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  • 1profuse — profuse; lavish, prodigal, luxuriant, lush, exuberant carry as their basic meaning giving out or given out in great abundance. What is profuse seems to pour or be poured forth in abundance, without restraint, or in a stream {profuse apologies}… …

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  • 2Louis XV of France — Infobox French Royalty|monarch name=Louis XV title=King of France and Navarre caption=Louis XV by Hyacinthe Rigaud (1730) reign=1 September 1715 ndash; 10 May 1774 coronation=25 October 1722, Reims titles= HM The King HRH The Dauphin of Viennois… …

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  • 3California — Californian, adj., n. /kal euh fawrn yeuh, fawr nee euh/, n. 1. a state in the W United States, on the Pacific coast. 23,668,562; 158,693 sq. mi. (411,015 sq. km). Cap.: Sacramento. Abbr.: CA (for use with zip code), Cal., Calif. 2. Gulf of, an… …

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  • 4Launch — Launch, v. i. To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish… …

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  • 5Abdülaziz —    Abdülaziz Ottoman Sultan Caliph …

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  • 6Heinrich Heine — This article is about the poet. For the mathematician, see Eduard Heine. Heinrich Heine A painting of Heine, by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim Born Christian Johann Heinrich Heine 13 December 1797(1797 12 13) …

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  • 7Oxford Group — Not to be confused with the Anglo Catholicism Oxford Movement. The Oxford Group was a Christian movement that had a following in Europe, China, Africa, Australia, Scandinavia and America in the 1920s and 30s. It was initiated by an American… …

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  • 8José Balta — y Montero (1816 ndash; 1872) was president of Peru from 1868 to 1872. In 1865 he aided Mariano Ignacio Prado seizure the presidency and served in his government. In 1867, he in turn overthrew Prado. As president, he re established constitutional… …

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  • 9Battle of Teruel — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Teruel caption=Spain in 1937 just before the Battle of Teruel. Note the Teruel salient south of Saragossa. Please click on the map to get a larger image. Blue is Nationalist Spain and Red is Republican …

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  • 10Caroline era — The Caroline era refers to an era in English and Scottish history during the Stuart period (1603 mdash;1714) that coincides with the reign of Charles I (1625 mdash;1642). The Caroline era succeeds the Jacobean era, the reign of Charles s father… …

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