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  Vice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thus the cardinal vices would be lust (nonuse of temperance), cowardice (nonuse of courage), folly (misuse of a virtue, opposite of wisdom), and venality (nonuse of justice).
Some vices recognised as spiritual by Christians are blasphemy (faith betrayed), despair (hope betrayed), apostasy (nonuse of piety), and indifference (scripturally, a "hardened heart").
Behaviors or attitudes going against the established virtues of the culture may also be called vices: for instance, effeminacy is considered a vice in a culture espousing masculinity as an essential element of the character of males.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vice   (454 words)

  
 Vice (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vice, the opposite of virtue, from Latin vitium.
vice unit or vice squad, a department in many police forces that investigates morality crimes.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vice_(disambiguation)   (168 words)

  
 John Adams - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was the first (1789–1797) Vice President of the United States, and the second (1797–1801) President of the United States.
Thus, in 1792, with George Washington as the prohibitive favorite for President, the Federalist party fielded Adams as a presidential candidate, with the intention that he be elected to the Vice Presidency.
Similarly, in 1796 and 1800, the Federalist party fielded two candidates, Adams and Thomas Pinckney in 1796 and Adams and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney in 1800, with the intention that Adams be elected President and either Pinckney be elected Vice President.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/j/o/h/John_Adams_7525.html   (2063 words)

  
 vice information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
A virtue can be corrupted by nonuse, misuse, or overuse.Thus the cardinal vices would be lust (nonuse of temperance), cowardice (nonuse of courage), folly (misuse of an virtue, opposite of wisdom), and venality (nonuse of justice).
The Christian vices would be blasphemy (faith betrayed), unforgiveness (hope betrayed), apostasy (nonuse of piety), and indifference (scripturally, a " hardened heart "), the betrayal of perfect love: charity.
Behaviors or attitudes going against the established virtues of the culture may also be called vices: for instance, effeminacy is considered a vice in aculture espousing manliness as an essential element of the character ofmales.
www.vsearchmedia.com /vice.html   (330 words)

  
 Edmund Muskie - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
He served as Governor of Maine, as a U.S. Senator, as U.S. Secretary of State, and as a candidate for Vice President of the United States.
Muskie was born in Rumford, Maine, the son of Roman Catholic Polish immigrants.
In 1968, Muskie was nominated for Vice President on the Democratic ticket with sitting Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
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 ooBdoo
He was a major leader of the Democratic Party and as President was responsible for the passage of key liberal legislation in many areas, including civil rights laws, Medicare, a major "War on Poverty".
However, Roosevelt later found Johnson to be a welcome ally and conduit for information, particularly with regards to issues concerning internal politics in Texas (Operation Texas) and the machinations of Vice President Garner and House Speaker Sam Rayburn.
Kennedy felt that Johnson was not worthy of the vice presidency, while Johnson merely regarded Kennedy as "Jack's Little Brother", a spoiled brat who was riding his older brother's coattails to success.
www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=Lyndon_B._Johnson   (6305 words)

  
 Vice - Uncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
It is illegal to place your own head in a vice in Argentina, but it's okay if it's someone else's.
Vice is the generic police term for Naughty Things.
Vice is an optional way of pronouncing 'Mice' if you have a billiard ball in your mouth.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Vice   (114 words)

  
 John Adams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
John Adams (October 30 1735 - July 4 1826) was the first (1789 - 1797) Vice President of the United States and the second (1797 - 1801) President of the United States.
Although Alexander Hamilton and other Federalists had asked that votes be cast in the electoral college for Adams and Thomas Pinckney the other Federalist in the contest least in part so that Jefferson would become vice president Jefferson in fact came second and attained that office.
The United States was at this drawn into the vortex of European complications Adams instead of taking advantage of the spirit which was aroused patriotically devoted himself securing peace with France much against the of Hamilton and of Hamilton's adherents in cabinet.
www.freeglossary.com /John_Adams   (1679 words)

  
 General Inquirer Categories
The entries in any category (with a cutoff after the first 100 entries to save on download time) will be displayed upon clicking on a category name.
311 words related to emotion that are used as a disambiguation category, but also available for general use.
is 7 words directly indicating disagreement, with the word "no" itself disambiguated to separately identify absence or negation.
www.wjh.harvard.edu /~inquirer/homecat.htm   (2602 words)

  
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Vice Presidents in Government In politics, a vice president is a politician Vice Presidents are often elected jointly with the president as his or her running mate, elected separately, or appointed independently after the president's election.
Vice President of the United States de facto symbolic Head of State In parliamentary systems prime minister to act as effective vice president.
This is a disambiguation There have been a large number of places, people and objects named Victoria : Table of contents 1 Places 2 People 3 Other Victoria topics 4 Similar words Places Cities, towns, suburbs, etc. called Victoria Victoria City the capital of Hong Kong.
www.en-cyclopedia.com /index1/vi   (2091 words)

