is more powerful than the hardware used for playback).
Pre-Roman Iron Age The Pre-Roman Iron Age (5th/4th century BC - 1st century BC) designates the earliest part of the Iron Age in Scandinavia, northern Germany, and the Netherlands north of the Rhine River. It is named as the latest period in Christian JĂĽrgensen Thomsen's three-age chronological system (the two preceding periods being the Stone Age and the Bronze Age).
Pre-Romanesque art Pre-Romanesque art is the roughly 400 year period in Western European art from about the Carolingian Renaissance in the 8th century, to the beginning of the 12th century Romanesque period. The primary theme during this period is the introduction and absorption of classical Mediterranean and Christian forms with Germanic ones creating innovative new forms, leading to the rise of Romanesque art in the 12th century.
Pre-sectarian Buddhism The term pre-sectarian Buddhism is used to refer to the Buddhism that existed before the various subsects of Buddhism came into being. It refers to Buddhism in the period between the first discourse of Gautama Buddha until the first enduring split in the Sangha, which occurred between the second Buddhist council and the third Buddhist council.
Pre-shared key A pre-shared key or PSK is a secret which was previously shared between the two parties using some secure channel before it needs to be used. Such systems almost always use symmetric key cryptographic algorithms.
Pre-stopped nasal Pre-stopped nasals are phonetic sequences of stop plus nasal that behave phonologically like single consonant. That is, like affricates, the reasons for considering these sequences to be single consonants is in their behavior, not in their actual composition.
Pre-Service Teacher Education Pre-service Teacher Education is the education and training provided to student teachers before they have undertaken any teaching. This article deals with Pre-service Teacher Education at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.
Pre-Siberian American Aborigines The name American Aborigines has been proposed by some archaeologists and anthropologists for hypothetical peoples who lived in the Americas long before hunter-gatherer migrants from Siberia crossed the Bering Land Bridge to become the Paleo-Indians.
Pre-Socratic philosophy The Pre-Socratic philosophers were active before Socrates or contemporaneously, but expounding knowledge developed earlier. The popularity of the term originates with Hermann Diels' work Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (The Fragments of the Pre-Socratics, 1903).
Pre-theoretic belief Pre-theoretical belief has been an important notion in some areas of linguistics and philosophy, especially phenomenology and older versions of “ordinary language” philosophy. It is often assumed rightly or wrongly, that language depends on mental concepts, and that certain concepts are innate.
Pre-Teen Dirty-Gene Kung Fu Kangaroos The Pre-Teen Dirty-Gene Kung Fu Kangaroos was an American comic book created by Lee Marrs and published by Blackthorne Publishing. It was one of the better known parodies of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles during the 1980s.
Pre-Tridentine Mass The term Pre-Tridentine Mass here refers to the variants of the liturgical rite of Mass in Rome before 1570, when, with his bull Quo primum Pope Pius V made the Roman Missal, as revised"We decided to entrust this work to learned men of our selection. They very carefully collated all their work with the ancient codices in Our Vatican Library and with reliable, preserved or emended codices from elsewhere.
Pre-unit construction Pre-unit construction is a term used to describe motorcycle engine architecture where the engine and gearbox are separate casings, with their own oil reservoirs, and usually attached to parallel plates that also attach to the frame. In the 1950s technical advances meant it was possible to reliably construct engines with integral gearboxes in one unit, known as unit construction.
Pre-voicing (phonetics) In phonetics, prevoicing means that voicing begins before the closure of a consonant. In the Extended IPA for speech pathology, this is transcribed with a voicing diacritic placed in front of the consonant, as in .
Pre/trans fallacy The American writer Ken Wilber posits that psychological development moves from the pre-personal, through the personal levels of development, to the transpersonal – this latter developmental milieu supposedly being the arena of the spiritually advanced or enlightened beings. In essence, this is an expansion of standard developmental psychology beyond the ordinarily accepted end-point of development, the mature adult ego.
Preadaptation In evolutionary biology, preadaptation describes a situation where an organism uses a preexisting anatomical structure inherited from an ancestor for a potentially unrelated purpose. One example of preadaptation is dinosaurs having used feathers for insulation and display before using them to fly, or sweat glands in mammals being transformed into mammary glands.
