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  • 121Rhine River — German Rhein River, western Europe. Rising in the Swiss Alps, it flows north and west through western Germany to drain through the delta region of The Netherlands into the North Sea. It is 820 mi (1,319 km) long and navigable for 540 mi (870 km) …

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  • 122Fletcher, John — ▪ English dramatist Introduction baptized December 20, 1579, Rye, Sussex, England died August 29, 1625, London       English Jacobean dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont (Beaumont, Francis) and other dramatists on comedies and… …

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  • 123Frost, Robert — ▪ American poet Introduction in full  Robert Lee Frost  born March 26, 1874, San Francisco, California, U.S. died January 29, 1963, Boston, Massachusetts  American poet who was much admired for his depictions of the rural life of New England, his …

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  • 124Maintenon, Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de — ▪ untitled queen of France byname  Madame de Maintenon , also called (1652–75)  Françoise Scarron , née  Françoise d Aubigné  baptized Nov. 28, 1635, Niort, Poitou, France died April 15, 1719, Saint Cyr  second wife (from either 1683 or 1697) and …

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  • 125Commentary on Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid — Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid   Cover showing the author, lef …

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  • 126Cry, the Beloved Country — This article is about the novel. For other uses, see Cry, the Beloved Country (disambiguation). Cry, the Beloved Country   …

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  • 127poetry in the 1970s —    The 1970s mark a point of transition in poetry. In 1974, Philip Larkin published his last collection of poems, High Windows. The poets, mainly men, whose work had been published for twenty or thirty years or even more, continued to be… …

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  • 128un|read|a|ble — «uhn REE duh buhl», adjective. 1. that cannot be read or deciphered; illegible: »an unreadable manuscript. 2. not suitable or fit for reading; not worth reading: »a dull, unreadable book …

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