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  • 4127th Academy Awards — Infobox Academy Awards name = 27th date = 30 March 1955 site = RKO Pantages Theatre (Hollywood) NBC Century Theater (New York City) host = Bob Hope (Hollywood) Thelma Ritter (New York City) network = NBC last = 26th next = 28th The 27th Academy… …

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  • 42Henry Moskowitz — (ca. 1875 – December 18, 1936) was a Jewish physician, and civil rights activist, and one of the co founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1914, he married Belle Lindner (1877 1933). In 1917, he was the… …

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  • 43Taiwan Expedition of 1874 — Part of the Formosa Conflict Soldiers of the Taiwan expediti …

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  • 44Resurrection Day — Infobox Book name = Resurrection Day title orig = translator = image caption = author = Brendan DuBois illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = alternate history publisher = Jove release date = 1999 …

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  • 45USS Everglades (AD-24) — The USS Everglades (AD 24) was one of four Klondike Class destroyer tenders built at the tail end of World War II for the United States Navy. The vessel was named for the Florida Everglades. Everglades was launched on 28 January 1945 by the Todd… …

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  • 46disembroil — /dis em broyl /, v.t. to free from embroilment, entanglement, or confusion. [1615 25; DIS 1 + EMBROIL] * * * …

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  • 47embroil — embroiler, n. embroilment, n. /em broyl /, v.t. 1. to bring into discord or conflict; involve in contention or strife. 2. to throw into confusion; complicate. [1595 1605; < MF embrouiller, equiv. to em EM 1 + brouiller to BROIL2] * * * …

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  • 48Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.&#8230; …

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  • 49Laos — /lah ohs, lows, lay os/; Fr. /lann aws /, n. a country in SE Asia: formerly part of French Indochina. 5,116,959; 91,500 sq. mi. (236,985 sq. km). Cap.: Vientiane. * * * Laos Introduction Laos Background: In 1975, the Communist Pathet Lao took&#8230; …

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  • 50nirvana — nirvanic, adj. /nir vah neuh, van euh, neuhr /, n. 1. (often cap.) Pali, nibbana. Buddhism. freedom from the endless cycle of personal reincarnations, with their consequent suffering, as a result of the extinction of individual passion, hatred,&#8230; …

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