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  1. Paradise
    Paradise is a town in Butte County California, USA Paradise is a town in Cache County Utah, USA Paradise is a township in York County Pennsylvania, USA Paradise is a township in Monroe County Pennsylvania, USA Paradise is a township in Lancaster County Pennsylvania, USA Paradise is a CDP in Lancaster County Pennsylvania, USA Paradise is a CDP in Clark County Nevada, USA Paradise is a township in Eddy County North Dakota, USA Paradise is a township in Grand Traverse County Michigan, USA Paradise ...
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  2. Paradise
    Paradise is slang for cocaine.
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  3. paradise
    In various religions, a place or state of happiness. Examples are the Garden of Eden and the Messianic kingdom; the Islamic paradise of the Koran is a place of sensual pleasure. ...
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  4. Paradise
    Paradise is a subsystem (a set of packages) developed to implement inter-processes, inter-tasks and inter-machine communication for Ada programs under Unix. This subsystem gives the user full access to files, pipes, sockets (both Unix and Internet) and pseudo-devices. Paradise has been ported to Sun, DEC, Sony MIPS, Verdex compiler, DEC compiler, A...
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  5. Paradise
    Par'a·dise noun [ Middle English & French paradis , Latin paradisus , from Greek para`deisos park, paradise, from Zend pairidaēza an inclosure; pairi around (akin to Greek ...) + diz to throw up, pile up; confer Sanskrit dih to smear, and English dough . Confer Parvis .] 1. The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/18

  6. Paradise
    Par'a·dise transitive verb To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch. [ R.] Marston.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/18

  7. paradise
    To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch. ... 1. The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation. ... 2. The abode of sanctified souls after death. 'To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise.' (Luke xxiii. 43) 'It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise.' (Longfellow) ... 3. A pl ...
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  8. Paradise
    noun (Christianity) the abode of righteous souls after death
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  9. Paradise
    `Paradise` is a persian word that go to the other languages roots that is generally identified with the Garden of Eden or with Heaven. Originally meaning a walled garden or royal hunting grounds, the term entered Jewish (and eventually Christian) beliefs as a Greek translation for the Garden of Eden in the Septuagint. It is sometimes also identified with the bosom of Abraham, the abode of the righteous dead awaiting Judgment Day. In the Gospel of...
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  10. Paradise
    • (n.) The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation. • (v. t.) To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch. • (n.) A churchyard or cemetery. • (n.) A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness. • (n.) The abode of sanctified sou...
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  11. Paradise
    (from the article `African American literature`) ...whiteness as a thematic obsession in American literature. In 1993 Morrison became the first African American to be awarded the Nobel Prize for ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/16

  12. paradise
    in religion, a place of exceptional happiness and delight. The term paradise is often used as a synonym for the Garden of Eden before the expulsion ... [4 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/16

  13. paradise
    1. any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
    2. a heavenly place (peaceful and beautiful) where those who are favored by the gods can go when they die

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  14. Paradise
    Paradise, uninc. town (1990 pop. 25,406), Butte co., N central Calif., in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada range. It is mainly residential with a growing population. Cattle are raised and fruits, olives, nuts, wheat, and nursery stock are grown. Gold was discovered nearby in 1859.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/us/A083756

  15. Paradise
    Paradise: see Eden, Garden of; heaven.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0


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25 November 2009

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The Royal Suspension Chain Pier was opened on 25 November 1823 with a procession and firework display, but, to the disappointment of the town, without royalty being present. It proved an immediate success with both cross-channel travellers and also with promenaders who were charged an admission of two pence or one guinea annually. The pier also attracted many artists with its graceful outline, including Constable and Turner. read more

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