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  • 51outrage — Synonyms and related words: abomination, abuse, afflict, affront, aggrieve, anger, aspersion, atrocity, attack, bad, bane, barbarism, barbarity, batter, befoul, befoulment, bewitch, bitterness, blight, breach, brickbat, bruise, brutality, buffet …

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  • 52RUSSIA — RUSSIA, former empire in Eastern Europe; from 1918 the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (R.S.F.S.R.), from 1923 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.); from 1990 the Russian Federation. Until 1772 ORIGINS The penetration… …

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  • 53Cannibalism — Can ni*bal*ism, n. [Cf. F. cannibalisme.] The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity. Berke. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 54Kamayurá people — The Kamayurá are an indigenous tribe in the Amazonian Basin of Brazil. The name is also spelled Kamayura, and Kamaiurá in Portuguese; it means a raised platform to keep meat, pots and pans. The Kamayurá language belongs to the Tupi Guarani… …

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  • 55Ion Negoiţescu — Born August 10, 1921(1921 08 10) Cluj Died February 6, 1993(1993 02 06) (aged 71) Munich Pen name …

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  • 56Florida State Hospital — in Chattahoochee was established in 1876 and until 1947 it was Florida s only state mental institution. The hospital was originally the site of the Apalachicola Arsenal built in the 1830s and named after the nearby Apalachicola River. The… …

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  • 57Mélanie Calvat — Françoise Mélanie Calvat called Mathieu (7 November 1831 Corps, Isère, France 15 December 1904 Altamura, Italy) was a French Roman catholic religious sister and Marian visionary. As a religious, she was called Sister Mary of the Cross. Contents 1 …

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  • 58William Lloyd Garrison: The Dangers of Slavery (1829) — ▪ Primary Source       Antislavery movements had existed in the United States since the Revolution. They had even received occasional support in the South, on moral grounds; but the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 made slavery a seeming… …

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  • 59bestiality — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Degrading, immoral acts or habits: corruption, depravity, flagitiousness, immorality, perversion, turpitude, vice, villainousness, villainy, wickedness. See CLEAN. 2. A cruel act or an instance of cruel behavior:… …

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  • 60truculence — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Warlike or hostile attitude or nature: bellicoseness, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, combativeness, contentiousness, hostility, mili tance, militancy, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, truculency. See ATTACK. 2.… …

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