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  • 81Constance Reid — Born Constance Bowman January 3, 1918(1918 01 03) St. Louis, Missouri, United States Died October 14, 2010(2010 10 14) (aged 92) San Francisco, California Occupation Mathematics popularizer …

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  • 82coloration — colorational, adj. colorationally, adv. /kul euh ray sheuhn/, n. appearance with regard to color arrangement or use of colors; coloring: the bold coloration of some birds. [1605 15; COLOR + ATION] * * * ▪ biology Introduction       in biology,… …

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  • 83Leo Strauss — Infobox Philosopher region = Western Philosophy era = 20th century philosophy color = #B0C4DE image caption = Leo Strauss name = Leo Strauss birth = September 20, 1899 Kirchhain, Prussia, German Empire death = October 18, 1973 Annapolis, Maryland …

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  • 84American literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the English language in the United States.       Like other national literatures, American literature was shaped by the history of the country that produced it. For almost a century and a… …

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  • 85PREFACE —     The NUTTALL ENCYCLOPÆDIA is the fruit of a project to provide, in a concise and condensed form, and at a cheap rate, an epitome of the kind of information given in the larger Encyclopædias, such as may prove sufficient for the ordinary… …

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  • 86Hugh Kearney — (born Liverpool, United Kingdom) is a British historian, and Amundson Professor Emeritus of the University of Pittsburgh. He is perhaps best known for the book British Isles: A History of Four Nations , written in 1989 and extended in 2006, which …

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  • 87W. S. Gilbert — Infobox Writer name = W. S. Gilbert imagesize = 180 px caption = Sir William Schwenck Gilbert pseudonym = birthdate = birth date|1836|11|18|df=y, London deathdate = death date and age|1911|5|29|1836|11|18|df=y, Grim s Dyke occupation = Dramatist… …

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  • 88The History of King Lear — 2001, p. 247; Grace Ioppolo, ed., King Lear , New York, Norton Critical Edition, 2008, Introduction, p. xii.] Unlike Shakespeare s tragedy, Tate s play has a happy ending, with Lear regaining his throne, Cordelia marrying Edgar, and Edgar… …

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  • 89Derrida, Jacques — born July 15, 1930, El Biar, Alg. died Oct. 8, 2004, Paris, France Algerian born French philosopher. Derrida taught principally at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris (1964–84). His critique of Western philosophy encompasses literature,… …

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  • 90Crusade (Young novel) — Crusade   Crusade first edition c …

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