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DEFINITION: (verb) Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of. SYNONYMS: chagrin, humiliate, humble, mortify. USAGE: Today she overwhelmed me with shrill reproaches, and abased me to the level of a hearth-brush.

“The Bay Bridge,” officially known as The James "Sunny Jim" Rolph Bridge is an 8.4 mile (13.5 km) toll bridge that links the California cities of Oakland and San Francisco. With 280,000 vehicles crossing the span every day, it is one of the most highly traveled bridges in the US. During the California Gold Rush, San Francisco residents recognized the need for a bridge spanning San Francisco Bay; and in the early 1870s, which "Emperor of these United States" decreed that a bridge should be built?

In the early 1600s, three manifestos were published describing an esoteric order founded by Christian Rosenkreuz. The Rosicrucian Order's secret teachings deal with the occult symbols of the rose and the cross and with mystical writings containing kabbalistic, Hermetic, and other doctrines. Practitioners claim occult powers and employ the terminology of alchemy to expound their mystical doctrines. According to the Rosicrucians, how does man attain divine wisdom?