Preadditive category In mathematics, specifically in category theory, a preadditive category is a category that is enriched over the monoidal category of abelian groups. In other words, the category C is preadditive if every hom-set Hom(A,B) in C has the structure of an abelian group, and composition of morphisms is bilinear over the integers.
Preah Ko Preah Ko – The Sacred Ox – was the first temple to be built on the site of Hariharālaya (presently Roluos), south-east of the main group of temples at Angkor, Cambodia. It was built by Indravarman I in the late 9th century.
Preah Maha Ghosananda Maha Ghosananda, (full title Samdech Preah Maha Ghosananda), is a highly revered Cambodian Buddhist monk in the Theravada tradition, who served as the Patriarch (Sangharaja) of Cambodian Buddhism during the Khmer Rouge period and post-communist transition period of Cambodian history.
Preach My Gospel Preach My Gospel is a guide to missionary service that is published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for its full-time missionaries. It replaces the old missionary discussions teaching format, which was called the Uniform System for Teaching the Gospel, and focuses more on teaching by the Spirit.
Preakness Stakes The Preakness Stakes is a prestigious Grade I stakes race 1 3/16 mile (1.91 km) thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds, held on the third Saturday in May of each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.
Preamble The preamble is an introductory statement, a preliminary explanation. The term is particularly applied to the opening paragraph(s) of a statute, which recite historical facts which may be pertinent to the issue being discussed.
Preamble to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms The preamble to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is the introductory sentence (preamble) to the Constitution of Canada's Charter of Rights and Constitution Act, 1982. The principles it invokes are the "supremacy of God" and the "rule of law.
Preamble to the United States Constitution The preamble to the United States Constitution consists of a single sentence (a preamble) which introduces the document and its purpose. The preamble neither grants any governmental powers nor inhibits any of its actions, but serves to explain the rationale behind the U.
Preannouncement A preannouncement occurs when a company or individual announces something either prior to the time that they do it or prior to the time that they would normally announce it. Preannouncements can take the form of a press release, filing a form with the government, a conference call, or a webcast.
Preben Elkjær Larsen Preben Elkjær Larsen (born September 11, 1957 in Copenhagen) was a Danish professional football player, simply referred to as Preben Elkjær. He was a striker and his aggressive style of play was well combined with the calmness and vision of the younger Michael Laudrup when they played side by side on the Danish national team from 1982-1988.
Prebendal stall A prebendal stall is a seat, usually in the back row of the choir stalls, where a prebendary sits. It was a place of honour for dignitaries who were members of clergy on the staff of a cathedral or collegiate church.
Prebinding Prebinding is a method for reducing the time it takes to launch Mach-O executables. For example, this is what Mac OS X is doing when in the "Optimizing" stage of installing system software or certain applications.
Preble High School Preble High School is a public high school located in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It is part of the Green Bay Area Public School District, the fifth largest in the state, and had a student enrollment of 2,200 in 2004.
Preble's meadow jumping mouse Preble's meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius preblei) is a subspecies of jumping mouse, native to upland habitats in North America. It is listed as Threatened under the United States Endangered Species Act; there is a major debate about whether it is a distinct taxon.
Preboot Execution Environment The Preboot Execution Environment (PXE, aka Pre-Execution Environment) is an environment to bootstrap computers using a network interface card independently of available data storage devices (like hard disks) or installed operating systems.
Precalculus In mathematics education, precalculus, an advanced form of secondary school algebra, is a foundational mathematical discipline. Courses and textbooks in pre-calculus are intended to prepare students for the study of calculus.
Precambrian The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian) is an informal name for the eons of the geologic timescale that came before the current Phanerozoic eon. It spans from the formation of Earth around 4500 Ma (million years ago) to the evolution of abundant macroscopic hard-shelled fossils, which marked the beginning of the Cambrian, the first period of the first era of the Phanerozoic eon, some 542 Ma.
Precancel A precanceled stamp, or precancel for short, is a postage stamp that has been cancelled before being affixed to mail. Precancels are typically used by mass mailers, who can save a postal system time and effort by prearranging to use the precancels, and delivering the stamped mail ready for sorting.
