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1applause — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ deafening, loud, thunderous, tumultuous (esp. BrE) ▪ enthusiastic, rapturous, warm, wild ▪ …
2Infamy Speech — President Franklin D. Roosevelt …
3Barack Obama Tucson memorial speech — President Obama speaks in honor of the victims of the 2011 Tucson shooting. President of the United States Barack Obama delivered a speech at the Together We Thrive: Tucson and America memorial on January 12, 2011, held in the McKale Center on… …
4Russia — /rush euh/, n. 1. Also called Russian Empire. Russian, Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Cap.: St. Petersburg (1703 1917). 2. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 3. See Russian… …
5Pierre de Coubertin — Baron Pierre de Coubertin 2nd President of the International Olympic Committee In office 1896–1925 Preceded by Demetrius Vikelas …
6performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical. The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …
7France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …
8List of Late Night with Conan O'Brien sketches — For a list of sketches that debuted on The Tonight Show with Conan O Brien, see List of The Tonight Show with Conan O Brien sketches. The following is a list of sketches which debuted on Late Night with Conan O Brien on NBC. Contents 1 Late Night …
91880 Republican National Convention — The 1880 Republican National Convention convened from June 2 to June 8, 1880 at the Interstate Exposition Building in Chicago, Illinois, United States,cite book | last=Smith | first=Henry H. | title=All the Republican National Conventions from… …
10Comte de Montalembert — Comte de Montalembert † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Comte de Montalembert CHARLES FORBES RENÉ, COMTE DE MONTALEMBERT. Born in London, 15 April, 1810; died in Paris 13 March, 1870. His father, Marc René, had fought in the army of Condé …