  
 Bug Bear Virus -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Further, Bugs Bunny is already an article at a diffferent; using primary topic disambiguation for a redirect is not what we do.
"Bugs" is definitely two actual things, so there's scope for full-on disambiguation, though the programme is rather more famous than a cute technical term to describe a part of broadcasts, so personally I would, err, keep the page as it was for over a year.
There is a disambiguation page for Bugs, and that is where this needs to point.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/24/bug-bear-virus.html   (457 words)

  
 wiki/USA Definition / wiki/USA Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Eight Vice Presidents have assumed the Presidency upon the death of the President, and one upon the President's resignation....
He is currently serving as the 46th Vice President of the United States under President George W. Bush....
Below the President is the Vice President, who is first in the line of succession and is the President of the Senate, with the ability to cast a tiebreaking vote.
www.elresearch.com /wiki/USA   (13046 words)

  
 FDR - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
Roosevelt died on the eve of victory in World War II and was succeeded by Vice President Harry S. Truman.
A shift to the left within the Administration was shown by the naming of Henry A. Wallace as Vice President in place of the conservative Texan John Nance Garner, who had become a bitter enemy of Roosevelt after 1937.
He had been diagnosed with high blood pressure and long-term heart disease and was advised to modify his diet (although not to stop smoking).
www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=FDR   (8442 words)

  
 miami vice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
As the flower industry gears up for the nation's $2 billion splurge on Mother's Day bouquets and buds, Miami's flower importers are casting a wary eye at the weather, the weak dollar and the ''Wal-Mart effect'' buffeting their business.
The Pentagon has picked Navy Vice Admiral James G. Stavridis for a fourth star to become a full admiral and commander of the Southern Command in Miami.
Miami Vice Miami Vice was a television series (five seasons from 1984) starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two Miami policemen working undercover, James Sonny Crockett (Sonny) and Ricardo Tubbs.
www.searchtermtrends.com /terms/miami+vice.html   (1236 words)

  
 SI - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The International System of Units refers to a specific canon ofmeasurements derived and extended from the Metric system; however, not all metric units of measurement are accepted asSI units.
There are seven base units and several derived units, together with a set of prefixes.Non-SI units can be converted to SI units (or vice versa) according to the conversion of units.
Virtually all non-SI units have been redefined in terms of SI units.
www.world-knowledge-encyclopedia.com /?t=SI   (2287 words)

  
 Download VICE 1.18, Full and Free VICE Software Downloads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
New custom should now be reset when VICE quit (use -sidengine 2 to enable.
The modern English term that best captures its original meaning is the word vicious, which means "full of vice." For other uses, see Vice (disambiguation).
The chief of police in Cincinnati wants unconvicted vice arrestees to be punished more severely.
www.lcsinchome.com /download/25803-vice-1-18.html   (190 words)

  
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DNA in all uppercase refers to deoxyribonucleic acid (but also see DNA (disambiguation)).
Genetic fingerprinting or DNA testing species using only samples of their DNA Alec Jeffreys at the University of Leicester was announced in 1985.
The DNS forms a vital part of the Internet, because hardware requires IP addresses to perform routing, but humans use host names and domain names, for example in URLs and e-mail addresses.
www.en-cyclopedia.com /index1/dn   (546 words)

  
 Livingston - Memory Alpha
From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference.
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
www.memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Livingston   (114 words)

  
 US
For other uses, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation).
Although the President's constitutional role may appear to be constrained, in practice, the office carries enormous prestige that typically eclipses the power of Congress: the Presidency has justifiably been referred to as 'the most powerful office in the world'.
US force levels in Korea will be reduced under proposed command arrangements that would move the US military from the lead to a supporting role in the defense of South Korea in time of war, a senior US defense official said.
www.measuroo.com /Acr-U/US.php   (6466 words)

  
 Adam Kilgarriff (Brighton) November 15th, 2001, Lexicographers for Word Sense Disambiguation and Vice Versa
Adam Kilgarriff (Brighton) November 15th, 2001, Lexicographers for Word Sense Disambiguation and Vice Versa
We present a novel approach to the task of Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), which also provides a semi-automatic environment for a lexicographer to compose dictionary entries based on corpus evidence.
For WSD, involving lexicographers tackles the twin obstacles to high accuracy: lack of training data and insufficiently explicit dictionaries.
www.cogs.susx.ac.uk /research/nlp/seminars/L2Hnode100075.html   (131 words)

  
 Hamilton :: H
Hamilton is the surname of a renowned family from the Scottish Lowlands that has given its name to the town of Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, the Dukedom of Hamilton, and many people and places, the largest of which is the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario.
James Hamilton - many people, see Disambiguation Page
Lee H. Hamilton, Vice Chair of the 9/11 Commission
reference.gourt.com /Biography/H/Hamilton.html   (290 words)

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