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  • 1Beggar-Thy-Neighbor — An international trading policy that utilizes currency devaluations and protective barriers to alleviate a nation s economic difficulties at the expense of other countries. While the policy may help repair an economic hardship in the nation, it… …

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  • 2The Beggar's Opera — is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today. Ballad operas were satiric… …

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  • 3As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning —   …

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  • 4Down and Out in Paris and London — For the album, see Down and Out in Paris and London (album). Down and Out in Paris and London   …

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  • 5counting-out rhymes —    Used by children (and sometimes adults sotto voce) to make a random choice between options but particularly to choose who will be it in a game. The children stand in a circle or line, and one child points to each in turn in the rhythm of the… …

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  • 6Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Thematic Index — absence absence makes the heart grow fonder he who is absent is always in the wrong the best of friends must part blue are the hills that are far away distance lends enchantment to the view out of sight, out of mind …

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  • 7Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street — For other uses, see Sweeney Todd (disambiguation). Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Artwork from the original Broadway production Music Stephen Sondh …

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  • 8The Bloody Banquet — [Samuel Schoenbaum, ed., The Bloody Banquet, Malone Society Reprints, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1961, 1962.] is an early 17th century play, a revenge tragedy of uncertain date and authorship, attributed on its title page only to T.D. It… …

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  • 912th Archeological Congress — The XIIth Archeological Congress Kharkiv, 1902 Preamble In the 1867 a tradition of holding Archeological Conferences known as Congresses was established in the Russian Empire. The aim of these conferences was to discuss and to make public studies …

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  • 102010 Commonwealth Games — Delhi 2010: XIX Commonwealth Games दिल्ली २०१०: १९ वें राष्ट्रमण्डल खेल Logo of 2010 Commonwealth Games Host city …

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