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support; backing

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archeologist; archaeologist

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Howard Carter

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Valley of the Kings (near Luxor, Egypt)

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crowding together; clustering together; close formation; swarm

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Tutankhamen

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ankh (hieroglyphic symbol for life)

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Amun

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sudden death

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mysterious death

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to follow in succession; to happen one after another

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to have a rumor circulating

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dying young; early death

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to stop crying; to cry oneself out

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December; twelfth month of the lunar calendar

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criterion; standard; yardstick; rough estimate; approximation

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New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January

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just after a holiday break; the first day after the holidays

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please remember me; please help me; please treat me well; please do; please take care of

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have a happy New Year

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(very) beginning; start

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to delay; to postpone; to slow down; to retard

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break (from work, etc.); recess

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Sherlock Holmes

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Conan

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The Strand Magazine

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in a magazine

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serialization; serialisation; serial story

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announcement; publication; presenting; statement; communique; making known

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in order; sequential; seriatim

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bestseller

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situation

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consideration; taking into account

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original (that was parodied or acted as an inspiration for something else, etc.); source

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symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship); certain; unnamed; undisclosed

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early days; early years; early stages; initial stages; beginning

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long work; (full-length) novel; feature-length film; long poem

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The Sign of Four (novel by Conan Doyle)

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892 collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle)

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original text; source book; draft

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complete works; complete collection; complete series

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reference (e.g. to a dictionary, passage, footnotes); consultation; comparison; browsing (to a file or folder)

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to be incomparable; to be completely different matters; to be completely different things

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to profit; to benefit (from); to benefit (someone or something); to be beneficial to; to make good use of; to take advantage of

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discrimination; judgement; judgment; separation; sorting

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Bunshun Bunko (paperback label)

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to refer to; to consult; to use as a reference

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cartoon; comic; comic strip; manga

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Cock Robin

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lead (in a cheer, toast, song, etc.); (someone's) lead; folk song and dance performed by a group; leader of a group of wind instruments (in gagaku)

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