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1. Hands-on healing. Reiki practitioners believe that their hands-on treatment produces beneficial effects by improving energy fields in the body. It also feels good.

2. Present an objection.They approved the motion in spite of the remonstrations of several senators.

3. A collection of poems. Omar Khayyam, a Persian poet and astronomer, wrote a collection of poems that were translated by Edward Fitzgerald (and others). “Rubaiyat” comes from the Persian term for “quatrains”—verses of four lines.

4. Repayment of debts, compensation for injuries or injustice. The state took the land for highway construction, but paid reparations to the previous owners.

5. It’s an ancient letter. The thorn (y) is a runic character in the Old English alphabet, replaced later by “th” (from “ye olde” to “the old”).

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