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Detenebrate: v; To free from darkness or obscurity

Don't worry, You can trust me with the city budget, just let me in there. Come on, just let me have the budget. I will totally not gut the police budget to build a centralized mass transit network and new libraries. I will definitely not do that, just let me in there please. Come on let me have access to the city budget for 5 minutes. That's all I ask.

A Rare Appeal

The Fair Green in Castletown, County Laois is a triangle occupying the centre of the village, dominated by a large and not especially impressive former Christian Brothers novitiate (now a retreat house run by another religious order). However, a number of charming, substantial private residences survive on the north-west and south sides of the green, as shown here. Dating from the second half of…

HMS Surprise approaching her next victim. She's flying false colors hoping to get within range to bring her full broadside to bear. Captain Aubrey expects if all works well revealing her guns will intimidate the enemy into surrendering.

Barbie is following the lead of a lot of other Hollywood movies in showing the nine-dash line version of China on a world map, which means acknowledging China’s ownership of all of the contested island territories that are also claimed by its various neighbors. The reason Hollywood keeps doing this is pretty simple: there’s more money to be made in Chinese film markets than there are are in the combined markets of other countries in the region

It is worth noting that this is the map in question:

Which is nearly incomprehensible and begs the question of why they actually bothered including the nine-dash line when the map is illegible anyway