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  • 1List of fictional Oxford colleges — Not to be confused with Oxbridge colleges. Fictional colleges are perennially popular in modern novels, allowing the author much greater license when describing the more intimate activities of an Oxford college. Such institutions are often home… …

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  • 2Dorothy L. Sayers — Born 13 June 1893(1893 06 13) Oxford, UK Died 17 December 1957(1957 12 17) (aged 64) Witham, Essex, UK Occupation Novelist, playwright, essayist, translator, copywriter, p …

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  • 3St Edward's School, Oxford — Infobox UK school name = St. Edward s School, Oxford size = 125px latitude = longitude = dms = motto = Pietas Parentum (Latin: Fillal Affection ) motto pl = established = 1863 approx = closed = c approx = type = Public School religion = president …

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  • 4performing 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 …

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  • 5Louis Cafora — Carfora II, aka Fat Louis or The Whale , (d. May 1979 South Ozone Park, Queens) was a Colombo crime family loanshark and drug trafficker for the Lucchese crime family. Cafora allegedly participated in the infamous 1978 Lufthansa heist at JFK… …

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  • 6Humphrey Bogart — Infobox actor name = Humphrey Bogart imagesize = 200px caption = Photographed by Yousuf Karsh, 1946 birthname = Humphrey DeForest Bogart birthdate = birth date|1899|12|25 birthplace = New York City, New York, U.S. deathdate = death date and… …

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  • 7Jeopardy! set evolution — The set of the American television game show Jeopardy! has evolved through a number of iterations during its (non continuous) decades long broadcast history. As the show has matured into a fixture of American popular culture and as display… …

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  • 8United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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  • 9Cleric — • A person who has been legitimately received into the ranks of the clergy Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Cleric     Cleric     † …

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  • 10Spamalot — Monty Python s Spamalot Original Broadway Windowcard Music John Du Prez Eric Idle Neil Innes Lyrics Eric Idle …

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