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  • 101Pope Clement VII —     Pope Clement VII     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Pope Clement VII     (GIULIO DE’ MEDICI).     Born 1478; died 25 September, 1534. Giulio de Medici was born a few months after the death of his father, Giuliano, who was slain at Florence in the… …

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  • 102St. Joan of Arc —     St. Joan of Arc     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Joan of Arc     In French Jeanne d Arc; by her contemporaries commonly known as la Pucelle (the Maid).     Born at Domremy in Champagne, probably on 6 January, 1412; died at Rouen, 30 May,… …

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  • 103betrayal — noun the act of betraying Syn: perfidy, treachery, treason See Also: betray …

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  • 104Expulsion of the Acadians — St. John River Campaign: Raid on Grimrose (present day Gagetown, New Brunswick). This is the only contemporaneous image of the Expulsion of the Acadians The Expulsion of the Acadians (also known as the Great Upheaval, the Great Expulsion, The… …

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  • 105DARK COMMAND (1940) —    Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Roy Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, Gabby Hayes, Raoul Walsh (director)    Republic Studios was known primarily for making low budget B Westerns, but it did occasionally have a major success. At its release, Dark Command was …

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  • 106turpitude — tur·pi·tude / tər pə ˌtüd, ˌtyüd/ n: inherent baseness or depravity; also: a base act Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. turpitude …

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  • 107false pretense — I noun act, affectation, affectedness, artifice, artificiality, chicane, chicanery, circumvention, circumvention of truth, cozenage, deceit, deceitfulness, deceptive representation of fact, delusion, designed misrepresentation, device, disguise,… …

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  • 108falseness — Synonyms and related words: Machiavellianism, Prospero, Punic faith, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, aberrancy, aberration, affectation, airiness, ambidexterity, apostasy, appearance, artfulness, artifice, bad faith, bamboozlement, barratry, befooling,… …

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  • 109double-dealing — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. & n. treachery. See falsehood. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. tricky, untrustworthy, deceitful; see dishonest 1 , 2 , hypocritical . n. Syn. deceit, duplicity, treachery; see deception 1 , dishonesty …

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  • 110falsehood — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of honesty Nouns 1. falsehood, falseness, dishonesty; falsity, falsification; deception, untruth; lying, misrepresentation, disinformation, plausible denial; mendacity, perjury, forgery, invention,… …

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