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  • 101Melody Gersbach — Beauty pageant titleholder Born Melody Adelaide Manuel Gersbach November 18, 1985(1985 11 18) Daraga, Philippines …

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  • 102Michelle Harris — Michelle Leslie Harris is an American beauty pageant contestant, who was Miss Delaware 1995 and competed[1] in the 75th Anniversary Miss America pageant, which was won by Shawntel Smith of Oklahoma. At the Miss Delaware pageant,[2] Harris held… …

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  • 103Michigan Tech Huskies men's ice hockey — Michigan Tech Huskies University Michigan Technological University Conference WCHA …

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  • 104Cultural and Regional Studies — Bianco, Anthony. Ghosts of 42nd Street: A History of America s Most Infamous Block. New York: Harper Perennial, 2005. Black, Cheryl. The Women of Provincetown, 1915 1922. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002. Casto, Marilyn. Actors,… …

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  • 105pomp — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. grandeur, show, ostentation, magnificence, display, splendor. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. grandeur, pageantry, ceremony, magnificence, affectation, splendor; see also glory 2 , grandeur , ostentation 2 .… …

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  • 106Appearance — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Appearance >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 appearance appearance phenomenon sight spectacle show premonstration| scene species view coup d oeil Sgm: N 1 lookout lookout outlook …

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  • 107St Crispin's Day — (25 October)    Crispin and Crispian, martyred in ad 285, were said to be brothers of noble birth who learnt the humble trade of shoemaking rather than be a burden on the persecuted Christian community; they were therefore patron saints of… …

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  • 108Bobance — Bo*bance , n. [OF. bobance, F. bombance, boasting, pageantry, fr. L. bombus a humming, buzzing.] A boasting. [Obs.] Chaucer. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 109Ostentation — Os ten*ta tion, n. [L. ostentatio: cf. F. ostentation.] 1. The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; usually in a detractive sense. Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm. Milton. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 110Pomp — Pomp, n. [OE. pompe, F. pompe, L. pompa, fr. Gr. ? a sending, a solemn procession, pomp, fr. ? to send. Cf. {Pump} a shoe.] 1. A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant. All the pomps of a Roman triumph. Addison. [1913… …

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