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  • 61female — n Female, woman, lady are comparable when meaning a person and especially an adult who belongs to the sex that is the counterpart of the male sex. Female (the correlative of male) emphasizes the idea of sex; it applies not only to human beings… …

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  • 62N. Petraşcu — For the fascist activist, see Nicolae Petraşcu (Iron Guard). N. Petraşcu or Pĕtraşcu[1] (common renditions of Nicolae Petraşcu, born Nicolae Petrovici; December 5, 1859 May 24, 1944) was a Romanian journalist, essayist, literary critic, novelist …

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  • 63Jehan Fouquet —     Jehan Fouquet     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Jehan Fouquet     (Or JEAN FOUQUET)     French painter and miniaturist, b. at Tours, c. 1415; d. about 1480. He was perhaps the son of Huguet Fouquet, who about 1400 worked for the Dukes of Orléans… …

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  • 64The Gas Heart — Written by Tristan Tzara Characters Mouth Ear Eye Nose Neck Eyebrow Date premiered 1921 …

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  • 65Josh Billings — was the pen name of humorist born Henry Wheeler Shaw (20 April 1818 – 14 October 1885). He was perhaps the second most famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States in the second half of the 19th century after Mark Twain, although his… …

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  • 66Jorts (apparel) — A Jort (or Jorts, plural),cite news url = http://texastravesty.com/content.php?issueNumber=2004 04 story=jorts publisher = Texas Travesty title = The Wonderful World of Jorts! date = April 2004 (v6 i5)] a portmanteau of jean shorts , is a garment …

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  • 67Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron — ▪ English politician and author Introduction in full  Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay of Rothley  born October 25, 1800, Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, England died December 28, 1859, Campden Hill, London  English Whig (Whig and Tory)… …

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  • 68Astronomy — • Divided into two main branches, astrometry and astrophysics; the former concerned with determining the places of the investigation of the heavenly bodies, the latter, with the investigation of their chemical and physical nature Catholic… …

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  • 69Dark Ages (historiography) — Petrarch, who conceived the idea of a European Dark Age . From Cycle of Famous Men and Women, Andrea di Bartolo di Bargilla, c. 1450 Dark Ages is a historical periodization emphasizing the cultural and economic deterioration that supposedly… …

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  • 70beaux-esprits — n. pl. [Fr.] Wits, men of wit, men of genius …

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