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101Elif Şafak — Elif Shafak Elif Shafak (Elif Şafak) est une romancière d origine turque, née à Strasbourg en 1971. Elle publie des romans écrits en turc et en anglais. Elle mélange constamment et avec créativité les traditions occidentale et orientale du conte… …
102Elif Shafak — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Elif Şafak Elif Shafak (Estrasburgo, Francia, 1971 ) es una escritora de origen turco. Ha publicado novelas escritas en el inglés así como turco y francés. Nacida en Francia, Safak permaneció c …
103Christianity — /kris chee an i tee/, n., pl. Christianities. 1. the Christian religion, including the Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox churches. 2. Christian beliefs or practices; Christian quality or character: Christianity mixed with pagan elements; …
104crystallite — crystallitic /kris tl it ik/, adj. /kris tl uyt /, n. Mineral. a minute body in glassy igneous rock, showing incipient crystallization. [1795 1805; CRYSTALL + ITE1] * * * ▪ geology any of a type of microscopic body occurring in such glassy… …
105police — /peuh lees /, n., v., policed, policing. n. 1. Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws. 2. (used with a pl. v.) members of such a force: Several police are… …
106species — /spee sheez, seez/, n., pl. species, adj. n. 1. a class of individuals having some common characteristics or qualities; distinct sort or kind. 2. Biol. the major subdivision of a genus or subgenus, regarded as the basic category of biological… …
107Beethoven, Ludwig van — (baptized Dec. 17, 1770, Bonn, archbishopric of Cologne died March 26, 1827, Vienna, Austria) German composer. Born to a musical family, he was a precociously gifted pianist and violist. After nine years as a court musician in Bonn, he moved to… …
108Netherlands, The — officially Kingdom of The Netherlands byname Holland Country, northwestern Europe. Area: 16,033 sq mi (41,526 sq km). Population (2002 est.): 16,142,000. Capital: Amsterdam; Seat of Government: The Hague. Most of the people are Dutch. Languages:… …
109Pannini, Giovanni Paolo — or Giovanni Paolo Panini born 1691, Piacenza, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza died 1765, Rome Italian painter. After gaining fame for his fresco painting, he specialized in Roman topography and became the foremost artist in that field in the 18th… …
110Yamagata Aritomo — born Aug. 3, 1838, Hagi, Japan died Feb 1, 1922, Tokyo First prime minister under Japan s parliamentary regime (1889–91, 1898–1900). As a samurai youth in Chōshū province, Yamagata was among those who answered the foreign threat with the slogan… …
