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  • 11Libby Prison — was a Confederate Prison at Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War. It gained an infamous reputation for the harsh conditions under which prisoners from the Union Army were kept.The prison was located in a three story brick warehouse… …

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  • 12Xuthal of the Dusk — Infobox short story name = Xuthal of the Dusk title orig = The Slithering Shadow translator = author = Robert E. Howard country = USA language = English series = Conan the Cimmerian genre = Fantasy published in = USA publication type = Pulp… …

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  • 13hungry — hungrily, adv. hungriness, n. /hung gree/, adj. hungrier, hungriest. 1. having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger. 2. indicating, characteristic of, or characterized by hunger: He approached the table with a hungry look. 3.… …

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  • 14Marcus Aurelius Antoninus — • Second century Roman emperor and philosopher Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus     Marcus Aurelius Antoninus      …

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  • 15Darwin French — Doctor Erasmus Darwin French was an American man of adventure. He was born in 1822 in New York State, trained as a doctor and then enlisted in the army, later becaming a silver prospector. He married Miss Cornelia S. Cowles, daughter of Judge… …

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  • 16Parable of the great banquet — Jan Luyken: the invitation, Bowyer Bible …

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  • 17Samaria —    A watch mountain or a watch tower. In the heart of the mountains of Israel, a few miles north west of Shechem, stands the hill of Shomeron, a solitary mountain, a great mamelon. It is an oblong hill, with steep but not inaccessible sides, and… …

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  • 18empty — Synonyms and related words: abandoned, absurd, aimless, airy, apparently sound, arid, asinine, awkward, banal, bare, barren, baseless, blah, bland, blank, blankminded, bleached, bleed, bloodless, blow, blow out, bootless, broach, callow, calm,… …

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  • 19famished — Synonyms and related words: bare handed, beggarly, craving, dog hungry, empty, empty handed, famishing, fasting, half famished, half starved, hungering, hungry, ill off, ill equipped, ill furnished, ill provided, impoverished, on short commons,… …

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  • 20fasting — Synonyms and related words: Albigensianism, Catharism, Day of Atonement, Franciscanism, Lenten, Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, Yom Kippur, abstinence, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism, austerity, cold purgatorial… …

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