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Pinocchio is Italian meaning what?

Plashing is the term to describe the collecting of what kind of nut?

Poisonous alkaloid, c21h22n2o2, found in various plants of the genus strychnos, & obtained commercially from the seeds of the saint-ignatius's-bean & from nux vomica?

is Romania a unicameral or a bicameral republic?

Popular name for a family of about 19 species of birds allied to the herons & ibises?