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71Edmund Waller — Edmund Waller, FRS (3 March 1606 ndash; 21 October 1687) was an English poet and Politician. Early life Edmund Waller was the eldest son of Robert Waller of Coleshill, Herts, and Anne Hampden, his wife; thus he was first cousin to John Hampden.… …
72Pentameter — In poetry, a pentameter is a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet. Iambic pentameter is one of the most commonly used meters in English, used extensively by many poets, including William Shakespeare, John Milton, and William Wordsworth …
73Dominical letter — Dominical letters are letters A, B, C, D, E, F and G assigned to days in a cycle of seven with the letter A always set against 1 January as an aid for finding the day of the week of a given calendar date and in calculating Easter. A common year… …
74Paphos — Πάφος (Greek) Baf (Turkish) …
75Mahmud of Ghazni — Yamīn al Dawlah Abd al Qāṣim Maḥmūd Ibn Sebük Tegīn Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire Old French depiction of Ghaznavi reading Sultan Mahmud the Ghaznavid Afghan Emperor Rei …
76Chronogram — A chronogram is a sentence or inscription in which specific letters, interpreted as numerals, stand for a particular date when rearranged. The word, meaning time writing , derives from the Greek words chronos ( time ) and gramma ( letter ). In… …
77Angelus Silesius — (baptised December 25, 1624 ndash; July 9, 1677) was a German mystic and poet.LifeSilesius was born in Breslau (Wrocław), Silesia as son of Polish noble and German mother [http://books.google.pl/books?id=1SpZAAAAMAAJ… …
78Distichs of Cato — The Distichs of Cato (Latin: Catonis Disticha, most famously known simply as Cato), is a Latin collection of proverbial wisdom and morality by an unknown author named Dionysius Cato from the 3rd or 4th century AD. The Cato was the most popular… …
79Helius Eobanus Hessus — (January 6, 1488 ndash; October 5, 1540), German Latin poet, was born at Halgehausen in Hesse Kassel (or Hesse Cassel).His family name is said to have been Koch; Eoban was the name of a local saint; Hessus indicates the land of his birth, Helius… …
80Climax (figure of speech) — In rhetoric, a climax (from the Greek κλῖμαξ klimax, meaning staircase and ladder ) is a figure of speech in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance. It is sometimes used with anadiplosis, which uses the… …
