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You can provide for a child who attends St. Basil Academy, a ministry of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese where needy children are given the love and security of a home away from home.
The empire was further diminished by the loss of North Africa and Italy, and was brought to the brink of civil war by the Iconoclastic Crisis, before enjoying another brief golden age under Basil II (976–1025).
Basil Cottle, a British scholar, in his book, The Plight of English (1975) [reviewed III,3], says that he likes gotten and feels that it is an improvement on mere got which he says is a nasty verb.
For a particularly useful insight into the evolution of al Qaeda-written by an early Bin Ladin associate, Adel Batterjee, under a pseudonym- see Basil Muhammad, Al Ansar al Arab fi Afghanistan (The Arab volunteers in Afghanistan) (Benevolence International Foundation (BIF) and World Association of Muslim Youth, 1991).
Dr. Basil Cottle, a scholar at the University of Bristol, in his useful little book, The Plight of English , devotes nearly four pages to it, describing it at the beginning as a deplorable little syllable.