Precaria A precaria is a contract granting the right to use ecclesiastical property for a specific amount of time, for the duration of the grantee's life, offered for services rendered to the church. In feudalism the use of church lands to support warriors contributed to the growth of precaria in the eighth century.
Precarity Precarity has been adopted in leftist circles as the English-language equivalent of Precariedad, Précarité, Precarietà, terms of everyday usage in Latin countries that refer to the widespread condition of temporary, flexible, contingent, casual, intermittent work in postindustrial societies, brought about by the neoliberal labor market reforms that have strengthened the right to manage and the bargaining power of big and small employers since the 1980s.
Precast concrete Precast concrete is an ancient type of construction material made with concrete cast in a reusable mold or "form" and cured in a controlled environment, then transported to the construction site and lifted into place. In contrast, standard concrete is poured-in-place in large forms and cured on site.
Precautionary principle The precautionary principle states that if an action or policy might cause severe or irreversible harm to the public, in the absence of a scientific consensus that harm would not ensue, the burden of proof falls on those who would advocate taking the action.
Precedence Diagram Method The Precedence Diagram Method is a tool for scheduling activities in a project plan. It is a method of constructing a project schedule network diagram that uses boxes, referred to as nodes, to represent activities and connects them with arrows that show the dependencies.
Precedent In law, a precedent or authority is a legal case establishing a principle or rule that a court may need to adopt when deciding subsequent cases with similar issues or facts. The term may also refer to the collective body of case law that a court should consider when interpreting the law.
Precentor A precentor is a person, usually a clergy member, who is in charge of preparing worship services. This position is usually held in a large church, and is typically used in the churches of the Anglican Communion.
Preces Preces are, in liturgical worship, short petitions that are said or sung as versicle and response by the officiant and congregation respectively. A familiar example is the opening versicles and responses of the Anglican service of Evening Prayer according to the Book of Common Prayer:
Precia Testarossa (known in the fansubs as Linith), whose primary purpose was to train Fate in the magical arts, and build her intelligent device, Bardiche. She ceases to exist after Fate's training is complete, but makes a cameo appearance in A's episode 11.
Precinct captain A precinct captain is the individual who acts as a direct link between the party machine and the voters in the community. The precint captain helps with voter registrations, meeting new residents of the area or neighborhood, and helping voters get to the voting booths or precincts.
Precinct of Amun-Re The Precinct of Amun-Re, located near Luxor, Egypt, is one of the four main enclosed areas that make up the immense Karnak Temple Complex. The precinct is by far the largest of these and the only one that is open to the general public.
Precinct of Mut The Precinct of Mut, located near Luxor, Egypt, is one of the four main enclosed areas that make up the immense Karnak Temple Complex and occupies some 150,000 m². It is dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Mut, the mother goddess.
Precious (album) Precious is an album by Cubic U (Utada Hikaru's pseudonym before becoming a superstar in Japan), which was recorded at Sony Music Studio in New York in 1996. The album was first released in Japan on January 28, 1998 and then later re-released on March 31, 1999.
Precious (band) Precious were a British female band, comprising Louise Rose, Anya Lahiri, Sophie McDonnell, Kalli Clark-Sternberg and Jenny Frost. They first achieved fame as the UK's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest and went on to become a moderately popular act until they decided it was time to go their own ways.
Precious (Boukenger) are fictional artifacts that are the focus for each Task (episode) of the Japanese tokusatsu series GoGo Sentai Boukenger. For an artifact to be considered a Precious, it must be physically or technologically superior to any current human technology.
Precious (Depeche Mode) "Precious" is Depeche Mode's forty-first single, and the first single from the album Playing the Angel. It was released on October 3, 2005 in the UK by Mute Records and October 11, 2005 in the US by Sire/Reprise.
Precious Bedell Precious Bedell was born February 12, 1954 and at the age of 16, she gave birth to her first of three children, two daughters, Keisha and Lashonda and a son, Jerry. Bedell, at that time was a high school dropout and an un-wed mother with an addiction to drugs and a history of shoplifting.

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