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  • 41Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland — Woodburytype portrait of Violet Manners, Marchioness of Granby (1856 1937) See Margaret Lindsay (1726 1782) for the wife of Allan Ramsay, and Margaret Lindsay for the film actress also of this name. Violet Lindsay Manners, Duchess of Rutland (7… …

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  • 42Steiner, Jacob —    , of Absom in the Tyrol, born about 1620, date of death not known, but at about the age of seventy retired to a Convent.    THE GREAT TYROLESE MAKER.    The time has been when the instruments of this master, whose name is perhaps yet as widely …

    Violins and Violin Makers. Biographical Dictionary

  • 43bloom — I [[t]blum[/t]] n. 1) bot the flower of a plant 2) flowers collectively, as of a plant or tree 3) the state of flowering: lilacs in bloom[/ex] 4) a flourishing, healthy condition; the time of greatest beauty, vigor, or freshness: the bloom of… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 44bloom — bloom1 [blo͞om] n. [ME blom < ON blomi, flowers and foliage on trees < IE * bhlō , var. of base * bhel , to swell, sprout > BLADE, BLEED, L flos,FLOWER, Gr phyllon,LEAF] 1. a flower; blossom 2. flowers collectively, as of a plant …

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  • 45Ennius, Quintus — born 239, Rudiae, southern Italy died 169 BC Roman poet, dramatist, and satirist. The most influential of the early Latin poets, he is considered the founder of Roman literature. His epic Annales, a narrative poem telling the story of Rome from… …

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  • 46Monologist — Contents 1 Monologist 2 Dramatic Monologist …

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  • 47bloom — {{11}}bloom (n.1) blossom of a plant, c.1200, a northern word, from a Scandinavian source akin to O.N. blomi flower, blossom, also collectively flowers and foliage on trees; from P.Gmc. *blomon (Cf. O.S. blomo, M.D. bloeme, Du. bloem, O.H.G.… …

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  • 48Notwithstanding — Not with*stand ing, adv. or conj. [Originally the participle of withstand, with not prefixed.] Nevertheless; however; although; as, I shall go, notwithstanding it rains. [1913 Webster] I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 49Notwithstanding that — Notwithstanding Not with*stand ing, adv. or conj. [Originally the participle of withstand, with not prefixed.] Nevertheless; however; although; as, I shall go, notwithstanding it rains. [1913 Webster] I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and …

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  • 50Roger I of Sicily — at the battle of Cerami (1063), in which he was victorious against 35,000 Saracens. Roger I (c. 1031 1040[1] – June 22, 1101), called Bosso and the Great Count, was the Norman Count of Sicily from 1071 to 1101. He was the last great leader of the …

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