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  • 41Peplus — Pep lus, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] 1. An upper garment worn by Grecian and Roman women. [1913 Webster] 2. A kind of kerchief formerly worn by Englishwomen. [Obs.] Fairholt. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 42music, Western — Introduction       history of Western music from ancient times to the present.       All ancient civilizations entered historical times with a flourishing musical culture. That the earliest writers explained it in terms of legend and myth is… …

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  • 43Western architecture — Introduction       history of Western architecture from prehistoric Mediterranean cultures to the present.       The history of Western architecture is marked by a series of new solutions to structural problems. During the period from the… …

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  • 44Neoclassicism — For other uses, see Neoclassical (disambiguation). Porcelain vase of Medici Vase profile, decorated in Pompeian black and red, St. Petersburg, ca. 1830 Neoclassicism is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts,… …

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  • 45Eugen Sandow — (April 2 1867 ndash; October 14 1925), born Friederich Wilhelm Müller, was a pioneering bodybuilder of the Victorian era and is often referred to as the Father of Modern Bodybuilding .Early lifeSandow was born in Königsberg, Prussia in 1867, in… …

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  • 46Hellenic — I noun the Hellenic branch of the Indo European family of languages (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑Greek, ↑Hellenic language • Derivationally related forms: ↑Greek (for: ↑Greek) …

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  • 47Teresa of Ávila — Infobox Saint name=Saint Teresa of Ávila birth date=28 March 1515 death date=death date and age|1582|10|4|1515|03|28 [At some hour of the night between 4 October and 15 October 1582, the night of the transition in Spain from the Julian to the… …

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  • 48Cato the Elder — Marcus Porcius Cato Maior, Cato the Elder Marcus Porcius Cato[1] (234 BC, Tusculum – 149 BC) was a Roman statesman, commonly referred to as Censorius (the Censor), Sapiens (the Wise), Priscus (the Ancient), or Major, Cato the El …

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  • 49chronology — /kreuh nol euh jee/, n., pl. chronologies. 1. the sequential order in which past events occur. 2. a statement of this order. 3. the science of arranging time in periods and ascertaining the dates and historical order of past events. 4. a… …

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  • 50St Mary's Pro-Cathedral — St Mary s Church ( ga. Leas Ardeaglais Naomh Muire), known also as St Mary s Pro Cathedral or simply the Pro Cathedral, is a pro cathedral and is the episcopal seat of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland.tatus as pro… …

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