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31violation — noun 1. a crime less serious than a felony (Freq. 6) • Syn: ↑misdemeanor, ↑misdemeanour, ↑infraction, ↑infringement • Derivationally related forms: ↑infringe (for: ↑ …
32Hastings Banda — Hastings Kamuzu Banda 1st President of Malawi In office 6 July 1966 – 24 May 1994 Preceded by Himself as Prime Minister Succeeded by Bakili M …
33Blacksad — is a comic book series created by Spanish authors Juan Díaz Canales (writer) and Juanjo Guarnido (artist), and published by French publisher Dargaud. Though both authors are Spanish, their main target audience for Blacksad is the French market [… …
34Share verification bureau — The Share Verification Bureau www.svbureau.us is a bogus organisation purporting to be based in Birmingham, Alabama, USA and involved in various advanced fee frauds in collaboration with the operators of a Boiler room (business). It operates from …
35Batavia (ship) — Batavia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). She was built in Amsterdam in 1628, and had 24 cast iron cannons. Batavia was shipwrecked on her maiden voyage, and made famous by the subsequent mutiny and massacre that took place among… …
36Julian Grenfell — Julian Henry Francis Grenfell DSO (March 30, 1888 May 26, 1915), was a British poet of World War I. Julian Grenfell was born at 4 St James s Square, London. He was the first son and heir of Lord Desborough and Ethel Priscilla Fane. He was… …
37Mutiny of Aranjuez — The Mutiny of Aranjuez, or Motín de Aranjuez as it is known in Spain, was an early nineteenth century popular uprising against King Charles IV, which managed to overthrow him and place his son, Ferdinand VII, on the throne. Although it is… …
38Abraham-men — The Abraham men (alternative spellings: Abram Man or Abraham Cove) were a class of beggars claiming to be lunatics allowed out of restraint, in the Tudor and Stuart periods in England.The phrase can be traced back as far as 1561, when it was… …
39Healthy Forests Initiative — The Healthy Forests Initiative (or HFI), officially the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003, is a law originally proposed by President George W. Bush in response to the widespread forest fires during the summer of 2002 [cite web url=… …
40Giles Jacob — ( baptised November 22, 1686 May 8, 1744) was a British legal writer and literary critic who figures as one of the dunces in Alexander Pope s 1728 Dunciad. Unlike other dunces, whose merits have unfortunately been overshadowed by Pope s… …
